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Ham or Lake // 26 // they/them // big fan of that gay 80s clown movie // icon by lockscheme // ao3: notquitepunkrock // i follow from eerielakeerie

[eddiesnapback]

decided i should actually updated my pinned post to be useful so:

hi hello i am Ham! i’m 25 and forever exhausted. welcome to my IT (/Long Walk/Stephen King/horror in general) sideblog. yes i made this blog in 2017 and am still kicking. yes i feel ancient.

i follow from my main @eerielakeerie and my MHA sideblog is @kiriscreama. feel free to visit me on either.

i post fics on ao3 as notquitepunkrock. i’m currently writing a multichap Losers Club Long Walk AU called “right here, in the old therebefore” !!

i'm a multishipper who mostly posts Losers Club stuff. like many people my age, my brain chemistry was fundamentally altered by the 2017 adaptation, but i'm also a fan of the book and 90s miniseries. occaisionally i post fics, or do some kind of review or analysis nonsense, but mostly i'm just here having fun.

also a reminder: this blog is 18+. i will very, very rarely rb nsfw posts but i am an adult in a fandom for books/movies made for adults, and will act as such. i also do not believe in shipping discourse and any attempts at it will be blocked. i'm too old for that shit. thank you!

i will NOT be watching ST5

tags below the read more!

relevant tags:

anything not directly blog-theme-related is “#not IT." posts I've made are always talked "#ham speaks." my reread liveblog was "#ham reads it" though i haven't done a reread since 2023.

my fics are tagged with "#ham writes" and my Long Walk AU is “#losers on a walk”

my selfie tag is “#ham faced loser”

on the incredibly rare chance I post anything nsfw it will be tagged "#nsfw"

i will also generally tag for characters, ships, and specific adaptations. (Example "#it 2017" and "#it 2019" for the movies, "#it 1990" for the miniseries, and "#it book" for the book.)

other stuff about me

my other main fandoms are My Hero Academia, the All For the Game series and M*A*S*H right now. (most normal combination ever, i know) but! I’m also a massive multifandom, multishipping nerd so, like, that’s definitely not the be-all, end-all list. i love Fall Out Boy, Doechii, and the Beatles. i spend most of my time watching multi-hour youtube videos, and cross stitching. and i work in education!

i also have a dog (Atticus) and a cat (Ambrose). they are my beautiful boys who i would kill and die for.

[itsfenixme]

I hate when people say “The most unrealistic part of it is how nobody laughs at Richie’s jokes” because Richie’s jokes are NOT meant to be funny.

Richie is ANNOYING and his jokes are mostly very mean, they are sure funny for us as a audience, but not for the characters themselves. He makes fun of other people insecurities to cope with his own. He doesn’t do it with an ill intent, but his jokes are meant to be offensive.

[birdhousesinyoursoul]

I’m really fascinated with the thought of moving to Derry, like in a metaphorical sense. if Derry & IT represent trauma and the dark places where it happens then people moving into Derry (like Ben) can be a metaphor for slipping into that dark place instead of being born into it like others were. I just really love the idea that depression or trauma is a town that you can go to, that seems normal from far away, you don’t really notice what it really is until you’re there and you’re looking closely. It can be a place that you’re born in, a home, where the only thing you know of the world is It, this tar pit of a town that hides itself under a mask that seems normal, and prays that you won’t look too closely at it so that you won’t see what’s wrong. But it can also be a place that you stumble into while trying to find somewhere better to be. your intentions can be completely pure, you can be a normal person with a normal life but if you’re not careful you end up Here. and then the only way out is to confront it, but it’s nearly impossible because Derry is like a wormhole feeding on itself, all it knows is It since the start and there is no way to confront that fact without overturning everything, because EVERYTHING is built on It and It’s hatred and long for violence. Which leads me to my next point, we need to destroy the American government

[artofabee]

final boy

[reina-mab]

“McVries wants to beat Barkovitch up” “Parker wants to beat Barkovitch up” “Ray wants to-“ ladies ladies please everyone want to beat Barkovitch up including Barkovitch himself

[princess-glassred]

One of my favorite stupid details in all of the IT book is that Mike is explicitly stated to love peanut butter and onion sandwiches while Henry is explicitly stated to hate them.

I'm fucking crying they're ops in every conceivable way, these two could argue about anything. these are the ONLY times this specific sandwich is ever even mentioned btw, stephen king just REALLY felt like we should know this.

"I would take Mike's side in any dispute with Bowers" mfs when the dreaded peanut butter and onion sandwich walks in: :0

[thinkingabout-girls]

i think some of you guys don’t actually like IT i think you just like yaoi

[number-38]

[anisangel-deactivated20230307]

[eddie kaspbrak voice] why dont you shut the fuck up einstein because i know what i’m doing and i dont want you doing the british guy with me right now

[gayoutofhecc]

RIP Collie Parker you would’ve hated ICE with every fiber of your being

[thelongwoke]

corporate wants you to find the differences between these two pictures

[kallousness]

every friend group will have those two friends insistent on making a band

no text:

[sawtism2004]

a mini-zine meant to feel like in universe, anti-walk propaganda (that you should be able to download and print from here!)

and this is the fold tutorial this is formated to fit (which as far as i can tell (through various reverse image searches) was drawn by daisy wakefield)

[mysoulisimmortal]

this account is lowkey becoming a welcome to derry fan page but rip taniel bro 💔💔💔💔

[number-38]

[thinkingabout-girls]

actually the funniest thing in IT chapter 1 is when henry bowers says that the bowers gang didn’t bully bill for a full like 7 or 8 months because georgie went missing. they can excuse racism, homophobia, ableism, antisemitism, fatphobia, misogyny, sexual assault, physical violence, and general dickish behavior but they draw the line at beating up a kid who’s little brother died

[blackfandom]

Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.

[blackfandom]

If POC speaking up about a fandom's racism issue offends you more than the racism itself, you need to think about that. You need to think about how POC fighting racism offends you more than the racism.