#will hanlon

[bikebian]

i desperately needed to draw them like badly ykwim happy late father’s day to will hanlon

[dubacheryking]

Mike and his father's relationship makes me want to gnaw my own hand off and throw it into the ocean

[darkcrowprincess]

Me praying like an idiot because I'm technically agnostic:

PLEASE PLEASE let the Welcome to Derry prequel series be good and be about the Hanlon family, baby losers, just over all give me more for Mike Hanlon's character because he deserves it! Yes I know the show needs to be creepy, but please we do not need a whole ass origin story about the fucking clown. The clown can hold up by it's self if it's fucking creepy enough. Please do not waste anymore shit on the clown. I just have this vision of baby losers meeting or having a implication of meeting in the future. Heck I want baby richie and baby eddie to meet. I want a whole family history thing about the Hanlon's in the 60s. Having to deal with racism, evil clowns, but Will falling in love with his future wife Jessica. Please just more Hanlon stuff! That's all I want!!

[bit-club]

my notes for week six!

three great chapters this week!!! the apocalyptic rockfight, the album, and the smoke-hole are all really fun especially as they establish the dynamic of the losers as kids.

i really liked the focus on mike and bill in chapter thirteen, splitting perspectives to show bill’s struggle with leadership and mike’s history with henry bowers. bill’s side of the story follows the losers around on the fourth of july, hanging out and looking for a place to shoot of some of stan’s fireworks, having a good time despite the ominous circumstances (massive eyes watching from a ‘morlock hole,’ real piranhas in the river). even as they’re having fun, bill’s anger and guilt weigh on him:

he does not want to be a leader but has that quality that makes the others look up to him, expect him to know what to do (i like how bill is the only one of the losers with a sibling; his loss of georgie only adds to this stress over how they respect and trust him). later in the chapter he also feels guilty over dragging the others into his personal desire for revenge, even though all seven losers have felt that something like fate or destiny is the true driver of their actions at some point.

the other half of this chapter is about mike and henry, and how henry and his gang ended up chasing mike down to the same place the losers ended up that day. i really liked mike and his dad’s conversation about the bowers in this chapter, which includes this bit:

like i genuinely love will hanlon, he’s not a huge part of the book but moments like this are important for mike! this is also the ‘know when to take a stand’ conversation, which of course had an impact on mike fighting back with the losers at the end of the chapter. there’s also this much deserved great moment:

the two perspectives collide at the rockfight scene as bill and the losers decide to help mike fight back against henry; their resulting win is huge for them, and it seems like a good sign, a good indication of their strengths as a group. i also liked this bit towards the end:

to be fair this next chapter is not one of my favorites, mostly because i’m not a fan of the repeat on the photo album scare that was used so effectively earlier, but nonetheless there’s a lot to enjoy here, again mostly in regards to mike and his dad. i like that will hanlon is so interested in derry, and that mike’s reasoning is both because will wasn’t originally from derry, and because derry naturally has a lot of interesting history (in part due to pennywise). i liked this part, as the kids are looking through the photo album, especially since this scene happens almost right after that apocalyptic rockfight and seems to imply the worst is yet to come:

the smoke-hole chapter is my favorite of the three though! like many instances thus far we get another question as to how much of the losers actions are theirs vs this higher power they all feel, though at this point we’re unaware of what this higher power might be. i also like the comparison of it to an adult, an unwelcome one at that, it emphasizes the importance of the fact that the losers are kids with no real power outside of themselves and their friendship.

this part was also really nice, i really love richie’s inner monologue since his appreciation for his friends always shines through, and i like how counted in is what matters to him, how being a part of something is so important to him.

but my absolute favorite part of this chapter has gotta be the smokehole scene— the pennywise lore is CRAZYYY and i’m obsessed with it. this brief glimpse we get into it’s origins is so interesting, and i really like the comparison to the ark of the covenant (this scene actually reminds me of the one where the aliens arrive in dreamcatcher, although i prefer this one by far).

i think the whole scene is so interesting, and i love that this happens outside of pennywise’s influence, as opposed to almost everything else strange and hallucinatory the losers have encountered. did they have an honest to god vision, or was there some sort of divine intervention— mike and richie physically left the clubhouse during this scene, so i’m more on the side of divine intervention. still! i love the lore, and i love how much this idea of otherworldliness seems to raise the stakes even higher for the losers.

[bandcampfun2021]

So, the cast of the prequel show 'Welcome to Derry' has officially been announced and I am excited. Even though it won't come out until next year, I am excited about what the prequel tv-series may bring and the return of Bill Skarsgard.

While there have been some theories about what the show may be, even with as little information we have about it, I personally believe that this prequel series will go into a character's history that was very underrepresented in the two films.

If you haven't read the book, Mike Hanlon's family history and his father's encounter with IT are very fascinating. Mike's father is one of the few adults in Derry who knows of the existence of IT and has firsthand seen the Black Spot fire.

But instead of this fascinating history, both Mike's parents are already killed by the events of the first film, and it's heavily implied that Mike's grandfather has faced IT in the past.

Hopefully, this prequel series will give Mike Hanlon and his family some level of justice by expanding more on both his father and his grandfather and their encounters with Pennywise in the 1960s and before (when Mike's grandfather Leory Hanlon was around his grandson's age).

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

"That's not such a bad thing...in nightmares, we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess." - Will Hanlon, 'IT' by Stephen King

[asexual-juliet]

what the it movies did to will hanlon was unacceptable btw

[eddiesnapback]

@neorxnawangs YOU. YOU GET IT.

fun reminder that Will Hanlon moved to Derry because he fet drawn to it, even after living through the burning of the Black Spot and said that “I’d seen the South and I’d seen the North, and there was the same hate in both places.”

fun reminder that Will Hanlon (and Dick Halloran) lived through the Black Spot burning down.

fun reminder that Will Hanlon joined the army after his father died, only 16 years old, to help send money back home to his mom and little brother, and was stationed in Derry, that he got out and something pulled him back years later.

fun reminder that Will Hanlon once said about the Bowers, “The father’s a turd and the son’s a little fart.”

fun reminder (and this one really is fun) that he once put a rifle under Butch Bowers’ chin and told him that if he messed with his family again or called him slurs, he would shoot him on sight.

fun reminder that Will Hanlon was a really fucking good dad to Mike and we were robbed.

[gloomy-prince]

Trans Eddie au pt 41! Struggling to think of a quip. I got nothing

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Preview for the next ep available now on patreon!

[thelosers-club]

is this funny

[w0lfwren]

what clown are you guys talking about it 2017 was a coming of age comedy

(another one)

[dubacheryking]

Sometimes u just gotta think about will Hanlon for a little bit

[darkcrowprincess]

Hanbrough thoughts:

*They're 16. In this au Bill told Mike he's staying in Derry with him so hes not alone these 27 years. Mikes dad hasn't died yet. Warnings of implications of underage sex. But its not graphic.*

Will Hanlon to his wife first thing in the morning: A white boy is cuddling naked with our son in the barns hayloft.

Jessica Hanlon who was making breakfast drops the egg in her hand in surprise, it splats onto the kitchen floor: What?

Will Hanlon: Bill Denbrough, you know one of Mikes friends? Well they're up there in the barn.

*A few moments earlier*

If Mike Hanlon was not in his room, his father usually found him in his hiding spot in the barns hayloft. Mikey would go up there after super. Usually to read, or look through the scrapbook Will gave him. Maybe listen to some music on some of those mixe tapes his friends gave him. He'd been doing that most nights for years, deep thoughts bouncing around in that boys head till he fell into a heavy troubled sleep. Sometimes filled with nightmares, if the mumbles and cries Mike made were anything to go on.

That was the only reason Will Hanlon didn't call out for his son when he went to the barn to get him. He wanted to give his son a few more moments of sleep. He had trouble enough already with it.

So when Will Hanlon climbed up the hayloft latter to go gently wake up his son, he was definitely flabbergasted by what he saw.

A white boy, Bill Denbrough to be precised. Was tangled up with Mike amongst the hay. Laying softly asleep on his chest as if it was the safest place to be. Mike was holding him right back. As if he felt safe too. Tangled up like that (with only a big thick planket made by Mikes grandma keeping them warm and hiding their nakedness. Their clothes thrown carelessly around them) they looked like light and darkness intermingling in peace with one another. Like it was suppose to be. Soft and peaceful. The most peaceful Mike Hanlon has looked a sleep in a long time.

*Back in the kitchen*

Jessica Hanlon: And you just left them like that? You didn't say anything?

Will Hanlon: Well I didn't want to embarrassed the boy. Plus Mike looks so happy.

Jessica hopeful and interested. They both knew how melancholy their son has been lately: Really?

Will Hanlon nods: Really, but this sure is going to bring a lot of trouble to the both them. Especially Mike. You know what people are like. You know what Derry is like.

Jessica Hanlon laughs sadly: That is understatement William.

Jessica Hanlon than becomes a protective mama bear: But its our son. Whatever happens nothing is touching Mike. Either of those boys.

Will Hanlon protective too: Of course.

Jessica turns back the stove: Now onto important business.

Will Hanlon looks at his wife in confusion: ??

Jessica sweet as honey and a bit playful: Think that boy will like to stay for breakfast? As his mother its my duty to tease Mike about his love life. Especially if their doing it like rabbits in the barn.

Will Hanlon laughs and kisses his wife.

*Later a stuttering (even more that usual) and blushing Bill and Mike will have breakfast with Mr and Mrs Hanlon. It will be a funny and sweet little moment. And the happiest Mike and Bill have been for a long time.*

( I hope this is good. I have no idea, but I like it. There needs to be more hanbrough)

[bit-club]

notes from week four :p

happy kay mccall week everyone i hope you enjoyed kay mccall week. i love her, and i love her love for bev, and i love her hate for tom. this is the exact woman we want bev marsh to have as a friend, someone who will look out for her and give her honest opinion on men like tom without ever making bev feel at fault or guilty. the care she shows bev in this scene is sooo important to me because this seems to be the only adult friendship beverly has, and i also like how it continues the themes of what love&friendship mean, especially for adults working with confusing childhood trauma:

i also appreciate that the book is written so that as the characters as adults remember things we as readers experience it for the ‘first time’ as well, since the two timelines are interwoven to emphasize how a traumatic childhood will continue to impact adulthood. this section for example comes right after bev meets up with kay after leaving tom, and shows how beverly felt about her father as a child:

the horrible truth is that her father is both extremely abusive while also occasionally acting like a father should. bev knows he has the ability to love her and care for her but he doesn’t, and that must mean it’s her fault, the same way she’ll take the blame when she does something ‘wrong’ and tom punishes her for it. while kay on the outside can see it for the abuse it is (and beverly knows on some level that it is wrong), it’s still difficult for bev to accept that she deserves more because growing up she was taught that love is something you have to be good for, something earned through obedience. it’s also telling that her mother suspect that her father is sexually abusing her but unwilling to explicitly ask beverly or explain to her what is and isn’t appropriate for a father/daughter relationship. i also like that the horror in this scene comes from beverly seeing all the blood in the sink but both her parents being unable to; beverly thinks she’s going crazy, again blaming herself and making her feel isolated.

i also really love this bit of foreshadowing:

throughout the rest of the chapter we get more of her friendship with ben, eddie, and stan which is really fun, i particularly enjoy the laundry scene. it’s just another incident where the kids are forced to take matters into their own hands. i also really like that we get stan’s scene in the standpipe, but his reaction to it is very interesting as well:

this is honestly theeee stan moment to me. that last section i so generously highlighted for you is literally burned into my mind i love it so much. and it makes sense, that this is how stan thinks and how he processes the world as a child, already so logicbound that as an adult he would not be able to accept it. i also like that in this chapter he’s described as small, economical, and graceful, kind of emphasizing his weird rational adult mind and his actual age.

up next we get the second interlude! mike hanlon’s family is so interesting to me, and i like that there is a lot of his personal history tied to the town history, like his father seeing the bird after the fire at the black spot and will hanlon’s own feelings of being called to derry to have his family— again there is a sense of fate and destiny, like stan uris noting that ‘everything leads to everything’ mike notes that there are wheels of the universe, and they seem to be geared towards making each of the seven losers meet, manipulating even their parents to this end:

‘good can be awful as well’ is also interesting— bad consequences of good actions? it’s definitely ominous, and adds to the dread that’s building in this chapter.

the same concept of circles comes up in the next chapter as well, once all the losers meet and get reacquainted. mike feels like their original circle of seven has been broken with stan’s death and they will be forced to make a smaller circle, which is something he is unsure about. i actually really like how uncertain mike is in this situation, he’s just presenting the facts and his theories as he understands them. he truly does not expect any of the losers to stay, but he could not break their promise to come back. he’s just doing what he thinks is best to keep them informed. there’s a great line in this chapter about how librarians sit on the ‘peak-seat of eternity’s engine’ and i think it’s a perfect description for mike, who sees and hears as much as the town will tell him (and let him save— there’s already been a few instances of mike being noted as the man who is trying to preserve histories and certain parts of derry, like the alladin).

anyways, back to the circles, this time noted by bill denbrough at the losers reunion:

time is the thing in this novel i think i find most compelling. time is the circle drawing them in, unable to let them go on. their memory loss is the same as losing time (remind me to revisit THAT idea in the last chapter), but it’s also interesting that this one paragraph connects a direct line: time = pennywise = losers, all interwoven and possibly unable to escape each other. pennywise wrote come home, come home, and it’s implied earlier in this chapter that there is a love and need for pennywise in derry’s residents, and i think that while the losers promised to come back pennywise might also need them to, definitely wants them to. like mike hanlon said, a certain order needs to be restored, and the losers left behind unfinished business in their childhood. time = pennywise = losers because they’re all circling around that one event 27 years ago, and none of them can move on until it’s all truly done.

[theartsharki]

Let’s hope his bark is worse than his bite.

Drew some werewolf Richie and enjoyed every second of it.

[sillylittlemeowmeows]

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