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"On some level, Eddie would always want to slap Richie Tozier in his stupid face.
It was intrinsic to him, something deep in his genetic code that couldn't quite be weaseled out. Eddie Kaspbrak had dark eyes and straight teeth and he wanted to slap Richie Tozier. The urge waxed and waned, often eclipsed by other urges like wrap his arms around him or tell him to shut up or make conspiratorial eye contact with him, but it was always there. There were other ever-present Richie-related urges, but they weren't important."Eddie survives their fight with Pennywise, but Richie is not unscathed by the Deadlights. As Richie struggles with nightmares, alcohol, and coming out, Eddie goes out to see him and helps pull him out of the doldrums. He also learns just how brave he can be, when the rubber meets the road.
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Richie managed to save Eddie down in the sewers, but the visions Pennywise showed him are still haunting him months later. He and Eddie are living together, and everything should be perfect, but he just can't seem to kick the voices in his head.
feat. Richie's internalized homophobia, coming out, Eddie's bitchiness as a form of affection, and lots of avoiding sincere conversations.
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"It wasn't about jumping. It was about the ability to jump. The choice.[...] Something to remind him there was a way out."
Seong Gi-hun, a depressed but compassionate mechanic, meets Hwang In-ho on top of the bridge. Neither of them are there to jump, but they are both there. Their experiences with grief and humanity are different, but being seen and understood is too miraculous and too rare for either of them to pass up.
(Sad, traumatized old men fall in love.)
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In-ho comes back from his eight years undercover injured, jaded, and devoid of humanity. A kind-eyed do-gooder in a back alley might change all of that.
Featuring falling in love, PTSD, Hwang brother angst and hurt/comfort, and an evolution from misanthrope to slightly-less of a misanthrope.
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Hwang In-ho and Seong Gi-hun met when they were college-aged. They fell in love, tragedy struck them, they fell apart.
Ten years later, Gi-hun is hired on as a technician at OneEarth, a corporate machine. He is less-than-thrilled to find In-ho working there. Despite himself, despite both of them, really, they grow back together."You are searching so intently for some semblance of good in me. What will happen when you decide you can't find it?"
"Well, you know me," Gi-hun said, smiling a little bitterly. "I've never been smart enough to know when to stop."
In-ho tipped his head back and forth contemplatively. "There is something to be said for the resilience of your hope. Granted, I am probably not the one to say it."
LOTS of hurt/comfort, angst but a proportionate amount of fluff.
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It’s September 1989, baby.
Mike Wheeler and Will Byers finally leave Hawkins for NYU: Will for fine art, Mike for biology on a pre-med track he swears is a “compromise.”
New York was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, it turns their “friends—no, thanks—best friends” truce into something impossible to ignore.
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A romantic tragicomedy about living as broke-ass students in NYC in 1989/1990, becoming adults and finding their people. And they make out AND date, of course.Set during the AIDS crisis. Because you don’t get to be queer in New York without it in the room.
But they’re going to be okay. Promise.Comments are always appreciated!
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Domestic Bliss and Other Hardships by kiera_wesley
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
19 May 2026
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Richie Tozier was, surprisingly, not as horrible of a roommate as Eddie expected him to be. He did the dishes, always paid his rent on time, and kept his mess contained to his own room. He never had people over, and most nights they even ate dinner together.
It was shockingly pleasant in a way Eddie wasn’t used to, which led Eddie to his current problem, his only problem with having Richie as his roommate– it was too domestic.
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When Richie shows up on Eddie’s doorstep with a one way ticket and a suitcase, Eddie has to confront all the feelings he has for his best friend that he’s been pushing down since Derry. Complete with gay pining, gay yearning, gay roommates, and even (you guessed it) gay sex. Cheers.
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11 Sep 2026
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Eddie's peacefully unpacking his stack of linen shirts when he hears it: a piercing whistle that permeates the walls of his apartment with seemingly no effort.
At once, he drops the shirts and straightens up. Is this a fire alarm? Oh shit, is the boiler about to explode?
As far as he knows, the alarms have more of a beeping rhythmic sound to them. They sure as hell don’t send out an alarm which sounds suspiciously like a clunky, reedy and entirely off-key rendition of ‘My Heart Will Go On’ by Celine Dion.
a.k.a the fic where Eddie and Richie are next door neighbours and Richie's favourite hobby is (badly) playing the recorder.
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25 Jun 2026
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You Can Still Be What You Want To by rayofsunshinc
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
07 Sep 2020
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And then, Richie did say something dangerously tempting.
“My parents have a lake house in Vermont. We can stay there.”
Staying with Richie. Living with Richie in some beautiful lake house in Vermont while he recovered. It wasn’t like he had that many options. It would really help him get his shit together if he had somewhere to stay.
OrEddie Kaspbrak realizes that people aren’t given second chances very often and decides it’s time to live his life for himself. Richie Tozier decides it’s time to stop hiding parts of himself from the people he loves now that they’re back in his life. They're going to work through their trauma together in a completely non platonic way.
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23 Jun 2026
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All the Very Best of Us (String Ourselves Up for Love) by starclipped
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
08 May 2020
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“Richie. Richie, it’s me,” he whispers, so softly that it’s almost a figment of his imagination. “Hey, it’s Eddie. I’m Eddie. I’m okay, Rich, and you’re okay, so just… please, stop saying shit like that. You’re—you’re scaring me.” He says that part like he’d rather do anything but admit such a thing. But then, as his eyes dart over Richie’s face, his expression shifts, the usual constipation twisting into something close to hysteria that he tries and fails to mask with outrage. “And stop shaking me, shitbag! I had to claw my way out of a fucking disaster zone and I’m really sore—”
Richie doesn’t know how he knows it, that this is the one and only Eddie Kaspbrak, truly here in the flesh, but he does. Because it’s as if the piece of him that'd been unceremoniously ripped away has miraculously been sewn back into place, worn and faded and uneven and maybe the wrong way around, but still very much present.
“Eddie,” Richie chokes, and the man he loves with all his heart is standing right in front of him, alive, and there’s no way he could make himself think otherwise.
[Or: Stan lives, Eddie is resurrected, the Losers visit Georgia, and Richie gets everything he's ever wanted (plus more).]
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