Wasn’t it because the clown only went after innocent children?
So in order to lose their innocence they had a gang bang.
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Heikki2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reading the story, the “gangbang” part wasn’t like a huge orchestrated planned event. The kids were lost in the dark, loosing hope, and knew that IT wanted them to feel down and weak as alone they could be defeated by IT.
In an effort to make them feel close, Beverly took it up her self to make them all Eskimo Brothers. This brought the Losers Club back into solidarity.
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That sounds very much like a pedophile fantasy.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s like saying that a lot of people get murdered in Stephen King’s stories, so he must have homicidal fantasies.
Horror writers look for ways to shock and shake up their readers, and judging from the comments here, he succeeded.
spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Jonathan Swift must have really wanted to cannibalize poor children!
I’ll never forget bringing that up in a classroom and realizing adults had no idea it was satire.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 hours ago
… This isn’t satire and King is in the Epstein files.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yep when your job is to shock, gross out and give people very specifically a moral and ethical panic attack
You tend to do some fucked up stuff.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I assumed that there was a reason that he agrees with trump on not releasing the Epstein files.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
No, King does not agree with Trump not releasing the Epstein files.
King doesn't believe there is a document that clearly lists who is guilty of being a pedophile because that isn't how long running and successful criminal activity works. They have lists of contacts and hints, which have already been released, but not something so cut and dry as a client list.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Yeah but it’s exactly how long running CIA/Mossad blackmail operation works
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Even if there is an explicated log book. It’s likely filled with worthless pseudonyms, chicken scrawl or some other worthless data.
Making it worthless and basically what we already got
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
but not something so cut and dry as a client list.
Right. I know that. I assumed the ‘list’ people were talking about was able to be made with the actual information. Especially with the financial information on where the money was flowing.
The idea that there was 1 specific list that was found isn’t the idea being pushed when people say ‘Release the Epstein file.’ King said he doesn’t think a definitive list is real, but we sure do have a lot of information that can be used to create a list. That list can lead to questions that might have valid answers. It will also lead to a lot of pedos…so I’m assuming protecting them is the point of Trump’s delay.
King might have his own reason for not wanting a list of people not having to explain their connections with Epstein in the past, but I don’t care. Explain it and then move on, if you are innocent. It just feels King is arguing a red herring (about an actual list) instead of the meat and potatoes of going after pedos. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Thank God for the Beverly’s of the world, keeping it all together
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m a big fan of Stephen Kings work. He’s deserving of respect as a writer and story teller. Your explanation is reasonable and true in the context of the story.
There is just no way to talk about, write about, discuss, etc, stuff like that, without the air in the room not going still as fuck. All of what you say is true, it’s still… off.
And that book was just a bit too long, but again, great book, great writer, questionable AS FUCK portion.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
cocaine
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Ya know, people keep saying this, but I’ve tried coke before, and preteen sex didn’t cross my mind once during it.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The people saying it have probably never seen an illegal drug before much less party time Adderall
I agree, coke makes you an annoying motormouth with no filter. If kiddie shit is what comes out then that’s just what was inside to begin with.
regedit@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
We’re you writing a book about pre-teens being lured by a murderous clown when you did cocaine? No, I didn’t think so!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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Drusas@fedia.io 23 hours ago
I don't think that's true at all. I think there are a lot of people out there who could discuss it, but that requires a significant degree of emotional maturity and there are too many people who can't step back and be open to discussing things that make them uncomfortable.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Mate, where are you going with this? Aldous Huxely erotic play for children? I think you’re missing the point. It’s not a discussion because the fallacy purported by the writer was to give 12 year olds emotions, desires, and mental processes that they simply have not yet developed. Beverly, the twelve year old girl, wouldn’t think to have sex with her friends to comfort them. Full stop. That’s the writer putting these emotions where they simply wouldn’t exist. And. Creepy.
It’s not maturity. Maturity is knowing that twelve year olds don’t reason that way.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Ummm was your childhood stunted or something? 12yos absolutely can be capable of complex emotional intelligence and reasoning. Hell, for most of humanity “childhood” wasn’t even a concept and an adult was anyone over 13.
And don’t get me wrong, that we can gift our young the idea of “childhood” is simply one of the greatest achievements of the modern world, so I’m not out here trying to say kids should be considered adults again, but I think you are vastly underestimating the capability of children. Especially children who are trauma survivors and haven’t had the benefit of the slow progress of childhood gifted to them.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 hours ago
Well, she would, because she’s a child sexual abuse survivor and it’s a hypersexualization thing and a result of how she’s been told things work.
Still fucked up to type that out and have not come editor say “Are you doing okay, Stevie?”
honurash@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There are plenty of people who are abused at a young age that come to associate sex with giving comfort or thinking its the only way they can help others.
IronBird@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
i definitely knew about sex by 12
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Sure. People can have a mature discussion about real life events. But when you make fantasy stories about children having sex that’s a fantasy.
You’re making a fantasy. You’re writing characters In a fantasy world and having them do this very inappropriate thing. And what makes it weirder is that the writer isn’t a child, he’s an old man. It’s creepy.
And isn’t that supposed to be the not creepy part of the book?