#bill hader i love you and your sideburns

[beeprich]

watching trainwreck (2015) . crazy to see fancast Richie (Ezra miller) and future Richie (bill hader) in the same movie

[skinks]

STOP I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT ALL THE INFLUX OF WEREWOLF RICHIE FICS? i love it both as a metaphor and as an actual physical thing for richie. like, conceptually? feeling predatory for having "base desires" and feeling like your skin is too tight over your bones, youre growing so fast and you dont want that because it just means there are feelings youre not Growing Out Of. the lack of control over your own body, thoughts, impulses. 1/2

like richie is really out here feeling like a tex avery cartoon any time eddie walks by. hearts in his eyes, smoke coming out of his ears, tongue lolling out of his mouth. awoo, yanno? also richie being tall and hairy and snaggly toothed and having big hands and biting. augh i have Thoughts about werewolf richie. im a monsterfucker what about it. 2/2

AWOOOOO BABEY

Yes!! This was about my tag on that article calling Hader’s smile “lupine” right? lmfao, I get it!!!! I love everything you say here and I am also a monsterfucker, so I’m really happy about the recent surge in monster/werewolf Richie.

You’re so right, the metaphor works perfectly. And the visual theme is so striking, the hairy uncontrollable body transformation as a form of monstrous puberty? Growing too much for his clothes to keep up, the werewolf’s letterman jacket in the book with Richie’s name on the back, how being around Eddie makes him feel like he’s chasing his fucking tail?

I mean, the movie he goes to see with Bill in the book is literally “I Was A Teenage Werewolf” so the groundwork is already laid for us to read it as a manifestation of Richie’s fears about puberty and “base desires”.

So it’s that, and the feeling that he could never trust himself around his friends either, that there’s some intrinsic part of himself he has to hide constantly lest he be cast out. Like, what if all these kids are going missing and turning up dead because of Pennywise, and Richie starts to doubt himself? Wondering if, on his worst, saddest nights, whether or not he’s really the one doing it? If he’s just as predatory as all the homophobes in Derry say he is?

Also, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say Richie’s written as neurodivergent, that he has some kind of hyperactivity that would be misunderstood and gone undiagnosed in the 50s or the 80s, and I get very tender thinking about his wolf being an embodiment of his own perceived “too-muchness” that he hates. Auuughffhghfh werewolf Richie I love you.

And... this could be me misremembering the book or I could be seeing everything through my reddie goggles, but I think it’s interesting that Richie and Eddie are the ones who specifically fear seeing themselves in their respective monsters. The leper and the werewolf. I’m gonna make a separate post about this, but there’s a section where Eddie thinks about throwing the Eucharist in the toilet and I’ve been majorly tinhatting for months about the fact that Richie’s werewolf, uh, climbs out of the toilet. It’s all symbolic. It’s all CONNECTED

Ok lmao I’m getting off track, werewolf Richie is so good. Teenage but also adult, I want big tall hairy Hader!Richie with his long arms and his overgrown sideburns and lupine smile and his overbite that crowds his mouth with too many fangs, as he jokes and tries desperately to cover them up. Pretending it’s just another Voice when his voice goes all raspy and subsonic.

Then for full shift he goes through some kinda gnarly Hemlock Grove body horror shit, and winds up like the wolves from Dog Soldiers. Very big and scary-looking, with one wonky eye and a tail that thumps uncontrollably when the Losers find him and Eddie gives him some ear scratches. Omg he probably pukes all the time as a wolf too dhjdhdkdhd

I’m gonna stop now before I start talking about muzzles and collars and leashes 😶

[skinks]

gonna be honest w you, your unabashed horniness for things not found conventionally attractive makes me feel so valid and happy w my sexuality and preferences. i love nothing more than your thoughts on the clown movie and thirst for bill hader on my dashboard

ghfhfhfhfbhf first off I know you sent this a couple weeks ago, sorry I’m late. I can only presume I was going nuts again about [spins wheel] armpits? belly buttons? foreskin? ankle bones? sideburns? buck teeth? spitting??? who knows!

I love this message though, thank you. Feedback like this is the BEST because I really wasn’t aware that I focus on “unconventionally” attractive things until I started getting comments from people saying they appreciated how much attention I paid in writing to stuff like body hair? Like, body hair is just... attractive, to me! Nothing unconventional about it. There are so many little underappreciated nooks and crannies in the human body for horniness to pervade and I love exploring that both in fic, and in my own thirsting. The feeling of being so gone on someone that you’re in love with their eyebrows, the hollow dips between their metatarsals, the sunlight through the blood vessels in their ears, etc.

But YEAH that’s really cool, if anything I’ve frothed at the mouth over in the tags could make you feel some kinda kinship, then I’m very glad. No such thing as guilty pleasures here my dude, so you can expect lots more clown movie and hader thirsting because personally I’m still having a great time