#ghost house

[weepingwidar]

Howard Pyle (American, 1853-1911) - The Haunted House (Catherine Duke Quickened Her Steps) (1904)

[jijiwiggu]

Charlie the Unicorn is about rejecting the toxic positivity being forced upon you as capitalist greed is destroying the world. That it is justified to feel these negative thoughts as everything is getting worse.

Llamas with Hats is about an abusive toxic partner accepting their situation. Where redemption and forgiveness is not available, the best outcome is to stay far away from each other.

Shadowstone Park is about doing good in the face of seemingly undefeatable cruelty and suffering. To keep going even when it feels like there is no hope.

Detective Heart of America is about blind nationalism and patriotism. If you're not willing to critique your nation, then you will become the evil that you choose to fight against for your country.

Ghost House is about one man's homoerotic journey delving into his masculine insecurities.

[iz1331]

When you think about it, Betelgeuse has probably been providing or helping Lydia with ghost hauntings for Ghost House and making sure Lydia won't be lacking of "clients" and content for her show.

Beej supporting his wifey even from the Afterlife. The Juice even "hired" a whole department of shrinkers (shrink heads?) to manage all the newlydeads wanting Betelgeuse's professional haunting expertise!

From someone who just stays in his grave, sitting on his ratty couch, in his robe, and searching for potential clients from reading the obituary, probably taking up jobs whenever he feels like it because his profession as a bio-exorcist is uniquely his own and definitely not into the whole bureaucracy crap he did when he was Juno's assistant all those centuries ago, a real loose cannon...

To someone who has his own employees, a huge ass office, and mainstreaming his services where the newlydeads and other ghosts were now demanding his work 24/7!

All those centuries of his bio-exorcist schtick before meeting the Deetz-Maitlands, Lydia especially, and he changed his whole work ethic maybe around the same time he found out about Lydia's new career as a ghost haunting show host and exorcist (maybe not exorcist, but she talks to them and makes the arrangements for both living and dead to coexist).

I won't be surprised if in one of Lydia's visits to the haunted houses, Betelgeuse is there and just watches her work. Maybe make himself appear for a split-second to scare or just "say" hello to Lydia, lol. Betelgeuse is such a sucker for her, so obsessed loyal to Lydia that he didn't even try to make another alive person marry him. If he ever gets married (a second time), it's only gotta be with Edgar Allan Poe's daughter (I'm referring to Lydia, btw).

Anyways, basically they're work spouses. Even though one of them doesn't know it, and the other has been pining for the last 30 or so years.

[ghosthouseart]

sense of home

[image description: a long vertical watercolor painting of a sky full of soft pink and blue clouds, over a dark silhouetted road, trees, telephone wires, and a church steeple. in the middle of the silhouetted street is a small house outlined in glowing yellow; above, in the sky, is a glowing crescent moon. /end i.d.]

[househrt]

ohhhh ghost!House where it takes Wilson a while to believe he's actually being haunted and not just hallucinating (it's in his genes after all)

losing it at House's funeral, somewhere between crying and laughing because ghost!House is keeping up a sarcastic monologue about the whole thing

Wilson talking to House's ghost before he believes ghosts are real. because he doesn't care anymore, he just wants to talk to House again, even if it's not real

withdrawing from his regular life so he can spend more time talking to House, concerning everyone around him who know he can't be as okay as he seems. he should be falling apart

[parachuteinfantries]

When he thinks about it, the house was sort of the site of the first lesson. Don’t bother to dream; you’ll only end up disappointed. And he’d done a pretty good job of it, till old blue eyes wandered into Haguenau and upended Joe’s life. But that was neither here nor there, he thinks with a pang. Web sure was staying gone and like Joe said: no sense in dreaming about Web sweeping through the door.

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cover art: haunted house by morris kantor

[shesinbipolaris]

...Are You Scared?

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