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Yk how in the movies when the guy would spray some weird type of shit in his mouth before kissing a girl?
That's Richie but with sour candy spray before kissing Eddie
#or stan tbh#and yes#im posting this instead of working on my fic#leave me alone#reddie#richie tozier#eddie kaspbrak#it 2017#or#it 2019#whichever#richie is a nerd either way#im only posting this bc i myself have sour candy spray and its the omly thing i can think of
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a very minor thing about Richieâs death thatâs bothered me for awhile now is how Pete and Ruth (I suppose Grace and Steph as well) donât piece it together after itâs mentioned that Zeke the Fightinâ Nighthawk was murdered
clip for context
i will say that the digital ticket shows more remorse from both Ruth and Steph, but only after Richie is name dropped so yeahhâŠwhy didnât they know Richie was the mascot when other people like Jason (and most likely Max) did? we also know him being the mascot isnât a recent development after Max dies thanks to Jasonâs âmember of this team whoâs gone unappreciated for far too longâ line. that to me implies at least since the beginning of their senior year
a few ideas:
- he never told them because max threatened him is the theory that makes the most sense since âJĂ€german doesnât let nerds go to football gamesâ, but this means he let Richie be the mascot for some unknown reason. was it to let Richie have a bit of happiness that Max still ultimately had control of. I donât know, but itâs fun to think about
- itâs also very possible he never told them because he never had a reason to tell them, but Richie seems like the type of person to talk about the things that make him happy, and he clearly enjoys being zeke
-maybe max never knew, and Richie knew that if he found out that Max would beat him up for it, but this leaves the question of how Jason knows. if Jason knew and not Max, shout out to Jason for not being a snitchâlove that man
- (take this one with a big olâ grain of salt if u donât like michie related things) thereâs a chance that Richie being the mascot allowed him to see other sides of Max that werenât just the bullying side which made Max grow on Richie even just a little bit. he of course wouldnât want Pete and Ruth to know about this, so he kept that and him being the mascot to himself. Jon matteson mentioned once on a stream how out of the nerds Richie felt the worst about Maxâs death and maybe thatâs because he was (by process of elimination) the closest to Max in that group
- a sadder theory is that Pete, Richie, and Ruth actually just werenât that close of friends. they all kind of just formed a group at a young age cause they were all labeled as nerds and sorta just stuck with each other through life cause they didnât have anywhere else to go. I know itâs implied in âgo, go nighthawksâ that Richie being late to class isnât abnormal, but for him to be missing for NEARLY THREE FUCKING DAYS and to have neither Ruth or Pete bat an eye either says something about them, something about Richie, but definitely says something about their dynamic as a group. (this is absolutely just theorizing about worst possible scenarios in no possible way do I see this one being the case)
I know itâs not a big deal like at all (and is a problem with a lot of other slasher media), but it always gets to me when characters move past the death of one of their best friends so fast just because a show needs to keep the plot moving.
*sigh*
either way, Richie deserved so so so much better and I hope heâs being held by Rei and Asuka in wherever the hell he ended up <33
#starkid#nerdy prudes must die#hatchetfield#hatchetverse#richie lipschitz#richard lipschitz#peter spankoffski#ruth fleming#stephanie lauter#grace chasity#max jĂ€german#jason jepson#go nighthawks#fan theory#I say that but rlly itâs just me yapping about how Richie deserved better
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Okay I know it's been a while since NPMD came out but here's my Richie Lipschitz hc: he's deaf or hard of hearing
This is both me projecting my own disability onto a character I like and reasonable due to how Jon played him
The over annunciation of his p's t's and r's is because of speech therapy and trying to fit in at a mainstream school
I know him being a superfan of anime is part of his nerdyness but I know lots of deaf/hoh people who love anime because it's guaranteed to have captions and lots of stuff either doesn't have them at all or is the shitty automatic ones
Falling all over himself as Zeke the Fightin' Nighthawk? He can't hear the music beat or anyone telling him what to do and it's so hard to see in mascot costumes he can't tell when someone tells him to get out of the way
I do think Ruth and Pete would 100% learn ASL or PSE for him
For sure if he had them that boy would have decorated his hearing aids with anime stuff
Probably like Ruth's headgear, his deafness would absolutely have him labeled a nerd and outcast by the school bully
Some edits:
Apparently in the audio commentary Ruth kept having to tell him he's being too loud when he's doing the Naruto run on the way to the Waylon house
It's in a reblog but he asks people to repeat things and he makes sure he's looking at them when they repeat it
#richie lipschitz#op#deaf headcanon#starkid#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#peter spankoffski#ruth fleming#ruth flemming#richard lipschitz#deaf character#deaf richie lipschitz#deaf hatchetfield#hatchetfield#hatchetverse
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this might be a controversial opinion so i will preface by saying that max is one of my favorite characters in hatchetfield and i love him very much. however
i think some folks take parts of his canon characterization (namely, his emotional intelligence and the fact that he acts kinda sweet after the prank reveal) and their neurodivergent/queer/etc headcanons (which are perfectly valid! i am an "autistic trans girl max" guy through and through) and arrive to the conclusion that max wasn't actually that bad of a bully.
as in, he didn't bully the nerds for showing queer/nd traits, he bullied them for other reasons. but like. what other reasons would he have.
like sure, he flick-it tickets richie for being in his hallway, but that's because richie "stinks the place up," and max doesn't want that in his space. richie's self-proclaimed overactive sweat glands are either a health issue or a nd hygiene issue or a combination of both.
he targets pete because of the rumor that he has a small dick. some folks use this as evidence for trans pete (i wholeheartedly agree) but even if you don't consider it from that angle, it's still body-shaming.
ghost!max makes fun of ruth for daring to engage with her dream hobby in privacy. he makes pun after pun about theatre to rub it in. the whole point of bullying is to isolate people who are different, whether they're nd, queer, poor, people of color, disabled, etc...
the takeaway from the "difference between intent and impact" scene is that he uses his emotional intelligence and "inclusive" vocabulary to manipulate people, not that he actually learns anything about inclusion. he'd know what transgender means and would probably say he isn't transphobic, use all the "right" language, but then turn around and make fun of pete for his body.
the "bully uses victim's preferred pronoun!" memes are funny and i'm not trying to police anyone's fandom experience by saying you can't talk about max like that. softening his harsher traits in fanfic where the focus isn't on a max redemption isn't like, a crime. do whatever you want. but sometimes i get the feeling people straight-up forget the way he acts towards the nerds in canon.
to me, the appeal of a max redemption arc is that he goes from a terrible, cruel, arguably traumatized person, to someone who's willing to learn from his mistakes and make amends. not that he was already kind of an okay guy to begin with.
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Max and Steph roleswap AU where Stephâs the school bully/self-proclaimed God of Hatchetfield High. She started dictating what everyone can and canât do and whoâs cool and whoâs a nerd and whether Kyle can date Brenda (the answerâs still no, by the way!) to gain a sense of control. Solomon scrutinizes her every move and doesnât let her do ANYTHING that might make him look remotely bad and affect his reelection prospects. Her mom dissapeared after winning the Honey Queen pageant (but as far as Steph knows she just up and left). She has absolutely no control in her home life and had to find it elsewhere.
Do you see my vision?? Weâd get a sapphic Stephgrace version of Dirty Girl. Weâd get Mariah as the villain. Sheâs the star QB. To impress the high school football obsessed voters, Solomon forced her to either do that or cheer. It turned out she was actually really good at it and she started getting praise and admiration for once (she also gets none of that at home). Between that and being the mayorâs daughter, nobody can stand up to her. Kyle and Jason are her lackeys. Kyle still gets punched in the face for calling Grace a two bagger. Max is around and heâs like âno, I agree with Steph, Grace is kinda cuteâ he gets decked in the face too because he BETTER not be thinking of asking her out (poor Jason has to carry them both out).
Max is still a jock, but he plays a sport nobody at Hatchetfield High really cares about (idk lacrosse maybe), so heâs more of a fringe cool kid. Not having the power over the school he has in canon, he had to find a different way to cope with his Whole Deal so became more apathetic and adopted a cool/tough guy persona instead. He usually manages to fly under the radar, but Steph does pick on him occasionally - she copes with Solomon constantly insulting her intelligence by doing the same thing to others and Max âIâm so fuckinâ scared of skele-uhnsâ JĂ€german is an easy mark. Kyle usually joins in out of desperation for Stephâs approval. Jason will too, but only when the others pressure him into it.
Max needs to get his grades up or heâll be kicked off the team, so he cheats off one of the nerds, gets caught and eventually asks them to tutor him. Doesnât matter which one, pick your poison depending on which ship or friendship you want to be the Lautski of this universe. Iâm gonna make it platonic and say Richie because I love their potential friendship dynamic, I love aroace Richie and I love treating friendships with the same narrative weight as romantic relationships. Steph says hell no, the Pasqualliâs incident happens and Grace convinces them all to plan the prank.
Of course, Steph wouldnât fall for it like Max did. She realizes what they theyâre up to almost immediately, but sheâs still delighted. She finds it kind of funny and endearing that they thought they could scare her with cheap costumes and creepy music. She likes that they planned the prank to get her to change her ways because it means they still think she has the potential to be good. Then she falls and they do Graceâs bury the body plan, but this is the mayorâs daughter and the police canât write it off like they do most disappearances in Hatchetfield so theyâre hot on their trail.
Also, Iâm losing it thinking about how powerful Solomonâs death would be. And how fucking scared Max would be during the summoning.
#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#stephgrace#stephanie lauter#lautity#max jagerman#npmd au#thank you all for tolerating me spamming you with 47472763837 au ideas
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Iâm back Michie girlies and this has been on the dome for a while but Iâve been seeing people mention it and at least one fic has executed this idea (âI once was his tutorâ I salute you đ«Ą) but I need to just present this idea anyways because it has COOKED for a while-
I think it would be absolutely fucking hilarious if Max had started treating Richie the way he did Grace. Like the whole, dumb himbo act where he laughs real hard at non-jokes and tries to rizz Richie up as heâs going to class.
In my head- this is connected to the âRichie tutors Maxâ universe, so in my mind- Richies been helping him out and heâs been getting to know the guy, Max either: 1) eventually realizes how much of a capital P Prude Grace is OR (the funnier option I think) 2) Grace, in her want to get thoughts of Max JĂ€egerman out of her head, goes so far in the opposite direction that she somehow accidentally sleeps with a woman and is no longer âforbidden fruitâ as Max puts it. (Insert side story of Grace battling internalized homophobia as she developed a friends-with-benefits ïżŒturned maybe actual relationship withâŠ. idk Deb or Alice or someone.) ïżŒCue Max looking at Richie and being like âI can totally seduce this nerd, my skills arenât lacking just because I couldnât get Grace.. this is 100% not me subconsciously really liking the dude and wanting to genuinely date him and knowing no other way to outwardly express thisâ
ANYWAYS- point is I need Max to try to flirt with Richie in that himbo way that he did with Grace-and I need Richie âThis projects on thermodynamics⊠what the fuck are you talking about???â Lipshitz to just be constantly confused on whatâs happening to him.
AND THEN when he finally realizes that Max is trying to get with him, I need Mr. Richie âhas definitely never been with or slept with anyone and is just as unhinged and horny as Ruth (need I remind you she said Stephanie was the object of both their sexual fantasies)â Lipshitz to look at Max, really debate over it, before going âI may not have standards but I, unfortunately, have moralsâ and that he couldnât do anything with Max since he was⊠wellâŠhis and his friends bully for years.
Boom, kick start the redemption arc that starts with Max just wanting to sleep with Richie but shifts to genuinely wanting to date him and trying to open up/clean up his act.
(Also- to add to that ââDirty Girl Soupâ Richie versionâ concept that Iâve seen somewhere- I think it would be so fucking funny if Maxâs equivalent to this, scandalous, forbidden, sexual fantasy was just Richie being the most supportive, understanding and healthiest boyfriend ever. Just accidentally fantasizing them in the most domestic situation ever (you know, because it goes against his Literal Monster persona). Like Richieâs, i donât fucking know, holding his hand as they get coffee together and is just so understanding and calming when Max attempts to bully this fantasy Richie, and Max-who is just swimming in toxic masculinity (but is super ok in knowing heâs bi. As people say- heâs an actual asshole but he will bully you using your correct pronouns damnit)- is just like âNO, what are these feelings??? Why do I feel like this??? This is so wrong⊠but why does this feel⊠actually nice???â Yeah⊠funny shit)
#michie#max jagerman x richie lipschitz#max jagerman#richie lipschitz#damn it if only I could write#maybe one of these days Iâll just start writing shit#Iâve always wanted to write fics-#I love that this tag and this ship is just an echo chamber of ideas#we really do be feeding each others huh#nerdy prudes must die#starkid#fic ideas made specifically for me by me
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The Matthews-Goldstein-Lipschitz-McNeils
While I make some more alignment charts, voilĂ , here's my rendition of the Jon Matteson family tree!
Gary and Paul are brothers, and they have an older sister who my sister and I definitely didn't name after Jon himself. There's quite a big age difference between the siblings, with twelve years between Joan and Paul (Gary's somewhere undecided between there).
I've seen many people headcanon Gary as Richie and Trevor's dad, but I just canNOT see that man raising children. Plus, the surnames don't match up. Speaking of surnames, though, Gary changed his on his own accord, purely for his lawyer brand. "Gary Matthews" just didn't have the right ring to it.
Joan has three sons: Trevor, Richard ("Richie") and Daniel. Trevor and Richie are twins (Trevor is eleven minutes older, I don't make the rules). Paul used to be saddled with babysitting the trio, and as a result, he's very close with his nephews, even now that they don't need babysitting anymore. He's especially close with Richie. BONUS: Trevor is the reason Paul had to see Godspell at the rec center. Trev was in it, and he also thought it was awful (in a fun way).
Since Black Friday tells us two of Linda's sons aren't Gerald's, and Lauren has confirmed that Linda and Gary have had at least one affair, we put two and two together and now Gary's the biological father of Trent and Seaton. (Seaton was picked at random, and Trent being Gary's child was just obvious). Whether or not Gary knows this is up to interpretation. It's possible Linda's the only one who knows.
Wallace McNeil and Boy Jerry are brothers and the cousins of Joan, Gary and Paul. Wallace got the f*ck out of Hatchetfield the moment he had the possibility to. Girl Jeri converted Boy Jerry into such deep Christianity, but then he took it further than she ever had.
Due to Lauren confirming Linda and Gary's affair/s (whether it was a joke or not, I take that as canon now), Roman Murray and the Monroe family aren't a part of this family in any official, legitimate way (*cough* looking at you, Gary and his illegitimate children *cough*).
For reasons I hope are obvious, Wiggly isn't included either.
Now just imagine the family gatherings. Summer barbecues, where Trevor takes every opportunity to reference the Barbecue Monologues. Christmas celebrations that Boy Jerry is specifically asked not to show up to. He shows up anyway â even the time they didn't tell him at whose house they were celebrating. Birthday parties where no one has any idea what to buy the birthday person. What does Paul get Trevor the theater kid? What would Boy Jerry get Richie the anime nerd? What does anyone get Paul the Normal Man?
#the best and most cursed family#starkid#starkid npmd#starkid tgwdlm#starkid black friday#starkid bf#hatchetfield#hatchetverse#the guy who didn't like musicals#black friday#nerdy prudes must die#jon matteson family tree#jon matteson#paul matthews#tgwdlm paul#paul tgwdlm#gary goldstein#black friday gary#richie lipschitz#richie npmd#npmd richie#trevor lipschitz#npmd trevor#daniel lipschitz#daniel stopwatch#hatchetfield daniel#boy jerry#hatchetfield boy jerry#girl jeri#hatchetfield girl jeri
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a crack taken seriously fanfic idea:
all the jocks get their own separate weird redemption arcs that never seem to intersect despite how close everything is to each other... until a giant cliche climatic moment like all of them working together to help richie after his attack or something. it causes the friend groups to merge and become one giant battalion against the lords of black.
brenda gets hers by working with holloway and somehow everytime she's relearning morals or subconsiously using magic, none of them went to visit her despite the fact that the diner would probably be pretty fucking popular bc it's good food and unlike pasqualli's, it doesn't have a reputation for giving or getting head if you take someone there.
kyle gets his by hanging out with tom houston and despite the fact that the shop room is the quietest during lunch, nobody ever comes to hangout or talk to mr. houston about a project or grading when he's in the room other than hannah who could also slightly feed into kyle's redemption
jason gets his with an internship at ccrp and getting parented by most of the team (bill is an actual dad, ted is highkey an obnoxious uncle, paul is known to babysit, charlotte is pretty caring, and sylvia seems pretty cool). this one is the one where it's cracky but slightly serious in the way where he slowly starts dropping football but still manages to bro up. there could be a bit of foreshadowing with a bromance break up and get back together because of how jason enjoys his internship more. bonus points if he somehow becomes bros with any of the other nerds in the meantime because of the internship.
stacy gets her through working with beanie's for a short stint of cash and getting a better-ish role model from emma (my god do i love a jaded adult with a better heart than they think getting thrown at a immature, naive, popular kid who believes in something extremely toxic. it is such a rare trope but i love it). despite beanie's popularity, stacy has somehow gotten the hours where the popular kids are held up by things and most of the nerds have hurried out of school.
i want either stacy's or kyle's to be the most wacky of the other jocks not noticing their morals getting better just because kyle's takes place in a room that i assume would be close to the field and mr. houston is dope to hang out with while stacy's change would be the funniest to ignore since it would be the biggest by getting rid of her superficiality, allowing her to have depth, and learning to study more
if we were going to include max in this, i'd hand him off to the nerds, but i think it's crackier that he's still an antag and we turn the langs' play on cheesy 80s movies' cliches where the nerds continue to get beaten down until one takes rule of the school by beating the other jock into submission and the other gets the girl into a play on cringy 2000s movies' cliches where the jocks and nerds have to team up against a common enemy, an even worse and meaner jock, and realize that they're more alike than they think. (grace being crazier than max would be a hard thing to slot into the plot in this case... could be either she doesn't go crazy and get corrupted by the black book or a double play on things, that even if the nerds became cool like the 2000s movies would make them to be in the ending, the hierarchy would still be just as bad)
#hatchetfield#npmd#nerdy prudes must die#brenda npmd#kyle clauger#jason jepson#stacy npmd#max jagerman#stephanie lauter#richie lipschitz#ruth fleming#pete spankoffski#grace chasity#lords in black#fanfic ideas#fanfiction#crack fic#crack treated seriously#sleep deprived ramblings#brain dump#writing#tom houston#miss holloway#beanies#emma perkins#paul matthews#charlotte sweetly#bill woodward#ted spankoffski
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A bit of a long one so strap in:
Not gonna lie I've seen some posts about Max x Richie that have ended up souring me on their pairing.
I liked the pairing at first, but I also can't really see past the bully/victim trope, especially because Max shows very little if any remorse for bullying the nerds all those years. The closest thing was when he was going to say that the nerds throw a good party, but then immediately turned back on that when he fell 3 stories. Not to mention that he chases and tortures Richie before brutally murdering him.
I do find it interesting to play with the transition of Bully/victim to Jock/Nerd, especially if Max did redeem himself and genuinely apologized, but I suppose I don't see that for him. And whether Richie lives or not, I can't see him putting aside the trauma he faced to date Max if Max isn't truly sorry for what he did to Richie and his friends.
I do see that for Jason and Richie though. Jason and Richie have a cute interaction in the musical before the football game, and Jason genuinely shows remorse for making fun of Richie for as long as he did. He even shows some hesitancy before Max dies (when he says "yeah!" when Max asks if he should let Richie off with a warning, and when he says "if [Steph]'s cool with [Pete], then I'm cool with him."). He also apologizes to Grace at the dance for making fun of her. I think Jason doesn't genuinely want to be a bully, but fears being bullied like the nerds if he pushes back.
But without Max there, he's free to be softer, more caring (consensual butt slaps for the win!), and more willing to apologize, maybe even try to make it up to the nerds. He may have hurt Richie and his friends, but I can see Richie seeing the more caring side of Jason and be willing to pursue a relationship if they both wanted. Heck, Richie called him and Kyle his "bros for life" after the two were genuinely nice to him and his friends for about 2 weeks so Richie is definitely willing to forgive.
I have seen a little discourse of pairing Richie with Max over Jason for other reasons (Jason's paired up with Grace later, potentially racial bias, but I think either way people be sleeping on Jason and Richie in favor of Michie.
I'm not here to ship hate though, these are just my opinions.
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A lot of you liked my idea rant about Hatchetfield characters, well, I got more
More things I thought of for Hatchetfield characters
I like to assume that the eltric gods canât do anything outside of Hatchetfeild. Like Bill Cipher in Gravity Falls, there is a barrier around Hatchetfield that prevents them. I can go on about this idea but that would make this idea go on longer than the others
Pete and Steph couldâve chosen to not watch Max and Grace. . .but there was definitely a part of them that was ïżŒcurious on how that worked
Pete and Steph definitely hear the LiB voices every now and then due to the fact they wanted Steph to kill Pete out of the three giving up what they cherish
Iâm a huge sucker for ghosts that have the ïżŒ injuries they received when they died, so imagine Max having a big olâ bloody hole though his stomach cause he died with wood planks through the stomach. Stage wise, thatâs probably a bit difficult to move around in. But story wise, he could-
So, letâs say that Steph and Pete would find each other in every timeline, imagine how shattered Steph would be the moment she found out that everything is messed up when everyone is singing and thinks she can exit the school with Pete until she hears him sing along
After Max died all the nerds were definitely still tense and ïżŒcautious when things were changing because of how long they were getting bullied, sure they were happy but thatâs a huge change in literately a day-
Officer Bailey was definitely a theater kid but due to careers not careering, he became a cop
Mark Chasity is a closeted or repressed Bi, with how that man acts the way he does, he is not straightâŠeither that or heâs a theater kid or both
The two guys in TGWDLM were not Greg and Stu, instead just two random people and Professor was too deep into his musical and his memories to realize that
Richie or Pete couldâve fallen and become vengeful ghosts like Max but their targets would be different. Again, could go on but this idea would be long
If Paul 23 and Android Emma didnât reveal they were the real Paul and Emma, they would both definitely catch on that the other isnât completely humanâŠ.well Paul would definitely notice stuff while Android Emma could probably scan him to find out he isnât human
Alice definitely sneaks out to go to Hatchetfield, and neither of her parents knows cause she got cool excuses
#starkid#nerdy prudes must die#the guy who didn't like musicals#npmd#tgwdlm#hatchetfield#the lords in black#richie lipschitz#peter spankoffski#grace chasity#stephanie lauter#max jagerman#mark chasity#officer bailey#tgwdlm greg#tgwdlm stu#professor hidgens#alice woodward
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If youâre trying to avoid NMT3 spoilers I discuss what we know from the readings and synopsis and a couple things that have been said about the lore.
Thinking about NMT3 (Miss Holloween and Orbweaver)(THATâS WITHOUT DISCUSSING TOM AND BECKY AND THEYâRE HAVING A BABY! I JUST KNOW ZOMBIE STANLEY IS GOING TO TRY TO RUIN THEIR HAPPINESS! TIM AND GRACE!!?!?! RICHIE AND RUTH!! DISASTER NERDS GETTING THEMSELVES IN MORE SHIT! BILL AND CHARLOTTE!! CHARLOTTE MIGHT FIND LOVE!!!) and the Miss Holloway Musical. Specifically I think about how Duke is totally dying in Miss Holloween. There is just no way theyâre going to give us a happy ending (Kim and Curt please have mercy on me with your acting the reading was painful enough i know the actual thing will gut me). I also think about how weâre also getting Macnamara back. It brings up all the questions and thoughts for me.
1. What was Johnâs reaction when he saw Wilbur for the first time after the portal was opened? What about when he realized Wilburâs mind was gone and it wasnât coming back? Did he try to bring Wilbur back? What made him finally give up trying?
2. Who is Johnâs husband? It could be Xander, but Iâm leaning towards it being someone else. I just feel like the âi know what I have to doâ âno donât go in there John!â moment would have been bigger if it was, but it was mid Wilbur monologue so maybe it wouldâve been too clunky to do more. We donât tend to get super huge reactions to deaths in Hatchetfield shows so maybe thatâs just irrelevant.
3. How old is Miss Holloway? Sheâs depicted in the black book. Does that make her as old as itâs author Willabella? Iâm leaning no. TURNS OUT MEG LLOYD TALKED ABOUT IT BEING FOR ORIGINAL WORKING BOYS SCRIPT!! ITâS BECKY!!! BADASS WARRIOR OF LIGHT!!! We could have a moment where it just works out and itâs applicable anyways, but I think we can put that on the back burner and just consider it a depiction of her making the deal. I think if she was enjoying herself as a rockstar in the 1980s she might have just been getting used to her immortality at the time which could make her birth year anywhere from 1900 to 1950. Something about that doesnât seem right either though. I just canât get a read on her as far as her age is concerned.
4. How did Douglas Keane Sr end up in Wilburâs crosshairs? Were he and Miss Holloway friends? He was probably investigating something Wilbur did as sheriff and got in over his head. I feel like whatever it was leads to the initial Holloway vs Cross death match in the starlight theater.
5. What happened to Casey and the three girls Miss Holloway couldnât save? Is Casey one of the three girls? What the hell happened beyond the obvious hatchet men ritual involving murder and burying people alive to grow as trees in the witchwood forest?
6. Why did Ethan recite the magical hat speech Miss Holloway gives to kids to Hannah in Black Friday? Where did he learn it? He totally had a touch of the gift and needed Miss Hollowayâs help at some point in his life didnât he? I also love the idea of all of the people being targeted by the Lords in Black like Paul and Ted having a touch of the gift even though there is no canonical support for that.
Alright I think thatâs all Iâve got for now. Feel free to share your thoughts. Iâm clueless and usually not great at predictions.
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Losers Club Favorite Movies
This isn't about specific movies, but about movie styles
Bill: He likes psychological horror most. He can't take movies where kids get hurt tho (for trauma reasons),but besides those he completely loves it. Horror in general too, although he'll pass if it's way too gorey.
Mike: He likes the historical kind best. Mainly the ones ambiented in 1500-1900, and the war ones in general. He's actually a history nerd (and we love him for it).
Ben: His favorite movies are either romance movies or the ones based in true stories. Romance movies are more of a guilty pleasure, he won't tell anyone about this (besides, maybe, some of the losers). He likes watching movies based in true stories so he can investigate the facts later, and learn something by watching it :)
Richie: Horror. Literally any kind of horror, but mostly slashers. Before Pennywise happened, he really liked clown horror too, and even forced the whole losers club to go and watch Killer Klowns From Outer Space right when it came out (and then laughed at the ones who got scared, because that's the most Richie thing to do).
Stan: Not really a movie guy, he'd rather watch documentaries. Richie laughs at him because of this, but he's the first to shut up when Stan picks an interesting one. Which happens almost always, as Stan is awesome at picking documentaries.
Eddie: Scifi movies are his favorites. He likes thinking of the possibility of a more advanced future, with cooler machines and better technology. When he's 15-16, wanting to rebel against his mother, he starts getting into horror movies because he knows his mother doesn't let him watch those. That phase doesn't last for too long after Richie brings him a very bloody one... but hey, at least it's something.
Bev: She likes musicals best, but honestly she'll watch a little bit of everything. Horror? Awesome. Scifi? Why not. Historical? Cool. Romance? Yeah. She also likes watching bad movies as a joke, those movies you end up rolling on the floor because they're so bad it makes them fun.
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More ideas/headcanons for the âNerds Corruption AUâ
Link to the original post for those who arenât familiar: https://www.tumblr.com/rhondafromhr/738012368733356032/dont-get-me-wrong-i-love-max-redemption-arcs-in
-The LIB adopt their human forms after the first time Max, Steph and the nerds summon them and RELENTLESSLY make fun of their true/eldritch forms. âour real forms would melt your mindsâ yeah sure whatever you need to tell yourself Pokey
-Tinky tries to use having Ted in the bastard box as leverage against Pete, but he just doesnât care because thatâs not his brother, itâs some other Peteâs brother from another timeline so itâs not his problem.
-Once everyone in the group starts acting like an agressive bully the way Max does, Grace finds herself attracted to all of them and has a crisis over it.
-At some point Max tries to apologize for before (âsorry for bullying you guys all these years, you never deserved that, everyone weâre currently bullying does but you didnât.â) Now that theyâre all literal monsters too they just dismiss him like âdonât apologize, we get it now, the power trip is fucking awesome!â
-Maxâs signature move of using anti-bullying slogans to justify and get away with bullying is their favorite. They always tell Max how smart he is for coming up with it.
-They decide Kyle can date Brenda now but plot twist! Brenda leaves him for Ruth. Ruth taunts him for this every chance she gets and purposely makes out with Brenda in locations where heâll have to walk by. Cue Kyle sobbing in the bathroom while Jason comforts him, leading to one of very few sweet, wholesome scenes we get in this universe.
-Ruth is confident enough to perform now, which obviously means they need to sabotage the lead in The Barbecue Monologues so she can take the role. They either just straight up intimidate them into quitting or frame them for vandalizing the school and get them expelled.
-One day Pete randomly remembers the time Brad Callahan pantsed him and he and the rest of the crew just drop what theyâre doing to go beat him up. When they get called into principal Blimâs office they tell him they did it because Brad was picking on Hannah Foster earlier (âwhat do you want us to do? Stand by and do nothing? Being a bystander is just as bad as bullying, we learned that at the anti-bullying assembly!â) Brad has been known to do that so he believes them and lets them off with a warning. When word gets around people actually do mess with Hannah a lot less.
- (already mentioned this in a separate post but Iâll put it here too) after graduation Max, Steph + the nerds run an anime/comic book store together and Richieâs the only one who knows or cares about any of it. Heâs rude and condescending to customers, everyone else is not knowledgeable and completely unhelpful, Grace tells every customer they need to go read a bible instead. They have like 1.5 stars on yelp but stay in business because the next closest similar store is in Clivesdale so nobodyâs going to go there
-At some point Linda Monroe comes in and sees the gang being rude to Becky Barnes, so of course she takes an instant liking to them. She becomes an investor in the store and sort of a mother figure to all of them. She encourages their bad behavior, giving them tips for manipulating people in a more sophisticated way. Max and Steph get especially attached to her (the three bond over their dad issues) and they go to her house once a week to drink wine and and hear all the hot gossip about Lindaâs rich frienemies.
-When Roman finds out about Lindaâs new investment he comes to check out the store and heâs as icy towards her as usual. True to form, Max, Steph and the nerds say the rudest, most out of pocket stuff to him (Richie goes after his appearance HARD, not realizing the irony that he looks pretty similar) and eventually he storms off. Lindaâs touched that they stood up for her. She cries and tells them how proud she is. Max and Steph cry a little too because this is the first time a parental figureâs ever told them that. After this they become obsessed with impressing Linda so they can hear it again.
-Grace babysits Lindaâs kids sometimes and Linda pays her an outrageous amount due to being so out of touch with regular babysitting rates (âitâs one banana, what could it cost, ten dollars?â energy). Grace refuses to babysit for Tom anymore because he canât match these rates. One night he canât find any other sitters, so he tries to cancel on Becky but she suggests they spend a night in with Tim instead, leading to some nice family bonding (okay there can be one more cute wholesome moment, Iâll allow it.)
-Theyâre rivals with Frank Pricely. They hate him because Toyzone cuts into their merch sales. He hates them back for stealing Linda, who used to drop thousands per week at his store. They always scheme to screw each other over. Black Friday doesnât happen in this timeline solely because they pay Lex to destroy the entire shipment of wiggly dolls. This is also what gets them on the LIBâs radar, Wiggly is absolutely furious.
- (This one relates to the popular âPaul is Richieâs uncleâ headcanon) At some point, Paul is at his witâs end with Richie and makes him move out in the hopes itâll force him to reevaluate his life and stop being so awful. He doesnât just throw Richie out, he gives him a timeline and helps him find a place. But heâs not sure if he did the right thing. He mentions this to Ted at work and Ted says his parents did the same to him and heâs totally well-adjusted. Paul just gives him a look and says âTedâŠno.â This is the catalyst for him getting involved with the group and eventually getting his own corruption arc.
-After moving out, Richie becomes roommates with Max and Ruth. Steph and Pete have a luxury apartment together downtown (Solomon pays for it because he canât deal with her anymore and wants her out of his house). Grace has a two bedroom apartment to herself - she had a roommate at one point, but they got fed up and left. Luckily she can afford it with her cushy babysitting gig.
#npmd#nerdy prudes must die#npmd corruption au#max jagerman#stephanie lauter#peter spankoffski#ruth fleming#richie lipschitz#grace chasity#linda monroe#lords in black#wiggog y'wrath#nibblenephim#pokotho#tnoy karaxis#bliklotep#paul matthews#ted spankoffski
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Here's an idea for the michie enjoyers.
Last resorts.
Like.
Prom time is coming around and Max needs a date because duh doy he's the quarterback of course he does. But he either procrastinates or only asks grace - to which she declined thanks to bla bla bla plot - and ends up with noone.
Everyone else on the cheer team has already paired up with their respective partners. He's solo.
But turning up alone is worse than every other option. So he works his way down the chain of order.
Somehow everyone else has a date.
He ends up on the nerds.
He already knows Steph is going with Spankoffski - she was his first choice for friends to go with.
Pj and Reese are going together.
Even Ruth is going with someone.
Which leaves Richie.
It's not like he has anything personal against Richie. He's just sort of. Weird.
#michie#yall are free to take this and run my brain figuratively died at the end there just no more thoughts#a few smaller concepts i had were like#richie has to go to a math event out of Hatchetfield but the other nerds are busy so last resort asking max because he can drive#or max does something probably borderline illegal and richie is the last resort to cover for him because he's the closest house to whatever#add in childhood friends and youve got the reason they do all of these despite their different social status;#they almost feel like they owe it to one another#i love how i say my brain figuratively died and then these tags exist#why do tags help me get the ideas out better huh?
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The Story Max Jagerman Never Got to Tell (Silly Goofy things I think about if Max didn't die and had gotten a redemption arc)
So I like to think that he is very slow going at the whole being nice to people thing. Like outside of the main 5 he is still very much the Literal Monster, and even within the main friend group still verbally bullies them he just isn't physically hurting them anymore. As he learns and grows with them, he gets better. First learning to treat his friends on the football team better, and eventually tolerating the other nerds. He still slips up occasionally and says things in the moment that he regrets later, but he's learning to apologize when that happens.
I think once he finds out that the prank was Grace's idea, he is convinced that it was Grace secretly letting him know that she liked him back. He proceeds to start full on courting her: he walks to all her classes, he buys her flowers on special occasions, she even has special privileges to go to the football games (still early on in character development). One day when she goes, he introduces himself to her parents, and the Chastitys make it clear that no one outside of the church can date their daughter. So Max converts. Or at least tries to. He can never grasp his head around all the rules, and by the end of the week, he has decided that it's better if he and Grace are just friends.
At first, he mostly uses Pete as a free tutoring service. He's upset that Pete won't just let him cheat off of him like he did with Steph, but it doesn't even take Max that long to figure out why Steph is different. He makes Pete a deal that he will let him date Steph if Pete cheats for him. Pete talks him down to tutoring with the promise that if it doesn't work, then he will help Max cheat. It turns out that Pete is actually a really good teacher. Max also has certain learning disabilities (I'm gonna go with dyscalculia since we know he's in remedial algebra) that never went addressed since his dad refused to get him tested. Pete is able to show Max techniques that help, and once Max's head no longer hurts from looking at numbers too long, he begrudgingly admits that it's not so bad. Pete also notices that the halls are little quieter before and after Max's math class now.
He never really hung out with Steph that much before. They knew each other and flew in the same circles, but they never really talked before. Max definitely learns how not-okay his dad is by seeing how Steph's dad treats her. As they get closer, he starts getting madder and madder about how the Mayor talks about her. It takes a long time for him to reflect on what he's saying and realizes that his advice works on him too. Him and Steph start bonding over their horrible dads and help each other out when home gets to be a lot.
Ruth is the one that it is the hardest for him to vibe with. While the others he either finds something kinda cool about or can use, Ruth is...Ruth. He doesn't actively bully her anymore, but he doesn't go out of his way to be around her either. He does inadvertently teach her how to be cool though. It's not intentional, but he is less willing to put up with Ruth's whining about how unlovable she is than the others. One day, he starts yelling back to her that maybe if she wasn't constantly complaining about never having anyone around her, then maybe more people would want to be around her. The others call him out for being out of line, but it starts a path for Ruth about learning to be more confident in herself.
I think Richie is the first one to be onboard with the whole 'Max is suddenly chill with us' thing. He's seen enough anime to know a redemption arc when he sees one. He also has a more intense look on Max's growth being around him so much as the mascot. He's the first one to reach out to Max about coming over and watching some anime with him. Max is unsure at first, but Richie convinces him that Attack on Titan actual is really cool and has a lot of blood and guts and fighting in it, so Max agrees as long as Richie doesn't tell anyone what they're doing. Max actually does get really into it, but Richie notices that he seems pay more attention to the "found family" aspects and the character interactions than the fight scenes. He gives Max DVDs that he can watch on his own if he wants: a combination of shows and movies about sports, fighting, and some introspective character pieces as well.
Max also spends the most time at Richie's house than the others. Not necessarily because he prefers Richie, but because Richie has the most chill homelife (the Chastity's still bug him about coming back to church, Steph's dad reminds him to much of home, and Ruth's parents are convinced that he and Ruth are dating. Pete is a close second, but his weird older brother is over a lot, and Max just gets a bad vibe from him). He will just casually pop into Richie's window some nights and say that they are going to watch anime. Richie agrees obviously, but he also wonders what else is going on. It's only after a really personal episode of My Hero Academia that Max lets slip about his dad.
In short, Max Jagerman has so much potential, and it is a shame that he has been doomed by the narrative to never show it.
#might write this out as a full fic later#but i'm already working on like 3 so#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#max jagerman#grace chasity#stephanie lauter#ruth fleming#richie lipschitz
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One thing I find interesting about The Best of You is how off it feels.
And by that, I mean we've all watched enough of The Hatchetfeild Series at this point to trust a straight forward happy ending, and Starkid know it. So, while this Disney Channel Original Movie-esque number is playing, there's something unsettling you just can't place, and it's not just the tonal shift from the rest of act II.
It's the lack of familiarity with most of the prom attendees. And Jason is the only popular kid there.
There was an active choice to include Detecive Shapiro at the prom instead of Brenda or Bryce's nerd character seen in act I. Same for Officer Bailey and Kyle or Miss Mulberry and Stacy/Reese.
Also, I know Lauren, Jon, and Will's characters are dead at this point, but that doesn't change the fact that we've never seen these prom kids at this point. Not in previous musicals or nightmare times, not even in background shots of this show. (You could argue Jon's prom attendee is his drama student, but there's nothing to support that)
Maybe it's something poignant about being surrounded by strangers and adults. Or maybe it's to position Jason as the one on his own, like Richie was. Either way it's very well done in using audience anticipation to aid the atmosphere.
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