#if anyone is interested in seeing the beetlejuice/beetlebabes sideblog i now have it's @beetlebiqtch

[ghost-shipping]

By the way, did you know that Tim Burton himself and the creators are also the shippers of Beetlejuice and Lydia? Those who worked on the animated series drew porn with them. If you're interested, you can ask Ray (xxx-theartofsucide-xxx) or other BeetleBabes.

So this actually doesn’t surprise me for two reasons

1. Burton, for all of his incredibly apparent flaws as an irl person, valued making/overseeing art with dark themes featuring bizarre romances up until the mid 00′s when it was pretty rare in mainstream media everywhere else and not only is this artistically valuable but I think it’s a defining trait of his strongest works. Both questionable age gaps and living/non living pairings are a common thing in stuff he had a hand in making. In Edward Scissorhands the girl is unquestionably pretty young and is in a romantic subplot with a weird much older? (albiet living) artificial man. Corpse Bride has yet another necrophilic wedding story where the feelings aren’t requited and the living persons age is ambiguous (but this seems to not get as much flack from shippers because the pushy dead one in this scenaro is a woman...) The closest thing to vanilla Burton properties get is Jack/Sally, where one of them is at the very least portrayed as being much younger and very sheltered. Cartoon creators running with this is like super smart because it’s just one of the foundational things that makes a lot of these works stand out even if it had to be toned down for younger audiences.

2. Beetlejuice kinda fucking sucks and is a creep? He like immediately gropes at Barbara and peeks under her skirt when he meets her. He is, in canon, abated temporarily by a brothel being placed near him and I can guarantee you he isn’t the kind of guy to hold a normal level of respect and patronage to sex workers. One of his most solid character traits in the film is that he is a horndog with little moral backbone. Why would he care if Lydia is of the local age of consent????

Disclaimer/Update: uhhh xxx-theartofsucide-xxx is actually maybe a wee bit racist and has branded herself as an anti sjw in the past. I love this ship obvs but try to be careful who you follow if you are new to the community like I am!