#the 90s
The reason they have those “please don’t bring merchandise into the bathrooms” signs at bookstores is that like in the 90s, it became a thing to go to the bookstore and take a book into the bathroom to read while pooping. So there were a lot of nice picture books in the vicinity of the bathroom that people had left immediately after pooping, so a bunch of books in the vicinity of the bathroom were grimy and old from overuse. And the bookstores were losing sales because those grimy books were stigmatized. So bookstores came up with the sign.
“Eddie what happened–” Richie started before being given the *look* as Eddie’s eyes darted to his, brows and lips drawn in a straight line and fists covered in blood. It was a stupid question, he fucking knew the answer. Eddie had fought Simon; Simon the douche-canoe twice his height with a thirst for skinning seniors for no goddamn reason than to maintain his hierarchy and pride in Derry. Richie noticed the rose colored bruise over Eddie’s left eye and clenched his teeth. “I’ll kill him.”
“No you wont,” Eddie hissed. He was seething. Richie thought *he* was mad, Eddie might kill someone. Senior year had changed him. Those bright doe eyes were now dark and unfamiliar. This wasn’t Eddie. Something was going on in that head of his, Eddie was keeping a secret…and it hurt. It hurt he didn’t trust his best friend.
Richie felt his chest burn and his hands fist at his sides. He didn’t need Eddies permission. That asshole would pay for this…
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Okay I know I promised adult!Eddie but I really loved the idea of Eddie going through a rough senior year. I’ve been enjoying these fanfics where Eddie stands up for himself and fights back and, well, that was the inspiration for this drabble. Hope you enjoy my half-assed attempt at writing!
PS I went with a curly haired Eddie because I happen to adore Jacks curls and this scene is the direct aftermath of Eddie’s fight with Simon so his hair wouldn’t remain parted anyway. The decision mightve been too au but…oh well.
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Yasmeen Ghauri photographed by Marco Glaviano for Elle Italia, May 1994 ❤
Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, 1995 Met Gala ✨
Important superhero sartorial information, via Avengers #332. By Larry Hama, Paul Ryan, and Tom Palmer.
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Ad for a pair of Marvel UK miniseries starring Death-Wreck and Death Metal, both spin-off characters of ridiculous 90s ubermech and then-Marvel UK flagship character Death’s Head II. Given the era, the hyperbolic taglines were meant with utmost sincerity… although “our brains don’t fit into our heads” is a bizarre permutation of raditude.
Scan from a 1994 issue of Wizard magazine, which gives this some kinda peak crescendo of 90sness.
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When some friends and I were trawling through an action figure archive, one of us noticed that like 80% of Mattel’s Demolition Man movie tie-in line was made up of reused molds from The New Adventures of He-Man series… including He-Man himself being remolded into Sylvester Stallone.
Obviously, this means Mattel needs to do Sly in Masters of the Universe Classics, because after you’ve got an evil musclebound purple rabbit-man themed around pollution in your line-up, it’s not like things can ever get lessweird.
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