IT
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Name: | It |
Abbreviation(s): | IT 2017 |
Creator: | Stephen King |
Date(s): | 1987 (novel), 1990 (mini-series), 2017 & 2019 (film) |
Medium: | novel, live-action film |
Country of Origin: | United States |
External Links: | It (novel) at Wikipedia, It (1990 mini-series), It (2017 film) at Wikipedia, It (2019 film), IMDB - 1990, IMDB - 2017, IMDB - 2019 |
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IT is an American supernatural horror novel by Stephen King. It has been adapted into a TV series and multiple films.
Most of the fandom is based on the reboot films, "IT Chapter One" and "IT Chapter 2," directed by Andrés Muschietti.
Canon
- "To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw-and felt-what made Derry so horribly different. In the stormdrains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing...
- The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of It was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until the grown-up children were called back, once more to confront It as It stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality."[1]
This story is about seven people who come together within the small (and fictional) town of Derry, Maine in order to fight a supernatural and powerful evil that feasts on fear. First, they fight It as children, and then when It comes again - as It always does, ever twenty-six or so years - they fight It again as adults.
Characters
Main Characters
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Minor Characters
Fandom
Most of the fandom is focused on "the Losers Club," the group of kids the story follows, although there is a part of the fandom that focuses on Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The fandom became very active and started producing more fanworks after the release of the 2017 movie. According to Tumblr Fandometrics' Year in Review 2017, IT was the 5th most popular movie of the year. In 2019, IT Chapter 2 was the 6th most popular.
On 23 June, 2018 StansBill, Archived version announced the ITFandomPositivity, Archived version project. Laiba stated, "I started in this fandom because it was a movie, a book, that I was interested in and wanted to explore. And by doing so, I met so many people on here that are genuinely amazing and sweethearts."[2] and that they wanted to provide a space to drown out the negativity within the fandom.
Challenges
- Derry Kink Meme - link, Archived version
- IT 25 Days of Christmas
- IT Chapter Two Week - link
- IT Fairytale Project - link
- IT Fandom Exchange - link
- IT Fandom Secret Santa - link
- IT Fandom Week
- IT Inktober - link & link (yielded 50 pages of content)
- IT Reverse Big Bang
- IT Secret Santa
- IT Valentine's Day Gift Exchange
- IT Week
- IT: Chapter Two Fanfiction Exchange
- Rarepair Secret Santa
Shipping
The most popular ship in that fandom is by far Reddie, which is implied in the book and semi-canon in the new movies. The most popular het ship is Benverly, which is canon in all versions of the story. The fandom doesn't have many femslash ships, although sometimes Beverly is shipped in fanfics with an OFC. The Losers Club is the most popular gen grouping of the protagonists.
Het
- Bill Denbrough/Beverly Marsh
- Bill Denbrough/Audra Phillips
- Ben Hanscom/Beverly Marsh
- Beverly Marsh/Richie Tozier
- Beverly Marsh/Stanley Uris
Slash
Femslash
Others
- Bill Denbrough/Beverly Marsh/Richie Tozier
- Eddie Kaspbrak/Beverly Marsh/Richie Tozier
- Pennywise/Reader
- Polylosers (OT7)
Crossover Ships
Slash
Tropes
- Accidental / Love / Public Confession
- Act of Affection
- Activities / Hobbies
- Sports:
- Aged Up Characters: this terminology is used often, but it doesn't necessarily represent the truth, because the characters are both children and adults within the source content.
- ABO
- Amnesia
- Anal Fingering / Anal Sex
- Angst
- Apocafic
- Biting
- Butt Touching
- Canon
- Caretaking
- Character Study
- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Courtship
- Crack
- Cunnilingus
- Daemon AU
- Dark AU
- Dialogue
- Difference:
- Disability Fic / Mental Disorder Fic
- Domestic
- Drama
- Education AU
- Emetophilia
- Enemies to Lovers / Friends to Lovers
- Established Relationship
- Fancasting
- Fashion
- First Time
- Five Times Fic
- Fix-it
- Flipping the Bird
- Flirting
- Fluff
- Friendship
- Gift-Giving
- Grinding
- Heart Eyes
- Holiday
- Horror
- Huddling for Warmth
- Hurt/Comfort
- Incorrect Quotes
- Jealousy
- Kissing
- Looking Up a Skirt
- Love At First Sight
- Marking
- Matching Clothes
- Meet Cute
- Meme
- Mirror Universe / Role Reversal
- Mistletoe
- Multiple Orgasms
- Neediness
- Nosebleed
- Occupation AU
- Pegging
- Pet Name
- Pining
- Poetry / Song Fic
- Pre-Slash
- Protectiveness
- Punk AU
- Puppy Love
- Reunion
- Romance
- Roommates AU
- RST / UST
- Runaway AU
- Setting
- Sharing:
- Shower Sex
- Shrinking
- Sickfic
- Smut
- Social Media AU
- Soulmates
- Spanking
- Stepping Kink
- Supernatural AU
- Swap:
- Time Fuckery
- Time Period:
- Historical AU
- Medieval AU
- Modern AU, usually combined with No Pennywise AU
- Yandere
- Your Mom
Fandom-Specific
- Amputee Eddie Kaspbrak
- Beep-beep, Richie
- Big Spoon Eddie Kaspbrak
- Blond Eddie
- Bottom Eddie Kaspbrak
- Bottom Richie Tozier
- Caretaker Eddie Kaspbrak / Dr. K
- Don't Call Me Eds
- Eddie Kaspbrak Moves to California
- Eddie Kaspbrak's Cast
- Eddie Kaspbrak's Fannypack
- Eddie Kaspbrak's Shorts
- Fourth of July Ice Cream
- Little Spoon Richie Tozier
- Neibolt Eddie
- Pastel Eddie Kaspbrak
- R+E
- Reddie in a Hammock
- Redhead Richie
- Richie Loves Eddie's Thighs
- Richie Tozier Has ADHD
- Richie Tozier Wears Button Ups
- Richie's Rocket
- Top Eddie Kaspbrak
- Top Richie Tozier
- What If:
Crossovers / Fusions
- See: Fusion
- Character Design: Fanartists may draw from multiple sources in interpreting the appearances of characters. Some include a spliced blonde!Eddie which is a combination of the 1990s mini-series and the Muschietti versions of Eddie - essentially Jack Dylan Grazer's Eddie with blonde hair, like Adam Faraizl sported. While others focus entirely on that of the book descriptions, or more singular representations of the film versions, as it is for most of the other characters. There are some spliced versions of Richie, as well, featuring wild/curly, red hair. And there are iterations of Bill as bald, though most tend to draw within the realm of the Muschietti representation of the character. Before the cast of IT Chapter 2 was confirmed, the designs of characters as adults was generally based on the appearances of the actors who played them as children.
Example Fanworks
For a full list of fanworks, see Category:IT Fanworks.
Animatic
Fanart
For a WIP list of fanartists within this fandom, see this page.
Fanvid
Fanzines
- See Category:IT Zines
- Everything about us is wrong but that's alright. - link
- Hader Zine - link
- Losers Club - IT Fanzine (Second Edition) - link
Recs
Podfics
- Signed, Someone on AO3, Archived version & the written work Signed, Someone on AO3, Archived version
- Spooky October on AO3, Archived version & the written work Spooky October on AO3, Archived version
Twitters
Links & Resources
Animatics
CosPlay
- Fanart, Archived version on DeviantArt
- Fanart, Archived version on Instagram
- Fanart, Archived version on Tumblr
Fanfiction
For a WIP list of authors within this fandom, see this page.
- Stephen King works, Archived version on AO3
- (Movies - Muschietti) works, Archived version on AO3
- Book Fanfic, Archived version on FF.net
- Movie(s) Fanfic, Archived version on FF.net
- Fanfic, Archived version on Tumblr
- Fanfic, Archived version on Wattpad
References
- ^ King, Stephen (1986). IT. Back cover: Scribner.
- ^ itfandompositvity. Project Announcement. 23 June 2018.
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Crossover Ships | Will Byers/Richie Tozier • Bill Denbrough/Mike Wheeler • Eddie Kaspbrak/Mike Wheeler • Will Byers & Eddie Kaspbrak • Freddy Freeman & Eddie Kaspbrak • Richie Tozier & Mike Wheeler |
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