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Tw: implied suicide, but no visuals

Back in September I watched the movie It for the first time because apparently my idea of self care when I felt like I was dying of the plague was to watch a horror movie in bed and then proceed to get wayyyy too attached to the characters and hyperfixate over it for an entire semester. Evidently I’m not over it yet because I went and bought the book and have been reading it slowly since then. While I have MANY THOUGHTS about our friend Mr King’s writing (I absolutely did not need to know that much about Stanley’s sex life thank you very much), something that I LOVE are the moments of just the kids being kids, because I am a sucker for nostalgia and if I can’t ever be a child again I guess I will just have to live vicariously through fictional characters!

So ANYWAYS, the only way I can adequately release those emotions is by drawing them- I’m not particularly skilled or anything, but that’s not what we’re about here! It’s about the CATHARSIS!! The NOSTALGIA!!! If half my sketchbook is filled with doodles of kids that happen to be from a clown movie then SO BE IT

Fictional character death: Why do we care?

I’d be willing to bet a very large sum that you have watched a movie or TV show or read a book in which one of the characters met an untimely end. I would also wager that at least one of those deaths caused a significant emotional reaction. (cougheddiekaspbrackcoughstanleyuriscough) Did you cry? Did you leave the theatre with that hollow, sinking feeling in your chest? Did you immediately go on Tumblr and wail about your loss? These reactions are of course common, BUT! Have you ever wondered why? They are just fictional characters; someone made them up and decided their fate for an audience to experience, and yet their deaths feel deeply upsetting and real. IN THIS ESSAY I would like to explore what causes this emotional response, how different circumstances can result in different reactions, and what this says about human nature!

In order to fully understand why a fictional death affects us, one must understand why ACTUAL death scares us so much. I have considered this many times and tried to explain it to myself, here are some of my thoughts:

- We fear permanence and the unknown. (Cause like, beyond personal and religious beliefs, nobody actually knows what happens after we die. It’s not like you can just ASK a dead person). This is the most basic reason I guess- if someone dies they will never “be” in your presence again, which is obviously very upsetting. And we fear our own death because of course your earthly existence is over and you can’t experience life anymore, but also because it’s very hard to conceptualize or understand the lack of life and what that would mean for you when all you’ve ever known is living (obviously). And that’s scary!

- But isn’t it kinda weird that, say, when someone moves away, while we might be sad, but never have the same depth of pain as when somebody dies. I mean obviously that’s normal and reasonable, but when you really strip it down to a purely logical sense, it’s a little contradictory or at least fascinating that someone moving away could have exactly the same net end result from your bubble of existence as someone dying, yet we don’t get (or at least are less likely to get) that horrible sinking feeling or wake up and cry or whatever. This is more noticeable and a little less sociopathic sounding if you consider a scenario where don’t really know the person as well (for example if somebody in your school you didn’t know moved away you probably wouldn’t care, but if somebody in your school DIED you would most likely be upset or at least just feel weird or uneasy about it- although in that case I think it might come down more to a point of empathy and feeling bad not for yourself, but for the people who know the gone person. Again proving that humans have empathy. Hot damn. (I find it kind of sad that we need a thought experiment to prove that though)

Getting back to the fictional character thing, on the most surface level, logical sense, a reason to be sad when a character dies is that if they are dead, they can no longer have an active role in the story. You will no longer hear their “voice” in the story, they can no longer interact with the other characters, and all that jazz that made you fall in love with them in the first place.

So why is it that when characters die at the end of a narrative, we still have just as much of an emotional response? You aren’t technically missing out on anything, as the story is over, done, nothing else has been written about any of the characters- so why is it that we only mourn the ones that died in the story?

I guess people really do be having empathy!!! Sorry lord of the flies author, we aren’t all horrible savages that will turn our backs on each other the moment we’re taken away from society (probably). If I can be emotionally destroyed by a chunk of words on a page, alone in my room, with nobody watching or expecting anything of me, then certainly I, and a whole heck load of other people, can be ACTUALLY EMPATHETIC towards- and want what’s best for- other actual humans with real consciousness!

There are way too many things to talk about in this discussion and uhhhh I definitely can’t get to all of them. The point of fiction??? The fine line that differentiates logic and emotion, and why we end up using one or the other???????Human nature!!?!???? Someone help me. I don’t have time for this.

I’ve come to realize that writing this essay may be a coping mechanism for myself to try to objectively pick apart the emotions that fictional world cause me. But really, while I can try to rationalize it all to try to take away some of the pain (and no, I refuse to believe I’m being overly dramatic about a fictional universe), what really is the point of my ramblings? I don’t know! GOD. CAN I NOT JUST LET MYSELF EXPERIENCE THINGS?

It is nice to understand stuff though. I keep ending up with the question of what is the point, which is mildly distressing, but I mean what can you do. I guess I won’t stop asking myself questions any time soon. (I just hope I end up with more answers than questions as I progress through life!)

So we all know from the book that Richie “saw what a cutie he was when he first saw him” right?

Imagine a young Richie seeing this little hypochondriac with a temper, who carries around a fanny pack, even when they were young, and Richie just......his heart feels at home.

Like, he feels safe around him, he wants to protect Eddie from the cruel world around them, to protect him from Derry.

How much did it hurt when Richie found out that he failed, that Eddie’s own mother has been hurting him from the day he could understand and talk? How much pain that he has been in.

How much did it hurt when Richie had slowly realized that Derry had never let Eddie go, never let any of them go. Because they were all still in pain and still suffering, even twenty-seven-years later.

richie: ahhh you mad 😂😂

pennywise: ahhh you gay 😂😂

richie:

"really good friends" ksbdkdbkdj dude they're gay

y'know what yeah you're right

27 years later and I still won't be over Eddie

Richie: maybe I f*cked your mom will be our always

Eddie: ...

IT Fanfic Recommendations

*****Please notify me if any of the links don’t work*****

Buzzfeed Presents (Bill and Richie swap phones in a buzzfeed video)

Stenbrough

Face the Fax (S)

Reddie

To Fight Like Lovers (F)

Even When I Lose, I’m Winning (S)

Tiptoe through the window

I just wanted you to watch me dissolve (College Party! AU, S)

I Think You’re Growing On Me (S)

Sweet Spot (College AU, S)

Your Heartbeat is the Only Sound I Wanna Hear (Deaf! AU)

Libraries and Lollipops (College AU, S)

Stupid Deep (S)

Cookies ‘N Scream (S)

Table for One

Yes, Homo

Different Kind of Phone Sex (S)

“He’s not buying it, don’t freak out, okay?”

Relationship Status: Dumbass (S)

Oh, somebody loves you (Harry Potter! AU -- Amortentia)

Fix-it Fics

Finish What You Started

Reddie or not

Alive and Breathing

The Anatomy of a Joke

germ free adolescents by X-ray spex is a reddie song

Eddie Kaspbrak in this

were just not gonna talk about anything

I was inspired again

I swear from this time on after eddie kaspbrak and eddie munson I WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER QUEER CODED LIL GUY IN A HORROR SETTING IN THE 80TH NAMED EDDIE IN MY FAVS E V E R I`M DONE WITH EDDIES I`m done being heartbroken and treated like that and they both should have been AT LEAST pulled out of this pit 

Damini - USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker) is absolutely a #Reddie theme song

Change my mind. And can someone make a supercut with it?

Guess wich Horror-Movie-hating person finally watched It and even likes it???