moon and stars, well, nyarla and walter

Gilman felt a sharp pain in his back and screamed. He was pulled out of bed by his closest friend, and neighbor, Frank Elwood. He saw his other neighbors: Joe Mazurewics, Paul Choynski, and Claude Desrochers rush into the room. His landlord, Mr. Dombrowski, followed after them. The look of horror on everyone’s faces in the old witch-house showed in their expressions. Gilman whimpered in pain as he was held protectively in his friend’s arms.

Gilman felt something be pulled out of his back, it was Elwood’s doing, and screamed more in agony. He couldn’t hear his own voice, but he knew he must’ve shook the rest of the house awake. He saw the rat-beast, Brown Jenkin, on the floor covered in his blood. He couldn’t hear what it yelled, but it said something that made three out of his four neighbors cross themselves. It ran into a rat hole in the corner of the room.

it was Not witch house. there were some dreams in a witch house for sure but essentially all elements of lovecraft had been subtracted from it in its entirety. that’s okay, it was still fun, but it wasn’t witch house. there was a little bit of mathematics and discussions about another dimension but treated very much in the “otherworld” way. it wouldve been extremely cool to have this otherworld be an actual mathematical dimension in reality, but it’s only hinted at for the audience and the characters understand it as a limbo world. nice little bit of lovecraft underlying the whole thing you know? choosing to call it frank elwood has a terrible time to distinguish, courtesy of nik

the ghosts? i have very mixed feelings about them. my idea of ghosts and haunting is very specific and WAY more detached than the ghosts here. grief and the inability to move on was super cool, grief is one of the main things involved in my witch house, but i think it could’ve been done a little better? epperly is a little too human. siblings is fun and i really love exploring that dynamic, and as a motivation....after thinking about it a bit i think it can work, i think that a mythos story driven by that overwhelming love rather than knowledge could be neat. walter was still a little bit of a freak so i give the siblings thing a pass. i NEED a witch house adaptation where he is so fucked up though. the movie is in my head i swear and he gets Worse as he gets less sleep and falls deeper into that obsession. elwood mentions in the text that there’s incidents with other students and i want to see that side of walter. the greying with stress was there though which win! sidetracked anyways

keziah my love. your design was so cool. it almost seemed a little out of place sometimes? but it was still so awesome. and fucking irish brown jenkin. help me

the house was cool but a bit lackluster becuase. no angles :( which kind of defeats the purpose of it being in the title of the thing to me. however the sore on the ceiling? ohh. ohhhhhh. the house has leprosy. this house is alive. and i wish they’d done something a little more with that.

WIN OF FRANK! WIN OF FRANK! WIN OF FRANK! he was so. auauauua. theres no words here im just rotating him sorry. both frank has an awful time and original witch house are set up so well for the cycle to continue through him (walter wants epperly back, frank wants walter back) & that’s another important thing to me about witch house. the cycles

they got addiction and obsession! they got it! not in the way that i envisioned and not to the extreme that i envisioned but they have the themes that howie was sleeping on and i appreciate that

also win of trans metaphor <3 transes your walter. irishes him too actually!