a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS
one day dni guys will realize that they’re the ones appearing constantly on the search of the ship. maybe use something like babesdni instead? easier for everyone
Attempt to re-create this: https://www.tumblr.com/theresaviolett/781922538021388288/inspired-by-the-painting-weightless-by-denis?source=share with acrylic paint/mixed media on canvas (small format).
From "It's a Wonderful Afterlife", season 4 episode 28.
Without Betelgeuse Lydia would have never learned to make friends or connect with others. Because no one in Peaceful Pines would have understood how strange and usual she is.
It's imperative for this to be understood--to Lydia, who was alone and misunderstood by everyone around her, Betelgeuse brings joy. He's just as weird, gross, and strange as she is. He shows her things that she likes, takes her to places she could only have thought existed in her imagination.
The residents of the Neither World are her friends, the first ones she has besides Beej that help her learn to express herself and talk to the regular-degular breathers that exist around her.
This isn't to put Beej on a pedestal. He's not the centre focus here. What is the centre focus here are Lydia's emotions, and how her life could be so vastly different from what it is if she hadn't ever met him.
He's not a villain, so much as he's an antagonist in the first film. The Maitlands' are your main characters. They summon him to do a job that he does. Otho is the real villain in the first film along with the Deetz' matrimony and their guests.
He's the antihero in the second film because Lydia summons him for help. His quid-pro-quo wouldn't matter in the end, because Lydia needs his assistance to get her daughter back and he also does that and takes care of the little shit that tried to switch places with Astrid. She trusts him, even if you think she doesn't. She moves towards him in the chapel when Rory's plans are revealed.
In the animated series, he helps Lydia be more out there with her weirdness, and t helps her. He's her guide if you want to call him that. But in the end, Lydia Deetz was always supposed to meet and talk to Betelgeuse.
That's it.
That's the end of my ramble.
I'm not sure what else to call this observation/rambling, but I've been thinking a lot about the events of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and on my most recent viewing, I noticed something super satisfying about this scene. You know, other than the obvious.
We all know Beej is not one to turn down a deal, least of all when it involves his own self-interest. And of course, it's very advantageous for him to rescue the daughter of the woman whose heart he's trying desperately to win. But there's another delicious layer to him being the one to personally dispose of Jeremy Fraizer...
Betelgeuse knows exactly what it's like to be manipulated by love, only to then have your life taken from you.
Delores manipulated him under the guise of love to steal his life (and his soul) to gain immortality, the same way that Jeremy pretended to care for Astrid so that he could ultimately take her life for his own.
It's think pretty accurate to assume that neither Delores nor Jeremy felt anything genuine for their victims. They were a means to an end. But where Betelgeuse had to defend himself on his own, unable to reverse what had been done, Astrid was not alone. While she was preoccupied with running from the afterlife authorities, reuniting with her father, and getting some much-needed family closure, there was someone else looking out for her.
Enter our anti-hero.
We don't get any direct insight into Beej's thoughts on the Jeremy situation, but it probably struck a nerve for him. He would never admit it, but how could it not? We already know he's privy to Rory's manipulation of Lydia and is eager to expose him, but this is not about a toxic, gold-digging relationship. This is literally life and death. It follows that he would be just as if not more upset to learn that a murderous wolf in sheep's clothing was trying to kill Lydia's daughter, especially given the nature of his own death.
(I mean c'mon, he used his one PG-13 ordained f-bomb on the guy. I think it's safe to say he felt pretty strongly about Jeremy's villainy.)
We all know how it plays out in the end, but I think it's rather poetic that Beej is able to avenge his 'would-be stepdaughter' and save her from a devious scheme very similar to the one that he fell prey to.
He couldn't get his own life back from Delores (though arguably he does, at least metaphorically, in the finale), but he was able to give Astrid back hers.
So there you have it. Now that I see the parallels, it's ten times more vindicating that Betelgeuse was the one that got to send that slimeball to hell. And let's be honest: Beej would probably agree.
thinking about keaton in the wedding bts clarifying his blocking when he says "and i'm just looking at her, right? tim? just taking her in? she's beautiful." and slowly deflating until i am totally flat
Lydia finds a forgotten crumbled-up piece of paper on the floor of the study.
My beautiful wife Lydia,
My beautiful wonderful Honey,
My Honeybun,
Honey,
I just wanted to say I know people today don’t normally write love letters but I wanted to tell you that you’re the only
You complete me.
You had me at hello.
I’ve loved you for a thousand years (whatever sparkle boy)
I’ll never let go.
You have bewitched me body and soul (Say in British accent)
As you wish!!!!
I would cross oceans of time for you. And happily sink my teeth into you
Babe, you’re the most
You’re the hottest babe I’ve ever loved
Maybe I should stick to cheesy love songs.
Your hair is like the raven’s wings against the pale moonlight and your eyes are dark like the hole my soul died in when you ripped my heart out and married Richard.
I’m Batman. You’re the Catwoman to my
Although I’m all for seeing you looking like Michelle Pfeiffer. Whip included.
I suck at this. :(
Honey,
I wish I could tell you in my own words how much I love you. Without lyrics or movies or novels. But it seems they’ve created every romantic line in existence leaving me with nothing.
I don’t know if simply saying I love you as much as possible will ever be enough.
But there is one thing that they didn’t say that only I can say.
Thank you for marrying me for real this time.
Love you, Babe. Always have. And long after death.
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