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Old As Shit / Aroace / obsessive, addictive, yet never horny

[mydeerfellow]

My Thoughts On Niffty

Japanese-American housewife from the 1940s

Institutionalized during the Post-Pearl Harbor crackdown on Japanese-American citizens. Initially in a camp, but eventually moved to an asylum. Probably for violence.

1940s USA was all about those lobotomies, brother

Lobotomized twice, triggering violent tendencies & reduced cognition

Eventually died in the late 40s, destitute in an asylum

Because Hell is Hell, Niffty never got full cognition back besides moments of clarity here and there amongst the chaos.

V powerful nevertheless, just not even remotely stable

Alastor picked her up as a gag during his years chumming around with Vox (because Vox found her creepy.)

Eventually Alastor/Vox realized that Niffty wouldn't make it more than a few months without help and it tripped some kind of wire in both their squirrel brains.

VOX DID SOMETHING WEIRD AND CAUSED THE CAMERA THING AND ALASTOR HAS A SPECIFIC GRUDGE ABOUT IT

Niffty's unique brand of helplessness appealrd to Alastor's ego just long enough for actual affection to become rooted between them and now this is his Niffty and there are no others like her and this one is his.

[mydeerfellow]

I want Alastor and Lucifer's relationship to turn into a Kakashi vs Gai type rivalry, settled through increasingly absurd competitions.

Like will it be ping pong, will it be a rubber duck stage play, will it be checkers

will it be convincing Susan to leave the hotel bar at 3 am

we just don't know

[mydeerfellow]

Vox being smarter than Alastor for 7 chapters and making that everybody's problem. Especially Alastor's.

Sometimes I forget to write for 6 months because I got a puppy and then try to make up for it by posting some mercilessly Dead Dove content to jumpscare my homies

[mydeerfellow]

I'm not saying Alastor is right or anything but goddamn I now understand the annoyance of a younger generation misunderstanding ur whole formative era.

like every day I find myself grumbling more and more about modern culture, and the weird sayings kids (mid-20s grown ass adults) have and the weird fashions that keep coming back into style that I didn't even stop wearing in the first place

I had some uni kids doing an animal handling course the other day and I STG those little fuckers were debating what exactly flo rida meant by "boots with the fur"

like this is why archaeologists are stressed

how many historical facts are modern dipshits reading into 17th century trolls

[mydeerfellow]

Listen I really can't wait to find out the exact reason why Alastor of all people/souls is the linchpin of whatever the overarching Lilith plotline is

To clarify, let's look at some shit we can assume:

• Human!Alastor was able to make a soul deal prior to death. Even if his family was well-versed in spiritual crafts (I'd hesitate to label it Hoodoo/Voodoo out of respect), this is very out of the ordinary, based on most characters we've seen on the show.

• IF it is possible to make a contract with a demon for power (regardless of how complicated the process may be), surely someone else would have done the same thing. Surely Alastor wouldn't be the only sinner with a glaring advantage.

• Not even getting into the theory that Rosie is an angelic entity, which would suggest that, ultimately, Alastor didn't even connect with a demon at all. Yet that is clearly what he thought he was doing.

(meaning this was never actually his choice or due to his actions)

• He made a deal that transcended whatever cosmic veil separates the living and the dead. The next day, he died. There really is no way, from a writing perspective, for that not to be significant. Coincidence doesn't exist in fiction unless it's just bad writing - and so far, HH is being written quite well.

• When deer hunting with hounds, a hunter generally isn't with his dogs. The hunter gets set up some distance away and the dogs are meant to flush the deer into range. So there is absolutely nothing typical about the way this random ass hunter was literally following a leashed hound dog through the woods at ass o'clock at night.

Even a fool hunting at night would abide by the traditional use of hunting dogs to flush out the prey while they waited further away. Moreover, the man shone a light directly onto Alastor's face from close range.

Deer hunting knowledge isn't exactly a well-kept Southern secret. You can find it out with a simple Google search - meaning there's a reason the writing made it so weird.

[mydeerfellow]

Sex-favorable aroace problem of the day:

I bought soooooper cute lingerie and I wasted the last two years working out so I'd look like an absolute fucking treat

but

the effort required for anybody to know that is far too much work for someone as pretty as me and therefore I'm relying on my friend group who is obligated to call me a delicious treat but it just doesn't feel as authentic without the drool

[mydeerfellow]

Things Niffty Left In The Bayou Pt 2

Australian Cane Toads. They have proliferated for many years and appear oblivious to being in a subdimension of Hell

Husk's authentic 1972 dice set lifted from the Las Vegas Strip

A 30 gallon metal garbage can that recites the Iliad in Greek when you lift the lid

Hello Kitty posters have been cropping up since the 80s and Alastor gave up taking them down.

Hello Kitty is his friend and he hates it.

13 wrapped Christmas presents that have been under an aluminum Christmas tree since 1967.

Alastor has been strictly forbidden from opening these and has stopped asking.

the "Christmas hovel" has picked up several tacky decorations every year since.

A Ford F-150 with a human imprint on the front hood.

A human male, aged 32, named Steven. Sometimes he escapes into the hotel.

Steven is forgettable and therefore usually escapes anyone's notice.

Beethoven's 10th Symphony (personally addressed to Niffty by Beethoven)

A speaker that plays early 00's Ke$ha hits when Alastor says the words "party", "bottle of Jack", or "glitter"

[mydeerfellow]

So let's talk about the Deadlights for a minute

Let's discuss them in relation to the novel specifically

The Deadlights are It, unmasked and without the human mind's protective shielding that normally gives It a shape that's within human comprehension.

Think of it like this:

You know what Freddy Krueger looks like and you would pee yourself if you saw him outside your window. It would be the scariest thing you could imagine, in fact.

Bada Bing Bada Boom Bob's yer uncle. When It targets you, It will be Freddy Krueger outside your window. You'll scream, It'll scream. Everybody has a great time and It has a lovely meal.

Compare that to The Deadlights, the form in which It cannot create fear because the mere sight of It literally shreds the human mind and renders the victim vegetative - assuming their body survives the shock at all. No hunt, no taste, no fun. It also requires much more psychic effort on Its part, as the prey has to be pulled into the Macroverse (the space beyond the universe) in order to fully observe the Deadlights.

The Deadlights are lethal 99.99% of the time with the one exception being Bill Denbrough's wife, Audra, who was spared by the Other (SK equivalent to God), or the last lingering trace of It/The Turtle's power, channeled through Bill's childhood bike, Silver.

Or because It did something that differed from previous exposures to the Deadlights - very likely when you consider how little time It would have had to do anything to Audra.

In the novel there's no proof that anyone else has ever been able to recover from exposure to the Deadlights, which tracks when you consider the reason people go catatonic in the first place - the Deadlights literally turns their frontal lobe into pudding but leaves all the automatic nervous system parts intact - so you end up with a zombie who can move around and be positioned or fed, but who is essentially soulless because their consciousness has been dragged across infinity and into beyond.

So anyway I:WTD is taking a different approach to the Deadlights, which is a lil cw SPN era of them, but you know what I'm here for it.

[mydeerfellow]

I've always wondered why IT (Pennywise, not the entire novel itself) didn't feature more heavily in The Dark Tower series.

(TBH I always wrote it off as SK being done with the Clown after he wrote IT and making a conscious decision not to incorporate IT into an already tangled web)

But now it actually makes some more sense from a plot perspective. It's a clever way to close a pothole that would be scrutinized by fans if/when The Dark Tower gets its own series

So here's why it makes sense that IT is not a player in The Dark Tower - despite one of ITs spawn being hatched and set to guard a critical prisoner

SO

The Turtle (Maturin - SK universe pillar) as well as The Other (Gan - SK universe God) both feature heavily in the Dark Tower series.

Both are attributed as being godlike and critical for the continued existence of life across the SK universe.

Now, it's established canonically that IT is at least comparably powerful to the turtle, while both pale next to Gan (based on what we're told in the Dark Tower series)

The whole Dark Tower series revolves around the collapse of the universe as the 12 beams supporting it are slowly broken.

The Turtle is one of the Guardians of these beams and is wholly focused on the task at hand during the DT series - it doesn't allude to IT in any capacity, and IT.... never shows up.

Why?

Because It was too fucking busy being locked in Maturin's sneaky lil trap.

The Turtle was aware from the get-go that IT could never obey/follow/respect anyone or anything, even Gan - it simply is in ITs nature to destroy and consume.

We're talkin' cosmic beings that are as close as the Universe can come to putting an actual form to a concept like destruction or creation.

IT , as a character is one-sided because IT was created as the Ultimate Archetype of destruction and hunger. IT can eat and eat and eat and eat and It has never been full.

New question then: Why would IT need to be trapped in the first place, if It is, just by existing, part of the Grand Design (even an unsavory part)

Because, perhaps, It has already caused plenty of damage within the universe, just in an entirely different solar system.

Long before Earth was even a twinkling in the future, IT was already hellbent on destroying and consuming whatever IT could reach.

Maturin couldn't create things fast enough to keep pace with how IT destroyed everything.

There was no reasoning with IT, and containing IT was dangerously unreliable (after all, who's to say that every planet IT descended on didn't have the same safeguards as Earth).

So, Maturin (or perhaps Gan) had one option left:

Make IT eat ITself like the mythic Ouroboros.

Trap IT in a loop that IT feeds to ITself, forcing IT to exist in the same dimension, on the same planet, until IT literally ran Itself to death.

So, why was IT not on the Dark Tower series?

IT was too busy reliving the fever dream where IT got wrecked by a gang of actual 11 year olds repeatedly for centuries.

[mydeerfellow]

Can you imagine not only living rent-free in a cosmic abomination's mind

but

driving it so fucking insane that it wastes Eternity with a capital E trying to jerry-rig the cosmic equivalent of an ACME dynamite stick that will finally put an end to those meddling kids

[mydeerfellow]

In the novel, the Losers don't spend every second hunting the killer clown. Part of the charm of the novel is that it explores and expands on pretty much everything but the Killer Fucking Clown in the corner - yet for most of the book it's also made very clear that It is almost always near the children.

but not always maliciously.

the Losers often observe during make-believe games down in the Barrens that what is supposed to be pretend becomes real at the very height of the game.

Think of it like this: Seven unusually powerful children spend hours every day focusing their psychic energy into fantasy adventures across 'the Amazon'. IT is a critter that feasts on those powerful bands of energy and also amplifies them.

There are moments when the kids think that there may really be piranhas, waiting in the river to eat them alive, but they allow that fear to exist in the periphery of the game.

They essentially allow IT access to supplemental feedings - perhaps, if the data existed, you might even see correspondingly lower death rates depending on the psychic potency of the Losers per cycle.

The moments when piranhas seem possible, or they spot a tiger passing through the shadows, are moments when It crosses paths with them, but isn't paying them much mind or, at least, is not aggressively seeking food.

Theoretically, it could be comparable to a fat, content housecat playing gently with a misplaced shrew.

Now, the Barrens are obviously a hotspot for It anyway due to the abundance of sewers that empty into the marshland.

But, dear friends and neighbors, there's another thing at play.

IT (AKA Pennywise the Dancing Clown) is canonically described as "required to obey the laws of Its chosen form."

This is how the Losers (the Final 7, let's say, with respect to prior cycles' Losers) pushed It into a terminal checkmate.

This is also why It fucking shreds through adults when It has to deal with them. Your average human adult loses 95% of the psychic potential they held at the age of 10. Adults don't mean anything to It.

Do you know all the different brands of your least favorite soup flavour? Hell no. Why would you even remember that?

Anyway, this rule is why the kids actually do some massive damage to It early on - even coming very close to killing It in Neibolt Street when they got It to assume the werewolf form again and shot the fucker with silver slugs.

The kids are their own worst enemy against It, because it's only through their fear that It manages to piece together a form. It doesn't give a single righteous fuck about humanity - to the point that It can't even pull off a shape without a specific thought to anchor to.

Patrick Hockstetter was a sociopathic boy with the psychological inability to register other people as 'real'. When It attacked Patrick, he couldn't make out a face or any features when he looked at It. It had nothing to pull from his mind that was even remotely human so It didn't even bother trying to cobble together a people face.

Because It is a dumb clown who literally cannot remember anything that It isn't directly staring at in a human brain. Besides that one clown he saw that one time 80 years back.

So when the kids are playing in the Barrens, they're indirectly hampering It's lethality in their surety that they won't fall into the river and get eaten by piranhas, or that the tiger doesn't see them and therefore isn't going to harm them.

Kids control their play absolutely, to the point that even the fucking Murder Clown is obligated to play It's fucking role and not argue.

and anyway that's my thoughts for today

[mydeerfellow]

Fun Lore Dump About That One Clown

Hi I'm in my 30s and I've read every goddamn book that son of a bitch Steve has put out, and I'm here to tell you that there are so many ways that this shit actually could get even worse.

So we're gonna talk about some of it.

Bear in mind I'm referring to Pennywise as IT, because otherwise it feels like I'm speaking more to a very limited period of ITs existence.

SPOILERS BELOW FOR IT (and most 80s 90s SK writing)

There was a group of 200+ souls from the Old World who arrived in Derry in the 1700s and vanished within a year, leaving nothing but one burned out home when the next settlers arrived. This incident doesn't get explored in the original work besides as the first documented case of the cycle. (Theoretically, this is likely when the indigenous people of the area understood that something had to be done.)

The Kitchener Ironworks explosion of 1906 happened on an Easter Sunday. Over 80 children ran into the factory to find eggs. The workers had shut the whole place down, dousing all the kilns and stopping the churning gears. It still blew sky high and took the kids with it, raining chunks of child over half the town. This is a doubly important event because it was another case of a massive tragedy cutting Its feeding cycle short.

One egg survived the end of the novel - one single egg - and later births a creature known as Dandelo. This critter is admittedly only implied to be related to IT, but has the same psychic ability to feed off the strength of human emotions. Unlike IT, however, Dandelo feeds on laughter and amusement. It's worth noting that Dandelo is very quickly handled by the characters of The Dark Tower series, which suggests that Dandelo was, in many ways, an infant compared to the original It.

That confirms that IT could subsist off any strong human emotion - IT simply chooses fear for personal reasons, though the end result is always eventual death of the target.

IT avoids adults because an adult mind doesn't hold onto fear in the same shamanic respect as a child's mind. When children experience any emotion, they feel it much more powerfully than an adult - especially terror. This doesn't mean that IT isn't able to show Itself to adults (it turns into a doberman-headed monster for a Juniper Hill guard in the novel). IT simply isn't interested in them.

I personally theorize that IT isn't even purposeful about IT's possession of Derry - IT is not a migratory beast, besides in a cosmic sense, so IT likely has no reason to wander far from home.

The novel heavily implies that Earth isn't the first world that IT has feasted on - in fact, it's stated quite clearly that IT has done this many times before, and actually routinely hops between dimensions/planets/solar systems to stay away from Maturin and to feed Its insatiable appetite.

IT is less an evil entity and more an uncontrolled cosmic force that's finally broken free of the other cosmic force that used to keep IT at least slightly controlled.

The turtle's name is Maturin and it's honestly so beyond done with ITS shenanigans.

The turtle and IT are two sides of the same force, despite ITs hatred of Maturin. Though It delights in the turtle being dead in the second half of the novel, it's likely that neither IT nor Maturin are ever actually dead. But they can definitely be literal millions of years away from a comeback tour.

the entity of IT is cosmic and eternal - we're talking a creature that counts years by the millions and sees humanity as one more box of frozen chicken wings at the supermarket.

[mydeerfellow]

[mydeerfellow]

This is your daily reminder to be bold and brave and write as realistically as you want to.

Take the gritty, vile side of the fandom and weaponize it in writing - have fun exploring things that aren't okay by societal standards.

That is the point of writing.

This is how we safely explore those socially unacceptable concepts and understand the psychology behind the scenes.

So let your lighthearted fic take a tumble into dark territory

Write reactions based on realism and not to pacify an audience who has come to expect pulled punches.

Tag your shit appropriately and then delve into the beating heart of characters who are in Hell for a reason.

Make vile characters be vile (even a protagonist)

Make good characters walk the wrong option.

Explore obsession. Explore ownership. Explore how different cultures would react to the very idea of a soul deal.

Own what the fandom is about and serve it up hot, motherfuckers!

For specific examples, see below.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/YesThatJack/works

[mydeerfellow]

In a world full of crypto and digital currency, where science and magic have been making sweet, weird love for centuries, it should surprise no one that Vox found a way to digitally steal a soul right out from under another demon's nose. Alastor learns a lesson about underestimating his enemies and why we should think before we speak. Valentino gets beaten by his own severed arm. and Charlie Morningstar is just having a really hard time right now Chapter 6: It's Happening People. The Smut Is Happening. Also Plot. But Mostly The Smut Is Here.

Come hang out with me as I write a monster series that's currently messing with the toxicity of RadioSilence and just how similar Alastor and Vox's powers are. Which also includes some really neat chatter about electromagnetic energy and how radiowaves are actually sick as FUCK.

Also a writing discord: https://discord.gg/qs5mtcbx

TW for exploitative behavior, general non/dub con (Alastor is manipulative enough in this to use his body in every way possible so it's not too squickish), blood and gore and permanent bodily harm to various characters. 

Mostly Alastor, because Vox has a scarification fetish as any good 50s gentleman should.

[mydeerfellow]

So I'm writing this fic

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

We're talkin' the not-made-for-TV edition of S2 wherein Alastor's arrogance is still his undoing, but his ability to twist a situation in his favor is capitalized on in a way that's actually...

been really interesting to write as an aroace individual myself, who has enjoyed sex (sometimes even too much) in the past literally without strings attached.

So

Yes, the fic is rated Explicit and earns that rating rapidly.

Vox is in character and in line with the cultist influences that were being used when writing the current season so far. We even have moments of education in the opening notes, because if I'm doing all this research Imma make sure the cretins reading this thing are also getting educated.

To summarize the fic thus far:

Vox uses the deal he makes with Alastor canonically to sleuth out that he has an actual WHOLE-SOUL deal with someone else. Because Vox and Alastor share one unique branch of electromagnetic energy/magic, it basically gives Vox just enough leverage to commandeer the original deal and overwrite it. Because science. And fiction.

idk I'm just having a lot of fun writing this and it's turned out better than I anticipated so I figured you might like to read it.

[mydeerfellow]

So I'm writing this fic

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

We're talkin' the not-made-for-TV edition of S2 wherein Alastor's arrogance is still his undoing, but his ability to twist a situation in his favor is capitalized on in a way that's actually...

been really interesting to write as an aroace individual myself, who has enjoyed sex (sometimes even too much) in the past literally without strings attached.

So

Yes, the fic is rated Explicit and earns that rating rapidly.

Vox is in character and in line with the cultist influences that were being used when writing the current season so far. We even have moments of education in the opening notes, because if I'm doing all this research Imma make sure the cretins reading this thing are also getting educated.

To summarize the fic thus far:

Vox uses the deal he makes with Alastor canonically to sleuth out that he has an actual WHOLE-SOUL deal with someone else. Because Vox and Alastor share one unique branch of electromagnetic energy/magic, it basically gives Vox just enough leverage to commandeer the original deal and overwrite it. Because science. And fiction.

idk I'm just having a lot of fun writing this and it's turned out better than I anticipated so I figured you might like to read it.