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galiaghered · 6 months

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richie literally has chemistry with ALL of the og losers plus mike in the book. why dont they show any of that in the movie. like i get hes 'flirty' in the movie but.. in the book he held hands with mike, kept bringing up bill not stuttering all the time (a whole page was dedicated to showing how mesmerized he was about it? and he brought it up 10 pages later.), he heard a bird noise and thought "hey stan would know what kind of bird that is :)". LIKE HELLO WE GOT NONE OF THAT IN THE MOVIE. you people are sick and twisted. we got reddie in the movies and i thank god for that but really??? you are gonna deprive me of this? wow.

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whatthefuckisasweep · 1 year

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eddie and stan left first bc they had to take the BIGGEST nap ever. they were tuckered out from being a little too fucking brave for their own good.

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strangesickness · 3 months

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getting in a car with eddie kaspbrak would suck ass unless you're the same kind of unwell as he is and i stand by this. bro 100% knows the risks of pissing off other people on the road and he does not care, he will die just to make sure that guy in the tesla knows he's a piece of shit who is going to hell. i believe this.

he's also the kind of guy who gets super bitchy if the person in front of him is going the limit. he probably swears a lot when he's driving. it's probably a nightmare. he'd see whoever is riding shotgun grab the handle or ceiling or whatever and he'd start swearing at them too for being a bitch and "i do this shit for a living dickwad i know how to fucking drive calm the fuck down"

like you would think he would be a really careful and polite and rational driver because of his job but that actually makes it worse because he has so much built up road rage from when he's on the clock. like if someone cuts him off he's not just cursing out that one person, he's also taking out the pent up anger from every other person who cut him off while he was working.

#eddie kaspbrak #it #it 1990 #it stephen king #it novel #it 2019 #it miniseries

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madame-helen · 1 year

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#4chan #why stephen king thought that weote that was a good idea?!#meme #memes #shitposting #not try to justify with he was high on cocaine #shitpost #it novel #pennywise #horror

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reddje · 29 days

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the losers as screenshots in my phone

( inspired by @bestbirdlawyer )

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eddiekaspbrakirlsblog · 10 days

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ive come to the unfortunate conclusion that if i ever met book adult richie tozier i would think he’s the coolest guy in the world like yeah talk communist theory to me babe let’s talk about the differences between Maoism and Trotskyism

#richie tozier #it 2017 #it 2019 #it chapter 1 #it chapter 2 #it novel #it book

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impulsivesuperrobin · 1 year

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me, gnawing at the bars of my cage: richie tozier is smart!!! he gets good grades!!! he understands bill better than anyone!!! he thinks bev is so tough!!! his impressions are fucking awful when he’s a kid!!! he hates his glasses but thinks it’s cool that buddy holly wears them!!!! his parents don’t always understand him but they love him so much!!! he’s scared of clowns and werewolves and being forgotten!!! he dances with bev in a school talent show!!! and their friendship gives a time traveler hope for derry!!!

#stop flanderizing him!!!!#he’s not just the funny one!!!#and he doesn’t hate bev!!!!!!!!#the last point is from 11/22/63 #but it still stands #every version of richie is so important to me actually but he’s got so much depth that fanon tends to ignore #i think his fears are actually a manifestation of his fears about how people perceive him #esp bc the werewolf that attacks him and bill has a jacket with *his* name embroidered #but y’know also queer metaphor #but stephen king has stated he wasn’t written queer in the book #richie tozier #the losers club #it #it novel #if any of this is just from the miniseries pls forgive me #i reconsumed all it media in the span of like a week (i’m still working on the book) so it’s all blending

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muthafuckingtweety · 6 months

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my heart!!!😭💕

#reddie #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #richie x eddie #it 2017 #it 1986 #cute #wholesome #stephen king #it novel #fruity

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dear-wormwoods · 10 months

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Rising from the dead to express a thought I had at the gym the other day while listening to IT again. I don’t know if anyone is still around to read this, and this post will probably be a bit incoherent, but - here it goes:

Okay, so we all know that Eddie feels a ‘rot’ inside him and that’s why he relates to the leper and goes back to Neibolt to put himself in the leper’s shoes before IT shows up.

I’ve written about this a few times over the years, so I don’t need to get too deep into it, but Eddie’s fascination with Neibolt only begins after he finds out that the leper doesn’t actually have leprosy but syphilis, at least according to Richie, and that the STD can be transmitted between men, not just men and women. It’s only then that his experience with the hobo transforms from a scary encounter with sexual overtones to something he identifies with in a way that’s confusing to him. He takes the feeling of ‘badness’ he’s had his whole life (see: church/toilet anecdote and shoplifting sign anecdote) and applies it to something he can actually visualize - physical rot, like he witnessed on the leper. He subconsciously associates the sexual nature of the leper’s disease with his own feelings - the rot is tied to sexuality, which IT used to target Eddie. The reason all this is relevant to THIS post is that Eddie is never able to express his thoughts and feelings in a way that is helpful or healing for him - he spends his entire life subconsciously repressing his sexuality, and thus is never able to rid himself of that ‘rotting from the inside’ feeling.

Which brings me to the scene I want to actually write about: the scene where Bill and Richie talk about Georgie’s death.

Like Eddie, Bill is weighed down by something rotting inside him - his feeling of guilt over Georgie’s death and thinking he’s responsible because he’s the one who made the paper boat. Unlike Eddie, Bill is able to voice his feelings, and voicing them allows him to let them go. He unloads on Richie, and subsequently receives some comfort, albeit not the best comfort because Richie is not very nurturing. Specifically, Bill feels clean after that release, which I’ll come back to in a bit.

On the same page, still on the subject of Georgie, Bill expresses that maybe Georgie didn’t know that Bill never meant for him to die, to which Richie responds:

This idea that death is like a window and everything becomes clear when you die, including knowing what others think and feel, seems like a relatively unimportant line at first glance. It definitely seems like Richie is making shit up - the closest line I could find to what he’s talking about is in Corinthians I, but that verse isn’t about death, it is about love and doesn’t mention any windows, only a mirror. Richie is just talking out of his ass. To be honest, I never paid this quote any mind any other time I’ve read or listened to the book. This time it jumped out to me because —

The concept returns upon Eddie’s death! Now, obviously Eddie’s death is incredibly important and meaningful because it symbolizes self acceptance in his last moments, but I never realized before that the window imagery had come up in the text previously.

As Eddie’s dying, both the ‘clean’ feeling Bill felt and the clarity Richie described come into play. This is the first time in Eddie’s life that he feels the ‘impurities’ leaving him. His death is cleansing him of his rot, allowing him to accept himself in a way he never has before. In addition, he’s able to see through a clear window and bask in the light of it, which, if what Richie said is true, means that he now has a true understanding of what others think and feel about him. This adds another layer to Eddie’s death that I never realized before - he is suddenly aware that the other Losers love and accept him for who he is, because he has that death clarity, and not only does that allow him to let go of his own pain and confusion (the rot), it almost allows him to voice his own feelings.

Richie loves him. The other Losers do too, but Richie is the one talking to him, the one he’s looking at in this moment, the one whose face he touches before he dies. He wants to voice his own love, because now that he’s let go of his self doubt he finally CAN, but dies before he’s able to.

The full Corinthians verse Richie MAY have been referring to before is often read at weddings:

Now, Richie was obviously inventing shit when he was comforting Bill, but there is something to be said for this verse re: Eddie’s death. It was not just about self acceptance, it was about accepting love from others and giving it in return.

After the fight is over, after ‘but he knew well enough’, when the Losers are back outside, this moment occurs:

Love overcomes everything, it’s the only thing that lasts, the thing that allows for full clarity and ‘knowing’.

All this dot connecting is to say that Eddie was going to say ‘you know I love you’, not ‘you know I hate that’.

#Stephen king’s it #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #bill denbrough #it meta #it novel

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indianaterrors221 · 7 months

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If you had to choose one version of It that is as close to perfect as possible, as close to your personal headcanons for the characters as you could possibly get, which universe would you choose?

#horror #scary #spooky #thriller #poll #it 1986 #it novel #it 1990 #it miniseries #it 2017 #it movie #it 2019 #it chapter two #it stephen king #it fandom #horror blog #spooky blog

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incorrect-losers · 3 months

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Ummmmm

UMMMMMM

@tht0nesimp

#sweet summer child please don’t read the novel 😭#it #it chapter 2 #it stephen king #losers club #the losers club #not incorrect quote #henry bowers #patrick hockstetter #TW FOR PATRICK FUCKIN HOCKSTETTER #bowers gang #it novel

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galiaghered · 6 months

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Bill: You really put aside everything and came all this way for me? How did you even get here so fast? Stan: Several traffic violations. Eddie: Three counts of resisting arrest. Mike: Roughly thirteen cans of energy drinks. Richie: Also, that’s not our car. Bill: Richie: Richie: Forgot to mention, none of us can drive.

#mike hanlon #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #stanley uris #theyd do anything for bill #losers club #the losers club #pennywise #bill denbrough #it 2017 #it novel #it stephen king #it

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whatthefuckisasweep · 11 months

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i wish to repair the fandom trauma we have with baths and stan. what if he had a rather… really nice one? :,)

#it #it movie #it 2017 #it 2019 #stan uris #stanley uris #the losers club #losers club #my art #it novel #sobs #he deserves better #im mourning him still #anyways i had s lot of fun making this one #im quite proud of it :’)#eats glass #hope you all enjoy

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strangesickness · 2 months

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ransone saying the gay subplot in it 2019 was "a big departure from the book" is so funny to me. like. did we read the same book? (https://www.etonline.com/it-chapter-two-gay-subplot-richie-eddie-james-ransone-interview-exclusive-131841)

also the article kind of words things like the fact that richie got made fun of for being gay as a kid is also a huge departure from the book (they mention that he got called the "f word" as a kid then move on to ransones "big departure" quote) which is blatantly false since he literally mentions during his introductory chapter that the bowers gang used to chase him around and call him homophobic slurs. it's the first thing he mentions/remembers about derry after getting the call from mike.

page 63, stephen king's IT

i just think it's dishonest to act like reading richie or eddie as queer is that out there. like no i'm not necessarily saying that king intended IT to be gay, and i'm also not saying you have to read them as gay in the novel, but what i am saying is that a queer reading of the IT novel isn't that bizarre.

it is very easy to read internalized homophobia into the werewolf, the comparison between eddie and adrian mellon is blatant, "but he knew well enough", richie literally calls eddie "eddie my love", like i know a lot of people won't see queerness unless theres too men kissing with tongue in their living room, but the absolute lack of media literacy required to think that a queer reading of IT is some out there concept is baffling.

#LIKE???#this is so ridiculous to me #it chapter 2 #it chapter two #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #reddie #it stephen king #it novel #posts afflicted with a strange sickness

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leosdooley · 1 year

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YOU JUST HAVE TO OUTRUN ME.

honoré de balzac, père griot // stephen king, it // stephenie meyer, twilight // merlin (2008-2012) // richard siken, crush // are you afraid of the dark?: ghost island // are you afraid of the dark?: curse of the shadows // jodi picoult, the pact

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the-losers-are-still-losing · 11 months

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thirty eight slutty, slutty years since mike hanlon called up his amnesiac mates and stan uris took a bath

#rip staniel #it #stephen king’s it #stephen king #it 1986 #it novel #the losers club #losers club #derry 2.0 #mike hanlon #stan uris #🎪 my thoughts 🎪

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