[richieirl]

⋆˚࿔ 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 - main blog 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

༯ 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭: it, stephen king (1986). it, miniseries (1990). it, andy muschetti (2017 & 2019).

༯ 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬: reddie (richie & eddie,) stanpat (stanley & patty,) benverly (ben & beverly,) hanbrough (bill & mike.)

༯ 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: eddie kaspbrak rising, richie tozier moon, ben hanscom sun, & beverly marsh venus.

༯ 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝟓 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐬: ice cream habit, weepies. wonder violet, belby. the year of the goat & your kid back, derryfacts2. i don't know how to tell you (and you wouldn't understand,) starcat. dreamboat, weepies.

༯ 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜. 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬/𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬: eddie & richie having a pomeranian. richie having a daughter because he got a girl pregnant in college. beverly following in taylor swift's footsteps and finding a legal loophole so she can re-release thousands of rogan-marsh designs, ending with her owning her own work. the fact that ugly moon is gone. stephen king's ability to queer code so effortlessly that reddie being canon is irrefutable, even though that hadn't even been his intention.

divider creds to @enchanthings-a!!!!

[itsfenixme]

Sonia and Eddie Kaspbrak

TW: Grooming, covert incest, emotional abuse

I don’t think any of the it adaptations really does a good job portraying how disgusting was Eddie’s relationship with his mother.

Eddie, in the book, was actively being groomed by his mother she wasn’t just “protective” of him. What Stephen King describes in the novel is emotional incest between the two. Sonia manipulated Eddie by making him fell like “weak”, “sick” so that he felt like he couldn’t live without her and then he wouldn’t leave her like Eddie’s father did (by dying). Eddie is treated like a replacement of his father and expected to take his role (at least emotionally) in his relationship with his mother, but yet he’s still treated as a little kid by her, she can’t really see Eddie growing up and being his own person, so she grooms him to make sure that never happens. Another reason why what she does is not protecting him is the fact she doesn’t want him to have any friends, and that’s especially true talking about Bill, there is no reason why she wouldn’t want her son to hang out with him, there is nothing wrong about Bill and he could (and he does) protect Eddie from the bullies, but still she doesn’t want her son around him. Why? Because he keeps Eddie away from her. Then there are the to long hugs or her being overly touchy with him. But I really don’t want go get in that part…

It’s also the reason why Eddie never has problems with people overstepping his boundaries and why Eddie first search for a fatherly figure in Bill and them became “obsessed” with him. But that is something for another time.

I don’t think that it is a case of MbP, most people affected by this disorder act like the child is sick for attention, but Sonia doesn’t want that, she does because she wants to control Eddie. I think she most likely suffered from BPD and the loss of Frank was to much to handle. I’m not a psychologist or a expert of any kind, so take everything with a grain of salt.

Sonia grooming of Eddie is another big example of how in Derry people ignore problems. Even the children could see that what was happening to Eddie was not normal, but yet nobody did anything about it.

That’s why I hate the fact that in IT 2017 Eddie’s grooming is treated as something to joke about. I know that even in the novel Richie makes fun of Eddie about it, but still not that often and sure not that heavily. Even worse is in the 1990s version where Sonia is simply portrayed as just being overly protective.

[the-yappstronaut]

1990s miniseries eddie did not get called a 'girlyboy', avoid getting married, and then come out to the group as a virgin, saying that he was too scared of intimacy because he never found anyone he loved as much as the PRODOMINENTLY MALE friendgroup, just for y'all to say he's straight.

[roofih]

mama's watching

[ronroniada]

We all float down here

⠀ 🏚️ ⠀༝ 𓂃⠀˙⠀♱ ◞

🤡 ━╤デ╦︻᭄ 🩸

[stoful7freak]

post ch2 bev and richie sitting around with the most ridiculous tasting vapes with nose-itching smells and there is stanley uris holding a cigarette in hand while looking at them like they're the scums of the earth

[evilbookworm]

all the losers had a crush on all the losers at some point I don’t make the rules.

[corpse-of-bandersnatch]

Smiling 90′ Eddie Kaspbrak

[joeover]

I hate when people portray the reddie dynamic as if Eddie just hates everything that makes Richie Richie. He rolls his eyes at Richie’s jokes, is grossed out by Richie, and is generally unimpressed by him.

Like no, Eddie adores Richie. Sure they love a good heated back and forth, and Eddie will call Richie out when it’s deserved, but fundamentally Eddie is deeply endeared to Richie’s humor, quirks, and eccentricities. My favorite portrayal of reddie is when they respect each other, bc they have such a deep understanding of who the other is to their core.

Eddie and Richie make for such an interesting pairing bc they truly are so different, polar opposite in many ways. But while their differences are fun to explore, I feel that what truly makes them them is what they have in common too.

[flonvera]

Richie's fear of werewolves from the book + miniseries>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Richie's fear of Paul Bunyan

[sakura-haruka]

Richie’s blood wedding ring

[half-bloodxprincess]

benverly > billverly any day

[richiemadethis]

IT FANS IN 2025, PLEASE INTERACT!

I need my losers :) specially, the side of the fandom that likes the movie/book as a coming of age story ! ok love you <3

[sharedtrauma]

In my head everything that happens within It happens as usual except Stan’s suicide attempt failed (barely) and he is in a coma for a while and Eddie’s heart stopped for a minute but then he was fine because of the turtle or whatever and crawled out the sewers himself (a la his impeccable navigation skills) so everyone lives actually.

[henrythepug]

tell me this is not eddie kaspbrak. you can’t, that is literally the most eddie image i have ever seen.

[racctt]

can we walk about how richie was bullied so hard for so many things including his appearance and sexuality, and he struggled with those things years and years into his adulthood. he grew up and never got married and even got a nose job and ditched his glasses for contacts. he grew up in a homophobic town while secretly being in love with his best friend, and then when he goes back to said homophobic town he revisits his past where he was called slurs and ridiculed for being gay, then pennywise proceeded to taunt him about his sexuality even more. we also dont talk enough about richies obvious anxiety, he literally vomits often because of it. then richie watches his life long crush get stabbed in front of him and then holds him in his arms as he bleeds out, and he is forced to leave his body in the place that brought them life ruining terror. he goes back to the kissing bridge to recarve their names to immortalize Eddie. Ben and Bev get to be happy together, Bill and Audra get to be happy together, Mike gets to leave Derry for a better life. Richie gets no happy ending, they all of course have life long trauma, but still have happy endings. Richie will never recover from this like the others might, Richie has no saving grace.

[ragsy]

"Yeah hold on, let me change out of my work clothes" [undoes a single button on my hawaiian shirt and nothing else]