Fuck me gently with a chainsaw

“This is the girl they keep calling a monster. I want you to keep that firmly in mind. The girl who could be satisfied with a hamburger and a dime root beer after her only school dance so her momma wouldn't be worried . . .” ― Stephen King, Carrie

LOVE the idea of the party making their siblings communal. Like Jonathan is everybody’s big brother, before they were old enough to bike alone he took them trick-or-treating and gave them rides to the arcade. He taught Mike how to tie his shoes and he gave Dustin a pep talk the first time a bully called him toothless. And Nancy is everybody’s big sister, she dressed up for their campaigns and encourages them to join clubs in high school. She tutored Lucas in essay writing and El in reading. She volunteers to report on basketball games so she can be there to cheer for Lucas. Erica is everybody’s little sister, she totally followed them around when she was younger and they took turns teaching her how to ride a bike one summer. She liked to play dress up so Will would draw little pictures of her as princesses or witches or whatever and give her cool fun character names (she was pretending to be lady applejack king before she started playing d&d). She was nervous for her first day of middle school so Mike gave her a pep talk about how lame it actually is and so not scary at all. Everyone has had to carry Holly around at one point or another

unpopular opinion but i don’t think mike’s final pokevolution is leather jackets, long hair, silver rings (eddie 2.0) bc that’s not mike—it’s an imitation of his idea of freedom. when he’s really free, it’s gonna be dnd t-shirts and open button flannels. black jeans and converse, cargo jackets and medium length hair—a grown up version of his favorite childhood looks. not karen, not eddie. mike.