Beetlejuicier For Your Pleasure

Sideblog for @captainziggystarbutts Exhausted Trans-Masc mess. Sail the high seas with me!

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

I know I promised myself I wouldn’t do another beetlejuice spread but apparently I’m full of shit.

In this one I ask myself “What if every light is a rim light?”

[mrdespondency]

we all watched the musical last night and i really do love these stupid losers

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

Normally I keep my spicy stuff to another blog but DAMN. @obstinatecondolement has a banger beetle-mer fic in the works.

See the uncensored version HERE

[shellytoh]

[theinkwellandthearrow]

“Changeling.”

-my take is Beej’s mom was a human that made a deal with a demon overlord (which led to her overseeing Netherworld Processing offices) and in exchange she had to give him an heir. So Beej is half dead-human-turned-demon and half full demon, which is why he refers to himself as both a demon and a dead guy. All that to say, daddy’s latent demon genes are kicking in and he’s about to go through second puberty.

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

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Everyone shut up and read this.

@obstinatecondolement wrote this lovely little gift, and I just CANT. I love it so much. It works so well.

[mrdespondency]

dance dance dance, senora! 🪲🖤

[mrdespondency]

new decade, new look, what do you think?

[beetlegraves]

I wrote something freaky, go read it (gif related)

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[itsphlegmfatale]

He's doing taxes...really into taxes, this guy.

Full image here (18+ only)

[mahoganydoodles]

Smash or Pass by @thisisadickinson; author’s, friends’, + personal copies.

Lydia Deetz finds a new horror podcast to listen to while she tries to fall asleep. The host has a nice voice. Too bad that's all he's got going for him.

21,591 words | 172 pages | 6 copies

Smash or Pass is one of those fics where immediately after finishing it, you start reading it again. It is so side-achingly funny and over-the-top emotional drama—often at the same time—that you can’t put it down. And it fits the alternate universe setting perfectly! If Alex Brightman had been hired to play a sleazy podcast host, this is exactly how he would have done it. 

One of the things I love about Smash or Pass is how cleverly horror movies are incorporated throughout, and what each character does or doesn’t know—or pretend to know—about the genre. I osmosised so much info reading this fic. From Lydia’s artistic sentiment to Betelgeuse’s low-brow focus, it’s a treasure trove of info and clear love poured into Lydia’s lofty essays on the evolution of the genre that BJ disregards on air. 

For this bind, I pulled design ideas from Suspiria, one of the most important movies to the plot. Seriously, if you’ve never seen it, the Technicolor in this movie is STUNNING (and it also has a bangin’ soundtrack). I wanted to pay homage to old horror posters with tons of fonts and more modern designs, which I did by starting each chapter with a 2-page spread of one of the iconic horror characters Betelgeuse rated Smash or Pass (spoiler: they’re almost all smash), recolored using different iconic combinations from Suspiria.

Other design elements take inspiration from the podcast where BJ does his reviews + ratings. The cover replaces the bloodied ballerina on Suspiria’s cover with a microphone stand and a cable pooling beneath it. Instead of page numbers, an episode progress bar crosses the bottom of the pages, color-matched to the character spread that starts the chapter. Each chapter also features icons tied to each character (Godzilla’s spikes that glow before using atomic breath, the curling iron Angela uses to kill Judy…) And the bookmark has a pause button on it, which I thought was a perfect fit!

Smash or Pass is a hilarious, hot story that celebrates horror + perfectly captures two classic characters we know and love. Read it on AO3, and thank you Saluvril for writing such a fantastic story!

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

Hey look! My art is a book-cover

[cutetanuki-chan]

continuing with musicals, my good old friend alex brightman

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

Finally @rockinellie knocked it out of the park for the prompt "Sadness is like an ugly sweater" https://archiveofourown.org/works/76412391 I LOVE how they wove this little musical quote into the movie-verse.

I can't get over how awesome everyone's little submissions have been. I feel like I'm opening presents under the tree!

[beetlegraves]

Krampus beej! From @thisisadickinsons fic which is fucking great and you should absolutely go and read it.

Anyway I’ve never been able to resist drawing beej in a monster form (nsfw, but not explicit, under the cut)

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

I'm counting this as an unwitting submission to our little Horriday special! Thank you @beetlegraves for the wonderful submission under "Krampus is coming to town" Y'all I'm so chuffed. The holidays are such a busy time, I know so many people who're burned out. The fact that people are still poking at prompts makes me SO HAPPY!

[thisisadickinson]

Happy Holidays from everyone's favorite chaos siblings. Or fun uncle and niece. Don't give them ideas, they'll just roleplay it. For the "Folgers Incest Commercial" prompt for Week 4 of the #BeetlejuiceHorridaySpecial from my friend @beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure. Listen, I had to.

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

LOOK AT THEM. LOOK AT THEM! The sibling dynamic is palpable.

Thanks so much @thisisadickinson for both the prompt and submission.

The prompt was: "Folgers incest commercial" Holy shit the holidays seized me by the brain. But we have a BUNCH of fantastic submissions for the #beetlejuicehorridayspecial.

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

We have a Week 2 submission for The Beetlejuice Horriday Special!

Prompt: Krampus is Coming to Town (maybe "cuming" in this case)

Author: @thisisadickinson

This fic is unabashedly horny. Go read it an tell @thisisadickinson what wonderful, horny, degenerate they are.

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[luna-azzurra]

Writing Advice that Will Save You from Crying over Chapter 3 Again

☽ Sometimes “writer’s block” is actually just your story being broken and your brain knowing before you do. Respect the vibes, go back. Something stinks.

☽ If you’re stuck in the middle, skip to the part you’re excited to write. Chronological writing is a suggestion, not a law.

☽ “Kill your darlings” is not about deleting every cool thing you love. It’s about not hoarding scenes like a dragon with dialogue you wrote in 2017 that doesn’t even make sense anymore.

☽ You do not need to write like your favorite author. You need to write like you, caffeinated and slightly unstable.

☽ Talking to yourself in the mirror as your character is not weird. It’s called method writing. You’re not unhinged, you’re dedicated.

☽ Aesthetic Pinterest boards and playlists are writing progress if they make you feel like a god again.

☽ You can write the climax before you finish Act 1. You can rewrite Chapter 1 thirty times and then delete it anyway. You’re not behind, you’re in hell with the rest of us.

You’re allowed to write stuff that’s not “marketable.” You’re allowed to be weird. Write the story that would make you feel seen. The niche finds its freaks.

☽ Beta readers are not gods. Take what resonates, ignore what doesn’t. If five people say your story drags at Chapter 8? Maybe listen. If one person says “make it all about the dog,” maybe don’t.

[ariaste]

As a professional author, cosigning all of this 1000000%, especially that first point that "writer's block" is sometimes your brain knowing something is broken.

It took me SO FUCKING LONG to learn what that reaction looks/feels like in my mind and body (for example: exasperated boredom of the story, generalized feeling of resentment and peevishness at myself, existential despair every time i look at the document, physical exhaustion or a vague weighty feeling like I'm carrying something heavy, or even just a vibe of "mehhhh don't really feel like it" that goes on longer than a couple days). Once I learned to recognize those signs and translate them to "Oh, did I fuck up four paragraphs ago? Whoops, I sure did!!!", my quality-of-life and my writing output (and my joy in the work) improved DRAMATICALLY.

[dduane]

Almost everything above is right on.

Also: in my experience, anyway, “writer’s block” isn’t really the writer’s: it’s a character’s. Somewhere there’s usually a conversation—with another character, with you, with the plot—that a significant character is trying to avoid having. (Or that you haven’t worked out that they need to have before the writing can continue.) Go find out what that conversation is, and have it, and the “block” will evaporate.

[obstinatecondolement]

Also sometimes "writer's block" is a problem with you needing to rest rather than an issue with the story. Stuff I have thought was irredeemably awful will often look fine when I leave it alone for a while to recharge my batteries.

[beetlejuicier-for-your-pleasure]

Sometimes writers block is just like cooked meat. You gotta let your story rest to really lock in those juices.