#scrooge and marley

[strangelittlelad]

No but what business did Patrick Page have done by letting Jacob Marley look at Roberto/GC Present like Hades looks at Persephone?????

I'm sorry???? Ebemarley (?) not denied and I still have hope for old man yaoi

[shakespearefreak]

I love how almost every single adaptation of A Christmas Carol agrees that Scrooge is a nerd. Dorky. Socially awkward. And Marley is extra AF and has ✨𝓈𝓉𝓎𝓁𝑒✨

[whitecappslll]

Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley comes with a warning and one last chance at redemption for Scrooge. One last chance to avoid a terrible fate.

As told in Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol"

[bluebirdknight]

took me 20 years and 15 rereads to finally see that ebenezer scrooge and jacob marley were married

[lenbryant]

Why have I never heard of this until now? It streams for free on FreeVee (an Amazon company) and is a lot better than I expected. Low budget for sure, but well done.

[itsdefinitely]

fucking transcendent

[notaplaceofhonour]

reverse A Christmas Carol where Charles Dickens is visited by eight spirits during Hanukkah to terrorize him into being normal about Jews

[ebadoodles]

you’re in for one crazy night just to prepare ya.

[wordsfail]

[seahagart]

I wear the chain I forged in life! I made it link by link and yard by yard!

[fictionadventurer]

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

[crarb]

MERRY CHRISTMAS / HAPPY HOLIDAYS ! Please take some Scrooge BDSM (Business Development Sales and Marketing )

[vencifer]

now I am sad 🥲

[byrobird]

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POV it's Christmas and poor people are approaching you

[undeadchestnut]

"Don't you worry about a thing, Prudence my girl. Uncle Scrooge will take good care of you, I'm sure."

Jacob Marley and his emotional lifeline dogs. 🐶

[dkzekiel]

Remember what has passed between us

(Ebenezer Scrooge & John D. Marley)