...and still insists he sees the ghosts

follow from @hand-made-rebel. was @hanlonmike. my writing is under #del writes. if you ship the actors: fuck you. tagged by character and ship. have headcannons or thoughts and wanna share? ask away!

[rubysapphrald]

people say madwheeler and bevchie are the same because mike looks like richie and max looks like bev but among many other reasons why they’re not the same at all the critical difference is that bev and richie could be in a successful lavender marriage for many years while mike and max would do a murder-suicide in under eight months

[rubysapphrald]

year 1995 nineteen year old bev and richie are living it up in college in new york doing animal house type shit doing drugs at pool parties and everything while twenty-four year old max and mike are in chicago living through the plot of lost highway

[cut-clap]

what yaoi cocaine was stephen king on and where can i get it

[queermikehanlon]

We grew up, [Bill] thought. We didn’t think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and If I go in there now it will be real: we’re all grownups now.

It, Chapter 10, The Reunion

[queermikehanlon]

If the wheels of the universe are in true, then good always compensates evil- but good can be as awful as well.

It, Derry: The Second Interlude

[queermikehanlon]

god, i’m writing down all the quotes i’m saving in one long text post in my drafts and i copied about a whole page of just stan’s inner monologue because it’s just so well written. i’m not going to post it as a quote, but damn. it’s so good.

[queermikehanlon]

- but Stan found he could not explain how he felt. The words had run out. There was a brick of feelings inside him, almost choking him, and he could not get it out of his throat. Neat as he was, sure as he was, he was still only an eleven-year-old boy who had that year finished the fourth grade.

It, Chapter 9, Cleaning Up

[queermikehanlon]

'-And the little boy I heard first... I think maybe it was that little Clements kid. The one who disappeared off his trike.' 'So what?' Stan said defiantly. 'So what if it gets more?' [Beverly] asked. 'What if it gets more kids?' His eyes, a hot brown, locked with her blue ones, answering the question without speaking: So what if it does?

It, Chapter 9, Cleaning Up

[queermikehanlon]

Fastidious boy, patient boy. [Stan] did not fidget. He did not get up or walk around or swing the binoculars here and there to see what else there might be to be seen. He sat still, field glasses trained on the birdbath, and the mist collected in fat drops on his yellow slicker.

It, Chapter 9, Cleaning Up

[queermikehanlon]

-but Stan was a creature of habit and convention; these things comforted him and reinforced his sense of place and belonging in the world.

It, Chapter 9, Cleaning Up

[queermikehanlon]

idk if anyone noticed, but i'm rereading It at the moment and when i read quotes that i like, i'm just uploading them here. by the end of my reread, i want to have one long post where i have all my quotes i saved

[queermikehanlon]

Bill was the strongest of them, not just physically. There was a good deal more to it that that, but since Richie did not know either the word charisma or the full meaning of the word magnetism, he only felt that Bill's strength ran deep and might manifest itself in many ways, some of them probably unexpected. And Richie expected if Beverly fell for him, or 'got a crush on him,' or whatever they called it, Ben would not be jealous (like he would, Richie thought, if she got a crush on me); he would accept it as nothing but natural. And there was something else: Bill was good. It was stupid to think such a thing (he did not, in fact, precisely think it; he felt it), but there it was. Goodness and strength seemed to radiate from Bill.

It, Chapter 8, Georgie’s Room and the House on Neibolt Street

[queermikehanlon]

Looking at [the report cards], knowing there would never be more, knowing that George had died before he could stay in the lines when he colored, knowing his life had ended irrevocably and eternally with only a few kindergarten and first-grade rank cards, all the idiot truth of death crashed home to Richie for the first time. It was as if a large iron safe had fallen into his brain and buried itself there. I could die! his mind screamed at him suddenly in tones of betrayed horror. Anyone could! Anyone could!

It, Chapter 8, Georgie’s Room and the House on Neibolt Street

[queermikehanlon]

When you ran with Bill you ran to beat the devil and you laughed... but you hardly ever ran out of breath. And hardly ever running out of breath was great, so fucking great, Eddie would tell the world.

It, Chapter 7, The Dam in the Barrens

[queermikehanlon]

He supposes he would have died for Bill back then, if that had been required; if Bill had asked him, Eddie would have simply responded: “Sure, Big Bill… you got a time in mind yet?"

It, Chapter 7, The Dam in the Barrens

[queermikehanlon]

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he night have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

It, Chapter 4, Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall

[queermikehanlon]

hey all! i know i haven't posted a lot of here lately (mostly because all the it blogs i follow are mostly dead) but when the semester starts at my college i plan on rereading it from the first day until finals week (if i finish earlier i'll take it).

i've been wanting to reread it, and i recently got a new copy of it so i decided to reread it this semester. i wish i had my old copy with all my annotations and notes but sadly a friend has it :(

i have it seperated for about 75 pages a week until it's done for the whole semester and i want to update on everything i think and notice about the book on here if anyone's interested!

[the-barrens-are-ours]

Hello, Stan Uris is hilarious and amazing and brave and I love him very much and you should too, thanks for coming to my TED Talk