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Ghostface calls and asks what my favorite scary movie is and suddenly he's stuck listening to me info dump for 2 hours

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The first thing out of your mouth should’ve been, “Hey, you wanna come to Derry and get murdered?” Cause then I would’ve said no.

BILL HADER as Richie Tozier in IT Chapter 2

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yeah, this is another IT meta about Eddie Kaspbrak

Do you remember the chapter from IT when the Losers meet at the chinese restaurant 27 years later and more specifically the part when they receive the fortune cookies with their respective fears inside? Yesterday I was thinking about Eddie’s cookie and I had a thought about what he found in it

Yes, a cricket

I’ve been reading Stephen King for a while now and I know how his narration works: when he inserts this kind of basic elements, he’s generally asking the audience to go deeper, to read between the lines. And this applies particularly well to IT and to the character of Eddie (have you noticed that it always seems like he wants to tell us more about him, but ends up being very vague or using symbolism, or is it just me?)

Anyways, I had a strange feeling about that choice, so I went re-reading that passage and I found it very interesting. 

When Bill asks Eddie the reason his cookie contains a bug, he points out it is not: 

«Not just a bug,» Eddie said. «A cricket. There are crickets in our basement. Two-hundred-thousand-dollar house and we can’t get rid of the crickets. They drive us crazy at night. (…)».

 “Why the crickets?”, I asked myself. Couldn’t it be cockroaches or beetles? But no, he chose the crickets. The bugs that make more noise overall. And the house, meant as a building made of bricks, is a well known metaphor for family, marriage, stability

Think about that. Would it be so odd if the crickets were meant to symbolize something (an abstract concept, a truth, let’s put it in this way) that wants to come to light and makes noise to be noticed? It is not a coincidence, in fact, that they find themselves under Eddie’s house (in the basement, oh god, isn’t it a very close concept to the one of the closet?)

And they make noise and bother Eddie and Myra at night, the time of reunion and intimacy with the partner. Weird, yeah.

And if that wasn’t enough, then King adds the element of the dream. Oh, dear old Freud.

«(…) A couple of nights before Mike called, I had a really terrible nightmare. I dreamed I woke up and my bed was full of crickets. I was trying to shoot them with my aspirator, but all it would do when I squeezed it was make crackling noises, and just before I woke up I realized it was full of crickets, too. »

Google helped me with this one, and it was very clear about it: dreaming of insects in bed is related to worries about a romantic relationship or/and about sexuality.

But what I found even more interesting is the fact of the aspirator. Eddie tries to shoo the crickets with his aspirator, an object that since his childhood has embodied his presumed asthma and, in general, the chronic hypochondria. Thanks to the belief that he’s actually sick, Eddie goes on creating a sort of “reality-bubble” throughout the years, in order to keep himself safe. Notice that even if he knows that he’s not asthmatic (after all, Keene told him the truth when he was 10), he still keeps the aspirator close to him. It is the emblem of this fake reality he tries to hold up (his sickness, the ordinary job, the love for his wife), but that is slowly crumbling into pieces. So, in the dream he tries to beat the crickets (again, the truth about Eddie himself that tries to reach the surface) with his aspirator. 

and in my humble opinion, not by chance

So this is it, Stephen King is the master of metaphors and symbolism.

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Hello sunshine

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Fun fact: he’s not straight 🤷🏻

No one will convince me

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gay boy says “way to go bananaheels!”

I love richie tozier more than anything in the whole world

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stan is so much funnier in the books, they watered him down a lot in the movies :(

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ben hanscom my beloved

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Dave Grohl sitting on Gerard Way’s lap before Frank Iero & Ray Toro feed Dave 2 shots at MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 (x)

#UMMMM #did frank just start #stroking him??????? #sorry this is completely unrelated to everything on my blog but it simply must be archived #🎈fav reblogs🎈

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“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

#meeeeee me core #me attempting to write an entire novel based off of one (1) scene i imagined whilst reading dorian gray and my sudden love for hares

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they know that the feelings are mutual but have each been waiting for the other to make the first move

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i feel like richie would be an otter. like he just has those vibes. he even looks like an otter. does that make sense?

No no you’re right it fits.

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Hows the weather down there? ;)

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I see very little art of him & got bored so here

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inktober 5: some rushed neat boys :x

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to me the losers club are like clowns in a clown car. they will pile all seven of them into one car every time. all seven of them in one table booth. they are so annoying and obnoxious to anyone who has ever encountered them in public. Holding hands and blocking the whole street. to me they are like a creature that moves as one. .Do you understand

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reddie is so good because you see a person pining and in love for 30 or more years (of which 27 he didn't remember but his knew it, it was in his bones) and he gets his feelings wholly and fiercely returned by another person who's only just realised his feelings (realised as in he's been loving for 30 years without knowing) both thinking that it couldn't have happened in a million years. yeah