Stand By Me (1986)

Stand By Me (1986)

some people??? love and care for fake virtual children in the sims???? to cope?????????????

The Shining (1980)

Wendy Torrance 

@thystarlord this is so true and i’m gonna talk about that a little more in this post from my point of view, but first, stan actually represents anti-semetism specifically so let’s remember that. he doesn’t represent any other religious discrimination, since anti-semetism is unique and religions are oppressed differently, and especially Jews experience a certain sort of oppression, but yes i agree at a core level.

eddie is so heavily gay-coded and chock-full of evidence that he IS gay that it’s crazy. he literally “hero worships” and “would die for” bill denbrough (exact! quotes!) and the sort of admiration he holds for bill is so intense that it basically IS a canon crush. he’s adoring and implicitly trusting of bill, with almost zero wavering of his faith in him. he admits openly that he loves bill and would absolutely sacrifice everything for him, and that simply isn’t the CASE with eddie and the other losers. he loves them, sure, but more than anyone else in the world he follows bill. bill’s his only friend and eddie considers him above all others, praising his intelligence and looks multiple times in the book. eddie, in other words, has a massive gay crush on bill denbrough. secondly, there’s all the things about eddies character that i find suspect. eddie is feminine and sensitive and the stereotypical gay boy. he’s weak and anxious, another two common tropes in gay youth. he’s also very repressed in all areas in life, from his speech to his sexual desires to his mannerisms, having been taught to be by his over-protective mother. in the miniseries, she even goes as far as to forbid him from showering with other boys. the fact he felt unworthy of taking communion and “sinful” at church, including having asthma and panic attacks during services in also telling.

his crush on greta bowie is textbook compulsory heterosexuality. when he talks about greta, all he mentions is how pretty she is. he never talks about her personality or how nice she is, how smart she is. this may be eddie being a typical little boy, but it could also be something much deeper. many compulsory heterosexual crushes are rooted very much in appearance and surface, since that’s what is easiest to pretend to like. there’s also the fact eddie openly acknowledges that greta is never going to notice him. this is also common in comp het crushes- the gay person attempts to be able to call themselves attracted to the opposite gender by “crushing” on celebrities, or simply on normal people who are, like those celebrities, way out of their league. that way, they have no chance of ever having to engage with the person romantically. eddie also says as an adult he does not want to see greta again, meaning perhaps that greta reminds him of the time in his life where he was closeted even to himself?

tl;dr: eddie is most likely a closeted gay man who’s own internalized homophobia caused gayness to be his biggest fear as a child, and shows every sign of being gay from the start.

I agree, because honestly, I get that Linkin Park is a common target for people who make jokes about cringe. "Numb" is a funny song for some memes. I get it. But to my younger self, it was really important. It didn't use too much bad language or extremely offensive lyrics so I could access it around my parents. My music taste has changed as I got older. But those songs made me feel okay about feeling angry and frustrated at a time when everything was changing and nothing made sense. I guess my end point is that no matter how silly you think a band is or "cringey" it is because your younger self liked it and you want to distance yourself from it, respect that music serves a purpose and this is a sad times for a lot of people. Let people (especially teens) find less harmful outlets for their emotions.

The lead singer from Linkin Park died today

He committed suicide

I know everyone likes to make fun of emo, angsty music, but I think people need to know where music like that comes from and who it’s directed to

It may seem like silly, edgy reminders from when you were younger, but for a lot of people when they are in a bad place they turn to music, music that makes their anger and sadness and pain feel justified

I don’t know, I’m just kind of bummed out now

Do what you gotta do, you know? If you need some emo punk music or some edgy rock music to feel ok and justified, then listen to it Just stay safe.

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, 1919. collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm