#eleanor vance

[themonstrousother]

Some may say Eleanor Vance should have been at the club. They are wrong. Others will say Eleanor Vance should have been at her own little cottage and white curtains and oleanders and a cup of stars and two stone lions guarding the gates. They are also wrong. Eleanor Vance should have been in her little car that she half-paid for and stole from her sister and found comfort in the liminal space and the agency of it all….

[hangsawoman]

90% of doomed women stop just before the house will eat them. KEEP BANGING ON THOSE DOORS

[clottedscream]

um. she haunt on my hill til i house?

finished reading the entire back half of the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson in one sitting overnight instead of sleeping and it had an interesting effect on my brane. thangkfully i thimk im still norgmal though

[image ID: a digital illustration of the character Eleanor Vance from The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, depicted as a pale skinned woman with wild, twisting brown hair colored red by the off-cast light of a bright scarlet sweater. She is depicted in two figures, both ascending a pitch-black iron spiral staircase. The foreground is cloaked by oak leaves and acorns, which dangle upwards as though upside down, and in the background there’s a faint impression of an upside-down tree. Both figures of Eleanor have their heads angled to stare straight at the viewer with almost inhumanly wide eyes- her mouth isn’t visible on either figure. The leftmost figure is near the top of the stairs, climbing with her back mostly turned, while the right hand figure is just peeking up from around the curve at the bottom. The right hand eleanor holds a brandy snifter with one pinky extended- the left hand eleanor holds a white teacup adorned on the inside with scarlet stars. the coloring is chaotic and sketchy, with lots of hatching and scribbled lines giving it an erratic feeling. With the way the foliage hangs upside down around eleanor, it almost gives the impression that she’s walking down along the underside of the staircase, descending rather than ascending. END ID]

[saltedsnailstudio]

“Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don’t do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”

linocut print on bfk rives paper

[shirleyjacksonism]

They can't turn me out or shut me out or laugh at me or hide from me; I won't go, and Hill House belongs to ME.

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson // The night is darkening around me, Emily Brontë // A Little While, A Little While, Emily Brontë

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

hill house cover redesign <3

[starzonez]

loved by something

[saccharinescorpion]

Eleanor Vance should NOT have been at the club (she should have been at her little cottage with her white cat and her oleanders) (and her stone lions) (and her cup of stars)

[stworzonka]

I can't stop thinking about the haunting of hill house. Lonely lonely girl and lonely lonely house

[femmeterypolka]

fanart i drew of eleanor vance

[realbeefman]

i miss her so bad

[themonstrousother]

One of the most tragic things about the book that both the show and movie go against, is that after Eleanor’s death, all the other characters continue on with their lives with no mention of her. It feels like a callback to the scene where Eleanor believes Theo and Luke are following and talking about her only to find out they’re not. Dr Montague publishes his book and it fails. Theo returns to her partner and they reconcile. Her sister cares more about the car than she does about Eleanor. Eleanor desperately wanted to be loved and to belong and to have an impact on other lives but when she is unable to have it in life, she seeks for it in death. Yet the novel ends as it begins; whatever walks there walks alone. There is no beauty or satisfaction in her death; it does not allow her belonging or companionship and she does not impact Hill House or its former inhabitants in any meaningful way.

[hangsawoman]

god forbid women do anything like going to a haunted house out of loneliness and getting unhealthily attached to another woman and becoming the haunting itself and then driving into a tree. nobody even stopped her so why is that her fault.

[dykexenomorph]

shes so me when i am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster (and, of course, the monster feels my tiny little movements inside)

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

lil comic practice with my favourite moment from The Haunting of Hill House, can't believe Shirley Jackson invented toxic yuri all the way back in 1958 <3

[lesbianmarrow]

eleanor vance is like a tumblr mutual to me