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im putting 20$ on that stanley tried to get the losers to do a buddy system down in the sewers so they wouldnt get lost but they all voted against him

i think if any of the losers had to stop and tie their shoes while they were all walking, everyone would immediately stop with them on the sidewalk to talk while they wait :)

and also instead of leaving people behind when walking in such a big group they just form a half circle naturally so everyone can fit and see each other easily

also heres my carefully thought out image of the Formation that they uphold unconsciously, with explanations as to why. had to shorten the explanations to fit but 🤷🏻

can you tell that im insane about these guys

my favorite of my richie (/losers in general sort of) headcanons is that after spending so much time with eddie he started internalizing all of eddie’s paranoid rambling and also started to have medical anxiety

rant about the IT fandom ahead beware

okay im sorry for what im about to say and how much of a Texas Christian Conservative i might be being here but i want to just have the losers be:(the losers without all the extra stuff i wish the it fandom had a bit more popular content revolving the losers as they are like analyzing them as people and their trauma and fear and all that because thats something i do a lot with them but i cant really share it on here because no one listens. dont get me wrong, i like all these ships and i think its interesting the things people come up with but i just rarely get interaction when i post analyzations that arent centered around ships and such. i just wanna post my 1000 paged mike ben and stan psychoanalyses and get a response (which brings me onto the other problem of which everyone only cares about reddie and not my boys mike and ben but thats for another day)

headcanon that after hanging out with the losers for so long and connecting with them so hard, the adult losers with their memories gone are still extremely weird to be around because theyre just so used to their weirdness being normal with the people theyre around

No one should ever ask me about IT or i will go clinically insane and start just spewing barely coherent information for hours (please ask me about it pelasepleaseplea

thoughts on the bill and mike bicycle scene?

OKOKOK lets go, this is a scene i havent always focused on when thinking about mike or bill so this was fun !!

Some things I just generally remember liking or finding interesting was when Mike and Bill were wondering if the club would all return that night, and how Mike had been considering that some of them might silently leave or even die- that part he didn’t voice specifically but that’s just what I had interpreted from the trailing off.

When I was thinking about this I feel if I were Mike I would just continue, because with everything I’d read up to that point it really does seem like there is a higher being and I think at this point Mike very much knows (to some extent) about the turtle, and it’s clear the higher being is on our side and whatever happens is meant to happen. Everything that happened- like Stan dying- was meant to happen, even if we don’t fully know why. And that may also just be because I know the story ends well enough for the losers, but yknow. While I was rereading, a part I noticed a lot was where Bill accidentally sprayed a deck of cards all over the floor and two ace of spades were the only ones facing up on the ground. Which is impossible because it was a brand new deck, which I’ll comment on in a second. In a deck of cards, the ace is the highest card- most powerful, it beats everything, even the king. and i think that this happening was to symbolize how they beat IT once, and they are going to do it again. Also, an ace in Tarot means victory that was achieved through hard work and luck, and along the lines of the last thing I said, I think that could also symbolize that they are going to win, specially through those two things as well. And I think the fact there were two, and the fact that Mike pointed out it was impossible, might also have been to point out that their chances to win were also practically impossible, and they still did!

Later, Mike and Bill are eating, and Bill asks what the phrase he had gotten stuck in his head since he’d seen Silver in the window of the secondhand rose/secondhand clothes. The phrase, if you don’t remember, was “He thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts.” Mike allows Bill to know, and tells him the origin of the phrase, and how Bill’s Mom had taught him it to beat his stutter- and that Bill was always mumbling it to himself, so it seemed he was very determined to please his mother. And in the end, Bill had never been able to do it, but Bill knew he said it, he just could not remember when.

personally to me, Bill not being able to remember just kind of nails in this one theory I have where the Losers really had to revert to their childhood mind a lot in order to defeat Pennywise. Bill could not remember when because he had to do it again at somepoint, and he does. Like when he had yelled it as a kid to ward of Pennywise as Georgie and to ward off his own fear, he yelled it at Pennywise while in the void so he could get that sense of power he’d had back then back, to help get him back in that mindset he’d had when he’d come so close to killing It the last time.

If you guys want to hear me ramble about the mindset theory more please tell me i could go on for days about it :)

all of that was more of a serious analysis, so here’s just what I like and think of the scene in a more light sense.

I do think that this scene was a good kind of connection wink* moment between these two. Like, bonding time between too close buddies.

I’ll add anything more I think of in the comments, but right now thats all I got

(thank you for asking as well!! i like to think about IT and this was a new scene I hadn’t thought about a lot so it was nice to reread and figure out)

*the scene is named Mike Hanlon Makes a Connection, im making a pun here. laugh

mike im so sorry for what the new movies did to you. honestly considering becoming a director or some shit so i can write a better IT adaptation because WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BOYS !!!!!! andy muschietti you are my worst enemy if i see you its on sight

i love the constant-ness of Mike as the truly alone character. Like, he was the only Black kid in his town, with no one to turn to with his experiences. he was the one who had to stay behind and remember it all, alone. He was the only one with no partner and no riches, alone. Even the fandom makes him alone, paying almost no attention to him. And even in this group of losers he is very much alone, because they still can’t understand his experiences to the point that he does. Even when he is still very young, his dad dies, and his dad was someone he connected with so much and felt truly close to. It’s all so interesting to me. It makes his relationship with the losers so much more, and I like how it doesnt entirely define him either. He’s still a librarian, he’s still a historian, he’s still everything he’s done and every way he’s grown, it doesnt define him and Stephen King and he himself don’t let it define him.

I love you Mike Hanlon and I miss you everyday, sorry if this rambling didnt make sense

they should know this by now

stans house was the house to go to when you wanted the best snacks i think. the losers would all stop by solely to get snacks from his mom and go, stan would say thank you first and all the other losers would quickly add in their thanks as well

one time me and my friends were all talking and my one friend asked me about IT and i answered his question and started talking about some other related IT things & after like 5 seconds he was like “sorry, can we talk about something else it’s been like 30 minutes” and i was like “what” and checked the clock and it had been fucking 30 minutes. I could have sworn it had been like 2 seconds. i think i need to see a therapist for this obsession

i do NOT want to hear that any of the losers arent smart bro those fuckers are such geniuses that its terrifying 🙏🙏 like they walk into a room and can read it perfectly type shit. acing all of their tests type shit.

i love you stan in bellbottoms. i love you romantic stan that dances around the room with his wife. i love you humorous stan. i love you autistic stan

mike: a huge mechanical bird attacked me

ben: a mummy was stalking me

bill: i keep seeing the ghost of my dead brother

eddie: what about you richie

richie: personally i really dont like furries

andy muschietti after barely even including bill’s tongue twister (he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts) in the movies even though it wouldve symbolized PERFECTLY what Bill was trying to DO THE WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE.

i wish i could talk casually about my interest but recently ive just started getting increasingly more and more young sheldon-y whenever i open my mouth to talk about my thoughts on things

we need to stop pretending that richie would have a cool fashion sense. look at that man. he’d dress in 4 year old faded E.T shirts and, like. jessica rabbit merch

I think the book shouldve ended with um all the losers staying with eddie in the sewers and dyinf with him.;/& does anyone get me..,,

if i wrote a very thought out fanfic about stanley uris and his death would anyone actually read it because im prepared to go all out for this but i know this fandom only likes reddie fluff or angst

and also stan will not be the grumpy hates-everyone kid that people think he is because the 2017 movie portrayed him like shit (sorry i am very emotional on this subject. i love u stan uris)