neverwasreddie

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y’all are gonna kill me with this slow burn long fic huh

#you’re getting the radio dj or nsfw fic in the meantime #while I figure out how tf to write and finish a multichapter fic #reddie

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#richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #reddie #pick what I should write or it’s gonna be another sappy springsteen song fic I fear

[neverwasreddie]

obsessed with characters being saved against their will. being knocked unconscious and carried away from a danger they won't stop trying to fight. being shoved through a portal somewhere far away and safe right before it closes. trying to self-sacrifice only to have the exact person they're trying to save swap their places at the last second. getting the only cure to the disease or curse bc the person administering it loves them too much to give it to anyone else, including themselves. being thrown to safety right as they had accepted dying. someone else they thought had gotten to safety running back to drag them out of danger. it's so fucking tasty

#everyone say it with me now #RICHIEEEEE TOZIERRRRRR #in the movie of course #when he’s dragged out of niebolt kicking and screaming #not in the fantasy in my head where eddie survives and he and richie fuck nasty all day every day #but holy shit yeah #richie tozier trying to die next to eddie and being dragged away??? inject it directly into my veins

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“So, you know, I broke an engagement to be here.”

Eddie’s head snaps up and away from the dilapidated Derry sidewalk he’d been staring at to avoid tripping on a crack and losing a tooth in this godforsaken town.

When he looks up, though, Richie is staring straight forward next to him, hands shoved deep into his pockets and shoulders hunched up toward his ears. If it hadn’t been for the subtle red flush high up on his cheeks, Eddie would’ve assumed he had imagined hearing him speak.

But he knows Richie definitely said that out loud for a reason, so he nudges their elbows together and says, “Yeah, I know, it was all over Twitter. Comedian Rich Tozier Bombs Onstage, Cancels Remaining Shows in Vegas.”

“Can’t believe Eddie Kaspbrak is a Twitter fiend,” Richie smirks before dropping his own gaze to the sidewalk.

Suddenly he’s shaking his head, a sharp, jerky motion Eddie remembers from high school.

“Not that kind of engagement, Eds. A marriage one. A proposal. You know — I was engaged. Never got married, that part really was a joke. But I was engaged to this girl. For, like, seven years.”

“Jesus.” Eddie stares at him openly, but he can’t see anything in the face of this man — this stranger’s face on the soul of his best friend. “You always jumped headfirst into Step One of a plan, but never seemed to make it to Step Two. Isn’t that right? Is that what happened here?”

Richie’s mouth turns up on one side, the way he always seemed please whenever Eddie would rib him for something back in the day. But he shrugs one shoulder, too, like he’s taking the question seriously and yet coming up short of a clear response.

“Something always held me back from the actual marriage part,” he admits, kicking at an acorn in his path. “We’d start looking at venues, talk about DJs or live bands, but…something always stopped me before we could make any concrete plans.”

His stride lengthens, just for a second, damn those long legs of his, and Eddie has to scurry to catch up to him and hear what he says next:

“Just always felt like something was missing, until Mike called and the memories started coming back. That’s when I ended things with her for good.”

Eddie’s heart trips for a beat or two, and he tries to shove that strange reaction down and give this conversation with Richie his full attention — he can consider his traitorous body and its weird impulses later.

“Something in you must’ve remembered us, even subconsciously,” he muses, “and you knew it wouldn’t be right to have a wedding without the Losers there.”

He thinks he hears something like a chuckle from Richie, and he can’t imagine why, but sure enough, there’s a smile guarding Richie’s words when he half-turns his face toward Eddie to speak again.

“Think you’re right, Spaghetti. I just couldn’t go through with a wedding without you.”

#reddie #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #reddie hc #reddie ficlet #reddie fic #hi I miss them I love them #can’t believe they survive Pennywise and Eddie asks richie from his hospital bed what this was all about #and when he’s recovered richie takes him to the kissing bridge and says this eddie this is what I was talking about

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Argyle’s completely different from Eddie in some ways, sure. He’s slow and mellow while Eddie is zippy, bombastic; he’s quick with a smile even when he’s annoyed, whereas Eddie is more likely to flick a piece of pizza crust in someone’s direction or snap a pencil in half at the slightest provocation. 

But somehow they really work together in a way that eases the knot in Eddie’s stomach. They make each other laugh. They rib each other about the music they listen to and don’t listen to (“Spare me, dude, I’ll give you the Wailers but get fucked if you think I’m listening to ‘Red Red Wine' – ”), and they’re both weirdly open about speaking about their status as outsiders. 

(“Jonathan doesn’t seem to believe me when I say, like, he’s basically my only friend,” Argyle admits at one point, leaning over to feed Eddie his crust while Eddie, gremlin that he is, lies on the ground, legs flung over the couch. “I don’t care that he thinks I’m cool, but like, I’m objectively a weird dude, you know? I’m fine with it, but, like, he’s gotta stop thinking I’m just being modest or something. I didn’t leave my life behind to follow him out here – like, he’s the best part of my life.”) 

Where the Ragged People Go: Chapter 2 ("In the Company of Strangers") is up!

#what's the crossover venn diagram of stranger things and it fans #as always prev tags #mortifying ordeal of writing posting AND THEN REBLOGGING #my own vaguely ooc fanfic #guess what babe it's inspired by and based on a simon and garfunkel song #gay people i promise you're missing a huge mine of gay coded lyrics for your fanfic titles if you're not listening to simon and garfunkel #stranger things #steddie

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I’ve definitely said “the promise” by when in rome is a reddie song right bc like

#this isn’t just my childhood hyperfixation of napoleon dynamite I promise #idk why I don’t really love sappy 80s music but this?? #this song hits different #reddie #reddie hc

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nobody is more delusional than reddie fans. somehow, the ENTIRE fandom decided that eddie kaspbrak is alive and well, despite the fact that his death was written in the novel almost 40 years ago, and i hardly ever see reddie content/it content awknoleging that eddie is dead. we all just pretend that never happened.

#no fr #I saw like one beautiful piece of fanart that acknowledged his death as soon as I watched the movie #and I went haha nice. never again. #and from then on everything I’ve seen has been entirely focused on this delulu AU we all created #sometimes I like the angst of a partner leaving or dying #but for them I said hmm. no thank yew 😌 #reddie

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Eddie has a specific list of animated movies for when he's down. During his recovery, he asks Richie to play them for him on his phone. For weeks they watch through Eddie's favourites and on their second cycle, Richie notices that he's done voicework for all of those movies.

Eddie does a hazy little smile every time Richie's characters pop up for the first time. And because of how loopy the meds make him from time to time, he even tells Richie about how the aforementioned characters are his favourite for some reason.

Richie cries a little bit when Eddie turns back to the screen because he realises that he found a way to be there for Eddie even when they all forgot.

#no fr #I’m just like richie I’m crying a lil too #I think I wrote a hc with something like this at some point but #shit like this makes me so 🥺🥺🥺 #I am absolutely weak for Eddie accidentally liking Richie’s work during the lost years #it’s my favorite #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #reddie

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Richie Tozier would LOVE grocery shopping with his mum , I know just the moment he hears Maggie say “I’m going to the store” BRO IS RUNNING TO GET HIS SHOES ON 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ . I also know he’d just complain about the prices constantly like “$5 ?!?!? FOR HOTDOG BUNS ?!?” anyways I love him

#I love headcanons like this so fckn much #nothing to do with the actual content of the book or movie #but so spot on characterization wise #richie tozier is a mama’s boy and deserves the world #I love him sm #richie tozier #maggie tozier

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Where the Ragged People Go

Still — he can’t help but admit the two are blood bound now. Literally and figuratively. Stevie boy had been the one to carry Eddie’s sorry ass out of hell, already half bat food and halfway dead.

Then, the martyring son of a bitch had gone and donated blood to Eddie in the hospital, so, like, that’s a thing Eddie’s gotta live with now. Like every time he sees Steve, his heart beats faster on purpose as a reminder of whose blood is pumping through his veins.

Like he said — laughable. All of this would be laughable, if it wasn’t so close to making him cry.

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“Where the Ragged People Go” - chapter 1 is now posted on AO3! 

#steddie #srb

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Richie admits this as though it were a joke but he absolutely fucking loves Who Framed Roger Rabbit so much completely unironically and he fucking loves that the main detective is called Eddie.

Eddie keeps calling him Roger and Richie doesn't have the heart to make the joke that he wants to make, to jokingly call Eddie "jessie"

#crying with laughter and then crying with crying at the end #god it’s so true #the soft silly side of reddie #but then always richie and the YEARNING #reddie #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak

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the thing about a horror author and a comedian making a podcast about their batshit childhood is that everyone thinks it’s a v creative docudrama

#obsessed with this #esp thinking about which loser would be like ‘also bc you actually murdered someone Trashmouth’ #and everyone being like haha I love the running joke about stan calling Richie a murderer lol irony #good old trashmouth dark humor #richie tozier #bill denbrough #the losers club #reddie

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Barbie and Ken fr

#CRYING #richie is so ken coded to eddie’s barbie #op you’re so right for this #look at richie’s face lmfao he’s so fuckin stupid I love him so much #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #reddie

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Idk if anyone else heard about the massive amounts of spaghetti dropped off in the woods of a town in NJ not too too far from me, but my favorite podcast is covering it right now and turning it into a 7-minute long extended bit about the Italian version of Pennywise which 1. is amazing because I love when my two favorite things collide and also 2. fucking hilarious because can you even imagine the field day Richie Tozier would have if he stumbled across hundreds of pounds of dumped spaghetti in the woods

#reddie #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #it stephen king #I’m just picturing richie’s face lighting up #‘no FUCKING way’ #absolutely insufferable about it all day long #‘hey eddie I didn’t realize you were having a family reunion today!!!’ #kneeling on the ground grabbing handfuls of it ‘look how they massacred my boy’ #eddie wants to shove his foot up richie’s ass but whenever he turns away he can’t stop grinning

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Domestic bliss a la reddie

#entirely obsessed #reddie #this is their love language #richie is so fucking delighted in the last panel look at him cAckle #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak

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It’s impossible for Richie to express his relief in kisses alone about how happy he is that Eddie survived. They both survived. Surely that is a sign that he shouldn’t wait anymore, no more holding his tongue. He loves Eddie Kaspbrak. About time he let it be known.

Something sweet about my favourite part of It Chapter Two where Eddie survives! If I was a better writer, I’d write a one shot of a moment like this. Although, I think this art manages to speak louder than any words I could write. <3

#crying my eyes out as always ughhhhhh #this is the ending richie (and eddie!!) deserved!!! #ugh like pls just look at richie’s expression his tears 😭 #id tag this as like #writing inspo #but op you’re correct this beautiful art expresses more than any words ever could #reddie art #reddie #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier