I can't believe I forgot that one of the first descriptions we get of IT is that IT loves the taste of "boyflesh"
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I can't believe I forgot that one of the first descriptions we get of IT is that IT loves the taste of "boyflesh"

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I want everyone who said "why would 2019 Richie be afraid to come out????" to watch Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution and apologize for the psychic damage that take did to me
“Movie!Richie is a white man in LA; how are we supposed to believe he would still be in the closet?”
Like the douchebag male comedy community isn’t notoriously homophobic.
Like there aren’t adult male actors in Hollywood right now who waited until their 30s, 40s, 50s to come out. and those are serious business actors™, who theoretically shouldn’t have to worry about the stigma as much as a guy who’s built his career on bro comedy.
Like Richie wasn’t deeply traumatized as a preteen specifically because of his sexuality. Even without IT, shame and trauma are not demons that are easily exorcised.
Finished The Old Guard and started thinking about IT AUs and then thought of Richie being afraid and self-loathing and in the closet for centuries, not just decades and I made myself sad
It is a real world fact that groupies who want to fuck comedians are known as "chucklefuckers" and yet somehow I've yet to see a fic where Eddie is addressed as such

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I know that ACAB and that copaganda is real, but also:
Reddie Die Hard AU where Richie is the wise-cracking cop who’s in town to try to reconcile with his seemingly uptight, suit-wearing, businessperson ex (Eddie).
I kinda want to say that Mike would be the “Al” character, not because they’re both the only black main characters in their respective properties, but because one of Al’s things is being very worn down by life and the weight of his job. Also the Richie + Mike friendship needs more love
I don’t think you could do a 1 to 1 Farscape AU for the IT characters, but I do like the idea of casting Richie as the wise-cracking human astronaut stuck in the wrong quadrant of space, and of casting Eddie as the soldier indoctrinated into a society that never let him truly be himself/gave him false ideas about what he wanted from life.