#maitland house

[thebettyjuice]

The two houses I would most love to live in (and can't because they were temporary structures).

[here-lies-beetlejuice]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) dir. Tim Burton

[i-really-like-phrogs]

Re-design of my un-named Beetlejuice OC from back when I was thirteen

Original Reference under the cut:

[sharkwing]

i have a lot of thoughts about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (both positive and negative) but the one I keep coming back to is that Lydia would NOT want to destroy the Maitlands’ town model no matter how many times Beetlejuice appeared in it. She’s already seen that he can appear pretty much anywhere (including on her phone) and that’s the last material thing she has to remember her ghost parents by what the fuck

[subukunojess]

Popular Characters In Connecticut

Luz (The Owl House)

Adam and Barbara Maitland (Beetlejuice)

Lydia, Charles, and Delia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Clark, the 3rd happiest man in Connecticut (Tumblr: please someone tell me who owns clark)

[itsdefinitely]

have a good one

[xxghost-zombie-jesus]

genuinely i think if babs had enough time to learn (like longer than one musical number beej come ON) she could be scary. she grabs that severed head and she's the first one to learn the voice trick and during the dinner party she's having a good time. she's just too nice to do it maliciously but come halloween time? oh my god she's pulling so many tricks for lydia's haunted house

No, I think you're on to something.

Out of the two Maitlands, Barbara is always the first to change. The first to decide, "hey, what we're doing isn't working, we need to try something different." The first to do.

She's the one who starts with the Maitlands 2.0, as Barbara 2.0. She's the one who decides that they have to try to haunt the house because if not them, then who else? They're dead, fuck it! They can do what they want!

I think there's something holding her back. And, no, Adam, as reserved as he is, isn't it. It's her own reservations. She is, undeniably, kind of reserved, especially in the beginning. She has to act a certain way, do the right things in the correct steps, she has to be a model wife and woman and do everything the way it's supposed to be done. Get married to someone she loves? Check. Have a house, get hobbies, start a family? Check, check, and they're... uh they're working on it. Fall through their floor and die? Check--wait what?

She's tries to be your traditional housewife, you know? Calm, collected, demure, et cetera. She isn't, and we do see that throughout the musical, especially in the part where she picks up the head and immediately starts messing with it, or when she's the one who decides fuck it, we're doing this. She's strong, and independent, and is aware of her strengths and weaknesses and failings.

And yet, she doesn't want to accept this. She wants to fit the model mold of a housewife. She wants to be normal, and sweet and kind without a stubborn streak ten miles wide. But she is a little stubborn, and selfish at times, and a a tad narrow-minded occasionally. She isn't perfect, she can't fit into a mold.

Barbara is intuitive. Upon meeting Lydia she can tell something is UP. She knows that this teenager isn't okay, and yet, she agrees to help her not because she thinks that it'll actually help Lydia heal, but because she wants her house back. She wants her old life back. When it doesn't work and she realizes that this isn't what she wants, she changes, and wants to be there for Lydia. But at first? She's selfish.

I agree with you whole-heartedly, that out of her and Adam, she'd be the first one to get being scary down pat. She has a better grasp as to how things work, but as you said, she's too nice.

And I feel like some of that niceness has been learned. It's not fake, she is, genuinely, a really sweet ghost, but she had to work to get to that point. Because she does have a few moments where she isn't nice. She knows how to put her foot down, and she knows how to lie and manipulate, a lot better than Adam can, that's for sure. And that isn't something someone can just, suddenly be good at. Something tells me she used to be quite a little stinker when she was younger. Not mean, never malicious, but definitely mischievous.

It's like. You can be nice, but not kind. Or you can be kind, but not nice. And Barbara is nice. She is very nice. But she isn't always kind. She isn't above calling Beetlejuice names. ("That meaty pervert was right.") Adam tries to be rude but instead just says that Beetlejuice needs a therapist, he is both kind and nice to a fault. Barbara is downright kind of mean about him, but in a nice way. She is nice, but not kind.

She could easily use her occasional lack of kindness and be scary. But she... doesn't want to be unkind. Because that's not something people do. Everytime she's unkind she seems to regret it, even just a little, like she doesn't mean to be unkind it just happens. She tries not to curse, and to be a good person, but deep down she isn't always and she is aware of this.

It's why she has an easier time (not an EASY time, mind you, but easier than Adam) doing what Beetlejuice shows them. Like letting her death bother her, or using ghostly abilities. But also why she seems almost hesitant, at first, to do so.

And if she just accepted that sometimes its okay to be a little unkind, if its for the right reasons, then maybe she'd be right there with Beej scaring people for fun.

I don't know if any of that made sense. I won't apologize for it but uh... yeah. Hope this is what you were looking for.

One hundred percent, though, Adam decides he doesn't want to be scary but Barbara wants to try. And so when you have your inevitable 'Beetlejuice comes back', she wants him to teach her how to be a proper ghost, how to be really scary. And he does, and now that her entire heart is in it, she can do much better.

She's still too nice, though, and can't put her all into it, but it's much better than ripping some sheets and ghostly wailing.

[cat-and-books]

Okay so I have absolutely no right to be doing this.

But I'm making the Maitlands' house from Beetlejuice. Out of clay.

THIS HAD NO RIGHT TO BE APPROVED.

[augustusaugustus]

Frank Burnside

Time for another Frank picspam, I think.

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

Beetlejuice 2 updates I stumbled across.

[ekaterinaroskova]

thinking a lot abt the annamabes beej lolo lyds AU. in the charades scene mabels like “THE MONTH IN BETWEEN APRIL AND JUNE” and lolos like. may??? and then mabes manifests a ringing bell and starts ringing it at top volume until Lolo screams “MAY-BELL???? MABEL?????”. also for anna she just sighs and is like. it’s a palindrome. and Lolo sits there and guesses for twenty minutes

[thebettyjuice]

Various shots of the Maitland/Deetz home. I have no idea ifd the veil will be there for filming.

[gummycube]

In my brain Adam Maitland was a kindergarten teacher... nothing more to add to that thank you for reading

[funkily]

How was Beetlejuice

IT WAS SO GOOD . my throat is really sore from cheering and there were a number of changes (none of which i minded) and my mom really liked it !!!!

[starlit-mansion]

Listening to the beetlejuice cast recording again and i think it's funny how updating the maitlands from 80s affluent normie yuppies to 2010s neurotic hipsters with too many artisinal hobbies actually makes it feel more dated

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