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Notes for chapter 7 of Flock Together

Chapter 7– We’re staying at the lotus inn / tomorrow we can press rewind / I never want this night to end

@katslitterbox @possum-quesadilla @raineisinkless @crawlingcarcass

Chapter title is from “Lotus Inn” by Why Don’t We.

“Oh! You’re a hugger— ok!” Rigel awkwardly wrapped his arms around Beetlejuice,”

He hasn’t been hugged in a LONG time.

"Sorry, Rigel. It's nothing personal, I just don't really like making deals with demons." Shilo gave him an awkward smile.”

Shilo’s smart.

“The ink was bright green and glowed in the low light of the forest.”

That’s his blood! It glows in the dark. He’s like a feather covered glowstick.

“Shilo tried to catch him, but only succeeded in grabbing a handful of his wings, making him hiss.”

His wings and back are sensitive.

“A glance at Lydia confirmed her nose was bleeding too, albeit much more heavily.”

She’s more affected by everything because she’s a human.

“Rigel tutted. "That won't do." He flicked his tail towards a clearing and a large blue tent appeared. "You three go in. Sleep, drink, eat, whatever you need."

He’s such a worried parent.

“A fish tank stood off to the side, holding catfish, pufferfish, and more.”

These fish are here for symbolic but also spoiler reasons.

“The table and food were decorated with lotus blossoms, sweet and fragrant.”

Reference to the lotus-eaters in Greek mythology. When they ate the flower, they no longer cared about leaving and going home. Rigel feeds the others lotuses because he doesn’t want them to leave. He’s a lonely guy. Thankfully for the others, these flowers aren’t powerful enough for them to never want to leave.

“Jazz music played quietly in the background.”

I listened to a lot of jazz while creating Rigel. The song that was playing was “The Maddest Kind of Love” by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It’s one of the songs I frequently listen to while writing Rigel.

“Something poked her ankle. Shilo leapt up and almost fell out of her hammock, ready to fight whatever had just touched her.”

Rigel poked her with his tail.

"Huh?" Beetlejuice glanced up at Rigel with a small trill. "Oh, uh, yeah. They are."

More CatJuice

“Rigel laughed and ruffled Beetlejuice's hair. "Flattery will get you everywhere, son. And so will begging! Lots of it.”

Life lessons with Rigel.

"Yikes," Beetlejuice said. "You must've been really desperate to get laid then." he grimaced immediately afterwards. ''M sorry. Dunno why I said that."

Unlike canon Beetlejuice, HarpyJuice is capable of feeling shame lmao. He’s not wrong though.

“Juno was like that sometimes, just saying whatever was on her mind. You remind me of her a bit."

Beetlejuice's stomach dropped and his eyes and the back of his throat burned.“

He does Not like being compared to his mother.

"Yes, Adam and Barbara Maitland. They left their cabin once… I sensed them and ran up to talk, but when they saw me, they just ran away. I haven't had to deal with them since."

Here’s Rigel’s side of the story!

“Rigel situated himself under the hammocks, close enough to feel the body heat radiating out from his new humans. He smiled and rested his face on his hands. He could get used to this.”

He just wants friends :(

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👀👀 not gonna name names but SOME of u are sweet and kind and deserve the world and i am rooting for u

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Merry Christmas from Rigel!

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Happy Christmas Eve to all who celebrate :)

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ooc - Make sure to send whatever you want before the 22nd of December(or 23rd.) I’m planning to temporarily turn them off maybe until January? or at least until the 26th because of the raid theyre apparently planning. Media asks are off again. I dont want to risk anything, and I highly suggest you dont send links. I wont reply

If you’re a roleplay blog too, please do this. Please turn your asks off. They are planning to send potentially gore of real people, specifically children. Take care of yourselves please, you are your #1 priority, nothing and nobody else.

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It’s my birthday yippee

Art coming soon maybe

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a series of unfortunate events au where klaus gets the caligari carnival shut down by calling osha on their unsecured lion pit

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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

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Some Shilo x Harpy Beetlejuice art for the 3 people who are into my au (I love you guys so so much)

Beetlejuice….. Shilo……….. my babies

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Notes for chapter 6 of Flock Together.

Warning for animal death, gore, implied abuse, and weird body horror!!!

Chapter 6- Dear friends in higher places, carry me away from here

@crawlingcarcass @katslitterbox @raineisinkless @possum-quesadilla

There’s art at the end of these notes btw!!

Chapter title is from “To the Sky” by Owl City.

“Rise and shine, sleeping beauty. We’re here,” he said, shaking her with more aggression than necessary.”

He doesn’t mean any harm, he just isn’t always aware of his own strength. And Lydia is a lot weaker than he’s used to.

“Hey Shilo! You know how we agreed we didn’t want kids?”

As much as I would love to give them a life where they have cool harpy kids, that would never happen in this universe. Perhaps in another world, they have children.

“She was young and quite tall,”

I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this yet, but Shilo is 5’10”

“Oh my god, please don’t tell me you can smell that I’m pregnant or something.”

He can tell if someone is pregnant before they can. He can also detect stuff like cancer.

“We got one now,” said Beetlejuice, stepping away to reveal Lydia.”

When your boyfriend leaves to roam the woods for a few hours and comes back with someone else’s child.

“I’m fine with you bringing me sticks or bones or dead animals. Hell, I’m somewhat fine with you bringing me things that are still alive!”

Beetlejuice loves giving Shilo gifts! Sometimes those gifts are rats and birds that are still alive. And sometimes Shilo finds those gifts in her bed. Or her shoes. Or actively crawling on her.

“Shilo Brooks”

Shilo’s last name! Her full name is Shilo Mary Brooks.

“Her mind flashed to the Maitlands. Had they read her letter? Had they run up to her room to see if she was still there? Did one have to hold the other back from running into the woods to search for her? Were they sitting on the floor of her room right now, mourning the loss of the girl they met over a week ago as if she was their own daughter?”

Hey guys. If anyone was wondering, this is exactly what happened when they read her suicide note.

“She had everything from vintage recipe books to school textbooks to grimoires.”

She got a lot of these things at various thrift stores. A lot of her clothes are either thrifted or sewn by her.

“What Lydia loved most, however, was the giant collection of animal bones in the basement. Cats, birds, possums, squirrels, deer, rabbit, Beetlejuice claimed that they were “naturally sourced”, but the hungry gleam in his eyes suggested that some were definitely not ethically sourced.”

The bones collected by Shilo were from roadkill and deceased animals she found in the woods. She also has her childhood cat’s skeleton. The bones collected by Beetlejuice are from his kills.

“Shilo patted her on the back.”

She is not great at comforting people who aren’t Beetlejuice.

“Shilo hummed along to an old love song while she cooked.”

She was humming “Chances Are” by Johnny Mathis, which also happens to be the song Adam and Barbara were singing along to in one of the earlier Beetlejuice scripts.

“He told Lydia as they went up the stairs that he was indefinitely banned from cooking, baking, and using the microwave without close supervision after some events such as, “The Bacon Incident”, “The Carrot Cake Incident”, and something called “The Grape Incident”, of which the name alone sent shivers down both Shilo and Beetlejuice’s spines.”

Another mention of The Grape Incident.

“we’re still tryin’ to figure out what to name Shilo’s hearse. Every time we refer to it, we cycle through different names to see if anythin’ sticks.”

Other names for the hearse include: Sarcarphagus, Vulture, BoJack Hearseman, The Fun-eral, Cary the car, Car-nage, Car-nivorous Beast, and The Ra-Van.

“The Dragster of Doom”

Cartoon reference

“Beetlejuice washed the dishes (he broke a mug, but what was breakfast without a few casualties?),”

He cannot be trusted around fragile things.

“You took your meds, right?” Beetlejuice asked.

Shilo faltered. “I think so? I’m pretty sure I did.”

She did not take her medication. She has trouble remembering to take her meds. Hopefully that won’t be a problem in a future chapter! :)

“Before he could properly process what he was doing, Beetlejuice was aggressively flapping his anxiety orange wings and screeching at the top of his lungs.”

Bird instinct is taking over. He’s giving off an alarm call.

“the second her hands moved away from the squirrel, a glowing, blue, two and a half foot long hunters knife sunk right into the squirrel’s back.”

If he hadn’t freaked out, Lydia would have lost her hand.

“easily standing at around eight feet, maybe more.”

He’s exactly 8 feet tall.

“Lydia tugged at Shilo’s sleeve and whispered, “have we ever addressed Beetlejuice by his actual name in these woods?”

They have not.

Here is art of the new character! I am very excited for you guys to meet Rigel. First drawing was made by the absolutely incredible @possum-quesadilla, and the second drawing was made by me.

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GAHHH THANK YOU I LOVE YOU RAINE

Babe, listen

Your fic isn’t a flop, it’s a cult classic. Only the coolest freaks like it, don’t worry about it, it’s great.

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me as a writer

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Found old art (February from this year)

Perhaps I'll remake it someday.

Funafact about this,

when I made started it I texted my brother, "sketch is done hand hurts" and a week later when I finished I texted him "Ok so my hand doenst hurt anymore but my eye does" and apparently I had conjunctivitis and my parents made me go to school with my eye red and swollen, it looked so bad a girl felt bad for me and gave me a cookie, I was very anxious about it and she helped me, after that I went home cause it was getting more swollen and that was a relief.

Still salty they made me go but whatever.

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HAPPY BLUE APPRECIATION DAY!!!!

@possum-quesadilla LOVE YOU BLUE!!!!!

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I don’t think I really need to worry about ‘same face syndrome’ when three of my favourite characters are Seymour Krelborn, Brad Majors, and Adam Maitland

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Notes for chapter 5 of Flock Together.

Warning for attempted suicide.

Chapter 5- If you changed anything, would you not have survived? You’re alive, you’re alive, you’re alive

@possum-quesadilla @crawlingcarcass @raineisinkless @katslitterbox

Chapter title is from “The 30th” by Billie Eilish.

“give the little wooden carving of Champ a head pat,”

Champ is a legendary lake monster said to live in Lake Champlain, a lake in New York and Vermont (and some of Canada).

“Lydia, darling, you look exhausted!” Delia exclaimed as she came down for breakfast.

“Yeah, it’s hard to sleep when you’ve got a bulldog snoring down the hall from you,” Lydia snapped.”

Delia’s a snorer in this fic. She loves to pretend she isn’t.

“I’m sorry I said you snore like a bulldog. And I’m sorry you and dad haven’t invested in a CPAP machine yet.” Delia’s eyes narrowed. “And I’m sorry I said that just now.”

I don’t have anything to say about this, just thought it was funny.

“The second she stepped inside the dark basement, she was immediately greeted by Adam and Barbara, who wasted no time in wrapping her up in a hug.”

They hang around the basement door every night waiting for her to show up.

“She yawned and leaned into Barbara. Barbara rubbed her shoulder. A look crossed her face, although Lydia couldn’t fully identify it. Something vaguely sad, sort of happy, sort of thoughtful. Barbara rested a hand on her stomach.”

Barbara was thinking about the kid she never had btw. Lydia reminds her of that child.

“Maybe it would be better if I was dead.”

Tone shift jumpscare.

“there was this throbbing pain behind my eyes… It was like something was keeping us from turning around and leaving.”

It’s so interesting that the same thing happened to Beetlejuice just a few chapters ago. Perhaps that means something.

“It was of Lydia. She was standing in front of a large bison skeleton with glowing eyes and a glowing blue heart sitting in its chest. The same blue light was pouring out of Lydia’s mouth and x’s were drawn over her neck and eyes.”

There’s art of this at the end of the notes. That photo was originally the one she took with the squirrel skeleton.

“Here, I’ll go up and keep an eye out. Like a spy!” Adam leapt up from the couch and made a show of tiptoeing to the basement door, before pressing a finger to his lips, blowing a kiss to Barbara, and sneaking out of the basement. Barbara giggled to herself. Though the two of them had changed quite a bit since their deaths, her husband’s dorkiness was one thing Barbara was always glad that he kept.”

She loves her husband. I love her husband too.

“and you won’t even say her name!”

Musical reference.

“she overheard Charles’ muffled voice through the walls. Some of his words were hard to decipher, but one sentence was clear:

“Why does she always insist on being such a burden?”

Ouch.

“I am utterly alone. By the time you read this, I, Lydia Deetz, will be gone, having jumped off the tallest tree in the forest. There’s nothing left for me in this world. I’m reuniting with my mother, no matter what.”

Movie and musical reference.

“Lydia grimaced when she saw the way his wing was bent.”

She broke his wing.

“‘Course, if you wanna do-over, I can always fly you back into the tree,” he suggested.

“What?”

“Or if you want somethin’ bloodier, I could use these bad boys.” He flashed his claws. “They aren’t just for show.”

This part is kind of based on Funtime Freddy in Count The Ways. Beetlejuice is not opposed to murdering Lydia currently!

“Was that what was watching her the whole time?”

Beetlejuice is not, in fact, the creature that’s been watching her.

“So, Lydia Deetz,”

One of the only times he’s actually going to refer to Lydia by name.

Here is the art btw!

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I’m just… gonna… leave this… here…