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cherishtozier

stephen king: writes gay coding for eddie kaspbrak

also stephen king:

danielwaldorf

I may be a pretty shitty boyfriend, but it turns out I’m actually a pretty damn good babysitter.

bonus:

scalira

Bye I can't believe I'm missing the losers club this much in the year 2020

stincorrect

Steve: I am at a loss for words. Dustin, later: Despite being at a loss for words, Steve yelled at me for the next fifteen minutes.

livelovecaliforniadreams

#finn's grandma pls hype up my dead love life

bistan-deactivated20201202

i find it interesting how young richie made lots of comments about sex throughout the entire movie and even during his flashback scenes in the second, but adult richie barely made any sex jokes (off the top of my head, the only one i can remember was the joke at his show about masturbating) like………….i don’t know, you can interpret that richie’s fixation on sex was a combination of his age and overcompensation for his sexuality, being a young queer boy in an intolerant town this was his way of coping, it really tends to come off as one of his deflection tactics and something akin to a Voice, so its kinda interesting that people picked it up as a Personality Trait when it feels like someone completely different from his true self

bistan-deactivated20201202

i’m just thinking about how richie’s most prominent (if not only) sexually themed joke of chapter 2 was at his show with material he doesn’t write himself, where he lies about his sexual life and preferences, and is stuck in this disconnect of himself vs everyone else represented by his presence on the stage, an act, a performance, for an audience of onlookers who perceive him the way he chooses and is able to have control over. this representation of fraudulence, an imitation, the tiresome act richie has been operating his whole life, but now on this grand scale, with sex and sexuality as the primary focus, it’s fake, it’s the illustration of fabrications and wild stories he’s been making up since he was a child, it’s something he’s so deeply insecure about that he can’t help but talk about it in extremities to throw people off, to keep them from Seeing him, using sex to deflect the attention away from himself (and his sexuality) and towards a more acceptable version of himself, yet fandom consistently thinks of and characterizes richie as being horny, sex-focused, andor fixated on sex

#i gen hadnt ever thought of this #i feel stupid now #OP u are so smart

oh-theatre

Me writing in the tags:

#my whole life journey can be found in the tags #one day theyll make a movie adaptation #and all u non tag readers gonna be sorry #but also fair enough if you dont read them because its mainly me crying over reddie

couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name

What’s going on with the kid from stranger things?

He was answering questions in front of an audience about season 4 and said 'Hopper has a great storyline', immediately followed by him making an Oh Shit face and trying to backtrack in a panic lmaooo

#noah has been watching tom holland interviews mm

reddies-balloon

i just realized something 💀

nessa007

Pretty | Bitchin’

nohomohank-deactivated20200218

my favourite form of disrespect is when people call stephen king steven

spockgirl

I don’t headcanon anything I just know and perceive the truth

#me with my reddie aus

backpackgrayson

Richie Tozier used to go to award shows and walks the red carpet in a graphic tee underneath an unbuttoned hawaiian shirt with slacks (that’s what makes it fancy).

Then IT happens (again) and Beverly Marsh is so disgusted she designs a line of suits for Richie.

They’re all three piece suits with each jacket a different hawaiian print (hand embroidered and beaded by Beverly Marsh herself).

“If you’re going to be a slob, at least be a fashionable slob” -B. Marsh to R. Tozier circa 2017

(eddie goes absolutely feral for those suits btw,, like they barely make it out the door feral,, like Bev has had to remake one of the suits three different times because it makes Eddie go That Feral)

deathwalksatmidnight

Richie Tozier v “Bi Erasure”

freshparking-deactivated2022020

fandom spaces DEFINITELY are confusing “strong feelings about headcanons” with actual canon facts and this whole thread is on point and completely accurate. you literally cannot have bi-erasure of a character who was never canonically bisexual and people are acting like that’s the case with richie.

and people also rush to get furious about this because “there’s so much evidence of his bisexuality!” yeah there totally is and the arguments on his bisexuality are SUPER valid (even though I personally still think he’s huge gay in book and miniseries but again- that’s a PERSONAL OPINION w my own proof just like those who believe he’s bi) but that still doesn’t mean they’re canonically true & my issue here is the fact that people actively attack and accuse gay!Richie supporters of biphobia and bi-erasure when in actuality they’re just acknowledging his canonically stated sexuality. it is not INHERENTLY “biphobic” to appreciate his gayness.

at some point you need to take a step back, take a deep breath & realize that your headcanon isn’t an excuse to be furious about other ppl liking the canon version of a character. that isn’t fair.

also not for nothing but it is highkey sketchy why people get so mad about people wanting to acknowledge gay!richie. i think you should maybe take a step back and ask yourself why that makes you so upset. like i understand desperately wanting representation for SURE but i can’t really comprehend being THAT mad over a canonically queer character without some internalized issues going on there. not saying that everyone who gets upset about this is homophobic but it does feel extremely inappropriate a lot of the time and I have definitely seen people being casually homophobic as hell when being upset over gay!richie (also gay!eddie specifically with gay!richie but that’s another argument for another time)

at the end of the day it’d be really cool if we could stop attacking each other. it’s really cool that we have a queer character and as a community we should ENCOURAGE and ENJOY and PRAISE and love our LGBT representations!!!

please don’t forget that actual gay men exist out there who feel they are sorely underrepresented too (& yes I will stand up and say that because this site has begun to treat gay men like they’re on par with straight white men in terms of privilege just because fandom spaces embrace same-sex male/male relationships in huge numbers- that doesn’t automatically mean there’s a lot of gay representation / well done representation in media pls stop forgetting that) and this is a valuable representation for them & they DESERVE to have that representation just like bisexual ppl deserve to have their representation and trans ppl deserve their representation etc.

we shouldn’t get JEALOUS of each other just because we didn’t get our representation. i’m demisexual and i never fucking see representation for myself out in the media but i’m not getting furious with other queer people for getting their queerness represented. i’m happy for them & i’m glad ANY queerness is represented because i support my LGBT family and you should too!

There’s nothing inherently wrong with gay!Richie just like there’s nothing inherently wrong with bi!Richie and stop slinging the word “bi-erasure” around so casually because it’s damaging to ACTUAL bi-erasure and biphobic issues that plague media. there IS a lot of biphobia out there but Richie Tozier is not an example of that so please stop acting like he is. Thanks.

#these r the facts