Rebelharkness - Randomness

Beetlejuice has literally been stalking Lydia for years. He's intentionally off-putting and gross. He openly enjoys freaking her out. It's his way of showing affection. He's like a horror Pepe Le Pew.

They refer to him as being a demon at least 3 times in BJBJ, as well as the fact that he had a satanic first wedding and cannot make the sign of the cross without setting himself on fire. He's evil. Funny, and sometimes helpful, but still evil. Doesn't mean he can't fall in love.

No, movie Lydia isn't into him. Why would she be? He's always terrorizing her and trying to coerce her into marriage, presumably for selfish reasons. Plus he's covered in bugs and spews guts and fluids wherever he goes. But that doesn't mean that they can't both change eventually. Hell, it's still a better love story than Twilight or (gag) Rory/Lydia.

So there is no "Is this particular scenario okay and not problematic?" with Beetlejuice. You're either on board with him being a literal monster, or you're not. You have to acknowledge it, accept it, and still be into it to be a Beetlebabe who isn't trying to make BJ into something nicer and cleaner than he is. We like it because monsters and goth girls are fun, not because it's in any way related to real life. Beetlejuice is about as far away from real life as you can get.

Sometimes you need a break from reality, morality, and acceptability. It's healthy to take a break from all that societal pressure. The reason horror and subversive comedy is popular is because it gives us some much needed freedom from the limited ways we're always expected to feel and behave.

Ed gets on Oswald for being a child who throws tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants- but honestly? Oswald's probably the more emotionally mature of the two. Idk if this is a hot take but yeah.

I felt like she needed both of her brothers.

I thought of a pun about this post and now I can't remember what it is but I swear it was a good one!!

shoutout to the guy who created a parody account of cinemasins where instead of pointing out every single flaw in a film, he just pointed out things he liked about the movie. you're so right cinemawins its so much more fun to like things

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER CAST ━ Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Dominique Thorne and Letitia Wright for EBONY Magazine (November/December 2022)

Shuri and Peter Parker meeting (2019): “vines! memes! science! haha look how worried tchalla and tony are. lets go eat tide pods” 

Shuri and Peter Parker meeting (2022): “I am alone in the world. All my family members died in front of me, and my grief was so intense that I almost killed a man in cold blood. Laughter and innocence belong to a dead version of me. I must bear the burden of responsibility alone”

hands!

My friends watching me try to explain why Nov 5th is so important:

sunrise / sunset

when you finish a fic that was everything you could of hoped for and you click on their user to see that they’ve written dozens of fics for that pairing