Have you ever thought about how Richie Tozier, post Derry 2.0, married to Eddie and back to his stand-up career writing his own jokes, while also being openly gay and proud of it, would totally be appearing on shows like RuPaul's Drag Race?

I can perfectly imagine him being invited to help the queens with their comedy during those special challenge episodes. And maybe Beverly Marsh would make a guest appearance to help with the costume making side of things.

And Richie spends his entire adolescence yearning for Eddie and feeling inadequate because he's not an alpha. The angst from that would be absolutely perfect 🫣🤯

hear me out. PLEASE, hear me out.

Listen: for example, Ben and Beverly from IT have a beautiful ending in basically every media (book, miniseries and movies). They end up together, they’re happy, and yeah, wow, amazing… BUT it’s literally like a five-minute screen time scene.

If you ship them? Well… that’s pretty much all you get.

Reddie, on the other hand, has a tragic ending. Like, really tragic and painful and everything. BUT because of that, the amount of content we have is insane. Especially in fanfiction. We have 300k words of them being happy, soft, in love, exploring their feelings, character study, because people were mad about the tragic ending.

And honestly? I kind of prefer it that way.

I know Benverly has content too, but I don’t think it even compares to Reddie or any other big doomed yaoi couple.

So please, stop this madness of only wanting a five-minute happy ending on screen. Use your imagination, for God’s sake.

Hot take: I’m not saying that every couple you like has to be unhappy to generate good fix-it fanfictions. Shane and Ilya from Heated Rivalry are literally proof of the opposite: they’re happy and they have A LOT of content.

This is just a reflection on the beauty of headcanons and why I don’t think a couple needs to be canon or have a happy ending to be valid.