#also like rich/rach’s thing w pennywise is still the werewolf still beig a monster bc she wants to kiss girls

[queermccoy]

Cis swap Richie and Eddie (90s kids edition):

Rach (short for Rachel) wears blue eyeshadow. Badly. For so long, longer then is probably socially acceptable

Leggings and over-large ugly shirts unbuttoned too low, with a big belt. She likes the winter because she can wear them with chunky boots that used to be her dad’s instead of flats

Dates a lot of boys but doesn’t like them very much. She’s afraid to say no when they ask her to the movies. They start rumors about her that aren’t true

Melissa etheridge all day, but quietly.

She keeps Sears catalogs under her bed and she pulls them out to stare at the models. She’s allowed to like women this way, because she likes their dresses or their sweaters, really, she just really likes fashion okay? But like, ugly oversized shirts you know? She doesn’t really buy what she’s selling.

Eddy (Edith) does not wear makeup at all

Long pants always because she’s never shaved a day in her life (‘it’s dangerous ! Risk of cuts and infection and do you have any idea what happens when you cut yourself with a rusted razor!?’) but she doesn’t want to Deal with it

Never dates a boy never thinks about boys who aren’t her buddy Bev (short for Beverly (‘which was a boy’s name first. It’s traditional. Shut up!’))

Loudest girl in school. And the shortest. Gets into fights All the Time. Her mum keeps sending her to etiquette classes, which she aces, but boys are rude and gross and she will beat them with her etiquette book if she has to

Gets kissed by one of the girls in her etiquette class at 15 and knows she’s gay and resolves to be a sexless old woman with a thriving career and/or a nun rather than an actual lesbian, which she resolutely does not want

They never like, do anything during the 90s. They don’t kiss or have sex or even admit that they have feelings for each other, but they share a bed during sleepovers and make up a secret language that’s most eyebrows

They wear each other’s clothes and paint each other’s nails and share gum (well, rach steals eddy’s gum, and eddy wants to steal it back it’s just like. So obvious she can’t make herself and screams about germs instead)

by the time rach’s family moves out of town, she knows she’s in love and when they hug goodbye she shoves her hands in Eddy’s hair like she always wanted to

Eddy, for her part, stands on her tippy toes and slams her whole face in rach’s neck and cries and sniffs her like a fucking creep

They let go and can’t look each other in the face. They don’t see each other again for 24 years