left-reminders:

excalibelle:

me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?

me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.

vinedragonheartstring:

wyntersknight:

extra-extra-virgin-oliver-oil:

wyntersknight:

hoeofmyheart:

Y’all know when Mulan is sitting in the rain and watches her parents silhouette disappear as the candle is blown out and then her eyes squint in determination and the music that starts to play and you see her go into the family temple and light a match and bow in respect and then sneak into her parents room and switch the scroll for her hair brooch and then the way her reflection is shown as she pulls the sword and cuts her hair?? It’s literally more iconic than any marvel movie

Y’all know that there is heavy symbolism in that scene to show that Mulan is the spirit of the Great Stone Dragon and that’s why Mushu wasn’t able to awaken it?

im sorry What!! i never knew this! my life feels fuller!!! ahhhh

Mulan sits in the rain underneath the statue of the Great Stone Dragon (who is looking down on her), and suddenly decides on a course of action. She looks up, resolved to go to war in place of her father and runs into the temple where she lights the match and beseeches protection for her family. The stone she bows to and that we see lit up by lightening strike is that of the dragon, whose eyes are looking out after her, lit from underneath by the candles. The scene transitions to the divider in the house that also has an icon of the dragon. where she replaces her hair comb with the summons. Then we see the sword hilt, also the dragon, and as she draws the blade we see her face replace it. She ties up her hair, then as she opens the wardrobe, the handles are also the dragon. After donning the armor, the view shows her facing us, with the hilt of the sword (the face of the dragon) in front of her face, where she then turns the sword to reveal her face, and sheaths it. As she leaves, we flash back to the temple, and the eyes of the dragon flash as her grandmother wakes up.

The Great Stone Dragon resides within her. She is the protector of the family.

After this explanation, the scene where Mushu cannot wake up the stone dragon makes so much more sense. I appreciate the symbolism so much more. I noticed the dragon but didn’t notice she was constantly juxtaposed with the dragon!

Canon accepted.

dennischristpher:

Listen, I know that MLA format is not one that you’re supposed to use personal pronouns in, but I don’t care. I need to express one thing right from the start: I don’t care what you hc Eddie as, that’s none of my fucking business, do what you want, but as a gay kid who spent far, far too long uncomfortable with my sexuality because people took it and said shit like, “He’s gay but he’s also ace because gay sex is ‘icky’” or shit about how “hard they were sinning” because of this gay ship, I’m tired. I’m fucking exhausted. So today, we’re going to run through all adaptations of It and our main man, Edward Kaspbrak and why he’s a gay man, a homoromantic homosexual, if you will.

To start, let’s take a step back to the original number one bestseller IT by Stephen King. This book is fucking huge my guy, a solid 1090 pages, in fact, and you know, that’s a lot of fucking space for queer coding, so let’s get started. Eddie’s first introduction to the audience is 79 pages into the novel in the fourth part of the third chapter, Eddie Kaspbrak Takes His Medicine. Soon after his introduction we get this fucking gem of information, “But in the end he had married Myra anyway. In the end the old ways and the old habits had simply been too strong.” ( 87, King). This quote clearly states that more than anything, marrying his wife had been out of habit. Myra is compared to his mother many times and each time it makes it more clear that this isn’t something he really wanted, but he had gone back to his mother three times before marriage and Myra was the next best thing to his mother. It was convenient to him, a habit and nothing more. On his way out of the house to head back to Derry King states, “Was that what he meant? That he had finally decided it was all right to lover her?” (92). This one is a bit more of a personal gay experience, in that when I was trying to be straight, it wasn’t that hard honestly, but it was easier when I didn’t actively have to do it. It was alright to love the guys I “loved” when I wasn’t around them because it didn’t take work, I didn’t have to prove it. If Eddie isn’t around his wife, there’s no proving it, all he has to do is wear his wedding ring and say he loves his wife. It’s effortless.

In the novel as well, there’s an obvious comparison to Eddie early on, before we even meet him, and that character is none other than Adrian Mellon. Adrian is described to be a small, asthmatic, gay boy, and more than that, his boyfriend even calls him “my love,” on page 27, the way Richie does to Eddie several times. I’m not trying to sway this towards Reddie because that’s not the point here, but teasing or not, Richie calls him that and King is an author, he knows that writing Adrian and his boyfriend the same way he writes Richie and Eddie will be read the same way. On the subject of nicknames, in the novel Eddie also calls Myra “Marty” which is very clearly not a female name. Of course nicknames are often not related to the gender of who they name but nonetheless, this is an odd little bit that King includes.

One argument that could be stated is that Eddie had a crush on Greta Bowie in the novel, but if you read the section that mentions his crush, you can see some obvious queer coding. The novel reads, “He fell in love with her a little that day- her shining blonde hair falling to her the shoulders of her culotte dress, which was a cool blue.” (525, King). Now just reading through this it may just seem like a child’s crush, but from a gay person’s perspective, it reads very clearly of internalized homophobia and compulsory heterosexuality. At no point in the following paragraph does he note anything about her other than her looks. Of course he’s 11 and falling in love at 11 is never real and doesn’t ever base itself on personality, but nonetheless, adult him is the one telling us this, and at no point does he ever mention anything but her looks. He also describes a man one page later and does so in much more glittering language than the girl he’s meant to love. “Tony Tracker, large but somehow ghostlike, his white shirt glimmering as summer dusk drew down and fireflies began to loom the air with their lace of lights…” (526, King). Of course everyone will interpret this differently, but from a gay perspective, that’s gay.

Keeping with the theme of the novel, we’ll need to take a look at Eddie’s biggest fear as well. The first time he encounter’s Pennywise he sees a leper offering him a blowjob. This obviously feeds into his fear of germs, but if we look deeper we can see clear parallels to being gay, even excluding the blowjob commentary. The novel is set both in the 50’s and late 70’s, both of which did not view gay people very well. Sonia Kaspbrak is shown to be homophobic as well when she states “‘Any two men who bother keeping a house so nice must be queers.” (525, King) and Eddie isn’t dumb, he knows what that means and he can read that it isn’t good. Being gay at the time was often viewed as a sickness, something that wasn’t born with you and could be cured with conversion therapy and it was likely that he knew that and internalized it along with his other fear of germs and sickness. The leper is clearly illness, but it’s so much more.

And completing our condensed queer coding from the novel, we finish with Eddie’s death. He ends with his classic closing words, “‘Don’t call me Eds,’ he said, and smiled. He raised his left hand slowly and touched Richie’s cheek. Richie was crying. ‘You know I…I…’ Eddie closed his eyes, thinking how to finish and while he was still thinking it over he died.” (1024, King). Of course this could be interpreted as him continuing with his “Don’t call me that you know how I hate that,” which he repeats several times throughout the novel, and it has several times, but it’s so clear if you read it that that’s not what it’s intended to read as. If he has said several times “You know how I hate that,” he wouldn’t have to think, just like Myra, it would be a habit, King wouldn’t repeat that he was thinking twice, there would be now need. Before he even says his last words, King says, “But there was something else he had to say first.” I’ve seen enough romantic movies to know what that means.

To continue we’ll discuss the 1990 miniseries’ interpretation of Eddie, both child and adult. The child Eddie is a little harder to pinpoint specific queer coded moments as much of the novel was cut out and toned down for a family audience, but the most obvious thing is in his fear, just like the novel. He fears showering with the other boys, and if that isn’t the biggest gay mood, I don’t know what is. Not only that, but when Pennywise taunts him in the showers, it’s with the insult “Girly-boy.” The actor playing child Eddie isn’t particularly feminine looking either, just a bit skinny and this is clearly meant to show something more.

It’s much easier to notice with Dennis Christopher’s Eddie Kaspbrak. Not only is he physically a little more gay coded, affectionately called “the world’s oldest twink” by yours truly, but the way he speaks is somewhat stereotypically gay as well. Ian Scott Todd of Primalscenes.blogspot.com has already written a great piece on Dennis Christopher’s portrayal of Eddie Kaspbrak and the gay coding there as he states,

“Near the end, the film gives Eddie perhaps the closest thing to a coming-out scene that it can imagine (and it’s more than King is able to do in the book, in which the scene doesn’t exist).  As Eddie and his friends are about to enter the lair of It for the second time, he confesses to them that he’s a virgin.  “I could never sleep with somebody I didn’t love,” he explains tearfully, “and I’ve never really loved anyone…except you guys.”  The ambiguity here seems typical of the historical moment at which the film was made; Eddie doesn’t identify himself as gay, and yet he reveals himself to have been harboring a deeply personal sexual secret about which he has lied (in an earlier scene he claimed to be in a relationship with a woman).  Even if the film can’t come out and say what it means any more than Eddie can, that it gives him that moment—and that his friends respond by rallying around him with their support—feels significant.  For a miniseries made for network TV in 1990, that’s something.”

He said it better than I ever could so please go read the rest of his piece if you want to focus in on the 1990 interpretation- http://primalscenes.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-homosexual-in-text-dennis.html

But I have to wonder if this is where many of the Ace!Eddie hc’s come from.

To finish up our look into Eddie Kaspbrak, we’ll look at the 2017 film’s portrayal of him. Eddie in 2017 is much feistier than his earlier counterparts, almost equaling out to Adrian Mellon at times in the way he speaks. He isn’t given a crush in this version, and unlike the other two, there isn’t an adult version of him just yet, but the child is more than enough.

First of all, his shorts had a rainbow on them, thanks for that costume department, I see you and I love you. But similar to the first two, the story is set in a time that isn’t exactly friendly to the gay community, as Eddie himself mentions when he brings up the AIDS crisis when the Losers are helping Ben. This isn’t a direct call out to him being gay but if we consider the context of him learning about that, it’s interesting. His mother was his source of information about HIV/AIDS as he makes clear when he talks about his mom’s friend in New York who got AIDS blood from a hangnail, showing that they’ve spoken about this in the past. I find this interesting as my parents never brought up anything relating back to homosexuality with me ever in my life unless it was in relation to something said at church. I’m not saying that Sonia Kaspbrak assumes her son is gay, but considering the implications of that talk I wonder. She could have easily said to him to avoid blood because of the whole thing as that’s how the infection starts, but part of me doubts that. Based on her characterization in the novel it’s likely that she brought up “the queers” and told Eddie about the whole thing. Obviously I have no evidence to back this up and am only speculating, but nonetheless, I stand behind this.

Honestly I don’t have much to work with based on the 2017 film other than the fact that as a gay, I found Eddie familiar even if I didn’t fully remember the originally movie and novel. Eddie felt like me and it’s not just his personality but it’s something deeper.

Stephen King wrote his way around Eddie’s sexuality, avoiding the question as much as possible, and ABC gave Eddie something King never did, even if he didn’t get to come out as gay. But listen, Eddie Kaspbrak is gay.

@willmike

Very well written. <3

happytozier:

Stoner!Richie / Jock!Eddie Headcanons

heyo!! so i got a request to do headcanons off of a moodboard made by @get-fcking-reddie, so inspiration for this goes to them :)

Established relationship, but if wanted I can do more headcanons about how they meet!

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for @disneys-dankerbell !

• So, I’m going to take the High School route on this
• Surprise, surprise
• But imagine this;
• Eddie is on the soccer team, made varsity his freshman year, shocking everyone
• Because he’s so small, but he’s so fucking fast and quick with his feet
• He becomes star forward, and mostly never gets taken out of the game
• He’s kind of upset though, because he doesn’t get to play along side Mike, his best friend and goalie, or Stan, his other best friend who’s sweeper; the position right in front of goal
• But, he gets basically all most of Derry High’s points
• Besides Ben Hanscom, who is the other star player of the team, and a sort of good friend of Eddie’s
• And Eddie is very, very, cute so he’s basically shooting up the school social latter every day
• Soccer is played (usually) in the late summer / early fall time
• And well, it’s the first month or two of Junior year, and Eddie is still out on the field even though practice was let out just less than an hour ago
• Even Ben went home a little early since it’s the start of the year, and they have more homework than usual
• But Eddie just wants to know that, he himself, has got every single one of those damn plays down
• Because if he doesn’t, coach will be mad
• And it is just about sunset
• And he’s fucking tired
• But he doesn’t want to go home until he’s absolutely worked to the core
• Just picture lil Eddie out on the field in ankle weights because he wants more muscle in his legs
• So, Eddie is a pretty popular, sterotypical, gorgeous Jock
• Except for one thing, he’s dating the fucking famous stoner of the school
• Richie Tozier
• And no one has a single clue as to why they’re dating
• they’re opposites
• You’d never even catch Richie in the gym or on the field
• And you’d never catch Eddie skipping class or smoking in class
• But somehow they work so well
• Currently, waiting for his boyfriend to finish memorizing plays, on the top bench of the bleachers looking over the field
• is said stoner Richie Tozier
• And considering how everyone advertises that drugs are bad
• It’s really surprising many offers Richie Tozier gets a day for his weed
• and they offer a lot of money
• Because everyone claims his is the best
• Off of some assumption
• and Richie thinks it’s because there are very rare moments when you can’t find him stoned
• Unless, he’s with Eddie
• So, they must think he’s got magical lucky charms shit to be on it this much
• But, he’ll just shrug and decline because he’s really not one to sell
• It’s also that his shit isn’t that good, he just loves being high
• Much, much more than drinking
• Plus, he’s gotten so good at hiding it at this point, most teachers can’t even tell
• You probably think it’s because of his weed that he’s popular
• And I mean, that’s part of it but
• No
• It’s because he’s got the biggest mouth ever, and he’s basically notorious for being an ass to anyone he wants without giving two shits
• So people respect that
• He’s also hot as fuck - somehow he makes the bad boy look work, even though everyone already knows he’s the biggest dork
• It also helps his title that he sits at the Jocks table with his boyfriend on his lap every single day
• And he gets along with all of them
• Destroying every sterotype
• He also gets to bring along his friends Bill, Bev, and Ben
• But, really looking into this relationship made me love this pairing more because
• Imagine how after practice, Richie would wait to pick Eddie up, and Eddie’s thighs are in pain from working so much
• And wall sits
• Richie would be like hey, let’s relax n smoke for a bit baby
• And they’ll shotgun in Richie’s front seat
• Because Eddie hates the sting of the smoke in his throat from a direct hit
• It also makes Eddie forget about the pain, easing it in ways
• And it is hot; no lie
• Sometimes it will end in fits of giggles or sometimes more hehe
• But Richie at the end of the day, really just cares so damn much about the wellbeing of his overworked, talented, beautiful boyfriend
• Richie will also step his ass up sometimes and pretend to be goalie when Eddie is doing extra practicing, letting Eddie kick balls at him
• It’ll usually end in loud laughter
• Richie will attend every one of Eddie’s game ; not high, per Eddie’s request
• He’ll always scoop his boyfriend and kiss him after wins and scores a bunch
• And Eddie for Richie’s seventeenth birthday somehow gets his hands on making him his own pipe AND lighter
• The pipe is rainbow swirls but mostly red
• The lighter is a cute, light maroon like Derry’s High’s colors and Eddie’s Jersey
• it’s got their initials engraved on the front in a heart because Eddie is a fucking sap
• Eddie’s mom hates that Richie Tozier kid, so they’re forced to the infamous window every night
• They keep it open though, to let Richie smoke, and to air it out
• so that’s why Eddie brings in extra blankets into his room
• It’s adorable
• Richie will always be clear headed for snuggles at the end of the night or in the morning with his Eddie
• Eddie will always be more prone to kiss Richie if he doesn’t completely taste like weed
• But on the other hand, when Richie walks out from behind the school
• And after Eddie gets out of class, to drive Eddie home
• smoking in his ripped jeans and wow his beautiful, soft, curly hair and dark eyes and his tall figure and his cheek bones
• Eddie will faint and his knees seemingly go to jello
• Let’s just say they don’t make it very far before Richie has to pull over

okay, i hope you liked!!! i has a lot a fun with this one. i will do more if anyone asks because it’s such a good / cute idea!

please message me or send me any requests u want :)) or anything i can improve on. mwuahhh

This is perfect! Thank you <3