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this is so cartoon babes coded

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I know that...

Do you hear that sound? These are the burning asses of the antis

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THEY ARE SO MARRIED, LMAO! 😆

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!!

UNMUTE!!

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HEY did you know you could go on HeroForge and make ANYTHING you could ever want???!!!

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Beetlejuice Valentines from 1990.

From my collection.

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"Beetlejuice" cartoon coloring book, 1989.

From my collection.

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Official lydia and astrid posters for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian reference! Heh heh, no, I'm not smiling...

Pining for your ex-fiance so hard you have a little framed picture of her on your desk you fucking HAM

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HEH HEH! I really laugh. Can't wait to see it. Probably not on first movie level, but obviously a jam...

Hey Babes!

It’s Showtime!

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🖤🤍🖤Trailer blow the spoiler tag 🖤🤍🖤

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Re the weird divide in the Beetlejuice fandom, which I really don't get

Fandom is so strange. Just liking Beetlejuice himself as a character has invited all manner of unusual kinks and personal interests into the fandom, and hey, the more the merrier. Beetlefans and netherlings are an assembly of interesting weirdos, so like, you do you. And obviously, this means that you should try not to judge or make assumptions about others based on your own feelings about their interests. Riiiight?

So, Beetlebabes as a ship has been around since the beginning of the fandom, and it certainly seems likely not to be going anywhere with the sequel. Now, my own personal stance on the pairing lies straight in the middle. I think Lydia and Beej have a beautiful friendship in the animated series and musical. They're such a great comedic duo and there's something very pure and sweet about this girl and her bug-man. Their relationship in the musical IS colored by the fact that they're both using and tricking each other a lot of the time, but they seem to have a mutual respect on this point and don't let it ruin their friendship, well until the topic of moms comes up, anyway.

In the movie, it's more complicated. BJ is motivated primarily by his desire to be free and couldn't care less about Lydia's problems. He also gets just a tad creepy with Lydia, though he's not over the top about it. He claims that he thinks that she "really understands me", which is a frickin weird thing to say about a kid who you talked to for like five minutes. But the pervy implications are kept to a minimum so as not to drive the movie into darker territory. His motivations are still kept as primarily a green card thing, although the viewer is still pretty grossed out by the forced, child-bride marriage.

Re BJ, I don't see him as a human or someone who really follows human rules. He's a supernatural creature who has a vague, outsider's understanding of what being human means. Even interpreting him as a ghost and not a demon, he's too different from a human to remember what being one is like. In the musical and cartoon, he relates to Lydia from a child's pov, but tries to behave like an adult with the Maitlands. He's neither, though. He's an unliving, essentially immortal Thing. And while Lydia clearly has a lot of affection for "her monster", she's not exactly into this gross, stinky, creepy old guy. As for BJ, he's very attached to Lydia, perhaps unhealthily so, but he's not being a sexual predator with her.

However, as a Beetlefan, I've seen that it's pretty natural to pair the two up romantically. I certainly shipped them as a kid. And yeah, it's kind of a weird ship, but Beetlejuice as a concept is just weird, period. Weirdness and age gaps are hardly anything new or unique in any part of the internet. Teen fans ship characters their own age with much older characters all the time, and it's not usually frowned upon. But in the Beetlejuice fandom, there appears to be a lot of ship-shaming and accusations of p3d0ph1lia when it comes to this teen/ancient monster pairing, which I'm guessing is a lot more of an internet drama thing than about the actual pairing itself.

Now to be clear, I don't ship teen Lydia with anyone, but I also acknowledge that she's not gonna stay a kid and that things could change between them.

Personally I like the idea of Lydia and BJ being reunited after spending several years apart and things being super weird and tense based on their history. I've become primarily a fan of the relationship dynamic they have in the musical, so I see them as being distrustful of each other and competitive about getting one over the other. But they still gel in a unique way, and they can't help but enjoy their messed-up frenemy thing. And I think the awkwardness of the teen bride thing should be leaned into rather than forgotten or brushed away.

Lydia (to BJ): You really fucked me up, you know. I was just a sad kid who you manipulated. You fuckin creep.

BJ (to Lydia): Yeah but at least I didn't literally STAB YOU THROUGH THE HEART, so...point to me, there.

This type of prickly, antagonistic relationship is like catnip to me, honestly. So it's pretty disappointing and sad that all this fandom drama crap can and probably will affect my ability to share and enjoy beetlebabes content because "beetlebabes dni" appears on so many profiles and posts. It's the kinda thing that makes fandom culture such a double-edged freaking sword. Why can't people ever just let people enjoy the thing they like and try to be respectful of each other, ya know?

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What are the community's thoughts about the musical endorsing Trisha Paytas?

Hay! Well, my personal thought is that she's ok singer and has her own charm. What other thinging, I don't know.

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About poor ANTIS...

Now, when they days are finally gone... I wonder, now when soon Beetlejuice sequel shows on the big screens, what all that antis will do? All that name-calling, mocking, harassment, canceling and attacks?

They try to destroy the lives of others who have different opinions and call old and new Beetlebabes shippers delusional, pedophiles and terrible people and groomers!

MAIN PLOT OF A NEW MOVIE IS THAT LYDIA AND BEETLEJUICE ARE STILL CONNECTED/LINKED BY A FUCKING MARRIAGE CONTRACT, and she needs HIS help to save her daughter! I'm not gonna go in details or spoil the plot!

This will destroy and once for ever END discussion!

READ THAT LAUD: THEY ARE STILL CONNECTED/LINKED BY A MARRIAGE CONTRACT!

And Lydia has a good boy trying to help her this time!

My mistake, HER HUSBAND! PERIOD!

I'm interested in your opinions, folks!

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After this, I'm interested in the new Beetlejuice movie, it will be SUCH BEETLEBABES TROP, and finally shut up all that antis shit talking! This is a movie plot leak after test projection. Reactions are mixed. I said that I have a bad vibe, but if this is true, that's the path they must go if they want to be consistent with Beetlejuice lore. So, Beetlebabes are CANON, after all!

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Awesome!

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