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Hey, everybody. I'll try to make this quick. In case you haven't heard, I'm dealing with a broken tooth that I need to get extracted as soon as possible. Well, given my dad's mental health issues, we don't have an income right now, which prevents me from getting not only that, but also any sort of healthcare. In addition to that, I suspect I might be dealing with some sort of gynecological condition that I won't detail here (but you can ask me if you want) and I need to get checked as soon as possible, since there is a long history of issues in the women of my family.

So I'm asking for donations through either ko-fi or Paypal (you can ask me privately through PM). I hate to do this, but I'm afraid is my only hope. Besides, my dad requires lots of constant medication we can't afford. So any help will be well-received, even if it's just a single dollar.

I'm also willing to write fics for wwdits, good omens and basically anything at this point, if I can get a proper grasp of the concept. You can message me about that as well.

This website has been incredibly generous with me in the past and I'm so grateful for all of you. If you can't donate, please just signal boost, I need this to get to as many people as possible, because I can't take the pain anymore.

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Well, it happened again

My depressed dad tried to kill himself again. Almost succeeded this time; he threw himself in front of a car. He's our only source of income and is now in the hospital. We'll have to pay medical bills, new meds and also ran out of food.

I'm also depressed since I recently turned 25 and I haven't done anything with my life. I feel useless, worthless, unwanted and can barely leave my bed. But what worries me is that my mom is going through all of this on an empty stomach.

So straight to the point: here's my kofi. Anything you can send will help at this point. dm me for my PayPal if that's more comfortable for you.

Thank y'all for your support. I'm so sorry I can't even finish my stupid wips.

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I hate doing this, but I need help

Some of you might know my dad is mentally ill. He tried to take his own life a couple times this year and now he's not going to work while they regulate his medication. His company usually gives us money to help us go by, though is rarely enough to support a family of three. That's why I'm always asking for donations or people to commission me.

Today they were supposed to gives us a small check, but they decided to move it to Friday. No one told us until this morning, so we couldn't manage our money better to make it for two more days. We have run out of food. My dad can't take his meds on an empty stomach and I'm getting lightheaded, since I haven't gotten a meal since last night. I also got an ED, so it's extremely important that I eat no matter what.

Please, anything you can send us will help. I'm trying to get a job, but it's not easy, since my health isn't the best. I don't know how I'm going to survive, I'm extremely weak right now. Please signal boost and donate anything you can. It doesn't have to be a great donation, just a couple of dollars to make ends meet and buy food.

This is my kofi: https://ko-fi.com/n0989

If you'd rather do it through paypal, send me a DM.

If you want to commission me to write you something, my fandoms are Good Omens, Smiling Friends and What We Do In The Shadows. I'll write anything at this point.

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Al and Sophie talking big time about keeping their intimate life private but literally everyone knows when they have sex because they have a sex song that they literally spend the entire day singing "quietly", thinking no one can hear them.

Them the entire day: 🎶we're gonna have sex tonight. It's gonna be cool, it's gonna be nice. I will bring the condoms, you can bring the fun, cause you and I are having sex tonight🎶

Someone the next morning (probably Katia): so... how was last night?

Them: :o

Stath just panics and avoids Sophie for a week.

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I need help to afford my studies and feeding my family

Hey, Cheesecake here. I know most people around here are aware of my situation (my dad's illness, our debt, my own disability...), but right now I really need help. It doesn't matter if it's a small donation or commissioning me to write you some niche nsft, anything will help right now.

My dad's been sick for a while. Depression, panic attacks, kidney stones, he seems to have it all. A few years back, we were the caregivers of a disabled elder who lived with us and needed her own space in the house (due to her dementia and loss of bladder control). We simply couldn't have her in our living room. So my dad's mother (who was always abusive to him, who is responsible for most of his mental health issues and who tricked us out of my grandad's inheretance) offered to help us afford a home with enough rooms for all of us. She literally swore on my grandad's grave she would help.

Of course she didn't. Her own issues grew to the point she was almost physically violent against my mother and me, and due to the fact we depended on her to pay the bills, we couldn't do anything about it. We just took her abuse until she decided to walk away one day, claiming to hate us and only wanting to help my dad (who she still told to kill himself if he felt like it, during a depressive episode)

Despite the debt (both from housing and medical bills), we got an agreement with the agency. We could pay, though it wouldn't be easy. Then the pandemic happened, my dad's work temporarly closed and we were evicted. Literally three days before the date they would throw us out the street, my dad's company offered us a place (very, very shitty, I can make another post about it if you want) to live for as long as we were paying our debt.

But my dad's entire salary goes to that debt. We don't see a penny and are surviving solely on food tickets they don't even give us sometimes. We can't even afford shampoo, because the few dollars we get are for my dad's meds (that he literally needs to function). We're also dependant on him, since my house doesn't even have a door and someone always has to be here, because it's in a very dangerous neighborhood.

This is why I'm always asking for money and here's what I need the most help for. Recently, I got into a very exclusive scholarship program. 50% off, three months and a diploma on marketing, the most demanded profession in my country. It's a great opportunity, not only because it's a growing area with lots of work, but also because I just can't do any job. My body is too weak and my anxiety too bad. I worked in retail for a month and my body literally gave up on me. My legs and back never turned back to normal.

Of course I'm looking for other jobs, but it's more of the same and employers just don't take people without studies. This is quite the desperate situation and in three months it'll all be different, hopefully. My boyfriend is helping as much as he can, but he's not free from problems either and I don't want to depend on him. It scares me to depend on anyone.

I need help. We can't do this on our own. So please, if you have even just one dollar, it will mean the world to me. You don't have to donate if you don't want to or don't trust a stranger on the internet; I can write you something. Writing commisions have saved my ass a million times.

Please, any support you can offer will be greatly appreciated. I'll never forget.

TL/DR: my dad is chronically ill, I'm disabled myself, we're paying debt and surviving on food tickets that aren't garanteed either. I need help to support my family and study a career with massive opportunities in a school that does a lot to help you succeed.

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/n0989

If you'd rather use paypal, contact me through PM.

If you want me to write you something, contact me through PM too.

Thank you so much and please signal boost.

#mutual aid #signal boost

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Signal boost <3

My dad's suicide attempt medical bills have left us on negative numbers. If we don't get even a few dollars, we won't be able to afford food till next Friday. The fridge is already empty, he can't take his meds on an empty stomach. Please signal boost

Ko-fi

If you'd rather use paypal, please PM me for the info. Any amount counts, we're desperate.

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My dad is mentally ill, he tried to take his own life and we need financial help

My dad's been ill for years now. We lost our home because of that and he is the only one with a job, which he hasn't attended to in months. We can't make the ends meet, my mother and I share the same pair of shoes and, a couple days ago, our shower broke down again. We can't even take showers now. We ran out of money for food and the meds he needs to remain functional after a very recent suicide attempt. My period is most likely coming in a few days and we can't even afford pads.

Please, if you can, signal boost and donate to my kofi. Don't get me wrong, our situation is always bad and we always need extra help, but this is more extreme than anything we've ever dealt with. Even just a dollar will make a great difference for us.

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Life isn't treating me too nicely and I need economic help

I hate to do this here. I feel it makes me look like a scammer and of course I won't blame anyone for believing that. Rest assured that if you want to commision me to write you whatever you like best, I will take the offer without thinking. I don't want charity if I can have it otherwise, but I can't afford refusing donations.

My dad is very sick. He's depressed, suicidal and his kidney is failing. Last week he tried to kill himself and now he's in a facility as he gets better. He is the only source of income because getting a job is literally impossible right now, we live in a dangerous neighborhood and he can't be left unsupervised. He hasn't worked in months and we don't have a single friend of family member who can help us. We lost our house last year and had to move to the worst place possible so we wouldn't be homeless.

It's a nightmare, I don't know if I'm going to eat today or the next day or the day after that. Every single week is like that and I'm so tired. My mom and I share the same pair of shoes, all of her clothes have holes in them, we're living on pocket change and ran out of it. We barely could get food for our cat and she hasn't gone to the vet in years.

Please, please, this is a desperate situation and it's not even a punctual one, it's my everyday life since before the pandemic started (then it only got worse). I'm not asking you to signal boost if it makes you worried, but if you can, please consider commisioning me or donating to my ko-fi. Anything will be better than nothing and I'll be forever grateful.

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I watch IT as a comedy because its most iconic character is a clown and it still managed to make of the fanbase the biggest clowns ever.

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Mark Cohen's new documental is looking great.

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fuck, marry, kill but instead it’s

get them randomly assigned as your lab partner for a whole semester, get trapped with them on a broken elevator for ten hours, and they’re your employee trainer for your new job at McDonalds

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Me, knowing that It absolutely sucked but absolutely loving (most of) the actors/characters (not necessarily Andy's version of the characters but still): Yeah I love It...

I've grown more and more disappointed since I first watched it lol

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Y'all brainwashed the shit out of me to a point I left the theater after IT chapter two thinking "omg such a good movie" and having feelings about it.

My dumb manipulated ass literally forced itself to cry at a mom joke and I wrote fanfiction in the bus.

And I can't be the only one because before and recently after I watched the film all I could see was everyone going like "Angle Maraschino invented gays" and now we're all on the same page, ranting eternally about what a shit show that film was.

#anti-it

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the bottom line of what went wrong with Reddie is that book!Richie would never have fallen in love with the Eddie that was depicted in Chapter 2

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I think 1990 reddie is the most powerful tbh

Reasons why 1990 Reddie is very powerful:

The scene where Eddie accidentally kicks his popcorn onto the Bowers gang and then Richie comes to the rescue like a knight in shining armor and straight up dumps his soda on them to divert attention away from Eddie and onto him. 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Frequent use of Eddie Spaghetti which, although not as cute as Eds, serves the same purpose.

The way they tilt their hips toward each other at the Chinese restaurant like what IS that???

The way Eddie calms Richie’s rage and uncertainty with just a silent look and soft shoulder touch. 🥺🥺🥺

All of the touching!! And laughter!!

When Richie says he can’t help Eddie with his virgin problem as if anyone was asking him to?? The overcompensation was strong... his mind went there instantly.

The miniseries preserved Richie’s sense of humor! They removed his racist caricatures without compromising his whole jokester vibe, which is a feat that Andy completely failed at.

Eddie is kinda grumpy and high strung, but also incredibly soft, caring, and affectionate. Another thing Andy failed at, striking that balance.

Richie! Carries! Eddie! Out! Of! The! Sewer!!! If you want to write an Eddie Lives AU, use the miniseries as inspo! Especially because...

Richie has that comedy partner in the epilogue that looks and acts like Eddie... might as well BE Eddie right? Right!?

Height difference. 🥺

Dennis Christopher and Harry Anderson.

There’s undoubtedly more, that’s just off the top of my head. I still think book Reddie is #1 but miniseries Reddie is indeed powerful.

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hey there! i am curious about your opinion regarding the different approaches to eddie's death in every media. you mention it in some metas but i don't think i've ever seen an individual post directly talking about it. i dunno, i'm just really interested! 💕

I think by far the most well done version is in the novel, mostly because it focuses entirely on Eddie during his death scene. It’s told from his POV, it’s focused on his story arc and the things he needs to overcome and accept about himself, and it’s honestly really beautifully written. Eddie’s death is about Eddie, as it should be. 

I mean... with prose like this:

“Far away. Unimportant. He could feel everything running out of him along with his life’s blood . . . all the rage, all the pain, all the fear, all the confusion and hurt. He supposed he was dying but he felt . . . ah, God, he felt so lucid, so clear, like a window-pane which has been washed clean and now lets in all the gloriously frightening light of some unsuspected dawning...”

And this:

“Fading, fading back. Becoming clearer and clearer, emptying out, all of the impurities flowing out of him so he could become clear, so that the light could flow through, and if he had had time enough he could have preached on this, he could have sermonized: Not bad, he would begin. This is not bad at all. But there was something else he had to say first.”

.... There’s really no competing with it. Absolutely nothing any adaptation tries to accomplish could ever match it; Eddie’s poetic acceptance of himself, and the washing away of his fear and doubt.

In the novel, Eddie makes the choice to do what needs to be done to severely wound IT, even if that means sticking his whole-ass arm inside its mouth. He knew what could happen. He’d known it since before he even got to Derry. He’d known it since he was a child, that he’d die for his friends if that’s what it came to, if that’s what they needed from him. That Eddie is facing IT head on when he dies is a display of his agency and his bravery, and he does enough damage to make it possible for Bill and Richie to finally kill it for good.

In the miniseries his death is kind of a joke, tbh. Like I get it, they couldn’t have much gore, they had a small budget, and were limited by the special effects at their disposal. But IT literally barely touches Eddie and then he falls like two feet and gracefully dies. The most that could’ve happened to him is maybe a couple of cracked ribs and a bump on the head. But that being said, the miniseries also had Richie carry him out of the sewers slung over his back like a Big Strong Hero, which gives it major points. And because of that, it actually leaves room for an alternate ending: that Eddie simply fainted, was fine, and the comedy partner that conveniently looked exactly like Eddie actually was Eddie. Obviously. 

Ch.2... well, it made Eddie’s death entirely about Richie’s pain, not Eddie’s self-acceptance. Eddie wasn’t even facing IT, wasn’t allowed to make the decision to perform self-sacrifice, because the filmmakers wanted to make his death more traumatic and shocking for Richie. The entire thing is centered on Richie, and while Bill Hader certainly acted it very well, it was just a continuation of the same trends the entire film had been following: pushing Eddie’s arc aside, forcing him to take a backseat to Richie. In the end, he assumes the roll of Dead Love Interest, a character who serves no purpose other than to be Fridged in order to fuel the protagonist’s revenge/pain. And on top of that, Eddie died for nothing anyway because all the Losers actually had to do was, apparently, bully IT to death. 

I get that it’s hard to translate text to film sometimes, especially for a character whose development happens primarily through inner monologue, but if they had given Eddie’s character arc any weight and attempted to stay true to his book characterization at all, his death would have been a lot more meaningful. If they had developed Eddie as a character instead of just... y’know, letting Ransone play JDG and JDG play himself, they could’ve really done something. And if they had bothered to develop Reddie at all throughout the movie, rather than leave it for a post-mortem reveal, Richie’s reaction would have hit harder too. 

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