[richie-kaspbraks]

i love how suddenly possessed by eddie kaspbrak i've become over the past few days like some characters just inhabit you forever huh

[richie-kaspbraks]

Eddie doesn’t have many memories of his father. Mostly, he remembers a hospital bed in the living room, and long waits in hospital waiting rooms. Frank got sick the first time when Eddie was three. He got sick again when Eddie was five, and he didn’t get better that time. Frank died in September of ‘81. He was 40, and Eddie was a few months shy of 6 years old at the time. Eddie remembers getting pneumonia that winter, and he remembers looking out his bedroom window scared he was going to die too.

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[richie-kaspbraks]

I want a good Benverly/Reddie fic about Beverly navigating her relationships with the Losers in the light of her trauma. I want her working through difficult emotions in regards to Bill, who's interested in her, and Richie, who's confused about his sexuality and who's examined his relationship with Bev to try and figure out whether he's attracted to women. I want Bev feeling conflicted because her father claimed they were friends with her only because of sexual interest and she's worried he's right, even though she recognizes those feelings are irrational. I want Bev to learn how to maintain a friendship with Bill while he juggles the desire to be loved with overcoming the impacts of losing his brother. And I want Bev to navigate a relationship with Richie when his interest has made her uncomfortable and she's inadvertently fed into his fear of being predatory. Meanwhile, I want Bev to grow close to Eddie because he doesn't show interest in her, only for her to conflate her newfound closeness with him as attraction. I want Eddie to come out to her, and I want them to bond over their uncertainty and fear of sexuality. I want that bond to help Bev find certainty in herself and spark the realization that she's in love with Ben, and it's okay, and it strengthens the love she has for her friends.

[mylittleredgirl]

i love how there's the genre of fix-it fic where the author goes into great granular detail of how our heroes manage to avoid or undo whatever character death or other unpopular choice occurred, in a way that abides by the laws of the fictional universe and definitely required a substantial plot outline, and then there are fix-it fics where the author just went "that's bullshit and didn't happen," and we as readers all go "agreed. carry on."

[birdhousesinyoursoul]

(work in progress) Eddies Bad Break (also known as Eddie Gets The Shit Kicked Out of Him)

i feel like this looks like a stock photo

[p1zzaparty]

I feel like anytime i talk about my own silly little ideas for characters i have no legal ownership of, i have to preface it with "Do you think-" or "They probably-" just as a quick get-out-of-jail-free card incase im actually 1000% wrong and everyone forms a mob to throw tomatoes at me.

That being said Eddie Kaspbrack has a weirdly high alcohol tolerance and its a bizzare little superpower for him. You would think he's the kind of wet-blanket-man that WOULD blackout after one mimosa, but somehow he can run through a couple of beers and still be only a bit tipsy. He power houses through shots like they're nothing and gets a small sense of ego seeing everyone else already struggling to stay afloat, sitting there like an idiot smiling and tapping his fingers against his beer, gleaming and shit. Probably has something to do with his crazy high pain tolerance. The guys still a machine after being STABBED in the face and IMPALED (except for the dying part whoops teehee) He's still able to laugh and joke like this isn't horrifically painful. The same guy who has to pace around the room for a little after looking up what will happen to him if he accidentally swallows mouthwash on web.md can take a knife to the cheek like its no problem.

He's such a comedically pathetic person, like he has such a string of bad luck that its funny the kind of bad situations he ends up in and barely reacts to. He's the kind of guy who's waiting at the bus stop just to be the only one splashed with dirty street water when a car passes by, and then immediately slips on a piece of ice as he tries to leave.

Fool fool idiot fool

[elumish]

I think one of the most fundamental plot failures I see across a lot of books is that the person chosen to solve a problem is not a person who it makes sense to choose to solve this problem.

This ends up being true for a lot of YA books where the teenager is the chosen solution to a problem because they need to be for plot reasons, but there is no actual logical reason why anyone would be relying on them to solve this problem (or often even letting them get close to this problem). No, this kid can't work for the FBI or the Secret Service. No, this twelve-year-old won't be a more accomplished soldier than a fully-trained servicemember. No, this kid isn't allowed to practice medicine.

And you can work around this by presenting a reason for them to be involved despite being less qualified--usually that they put themselves in a situation, despite the adults around them, but also that there is something else that makes them suited to a job/role despite their other lack of qualifications (we need someone who can blend in, etc.).

But it's also true for a lot of adult books. I'm reading a book where the ER doctor/medical professor First Gentleman is going to lead the response to a plane full of people who potentially have Marburg virus, and even ignoring the fact that he wouldn't be allowed within a thousand feet of that plane by the Secret Service, that also fundamentally just does not make sense with how U.S. pandemic and quarantine response work (or even how medicine works--an ER doctor is generally not an infecious disease specialist). It's waved away for plot reasons--but it also represents a failure of the plot as a whole.

Why is your character the one who is trying to solve this problem? Is it their job? If it's not their job, what does it mean for the story for them to be trying to solve a problem that they aren't qualified for, may not have access to, and/or aren't allowed to deal with?

If your only answer is "it works because it needs to work for plot reasons" then it doesn't work at all.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

This is a huge problem in Middle Grade - I just read a lovely book that would not have a plot if any of the adults actually acted like adults - but you've gotta play a wiggle room game when it comes to writing fiction for young people. A 12-year-old kid shouldn't be the one to defeat the dragon, but sometimes kids need books where someone their age is defeating dragons.

That said, "every adult in the room has the plot-stupids" does frequently stop a good book from being great. A YA power fantasy is fine, but if you can dig down and really nail home why this particular main character is the only one who can save the day, you wind up with something way better than a paint-by-the-numbers plot.

[elumish]

One of the great things with YA and MG is that "kids are nosy and want to try to fix things" is often a great way around this. You also can have stories where the adults are the problem, or you can have stories where there is something they need a kid for (because they're small, because you have to be under 18 to access something, because they're The Chosen One, etc.).

Another option that you can consider is that you can write stories where the main character isn't necessarily the only one who can save the day--they're just the only one who is saving the day. When I think about Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce, one of the main things about Kel is that she is determined to fix things to the point of hurting her, and so other people could (and sometimes do) fix things, but she's often the one fixing things because she's the one who says "i'm going to fix this" and then works until she does.

And sometimes the answer is that the kid is a bandaid. It can be "we have no other options so we're stuck with this kid." It can be "we need five people and the fifth person is a half-trained twelve-year-old so here we go I guess." It can be "our previous option died so I guess we're stuck with their apprentice."

What works the least well is when people who would be a better option (or who have access to a better option) go with the unqualified main character not because of a believable reason (they want them to fail, they're a scapegoat, they're a sacrifice, nepotism) but simply because the plot demands it happens.

[miggylol]

You've ended up in a story. You don't yet know what its genre is. You hope to end up as:

The protagonist

The protag's BFF

The love interest

The OTHER love interest

The protag's rival

The villain

One of the villain's minions

The mentor

A side character

Nuance/bald/other (in the tags)

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[shieldmaideneowyn]

something something bill denbrough & his too quiet home & his bike with cards on the spokes with the sole purpose of making noise

[invaive]

i wanted to eat you / she's only eating me because she loves me

(beverly + eddie parallels: parents, incest, & repetition compulsion)

[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[strangesickness]

there are so many options for absolute comedy from eddie seeing richie again for the first time in 27 years. like theres so many options. these bitches are gay.

"FUCK! i'm gay. how the HELL

did i forget i was gay?"

is humiliated to realize that the comedian he's been a big fan of for years is RICHIE TOZIER his asshole childhood friend, and not in fact a cool celebrity he will never interact with

remembers some sort of humiliating moment of childhood pining and has to physically lean against something so he doesn't collapse in a puddle of embarrassment.

"i can't believe richie isn't even funny anymore what the fuck" (he is deeply relieved when richie says he doesn't write his own material)

"i've been carrying a torch for this man for well over half my life. that is humiliating. i wonder if i can get away with killing us both."

(out loud) "i need a divorce. immediately."

his brain immediately short circuits and he yells "LETS TAKE OUR SHIRTS OFF AND KISS!"

the horror of the situation slowly dawns on eddie as he realizes that the nameless man from his brief and guilty fantasies does in fact have a name and that name is richie tozier

looks over at mike, completely betrayed that he didn't warn him that he was deeply in love with one of the people who would be showing up soon.

[edenxroseyposey]

Who is that singular fictional character that has been so marred by public opinion and misconceptions that they are largely regarded unlikable that you, in your infinite wisdom, still fervently defend with ever fiber of your moral being for not only being misunderstood but baselessly slandered? I shall go first: Friedrich Bhaer

[kamabr]

oh to be confessed to and then immediately handed a microphone

based on these tweets

bonus: meanwhile,

(on twitter)

[mikesbasementbeets]

byler in every episode -> 1.06. the monster

[striderepiphany]

I'm fascinated by the different ways people portray Richie's stand-up in fics but the funniest by far is stealing it whole cloth from an existing comic, implying that John Mulaney (because it's always John Mulaney, with one notable exception of James Acaster which is doubly hilarious because their styles could not be more different) does not exist in the It cinematic universe.

[richie-kaspbraks]

alternatively, i like to imagine richie getting sued for plagiarism

[dailyjonathanbyers]

JONATHAN BYERS S2E6: The Spy