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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 5

1837 – Algernon Charles Swinburne (d.1909); A Victorian era English poet, his poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, Lesbianism and irreligion.

Swinburne had a striking appearance; he was very short and thin, with a huge head and large quantities of flame-red hair. He had a nervous temperament, could behave erratically, and was subject to tremors.

He had a lively interest in flagellation—a taste probably acquired at Eton, and he shared his sexual interests with, among others, Lord Houghton, who had amassed a large library of erotica.

For his own entertainment, Swinburne composed flagellation sketches, farcical novels, and reviews of nonexistent French poets. He tried to publish some of these works, but primarily he circulated them among his friends—who included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his brother William Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones.

His Poems and Ballads scandalized Victorian critical and moral opinion and was withdrawn from circulation by its publisher. The volume included "Dolores," which glorified masochism, "Hermaphroditus," which exhibited Swinburne's lasting interest in bisexuality, and "Anactoria," which glorified lesbianism in an address of Sappho to her lover.

His friendships with George Powell and Simeon Solomon encouraged his interest in same-sex sexuality, though he was at times ambivalent about what he called Solomon's "Platonism." But we do know that he and gay painter Simeon Solomon used to chase each other naked through the poet Rossetti's house

By the late 1860s, Swinburne had become addicted to alcohol, and it quickly undermined his health. His alcoholic sprees also began to lose him friends.

In 1879, Theodore Watts (later Watts-Dunton), a solicitor and minor writer, established Swinburne in his house in Putney outside London. Watts tactfully weaned Swinburne from alcohol and from those of his friends who had encouraged him to drink. Though the household treatment at Putney might be thought stifling, Watts undoubtedly saved Swinburne's life. Swinburne continued to write until his death thirty years later.

1900 – Spencer Tracy (d.1967) was an American actor. Respected for his natural style and versatility, Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. In a screen career that spanned 37 years, he was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor and won two, sharing the record for nominations in this category with Laurence Olivier. Like Olivier, Tracy was reportedly bisexual.

Spencer Tracy was a midwesterner from a lace-curtain Irish-American background who developed a taste for acting at school, and after a First World War spell in the US Navy, a year at drama school, and various odd jobs, he spent eight years developing his craft on Broadway. A fellow Irishman, John Ford, spotted him playing a condemned murderer on Broadway in 1930 and brought him to Hollywood to play another convict in Up the River. Twenty-eight years later he gave one of his last great performances in Ford's The Last Hurrah.

Though a confident professional, he was a difficult, guilt-ridden man, alcoholic and bisexual, the two sides of his personality perhaps expressed in the 1941 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Ex-rent boy, Scotty Bowers, in his book Full Service, tells of how he and a very drunk Tracy ended up naked in bed together, and how he had suggested to Tracy that

we should try to get some sleep, but he wasn't ready for that. Instead, he lay his head down at my groin, took hold of my penis and began nibbling on my foreskin. This was the last guy on earth that I expected an overture like that from, but I was more than happy to oblige him and despite his inebriated state we had an hour or so of pretty good sex.

The next morning there wasn't even the slightest hint of how drunk he'd been, that he'd pissed in the corner of the bedroom, or that we'd had sex together. He didn't say a word about it. It was as though none of it ever happened.

That was the first of many sexual encounters I had with Spence. Sometimes I would go to his place at five in the afternoon and sit around the kitchen table with him until two in the morning as he drank himself into a stupor. Then he would be ready for a little sex. Despite everything, he was a damn good lover. The great Spencer Tracy was another bisexual man, a fact totally concealed by the studio publicity department.

Tracy found his greatest professional success and most profound personal experience in his partnership on and off screen with Katharine Hepburn. She was the Ivy League-educated, upper-middle-class liberated sophisticate to his self-made, aggressively male rough diamond, and they sparred together in nine films, beginning with Woman of the Year (1942).

1929 – Joe Meek (d.1967), born Robert George Meek in Newent, Gloucestershire, was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter acknowledged as one of the world's first and most imaginative independent producers . His most famous work was The Tornados' hit Telstar (1962), which became the first record by a British group to hit #1 in the US Hot 100.

A stint in the Royal Air Force as a radar operator, spurred a life-long interest in electronics and outer space. From 1953 he worked for the Midlands Electricity Board. He used the resources of his company to develop his interest in electronics and music production, including acquiring a disc-cutter and producing his first record. He left the electricity board to work as a sound engineer at Radio Luxembourg.

Despite not being able to play a musical instrument or write notation, Meek displayed a remarkable facility for producing successful commercial recordings. To compose, he was dependent on musicians, who would transcribe his singing (or recordings of it). He worked on 245 singles, of which 45 were major hits (top fifty or better).

He pioneered studio tools such as artificial multi-tracking on one- and two-track machines, close miking, direct input of bass guitars, the compressor, and effects like echo and reverb, as well as sampling. At a time when studio engineers were assiduously trying to maintain clarity and fidelity, Meek was producing everything on the three floors of his 'home' studio and was never afraid to distort or manipulate the sound if it created the effect he was seeking. For John Leyton's hit song Johnny Remember Me he placed the violins on the stairs, the drummer almost in the bathroom, and the brass section on a different floor entirely.

Although he turned down opportunities to work with David Bowie, The Beatles and Rod Stewart, Meek did work with a host of other artists including Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Petula Clark, Shirley Bassey, Tommy Steele and many more.

Meek was obsessed with the occult and the idea of 'the other side'. He would set up tape machines in graveyards in a vain attempt to record voices from beyond the grave. In particular, he had an obsession with Buddy Holly and other dead rock and roll musicians.

His efforts were often hindered by his paranoia (Meek was convinced that Decca Records would put hidden microphones behind his wallpaper in order to steal his ideas), drug use and attacks of rage or depression. His then-illegal homosexuality put him under further pressure; he had been charged with 'importuning for immoral purposes' in 1963 and was consequently subjected to blackmail.

In January of 1967, police in Tattingstone, Suffolk, discovered a suitcase containing the mutilated body of Bernard Oliver, an alleged rent boy who had previously associated with Meek. According to some accounts, Joe became concerned that he would be involved in the investigation when the London police stated that they would be interviewing all known homosexuals in the city.

On February 3, 1967, the eighth anniversary of Buddy Holly's death, Meek killed his landlady Violet Shenton and then himself with a single-barrelled shotgun that he had confiscated from his protegé, former Tornados bassist and solo star Heinz Burt at his Holloway Road home/studio. Meek had kept it under his bed, along with the shells. As the gun had been registered to Burt, he was questioned intensively by police, before being eliminated from their enquiries.

1936 – Pierre Hahn (d.1981) was one of the earliest gay militants in contemporary France and an amateur historian who received the first doctorate given in France for work in the history of homosexuality.

Pierre Hahn was nineteen when he contacted André Baudry, the former seminarian who had just begun publishing Arcadie, a monthly "homophile" review and would soon found an association with the same name. Invited to participate, Hahn wrote numerous articles (under the pseudonym André Clair) on a wide variety of subjects of interest to the homosexual readership, while simultaneously embarking on a career in journalism.

Under pressure from his father, however, Hahn briefly entered a psychiatric hospital at the age of twenty in a vain attempt to "cure" his homosexuality. The experience left him with a life-long distrust of the medical profession because of the way it had been treating homosexuals since the nineteenth century.

By the mid-1960s Hahn was evolving beyond Baudry's position that homosexuals should show themselves "respectable" and "dignified" in order to win the tolerance of society. Hahn later explained that he had begun a serious relationship with another man and "like all people who are in love, I wanted to shout it from the rooftops; I also wanted to rehabilitate something [homosexuality] that was held in contempt or treated with condescension." In a public talk at Arcadie, he compared the discrimination against homosexuals to racial discrimination, a point of view that shocked some of his more conservative listeners.

Guy Hocquenghem (a leading gay militant of the 1970s, but at the time a 21-year-old Trotskyite who carefully hid his own homosexuality from his homophobic "comrades" on the political left) later recalled Hahn's appearance at one meeting in 1967: "He came into the damp cellar and for an hour spoke to us about homosexual liberation. It was the first time I had ever seen a homosexual militant. And for a good reason, because at the time he was the only one in Paris."

In late 1970, there emerged a small radical group of Arcadie members that undertook a number of commando actions, most notably the disruption of an anti-abortion meeting in Paris on March 5, 1971, in which Hahn participated.

Five days later, the same group sabotaged a live radio broadcast on the theme "Homosexuality, This Painful Problem." They stormed the stage. Hahn, who was taking part in the program as an invited journalist and (presumably heterosexual) "expert" on homosexuality, had arranged their presence

That evening the they founded the Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action (Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionnaire, or FHAR). Radical gay liberation had come to France.

After FHAR's collapse in early 1974, Hahn remained active in the gay movement. He had also begun research into the gay past. One former gay militant, Alain Huet, remembers Hahn as "a living homosexual encyclopedia".

In 1979 Hahn published Nos Ancêtres les Pervers (Our Ancestors The Perverts), in which he tried to demonstrate how, by repressing same-sex activity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Paris, policemen and doctors had produced the modern homosexual as a distinct category of man.

In late 1980, a board of examiners at the University of Paris-VIII (Vincennes) awarded Hahn a doctorate in philosophy for his work on "the birth of homosexuality," earning the degree on the basis of the work that he had already published in the form of books and articles.

By then Hahn had taken to drinking heavily. Without a steady job, he found it difficult to make a living and was deeply in debt. He was also infatuated with a young Moroccan, who took Hahn's money and gave little in return.

Hahn committed suicide on February 19, 1981. Gay militants had to take up a collection to pay for the burial. The card on one of the two wreaths at the funeral was an implicit acknowledgment of his historical role in launching gay liberation in France: "To Pierre Hahn, from his friends in the French and foreign homosexual movements."

1939 – Massachusetts requires notice to police whenever someone convicted of sodomy is released from prison.

1982 – Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German director of football and a former footballer who played as a midfielder. Since February 2019, he has been the head of sport of VfB Stuttgart.

Hitzlsperger began to play football at Forstinning, and later he joined the youth team of Bayern Munich, and in 2000 he moved to Aston Villa.

Hitzlsperger, who got engaged to his high school sweetheart, broke up with her shortly before the scheduled wedding ceremony six years ago. He was no longer certain of his sexual orientation. In an interview, he stated, "I finally figured out that I desired to be with a man."

The former world champion, who performed in the 2006 Global Cup and the 2008 European Championship, continues that he no longer had to lie about his sexuality and that teammates sooner or later stopped asking about his lack of a girlfriend. "However, the crucial aspect for me is to show that being a homosexual soccer participant is something that is normal. The perceived contradiction between playing football, a man's recreation, and being gay is nonsense. I don't think anyone has ever walked away from a game with me wondering if there's something wrong or 'too smooth' with my game," he said.

In January 2022, Hitzlsperger told ARD, that a "collective coming out" of gay footballers could be a solution to their problems of hiding their sexuality. Hitzlsperger took the example of 125 Catholic priests in Germany who decided to come out at once.

1991 – Phillip Picardi is an American journalist and editor. He is the former editor-in-chief of Out. His career in journalism began at Teen Vogue. He also worked for Refinery29 and Allure.

Picardi grew up in Boston to a Catholic family. Picardi attended Central Catholic High School, where in 2008 he was one of the founders of a now-annual student fundraiser called Catwalk4Cancer; the 2017 event raised more than $250,000. After graduating from high school, Picardi attended college at New York University.

Picardi started his publishing career as an intern at Teen Vogue. He then served as online beauty editor at Teen Vogue before becoming senior beauty editor at Refinery29 in September 2014. At Refinery29 he worked for Mikki Halpin, whose influence as well as Picardi's personal experiences led to a growing interest in political engagement alongside his work on beauty.

Speaking to The Guardian, he said his experience growing up gay in a Catholic family meant "I can certainly relate to what it feels like to be underrepresented or even marginalized. I took sex ed classes and there was no mention of homosexuality. Or I would sit in religion class and be told my life was a sin." Since June 2020, Picard has hosted a podcast about this subject called Unholier Than Thou, part of the Crooked Media podcast network.

In March 2017, his role at Condé Nast expanded to become as digital editorial director for Them, the LGBT magazine as well as Teen Vogue. Under Picardi's leadership, Them has also seen a significant rise in web traffic: April 2017 had a 53% increase over the prior year (6.9 million over 4.5 million in April 2016). He left the magazine and Condé Nast in August 2018.

In August 2018, Pride Media Inc. announced Picardi as the new editor-in-chief of Out. Picardi was let go from Out in December 2019, describing it as “the most complex chapter of my career so far”.

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stellabystarlight12 · 2 years

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Famous Hollywood hustler and best-selling author, Scotty Bowers

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DO TO ME WHAT YOUR PROFILE SAYS AT ONCE!!! Please ramble to me about Vincent Price..... 👉👈

Let's see here. He is 6'4 inches tall (I've also heard 6'5" - so let's just say 6'4.5" and be done with it) one of his nicknames is "Big Daddy".... And...um, yes.

He was and is the epitome of anything and everything awesome and wonderful. He was married three times and had two beautiful children (a boy and a girl), and was bisexual.

He's had multiple sexual encounters with men throughout his life (yes, this makes me all giddy). Scotty Bowers once said that he and Vinny (he called him that) slept together quite a few times and that especially in the 70s and 80s, he was sleeping with VP, although they met in 1950 and had a few sexual encounters in the 50s and 60s. He said that sex with him was "Pleasant, unhurried, and gentle." And also, "it was tantalizing, erotic, and fulfilling. High class stuff all the way. He was into it all, giving and receiving." And that their encounters were "buddy-buddy."

Lucky lucky man.

He was into art. He and his second wife, Mary collected art and he was also a wonderful chef. Mary and Vincent created a huge cookbook that, if you haven't seen it, you MUST! Its delightful! He was a man of all trades, and was extremely talented both on and off screen.

He was against racism in the 1940s and 50s when racism was (unfortunately) at it's peak. He stood up for what he believed in, even if it risked him his job (he was grey-listed) He later mentioned that he was happy that he was grey-listed because it set the tone for his horror future and for him becoming the master of horror.

He was the voice/laugh at the end of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Vincent did the Thriller rap, and he did it perfectly. I can't imagine anyone else doing it, to be honest..

I do love him dearly. And It's not just because he's a wonderful human being, a kind soul, an animal lover, a wonderful actor, a gorgeous and sexy man (although it sweetens the pot), or a campy, adorable bisexual. It's because he is who he is, and doesn't care to change for anyone. I admire him and his strength.

That's why I made this blog. To keep his spirit alive each and every day with random posts and everything Vincent. And for those of you who choose to chill here every day and look at my content, I am grateful for you. 🖤

#vincent price #vp #tw: sex #tw: sex mention #bicon #bisexual #ask #rambling #ilovemesomevincentprice #thanks for giving me the opportunity to ramble about my fave dude

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womansfilm · 3 months

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that cary randy article ought to have annotated footnotes or something i have questions.. 'grant's native cockney' hes from bristol 'blackwell wrote' where? 'scott's career flatlined' maybe at that time in comparison to cary's but i dont like this overgeneralization.. was scotty bowers claiming to have a threesome with them while they were together in the 30s? he was born in 1923; it's my understanding bowers didnt hit hollywood until the mid 40s by which time theyd broken up as you say.. etc i am a nitpicker first and a romantic second. does anyone want to touch souls on the paramount lot

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This is my Losers Club playlist and my headcannons for each song

•Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana- The Losers have this on their hideout mixtape, Richie knows every word.

•Washing Machine Heart, Mitski- Eddie listens to this on his own and thinks of Richie. Ben thinks about Bev when he hears it.

•Eddie My Love, The Chordettes- Richie listens to it and thinks of Eddie.

•Freaks, Surf Curse- The Losers put this on their hideout mixtape.

•Wannabe, Spice Girls- Richie makes the Losers sing this at karaoke night, Eddie and Bill sit and watch while the rest of them try desperately to get them to join in. Eventually Bill joins and they all accept that Eddie will never get up there.

•Bust A Move, Young MC- The Losers’ quarry Mixtape, Richie made Bev add it.

•Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People- The Losers think about the time they beat the shit out of the Bowers Gang during the rock war when they listen to this.

•Still Into You, Paramore- Bev listens to this and jams out in her room.

•Cherry Bomb, The Runaways- Bev showed Richie this song and they both jam so hard whenever it plays. They had to fight the rest of the Losers to get this on the hideout mixtape.

•Somebody’s Watching Me, Rockwell- Bill found this and immediately showed the rest of the Losers, they all loved it but it sort of creeped Eddie out.

•Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper- Richie put this in the hideout mixtape without telling anyone and everyone loved it when it played the first time and now they all jam out when it plays.

•Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears- Bill loves this song so he made sure it got out on the quarry mixtape

•American Idiot, Green Day- Richie jams out so hard to this alone in his room.

•Mr. Brightside, The Killers- Ben listens to this alone in his room and thinks of Bev and Bill cause he’s a little jealous but won’t admit it.

•Good Old Fashion Lover Boy, Queen- Stan and Eddie listen to this together, they also put it on the quarry mixtape and the Losers all agree Richie is the Lover Boy of the group (for Eddie’s mom of course).

•Iris, The Goo Goo Dolls- Bill listens to this but will not tell anyone.

•Teenage Dirtbag, Wheatus- Richie showed this to the Losers and they all really get into it, they put it on both the quarry and hideout mixtapes.

•Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, Set It Off- The Losers we’re listening to the radio together and heard this and though of IT.

•Don’t You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds- Ben listens to this and thinks about Bev.

•Should I Stay Or Should I Go, The Clash- The Losers have this on the quarry mixtape, no one remembers who put it on there but they all love it. They have a feeling it was Mike.

•Teenagers, My Chemical Romance- Richie showed this to the Losers and put it on the hideout mixtape.

•I’m Just A Kid, Simple Plan- Bill and Ben each listen to this on their own and when it showed up on the hideout mixtape they both got confused because neither of them put it on there. Turns out Stan heard it and thought it was good and added it.

•Where is My Mind, The Pixies- Eddie showed Richie and Richie told everyone about it.

•Best Day of My Life, American Authors- Mike listens to this and thinks about the day he became part of the Loser’s Club.

•Boy in the Bubble, Alec Benjamin- Eddie listens to this but absolutely will not tell anyone. He found it after a run in with Bowers and when he listens to it he thinks about how he will stand up to Bowers next time.

•Your New Boyfriend, Wilbur Soot- Ben listens to this and thinks about how Bev likes Bill.

•Kiwi, Harry Styles- Richie like to play this and tease Eddie that he’s having his moms baby.

•Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne- Richie plays this in the hideout.

•Basket Case, Green Day- Richie jams to this in the hideout and Mike secretly jams with him

•Cupid’s Chokehold / Breakfast in America, Gym Class Heroes- Richie also teases Eddie about his mom with this song.

•Heroes, David Bowie- The Losers have this on the quarry mixtape.

•Scotty Doesn’t Know, Lustra- Another song Richie sings about Eddie’s mom.

•Psycho Killer, The Talking Heads- The Loser’s listen to this as a hype song before they fight IT.

•My Sharona, The Knack- Bev put this on the hideout mixtape.

•Friday I’m In Love, The Cure- Eddie listens to this and thinks about Richie, Ben thinks about Bev when he hears it.

•It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, Billy Joel- The Losers have this on the hideout mixtape, no one remembers when it was added.

•Gypsy, Fleetwood Mac- Bev and Ben added this to the quarry mixtape.

•Holding Out For A Hero, Bonnie Tyler- The Losers also have this as a hype song before the battle with IT.

•The Adults are Talking, The Strokes- Stan listens to this and shows Bill and they also listen to it when they’re at each others houses.

•Gloria, Laura Branigan- Ben put this on the hideout mixtape with no shame and the Losers all jam to it

•Come Sail Away, Styx- This showed up on the hideout mixtape and no one ever admitted they put it on there, Bill doesn’t like it at first because he thinks of Georgie but it grows on him.

•Eddie Baby, Flex Hagan & The Family- Richie listens to this and screams the lyrics.

•Mr. Jones, Counting Crows- Stan listens to this when he’s alone, he contemplated showing the losers but thought they wouldn’t like it.

•Six Different Ways, The Cure- Stan and Eddie love this song. They make sure it gets on the quarry playlist even if no one seems to like it.

•Cool Kids, Echosmith- Mike listened to this before he met the Losers, hoping to make some friends. After he joined the Loser’s Club he showed this to the group and they put it on the hideout mixtape

•Everybody Talks, Neon Trees- Richie listens to this song a lot since Stan showed it to him.

•Art Is Dead, Bo Burnham- Eddie made Richie listen to this and Richie is adamant that he doesn’t like it but he secretly listens to it all the time.

•Verbatim, Mother Mother- Richie listens to this and absolutely will not tell anyone.

•Radio Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen- Eddie is a huge Springsteen fan and makes sure this is on both the hideout and quarry mixtapes.

•Gives You Hell, The All-American Rejects- Richie listens to this and thinks of Bowers’s cousin but when he shows the Losers he tells them it’s for Bowers.

•Check Yes Juliet, We The Kings- Ben listens to this and thinks of Bev.

•Every Little Thing She Does is Magic, The Police- Bill thinks about Bev when he listens to this.

•Good Riddance, Green Day- The Losers listen to this together before they all part ways and leave Derry.

•Growin’ Up, Bruce Springsteen- Eddie being the Springsteen fan he is, showed the Losers this and told them how it reminds him of growing up with them and they all find that really amazing and put it on the quarry mixtape.

•I like Me Better, Lauv- Eddie listens to this and thinks about Richie.

•Wonderwall, Oasis- Richie likes to throw this on the hideout mix tape without telling anyone and when it plays the Losers get annoyed and take it off and Richie puts it back on every time to fuck with them.

•Stutter, Marianas Trench- Bill listens to this when he’s alone and one day Bev shows it to him and he acts like he’s never heard it before.

•Radio Gaga, Queen- Ben jams to this and put it on the quarry mixtape.

•Marry You, Bruno Mars- Richie plays this for Eddie and sings at the top of his lung while Eddie blushes hard.

•Burnin’ Up, The Jonas Brothers- Richie makes Mike Listen to this cause he thinks it’s funny to remind him of his parents but Mike absolutely hates it and does not find it funny.

•I’m Still Standing, Elton John- The Losers listen to this a lot after they beat IT the first time.

•Hooked On A Feeling, Blue Suede- The Losers jam to this at the quarry, they also love to do it at karaoke night.

•Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley- Richie constantly Rick Rolls the Losers.

•Road To Nowhere, The Talking Heads- Bill rides Silver around Derry and listens to this, he shows it to Eddie and Stan and they all jam to it.

•I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself, Elton John- Stanley plays this to the Losers when he’s getting sick of their shit.

•99 Red Balloons, Nena- Another of the Losers’ hype songs

•The Story, Brandi Carlile- Eddie and Richies wedding song

He’s the link to the playlist if you want it :)

#It2017 #losers club #bill denbrough #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #beverly marsh #mike hanlon #stanley uris #ben hanscom #stenbrough #reddie #benverly #billverly #it 2019

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pookiestheone · 1 year

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Scotty Bowers (1923-2019) Uncensored version

#Vintage men #Scotty Bowers

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ambrossart · 2 days

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Hi! I just read your most recent writing update. I’m so excited for the next DWM short stories! I reread Post Prom a few nights ago, and it still gives me butterflies like it’s the first time I’m reading it 🦋

I meant to submit an ask a few weeks ago, when you were taking questions for your birthday. By the way, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY 💓💓💓! I hope you had a great day!!

I was thinking about how Eddie and Reader share math class, and about how Eddie is notorious for throwing truancy laws to the wind. So here’s my question…

Either deliberately or subconsciously, did Eddie ever decide against skipping class because he knew he’d see Reader?

Wishing you the best!

(I honestly can’t remember, but if I already submitted this question and I’m repeating myself, please ignore me!!)

You did submit this question, actually! Sorry, I’ve had it sitting in my drafts and I’ve been working on it little by little.

Thank you for the birthday wishes! And man, your timing is always so perfect. I’ve had Stranger Things on in the background while I work and I’m slowly creeping up on Season 4. And I know once I get to Season 4, my obsession with Eddie is gonna get fully reignited again, so I’m trying really hard to finish this chapter of my Bowers gang fic so that I can treat myself with some shameless Eddie Munson indulgence. I really miss that man.

Anyway, about your question!

So Eddie and the reader have shared many classes throughout the years. It’s probably just a coincidence, but I could also see Eddie picking classes he thinks she might take. On a semi-related note, I also firmly believe she’s partly the reason Eddie refuses to graduate. I’m not saying it’s 50-50, more like 75-25, because the main reason Eddie’s putting off graduating is because he has no idea what he’s gonna do with his future. He’d rather stay in high school than face that monster, but I’m getting off topic.

Getting back on topic, Eddie does have a habit of skipping classes. The only classes he doesn’t skip are the ones he has with the reader. It wasn’t always that way, though. He used to avoid those classes like the plague because he couldn’t stand being around her. It was too painful. His broken heart was still bleeding, after all.

Eddie’s attitude changed when he had to give a presentation. No avoiding that. So he’s standing in front of the class, clueless, having to pull a fifteen-minute presentation out of his ass (which he does, of course, because Eddie’s a showman), and he hears laughter. Her laughter. It should sting, the sound of her laughter, but it doesn't. In fact, it feels strangely... familiar. All of a sudden, it’s like they're back in Scottie’s basement. Eddie’s performing in front of her. For her. And she's beaming at him.

That’s why Eddie doesn’t ever skip the classes he has with her. No matter how painful it gets (and sometimes it gets very painful) he toughs it out in hopes that once—even if it’s only once a year—he’ll get to see his old friend again.

Now would Eddie ever admit this to the reader (you had asked this in your original submission)? I think he would if it came up. He’s got no reason to hide it. And now that they’re together, I’m sure there are all kinds of hidden truths just waiting to come out.

#answered asks #thanks for the ask!#dancing with myself #dwm #ambrossart

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