IT

IT is a series of books and movie adaptations.

Fanon
The majority of IT fans gained interest only because of the second adaptation, since the first one was old and lacked a lot of quality. Almost everyone in the fandom prefers to create content about the Losers Club, since the story is focused on them. Since the second adaptation was released in 2017 and the second movie in 2019, this time period was known as the peak of IT fandom because of the frequent new content about the upcoming movies and interviews from the cast.

Even to this day, IT is still somewhat famous because of the interesting characters that are fun to ship and make content about. In this department, it's a fandom with a lot of shipping focus. The most famous shipping type is slash, especially because of the fact the Losers Club, the main group, has six boys and that makes up to a lot of shipping variation. By far, the most popular ship is Reddie, being semi-canon in the movie and implied in the books and mini-series. They're also the most popular gen pairing and is often the sole reason people still like IT, because of their unusual dynamic and considerable canonicity or bond in all adaptations. Benverly comes in second as the canon het ship in both movies and books. In third, often goes Stenbrough and in fourth Hanbrough as a way to pair Bill, the spare, with someone in the club. Stanpat goes in fifth as another canon het ship, but since it disrupts Stenbrough, it's often only paired with Hanbrough.

There's hardly any shipwars because the most popular ships simply don't enter in conflict for not having the same characters. Since the movie and books already ended, there's no need to debate for any possible endgame status that causes fights, so this helps with the fandom toxicity. Plus, the entire fandom agrees that the Losers Club all love each other, even if it's in different deegres of either platonic or romantic love, so even if someone does ship something out of the norm or a rarepair, like Stozier, Stanlon or Billverly, they still have a considerable amount of fanwork to enjoy pacifically in their corner. Sometimes, all the seven losers are shipped in a polyship, being called Polylosers. A tumblr user even made an entire list of all the variations inside the polylosers and their shipnames: "It Ship Master List".

Because of the lack of female characters, having Beverly Marsh as the only girl lead, femslash is wildly unpopular. Still, some like to make female original characters or use the minor female characters (like Patricia, Stan's wife, or even redempt the bully Greta) to ship her with.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * IT (Movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * IT (Books) tag on FanFiction.net
 * IT (Movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * IT (Books) tag on FanFiction.net

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