a word after a word after a word is power

[lunabee34]

1. Campus closed at noon today and is closed tomorrow because of the storm. I'm crossing my fingers that we don't lose power and looking forward to a long weekend.

2. Josh's endoscopy is scheduled for 6:30 Friday at a facility an hour away, and we really should be there a little before the appt. time. OMG, we will be getting up so early.

3. My Yuletide letter got linked to meme and received almost no attention except for one person who pointed out with dismay that one of my prompts for Haunting of Hill House is straight up Scooby Doo. I had not been thinking about that prompt in those terms, but it totally is Scooby Doo. Luke is haunting up the place because he is interested in inheriting after all. Dr. Montague *really* wants tenure and can only get it if his paranormal theories gain credence. Mrs. Montague will show her husband a ghost if she has to manufacture one herself, by gum. Yep. Totally Scooby Doo. I will own it. LOL

4. Uhura's Song and We Have Always Lived in the Castle have arrived. Whooooooooo! Man, I love Janet Kagan.

Comments

[ariadne83]

Ooh have you seen the Netflix series of The Haunting of Hill House? I enjoyed it a lot (even if it feels more like Amityville than Hill House).

[lunabee34]

No! It looks like it bears no relationship to the book. I think it would actually scare me as opposed to being creepy like the book.

I'm willing to be convinced though. Sell me on it, my friend!!

[ariadne83]

Not going to lie, some of it scared me and I had to pause to take a break. But they telegraph it with music pretty well so you can brace yourself for the jump scares.

Honestly though, for the most part it's a mystery/psychological examination of the effects and aftermath of a haunting. It's about how your personality shapes your experience, and how even if you all went through the same thing the way you react to it is going to be vastly different. And how stress and trauma cause some people to be more empathetic and open, and some people to shut down to cope.

It's sad and riveting and I liked all of the characters in very different ways. It rang true to me, as someone from an objectively fucked up background with a bunch of siblings who all had extremely different reactions to it.

[lunabee34]

Awww, damn you! You're making it sound really interesting! LOL

I do like the idea of it being about an aftermath rather than a beginning of a haunting. That's a cool idea.

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