#jonesy/beaver

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

Really need to finish writing my Dreamcatcher fic....and write another Long Walk fic.....and write another Talisman fic.....and write a Christine fic.....and finish my Dark Tower fic....and--

[thotteus-beaumont]

Somebody please do a South Park Dreamcatcher by Stephen King AU because there's so much potential. They fit that ridiculous horror with odd comedy so well.....

I don't know the South Park characters well enough to draw who'd be who out of the characters but somebody out there does SO👀

I could see Kenny as Beaver...

Maybe Stan or Craig as Pete...

I don't know! The ships from Dreamcatcher might have to be changed around for the sake of this specific AU?😬

[greysanguinity]

❛ This rich-people shit is weird. ❜ - from beav!

❝    can you at least pretend you're not from the slums of derry, maine ? it's just a tie.   ❞

❝    can't wear your doc lesbians either, beav - boy.   ❞ a slightly judgemental look is thrown his way, a sly kind of smugness that read: i know something you don't know through the reflection in the mirror. jonesy snorts, using his cane to point at beaver.

❝    if you fuck this up, you're in her shit books forever.   ❞

[small-sinclair]

Can you do a Dogs of Ambrose?

Dogs of Ambrose

Jonesy. You know her. You love her. The Sinclair Brothers worship her. She is the pack leader and the mayor of this town. If she doesn’t like the dog that comes to town or is attacked by another dog, the Sinclairs will get rid of it. No questions asked.

Indiana Bones (Indy). He’s a brown and white pit bull with the biggest heart ever! Vincent and Lester came up with that name and Bo loves it! He loves digging and digging and digging and digging and digging. He comes home with bones like deer bones and skulls. Indy and Jonesy are married.

Bo-utiful. She’s a white and black hound dog that sits in Bo’s shop. She hangs out with Bo all day either by playing, sleeping, or just being there with him. She’s the sweetest doggie ever.

Beaver. This light brown lab-German Shepard mix was found by Lester while he was beaver hunting up north. He decided to bring him home after Beaver jumped into his truck and barked at him.

Peach. She’s brown, grey, and black mut that always brings a smile to anyone. Bo’s having a bad day? She’ll do a little dance. Vincent is sad? She gets him to smile. Lester having a bad day? She’ll run and bring the biggest stick every! A tourist taking their last breaths and scared? She’ll lay next to them and put her head on their chest, staying until the heartbeat fades.

Sunny. He’s a sweet little golden retriever that Lester found in the kill pit. Shy at first but will love you until the end. Will steal your food.

Alaska. She’s a red husky that Vincent adopted after he killed her owner for tying it outside in the heat (it was 102 that day). He takes her on walks and lets her sleep next to him between Jonesy and him.

Canon. Just as the name implies, he’s a canon. He’s Bo’s hunting beagle, and he’s good at bird and gator hunting. He runs fast, kills fast, and eats fast. Play fetch with him! He loves it!

Pepper Flaks. Vicncent’s not a fan of little dogs, but this grey and gold Chihuahua won his heart after she did a little dance. Her favorite food is pepper jack cheese, grilled green pepper, red peppers, bell peppers, pepper flacks— if it has peppers in it, she’ll eat it.

Cyclone. The oldest sausage dog you’ll ever see. He’s been alive longer than the twins, so that should say something. He hardly walks or moves around, but moves just enough to show he’s alive. Survived 3 heart attacks, a broken rib, 4 coyote fights (he’s won all 4), and has killed snakes. His back legs don’t work, going blind, and he can’t hear well, but he’s a happy boy, and he’ll be damned if he doesn’t outlive the Sinclairs. 

Bluey. She’s a blue and grey puppy heeler :3 . Lester found her and is forever happy with this little girl. She loves going on adventures with her sister and hanging out with Jonesy.

Bingo. She’s a golden and orange heeler. She is sisters to Bluey. She loves running in circles and “singing” with Indy.

Now, the strangeness of the 3 Black German Shepherds and how they were found:

Demon. This one-eye black German Shepard is silent and scares everyone. Vincent found him curled in the back of the church under a destroyed cross, sleeping under the Virgin Mary statue. He stays near Vincent most of the time and attacks victims if they fight Vincent. (If you squint real hard, the dog looks like Vincent.) No one knows where he came from or how he got into the locked church.

Devil. Looks exactly like Demon, but has all of its eyes. He’s loud and friend, but don’t get him mad or in a corner; he will bite. Bo took him in as his own. Devil walks along side Bo and only answers to him and no one else. (If you squint, Bo and him are the same). Again, no one knows how or when these pups got in the church or how the cross got burned. But does anyone know why the Virgin Mary statue had water coming from her eyes?

Saint. A black German Shepherd with a little white cross on his head. Lester found her on the same day when Demon and Devil were found, but Lester didn’t know about it. He learned about them when he brought Saint over a day after. Lester woke up, made coffee, and and looked in his living room. Underneath the ram skull on his wall, Saint laid asleep. The doors were locked and there was no way Saint could’ve just came in. Saint is the sweetest, happiest, cutes puppy every! He loves people and being around Lester. Enjoys the roadkill pit, too.

[brightbeautifulthings]

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

"SSDD: Sometimes it's just what you say. And sometimes you believe in nothing but the darkness. And then how do you go along?"

Year Read: 2005, 2023

Rating: 4/5

Thoughts: Against all logic, I still love this book. I read it for the first time in high school after instantly falling in love with the movie, and it was one of those books I practically memorized and internalized so hard that I don't even realize some of my thinking comes from here (until I'm rereading and going omg that's where that idea came from). It isn't just nostalgia that makes me love it though. As you probably know from my reviews, I went through a breakup, a summer depression, and a hideous book slump (the latter two from which I'm still clawing my way free). I was a little afraid to reread this, fearing it wouldn't hold up and that would only make the slump worse, but I flew through this like I was still a teenager, devouring books at a time when all of them are still new and wonderful. It might be the easiest reading I've done all year, and I was happy to sink back into King's world with my old Derry friends.

Objectively, I know this is not King's best. It's brutally gory, scatological, and full of some downright repulsive body horror. Had I not already internalized King's aliens at a young age and accepted them as perfectly fine, I might have been way more put off by his unnecessarily gross biology. (Although one need only look at the chest-bursting Xenomorphs to know this is practically standard for the genre. I don't think there's anything in here worse than that, and they're about on par for truly awful ways to die.) I'm not even typically a fan of alien novels, so this already beats the odds.

Assuming you can get past the gore, or that you're as desensitized to it as I am, it's also extremely ableist in its characterization of Douglas Cavell ("Duddits", affectionately), a character with Down's Syndrome who is also the magical key to defeating a race of aliens. King frequently falls into this unfortunate trope of giving his minority characters super special (and often stereotypical) magical powers, and Duddits has the added advantage of Incorruptible Pureness even in the face of bullying, cancer, and gut-eating aliens. There are also frequent slurs, "retard" being the most frequent, and it's used even by the main characters. It forces readers into the awkward position of being grateful to even see a disabled character portrayed positively, while recognizing that the characterization comes with its own issues.

Yet, I find myself returning to my original thesis: Despite its very real and present problems, I adore this book, and it's really the characters that make or break it. I fell in love with Duddits, Jonesy, Henry, Beaver, and Pete at first sight, and their friendship is at the heart of the novel. King does characters and childhood friendships so well, and Dreamcatcher's live and breathe off the page every bit as much as the Loser's Club from IT. I love them in the flashbacks and the present timeline, and their love and loyalty to each other effortlessly carry the story.

Despite its hefty page-count (nearly 700), the pace never lagged for me either, and I never found myself getting bogged down in the minutiae of the history or world-building the way I sometimes do with King. It's fairly well-focused on character development and moving the plot forward, and the only times my interest waned were in Kurtz's chapters. He's a fairly banal villain alongside Mr. Gray, and I would always rather spend my time with the boys and their odd, Shining-like power. I'd forgotten a lot of the differences between the book and movie lore, aside from the very obvious differences in the endings, so that was a fun comparison as well. I think it works without getting too in-depth about why the aliens work the way they do (but I've also been hugely spoiled by Mira Grant's deep dives into supernatural biology). All in all, this is still one of my favorite King novels, and I won't be hesitant to read it again when I want to visit my friends.

[awesomephd]

Watching Through My Collection: Day 4/36

Dreamcatcher (2003)

Day 3 / Day 5

TOILET WORM! TOILET WORM! TOILET WORM!

I'm pretty sure this was one of those movies I had seen a single scene from on TV at some point, and it was specifically and only the part with them catching one of the alien worms in a toilet, so that's all I knew about it going in.

As well as the usual Stephen King tropes.

CW: The magical disabled person trope

So if you grow up in Derry, Maine you either get hunted for food by an evil alien entity or you get cool psychic superpowers from a benevolent alien entity disguised as a mentally disabled kid. Either way, you'll be bonded for life and have to fight an alien as an adult, and also the one with glasses gets to say all the funny lines and has just so much tboy swag.

This was a really fun sci-fi horror movie with a lot of the fun banter between the characters as one can always look forward to from Stephen King.

It helps also having some faces I'm always happy to see. Timothy Olyphant, Jason Lee, and Morgan Freeman are all names I was pleasantly surprised to see in the opening credits. Damian Lewis, who plays Jonesy and carries a lot of the most direct conflict of the movie, adds a lot of charm too.

He looks at a man called Beaver like he's the prettiest girl in school I swear.

Unfortunately, despite Morgan Freeman putting his whole pussy into playing the ruthless military commander, the subplot involving the military was extremely boring. It made the movie feel like just another sci-fi action movie like Independence Day. It just didn't have nearly as interesting character interactions and a lot of the exposition they spout in the army base scenes feels redundant because we've already been shown more than enough about how the aliens work in action against the main group of guys.

I'm already afraid of these things and don't want them getting out into society. If you wanna explore some more stuff about the ruthless leader not caring about how many people he kills to get rid of the aliens, maybe show more people to remind the audience this isn't a secluded event? I think I saw like 7 people in the present day setting that weren't the main group or military personnel.

But around the weird army stuff, the actual interesting character moments and fun make up the majority of the movie.

My only regret is Beaver dying as early as he did to a penis with a vagina-mouth full of teeth.

[reddie-ao3feed]

Growing Pains

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hqIPndi by The_Magic_Lava_Lamp The Tozier-Kaspbrak household was unsettlingly quiet when Beaver decided to pull himself away from his studying. He’d been noticing some sort of funny feeling ----‘Henry might know a better word for it.’---- pinching at his guts for the last month or so. He mostly kept that ‘funny feeling’ to himself. As he crossed the hallway to the stairs, he wondered what version of himself he’d take up today. Not that his problem was that serious or anything but he’d definitely keep the identity crisis to himself, no sense in worrying his family when Richie and Eddie already had so much going on. Words: 5732, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Dreamcatcher - Stephen King, IT - Stephen King Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Joe "Beaver" Clarendon, Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Eddie Kaspbrak, Richie Tozier, Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, Henry Devlin, Pete Moore Relationships: Joe "Beaver" Clarendon/Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hqIPndi

[vesper-roux]

3, 4 and 8 for the book meme? :)

Thank you for the ask! <3

3: What’s something you read recently and wanted to argue with (either with the book or the author or the fans)?

It's not recent, but the most prominent read I DNFed because of a rant I had planned in my head is Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. I tried to read it when I was 16, but I don't think I even broke 100 pages in it. I was going through the high of liking Mr. Mercedes. Jonesy's out hunting, and he finds the guy in the woods (the one who sets off the plot for the main cast), and he spends the next, like, 5 pages going through the psychology of why he shouldn't, why he wants to, and how he recognizes why this is happening... of shooting the guy he knows is not an animal... just because the guy isn't wearing bright orange or red forest clothing so hunters don't get confused and shoot.

I could forgive it if this was coming from Henry, who's a psychiatrist. But Jonesy is a professor, I think for literature or history. I could be getting this wrong, but either way, five pages to explain why someone wants to, shouldn't, and finally decides not to shoot a person isn't exactly the most thrilling read, especially from someone whose characterization doesn't make sense to know this psychology stuff. Unless Jonesy and Henry spend a lot of time talking about their professions to each other. King might argue this makes sense because Jonesy heard it from his father's friend, but the damage was done for me. I didn't DNF right after that 5 page inner monologue because I distinctly remember Jonesy's fondness for Beaver instantly smiling when he meets new people (Beaver met the guy), but it was pretty soon after that.

4: What are your top 3 comfort reads?

I haven't re-read it yet, but if I felt really low but like I wanted to feel something through a book, I'd re-read "Nona the Ninth." It's a terribly sad book, but something about it skyrocketed it to my favorite of the series.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a good one, despite also being terribly sad. I cried during my read of it, and it's engaging and resonant.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet deals with heavy subjects, but it's balanced with, well, sweet moments, and the ending and main goal for the MC is heart-warming.

A lot of the books I like are kinda depressing, so this is difficult question.

8: What series has most pleased you?

Okay, so I'm going to sound like such a fake reader, but it's difficult to get me into new things, for me to finish a book, and much more to continue a series. I still have to finish "Words of Radiance." I still have to finish "The Savior's Sister," which is more than difficult when it's a retelling of the first book from a different perspective, I'm not much for re-reads, and the first book took me two years to get through. I still have to finish "The Girl Who Played with Fire." I DNFed a bunch of series and need to read more in general. So... Hmm... based on my limited reading experience, I would say it's a toss up between The Stormlight Archives and The Locked Tomb for how much I love the characters and worlds, but I'm actually up to date on The Locked Tomb, so I have to say that one. (Are we surprised?)

[todsterdude1]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Stephen King Novel

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

jonsey/bever headcanons plss. also- could it be from the movie?👀

Of course!!!! I LOVE Jonesy/Beaver so much!

Send me a Stephen King ship + a topic and I’ll do an HC list!

Ok SO

Jonesy has been doodling Beaver's name in his notebooks leading up to this Hole-in-the-wall trip like a lovesick kid at school. Luckily he has a red pen handy for the hearts!!

In the weeks leading up to the trip, Beaver keeps making excuses to call Jonesy but he literally has nothing to say. So the boys just end up spending hours on the phone talking about nothing at all.

They end up chatting about how much they miss each other and basically admit that they're completely in love with each other. Both decide the time is NOW and admit their feelings.

Jonesy ends up admitting his feelings first (over the phone like a week before the trip). Beaver is so caught up in the moment and excited that he almost forgets to reply.

Once they get there, Beav waits on Jonesy like he's his butler even though Jonesy insists that he can do it all on his own!!!! But Beaver continues to cook for him anyway!

They have a special movie for every night of the trip (No Henry and Pete allowed).

Henry and Pete try to sneak in and watch anyway but always end up getting kicked out after ten minutes because they're annoying.

The movies are all cheesy horror, btw.

Beaver burns the popcorn every freaking time. He sure can cook but microwaving shit?? He consistently messes that up.

They hold hands the entire movie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jonesy rubs his thumb in tiny circles against Beav's skin because it relaxes him.

They cuddle under Beaver's old Scooby-Doo blanket which he brings with him on every trip.

They talk throughout the movie, loud too. They both enjoy critiquing old movies and acting like their a couple of movie reviewers.

They also make out during the 'scary' parts.

[thotteus-beaumont]

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues/interests you and I’ll pose a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

tagged by @binarystarkillers <3

(I have such stupid names for my WIP’s sooooo....)

This is what it looks like when I try

Crossover Event 

Couples Play Truth or Drink - Richie Tozier & Eddie Kaspbrak

The Burger Kings™  

Just leave it up to you

She’ll Be There

Divorce Support Group 

‘Two Of Us/Here Today’ - Reddie thing

Daylight savings?

Gee the Traffic is Terrific! 

A luxury you can afford - Crossover 2 thing?

[greysanguinity]

you know something? you're lucky you met me. - from beav!

❝    yanno what, beaver ?   ❞ the sun is bright today. the light makes jonesy's skin transluscent almost, a pale crimson color flooding through his ears and along his cheeks as he comes close, putting his arm round beaver's shoulder.

❝    i am lucky.   ❞ - followed up by hip checking him right off the road, straight into the ditch.

❝    LUCKY YOU'RE SO GULLIBLE.   ❞ jonesy laughs as he looks over the lip of the road, clutching his knees.

[frodispatch]

So I just officially finished Dreamcatcher and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not gay until the minds touch.

Ignore how beat up it is, i got this copy from my local haunted used bookstore, but here it is being once again relinquished to my Stephen King shelf.

This book has fucked with me many times. It has caused me immense pain. I am way too attached to the characters. I miss Beaver. I have started chewing on toothpicks instead of picking my skin. I am thinking of changing my name to Jonesy. Help. But also don’t help, I am fine. It’s over. The aliens have been defeated.

Goodnight shit-weasels. SSDD.

[littledozerdraws]

Dreamcatcher baby boys!! ☝️✨🌲👽

[m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog]

Fun Facts About the Characters of Dreamcatcher (from the book)

Pete 

Used to cup his hands over his face and pretend to smoke while waiting for his friends to get out of school

Pete’s greatest ambition was to become an astronaut and his childhood bedroom was decorated with pictures of spaceships and UFOs

Pete has a NASA crewneck sweatshirt that he is really proud of

Jonesy

Obsessed with horror movies and mystery novels

Loves dad jokes

He is an associate professor of history and when he is out of office for lunch, he puts a sign on his door that says “BACK AT ONE-- UNTIL THEN I’M HISTORY”

Beaver

Beaver is 5′6

Wore his brother’s old ‘Fonzie’ jacket all of the time as a child (his dad had to tie orange bandannas up and down the sleeves because Beaver insisted on wearing it even when hunting)

As a child, he had a crush on Roberta Cavell (Douglas’s mom)

Henry

Wears old-fashioned horn-rimmed glasses

When he puts on his glasses, he thinks of it as ‘putting his eyes back on’

Gave Douglas bunny slippers for his birthday

Douglas

Has curly blond hair like Art Garfunkel

Really good at mini-golf (can consistently beat everyone else except for Pete)

Pretended like he didn't know how to play cribbage solely because it made his friends laugh

[cannithebear]

My two alien killing boyfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.