Heyyy. I Couldnt Wait Any Longer!!! The Next Chapter Of Times Arrow, Flowers, I Remember Fields Of Flowers,

Heyyy. I couldn’t wait any longer!!! The next chapter of Time’s Arrow, “Flowers, I remember fields of flowers”, is here. We’re back to a Beetlejuice POV!! Yay!! (Kinda..)

Please read the warnings carefully before proceeding.

Here are the extras! Not too many of them, surprisingly.

- The lyrics for this chapter’s title are from “Flowers” from Hadestown. Now we’re seeing our Eurydice’s perspective! Very literal. At one point, all Beetlejuice can remember is flowers.

- Songs for this chapter: “Flowers” from Hadestown, “Goodbye” by Bo Burnham, “The Moon Will Sing” by The Crane Wives, “Francis Forever” by Mitski, “Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus” by Nicole Dollanganger, “Our Word” from 36 Questions (again), “Doubt Comes In” from Hadestown.

- “Turns out seven thousand years of whatever the hell he found himself in now was a lot worse.” - Haha, surprise Ezri and Raine! This is what number you/Barbara picked for :)

- “He was not a participant, like in the last time loop he was stuck in. He was an invisible observer, unable to be heard or seen or to touch anything. But he felt it all.” - The worst of all worlds! Time loop, trauma, invisible. All of the things Beej hates. Also, the inability to be seen is inspired by a scene in “The Haunting of Hill House” where Nell is ‘missing’, but she was right there. They just couldn’t see her.

- “Had he really looked that bad during the fight? No wonder they were scared of him now.” - Yeah he looked pretty insane, as mentioned in Lydia’s POV in chapter 10.

- “What did they think of him, now that he was gone? What were they saying?” - This line, along with a few later, are inspired by the songs “Who Was She” and “Who Is She (Reprise)” from “Centaurworld”.

- “(The words ‘I love you’ don’t leave his lips. He didn't know them yet.)” - Yeah he didn't really hear the words “I love you” for a long, long time.

- “The demon-… They-…. Beetlejuice knew there was more, but try as they might, they couldn’t remember it.” - This was Beetlejuice starting to forget his own name/identity.

- “Panic coursed through the demon as they wheezed out unsteady breaths.” - Him unable to breathe and wheezing the whole time is meant to emulate the ending of “I Saw The TV Glow”.

- “They… remembered… flowers. Purple, yellow, green, red, orange, and blue.” - This, of course, calls back to the first chapter of Time’s Arrow, as well as the title lyrics for this chapter. Also the new blue is for Ash :)

- “Oh well. You made this bed. Now lay in it.” - This is meant to be a reference to the ending of the title song for this chapter.

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My Latin teacher was talking about Orpheus and Eurydice today and I thought of you.

Typing that just made me think— the lyric "she called your name before she went, but I guess you weren't listening” reminds me of LoopJuice Beej and Lyds. Everything reminds me of LoopJuice/CorpseJuice. You’ve infected my brain… /pos

-Cosmo

Awww! I’ve given you all brain worms <3 sorry, they’re terminal <3 /j

YEAH THATS ONE OF THE LYRICS IN PARTICULAR I GO CRAZY OVER!!

But in all seriousness. You guys don’t understand how long I’ve been plotting and going insane over the Orpheus and Eurydice connection. There are others of course but that one is. OUGH. I love making literature connections like that…

I need that clip of Michael from The Good Place where they’re like “we found all four of the clues you left us” and he’s like “that’s great! Actually I left like 1200 just in case” but it’s. Me about foreshadowing in my writing

can I take the shoggoth to hersheyland

we're not gonna take over the place or anything I swear (I am lying)

Bestie of course! It would love to rule Hersheyland with an iron fist. Just make sure to keep it on a leash. Also keep it out of the sun

Omg thank you these rule <3

My sleep playlists!!

This is my big one. I’ve been working on it for a while now. My sibling also added a shit ton of Chet Baker to it. Jazz lovers, enjoy!

This is my selfshipping playlist. I usually take “Fly Me to the Moon”, “Vending Machine of Love”, “Puppy Princess”, and “I Want to Be Your Boyfriend” out of the queue, but that’s just my preference.

This is my sleep playlist but with just my favorite sleep songs. It’s pretty short, but these songs knock me out every time.

@possum-quesadilla

You guys ever read a fanfiction or art and-

The emotional whiplash is so poignant you have to stand up and process what the hell you just theoretically witnessed?