#{verse} welcome to derry

[spider-self]

@scribedhorror continued from here

Of course IT hadn’t truly expected him to come willingly. Why would he? Nobility was all very well and good when you were a child. Nothing could make more sense than sacrificing yourself for your friends. But Billy was older now, he had a wife, a career, dreams. Dying just wasn’t an option anymore. There was no room for nightmares and horrors.

But IT was here. IT was real and IT would not be denied. Not a second time. If Bill would not offer himself. Then IT would simply take.

“Ohhhh Billy. Don’t you want to see Georgie? He misses you. You could see him again. You could apologise for letting him die.”

[esoterium]

by request only muses.

// these muses are muses i would love to write but are less popular on the blog! they are now by request only. feel free to send memes or approach for plots, etc! they are always open and ready to go but i will prefer some plotting beforehand and have a little bit of an idea where we are heading out the gate! current partners and threads are good to go as usual. much love!

–THE WALKING DEAD.

name: daryl dixon age: 30+ and timeline dependent sexual preference: straight(ish?) occupation: survivalist, jack of all trades, dog dad faceclaim: norman reedus notes: i’m willing to play all timelines up to the end of season 11. so far, i’ve not watched twd: daryl dixon. i don’t plan to til i find out what happens with carol in it. tbh i’m not interested if they hurt her. lol! so i’ll be divergent with my own canon til then.

name: rick grimes age: 23+ sexual preference: bisexual, mostly curious til plotted occupation: father, husband, former deputy, leader, survivalist faceclaim: andrew lincoln

name: beth greene age: 25+ (prefer to write beth post season 7 and plotted!) sexual preference: straight occupation: former farmer’s daughter, survivor, thief faceclaim: emily kinney notes: heavily divergent. was found by a surgeon of the hospital and taken in. they have remained together since then. she is a thief/nomad who lies on the outskirts of the commonwealth and has yet to be encountered.

–STEPHEN KING'S UNIVERSE.

name: pete moore age: 32+ sexual preference: bisexual occupation: wanted to be an astronaut but became a car salesman faceclaim: timothy olyphant fandom: stephen king's dreamcatcher, derry crossovers welcome!

name: joe 'beaver' clarendon age: 31+ sexual preference: bisexual occupation: the comic relief, the divorced drunk, the seer faceclaim: jason lee fandom: stephen king's dreamcatcher, derry crossovers welcome!

name: stanley "stan" uris age: 12+ sexual preference: bisexual occupation: the birdmad boy, accountant, the one who remembers faceclaim: wyatt oleff, andy bean fandom: stephen king's it, primary muse from it.

–ANNE RICE'S NOVELS.

name: nicolas de lenfent age: appears 21 sexual preference: bisexual occupation: violinist, playwright, mad vampire faceclaim: none

name: santino age: appears 32 sexual preference: bisexual occupation: former coven leader, wanderer faceclaim: none

– GENERAL HORROR.

name: lydia deetz age: 39+ (will only write her in the first era w/ est. partners!) sexual preference: bisexual occupation: photographer faceclaim: winona ryder fandom: beetlejuice (film! see above for musical!)

name: ellison oswalt age: 35+ sexual preference: straight occupation: famous true crime author, currently on a comeback? kinda hated by some. mostly cops. and district attorneys. and most law enforcement. faceclaim: ethan hawke fandom: sinister

name: grace le domas age: 26 sexual preference: straight, bi-curious occupation: former server at a high end restaurant, writer, survivor of a hell of a honeymoon night faceclaim: samara weaving fandom: ready or not

name: timothy price bryce age: 27+ sexual preference: homosexual straight occupation: another vice president of mergers and acquisitions at pierce & pierce faceclaim: justin theroux fandom: american psycho notes: heavily influenced by headcanons. please see rules @traintracked as they are unique to him for extremely important reasons!

name: laurie strode age: 18+ sexual preference: demisexual occupation: babysitter (younger), former headmistress && teacher, writer faceclaim: jamie lee curtis fandom: halloween

– && OTHERS

name: terry bellefleur age: 35+ sexual preference: open minded occupation: retired military, jack of all trades, construction worker faceclaim: todd lowe fandom: true blood

name: elon "eli" spengler (canon but HEAVILY developed damn near oc) age: 35+ / verse dependent sexual preference: demisexual occupation: professor of microbiology and abnormal psychology and brain studies at columbia university, extremely hesitant paranormal researcher, inventor, scientist, environmentalist, wastebuster, former researcher at the cdc. faceclaim: jeff goldblum fandom: ghostbusters notes: my favorite movie of all time. elon is a canon but never truly expanded on twin brother of egon spengler. i'm making them fraternal. elon or eli as he prefers to be called in honor of his grandfather is an absolute paranormal magnent and the reason why egon became so fascinated with the paranormal (and a means of researching it) to begin with. in spite of what was told to their parents and the outside world.

eli was plagued with visits, whispers, dreams and sights of the dead. something he feared, hated and was terrified of. not only because of the nature of what he was seeing and his age. but how their scientifically minded parents and family would view his claims. eli did not go egon's route of understanding. instead. he went the opposite trying to rationalize his fears, visions and hauntings in hopes of the problem 'ceasing to exist'. where one was an outcast (egon), eli was viewed as conforming to the spengler mindframe and fit in with his family.

a guilt he carries now as all his willful ignorance and blind eyes never truly worked (the ghosts? nightmares? everything is still there) and with egon dead? has only worsened. it's with the arrival of an anonymous letter warning him of what is about to pass in new york city than the reclusive spengler has made himself known and extremely reluctantly involved with his brother's former teammates. all of egon's inventions. those that exist and never were are inside of his mind. his brother's research, thoughts, ideas? it's all there. he's just never told anyone.. and who knows what he's willing to give up?

[so-true-jestie]

hello darling jestie, I wish I could give you book recs but the last few months I have almost exclusively been reading so called "spicy" romance books and idk if thats ur vibe. I kept buying a romance book bc of the premise (being queer or disabled romance) and finding out its explicit but overall enjoying the story and buying the rest of the series and now I just have to admit that spring 2024 was an era of nsfw reads for me. Yes, it is so lovely that we have things in common I will go check out ur bookmarks & fics. I havent read any fics for derry girls or awae before & my interaction with the awae fandom has been next to nothing so im very curious what the vibes are like. What aspects of canon the fandom really holds tight. My grandmother IS adorable. Shes also doing quite well for her age; she could beat me in a race any day. She's currently away, I think going north to visit some friends, and she wont be back before the end of the month but should she call I'll tell her my new friend on the internet who likes awae says "big hello". I'm sure she'll appreciate it. And same I would rather chat with her than watch tv but I would also really like to see her reactions to the show, idk how to start a book club with my grandmother that isnt a book and is actually tv. thank you for the safe travel wishes I will keep them in my pocket as I go. I hope today is treating you well <3 love, eating show anon

hello sweets! it's been a while! i hope you've been enjoying your hot girl (amend as you identify) books spring. rarely have i been surprised by a book which goes to show all my books have excellent blurbs, i suppose.

please do let me know which fics you like, i would love to squeal over them with you!!! i am not super well versed in derry girls but for awae, most of the fandom is quite liberal with canon — there is definitely a group who is familiar with the books and such but additions like bash etc. are warmly welcomed. i think college-era awae fics may fare well too. just a gut feel on that.

hope your grandmother is enjoying herself up north! is it cold at this time of the year? i think we are just entering proper spring weather here which is unconscionable really, it's nearly june. i wonder if you or your grandmother have read many of books from the full anne of green gables series? i've read up until rilla of ingleside and they were definitely childhood staples.

have a lovely day anon, till your next secret note x

[existentialmagazine]

Review: MilkMaid Merchant’s debut indie single ‘Friends’ offers a dreamy respite from the chaos of the world, reflecting on the isolation of adulthood

Multi-Instrumentalist Derry Creaney just began his own solo music endeavours, now known to the world as MilkMaid Merchant, an indie project that draws inspiration from artists like Mac Demarco and Vacations. With past work as a music technician for Rock legends Nazarath, Mercury Award Nominees Glasvegas & Scottish Newcomers Shambolics, Derry might be fresh on his own path but he’s certainly got the talent to back it up.

Debuting his first ever single under MilkMaid Merchant, Derry delivers an easy-going offering in the form of ‘Friends.’ Sure to put you at an instant ease, the haze of sound quickly embraces you as you press play, a soft and secure bundle of honest thought tied to gentle instrumental notes. From slowly thudding drums to a bright, relaxed electric guitar riff and at the heart, deep intermittent bass twangs, ‘Friends’ begins to unwind through your headphones as the retreat you didn’t know you needed. Derry’s vocals soon accompany the opening verse with a similar sense of repose, lightly unwinding through a range that sits suitably lulled with a few moments of fleeting higher nods to match the dreamy atmosphere.

Offering a respite from the chaotic nature of the world, the simplistic sounds and sincere lines push forward together, an entwined performance that’s just as comforting as a much-needed embrace from someone you love. Picking up only lightly for the choruses shift, ‘Friends’ adds backing vocal ooh’s and distant but enchanting synth bursts, all the while the other instruments raise just a little louder into focus. The pre-established sense of relief isn’t lost though, maintaining that staple laid-back energy that’s infectious in the best way.

Stepping aside from the whimsical sound, ‘Friends’ carries through it a message that’s a little weightier, centred around experiences of isolation and the feeling of not belonging. From the opening line ‘I live my life on the sidelines’, Derry establishes that he’s a bit of an outsider looking in, always yearning to be a part of something but never welcomed into anything. As he continues to admit that he’s ‘locked up all alone, with nobody to hold’ , there’s a definite sense of both self-pity and longing for company, feeling so miserably alone yet incapable of changing that. The fear of losing time and making no progress is equally prominent, trapped in the same rooms with the same dreary routine: ‘clock is laughing is my face.’

The chorus quite heartily changes perspective though, beaming ‘that’s okay ‘cause I’m with you’, with Derry pulling himself out of the rut he’s fallen within, allowing himself the realisation that there are people who care. As we all journey further into adulthood, so much of ‘Friends’ cannot help but resonate in its realities of growing older. Finding that those around us are often too busy with work and daily chores to pour the energy they want into their loved ones, ‘Friends’ truly speaks out about how everyone is left to feel a little bit isolated in their own bubble of existence, but if we reach out to those we love they’re still often there to give a hand to hold.

Between melancholic lines and hopeful choruses, as well as a sound that’s all-around quite soft and safe, ‘Friends’ really pens something worth listening to. Whether it be to take a moment to calm down, or as a reminder that even in your lowest moments there are people who care and that can relate, it’s worth playing for yourself here.

Written by: Tatiana Whybrow

Photo Credits: Unknown

// This coverage was supported and created via Musosoup, #SustainableCurator.

[derrynerd-blog]

tag drop uwu

[loyaltyburdened]

​❝ i could hear screams … ❞

THE    FIVE    SENSES    /     SENTENCE    STARTERS  . // @bullytm

          he’s frozen. he knows he should BOOK IT; flee while he still had a chance, but his feet wouldn’t budge. being the new kid was hard enough, but doing his best to avoid bowers and his gang just made things even harder. maybe mike had been a little too loud; let off a little too much steam to the point where it had attracted some unwanted attention, but he also hadn’t been aware of anyone else being around.

          honestly, he just wanted to make it the rest of the way home. only a couple more blocks. and out of ALL the days for him to have to WALK due to a flat tire…

          he gulped, lips parting as if he wanted to say something, but no words would come out at first. he didn’t know what to do. he’d dealt with bullies before, but troy and james were NOTHING compared to these guys. he never thought the day would come when he actually sorta, kinda, ALMOST MISSED the two assholes who liked making his life a living hell back in hawkins.

          “ it wasn’t really– i mean– ” use your words, michael. “ what do you want? ”

[jennortegas]

top 20 favorite tv shows and 20 movies from the 2010-20 decade!

I was tagged by @marthaskane a while back and what better time to do this than 2 hours before 2021 ddsfjkj (thank you kayleigh!)

-this will be long so everything is under the cut-

TV Shows:

Channel Zero (STILL BITTER IT GOT CANCELLED)

Julie and The Phantoms

Gotham

Stranger Things

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

The Umbrella Academy

Teen Wolf

Degrassi

Derry Girls

On My Block

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Goldbergs

Queer Eye

Once Upon A Time

Pretty Little Liars

Creepshow

Into The Dark

Pose

Drunk History

MTV Scream

Movies: 

The full Disney Descendants trilogy

The Half Of It

Lemonade Mouth

All of Hunger Games

Krampus

The Visit

Maleficent

Tangled

Birds Of Prey

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Man From Uncle

The Lego Batman Movie

Ready Or Not

Coco

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse

The Meg

Host

Begin Again

Green Room

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

These are in no particular order and also im most likely forgetting a bunch so yeah

[fandomtrumpshate]

Unlisted Fandom Challenge - the Results

Signups are closed, and the FTH mods will spend the next couple weeks organizing the form responses into Dreamwidth posts and getting all the tags done so that browsers can search by fandom, fan creator, fanwork type offered, rating, and more. Browsing week starts 2/17, and when it comes around, bidders will have the opportunity to view all 748 (yes! seven hundred forty eight!) offerings in 298 (!!) fandoms. That’s ... staggering.

Of those 298 fandoms, 182 were ‘Other’ fandoms that were written in on the contributor’s sign up docs. Posted below is the whole list of all 182 fandoms. Topping the list is Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed, with 9 contributors interested in creating fanworks for it. Just below that, with 7 contributors, is Yu Yu Hakusho. Tied for third place, with 6 write-ins each, are Bungou Stray Dogs, Kingdom Hearts, and Shadowhunters.

The rest of the list under the cut.

9 Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed 7 Yu Yu Hakusho 6 Bungou Stray Dogs 6 Kingdom Hearts 6 Shadowhunters 4 Final Fantasy XV 4 Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses 4 Red White and Royal Blue 3 Charmed 3 Gravity Falls 3 Hannibal Extended Universe 3 Lucifer 3 Mindhunter 3 Nirvana in Fire 3 No. 6 - All Media Types 3 Roswell New Mexico 3 Saiyuki (including Gaiden and excluding Ibun) 3 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 3 The Magicians 3 The Umbrella Academy 3 White Collar 2 9-1-1 2 Avengers Assemble 2 Babylon 5 2 Bandom 2 Castlevania 2 Come From Away 2 Derry Girls 2 Dream Daddy 2 Dreaming of Sunshine by Silver Queen 2 Final Fantasy VII 2 Firefly 2 Game of Thrones 2 How To Train Your Dragon 2 Marilyn Manson (Band) 2 Motionless In White (Band) 2 Newsies 2 One Piece 2 Person of Interest 2 Pet portrait 2 Pokemon 2 Prodigal Son 2 RootBound 2 Sailor Moon 2 Skam 2 Skyjacks 2 Slipknot (Band) 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 The Legend of Zelda 2 The Losers 2 The Terror (season 1) 2 The West Wing 2 Tian Guan Ci Fu / Heaven Official's Blessing 2 镇魂 | Guardian (TV) Anne Bishop's The Black Jewels series Assassin's Creed Avengers Academy Back to the Future Battle Creek (TV) Battlestar Galactica (2003) Call My By Your Name RPF Campaign Podcast Captain Harlock: Space Pirate (2013) Carmen Sandiego Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Critical Role - Tal'Dorei Campaign Only Crooked Media RPF CSI: Miami Dangan Ronpa Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (My Chemical Romance) Daria Dark Matter (TV) DCU Diamond no Ace Doom Patrol (TV) Dragon Ball Z Ekaterina (2014 tv series) Euphoria (TV 2019) Fallout Figure Skating Final Fantasy (XV and XIV preferred) Firefly/Serenity French Revolution RPF Greedfall Green Creek Series (Wolfsong etc.) Guardian (Drama or Novel) Hawaii 5-0 Hazbin hotel Hocus Pocus movie & the Sequel Novel It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Jane Austen (completed novels) Jane The Virgin Jupiter Ascending K Project Knytt Stories Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (book and sequels LJ Smith - The Secret Circle books Longmire Loveless Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Men's Football (Soccer) RPF Mr. Robot Mushishi Musketeers (BBC) MXTX novels My Chemical Romance My Favorite Murder Nancy Drew (PC game adaptation-verse) Narnia New Girl Patricia Briggs' Mercy verse (Mercy Thompson & Alpha and Omega) Peaky Blinders (BBC) Persona 5 Pride & Prejudice Primeval Princeless: Raven: the Pirate Princess Prison Break Promare Psycho Pass Quantum Leap Queen's Thief Queer As Folk Ranger's Apprentice Ready or Not Red Dead Redemption Red vs. Blue Rick & Morty Romeo and Juliet (including any production of RetJ) Rookie Historian: Goo Hae-ryung Rurouni Kenshin Russian Doll Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast) Safehold Series Sanders Sides Sanditon (TV) Seraph of the End SEVENTEEN Sha Po Lang Single feature film of your choice Skins (UK) Skulduggery Pleasant Slayers (anime and light novel series) Smile For Me Smallville Suikoden II Supergirl Supergirl (TV Show) Tales of Series Tamora Pierce Works Tangled the Series Terminator Films (1-2-6 - the Sarah Connor trifecta) Terminator: Dark Fate The A Team The Billabong Series - Mary Grant Bruce The Boys (Amazon tv show) The Breakfast Club The Dark Tower (2017 film) The Disguiser The Dragon Prince The Elder Scrolls The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison The Hardy Boys (books) The Legend of Heroes Trails series The Lost Boys (1987) The Mechanisms The Penumbra Podcast The Queen of Attolia The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff Vandermeer The World Ends With You Tiger & Bunny Transformers: Prime Twilight Twin Peaks Vorkosigan Saga Welcome to the Night Vale Wellington Paranormal Yona of the Dawn Ys series Yu-Gi-Oh! Zero Escape

[thesassywallflower]

Tagged!

Rules: Write your ten favorite female characters from ten different fandoms and tag ten different people

I was inspired by @spottytonguedog. She posted this with the note that she was tagging whoever wanted to do this. Now normally I see that note and think “Oh no, I can’t do that...I mean I really want to, but I can’t. It-it would be like showing up to a friend’s house uninvited even though they’ve always told me that I’m welcome to come over whenever I want, invite or no invite. I-I just can’t. You must be invited first.” But this time I told my personal hangups to go screw themselves. I really want to do this one because you can never talk too much about awesome lady characters. So here we go!  P.S. This is not a definitive list by any means. ;)

1. Geraldine Granger from The Vicar of Dibley: She’s a beautiful plus sized woman who works in a male dominated field. She’s bold, hilarious and loves her tribe of weirdos no matter the shenanigans they pull. She’s exactly who I aspire to be. Plus she winds up marrying Richard Armitage in the end. I mean, c’mon!

2. Donna Hanscum from Supernatural: The most precious cinnamon roll in existence. She proves that “Kindness is courage not weakness.” Plus she’s a badass sheriff who’s not afraid to take down a vampire nest if need be.

3. Briar Wilkes from Boneshaker: A tough as nails mom who fights off hordes zombies in an AU Civil War Era Seattle to rescue her son. Plus copious amounts of steampunk goodness to boot.

4. Jane from Jane Eyre:  “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!–I have as much soul as you, –and full as much heart!” No further explanation needed.

5. Patty Tolan from Ghostbusters: She’s strong, smart, and literally the sole voice of reason in her squad. She’s amazing.

6. Anne Eliot from Persuasion: GIRL. I relate to you so much. The penchant for unrequited love, the big sister who has to take care of everyone, the inability to verbally express your true feelings...we’re kind of the same person...now if I could only find a Captain Wentworth of my own.

7. Tiana from Princess and the Frog: Who doesn’t love a woman who works her tail off to achieve her dreams? And even better her dream actually comes true. Plus, you know I’m going to love me a fellow baker/cook.

8. Kaylee Frye from Firefly: She’s hardworking, sweet, funny, the best mechanic in in the ‘Verse and loves Serenity nearly as much as Captain Reynolds. 

9. Willowdean Dickson from Dumplin’: I just adore it when you get to witness someone not just accept, but grow to love their body (something I’m still working on) especially when society sees that body as unworthy, unlovable and in a lot of cases unacceptable. Plus, who doesn’t love a healthy side of Dolly Parton?

10. Sister Michael from Derry Girls: I believe if you looked in the dictionary under the definition of “Salty Broad” you would find a picture of this woman. She’s savage, ruthless, does not suffer fools lightly, give zero shits, and I worship her for it.

Tagging, but only if you want to do it: @bluefirecas, @shy-violet-soul, @spn-idjits-guide-to-hunting, @misswhizzy, @deanscarlett, @rizlow1, @talla-hassee and whoever else wants to do this. And I honestly mean that.

[spider-self]

@grimmusings liked this for a starter

One by one they all came back, in the end the call had been too strong to resist. IT had known Mike would summon them. How could he not? Goody two shoes that he always had been. Oh he'd been very busy over the years, so much researching, keeping watch while the others went on to success and fortune. A comedian, a fashion designer, a risk analyst, an author, a financial advisor and an architect. Would they feel guilty about the man they left behind? All that weight, all that strain, the singular burden of remembering when they were able to run away and forget. It couldn't have been all roses of course, some traces of IT remained in each of them, poisoning them in some small ways. But to know that they had experienced some joy when they had hurt IT so badly? How they would suffer.

Truth be told, IT had never turned IT's attention on Ben as IT had the others. Why would IT? He hadn't been as strong as the others, hadn't posed the greatest threat. He had been an easy target, a meal IT had planned on savouring. All that meat would have made for a hearty meal. The man IT saw now had changed drastically, tall and lean, far more muscle than fat. How disappointing. It almost didn't seem worth the effort of killing him, he was so far below IT's notice even now when he could finally pose something of a threat. Would that be insulting or a relief? Who could say? None but Ben himself and IT had no plans to reveal Itself, not quite yet anyway.

IT followed him instead, weaving through the crowds to keep him within IT's eyeline. It wasn't exactly necessary, weak through this form was, IT's senses were IT's own. IT could have followed him by scent alone in a crowd of thousands. Keeping him in IT's sights felt safer... Not that IT thought he was dangerous, not at all. None of the losers were. But it was simply better to keep all of them under observation. At least until It could figure out what they were planning.

IT would kill them all, and they would die screaming.

[lucy-x-hannigan]

[ MADELAINE PETSCH, FEMALE, SHE / HER ] — If you’re strolling Derry today, you might see [ LUCILLE ROSE HANNIGAN ] along the way! The [ TWENTY-THREE ] year old has been in Derry for [ TWENTY-THREE YEARS ] and can usually be found at [ THE ROSE GARDEN, her family’s botanical shop ], when they aren’t busy with [ GARDENING or MAKING THINGS FOR HER SHOP ]. I hear they seem to be [ AMBITIOUS and PASSIONATE ], but they are also rumored to be [ BLUNT and HOT-TEMPERED ]. I’m sure they’d never admit it, but they’re terrified of [ RODENTS ]

- B A S I C - 

Full Name: Lucille Rose Hannigan Nickname(s): Lucy, Lu, Lulu Age: 23 Occupation: Owns \ Helps run The Rose Garden - a natural apothecary, also known as a botanical shop Birthday: January 11th Zodiac: Capricorn

- F A M I L Y -

Father: Hugo Hannigan Mother: Renee Hannigan Sibling(s): Older Brother Cousin: Chrissy Rhoades

 - P H Y S I C A L   A P P E A R A N C E -

Height: 5′6′’ Weight: 120 lbs Hair Color / Type: Red / Straight Eye Color: Dark Brown Piercings: Just once on both earlobes

- P E R S O N A L I T Y -

(+) Independent, Ambitious, Passionate, Hard-Working (-) Blunt, Hot-Tempered, Judgmental, Sarcastic

Lucy has always been hard-working and ambitious, especially when it came to the family business. It helped that it was what she loved to do, and that she was super passionate about it. Seriously, she’s not exactly the most social of people, but don’t get her started on a conversation about plants - she’ll definitely talk your ear off.

She’s pretty much always been independent, too. She’s needed very little guidance or direction in her life, as she’s known from the very beginning where she’s wanted her future to go. Which was helping her dad.

She can be quite friendly with most people, if they’re also kind and friendly in return. However, typical redhead, she can also be very hot-tempered when she is angry - and she can get angry pretty quickly, if her buttons get pushed too many times.

Lucy doesn’t have much of a filter, so she can be very bold and blunt on occasion, and sometimes she can come off as rude, but she doesn’t usually mean for it to come out that way. She’s just super honest and opinionated. And Judgmental, can’t forget that. Boy, can she be really judgy and too sarcastic sometimes. Easily her biggest flaws.

- H E R   B I G G E S T   F E A R -

Musophobia - the fear of rodents; particularly mice and rats. However, Lucy’s fear extends towards all types of rodent, except squirrels and chipmunks - she isn’t bothered by them as much.

- L I K E S   /   D I S L I K E S   /   H A B I T S

Loves gardening - she spends a great deal of her time in the dozen or so greenhouses that her father has put up on their property over the years - all of which house many of the plants that help supply their shop for things like herbs, teas, essential oils, etc..

Obviously, she's obsessed with plants. Her small one-bedroom apartment is filled to the brim with house plants, almost obsessively so. Thankfully most house plants are very forgiving when it comes to colder climates, so living up in Maine, where it’s usually always cold and rainy with very little sun, doesn’t affect them.

Working out and staying in shape. Goes to the gym three times a week, if she’s not super busy.

Keeping journals, as she finds her life easier to manage when she documents specific life events.

Heavily into plant photography. She keeps an online portfolios up on her online shop, listing all of the species of plants that her family grows and that they sell through their in-store and online shop.

Being social, despite feeling like, at times, she could be a bit awkward when it comes to actually starting a conversation with a stranger. Good thing Derry’s small and coming across a stranger is rather uncommon.

Is 100% vegan

She is a true artisan - she takes the most pleasure out of growing and making things from scratch and by hand. She dabbles in a lot of areas - from baking to cooking, to DIY arts & crafts, and especially to making and perfecting natural-based recipes for a lot of different things that she sells in her shop: lotions, soaps, lip balms, scrubs, essential oil blends, candles, tea blends, spice blends, etc. You name it, and Lucy’s very likely got her hands on it. 

She dries her own herbs and spices and tea leaves, and though it’s quite a tedious process, she LOVES doing it. She loves harvesting the leaves and bundling them in twine and hanging them to dry all around the shop. In her opinion, it’s totally aesthetically pleasing. That, and she very much enjoys doing things the old fashioned way. By hand. She’s got a total pioneer-like homestead mentality when it comes to how to does things.

Ever since she was a very young girl, Lucille’s always been more than willing to help her dad look after the greenhouses and she’d come into the shop whenever she could, helping him stock shelves and nothing’s really changed. Only now, she was selling a lot of her own products as well as the plants that come from both the Hannigan and Rhoades nurseries.

Enjoys baking and cooking, immensely - having been taught by her mother from a very early age. She uses her baking skills to make specialty breads and other baked goods to sell in The Rose Garden.

Is a self-taught pro at needlework - embroidery, knitting and sewing alike. A lot of her hand-made pieces can be seen hung up around her apartment and her shop.

- T H E   R O S E   G A R D E N -

“ Where the love for nature, baking and art meet “

It’s very much an artisan shop, heavily focused on home grown and hand-crafted products. A botanical shop / natural apothecary / produce market / bakery all in one.

See the overview list of things The Rose Garden sells here

- B I O G R A P H Y -

Is a native to Derry. She’s lived here her entire life, apart from the four years she left to go to New York for college.

Is of Irish / Welsh / Scottish descent, from both of her parents’ side

Has an older brother, whom she is very close with. He, too, helps out with the family shop when he can, but he’s usually off doing his own separate thing.

She is also close to her first cousin, Chrissy Rhoades (Lucy’s dad being the brother of Chrissy’s mother) who’s family owns their own plant nursery. The two families are greatly connected with one another, as the fresh produce from both nurseries and greenhouses are sold at The Rose Garden shop. Lucy also uses fresh ingredients supplied in bulk from both family’s crops to whip up large batches of her various handmade goods and body products.

While her brother preferred going off and doing his own thing, Lucy often stayed close to her parents, finding comfort and peace at their side verses being out-going and overly social. This lent to her growing a very strong attachment to both of her parents, since she was never very good at relating to other people as a whole and Hugo and Renee Hannigan were her whole world as a small child.

That being said, she’s always had a stronger connection with her father, with whom she shares a love for all things leafy and green, and the want to turn said leafy and green things into a variety of different things. They had the biggest green thumbs and most inventive minds of the family, and it was just something the two had always bonded over. That, and they were both highly anti-social and quirky individuals, preferring their plants for company rather than other people. Not that they weren’t friendly and welcoming to the other locals of Derry, they just didn’t know how to talk to people outside of business-talk. At least, not very well.

The two are insanely obsessed with the work they do for The Rose Garden, putting all of their time and passion into their shop and making sure their greenhouses and various equipment were running nicely.

So you could safely say that she was a daddy’s girl, through and through, from the very moment she came into the world. She took after him the most.

Her childhood was quite normal, all things considered. The Hannigans were a happy family with a pretty healthy family dynamic. All was great, or so Lucy thought. She was around 10 when her mother started acting peculiar. One minute she’d be fine, fixing dinner in the kitchen or cleaning and then the next she’d totally flip out and start screaming. At seemingly nothing. The episodes would send the entire house into chaos. Her father would shoo her and her brother up to their rooms or into the next room to keep them both safe and trying to keep them from witnessing the full extent of their mother’s mental breakdown. Which both children were more than fine with, as just listening to their mother’s blood curdling screams and subsequent emotional crying was more than scarring enough for them.

This went on for two years, the episodes unpredictable but never any less intense and frightening. The mental health of Lucy’s mother decreased significantly over that short amount of time, until it reached the point where Renee refused to get out of bed, and remained in a perpetual state of terror, leaving her essentially catatonic, apart from incoherent mutterings under her breath, and the godforsaken rocking. Not even the professionals could tell what was wrong with the woman or what had even triggered her mental decline, but they did eventually, very loosely label her condition as catatonic schizophrenia.

At age 12, her mother was taken to Juniper Hill Asylum, where she’s been ever since, still unresponsive to anyone’s presence apart from her own mental demons. She continues to mumble nonsense under her breath that nobody seems to be able to make out.

Adjusting to life without their mother was hard for both Hannigan children, and hard on their father, but despite his heart breaking at the loss of his wife, he made sure his kids were taken care of and loved and wanting for not. And yes, they did consider Renee’s absence as a loss, for though she wasn’t dead, her lack of presence in their life was greatly felt and just as devastating.

They still, to this day, visited her often, but every time was a very painful experience, resulting in lots of tears, mostly on Lucy’s end. She just couldn’t bare to see her mother in such a sad state.

The absence of her mother caused Lucy to cling tightly to her dad, and even her brother. The three of them became one another’s rock, bringing the remaining three Hannigans even closer as a family.

After high school, Lucy moved to New York City for four years and graduated from NYU at the age of 22 with a double bachelors degree in Horticulture and Botany. That had been her set goal from as early on in her life as she could remember; she’d always planned to go to school to study plants and grow her knowledge on the subject. Plant science - or Botany, as it was called - and how to properly cultivate different species - was something she had always been fascinated in. She already had quite the training, having been taught a ton by her dad growing up, but she wanted to be properly certified when she joined him full time at the shop.

[leona-x-lancaster]

I am the absolute WORST at not following through with plots, and guys...I am SO SORRY about that. I’m just an overall space cadet, and with having to chase two kids around all day and with another on the way, my brain is only barely in function-mode some days. If I have any plots started with you and we haven’t done anything with them, please let me know! I’d love to resume them, or come up with new stuff.

I only have four characters, but I’ll possibly be dropping Mona, even though I’m two characters below the new limit - which I never intended to reach, since six characters would have been way too much to handle for me, at this time. Four’s pushing it, which is why I’m contemplating dropping Mona. The decision is not set in stone yet, but there’s a good possibility. I’ll be keeping Prissy and Andie for now, as well...and Leona is definitely not going anywhere.

Below are a list of plots / connections that I would really love to have for my girls. If you wanna fill one or more of them, just drop me a message and we can totally plot! I promise I will not forget about them this time!

W A N T E D    P L O T S :

Leona Lancaster

OLDER BROTHER - i just submitted a wanted connection for him, so i’d advice you to check that out on the main if you’re interested, to get the full summary of their relationship. but basically he’s Leona’s adopted older brother (they’re both adopted, so ethnicity doesn’t matter), and were raised in Derry by their two dads. he knows of her substance abuse and other issues and is very concerned for her well-being, and though they are very close and love each other very much, they do have a tendency to but heads due to arguments over Leona’s continuation of drugs and alcohol abuse, as well as her eating disorder and her unwillingness to go see a doctor / therapist about her insomnia and depression.

FRIENDS - she loves knowing that she has a large circle of friends. after spending nearly her entire childhood friendless (with a few exceptions) and surrounded by bullies, it brings her great comfort and security knowing that she has people in town that she can count on, and vice verse. she is very protective of her friends, and likely pretty clingy, so expect lots of hugs and random check-ins from her.

INNER CIRCLE - the friends that she has deep roots / ties with. she’s a Derry native so she’s bound to have known some people from her earliest of days, or those she’s formed extremely close bonds with as she grew older. these were the people that she absolutely loves more than anyone else in the universe. [ Wren, Cassi & Jordan - but I’d definitely like to have a few more for her ]

BULLIES - some faces from her past high school days that used to absolutely torment her. like, they were very brutal in their pranks and hazing. maybe they’ve grown up and feel bad for their behavior, or maybe they want to resume their twisted mind fuck games with her...it’s up to you.

FELLOW PARTY PEOPLE - those who like to drink / get high and who are seen at the random parties in town or at Bartini.

CO-WORKERS - she works at Bartini as the main bartender, so i’d love to have some interactions with other employees, like other bartenders or dancers, or serving staff, etc.

Andie Monroe

HUSBAND - submitted a wanted connection for him, too. they’ve been together for ten years, but only married for two, and they have a five-month-old son named Flynn. they have a very wholesome relationship, having had plenty of time to establish themselves as a couple before getting married and starting a family. both are successful people - Andie with her restaurant, and him with UTP.

BABY-SITTER - to help watch her son Flynn while she and her husband are both at work.

FRIENDS - she’s a Derry native, so she is bound to have some close, platonic connections with people.

COUSINS (2) - when she was eight, her single mother passed away from cancer, and so she was taken in my her aunt (her mother’s sister) and uncle and raised alongside her two cousins. she thought of them as more like her siblings than cousins, since they were such a significant part of her life growing up. they were very close.

EMPLOYEES - she owns a restaurant, which she named Andromeda, after herself, so she’ll need waitstaff, cooks, hosts and whatnot. she cherishes and values her employees and tries to build a relationship with them. although she does more of the business side of the restaurant these days, there are times when she joins the cooks in the back - as she is a well trained and skilled chef, and actually really enjoys the work.

Prissy Goldwyn

FRIENDS - she’s a super bubbly and friendly young woman, who is basically just an angel. she doesn’t drink or smoke (she’s never even touched a cigarette in her life), nor does she go out partying or to places like the town’s bars or Bartini. she’s an extrovert, so she loves being around people, she just prefers a more healthy and less chaotic lifestyle. she’s kind of the ‘mom’ of the house when it comes to her housemates. she watches over everyone and makes sure that they’re happy and that they’re taken care of - and that the pantry is stocked, despite the fact that she’s terrible at cooking.

SIBLINGS - an older brother and older sister. she’s the youngest of a family that is extremely wealthy, at least by Derry standards, since her family owns his own financial insurance company in town (Goldwyn Insurance).

HOUSEMATES (2) - currently it’s Prissy, Leona and Gabe who live in the large five bedroom colonial. Two more people would be great to have around, to help share the burden of the bills. any gender is welcome.

EXES - she’s a native, so i imagine she’s had a few exes in between her teen years and now. she’s a full on commitment type of gal, so any of her past relationships would have been serious and not just hook-ups.

CO-WORKERS - she works down at the Golden Spoon as a waitress, so more co-workers wouldn’t go amiss. [ Cassi ]

[meganmoonlight]

2020 challenge

I was tagged by @dark-alice-lilith so here goes the meme! It took me almost two weeks to decide which things to pick *lol*

Rules: Name 20 movies and 20 tv shows you loved that premiered this decade! Then tag people!

MOVIES The Babadook (2014) Black Panther (2018) Captain Marvel (2019) Deadpool (2016) Happy Death Day (2017) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Love, Simon (2018) The Magnificent Seven (2016) Moonlight (2016) Pacific Rim (2013) ParaNorman (2012) Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Power Rangers (2017) Pride (2014) A Quiet Place (2018) Rise of the Guardians (2012) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Star Trek Beyond (2016) Venom (2018) Wonder Woman (2017)

SHOWS American Horror Story (2011–) Atlantis (2013–2015) Black Mirror (2011-) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-) Derry Girls (2018-) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016-2017) Élite (2018) Gotham (2014–2019) Grace and Frankie (2015-) How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020) In the Flesh (2013-2014) Legends of Tomorrow (2016-) Looking (2014–2015) Orange is the New Black (2013-2019) Please Like Me (2013–2016) Schitt's Creek (2015-) Sense8 (2015-2018) Sex Education (2019-) Spartacus (2010-2013) Star Trek: Discovery (2017-)

I’m tagging: @lordnochybaty, @ratherbeatspacecamp, @seraphina-snape, @impalachick, @lovetourmaline, @frozenwillow and everyone else who wants to do this :)

[trickshxt]

SHITTY AUs ABSOLUTELY NO ONE ASKED FOR

IT Verse AU

The shop had been there for longer than many could remember. A small, unassuming butcher shop just off main street; a town favorite and held by the Barton family since as long as it was remembered. It was a small jewel of the township. Unfortunately, life for Barney and Clint within that small shop was less so.

Growing up, Barney and Clint worked after school at their father’s shop. Learning the trade they would likely, one day, take over. The work was long and hard; Harold falling more and more into the bottle as times a new trend - chain supermarkets - began to creep in. If others noticed the bruises on the young Barton boy’s arms, they said nothing. When Clint showed up to school deaf one day, the ‘biking accident’ story was taken without a word.

Though home was rough, Barney and Clint had each other. And though school was a respite away from the shop the boys found that they were constantly behind and unprepared. On top of this, they were often teased for the state of their clothes and the way they smelled of lye.  Rather than take another beating, Clint often acted out, gaining a reputation for starting fights. And Barney? Quickly gained a reputation for finishing those altercations.

The brothers rapidly found themselves labeled as ‘bad kids’ and, unsure what to do to change it, the boys embraced it. Often skipping classes in favor of catching frogs in the creek and riding bikes through the back roads.

It was during a bike ride to deliver a forgotten order, late in the evening, that Clint first saw It. Merely two glowing eyes and a white face ghostly in the dusk light, watching from the woods. Barney tried to assure Clint that what he’d seen was just a deer. Though both heard the high pitched giggle and quickly pedaled away.

They wouldn’t run into It again until a few months later.

Drunk and angry, Harold Barton drove the delivery with his wife and sons. A delivery gone late; the shipment needed. They’d driven to the next town over to retrieve what was needed, listening to Harold grow angrier and angrier as the sky darkened. The boy sat in back, bruises fresh and mouths shut, surrounded by the carcasses on hooks swinging, swinging, swinging. Something darted across the road as Harold took a swig from his bottle. The car veered. Overturned. Tumbled...

Barney woke with a gasp. Nearly suffocated by the product that had been so badly needed. Digging out Clint was a panicked affair; the boy’s hearing aides gone in the chaos. Harold and Edith Barton? Seemingly dead on impact.

The truck hinges creaked as gas dripped. The meat seemed to crawl. Blood oozed. Carcasses twitched. Suddenly, as Barney moved to free Clint’s foot, he realized the form on Clint’s shoulder wasn’t a just a stray cut of rib...it was a hand. A hand that was connected to a pair of glowing eyes and a white face. Nightmarish movements began to erupt around them as the dead became rotting, living things. Barney did what years of instinct had trained him to do; he punched. Hard. Landing a hit that cracked the bones of his fingers and sent what seemed like far, far too many sets of teeth back in a hiss.

With Clint freed, the boys ran. Clint protecting his brother with a few well-aimed rocks. The boys scrambling across the Derry county line and far, far into the night. Running until they collapsed by the side of the road miles away from home.

The boys were picked up by Jacques Duquesne; a traveling carnival worker with a penchant for petty crime and cons. Taking pity on the boys, Jacques took them in and trained them in swords play, archery, and knife throwing. And as years went by the boys forgot about the butcher shop, the town, and the strange, strange clown...

Fast forward to years later...

Having left Jacques years ago to pursue a career in the Army, Barney is back after serving several tours in Iraq. Honorably discharge due to a back injury sustained during combat. Originally planning to settle in Michigan, a random phone call came shortly after his military retirement: his mother had died...and left the butcher shop to him and Clint.

Returning to Derry was not his first choice. But with medical bills eating into his savings rapidly, Barney reluctantly accepted. Moving back to live above the butcher shop and work the counter. As times got harder, Barney reluctantly had to let go of hands on deck to make the business stay afloat. Now, he works the old Barton Butchery alone. A grizzled, tired veteran with a growing paranoia he can’t quite explain...

IMPORTANT NOTES

Did your muse know Barney or Clint? That’s entirely up to you! Barney’s pre-set is that he may have had class with you, but he likely doesn’t know you beyond that. As it stands, he and Clint were only around for the beginning of the Losers forming. They went missing shortly after...

That said, pre-established relationships are definitely welcome! Just talk to me!

BONUS

BONUS: Barney and Clint often made deliveries of meat product on their bikes via Styrofoam coolers packed with ice that had Barton Butchery painted on. This was the most welcome chore they had as it got them out from under Harold’s critical and commanding eye. As the family was too poor to afford regularly working hearing aid batteries, the boys often made these trips together, signing to each other as they road.

EXTRA BONUS: Barney and Clint had a reputation when they were young as troublemakers. They were occasionally caught stealing or picking fights or sneaking into movies. This only further served to isolate them with the community and made them long for adventure and a life outside of Derry.

EXTRA EXTRA BONUS: Barney lives a very quiet existence by himself in the old apartment above the butcher shop. The walls are painted sage green and the place is kept bright, clean, and sparse. Very little is known about him among the community, though he’s known for offering fair prices on good product and makes his own jerky that he gives as treats to kids and teens (particularly those that look hungry...). While he rarely shows up for events with fireworks, he does frequent the library to sate his voracious love of reading.

EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA BONUS: Barney is used to back pain; he’s been living with it for years and often needs to sit down during the day. He has noticed, however, that after moving back to Derry his right hand seems to hurt more and more. As if remembering an old, old injury and drudging up a long forgotten ache...

VERSE TAG

v: few things float like memories ; especially ones thought dead — ( IT Verse AU )

[loyaltyburdened]

starter for @batteryacidfcknuts! ♥

          “DON’T POUT,” KAREN HAD LIGHTLY scolded, doing her best to offer mike an encouraging smile. "it’ll be FINE, you’ll see.” mike could only roll his eyes at that, having to hold back a scoff. “michael...” she sighed upon taking in his expression. “look, i know it’s been a rough year for you, but--sweetie--this is our FRESH START; A NEW BEGINNING!  i’m sure you’ll like it here.” mike WANTS to tell her how he liked it BACK HOME instead, but bites it back, letting a grumble of irritation escape his lips as he wordlessly tosses his backpack over his shoulder. he shrugs off her offer to drive him to school, INSISTING that he’ll just bike there instead. he’s still mad at her and his father for making him move here in the first place. he needs some time alone; time for just him and his thoughts.

          HE GRABS TWO EGGOS AS they pop up out of the toaster on his way out the door. he’s already got one devoured by the time he’s mounting his bike, and the other he eats on his way to his new school. he takes his time, in no real rush to get there any time soon. he doesn’t even WANT to go, but he also knows that there’ll be HELL TO PAY if he ditches. even with him acting out as much as he has been, he’s not STUPID. he knows how far to push and when to do it. today, right now, isn’t it. so, he bikes to school, taking his precious loving time as he does so, begrudgingly dismounting his bike when he rolls up the the bike rack. he parks and locks it, then trudges his way into the school, ignoring the stares of the students as he passes, trekking all the way into the office where he gets his class schedule and is sent on his way.

          HE DOESN’T TALK TO ANYONE, avoids the curious gazes of the other students, and keeps to himself. he sits alone at lunch, deciding to spend it outside at one of the tables in the far corner. he doesn’t have any food; didn’t pack anything and not in the mood for school food. he’ll wait til he gets home to eat again, it’s fine. instead of thinking about the lunch he isn’t eating, he focuses his attention on the game of TETRIS before him. maybe if he looks busy no one will mess with him... HE HOPES.

[kaspmatic]

⌊ tangerine trees and marmalade skies ⌉ - closed group verse

closed verse ft. @richatire  &  @deathfied

AGE RANGE: 45-49 OCCUPATION: Doctor RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Married

After everything Eddie had gone through with his Mom, the hate of the town, struggling with his own identity, and the near death beating he had taken once outed by the town bullies – he had enough. All he wanted was to make a life for himself. To be who he was without any question – to love who he wanted without any repercussions and do so safely. At 16 Eddie packed up, with the little money shared between himself and Richie Tozier and they headed out. Traveling around the country, never really settling on one place to stay because everywhere they went, nothing ever really felt quite like the place they wanted to call home.

By their 20s Eddie found himself in Los Angeles, pounding the pavement and working any job that would come his way. Putting away every penny they didn’t absolutely need away in order to help him through college – medical school, who would have thought. By the time he had applied and he was accepted in he had saved up a fair amount, but busted his ass writing every essay that he could to get scholarships and anything just to help them out. Soon enough he was top of his class and rising in the ranks, so to speak, something so foreign to him but yet so welcome that he embraced every step of it. Life started looking up in their mid 20s, Eddie was well on his way to being a Doctor and Richie was getting every improv gig in town – their little lives became busy, but it was well worth the struggle they had gone through for years. By the time they were 25 they married and without hesitation from Eddie he easily took on the surname of Tozier – Kaspbrak, by this point in his life held more poisonous memories than good, it was the next step for Eddie to really take control of his life and have something entirely his own. Something he was actually proud of. A marriage to the man he had been in love with since he could remember, a great career looming in the near future – everything was falling into place quite nicely.

Their next logical step was expanding the family – never in his life had Eddie thought he would make a great Father, but his residency in the children’s wing had told him different. Finding that kids loved his no nonsense and straight forward approach to be refreshing – it opened his eyes to a whole new world. A new beginning to really making their lives that much happier.

When they found a surrogate Eddie was elated but terrified, constantly wanting to ensure that everything went smooth and perfect – their kid was in there after all and he would be damned if he let anything happen to their sweet daughter even before she was born. Nine months later she came and Eddie instantly fell in love with her – it wasn’t hard for him by any means. She almost immediately started showing signs of the same spunky nature he adored (and yet sometimes hated) in Richie and the familiar sass that he himself had since he was young. From then on Eddie knew things were about to be interesting but god damnit he was ready for that adventure in watching her grow.

As time moved on Eddie moved through school, graduated, and even found a place within a local Los Angeles hospital. Things were good for the Tozier household – Richie was doing amazingly well with his stand-up career and Tree was blossoming into an amazing woman each and every day – one that admittingly drove Eddie crazy every now and again, but she was their daughter and damn if he wouldn’t do anything to keep her safe. She really was a missing piece of the puzzle neither of them knew they needed ­– then again, another missing piece of the puzzle would soon come calling all the Tozier’s back home to Derry.