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Hide your plants and stop going to the dentist
There will be a to-tal ecl-ipse of. the. sun. On April 8th
I just realized that I never put this on here
i will never look at the words ‘plant’ and ‘dentist’ the same ever again
Little shop of horrors Fandom please intract with me I wanna follow you and talk about little shop of horrors and surround myself with only little shop of horrors to feed my borderline unhealthy obsession.
I NEED you to ask my little shop of horrors questions, discuss little shop of horrors,tell me about your fun facts, literally anything I just need to talk about little shop of horrors.
Its like my only personality trait and I've been loving the people on here who've been talking about it with me.
So long story short if you are a little shop of horrors PLEASE intract.
This idea literally just occurred to me (by that I mean a few hours from when it's being queued, ignore the fact that it was queued for 7 in the morning) but what if Orin was reworked slightly to be Audrey's shitty abusive father and by killing him Seymour achieved the dream of every queer person ever to kill their best friend's shitty parents? I'm imagining that he left to get the milk when she was a kid like she describes in Suddenly Seymour and then took advantage of her kind nature and societally mandated obligation towards him to be able to crash at her apartment after she became an adult and not have to pay rent after his crimes as a dentist finally caught up to him and ruined his career and sent him looking for the solution to the suite of problems he now has at the bottoms of beer bottles. And his abuse towards her still has a sexual component because he sucks. And he 'justifies' it to himself by telling himself and her that her mom probably cheated on him anyway (and therefore she wouldn't be genetically his but is still apparently obligated to let him crash at her apartment and put up with his treatment of her for... reasons?)
Also the parallelism of Seymour killing Audrey's abusive father and his abusive father is nice. It'd be even better if she was the one to kill his abusive father, but I can't think of a way to make that work without significantly restructuring the plot. There could also be some parallelism with Seymour x Twoey considering that there are some jokes based on the premise that Seymour is a father figure of sorts to him (he gets mad at him when he curses and tries to sneak out on him with suitcases like a deadbeat dad and does midnight feedings with blood.) I would probably introduce Audrey's past at The Gutter through her saying (in very different words than the ones I'm using) that her very creation cursed her to be awful and not worthy of a good life (because her mom was a sex worker at The Gutter who Orin solicited the services of), which honestly sounds cooler than her having met him there and plays into the theme of the characters' lack of agency under capitalism that is explored throughout the movie.
Imagine..
Little Shop of Psychological Horrors
Audrey started working at The Gutter at 18, started working at Mr. Mushnik’s flower shop at 22, started taking HRT and dating James almost immediately afterwards, started dating Orin almost immediately after James “went to Czechoslovakia” after they had been dating for about a year and a half when she was 23, got top and bottom surgery very quickly after that, and dated him for about three and a half years before he “mysteriously went missing” when she was 27.
Mutual 1: guys I talked to the girl at my work today!!! And I killed her boyfriend but don't mind that.
Mutual 2: mmm I need human flesh but this LOSER won't give me DEAD PEOPLE
Mutual 3: free root canals!!! Stop by my office (I won't hurt you)
Mutual 4: about to get married!!! I feel so alive!!! 🥰😍
Mutual 2 again: give me your blood
Mutual 5: [picture of giant plant next to a guy] autism be dammed my boy can grow a plant
Mutual 6: shaa booop shaa dooop