You ever think about the fact that A Christmas Carol was doing the same Nightmare Before Christmas shtick almost 200 years earlier A Halloween-y spoopy story for the sake of teaching "the true meaning of Christmas" via the macabre
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My whole hobbyhorse is that even though Future is the most obviously and traditionally scary Ghost (being among other things an aspect of the Reaper), the other two Ghosts in canon are *also* scary af and people don't play them that way nearly enough
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Past is not a hot girl, or an adorable child, it's some kind of strange androgynous emotionless being of blinding light Present is the most human one, but he's unsettlingly rapid-aging in real time, until at midnight Scrooge realizes he's an old man at death's door
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(Owen Meany is right, of course most of us think the scariest Ghost is the one who knows what's going to happen, the inevitable consequences coming down the pike But, shit The older you get, the less scared you are of that And the more you're scared of his opposite)
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(You remember Don Draper's mantra, "This didn't happen"? The Ghost of Christmases Past is the Ghost who tells you "Yes, IT DID HAPPEN" The idea of a total recall pill, of having to live through all the stuff that happened AGAIN and know NONE of it can be changed That's hell)
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