#richie and eddie are just rlly good to each other honestly

[nonbinaryeddiekaspbrak]

FANFIC RECS!

here's a revamped version of my rec post - each fic will link to it's corresponding ao3 page, a summary in my words, small notes/review, and a disclaimer for more mature ratings if needed.

enjoy!

(* = new entry, last updated: Dec 3rd, 2023, still going through recent bookmarks)

(ps. let me know if you want your mention to be removed!)

IT

and a stain on my shirt - venom crossover, vv good, also a fix-it, venom finds another eddie to latch onto, a lot of humor, reddie get together, venom saves eddie

awake my soul - pretty angsty, keep an eye on those trigger warnings, this was pretty good, i rlly couldn’t take any breaks with this one, richie and eddie get jumped but in the process of putting away the ones responsible for the hate crime richie finds that he’ll have to come out sooner than he’s ready for, added bonus of art!!, happy ending, has fan reactions and news coverage as things are slowly revealed

come over here and overwhelm me - nsfw, a VERY GOOD rec, SO tender, the fluff is so well written, richie is having a bad day nd eddie comes to the rescue being so hfwjaklhj!!!, this fic said bottom richie rights nd it opened my eyes

don’t break character - HE/THEY RICHIE RIGHTS, richie finds that maybe his journey of identity isn’t over when he hears the word “nonbinary”, very!!!!, fjkdkslahfkl, just him having he/they pronouns is so exciting and flappy hands-worthy

I killed a clown. ama! - it chapter 2 except it’s through the lens of social media from posts by richie eddie myra and background fans, very very entertaining, canon compliant until eddie’s death it’s actually a fix-it, fair amount of angst??

it’s not real - WATCH THE TRIGGER WARNINGS, a lot of angst, very intense, eddie has an amazing richie impression, almost like they share the same braincell, eddie is also vv caring and will drag any faceless internet account down with him, could def make it in celebrity PR according to richie’s manager steve, richie comes out but he gets a horrible reaction and then finds himself in the middle of a clusterfuck of things that unfortunately couldn’t stay in the past, bill apparently also gets cancelled a lot and he cannot cook, he’s also the only other loser in here, a black mirror au, AGAIN WATCH THE TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THIS ONE

oh, wouldn’t it be nice? - nsfw, some angst, eddie finds richie’s obituary that he got from adrien (the park scene in chap 2; at least i think it was adrien), SUPER SWEET OMG, i had to stop a few times from the sheer amount of emotion this gave me

parental interference - in 1989 some parents are coming to their senses when it comes to a certain clown, i love went he’s an awesome dad, T rating, i suggest a peek at the trigger warnings/tags just in case, canon-typical triggers, again i really love wentworth tozier in this fic he’s a 10/10 dad

predicament bondage - nsfw, richie is 100% a sweetheart, eddie is fjdsljfkslf i love this version of him, richie is cast as a dom in a movie so he decides to get information from a professional which is eddie but he finds that working with eddie might bring his heart into the mix, a lot of internalized homophobia so watch out, ur honor i love eddie here

puppets and plants - the way this was written? *muah* my number two rec, some angst, the intimacy of u nd the guy set up across from u at the farmer’s market, amazing stanpat dynamic, trans eddie and ben!, pride parade!!

the king is gone - absolutely AMAZING time travel fix-it, fairly long, some angst, some fluff, not at all a boring read

the lockbox - pushing an M rating? maybe a T?, asexual eddie finding out that he’s ace and everything that comes with realizing u aren’t straight, honestly made my ace heart so happy, bit of angst

work friends and emergency contacts - outsider pov, eddie makes a work friend, fix-it w both eddie and stan living, eddie gets a divorce pre-itch2, damon just wants the best for richie and eddie, reddie getting together, richie visits eddie at work

STRANGER THINGS

bottle it up until it overflows - ohhhh boy, i absolutely love the vecna possessing mike trope and this fic definitely lives up to high standards, rated mature, bad parent ted wheeler and internalized homophobia, basically mike gets vecna'd is the entire plot - @ghoulsanderson

i feel like i know you (but we never met) - post season 4 of stranger things, ambiguous / open ending, teen rating, oh boy this made me emotional!, without spoilers i have to say this is such an angsty fic and i love it, this fic is written beautifully, the party all forget will because of vecna suppressing their memories, spoilers: mike puts everything together to figure out who the "missing person" is - @andiwriteordie

something's made your eyes go cold - TW SUICIDE ATTEMPTS, rated mature, mike is chronically suicidal, very very angsty but relatable (sadly), oneshot - @defendingtammythompson

when everything was fiction, future and prediction - two words: time travel, mike is confronted by his younger self and figures out a few things, very much hurt/comfort, rated teen

9-1-1 TV

*all the time in the world - i literally know nothing about the dsmp but the way this was written is so beautiful, i love angst and buddie but also buck angst gets me the most, evan buckley used to be someone called karl jacobs but eddie doesn't know that and thinks buck is a war veteran, he's not entirely wrong but also don't make me fact check that beyond reading this, this fic makes me feel super autistic in a way i can't explain, time travel and secret identities are just so my jam dude, bonus chris moment that made me squeal bc chris eddie and buck are so family material - @official-impravidus

*my palms and fingers still reek of gasoline - such a good crossover, the characterization is very very good, i definitely need to read it again, a pjo au that has a twist, demigod buck and eddie are special to me now, having buck be on that side is an interesting choice and i like it, buck's mom being aphrodite makes so much sense - @trashyinfernomusic

[eddiekasp]

Must Be a Better Word- Ch10

Love. There must be A better word. -Adam Gillon

OMG I’m so excited to share this next chapter since there are so many new It/Reddie fans on here after the movie came out!! And as always, sorry for not updating for a bit. I promise I’ll always be continuing this though!

My writing is also on ao3 if you wanna check it out there!

Richie’s room was perpetually messy. The floor could only be seen in small patches, the way sun peeks through leaves in a forest. The rest was covered by a thick sheet of clothing, candy wrappers, notes, papers from school dating back six years ago, comic books, video game boxes, and half-filled water bottles that crunched softly if stepped on.

Richie’s mother never bothered to tell her son to clean his room any more than she ever told him to brush his hair. She never bothered more than she bothered to do… well, anything really. And his father never looked up for long enough to notice. Because of this, the only one to even comment about his disorderly living space was Eddie.

Richie tried to clean up every time he knew Eddie was coming over. His bathroom, which was attached to the wall on the left side of his bed, had a trashcan in which Richie could quickly gather wrappers and bottles to toss into if needed. He could gather papers together into a haphazard pile to shove into the corner of his room. He could kick the sea of soiled shirts and pants into a crevice under the bed frame, and there was his hardwood flooring.

He often wondered to himself why he didn’t just do this daily. Somehow-- he truly could not give an explanation of how if he tried-- his room would return back to normal about an hour after each time his boyfriend would leave. He would toss the clothes into the middle of his room while searching for a particular pajama shirt to wear to bed, and somehow papers from the 5th Grade that he would have no reason to be touching would end up right on top of the clothes. There was no explanation for it.

Eddie could only stay out of the know for a couple weeks before Richie stopped cleaning his room in preparation for his arrival. When Eddie first walked in, he had to step gingerly on his tippy toes not to crunch on a chocolate wrapper or get his feet caught in the leg of a pair of jeans. He could see Richie’s curly locks remained unbrushed as well, sticking up left and right, as he sat on his (unmade) bed waiting for Eddie’s arrival.

“Sorry, Eds. I know it’s pretty gross. Stan would have a cow if he ever saw it, don’t you think?” Richie said comfortably, with a smile perking up the corners of his mouth. He admittedly felt a bit guilty, hoping Eddie would never have to see the full extent of the squalor Richie usually spent his time in, but Eddie didn’t mind, besides the fact of wanting to help out.

Eddie laughed too. “Yeah, definitely. Do you want me to help you clean up?”

Richie looked around his room, and raised his eyebrows. “I think that would be an all day project, my love. Maybe more than just one.”

Eddie sat down on Richie’s bed next to him, not bothering to take off his sneakers after seeing Richie had his own on. He crossed his knees under him. “I don’t really mind. We don’t have to if you… like it like this, though.” Richie laughed at the boy’s attempt to be subtle and spare his feelings. “God Eddie, you’re such a cutie, y’know that?” He broke into his Southern Belle voice. “You ain’t gotta help lil old me! Why, you’re just as sweet as sugar, sugar!” He fanned himself with a copy of The Great Gatsby that sat open on his bed, two pages in the middle nearly crumpled into balls.

Eddie smiled subtly, feeling heat burn softly in his face as Richie scooted behind him to sling his arms around Eddie’s front. Eddie looked around the room again. “I think if we actually cleaned everything, it might help you stay clean after. If we do it together we can go see Jurassic Park at the Aladdin after.”

Richie cheered at that idea before asking if Eddie could brush out his hair. He was lazy and the feeling of Eddie touching and running his fingers through his hair gave him butterflies. Eddie liked doing it too, so he grabbed a comb and slowly brushed out the dark mop on Richie’s head. It had grown out long by now, a bit past his ears, and tangled almost as quickly as it had been brushed. Eddie had to be watchful, as the red plastic comb bent and buckled under the pull of knots and tangles; he did not want the thing to snap in half. Eddie loved it though; it was effortlessly soft and always the perfect place to rest his hands. Richie quipped a couple times that Eddie was pulling his hair, so Eddie went slowly, needing to wet certain pieces in order for him to make any progress with the comb.

After his hair was detangled (and left with a bit of a strange appearance; some wet pieces hanging limply and dripping onto Richie’s dark blue sheets while others turned frizzy from repeated brushing), the first order of business was picking up all of the wrappers that were shoved under cabinets and into desk drawers. Eddie took a garbage bag and filled it, telling Richie to go take it out once it was repleted with potato chip bags and soda cans. While he was gone, Eddie began to pick up clothing and place them in piles.

He quickly organized them into lights and darks, but his heart sank as he saw Richie grab both piles together and sling them into one basket near the washing machines. Richie wondered out loud how he would find what to wear the next day, considering his drawers were nearly empty and the floor had been his personal walk-in closet for the last several months.

Eddie changed the sheets and made the bed while Richie began to clean out his desk drawers. Eddie soon sat down next to Richie to observe the contents in each drawer. “Oh my God, Rich, you always say you don’t have enough pens but there are like… dozens in here!”

It was usually Eddie’s job (by his own volition) to bring Richie any pens he had scavenged while in school, whether they be left on the desks from previous classes or kicked into the corner of hallways. Richie loved to doodle; he said that it helped him focus. During tests or while a teacher was lecturing, Richie would always have a piece of 3-hole punched college-ruled filler paper on the right side of his desk. His pen would work quickly, staining the sheet with lines of blue or red. Eddie even learned what his scribbles meant: if he made quick strokes up and down between the lines of the paper, he was having a bad day and was probably stressed. If the sheet filled up with tiny loops and swirls, he was having a good day.

Richie also had the same habit of doodling not only on his paper, but really any surface he could find. Desks, bathroom stall doors, pages of library books (much to the dismay of Ben and Mike), and his favorite, Eddie’s hands and arms. There was only so much he could fit on Eddie’s small baby blue inhaler, and the only thing that still remained was a small, faded black heart drawn in Sharpie that Eddie had never washed off.

But on his arms, the canvas space was far from limited. During Physics, which they sat together for in the back of the room, lunch, or times when they would sneak out of class (often to the auditorium when it was out of use, or the locker room), Richie would draw on Eddie’s small hands and fingers. Eddie did not mind, as long as he was able to wash it off before he came home and had his mother see the (often crude) images.

After a day of school, Richie would accompany Eddie to the bathroom near the back entrance so he could wash off smiley faces, swirls, dicks, stick figure men on trampolines that jumped when Eddie opened and closed his hand, and fancy S’s made out of straight lines. They littered Eddie’s pale skin almost daily, but Richie never thought they lost their humor. Eddie had to admit they were funny sometimes, too.

On days when Eddie would wear a long sleeve shirt to school, he’d allow Richie to write secret messages that could be easily hidden, usually to avoid smirks and nudges from the other Losers. Under his sweater sleeves were bubble letters reading “ILY” or RT+EK with a heart around it. During class, Eddie would shift his sleeve down slightly every five minutes, reading the small letters and feeling a blush creep all the way down to his chest. Those, he tried to preserve as long as possible. They were worth hiding from his mom and friends.

Because of all of this, though, Richie’s pens exhausted their supply of ink rapidly. Richie gasped at the nearly full box of black Bic pens that had been shoved to the back of his desk drawer months, perhaps even years, ago. They continued to go through his desk until it was nearly cleaned, and Eddie moved over to sit in front of Richie’s open closet door. He hung up clean shirts that had fallen off hangers and onto the floor, and piled up his shoe boxes (including one where Richie kept his secret stash of snacks, cigarettes, and condoms; Eddie made sure to put that with the rest of the boxes so it would be even more inconspicuous). Under a large sweatshirt he assumed could only be Went’s old college shirt, Eddie found another hair brush, a lighter, a really old pack of Gushers, and a marble notebook.

The corners of the cardboard cover were frayed, showing the brown underneath the peeling black and white pattern. The little asymmetrical spots of white that splattered on the cover were colored in with pink and yellow highlighter, and the white box in the middle had Richie’s name scribbled messily in the center. Eddie turned around to glance at Richie, who had laid out his newly found pens on the ground and was counting them, and hoped that he wouldn’t mind Eddie looking through the notebook.

As soon as Eddie opened the book, his heartbeat sped with each turn of the page. Richie’s scrawl of a handwriting filled each page, some short jokes that he was writing (with the addition of some sad ones: “I came home one day chewing gum I had bought at the gas station. I walk into the kitchen to say hi to my Mom, and she goes ‘your breath smells like Fireball!’ I just look at her and say, “Well, it’d just smell like cinnamon if you weren’t an alcoholic.’ Eddie almost wondered if that conversation had actually happened), lists of new voices he’d have to practice. Some pages had notes for school, about WWII or Of Mice and Men, while other pages had lists of assignments he had to complete with check marks written in red Sharpie, bleeding onto the next page. There were also some drawings in there, one of his beloved record player that sat on his desk (probably the only thing that he kept completely neat and organized in his room) or of the stuffed bear he always kept on the right side of his bed. Some graphic drawings as well; Eddie had to stifle a laugh. Richie was horny as ever, even in Middle School.

And then there were the dozens of pages about Eddie. Eddie’s eyes, lessened to small slits in intense concentration, read each word and scanned every line on the pages about him. He looked back to the front of the cover, the date written in the corner saying 1989. All the way back then? His stomach felt warm and fluttery, the way you feel after taking a shot of whiskey (not that Eddie would know) and his cheeks hurt from smiling for that long. Richie practiced his script lettering by repeatedly writing Eddie’s name. Nearly every line was filled; those that were not up to his satisfaction crossed out. One single “Eddie Tozier” mixed in with the countless other words, also crossed out. Seven pages later, a debate Richie had with himself over which side of the bed he and Eddie would sleep on respectively, who would make breakfast and who would clean up (the final decision was that they would alternate days; he had been correct about that all the way in 8th Grade). Eddie’s face was burning.

A couple of diary entries about days they had spent together intertwined with entries about Richie’s fear of telling people he liked boys besides just girls. Or how Eddie would never liked him back. Some writing about his troubles at home, especially with his mother, and one page filled with huge letting that screamed that he was “so gay”.

He stared at each page, turning the book back over to read everything from the beginning again slowly. He was taken out of his absorption of the pages in front of him when he felt Richie place a peck on the top of his shoulder before sitting down next to him. Eddie looked panicked, sure that Richie would get embarrassed of his findings and angry at Eddie for intruding, but instead Richie beamed vibrantly, the setting sun dancing and reflecting off his glasses through the window across the room.

He chuckled quietly. “You found that in there? That’s probably from like, what, four years ago?”

Eddie looked up at the taller boy sitting next to him. “You liked me… all the way back then?”

“Of course I did! How could I not have? I liked you the first day I met you.”

Eddie leaned up to kiss Richie, a feeling that felt, by now, familiar but still made him red in the cheeks each time. He supposed he liked him all the way back then, too.

[thorniest-rose]

Wow I see why you never deviate from the beginning of them knowing each other or don’t really write au’s bc here the small echoes of flashbacks or us just knowing really just gives it a lot more substance and it hits harder. And having richie move away to foster care was a good premise bc i like that they were never gonna rlly forget each other unless it was forced. Also is the “castle” he remembers Neibolt?

Hi love, yeah! It’s so nice that you appreciate this about my fics. I just honestly feel like if you take away Eddie and Richie’s backstory, and everything they went through with Pennywise, that you also strip away so much of their complexity and depth. 

I know some fandom friends have been exasperated at how wed I am to canon events, but I honestly can’t imagine writing a fic that isn’t set within canon. Without the experiences they had as children, the horror they endured, and their trauma, Richie and Eddie wouldn’t have the obsessive, all-consuming dynamic they have in my fics. Like I just couldn’t imagine writing the fics I have with them being two normal guys with happy childhoods. Because so much of who they are is because of what they go through in canon... I obviously want to experiment with it, but I don’t want to erase it, if that makes sense?

I’m not undermining people who do write AU fics where Pennywise doesn’t exist! I know a lot of people prefer to give Richie and Eddie happier lives, or to remove them from canon so they can do creative things with them, but honestly my fics will always exist within the framework of canon. I’m too in love with them being these two damaged adults who forged an extremely strong bond as children and who fought this supernatural horror together, I can’t let it go. 

p.s yes, the castle in Eddie’s dreams is Neibolt! I love fairytale imagery and how our brains process memories while we’re sleeping!

[tossertozier]

b-b-but the old original script that had Richie be implied gay had him have many "moments" with Eddie, m-maybe the writers will tap into that again?

that wasnt the original script. That was a draft script written by the guy who did end up writing a good chunk of chapter 1, but also that guy is not involved with this movie and the production staff Rlly did not want to use his script in the first place but there was some obligation

The good news:

I rlly rlly don’t think they’d throw away the rich n Eddie dynamic in general. There is bound to be a solid Lack of Comic Relief in promotional material for a horror movie. Guess who I think is going to be nearly (honestly if not all) of the comic relief... (especially in Stan’s absence. The other four were not really characterized to be funny in the first movie.) I think there will actually be a number of super funny/good reddie “moments” in the film... but some of the “reddie” stuff from the first movie like a lot of the reactions and stuff of the kids (if you watch them discuss production processes etc) were just natural reactions n certain actors gravitated towards each other n weren’t told exactly what to do and I think that element is going to be naturally lesser.

I actually think there’s a decent shot that Eddie will be implied to be gay in this movie. Especially bc they are doing the bashing (woohoo.) n physical resemblances between the cast members has me pretty speculative we’re gonna get a suggestive shot or two. The leaked conversation between him and Myra looks pretty bleak too as far as their marriage goes. I think it’ll be very similar to how they seem to be handling will on stranger things. Make it so the people who want to see it will see it, and those who don’t can easily deny it.

I don’t think they’re going to take eddie’s death scene away from richie, (just bc of things bill has said, there’s very little else he could be talking about) I do think eddie’s going to say something funny before he dies. I don’t think they’re going to do the trails off mid sentence. I think there will be a stark lack of romantic tension, and it will seem like richie is avenging a little brother typed figure in his life, and not a love interest.

The better news:

We have seen literally 0 indication that Benverly is gonna happen (even in still promotional photos they’re miles apart) and I would bet money they are endgame in this movie. So, I could be reading promotions wrong and the movie could have those two just as obsessed with each other as they were when they were 13. Literally only time will tell!

[edsbev]

imagine frank and richie being the best father-in-law and son-in-law duo known to humankind and embarrassing eddie as much as possible. like eddie comes home one time from work and his dad and his husband are in the living room looking at an album of eddie’s baby pictures because they’re THOSE type of people

this is so cute i wanted to write a couple hcs abt their relationship and it turned into this long rambly mess but anyway heres this

ok so even tho franks alive, eddie still lives with sonia. frank and sonia split while he was still a kid, and frank moved out of state. sonias still fussy and overprotective of eddie, but all the hypochondria by proxy shit doesnt happen

anywAY eddies abt 16 when frank moves back to be close to him - hates that he missed so much of eddies childhood

they have some shit to sort out, baggage to sift through, but after a few months, they become really close

a few months later, at the end of that same year, eddie and richie start dating

they dont rlly take it slow, bc it had been building up for so long, but its not until eddies 17th birthday that eddie figures their relationship is serious enough that richie should ‘meet’ his parents

(hes already met sonia and she disapproves)

but he hasnt met frank, and frank invites them both over on eddie’s birthday to celebrate 

“please,” eddie begs, as they drive to his fathers house. “please dont be an idiot. dont say anything weird.”

eddie’d been saying stuff like this all day, basically on his hands and knees praying that richie doesnt crack some terrible Richie Joke abt how “you dont need to worry abt me, frank, i promise i wont get eddie pregnant” 

and honestly eddies drilled into richie abt how much he wants at least one of his parents to like him, and how desperate he is for richie not to ruin this, so much that richie is starting to get a little nervous abt meeting frank, bc he doesnt want to let eddie down

and so they get to franks house and richie is...not richie

hes stiff and a little sweaty with nerves, wiping his palms on his nicely pressed slacks (eddie’s managed to dress up in his nicest clothes)

 and hes sweet. and polite. smiles warmly, shakes frank’s hand in greeting and tells him “it’s so nice to meet you, sir”

eddies s h o o k

anyway they sit down for dinner and frank does a whole ‘Father Interrogating His Child’s Boyfriend’ bit. asks richie question after question, about how he’s doing in school, what he does in his spare time etc etc. 

and hes honestly hes mostly just doing it to embarrass eddie, sometimes breaking character and stifling a grin when he sees eddie roll his eyes

but richie answers all his questions very politely, with a smile, and doesnt make a single dumb joke

“dad,” eddie warns frank, when he feels like the questioning is becoming too much

“sorry, kid, just wanna make sure this boy’s good for you. dont want you getting hurt.” 

“i would never hurt eddie,” richie interrupts. “or let anything happen to him”. frank and eddie stare at him. richie looks very seriously at frank. “sir,” richie adds. 

(eddie is so gonna make out with him after this)

“see? its all good.” eddie says, smiling at his dad and scooping up another mouthful of food. “we can all move on now”

“and you dont have to worry about me getting him pregnant.” 

eddie drops his fork onto his plate with a loud clatter. mortified. 

“so thats a plus.” richie finishes. 

no

nonnonononnononono they’d been going so well. why did richie have to ruin it?? why is he sitting there like a smug idiot he just Ruined it why cant he fucking help himSELF-

frank bursts out laughing. 

richie smiles triumphantly.

eddie gapes at them.

and thats how frank and richie become friends. 

sO fast forward a few years and richie and eddie are married and living together 

and richie and frank are basically father and son

like frank helped them move in together and set up their apartment and one night, after they’d finally installed the TV, the three of them collapsed in the lounge room and frank turned on the football

and eddie had been abt to protest bc come on dad we’re Gay

but richie had shushed him before he could. and spent the next half hour pretending to know a single thing abt sports. putting on a real Bloke voice as he and frank discussed the game, and sending eddie amused, giggly looks every now and then bc somehow he was pulling it off

(annoying thing is, richie actually gets into football after that. and frank sometimes comes over so they can watch games together. eddies usually curled up by richies side, asleep on his shoulder. bc fuck sports)

sometimes, richie teases eddie abt some embarrassing thing eddie did as a kid, and eddie is shocked at how richie even knows that until he remembers walking in on richie and frank talking in the kitchen while they made dinner together one evening

frank had been telling richie a story abt eddie when he was little and richie had been drinking in every single word

and eddie had wanted to strangle his dad. bc he knew richie was gonna use all that shit against him

he didnt expect richie and frank to team up and tease eddie abt it together, though, but he probably should have

also

eddie and richie are both in their late twenties but frank calls them both ‘kid’ and ‘son’

the three of them always try to out dad-joke each other (frank always wins)

before eddie n richie got married, frank had told eddie one night ‘you really need to marry that boy’ (’shut up’ eddie blushed) ‘honestly...the way he looks at you...i’m surprised he hasnt put a ring on it already’ (’shut up’)

and frank just...rlly likes richie? like the conversation just flows easy with them and they make each other laugh but also he can tell that richie just thinks the world of eddie and hes glad that his son has someone who loves and cares about him so much

sometimes he thinks about what richie had said that first they’d met, about how he’d never hurt eddie, or let anything bad happen to him

and frank knows its true

[stanthe-man]

Story fucking time: Ok so me and one of my really good friends are basically reddie. Like I’m exactly like Richie and she’s exactly like eddie. like swear and say rlly bad pick up lines 25/8 and she is a fucking saint that’s so sweet and shit like that. We really good friends and hang out all the time and we both like each other but haven’t told each other cause it’s the first time both of us would be dating a girl. So ya fun times

OKAY honestly just play Your Song by Elton John out side their window at 3 am and confess that you wanna BE RE D D I E 

[nonbinaryeddiekaspbrak]

fanfiction recommendations

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i hope you enjoy!

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oh, wouldn’t it be nice? - nsfw, some angst, eddie finds richie’s obituary that he got from adrien (the park scene in chap 2; at least i think it was adrien), SUPER SWEET OMG, i had to stop a few times from the sheer amout of emotion this gave me

puppets and plants - the way this was written? *muah* my number two rec, some angst, the intimacy of u nd the guy set up across from u at the farmer’s market, amazing stanpat dynamic, trans eddie and ben!, pride parade!!

come over here and overwhelm me - nsfw, my NUMBER ONE rec, SO tender, the fluff is so well written, richie is having a bad day nd eddie comes to the rescue being so hfwjaklhj!!!, this fic said bottom richie rights nd it opened my eyes

I killed a clown. ama! - it chapter 2 except it’s through the lens of social media from posts by richie eddie myra and background fans, very very entertaining, canon compliant until eddie’s death it’s actually a fix-it, fair amount of angst??

despite your destination - eddie in the deadlights instead of bev, richie saves him but they don’t talk until eddie rescues richie from the deadlights 27 years later, also a fair amount of angst, this IS kind of slow burn??

the king is gone - absolutely AMAZING time travel fix-it, fairly long, some angst, some fluff, not at all a boring read

the lockbox - pushing an M rating? maybe a T?, asexual eddie finding out that he’s ace and everything that comes with realizing u aren’t straight, honestly made my ace heart so happy, bit of angst

awake my soul - pretty angsty, keep an eye on those trigger warnings, this was pretty good, i rlly couldn’t take any breaks with this one, richie and eddie get jumped but in the process of putting away the ones responsible for the hate crime richie finds that he’ll have to come out sooner than he’s ready for, added bonus of art!!, happy ending, has fan reactions and news coverage as things are slowly revealed

life is short(er than eddie kaspbrak) - a stand up fic, choose your own ending (eddie lives or canon compliant), has some very fun jokes, 10/10, also richie comes out!!

milkshake - kaspbrough content!!!, very fluff, eddie gets v flustered, bill plays baseball, bill accidentally spills his milkshake bumping into eddie and bill offers his varsity jacket to eddie for the day as an apology

my fuckbudy is kind to my cat - nsfw, an absolute GEM, richie’s cat is my favorite charater, richie is a disaster that falls in love with eddie because of how he interacts with his cat Luna, and by disaster i mean it richie is GONE for him

it’s not real - WATCH THE TRIGGER WARNINGS, a lot of angst, very intense, eddie has an amazing richie impression, almost like they share the same braincell, eddie is also vv caring and will drag any faceless internet account down with him, could def make it in celebrity PR according to richie’s manager steve, richie comes out but he gets a horrible reaction and then finds himself in the middle of a clusterfuck of things that unfortunately couldn’t stay in the past, bill apparently also gets cancelled a lot and he cannot cook, he’s also the only other loser in here, a black mirror au, AGAIN WATCH THE TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THIS ONE

parental interference - in 1989 some parents are coming to their senses when it comes to a certain clown, i love went he’s an awesome dad, T rating, i suggest a peek at the trigger warnings/tags just in case, canon-typical triggers, again i really love wentworth tozier in this fic he’s a 10/10 dad

 there’s a honey - back to fluff!!!, ot4, i love all four of these kids, stan is awesome, bill is the last to join the relationship

 reddie rights! - mixed dialogue/twitter fic, the fluff in this one...., no it au, watch as stantwt puts together the clues as we get closer to the public reddie reveal, plus things that happen after, bonus of a benverly wedding, celebrity au

don’t break character - HE/THEY RICHIE RIGHTS, richie finds that maybe his journey of identity isn’t over when he hears the word “nonbinary”, very!!!!, fjkdkslahfkl, just him having he/they pronouns is so exciting and flappy hands-worthy

queer eye special: fab 5 meet lucky 7 - queer eye x it, so much comedy, richie and ben build a house as a surprise for eddie!!!!, very sappy richie, disabled!!!! eddie!!!!!

predicament bondage - nsfw, richie is 100% a sweetheart, eddie is fjdsljfkslf i love this version of him, richie is cast as a dom in a movie so he decides to get information from a professional which is eddie but he finds that working with eddie might bring his heart into the mix, a lot of internalized homophobia so watch out, ur honor i love eddie here

inside my morbid mind; lost myself between the seams and i just close my eyes - WATCH TRIGGERS, hitman richie, basically a barry au but also pennywise still exists, still a wip, im currently reading all of the barry aus but this one is one im rlly interested to see go further

work friends and emergency contacts - outsider pov, eddie makes a work friend, fix-it w both eddie and stan living, eddie gets a divorce pre-itch2, damon just wants the best for richie and eddie, reddie getting together, richie visits eddie at work

and a stain on my shirt - venom crossover, vv good, also a fix-it, venom finds another eddie to latch onto, a lot of humor, reddie get together, venom saves eddie

*i feel like i know you (but we never met) - post season 4 of stranger things, ambiguous / open ending, teen rating, oh boy this made me emotional!, without spoilers i have to say this is such an angsty fic and i love it, this fic is written beautifully, the party all forget will because of vecna suppressing their memories, spoilers: mike puts everything together to figure out who the "missing person" is - @andiwriteordie

*bottle it up until it overflows - ohhhh boy, i absolutely love the vecna possessing mike trope and this fic definitely lives up to high standards, rated mature, bad parent ted wheeler and internalized homophobia, basically mike gets vecna'd is the entire plot - @ghoulsanderson

*when everything was fiction, future and prediction - two words: time travel, mike is confronted by his younger self and figures out a few things, very much hurt/comfort, rated teen

*something's made your eyes go cold - TW SUICIDE ATTEMPTS, rated mature, mike is chronically suicidal, very very angsty but relatable (sadly), oneshot - @defendingtammythompson

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