he's the best

ollie | 18 | he/him

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i am not okay with this

[jbaggles]

you know what they say about derry. no one who dies here ever really dies.

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richie and stan were best friends

i cant bring up the specifics of the book since ive only read it once, but both the book and miniseries confirm that richie and stan were friends before the formation of the losers club.

stan (at least in the miniseries/movies) is the only loser(except, possibly, beverly) who can keep up with richies jokes and, without missing a beat, have an equally witty quip. theres a certain amount of friendship and comfortableness that goes into being able to make jokes with your friend, without it becoming personal. there is no venom behind “thats not saying much”. its richie making a joke about his dick size and stan poking fun at him, theres no venom behind “do what you always do, start talking”.  stan doesnt have the same bickering with any of the others, and he certainly wouldnt make jokes like that with people he doesnt like. yes, richie jokes with all the losers, and none of them hate him for his often inappropriate comments, but none of them have comebacks. they just wave him off for the most part.

but its also the way stan can react to richie without looking at him. the way stan immediately knows richie goes for a high five after “beats spending it inside of your mother” and brings his hand down. the way he rolls his eyes before richie can even finish his sentence because he knows its going to be a bad joke.

the way, at the end of chapter 1, stan deadpans “i hate you” before smiling and richie doesnt hesitate to smile back.

the way they always seem to gravitate towards each other, almost always standing next to each other when they can. in chapter 1, richie gets knocked into stan by the bowers’ gang and they help each other up because thats what they do. to contrast, later in chapter 1, when the losers go to bens house, eddie falls when he tries to dismount his bike and richie just watches, he doesnt help like he does with stan.

its stan grabbing richie and pulling him out of the way when pennywise comes out of the projector. its richie holding onto stan and comforting him in the sewers in the miniseries. its stan trying to hold richie back when richie tries to hit bill. its richie whos the first to get to stan after judith attacks him, its richie on the brink of tears when stan screams “you left me. youre not my friends. you made me go into neibolt”. its richie screaming “stanley!” when he gets thrown back by pennywise during the fight

in the miniseries before they go into the sewers, its stans “i said i was in” and its richies “yeah, you think we’re gonna let you have all the fun there, billy boy?” richie is just as scared as stan is, he just doesnt show it in the same way.

now to the main part of the argument: stans bar mitzvah

richie was the only one of the losers to go to stans bar mitzvah. its not like the other losers didnt know, because the core four talk about it at the beginning of chapter 1. neither bill nor eddie show up to this huge moment in stans life. in the movie, its hinted at that stan might be questioning his religion, or at least, he doesnt believe his religion is the most important thing in his life. he wants support from his friends, and looks to richie, the only one there, for that support. hell, richie is the only person in the whole synagogue that supports stan in that moment.

similarly, when richie needed support, stan is the one who provides it. ive said it before and ill say it until i die, richie was going to leave derry and the losers in chapter 2.

richie was driving away, ready to turn his back on the losers, when he came across the synagogue. its only when he remembered stans bar mitzvah, and his speech about what being a loser means, that he decided to stay. “thanks for showing up, stanley” is not a throw away line of “oh i remember you now lets fight this clown” its more along the lines of “i remember how you made me feel safe and loved and how the rest of the losers make me feel the same. thank you for reminding me when i needed it most.”

theres also more behind “probably like he was as a kid: the best”. thats not just a line about how stan bought them shower caps to keep spiders out, its specifically about the connection richie and stan have. its why stan is stan the man, its not just a simple rhyme, its because richie looks up to him and thinks hes, as cheesy as it sounds, the man.

i could go on about every line richie says about/to stan in chapter 2 but i wont because thatll make this even longer

richie and stan were best friends and its so much more than a headcanon

[stansflowercap]

@omegros​ replied to your post “my favorite thing in this fandom is writing niche as fuck fics. fics...”

Is the abo thing a fic that you wrote because I reallllllly want to read that

it’s actually half-finished and dripping with a side stozier plot  😩 😩 😩

[scrunklyyokkie]

himb,,,

[ahotknife]

eddie kaspbrak (it 2017 / it by stephen king) & carrie white (carrie 1976 / carrie by stephen king)

[ahotknife]

eddie covered in the leper’s vomit / carrie covered in pig’s blood & eddie’s mother talking to his friends / carrie’s mother talking to carrie about the girl next door (it 2017 & carrie 1976)

[neiboltlovers]

glimpse at eddie and richie's youtube channels from my moddern!reddie au

[neiboltlovers]

modern!reddie au where the boys are both youtubers. richie skateboards and does social pranks and stunts while eddies a gamer who does vlogs and movie reviews.

[reddiesaltedcrisps]

The Stan Uris we deserve to see in chapter two

[laufeysons]

richie tozier + “stanley”

[losersweregoingclownhunting]

The Losers’ Club

ben · bev · bill · eddie · mike · richie · stan

insp

[anti-social-prettyboy-deactivat]

Bonus:

The Losers on Social Media Alternate pt 1/?

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“thanks for showing up, stanley”

[stansflowercap]

an IT fic by myhamartia

He flipped through the pages, skimming along them rapidly.

Somewhere in the back of his mind, he heard Bev hum. "What do you have, Rich?" she asked softly. She reached out to touch his hand, but he only shook harder.

He stopped flipping the pages.

Stan stood in the sunlight, one hand curled to his side, the other holding a book about birds. He was dressed in a suit, his kippah faithfully clipped into his hair over curls that had been done up by his mother.

That was the day of his bar mitzvah.

“I’m a Loser, and I always fucking will be.” Stan the Man’s balls finally dropped!!

That fire was still bright in his eyes, and Richie could remember everything about that day. He remembered Stan's speech, and just how fucking proud he'd been of him. Definitely a little impressed. What Stan did took balls . Just like he'd said.

He remembered the last time he was in the temple, last year when Mike called them all back. Richie was looking for his token, and that was the first place he'd stopped.

"Honey," Bev said softly. He didn't know when she'd come to sit next to him, or when he'd started crying, but he was certainly doing both of those things. he turned into her shoulder, cursing a blue streak. It had almost been a year since Stan had killed himself. Since Eddie—

He squeezed his eyes shut and turned into Bev more, wrapping his arms around her.

read the rest on AO3

[blackstar]

i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much

fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment. 

every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change. 

[nimbus-cloud]

Consider also: Writers do not even have the opportunity for feedback until we are finished.

Artists have the ability to show off preview sketches, host art streams, and get feedback during almost every step of their creative process, and we do not.  We can’t really share outlines and half-finished sentences, choppy first-drafts, and have anyone get excited about that.  When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it.  

That’s why it becomes that much more important to give us that feedback once we actually finish what we’ve been working on.  

[fencer-x]

“When we say it’s an endurance sport, we really mean it"

THIS.

And of course we write because we love it. We have ideas–BIG HUGE IDEAS–that we want to get out there, just how we see it in our heads, and be able to go back over and over it again, even if no one else cares. Of course we write because we love it.

But we’re human and crave validation. We create these things because We Just Think They’re Neat and want others to agree that the concept or execution or both is also neat and fan about it with us! 

It doesn’t even necessarily have to be about WHAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY WRITTEN. Tell us how much you love the concept or the plot device, start going off on tangents in your comments or tags or replies, because HECK YEAH WE’RE IN THE SAME BOAT. WE’LL JOIN IN WITH YOU.

Fic is MEANT to generate discussion. So don’t think of comments as just saying ‘thank you’. We’re happy for that of course, but that’s not why we wrote it. We wrote it because it’s a thing we’re really interested in, so if you’re interested in it too? SHARE SIS, WE ARE ALL EARS.

[stansflowercap]

stan doing richie’s makeup for when he joined a band and gigs in college

[laufeysons]

richie insisting on calling stan ‘stanley’ has the same energy as when jackie switched to calling hyde by ‘steven’ when they started dating