#astrid rambles

[ansitru]

[nats-revival]

mfs Will turn ANYTHING into a fanfic like wym “what it would be like to get into a car accident with ellie” HUH???? THATS A LITERAL TRAGEDY. 😭😭😭

[astrids-multiverse]

GAHH

i hate the fact that I've been busy this whole week 😭 with school and work and i haven't even been able to respond to messages because of this and because when I get home i have to do schoolwork and after, i get so tired and so unmotivated like ughhh

and then next week i'm booked for work but i can't complain bc i'm broke af sndksjs but at least i'll get a break from school

[astridhobbit]

Having a thought.

I've heard this story before, but today I am taking note of the fact that David did not show up alone. He did not try to solve this problem alone. Instead, he organized an event with explicit instructions to make it fun.

I think that's key to a good barn raisin'. No one can put up a barn alone, true, but it takes more than two people. More than three. It takes a whole community. If David had shown up alone, it wouldn't've worked. Things would not have gotten finished.

And barn raisin's should be fun! It's a party! We're all gonna hang out and do work and laugh and joke and eat food and have fun! This person is struggling so let's have a good time and lighten the mood!

So yeah. If something in your community needs doing, have a party about it.

This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.

[foldingfittedsheets]

I went on an adventure today to return a pillow to IKEA with my coworker Astrid.

We were having a nice day and got stuck in traffic coming home. On the way her phone rang and she was driving so she declined the call with a sigh. “I feel so bad for him,” she said.

“You know that number?”

She did. It turns out her phone number had previously belonged to a woman named Serena. The man calling was her dad. He had Alzheimer’s and didn’t remember his daughter was dead, so he just called the number he knew was hers.

I was stricken to hear this. “Do you talk to him?”

“Yeah. Sometimes he thinks I’m her and we talk. I have a notebook with facts I’ve learned about her so I can connect with him better. Sometimes he knows I’m not her and I say I’m her friend.”

I struggled with the beauty and humanity of this for a moment. “What’s his name?”

“I don’t know; I just call him Dad.”

We sat in silence and I was overwhelmed with feelings. That she was so kind and thoughtful about this random connection. A man who called and spoke to her with love for the daughter he missed.

"One time," she added, "he called me just after I had a difficult day with my mom. I knew Serena and her mom had a rocky relationship so I talked to him about my frustrations with my own mother and he gave the following advice: ‘Everyone fails sometimes, even parents; what's important is to communicate with our loved ones, even when it's difficult.’

“I have never forgotten that advice and it healed a portion of my heart."

[ansitru]

[nats-revival]

id sell my left kidney if someone wrote ellie x humiliation kink. 🤞

[ansitru]

I kind of wonder if there are photos like this for the table read of s3 of The Witcher.

i wonder if actors ever get their scripts and are like

well this is fucking stupid

[astrids-multiverse]

i'm so tired and my head hurts 🫠

( this a short post ik </3 )

[alpenglowgirl]

to anyone whose finished college, idk how y’all do this. it’s day 2 of the new semester and i’m already like pulling my hair out

[threeofstars]

someone else was in my dreams. nice change of pace. unfortunately this yearning is beyond inconvenient and i have to let it die within me.

[astridhobbit]

"If you are not ready to have your life completely turned upside down, you are not ready for a kid"

and "having a kid has turned my life upside down in ways I did not expect and which are making my life noticeably worse"

and "I love being a parent and wouldn't trade it for anything"

and "there were some things about my old pre-kid life that I miss and wish I could have back"

and "I love hanging out with my kids so much they rule"

and "I am having to sacrifice some of my needs so my kids' needs will be met and that's okay for a while but if they don't get met soon it's going to be Real Bad"

and "watching my kids develop a sense of humor and learn new things and grow as people is the coolest thing on the planet"

are all extremely normal parent thoughts and feelings. They can exist simultaneously or sequentially. None of them mean you are a good parent; none of them mean you are a bad parent.

[whew-oh-em-gee]

The new and updated masterlist is up as well as a new theme for the blog!!!

[the-marshals-wife]

Betelgeuse and Astrid "Death" Parallel

I'm not sure what else to call this observation/rambling, but I've been thinking a lot about the events of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and on my most recent viewing, I noticed something super satisfying about this scene. You know, other than the obvious.

We all know Beej is not one to turn down a deal, least of all when it involves his own self-interest. And of course, it's very advantageous for him to rescue the daughter of the woman whose heart he's trying desperately to win. But there's another delicious layer to him being the one to personally dispose of Jeremy Fraizer...

Betelgeuse knows exactly what it's like to be manipulated by love, only to then have your life taken from you.

Delores manipulated him under the guise of love to steal his life (and his soul) to gain immortality, the same way that Jeremy pretended to care for Astrid so that he could ultimately take her life for his own.

It's think pretty accurate to assume that neither Delores nor Jeremy felt anything genuine for their victims. They were a means to an end. But where Betelgeuse had to defend himself on his own, unable to reverse what had been done, Astrid was not alone. While she was preoccupied with running from the afterlife authorities, reuniting with her father, and getting some much-needed family closure, there was someone else looking out for her.

Enter our anti-hero.

We don't get any direct insight into Beej's thoughts on the Jeremy situation, but it probably struck a nerve for him. He would never admit it, but how could it not? We already know he's privy to Rory's manipulation of Lydia and is eager to expose him, but this is not about a toxic, gold-digging relationship. This is literally life and death. It follows that he would be just as if not more upset to learn that a murderous wolf in sheep's clothing was trying to kill Lydia's daughter, especially given the nature of his own death.

(I mean c'mon, he used his one PG-13 ordained f-bomb on the guy. I think it's safe to say he felt pretty strongly about Jeremy's villainy.)

We all know how it plays out in the end, but I think it's rather poetic that Beej is able to avenge his 'would-be stepdaughter' and save her from a devious scheme very similar to the one that he fell prey to.

He couldn't get his own life back from Delores (though arguably he does, at least metaphorically, in the finale), but he was able to give Astrid back hers.

So there you have it. Now that I see the parallels, it's ten times more vindicating that Betelgeuse was the one that got to send that slimeball to hell. And let's be honest: Beej would probably agree.

[waywardsou2]

I want what they have

But not in romantic ship kinda way

In a "Hiccup and the gang" kinda way

I would commit crimes just to have a solid friend group like that

[potatooni]

Beetlejuice 3 should be fucked up

This might sound a bit off, but if they make a Beetlejuice 3 it should be an wince inducing highly problematic romantic comedy with Beetlejuice actually properly courting Lydia and her going for it. Why? Because it'd be a great parody of all those gothic horror questionable romance stories like Phantom Of The Opera. Think about it: Lydia could be like "oh, you want me?" * pulls BJ down by his tie * "then work for it!" in a passive-aggressive dismissive way but then Beetlejuice actually earnestly tries to appeal to her and somehow it works and Lydia decides to actually give him a chance wich would lead into a just absolutely bizarre mockery of a Hallmark romance movie, all the while the audience goes from one mood whiplash to another as they alternate between "oh, this is so sweet" and "good lord Lydia NO! don't snuggle up to that freak" in the same scene. Astrid would spend almost the entire movie in perpetual schock at what is transpiring before her eyes as her 50 to 60 year old mother is making out with that nasty ghoul as if he's a hot vampire hunk.

Wouldn't even be too outlandish for the franchise. Afterall, the first movie was a haunted house story and the second one a soap opera family and relationship drama, so why not make the third one just a super questionable romance?