Are We Floating Yet?

So this is almost entirely dedicated to me liveblogging the thoughts and feelings that occur to me during the process of me reading Stephen King's IT. I have not read the book before or seen the 1990 miniseries, so I only know as much as was in the 2017 film adaptation. This blog is literally the opposite of spoiler free. I am currently still in school at this time, so I apologize in advance for sketchy updating. Have fun, and I hope you enjoy your stay.

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“... make love to him with aspirins and alcohol-rub.” Well, that’s a mental image I really didn’t need, but thanks I guess

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Did people in the 80’s really call them “compact-disc players”? They didn’t just call them CD players? That seems tedious

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MY BABY BOY EDDIE HAD TO TRY THREE TIMES BEFORE HE ACTUALLY MOVED OUT OF HIS MOMS HOUSE

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im so close to finishing the book and honestly what the fuck im so excited for you to get there but its a real goddamn trip.

Babe, this whole book is a trip and I’m just on chapter 3, I can’t even imagine what it’s going to be like 1000 pages from now

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Ah, the 80’s, when I guess you could just casually ask your limo driver where you can get some coke and expect a real answer

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Eddie’s situation is getting a little too Oedipal for my taste. Wasn’t the big scare supposed to be the clown, not the Losers’ love lives?

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so did you like the 2 pages of king listing VERY SPECIFICALLY all of the medicines in the cabinet and then being like "but oh yeah myra has shit for her cramps" because that shit had me in TEARS. t E A R S.

Yeah, and then he fucking BAGS THAT SHIT TOO! Like, fuck Myra, what if Eddie suddenly gets period cramps? What is he going to do? Not use his wife’s midol? Preposterous

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ok but i loved the image of eddie p u s h i n g all of those bottles into the bag,,, like gathering them in his arm and pushing them down

its so extra and So Much and it makes me laugh so hard

thhat WHOLE SECTION made me laugh a lot ok the whole freudian thing? GOD

richies also killed me but one second it was like “HAHA! look at him! he’s so funny! isnt richie funny? isnt rich-he’s depressed and cannot be himself because he is Afraid.”

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Believe it or not, I read most of Richie’s section while listening to Africa by Toto, because what else do you do? So I couldn’t even take the angsty he is Afraid part seriously lol. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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so did you like the 2 pages of king listing VERY SPECIFICALLY all of the medicines in the cabinet and then being like "but oh yeah myra has shit for her cramps" because that shit had me in TEARS. t E A R S.

Yeah, and then he fucking BAGS THAT SHIT TOO! Like, fuck Myra, what if Eddie suddenly gets period cramps? What is he going to do? Not use his wife’s midol? Preposterous

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"What are you DOOOOOOOOING?" Funny, my brain yells the same thing at me whenever I do anything ever

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Jesus, Eddie, I thought you were supposed to have some grand old revelation that you weren't really that sick way back when you were a kid! Why is your medicin cabinet still so chalk full pills? Like, Christ, are pills all you ever eat or something?

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"I remember that either a girl named Beverly or Stuttering Bill saved my life with a silver dollar" I'm hoping it's Bev but given Kings track record of making Bill perfect and the clear hero of the story already I'm guessing it's Bill somehow

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HAHA YOU’RE BACK I’M SO HAPPY (Alternatively, I’m back, since I only just saw a notification for you posting but there are plenty of posts of yours I haven’t seen since last we spoke)

Haha, yeah, sorry I’ve been gone for so long guys, but I just finished my semester exams and I think I did pretty good! With the new semester starting off slow I should be updating way more regularly. So thank you for your patience, and thank you for your enthusiasm!

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Also, the whole point of drinking with lemon juice up your nose is to not get drunk, at least in this situation, right? If you're not looking to get drunk, why bother drinking at all? Isn't that the whole point of drinking hard liquor that tastes like engine fuel? I'm young so maybe I just don't understand yet, but I just don't get the appeal

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The real horror of IT: growing up a child prodigy/sports star with your whole future ahead of you, only for reality to kick you in the face and reduce you to a shitty car salesman

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Im so used to the characters swearing to high holy hell in the movie, and now I'm reduced to words like "keister". Let the book say ass!

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‘So yeah I just drank a shit tonne of whiskey and you’re seriously concerned for my mental health. Anyway, wanna here about how I used to be fat? Like I’ve got a whole lament set up. It was tragic’ are you sure that lemon-juice-up-the-nose trick worked there, Benny boy? Cause you seem a bit drunk

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Now, I've never tried it myself, but I feel like squeezing lemon juice right into your nostrils cannot be good for your health, nor is drinking that much whiskey. It's called self-care, Ben, you should try it