#i love the book! i love the movies! i love the losers!

[mikewheelerfan2022]

There’s something so ethereal about when the Losers first defeat Pennywise in the book. They’re chased into the sewers, forced to descend and continue on. Even when they’re crawling on their stomachs, even when they’re faced with the giant eyeball, they still have to keep moving forward. Henry Bowers is behind and Pennywise ahead. But the Losers know what they have to do. The sewers become like a cathedral, light flowing in through an unknown source. The wall is hundreds of feet tall, now. At the very bottom, a mere speck among the sheer magnitude, is a door. A door meant for a child. The symbol is different for every one of them. But they enter, even knowing what’s behind it. An unnatural glow floods their vision. Pennywise is there, in the form of a massive spider. It’s the closest thing to Its true form the human mind can comprehend. Even still, the dangerous radiance of the Deadlights can be somewhat seen when you look close enough. The spider is only a weak illusion. Its true power lays beyond. The massive chamber is covered in a deadly web. This web contains the bodies of all of Its victims. Mercifully, George is not there. He has already been buried. And it is George’s death that draws Bill forward. He steps closer to the abhorrent spider, only to be thrown out of his body. Thrown out of space and time into the infinite darkness of the macroverse. Hurtling past obsidian, obsidian black, while It constantly taunts him. Until he finally manages to sink his tongue into Its. “He thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he sees the ghost.” This is the phrase that leads to Its apparent demise. The Turtle tells Bill to finish it, that this victory may never be replicated. But the others say it’s dying, say it’s dead. They’ve won. But they haven’t, not yet. And not really. They’re still stuck a quarter mile under the ground, maybe even deeper. Even Eddie with his internal compass can’t find the way out. So Bev lets each of them come to her, shedding their childhood and her virginity. They’re able to leave now, but not without being forced too grow up too fast. When they’re finally out, Stan grabs a piece of broken glass off the ground. With life all around them, he pretends to slit his wrists. A cruel imitation of his later years, with those bloody crosses etched into his wrists. The red liquid dripping onto the floor. But Stan isn’t fated to die yet, and simply cuts his hand. He cuts both of Bill’s, and then cuts the rest of the Losers. They pledge to defeat It, if It ever comes back. This promise is the last time the circle will ever be completed. The last time all seven of them will ever be together. And they know it. And so they slowly dwindle away, prepared to meet again 27 years later. But only six of them will come. Only one will remember. At the end of everything, five will remain. But none will remain. A beautiful and melancholic ending.

[thecatspirits]

I wanted to go ahead and very quickly point out some interesting details about Richie and Mike's birthdays in IT 2017. Richie's canon birthday in IT 2017 is March 7th, 1976. In the book, Richie had his encounter with IT as the Paul Bunyan Statue in March of 1958. Mike's canon birthday in IT 2017 is July 3rd, 1976. In the book, July 3rd is the day Mike meets the Losers Club, its the day of the rock fight. Kind of interesting right?

[whatthefuckisasweep]

you've heard of selectively mute Bill now get ready for nonverbal Stan

anon. anon. ANON. I LOVE YOU.

[finalgirlgretchen]

not sure why it 2017 got so popular actually at all. like ostensibly it was because people loved the best friends / coming of age dynamic but . those aren't even best friends. those are just guys who let each other copy their homework

[rinachains]

book howl >>> movie howl

[beheadedcousins]

Farrah headcanons

her favorite color is purple

wears contacts

she is very observant even when people think she isn't

mostly quiet at school

pushes people away so they don't hurt her

she fidgets with her hands and hair all the time

she likes the scream franchise (1-6) and a nightmare on elm street franchise

has autism and adhd (she doesn't know she is autistic though. her parents never told her)

she can't spell worth shit on her phone sober and drunk

always says she's fine even when she isn't (even before her drinking problem started)

is good at drawing and writing

has had purple streaks in her hair (her braids)

she has doodled on one pair of her shoes

actually does pretty well in school when she wants to

she is smart and she is dumb

loves to cause a bit of chaos during cheer practice

watches cartoons

her fave character from she-ra princesses of power is glimmer

loves teasing annleigh

she loves so much and that's why she tries so hard to get annleigh to let her in

unlabeled because she hasn't given it much thought but she is not straight

she has a unrequited crush on kate and by now she wishes it would go away

she has a dark sense of humor

her and annleigh bond over making houses in the sims 4 (ex: carynandconniegaming)

likes the disney's frozen movies and the disney descendants movies and can quote them

she loves musicals (2 of her faves are six and the outsiders musical)

has a huge collection of plushies

one of her favorites is a build a bear that annleigh made for her

paints her fingernails black or purple when she does it

her and annleigh have friendship bracelets for each other

loves her pet cat (named butter?)

absolutely has parents issues

has a bad sleep schedule

loves to play cozy video games and pokémon

can braid her own hair but loves when annleigh does it (so she doesn't braid her own hair that much)

has gone to school and practice with her hair down a few times

when she has a nightmare she goes to annleigh's room to sleep

loves scooby doo

has read and loved becky albertalli's books and the outsiders

has abandonment issues

holds grudges for longer than needed too

competitive when playing games

enjoys being a cheerleader even if riley annoys her

she enjoys listening to nf, mgk, yungblud, simple plan, olivia rodrigo, taylor swift, avril lavigne, and chappell roan

[petraden]

Guess who arrived…

My favorite pathetic loser!

The figure is absolutely incredible. All of the details are stunning and it came with so many props. I am so happy with it, it was definitely worth the high price. I am going to unpack it soon, and then expect more photos!

[thepoisonroom]

one of the funniest things about my worst ex that i didn't even know until this year is that they tried to use romantic lines on me that they'd lifted verbatim from casey mcquiston's red white and royal blue

[nadiajustbe]

Everytime a person reablogs my hmc book post as "#studioghibli" an angel loses his wings

[honeydewtreacle]

Clips of my favorite lost puppydog! I may be endlessly saddened by this incarnation of him, but I can't ever bring myself to love him any less.

(source)

[allmyoldhaunts]

storygraph should have a new status: not currently reading and did not finish, but it's complicated

[whatthefuckisasweep]

sighing and putting my head in my hands and crying and throwing up as i think about stanley uris and how he was the most terrified loser.

how he was deathly scared of being dirty, of not knowing where he was, of not being able to predict the world around him. how he was more scared of his world order being offended than anything else. how knowing that pennywise is real sent him down this spiral of 'what else can be real' and it broke him. but he STILL was the one who cut everyone's hand and made the oath. how bill constantly reminds him of his bird book and how it saved him. how he is more mentally fragile than eddie. how he's one of the only Losers who ever says "i can't do this", but he still gets to his feet and makes jokes right after he cries. stan uris, who, after Mike is like, "i just saw a killer bird!" goes, "what kind of bird?"

thinking about how we really don't know how his death went down so we don't know what he was thinking in those last moments. how he threw away his whole picturesque life because of a promise he made, and because he couldn't honor it. how he's such a private person, a quiet one, but he's so so so sharp and graceful. i wish they showed more of his fear in the movies, how much it fucked him up in the end.

stanley uris i think about you a lot.

[bansheesofinisherin2022]

worst and irreperable mistake they did with les miserables (2012) is casting an conventionally attractive man to portray grantaire (who also looks fairly put together). now in everyone’s mind grantaire looks like the frontman of an indie rock band with a more charming aura than movie-enjolras dshgfjhdf

[pinkquartzgeode]

Watched a knights tale for the first time last night and I can’t stop thinking about faggotish geoffrey chaucer like what was he doing😭😭😭

[tamaharu]

ive inherited a copy of lolita from my parents (i.e. i stole it from the library in our basement and started treating it like its mine) with the 1989 vintage international cover and i think its actually not that bad. better than the 50th anniversary one with the lips anyway imo (which is the cover for the library ebook vers ive checked out).

like i think any cover that incorporates the "only convincing love story of our generation" quote anywhere kind of sucks on principle, and the fact that it features a photo of a girl at all really goes against nabakovs instructions, but compared to other covers that break those two rules, the haziness of the photo creates a really evocative atmosphere i feel matches the book more or less.

[the-halfling-prince]

Me: anyway here's the horror book I'm writing and-

Also me: You hate horror? You like never watch horror movies because you're scared of getting jump scared.

Me: leave me alone