#♡ ───── LYDIA DEETZ ( MEME REPLIES )

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"The living and the dead belong in different places." ( from Richard if you have seen second movie fksnfnna ) asked by @beet13juice

❝ You know how I wish that was true for me. ❞ It had started with the Maitlands, hadn't it? Hadn't they been the first spirits she had ever laid eyes on? Sometimes she wondered if she had been walking down a random street as a child and had seen someone dead without ever realizing it, but moving into the Maitlands' old house had opened her up to their world more than she had ever expected.

Ever since then, she hadn't stopped running into spirits. Not all of them were bad. Mostly they were just sad, stuck, convinced they weren't supposed to be dead. Sometimes she saw more than she bargained for, causing her to question her own sanity. Sometimes she even saw you know who, or thought she did, which triggered certain traumas that came with being able to see the dead when nobody else could, nor could they understand the gravity of it.

At least she had Richard . . . had being the keyword here. The one spirit she wanted to see and she never could find, not even for Astrid's sake. She knew they had little time left together, even if he'd be there to check on them just beyond her sight. She knew she'd at least feel him, if he let her.

❝ I thought I could turn what I was able to do into something that could help ghosts move on. I ended up letting myself get turned into some televised joke. I don't even know who I am anymore, Richard. ❞ She reached out to curl her fingers around his own, wishing she could feel his warmth the way she used to when she was feeling down. She tried imagining it instead, tried envisioning him the way he used to look before his accident. ❝ The living and dead are so jumbled up in my life I don't know what to do with it anymore. ❞

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"You're all hard on the outside, but you're gooey on the inside." ( from bj to Lydia ) asked by @beet13juice

Was that his way of trying to butter her up and put her in a good mood? Because she hadn't been in one of those in a very long time. She couldn't even remember the last time she cracked a genuine smile since things had been so fucked up over the last . . . well, she couldn't remember a time as of late when things weren't fucked up. Her furrowed brows cast darkly over her dark brown eyes as she stared at the menacing poltergeist. ❝ You're not going to convince me to do any favors for you if this is what this is about. ❞

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* (  THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE /  SENTENCE PROMPTS. | ''Who do you think did this?'' (for Lydia) asked by @purrgatorial

❝ It looks like Slimer from Ghostbusters exploded in here. ❞ Lydia reached out to swipe her finger across the substance, rubbing it against her other finger to inspect it and its texture. Yep. It was disgusting slime, like something blew up in here or had a serious paranormal puking issue; paranormal being the keyword here. She wiped it off against the curtain and turned back around to make a face at Damian. ❝ Whatever it was is gone now I think. ❞

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♡ ───── GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 SENTENCE STARTERS. | 'don't even think about it'. asked by @turnedahero

Her hand hovered just in front of the radio dial, fully aware that it was a big no-no to touch anything in his car that wasn't her own seatbelt, but if she had to listen to this song one more time this week then she was probably going to start pulling out her own eyelashes. It was nothing against the music itself, Billy did have good taste, but she needed something new to endure their car ride together. ❝ You know you're allowed to change the station and find something new once in a while, don't you? Come on, ❞ she pouted, features playful from her brown puppy dog eyes to the smirk on her fair lips. ❝ Just this once and you can turn it right back to Motley Crue. ❞

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❛ there’s no black or white, only gray. ❜ (to Violet or Lydia) - @spookeytozier

❝ That sounds like something only someone who has lived in the gray would say. ❞

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TUMBLR TEXT POSTS PROMPTS PART 2 | "Hey, girl. Plagued by terrifying visions?" ( from dawn for lydia ♡ ) asked by @chaos--mode

❝ They aren't visions as much as they are unfortunate visits by the ghost with the most — so he calls himself. I think he's just a clown in need of serious dental work. ❞ In the off chance that Betelgeuse was lurking in the shadows she really wanted to get that shot in. He really had no sense of boundaries.

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halloween/fall starters ! 🎃 | ❝ wanna go out for halloween? ❞ asked by @ragegrove

Lydia wasn't what you would call a social butterfly. Aside from being part of the yearbook club in school, he was the only other reason she wasn't as antisocial as she used to be. Even she could see that confident change in herself. Still, the idea of going out on Halloween made her nervous when she suspected he might have meant some big party. Something inside her still felt - insecure maybe? She couldn't exactly pinpoint the reason. But she'd go if he wanted her to if that was the plan. ❝Sure, that could be fun. What do you have in mind? ❞

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* phone call prompts | [ 📞 ] ‘ where are you? are you okay? ’ asked by @ragegrove

As soon as she walked into the house, Delia was giving her a hard time about Billy ringing the house phone a few times looking for her. She half-listened to what her stepmother was actually ranting about, charging up the stairs and heading into her room for some privacy instead. The strap to her bag slid down her arm and she carefully placed it on the bed, anxious to develop the film from tonight but she could also practice patience long enough to call her boyfriend back. She picked up the phone and dialed his number, plopping on the bed while it rang. A few rings later she heard his voice on the other end.

❝ Hey, I just got home a minute ago, ❞ she explained as she crossed her legs in front of her to get comfortable. ❝ I'm fine, I'm totally okay. I was just out taking photographs for a project. ❞ If that wasn't a little bit bullshit she didn't know what was. The truth was that she had been wandering in the woods investigating. She knew that Hawkins was strange and her morbidly curious nature got the better of her, wanting to see for herself just what was going on.

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Hidden Pictures Starters ! | “Is it possible some people die but stay alive?” / lydia asked by @daedpoet

❝ I don't have proof that there's a heaven or a hell, but I do know that people die ever single day, and there's a probability of them being STUCK HERE. If that doesn't scream LIVING DEAD then I don't know what does. ❞ Lydia hoped her little musing answered his question, however sarcastic as it may have been. Ghosts living among them just out of sight had to have meant that they were still "alive" in some fashion, just not in the traditional sense.

Even Barbara found herself bored and dragged the old vacuum out of the closet so that she could do housework. Imagine that; a ghost capable of scaring the shit out of anyone she wanted to, and she chose to tidy up the house she used to live in because she didn't know what else to do with herself during her hundred-year stay-at-home order. It wasn't something she did when she was alive and certainly didn't end in death.

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Hidden Pictures Starters ! | “This is a very old neighborhood, Lydia. All these houses have some kind of horror story.” asked by @alwaysrevvedup

As they drove through the neighborhood on their way home from school in the later afternoon hours, Lydia's curious dark brown eyes roved over the many houses they passed to get to her own. Her house was tucked farther down the street in a more remote area, the perfect house for a couple that wanted both privacy and a place to start a family of their own one day, though those dreams never came true. Not only had they not been able to have children, but a horrible car accident prevented them from living any more dreams that they might have had. Then Charles Deetz scooped up the property and his wife carved the house to match her personality - attention seeking with nobody left impressed besides her own ego.

It left her to wonder just how many houses used to harbor innocent people living their perfectly ordinary lives until, unsuspectingly, it was taken away from them. She wondered if their ghosts had been left behind, too, tormented by a past they couldn't forget and a future they would never accomplish on this earth. For the medium, a gift she had inherited in her teenage years, it really did make her question her own mortality at times.

❝ Oh, yeah? What about that one? ❞ Lydia pointed out the window to a brick house with a slightly flickering porch light. The probability that it was just an electric issue was higher than it was that the house was actually haunted. As they passed the house beside it, she pointed to that one, too. ❝ Or that one? Do you think any of them are haunted? ❞ As monotone as she sounded, she was only having fun with him, something she knew he would pick up on without her having to crack a big smile to prove it.

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Hidden Pictures Starters ! | “Oh, I know, they think they’re smarter than everyone else.” / lydia! asked by @applesdrowned

❝ Mortals often do, ❞ she spoke as if she still wasn't one herself. Often, she found herself speaking and acting as if she was already part of their world.

It had to have been true enough that she had already stepped one foot through their door given the ability that had been awoken inside her. Sometimes she wondered if the Maitlands were the first dead she had come across but hadn't realized it before. She used to imagine ghosts as hideous creatures of the night; deformed beings with vacant black sockets for eyes and bones protruding through decaying, gray skin. Unfortunately for her wild imagination, they looked just like her. Regardless of what they looked like or when she made her discovery that she could see them when others couldn't, she still felt closer to their world than she should have.

❝ The living most definitely believe they are entitled. It makes me realize that my father and stepmother would not do well as ghosts. You really can't demand anything when your mortal bodies are buried six feet underground. ❞

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₍ 📻 ₎   the mountain goats lyrics  rp  starters  ! | wrap this around your head. don't let anyone see that you're bleeding. / lydia asked by @auragifted

❝ Shouldn't this constitute as a valid reason to get to a hospital instead of hiding what could be a life-threatening wound? ❞ Lydia's tone of voice was so stagnant that you really couldn't tell how sincere she was being or if she was being sarcastic about a very serious situation. She removed her hand from her wound, noticing the dark speckles of blood smearing between her fingertips. She took the scarf that offered her and wrapped it around her head, hoping it passed as fashionable rather than a means to hide what had happened.

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♡ ───── GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 SENTENCE STARTERS. | 'you're upset and you're acting like it's my fault.' asked by @turnedahero

❝ Can you honestly look at me and tell me that you don't think any of it is your fault? Not even just a sliver of responsibility?? ❞