#btwkt

[ghostnebula]

i CANNOT believe how many people are still reading and commenting on btwkt  😭

you guys give me life. i’m literally blown away by the amount of attention it still gets after all this time. like it really makes my day. i’m just out here toying around with these characters and concepts for fun, and because i like writing hurt/comfort, and there’s no real reason anyone should want to put up with it for 30+ chapters, and yet... here you all are... leaving this beautiful, long comments on every chapter. i owe you all my LIFE. thank you.

[ghostnebula]

But The World Keeps Turning

Chapter 33: The ass-kicking

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by ghostnebula

He thinks about (and scares himself, for a second, with the potency of it) the way it feels when Richie drapes himself over him when they’re gathered at the quarry or the clubhouse. The way his chin rests on the top of Eddie’s head and his chest presses to his back and his stupid bony arms cross in front of him to hold him in place even though they both know Eddie isn’t going anywhere. How he wouldn’t give up that kind of contact with Richie for the world.

The security of it.

And how hadn’t he realized before?

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The story of the Lucky Seven and their terrible luck, a Turtle who doesn’t quite understand humans, accidental telepathy, and Eddie Kaspbrak’s many, many life struggles – in the style of them all growing up, a little bit at a time, and what that entails.

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Chapter 33:

Eddie’s shit ends in thirty minutes.

A lot can happen in thirty minutes.

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Words (total): 145,677 | Chapters: 33/45 | Pairing: Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier | Rating: M | Warnings (overall): child abuse, conversion therapy techniques, homophobia, poisoning, manipulation, panic attacks, Sonia Kaspbrak

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Tag list:

@richietoaster @mikeuris @bellarosewrites @s-s-georgie @cupcakeefrosting @madi-main @gazebobullshit @thoughtfullyyoungduck @tozierking @sluttheory @ambitiousskychild

[ghostnebula]

Poor Eddie! Sonia’s poisoning is going to leave lasting damage on his organs even after he gets the help he needs :(

yeah probs :(((

[ghostnebula]

But The World Keeps Turning

Chapter 32: The roller rink & the jukebox

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by ghostnebula (ryuutora)

He thinks about (and scares himself, for a second, with the potency of it) the way it feels when Richie drapes himself over him when they’re gathered at the quarry or the clubhouse. The way his chin rests on the top of Eddie’s head and his chest presses to his back and his stupid bony arms cross in front of him to hold him in place even though they both know Eddie isn’t going anywhere. How he wouldn’t give up that kind of contact with Richie for the world.

The security of it.

And how hadn’t he realized before?

*

The story of the Lucky Seven and their terrible luck, a Turtle who doesn't quite understand humans, accidental telepathy, and Eddie Kaspbrak's many, many life struggles -- in the style of them all growing up, a little bit at a time, and what that entails.

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Chapter 32:

The Losers' Club and their roller rink jukebox shenanigans, feat. Eddie's dire inability to recognize his mother's treatment of him as abuse, and an unhealthy fear of spending time with his friends, which they're all collectively hoping to fix.

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Words (total): 137,857 | Chapters: 32/45 | Pairing: Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier | Rating: M | Warnings (overall): child abuse, conversion therapy techniques, homophobia, poisoning, manipulation, panic attacks, Sonia Kaspbrak

Read it on Ao3

Tag list:

@richietoaster @that-weird-girls-blog @mikeuris @bellarosewrites @s-s-georgie @cupcakeefrosting @madi-main @gazebobullshit @thoughtfullyyoungduck @tozierking @sluttheory

[ghostnebula]

give me something sad so i can yell at you lovingly

Oh bby of COURSE

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     He could climb in Richie’s window and wait there for him for as long as it takes, but he’s pretty sure he needs some first aid as soon as possible, the kind he probably can’t do himself, and he doesn’t want to interrupt Richie’s family dinner because he’s happy and Eddie’s a fucking mess and that’s just altogether unfair of him. Besides, that’s probably the first place his mom will look, if not Bill’s house, and he wants to put off being found for as long as possible.

     He thinks very hard about it, and then not at all. His feet carry him the rest of the way down Kansas seemingly on their own, and by the time he’s arrived at the Hanlon’s front door he’s shivering and most of the blood is either dried or frozen and he has some very real concerns about frostbite.

[ghostnebula]

maybe we can have a little bit of everything? can you start with the soft stuff?

I sure can!

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     She’s already had the conversation with Ben and Mike, about Eddie maybe being… well, just fine. Maybe not perfect (again, Sonia Kaspbrak is not the ideal parent) but far better off than she thought he was. She can tell without asking that Ben’s thinking of that, too, as they overtake the Richie-and-Eddie jumble that’s sprawled on the floor, too busy laughing to stand up again. Richie’s trying to encourage them to get moving again with the vocal talents of Toodles the English Butler, but he’s only making the predicament worse, because Eddie is just fucking howling at this point. 

     “Yeah,” she says without requiring any prompting from Ben, and she can’t help the soft feeling and the bright grin that comes with proximity to the dynamic duo. “I think he’ll be alright.”

     “‘Course he will,” Ben agrees easily. “He’s Eddie. He’s tough as nails.”

[ghostnebula]

I love ‘But The World Keeps Turning’ and can’t wait for Richie to find out about Sonia so Eddie can get the help he needs. Can you give any spoilers to Richie’s reaction?

1. I love this ask

2. I love you for sending it

So the thing about Richie “finding out” about the extent of Sonia’s abuse is that it’s not quite an all-at-once discovery. There are little things that pop up over the course of the final chapters that clue him in to the fact that hey, maybe this bitch is more than a little crazy and then a few other things that send him into fits of indignant rage and/or extreme concern for Eddie’s well-being.

However, I’ll give you this: When Eddie, somewhat unwittingly, gives Richie a good look into his head, Richie spends all day pretending not to be absolutely torn apart, and in the middle of the night he cries all over Bev about it and they have a heart-to-heart about Some Things :)

[ghostnebula]

PLEASE tell me Eddie is gonna fucking tell someone about Sonia soon. Shes gonna kill him if he let's this go on much longer. Who the hell does that to there child 😡😡😡

I promise you there’s a happy ending. The story ends well. I swear. 

The path to the happy ending has a lot more suffering in store first, but we’ll get there.

(And let’s be real, in order to be able to tell someone it’s abuse, he has to understand that it’s abuse, and not just a poorly-expressed form of love)