#and is kind of a letdown after the awesome title and cover art
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Yes I am out of touch but yes I did just learn that (at least some) people are referring to the Eddie/Chrissy ship as ‘hellcheer’ and like, what. Are you kidding me. I have no particular feelings toward the characters or the ship, but that portmanteau is amazing. That sounds like the title of a Christopher Pike novel from 1989. I can picture it in that slasher-y typeface in hot pink foil lettering, splashed across a cover with a cutout window looking onto a painting of a lit-from-below creepily-smiling pretty blonde cheerleader. I can picture the inner cover when you open up the front cover with the cutout, the reveal that that cheerleader’s standing on a pyramid of dead bodies and holding up severed heads like pom-poms. You sign Tiffany’s yearbook in blood...
#the actual story is a tweenybopper knockoff of the bad seed with oldschool rosemary's-baby-style witches#and is kind of a letdown after the awesome title and cover art#mike fl*nagan directs an adaptation for netflix in 2024 and for some reason tries to shoehorn in a heartwarming familiar love theme#instead of leaning in to the intense homoerotic hatefuck vibes between the main girl and the titular cheerleader coven leader#'mary that's just jennifer's body -' shh. shhhh. shhhhhhh.#the trailer uses the joan jett cover of 'season of the witch' and nothing in the show itself goes as hard as the trailer does#anyway mom holy fuck I love that portmanteau. can I have it. I promise I'll play nice with it.#also did anybody else grow up scared shitless to actually read the fear street and christopher pike horror paperbacks in the library#but fanatically obsessed with reading the blurbs on the backs and seeing what the inner cover picture was behind the cutaway window?#no? just me?
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