Thinking About How That One Dead Guy Said Galatea Never Actually Spoke To Her Husband When She Came To

Beetlejuice truly loves Lydia.

The why of it all is a different kettle of fish altogether and, in all honesty, it doesn’t really matter. He loves her and she can genuinely do no wrong by his books.

Delores is shown as one of the “loves of my [Betelgeuse’s] life” during MacArthur’s Park, alongside Lydia (and a dog - which is coincidentally Burton’s, thrown in as a last-minute gag). Despite what she did to him, Betelgeuse legitimately and canonically acknowledges her as someone he loved.

But she killed him.

Yes and he killed her too. She’s out for revenge and he…kinda isn’t too fussed about her having killed him. He’s too fixated on Lydia to care all that much, and her threat mostly reads as a major inconvenience to him that she might come between himself and Lydia. Even if he was successful in marrying Lydia and came back to life, Delores could just suck his soul anyway.

Delores did Betelgeuse wrong and he has no feelings left there for her, despite calling her one of the loves of his (After)life.

Lydia, on the other hand, has handed Betelgeuse’s ass to him twice.

Not once but twice has she managed to escape a marriage - the second one involving a contract (which, if you ask me, absolutely did not depend on rule 699. That was bullshit and I will not be persuaded otherwise). But Betelgeuse barely tried to stop her when she sent him back. He hissed at her.

Huh?

We know he’s more powerful than that.

Infinitely.

At the end, when he reappears beside her in bed, (leaving that saucy little imprint), we as the audience know he’s still haunting her. He will not. Let. Her. Go. That man is committed as fuck, even after Lydia has bested him over and over again.

Why?

He loves her.

I would happily wager my life on the idea that, while Lydia was saying his name three times at the end of the movie, Betelgeuse let her. As another user Tumblr brilliantly pointed out, MacArthur’s Park is a farewell song. He knew he was against the clock, fate and some inexplicable loophole. That said, no one knows Afterlife rules quite like Betelgeuse. I refuse to believe he didn’t know bringing Lydia into the Afterlife would cost him their contract (and yes, I’m clearly still bitter). Either that, or he was a lovesick fool who was too excited to turn her down.

I digress.

MacArthur’s Park is a farewell song. Betelgeuse played that wedding out in excruciating detail to give Lydia some kind of amusement. He clearly knows what’s happened in her life and he wants to give her something special. He did the whole shebang, made it magical, (we all know how excited Lydia is to float at the end of the first movie) and something to remember. But his love for her is so deep he wouldn’t want her marrying him without actually genuinely wanting to.

Betelgeuse let the love of his life destroy him rather than risk destroying the trust they had built.

You saw Lydia’s face when she looked at what was left of him on the floor. She’s feeling guilty as hell. He’s haunting her because she lets him. She. Can’t. Let. Him. Go.

They’re utterly alone, together.

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[flirting] you seem pretty cool. i think i'd like to spend the rest of my life waking up screaming from psychological horror film production level nightmares next to you and instinctively flinching from the sight of you before leaning into your touch.

There's a weird pigeon at my bus stop.

I ain't ever seen a pigeon that looks like this.

"Oh what do you wanna do at uni?" I don't know anymore, I had a plan but because of my own actions people's confidence in me dropped and my plan got thrown out the window. I've decided I'm gonna do something that they won't expect and aim higher.

I've decided to achieve off of spite.

I am just so, so, so obsessed with the Beauty and the Beast parallel for Steter.

I love when Peter makes Stiles swoon with a library, I love my research obsessed boy getting all the shiny, rare books he could want.

Hell, even the "wants to protect dad" parallel between Stiles and Belle.

The feral Alpha Peter as the Beast is just so blatantly obvious, it's right there. He needs to be coaxed back into humanity.

Even the scene in the hospital, when Stiles first comes face to face with human Peter, it felt so much like the Beast-to-Prince reveal.

Stiles is the Beauty to Peter's Beast and I'm obsessed with it.

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Get me a man who would kill anyone who even thinks about harming his wife.

Vent :)

Crying because I realised even though I had next to nothing I was taken away from the most loving household I have ever been in. I suffered but I was loved unconditionally.

I have not seen enough people talking about the fact that Stiles got a completely different body after the nogitsune. They will talk about or mention the nightmares, but they won't talk about the body thing. Like, yeah, the possession is over, but it's not really him, is it? This isn't the body he was born with. This isn't his REAL body. It's a magic fake, and it won't ever truly be him. There will be side effects of this, said side effects will fall on a spectrum and go up and down depending on how he handles it and how bad it is, it will fluctuate. Stiles probably won't ever feel right in that body. It won't fit the same way. It will be a constant presence of what happened, and there won't be anything he could do.

I think all I need is pinterest, Spotify and my notes app. Everything else can go fuck itself for all I care.