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[luckynmbrseven]

charlotte being the only adult to pay attention to what the kids in derry are going through… just like mike when he’s older…

[lanae111]

No but actually welcome to derry is so genius. Unlike the movies, we’re getting to go thru an arc with a group of characters that will not survive in the end due to demise of living in derry when it is feeding.

It wasn’t often in the movies where you have to actually follow along with a few characters and then they meet their end, because most of the important characters… lived in the end.

And it’s going to be so different from that in this series. As sad as it is though, I love that we’re getting to see this perspective so much.

It really just shows how horrible it was during the past cycles before the loser club’s time. And we actually get to see how deaths due to Pennywise affect not just one person, but multiple people.

The fact we get to experience many kids who dealt with it and ultimately lost (and will see over and over again through further seasons) is such a violent switch in the it franchise.

This show is insane but already good asf

[lifeofbrybooks]

there’s something so fascinating about the narration in tsh because Richard is an unreliable narrator but he’s also so self aware of it. As if the guilt has worn away at his ability to continue lying after all this time. It’s a push and pull between a Richard wanting to keep the secret and a Richard who needs to spill his guts. It helps consistently trigger the theme throughout the novel of appearance vs. reality as Richard tries to paint their actions as justifiable against his own leaking conscience

[spookedstarzz]

i was thinking about how in the beginning richard mentions finding some of pythagoras' ideas about not eating animals with a soul appealing while living in california, and while he's self deprecating about it he does more or less seem to follow this idea when he arrives in vermont. he doesn't mention eating any meat for a long time from the beginning of the book and although this is partially explained by his poor eating habits in general it sticks out to me especially because of how he finds the lamb chops made by the twins repulsive. again this is explained but not very satisfactorily in my opinion. the first time i remember him eating meat in the novel (if memory serves) is when he casually mentions henry's 'bachelor food', roast chicken and potatoes, as well as leftover chicken when the murder is planned. then again just before henry's death at the albemarle when he eats camilla's lamb chop. obviously this is a much more direct parallel to the beginning. he also gradually begins to crave meat more and more, going drom being repulsed to casually referring to it as something henry gave him, to being glad of charles and francis' leftovers so he can eat them and finally gawking at camilla's lamb so much she gives it to him.

what i find interesting is that any time meat is mentioned it's always at an important point in the novel. the rejected lamb was part of of his first dinner with the greek class, arguably his first step to becoming close with them. the chicken is eaten while he is staying with henry, again an event that intertwined him even more with the class as it leads to henry telling richard about the bacchanal and what happened in rome. again, he eats chicken immediately before the plan of bunny's murder has been finalised. the lamb he eats at the albemarle is directly before the finale, severing him from the rest of the class but also cementing the new person he's become. "i suppose at one time in my life i might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. this is the only story i will ever be able to tell." as well as the fateful timing of the placement of meat in the novel, it is also always present at the same time as henry. henry is in the kitchen when richard spos the lamb chops, henry prepares the chicken and potatoes, the chicken salad is eaten at henry's house, and the lamb chops eaten at the albemarle were his and camilla's dinner. i find it interesting how henry is present at every point during which meat is eaten as well as arguable being the driving force behind every step towards moral decline richard takes.

the reason pythagoras did not eat meat (or "animals with a soul" as richard puts it) was both because he believed it was healthier but mainly because of his belief in metempsychosis, the idea that souls are immortal and enter a new body upon death. therefore, pythagoras believed that by eating meat he was potentially consuming the soul of a family member or friend. essentially, it was a question of morality. however, as the book goes on richard becomes closer and closer to destroying the soul of a friend through murder. not only does he abandon his ideas about diet in favour of imitating the rest of the class, he also abandons all morals. i believe his progression from being repulsed by lamb to eating chicken to craving lamb is symbolic of his moral decline and indoctrination into the greek class's ideas.

[postmodern-prometheus]

i can’t stop thinking about how Henry tells Richard “You’re not very happy where you come from, are you?…The others don’t really understand that sort of thing, you know” and then the book ends with “Are you happy here?” / “Not particularly, but you’re not very happy where you are, either”

both of them just wanted to get away so bad and they tried to escape into their own worlds by aestheticizing everything but in the end they both come up bust

[smeagol-on-my-deagol]

the fact that richard sees/wants us to see judy poovey as sort of dumb, while also seeing/wanting us to see julian morrow as some revolutionary mind when they're having the same damn thoughts is crazy to me

like near the end of the first chapter when we hear some about the class discussion, one of the points julian discusses (in simple terms lol) is how people who tend to bottle things up and stay composed all the time end up causing greater amounts of destruction when they "lose control" than people who allow themselves to lose control on occasion, but he does it with many words and references

and richard is like "wow this is awesome how sick is this guy"

then at the beginning of chapter two, judy poovey is telling richard about the time henry beat the fuck out of spike romney and she says something about how when uptight people lose it they REALLY lose it, but in terms just as simple as those

and richard just goes "yeah, i guess"

which there for sure is something to be said about the way people use words and the difference that use of language has on the way people feel about certain concepts, but you know

also: misogyny, clearly

[awihog]

okay but like the reason that the classics group fell apart was because from the beginning they were supposed to be paired off and Richards inclusion was supposed to be Francis's partner but he upsets the balance by latching onto henry isolating bunny who becomes horrid to attempt to detach himself from them all but goes too far and henry murders him setting up henrys death in the second act because richard latches onto francis, setting up what would have been the natural order, but now because henry's logical partner is dead HE latches onto camilla, isolating charles who follows in bunny's footsteps but worse and henry was doomed to die from bunny's death because that was the only way to balance it out in this essay I will-

[sans-sucre-eaurouge]

when i say I have the secret history aesthetic i mean doing coke behind a burger king and drugging myself asleep not the Greek drama and posh people things.

[twtuwuowo]

Richard Papen is truly god's strongest soldier because imagine being in love with every single member of your friend group and then learning said friends regularly host hedonistic rituals in which they all sleep together and to which you alone are not invited

[miss-americanbi]

[noosferik]

can't wait for biden to resign from the campaign this sunday, july 21 2024

[noosferik]

I'm about to pass out

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner-deactiv]

“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[mommyhorror]

Creepiest monster thing alive: moves like that

this little girl: 😊☺️😄😄☺️😊🤩

[itspeanutlove]

This is so cute omg my heart is going vrooom vroroooooom

[arithmeticanimaniac]

[bumblebeerror]

I love that you can find the horse girl equivalent for ANY fucking animal.

[phosphorus-noodles]

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

[2pen2wildfire]

Really hate that the queer community's response to the creation of a gender trinary (girl, boy, and nonbinary, which is still not all-encompassing) was to... reinvent the binary. We just started grouping all genders into "masc/male-aligned" and "fem/female-aligned" and it's so fucking stupid. Even with the occasional allowance of "neutral/unaligned" it still maintains the binary as the standard. And then they don't let you use certain labels if you don't have the "right" gender alignment. The fuck.

[panic-at-fazbears]

i would be so pissed if i were hamilton and they told me i got a musical written about me and i listen to it and the first words are, “how does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore..” like? hello?? rude

[sparrowposting]

Ik the internet has collectively decided liking Hamilton is cringe bc ppl were writing real person fic, making founding father self inserts, and because anything that gets a big enough following must be mercilessly shunned after 6-12 months but like, I got surprise tickets to a matinee today as a bday gift and it really IS that good?

Like. I'm not USamerican. I'm not sitting here like "oh yes this is absolutely historically accurate and this is how everything went down and how these ppl were irl". Its a story. A historical adaptation. But it's a Damn Good Story. It's thematically compelling. It's emotionally resonant. It's about hunger and imagining death and ambition, about that desperation that drives you towards elusive satisfaction, about legacy and memory and the construction and telling of narratives, it's about UNEARNED GRACE and impossible forgiveness.

Like it really IS a good story, and as someone who only know these people as /characters/ and not historical figures, they're compelling characters? Their arcs are interesting? Hamilton and Burr as foils is so good? Washington as a model of leadership and of regret? Of legacy earned and unearned? ELIZA??MY EVERYTHING?? She's not a "main" character but the narrative hinges on her, when Hamilton is stripped bare of his ambition he thinks of her. She controls and saves the narrative, ultimately. It comes down to Eliza as the centre of it all, best of wives and best of women truly.

The music is a bop, the choreography fun, the set design simple but effective. Like? I get things that have a massive teen fandom can be annoying, and taking it as Historical Fact would be stupid. But as a story???? It really is that good?

Also we had an understudy as Hamilton and he was v young with such a soft higher voice and it REALLY worked esp in act 1 with the whole young scrappy hungry thing. He was also shorter than Eliza which imo. Perfect. Tiny man among a cast of largely very tall men and a few very tall women.