me, gnawing at the bars of my cage: richie tozier is smart!!! he gets good grades!!! he understands bill better than anyone!!! he thinks bev is so tough!!! his impressions are fucking awful when he’s a kid!!! he hates his glasses but thinks it’s cool that buddy holly wears them!!!! his parents don’t always understand him but they love him so much!!! he’s scared of clowns and werewolves and being forgotten!!! he dances with bev in a school talent show!!! and their friendship gives a time traveler hope for derry!!!
Not to ruin your night, but imagine how destroyed Mike is in the aftermath of it all. Losing Stan and Eddie was devastating for the rest of them, after just remembering each other again, but Mike had remembered them the whole time. For 27 years, when he wasn’t doing his research, Mike passed the time imagining the day this would all be over and he’d have his friends back. It was the only way he could bear the burden of being the watchman. He pictured the seven of them together on the other side of It, free from the cloud of Derry, and now two of his friends are dead. Mike never even got to meet Stan as an adult.
He knows what he looked like, though, the way he knew all of their faces, because he’d kept track of them. For 27 years. It was harder for some than others, but the evolution of social media made it basically a hobby instead of a job. He knew when Stan and Eddie graduated college, when they got married, when their parents died, when they got new jobs, and with every piece of their lives he could uncover on the internet or in the newspaper, he imagined getting to see them again, talk to them again, share their lives again.
And then they died, and Mike is left trying to figure out what the hell the point of it all was. He sacrificed his life for his friends only to lose them anyway, and how is he supposed to cope with that?
Richie is a French immigrant, Eddie is a Mexican immigrant, and Bill lost his speech for a while before developing his stutter.
Because of this, Stanley decided to learn French, Spanish, and ASL to communicate with all 3 of them when he first met them, and he taught Eddie and Richie english.
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He met Bill first because he already lived in Derry. He learned sign language because he really wanted a friend, and no one else wanted to talk to him. Bill was overjoyed that someone learned ASL just to talk to him.
Then, he met Richie. Bill wanted to make him feel welcomed because he knew what it was like to not be able to communicate, but he was still unable to speak during this time. So Stan learned French to help him learn English.
Finally, Eddie came along. Richie had a big old fat crush on him but Eddie couldn’t understand all his attempts. Stan had enough and learned just so he didn’t have to deal with their miscommunications.
making instagram mutuals is like “okay so both of our accounts are focused on the same niche and we like a lot of the same genres, i also quite like their posting theme but they use their story too often so maybe i won’t follow them, idk i’ll give it a try” and making tumblr mutuals is like “they made a piece of art about my favourite film last week and we haven’t actually had any conversations but now i’m following them to the ends of the earth”
Sure ghosts way of flirting and bonding is through bad dad jokes and killing someone’s in a flashy way just to get some praise, but soaps is just as bad.
And ghost’s unconventional way of forming a connection actually works on soap so I see that as a win!
Off topic, ghost is like a wild animal magnet. Cats love him. Birds love him. Expect geese. Geese just hate everybody. And he’s a little iffy on snakes
(Even more off topic, 2022 vers 141 gaining the memories of the 2009 codmw2 ?! Thoughts?)
Been seeing takes about the John Mulaney situation where ppl are like “I’m going to keep supporting him bc I still think he’s funny”, “tbh it’s not like John made the trans jokes why is everyone upset??”
People are upset because at minimum, trans individuals didn’t fucking pay get blindsided by tired jokes about their identity? What’s so hard to understand about that??? We can talk about all the issues with John Mulaney’s jokes another time but I think we can all agree, a huge portion of his audience is queer and to see him be buddy buddy with an open transphobe to the point of him literally surprise opening his show: Was wack as fuck.
If you wanna support John after all this and literally don’t care: Just fucking say that. Don’t sit there and try to justify him making his trans audience feel belittled on a night I’m sure they thought would be great fun and ended up being traumatic.
Why are people fighting about Richie’s sexuality again?!?
Please grow up and realize that people can HC him however they want because news flash in the original book the man is straight…. The biphobia I’ve been seeing is crazy and hate is the last thing we need right now.
Richie can be gay
Richie can be bi
Richie can even be trans or nonbinary
if it brings people joy, why take that away from them???
I don’t know how much can be said that hasn’t already been said, but i cannot express how utterly devastated I am about Technoblade’s passing.
So I’ll just put it the best I can, being someone who has dealt with cancer a lot this year, with someone I was close to passing away from it and with my Grandpa fighting it off currently.
I won’t stop making content. He loved what his community made, and in rough times like these we all need a pick me up. He wouldn’t want us to stop because it could be perceived as disrespectful. He’d want us to help each other out and support each other, like we always have. And to those of us (myself included) who’s pick me up was Technoblade, we’ll keep making content of him to honor him. He will never die as long as we are here to keep him alive in memories, fanart, cosplays, fanfiction, songs, and all else.
Technoblade never dies, in the most literal of senses. What he did for so, so, so many people will never be forgotten, and his legacy will last forever.
In the most Technoblade way I can put it, I hope he respawned somewhere that deserves a great man like him, somewhere where he’s happy beyond belief and can see what a positive impact he made on the world. Somewhere where he can fully understand how much we love him.