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  • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey now, let’s be clear. Stephen King did not have the clown defeated by a bunch of outcast youths gangbanging in a sewer. That’s just patently incorrect. Every single part. No, he had the ancient terror disguised as a clown temporarily banished by summoning an ancient turtle from the dawn of time and engaging It in a battle of wills. Anyone that’s actually read the book knows the outcast youth sewer gangbang happens after that and actually has no bearing on the plot whatsoever. Stephen King’s not some freak writing a book where the entire plot hinges on a bunch of traumatized kids screwing each other to save the world, no; he’s a perfectly normal guy writing about a bunch of traumatized kids screwing each other for no reason at all. Bet you feel real silly now, huh?

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What the fuck are you on about? Nothing you said is remotely true, this is a gross misinterpretation of the events depicted in the book.

      It’s not a gangbang, it’s a train. They go one after the other.

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      • massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought that in order to be a train they should be connected to each other.

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    • gurty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And this was the stuff he got published. I’d dread to read his drafts and unreleased material from that era.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Was there not some time traveling component? Like their future selves had to find each other again and come back ti their childhoods. I thought that was what made the “children having sex” part not as triggering as it sounds,because they were actually adults. Mind you, it’s been years since I read the book. I might be misremembering things.

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      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So … adult-minds having sex with children’s bodies?

        That makes it worse!

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      • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, it is even more bizarre. They have sex because the group is lost in the sewer and apparently this makes them know where they are, somehow, so they can leave, which they then do. It adds literally nothing to the plot, apart from really shoddy symbolism of growing up.

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      • NoosFraba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds like sense8 but your kid self hitches a ride or something. What the what Stephen

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      • pohart@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well if that’s in there, 12 year old me definitely missed it.

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    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I remember it being for the need to destroy their innocence.

      Since that attracts these clowns.

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      • JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It was actually closer to needing to restore the power of friendship

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is this a copypasta

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      • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        not yet

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I went into IT with an open mind and was prepared for that scene. Kept thinking that it probably made a lot of sense since many King fans had said it had a very beautiful reason behind it.

    Then I get to it. And it’s just stupid. Genuinely stupid.

    The kids are scared of forgetting each other, because that is the power of IT. It makes people forget as they grow up.

    So they want to do something meaningful to remember each other. And Bev is like: y’all can fuck me.

    And I am over here like: how are the boys supposed to remember each other if they only fuck you? If that scene was supposed to make a lick of sense, the kids would have an orgy with each other and not just the boys lining up to have sex with one girl.

    I can go along with weird and uncomfortable ideas in books if they make sense. In this case, it made no sense. But people either seem to defend it because they just go along with the premise or they defend King because he was high or some shit.

    I’m not defending bad storytelling. IT has a lot of cool concepts in it and no one can write about small communities like King can, but I’m not gonna pretend like the kids having sex is some clever narrative device. It’s very, very stupid.

    I also think the Turtle is goofy af.

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    • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbh if my first time was a train of my bros all with the same chick, i’d probably remember them for a very long time even without a proper orgy. Though i’d probably remember them all for helping to defeat an eldritch sewer fiend anyways.

      Still sounds like a stupid thing to put in a horror story about teenagers though…

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What makes it bad is they’re not teenagers. They’re 11 year olds.

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That the thing, though. IT steals your memories, so the intimacy was supposed to bond the kids together forever so that they wouldn’t forget one another (they do anyway), but to me it makes no sense, when Bev is the only one who’s intimate with everybody and the boys aren’t intimate with one another.

        Then again, I think there could have been other way to get the same point across. They do a blood oath as well and I think that could have served a similar purpose if the kids had all mixed blood like the vikings and become bloodbrothers/sister and symbolically carried a part of each other in their veins forever.

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    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oddly enough, I put that BS down way before the halfway point, and thankfully the only knowledge I have of this King-style WTF Deluxe is vicariously. Phew. 😬

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not a terrible book. The stories and descriptions about Derry through time are really well written and fun world building in my opinion.

        I just think the book was a bit too long and also had a couple of elements that were too silly.

        I haven’t read every king book ever, but currently, I think Misery is his best book. While he likes to have big casts and writing about communities, he’s absolutely at his best when he is stuck with two interesting characters who play off one another in a battle of wills.

        But yeah, IT is far from a bad book, but in my opinion a bit overrated in popculture.

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  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am fairly certain that Stephen King was molested as a child, it’s a recurring theme in his work in a way that seems less like an attempt to depict a general/universal fear and way more like he’s just working through his own trauma. IT isn’t even the best example, he’s got a short story called The Library Policeman that is not subtle about it at all. Incedentally, I first read that short story in elementary school, worked better as a stranger danger warning than anything else.

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  • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cocaine is a help of a drug…

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    • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Washed down with some Listerine according to his On Writing autobio

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      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fuck, that’s nasty.

        Which flavor? Napalm Mint™? Yellow Horse Breath? Amethyst Apocalypse?

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would have been so easy to just not write that part. Or her character like that at all tbh

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    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It might have been easy for you or I, for King it was an insurmountable struggle

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t get it

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a scene in the book “It” where the only girl in the friend group decides to have sex with all the others to bring them back together. Down in the sewers.

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      • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Also, this friend group is all children. Not teenages of age, or even teenagers of questionable age, children.

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    • kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The book has child porn in it. A group fuck where they all fuck the girl.

      Not joking.

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      • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Describing it as porn is wildly inaccurate, it’s not particularly detailed or explicit and it’s not written in a way that even comes close to being erotic

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      • Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Today I learned everyone with a copy of the book ‘It’ is in possession of CSAM, and amazon and Barnes and noble are actively and criminally distributing the same material.

        Words have meaning.

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      • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The fuck who read that shit Stephen is disgusting

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    • burgermeister@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The kids defeated the clown by fucking

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      • Zannsolo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No they celebrated defeating the clown by fucking.

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  • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I went in knowing nothing about the book other than there was a supernatural clown in it. When I read that scene I had to stop, then go online to find an explanation of what the fuck I just read and how it is related to the plot. I was absolutely baffled by the amount of people saying they thought it was fine to have, some people even said it was a good allegory for leaving childhood.

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    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      some people even said it was a good allegory for leaving childhood.

      It is an allegory. But that is a certainly not a good one and should be not a choice to be used as one.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh come on use the original.

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      (also maybe don’t do child gang bangs in your books, its a bit weird)

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