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Somewhere in the back of Richie's mind, he knew he was supposed to be kissing a girl. But girls didn’t want anything to do with him. And Eddie was right here, and his best friend, and he'd rather be kissing Eddie than any girl in their class anyway. Not that he'd ever, ever admit it.
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They killed the clown, survived high school, and escaped to different colleges, but the Losers still miss each other. And Richie? Richie hasn't thought about kissing Eddie in years. Canon-based college au where they don't lose their memories after leaving Derry.Series
- Part 1 of A Scenic Route to Love
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18 Dec 2025
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In Fact, Everything's Got That Big Reverb Sound by dystopiary
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (2017)
25 Aug 2019
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Richie Tozier deals with dry socket, the prodigal sister, shifting dynamics in his friendships, babysitting, and the maddening unavailability of Eddie Kaspbrak.
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13 Dec 2025
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July, 1992: Richie and Eddie spend the hottest day of the heat wave as any right-minded young fellows would - at home in front of the computer.
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13 Dec 2025
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the word's been passed (this is our last chance) by quarterdeck
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
02 Jul 2020
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“Uh, Spaghetti?” Richie waves a hand in front of his face, looking worried now. “Hello? Do you want to let me know whatever it was that was so important you had to drag me awake for it or -”
“I have a turtle in my pocket that speaks to me in my head and is possessed by Bruce Springsteen,” Eddie blurts out. “Also I think it may be God.”
Richie stares blankly at him.
“What,” he asks flatly, “the fuck.”
“Or a god, at least, I don’t know,” Eddie continues, “Either way, I think it was the one who brought me back to life, so. You know. The chances are very good.”
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It's been forty years. Eddie Kaspbrak is just trying to make it out of the river.
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11 Dec 2025
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so long, Frank Lloyd Wright by youabird (nevulon) for hownowredclown
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
18 Nov 2022
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“So, yeah. All the best Simon & Garfunkel songs are secretly about Art Garfunkel. Not-so-secretly. Paul Simon just sat down at a piano and wrote non-stop hits about how much he missed Art Garfunkel.”
With great effort, Eddie rouses himself from his coma enough to mumble out, “That’s not weird.”
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11 Dec 2025
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Belonging to Your Dreams by spotlightonmringenue
Fandom: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King, Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jan 2025
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10 Dec 2025
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Eddie’s had this alarming habit recently of staring at Richie’s face while Richie is talking and completely tuning out whatever Richie is saying to instead scrutinize each one of his physical characteristics and decide whether or not he finds them attractive. It’s probably flattering because, on the whole, his judgment is: attractive. But the entire exercise has an air of anger and incredulity that makes it difficult for Richie to feel too smug about it. Eddie thinks Richie’s ears are cute and he wants to bite them, but he’s fucking pissed about it, apparently.
Or, Richie has a side-effect from the deadlights: he can read Eddie’s mind.
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03 Dec 2025
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Eventually the zucchinis are all decimated and the Furbys are lined up how Bev wants them. Richie tucks his legs in and makes room for other people on the couch. When Mike sits next to him instead of Eddie, he tries not to be crestfallen. Being seated next to Mike is a blessing, and Eddie’s only two cushions away. Richie waits for Mike to get comfortable before plopping his legs in his lap so his toes are touching Eddie, anyway.
“Get your foot out of my armpit,” Eddie says, shoving Richie away. “What the hell are we watching?”
“I’m so glad you asked,” Richie says. For a moment, his stomach twists nervously. But the truth is, he knows he has nothing to be worried about, not anymore. “Who here likes to objectify men?”
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02 Dec 2025
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open, blink, shatter by moichi, nonbinary
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
27 Feb 2025
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"Richie," Eddie pants. "How many more times?"
Three doors stand in front of them. The tunnel's shaking.
What’s your choice?
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Or, in the depths of Derry during their confrontation against It, Richie and Eddie arrive at three doors. Again, and again, and again.
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01 Dec 2025
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If you asked Richie to name the three people least likely to be handling the animal talent on this set, he would say Sandra Day O’Connor, Mike Tyson, and Eddie Kaspbrak. All preposterously out of place, and all uniquely intimidating. But he swivels around in the makeup chair, takes two steps, and there he is, his Eddie, with a furry monstrosity heaped in his arms like a museum with no coat check, milling around by Camera 2. Here we go: initiating Jell-o spine! Locking knees into position! Dumping sweat reserves to palms in three, two, one! With any luck Richie will shoot through the roof at an angle that crash lands in the ocean. Then the cat hisses at a boom op, and Eddie shushes it with a withering scowl so familiar Richie breaks out in a snorting giggle he hasn’t had genuine access to since he was a snotnosed kid. Not in decades. Not since Eddie declined to take their little double act from radio to the screen, and Richie went ahead without him.
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27 Nov 2025
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things just got a little out of hand by thesnapwasbrutal for blurple
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
27 Nov 2025
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“Yeah right,” Joey muttered, the humor fading as quick as it came. “I’d need to learn how to kiss a guy first.”
Chandler blinked, unsure what to do with that. His brain immediately went down the familiar sarcastic avenues, reaching for the punchline, but they all felt too sharp against the honesty in Joey’s tone. For a fleeting, ridiculous second, he wondered if Joey was hinting at something more, before immediately shutting that thought down. No way. It was Joey. Joey.
“Okay… so?” he said finally, leaning back against the couch, trying to keep his tone light. “What do you need from me? A pep talk? Fake boyfriend résumé?” He forced a small laugh. “A mint?”
He waited for Joey to laugh with him, to bounce the bit back, to give him that easy grin and make it safe again. But Joey didn’t. He just stood there, shifting from foot to foot, hands fidgeting with the hem of his shirt.
The silence stretched.
“Yeah…” Joey started, voice lower now, careful. “I was kinda hoping... you’d, you know... help me practice.”
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27 Nov 2025
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New Page, Same Old Book by Rend_Herring
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Oct 2019
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He thought he’d hidden these feelings from himself, stowed them away in some dark corner and learned not to think about it. But the second Eddie peeked in from around the corner at the Jade and looked at Richie with those big, limpid pools of Christmas Orphan meets Bambi, and started rambling about gluten and cashews, it all came flooding back into focus. Richie has loved Eddie so long that it’s become an ache that goes beyond reason.
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25 Nov 2025
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The Marriage List by brightblackholes
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti), IT - Stephen King
29 Jan 2022
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“Hey Eds, why don’t you and I get married?”
“What?” he asks, blinking and sure that he misheard.
“Let’s get married!” Richie throws his arms out wide. “Come on, Ben and Bev are doing it. Why can’t we?”
“Why can’t–what the fuck are you talking about? We’re not even dating!”
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24 Nov 2025
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Richie takes a step back and folds back onto the floor, an upward-facing hand offering a sweeping gesture at the space next to him. “Signore Spaghetti, may I offer you some floor, Simpsons, and an Airpod?”
Eddie closes his eyes for a brief moment, feeling a twitch at his mouth and refusing to let it turn upward. “Are you literally 12?”
“It is tradition,” Richie says, smoothly shifting to another, sterner accent while gesturing more entreatingly at the floor.
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24 Nov 2025
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unaware i'm tearing you asunder by eddiespaghetti (foxwatson)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
04 Nov 2019
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Richie remembers that Bill always used to say that Georgie would have washed up in the Barrens, and that everyone said that Henry Bowers washed out there after he fell in the well - him and all the dead bodies. He goes out there looking for Eddie's dead body. Instead, he just finds Eddie. Except Eddie doesn't remember anything after he saved Richie from the deadlights. He still thinks he killed It.
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24 Nov 2025
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a door opens to a room that has never gone away by theappleppielifestyle
Fandoms: IT (2019), IT - Stephen King
12 Sep 2019
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“Here it is,” Richie says, flinging an arm out. “Me casa es your casa.”
“I don’t think that’s how you say it,” Eddie says.
(Or, Richie and Eddie, after.)
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20 Nov 2025
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Eddie tries living alone, Richie moves in with the Uris', feelings reveal themselves at a Loser's New Years trip.
Post Chap. 2 fix it. Basically a character study of both R + E.
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16 Nov 2025
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Holidays by fantasticcolorcloudflap
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
03 Nov 2025
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“Why don’t you come home for Christmas Richie?” Maggie’s voice cracked at the end of the line. “It’s so sad to spend it without our son. Come pay us a visit, will you?”
Richie stood in his small LA apartment besides one of the big windows, the phone caught tightly in one hand. He was looking at the never sleeping city below him, cars rushing down the streets, Christmas lights blinking on and off. It never snowed in LA.
“...sure. I’ll be there for Christmas eve.”
Richie hung up the phone with a small sigh. It had been five years since he moved out of Derry when he finished high school, and even though he had visited his parents on several occasions before, in these past years he’d always had too much going on at Christmas to go back home and spend it with them. Exams, uni projects, and even some occasional new years gigs. There just wasn't enough time to go all the way to Derry just to spend a couple of days there with his mum and dad.In wich Richie comes back home during christmas vacation for the first time in five years.
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- Part 3 of Superache
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05 Nov 2025
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but darling, you're the sweetest thing i've ever known by sulfuric
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
22 Mar 2020
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Eddie, for obvious reasons, is a clementine. This is the one he’s thought most about—tiny, adorable, obviously. Kind of hard and annoying to open when you first give it a try, but easier each time you do it. Some people (some! people!) might think it’s gross and weird, but Richie likes the yellow-tinged fingers that come with the peeling. A fruit that leaves a mark. He also likes the stringy bits—again! Maybe a bit weird, maybe a bit gross, maybe a bit off-putting, and most definitely not everyone’s thing, but. A part of the whole that Richie has found himself terminally obsessed with. It’s fine, he just really likes clementines right now. He might even say that he loves them.
(In which Richie has a month long breakdown over fruit; fruit is just a dumb, thinly veiled metaphor for Eddie; and everyone else thinks they’re already a thing.)
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02 Nov 2025
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Richie comes home after a semester away at college. Eddie picks him up at the train station.
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02 Nov 2025