#but when it comes to shipping Beej with the Maitlands (or lydia :/) nowhere near the same amount of justification seems to be needed | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

livsspecialinterests · 4 months ago

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YES EXACTLY THANK YOU

Charles gets to know Beej a little better and then realises he's essentially just a fucking Weird Dude with Issues and my god if Charles isn't himself a closet Weird Dude who married and had a child with a strange lady and then upon losing her almost immediately fell for another, different, strange lady

I'm not saying Beej is exactly Charles' type but he isn't exactly far off....

plus Beej and Delia have a small tiny moment just before creepy old guy where Beej completely outs Delia as a bit of a freak in the bedroom I mean COME ON I'm not telling anyone they have to ship it but it's a viable ship goddamnit!!

(also my dude im so sorry to have gone off in the tags to this post it's not at all aimed at you i am *delighted* with this ask and im going to save the image of Charles smiling at Beej because it makes me so happy ive just got some feelings about how side-eyed i sometimes feel writing this ship)

#honestly im not really the type to get into fights about ships #but the way ive had to spend 28 entire chapters justifying Beej/Charles/Delia getting together #(because I KNOW that if i hadn't then id have had people complaining that it came out of nowhere of was OOC etc)#but when it comes to shipping Beej with the Maitlands (or lydia :/) nowhere near the same amount of justification seems to be needed #for readers to not call it out #like its literally a fact in the show that any affection that's shown towards Beej (except for the friendship stuff with Lydia IMO) is fake #its all canonically a lie to distract Beej #nobody in the show is attracted to Beetlejuice #if he's believably redeemable in fics so that you can believe Lydia still wants to be his friend or that the Maitlands #become attracted to him once they get to know him better then im sorry im going to use the same reasoning to ship my ship #(also if anyone reading isnt like completely on board with this ship im not having a go at you in particular #and I don't want u to think that my human Beej story has nothing for you if you dont ship it the relationship is a small part of it #I dont want to make them getting together the whole point of the story and it isnt looking to develop that way)

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