#derry maine

[newwavesylviaplath]

derry, maine (technically)

[joeover]

welcome to derry is about to be so crazy bc if you think about it, this is the first time there’s new It canon in 37 years. every other It adaption has been just that, an adaption of the novel. new ideas and characters are about to enter our beloved story and probably even have some effect on the characters we know and love 😶

bc andy muschietti loves a good cameo so i doubt he’ll be able to resist at least a nod to the losers club. 😭

you know what this means though… NEW IT LORE IN 2024 😍😍😍😍

[midwestmunster]

Behind the scenes of IT (1990)

[lesbianrustcohle]

delighted to report that paul bunyan homophobically bullied me and chased me around derry bangor, maine today

[ellecuartsy]

The Doors of 29 Neibolt St.

I found an old illustration of mine! This is one of the most detailed pieces I've ever made, and it holds a special place in my heart to this day. Inspired by one of my favorite horror movies!

[the-losers-are-still-losing]

so i just published on ao3???

i guess i should be advertising this a little more confidently, but this is kind of a strange experience for me so there you go.

i wrote a 2.7k losers club fic as a method of procrastinating nanowrimo, and now it’s actually out there in the world so,,, check it out!!

it features all of the losers, it’s based almost entirely upon the book as opposed to the miniseries/films, and it’s pretty much just me filling in the gaps (episodically and emotionally) between them fighting it and leaving derry ⤵️

[abnormalstarfish]

The Losers Club should just have really strong Maine accents (specifically Down East Maine because I’m pretty sure Derry is near Bangor)

+this (page 311)

I’m pretty sure there are more examples but this is the first one I can think of.

[flaringgoosebumps]

The losers club moved out of Derry and all forgot they were queer and polyamorous, that's why they have to remember

[lavaspark]

Ok I think it needs to be talked about more that in the 1990 IT movie Richie mf Tozier could have pulled ANYONE from the Losers Club within three minutes.

They were down BAD.

The scene where bill is talking and Richie hooks his arm around his shoulders and bill just short-circuits??? SEEMS PRETTY GAY TO the ME.

And when he drapes himself around Stan’s shoulders and just starts monologuing while Stan stares at him adoringly???

Bev kissing him on the cheek and them mutually laughing about it right afterwards???

Richie Tozier could have pulled every mf one of them with no effort at all and I think that’s beautiful.

[dreamyzworldlove]

They got me

Babies first it art

I drew Eddie aswell but I haven’t gotten his face right yet

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If you like my work please reblog!!

[lexilapis]

Happy 50th Anniversary to the book that started it all! Thankee Sai King for never giving up. I know I wouldn't be the same without you! Long days and pleasant nights.

[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!!

[audhd-nightwing]

richie tozier 🤝 will byers

canonically gay bitches who are in love with their childhood best friend and grew up in a cursed small town

[alsoitsjunie]

patrick hocksetter x female bully victim

ASKFJSKDJHSLA BLESS YOU FOR GIVING ME SOMETHING TO WRITE ILY (PSA) if you like any of my work, pls pls pls request something!! i love writing these!

okay i got this in the bag. im not gonna use a lot of descriptive terms for the girl in this because i didnt get a lot of input WHICH is not a problem but i dont wanna make this unfit for the requester (or anyone frls) anywayss basically the reader in this is has been targeted for quite a few years, starting in elementary with bowers and hocksetter, then in middle school with huggins and criss. i also wasnt sure if this was supposed to be a ship or romantic or not butt im making it a little bit. but not a lot. im gonna js start writing now i hope you enjoy!! also this might be a little long.

little one

patrick hocksetter x female! bully victim

(first person)

tw! stalking - lowkey sexual harassment - mentions of suicide-

first day of 5th grade, stepper elementary school derry Maine. my mom had picked an outfit for my first day, a pair of overalls and a little striped short sleeve with my boots and some ponytails. thinking back, that was an adorable outfit. yet the way i remember feeling when they ruined it was not.

i had that class with dumb and dumber themselves, patrick hocksetter and henry bowers. i didn't know much about them at the time, considering that 5th grade was the first year i had a class with either of them. id heard rumors about henry and some boys he was friends with being huge bullies and to steer clear of them, so when i walked into that classroom on the first day and saw them sitting in the back corner, warning signs flashed in my peripherals.

id always been an anxious kid, hell my parents bothered me about it every chance they could get. anyways, i was already having stomach quivers about starting school, and now i was in the same class as them. of course, as i was trying to lay low, the teacher decided to put me at the table in front of them. i could just feel the terrible intent radiating off of the boys behind me, through the icebreaker games, through math, reading, science, and even recess. recess was where i met my best friend, Emma. she was in the other fifth grade class, with the other two boys, reggie and victor? i think that was his name. she told me all about the things people say about the group.

especially patrick. they say he killed his younger brother with a pillow when he was five. im still shocked to this day about that. but i remember going back to class after that and feeling oddly cold sitting down in front of that boy. throughout the rest of class, i was slowly preparing myself to ask the teacher to move my seat. so when the dismissal bell rang, i waited for the rest of the students to leave, including patrick and henry, to go to the teacher and tug on her sleeve to ask her to move my seat.

the next day, she sat me across the room, next to a boy named jonathan. i was feeling much better about that class, until about halfway through lunch. i was sitting with Emma and Jonathan, chatting about our highscores in dig dug. out of nowhere, it got extremely quiet in the lunchroom. i stopped talking and carefully looked around, before realizing everyone was looking at our table. my blood ran cold as i realized Emma was staring at something directly behind me, dead eyes and mouth agape.

slowly i turned around, only to be met eye to eye by patrick hocksetter. he had a sca smile on holding a balloon filled with something and a thumbtack. before i could even ask what he wanted, he stabbed the balloon directly above my head, letting bright blue liquid splash over my hair, and down my face and clothes. he erupted into laughter, followed by the rest of the boys, followed by scattered giggles across the lunchroom. i coughed in shock, blinking, before the burning sensation set into my eyes. i started crying, and my throat was closing at the smell and my coughing. through my blue blurred eyes, i stumbled up, shoved through the four boys and the rest of the laughing lunchroom and ran out to the bathroom. before i could even make it there, a hand grabbed the back of my shirt.

henry had pulled me out of the bathroom doorway, and now i was surrounded by the boys.

'hopefully that'll teach your stupid fucking girl brain not to snitch to the teacher about us." i heard a voice sneer at me. i rubbed my eyes and watched through blurry vision as they turned and started walking back to the lunchroom. "but we aren't done with you SNITCH" i heard henry yell as i carefully stumbled into the bathroom.

and they decided they weren't done with me. not for the rest of the year, not for the year of 6th grade, or 7th grade, or 8th, or oven freshman year. and each year they got more and more creative. it evolved from shoving me on the playground, to snipping off pieces of my hair when i wasn't paying attention, then when i hit puberty, showing off my bled-through gym shorts, catcalling me in the hallways, and snapping my bra straps. leaving threatening notes in my locker, as well as dead flies, yknow, the usual.

eventually, i got used to the humiliation, but i was extremely surprised that it all came from me just asking to move my seat in fifth grade.

now its sophomore year, and its gotten worse yet better. im only really targeted by patrick and henry, the other two are really just in for the ride. belch, as they call him, is actually kinda nice to me. we have social studies together. i let him borrow a pencil one time and give him homework answers and in return, he kinda started being nice to me. patrick on the other hand was treating me exactly the same. stalking me through the hallways, following me home, leaving me threatening notes, boring his eyes into the back of my head in class, carving his initials into my windowsill....

but it seems like hes become more obsessed than hateful. one time i found a list of my backpack contents inside my pocket. and half the time i dont even know how he finds out some things. its kinda scary. whos fucking kidding its terrifying. and im so fucking tired of it.

he terrorizes me. i sprint home everyday so he cant catch up to me. sometimes they all take belchs car and i hear the engine rapidly approaching me. all these things build up over the days and weeks, and it makes me feel like im genuinely going insane. i have panic attacks on my way to school, i flinch at people trying to hug me, i just live under the freakishly tall shadow of patrick hocksetter. i wonder how he can be so messed up when we're only fifteen.

anyways, back to present day, biology class. which i coincidentally have with both bowers and patrick. lucky me. i sat two desks up and diagonal from both of them, each on either side. it was the second to last month of school, and we were finishing our human anatomy unit.

i was zoned out, listening to the droning, buzzing sound of our teacher's voice. at the feeling of a crumpled ball of paper hitting my shoe, i came back down to earth, glancing over my shoulder at patrick, who had a grin on his face. i slowly reached down and picked up the crumpled note, opening it and reading it.

'you n me behind the school, 3;30. if youre late, pray you're fast enough to get home before i do. which you wont be. thanks little one.'

i let out a shaky sigh when i finished reading the note. then crumpled it back up and shoved a half assed thumbs up under my arm at him so i didnt have to turn around and look at his face.

my hands got clammy as people started to pack up their backpacks, and i felt myself getting a headache as the bell rang and students filed out of the school. patrick and henry sauntered past me, and patrick let his fingers slideeee across the surface of my desk.. like a warning. jesus.

i took a deep breath, preparing myself for what i had in mind about putting a stop to this shit. i held my pen in my hand, in case i needed to use it as a shank.

as i rounded the corner to the back of the school, i saw patrick leaning against a tree, twirling a stick in his fingers. i cleared my throat and anxiously kept walking towards him. he watched me walk halfway towards him, then he pushed himself off the tree and walked to stand uncomfortably close to me.

'what do you want patrick.. '

he scoffed and started walking around me. 'what do i want? well theres a lot of things i want from you.. if youre offering-' he chuckled near my ear, and i could feel him twirling a piece of my hair in his fingers.

i think that was the moment he drove me crazy. i elbowed him in the ribs and spun around, backing away. i could tell i was gonna cry, either out of anger or fear, but there were tears pooling in my eyes.

'im fucking done. what do WANT from me?? I have done NOTHING to deserve this, and yet you still humiliate me, and terrorize me every day. is this really about fifth grade?? because i feel like thats been repaid for a good four years. what do you get from this? do you get off on making my life miserable like some weird perv?? GOD hocksetter im done! im fucking finished! ill have to kill myself before you'll let me live!' i cried, pacing and screaming at him.

i stopped to catch my breath. he looked shocked for a slight second, and then his face went back its natural smirk. he paced towards me, grabbing my face with his hand, squishing my face.

'you sweet little thing. it is repaid. its been repaid for a while. you just intrigue me so much.. i couldn't possibly stop humiliating you.. you're too infatuating.' he stared at every detail of my face, almost mapping it, before he shoved my face away from his hand. he went right back to circling me again.

'yknow.. it was never really about scaring you. i mean of course i enjoyed that part, you're absolutely hilarious to terrorize.'

i almost laughed in disbelief. ive been going through this all for his shits and giggles. what the fuck is wrong with him.

'it really started wayyyy before fifth grade. it was probably around third grade that i noticed you. i think it was when you were in the school concert... i realized how much you stuck out from all the other kids you were singing with.. and i just became infatuated. i think youre real. like me.'

what the fuck is he talking about?? real? of course im real.. what is going on?

he was walking towards me again, and i stumbled a few steps back until my back hit the hot brick wall and i felt suffocated when i realized.

im afraid of you.

'i dont want to be afraid of you anymore. please. patrick please stop doing this to me.' i pleaded, willing the tears back.

he leaned in closer, if possible, pressing me against the wall. i felt him inhale against my scalp, and for a minute, i felt the wind stop blowing and the birds stop chirping, and i could only feel my heartbeat in my ears and could only smell the sweat and bodyspray that came off of him.

then he backed up, pulled his hands off my shoulders, and stepped away. "go. im not done, but you're done being terrorized."

i shuddered. praying he wasn't lying. i slowly turned my back and started walking away, when i heard him call after me.

'hey. just so you know, youre mine. so youre safe for now. but youre still mine. some things are staying the same. go home.'

i turned around again and started walking home, going over what had just happened. on repeat again and again. what did he mean? im real? of course im real..

what the fuck just happened.

ok so i think that was good.. and im done now so thank you sunshine!

-junie

[red-balloons-and-flashing-lights]

Losers Club Gender + Sexuality Headcanons

These are for my main au, they might change depending on the au. They're around 15yo in here.

Bill: Cis boy He/him, doesn't mind they/them Bisexual Dated Bev at some point, they broke up (in good terms) 2 months later

Mike: Cis boy He/him, doesn't mind any Aroace As he grows up, more people start falling for him, and he's the only one who genuinely doesn't get why. Also probably got in accidental qprs with (almost?) all the Losers 💀

Ben: Amab, undefined Any but they/them Straight Everyone around him straight-up uses he/him without questioning it, only the Losers know about her other pronouns. It just uses the straight label because it's easier, as xe only likes girls (or almost-girls) :)

Richie: Trans FtM He/hy Gay Only out to the Losers as trans, and just because he has no other choice (since yk, quarry + childhood friends). Not out as gay at all, but Stan knows and is just waiting for him to tell them.

Stan: Amab, non-binary They/them, doesn't mind he/she Panromantic, asexual Definitely came out to Richie first, who by the way did Not expect it but fully supported. Incredibly sex-repulsed, would only be fine with topping and only if their partner really Really wanted it (and actually, only if they were an adult in a healthy stable relationship)

Eddie: Cis boy He/they Uranic, demisexual Crushed on Bill, then Stan, then Richie, and is still crushing on Richie XD

Bev: Afab, demigirl She/they, doesn't mind any Pansexual As mentioned before, she dated Bill at some point. Now she has a crush on Ben, but doesn't feel like she's ready for a relationship just yet.

[lemonleafloser]

Ok so I’ve been thinking about this particular Reddie fic for a while and I can’t remember what it’s called 😩

If anybody could help it would be so VERY appreciated 🫶🏻

So the premise is that Eddie “dies” in the sewers but he doesn’t really die, he wakes up in the body of a dog and I think he’s adopted by Richie? And it’s not until they are (I think) visiting Stan and they are all together that Bev realises and tries to help him through and then he becomes human again.

Mum sure it was Eddie but it could’ve been Richie who was the dog? But I can’t remember much else but PLEASE if you know this fic, what is it called? I’ve been wanting to reread it for so long!