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[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 192 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

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. Completely different and, in fact, perfectly reasonable. 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?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 136 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 34 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's the "train position" you're referring to. It's different from "running a train".

Why? I don't know.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 minutes ago

The latter comes with a stripey hat and a steam whistle.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago) (1 children)

There is an old painting about this. Tho they are adults.Gay ottoman erotica from 1700s where everyone forms a circular chain with their dicks and ass

(Tuhfet Ul-Mulk by Shayk Al-Misri, 1773)

(This is illustrated version of the Turkish translation from 1400s and there is an older, Arabic version from 1300s according to carbon-dating)

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents.

Surprised nobody's volunteered to write the English caption yet.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

One might say, they couldn't be arsed.

[–] gurty@lemmy.world 38 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I remember it being for the need to destroy their innocence or something

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 6 points 12 hours ago

Couldn't they just like... go minigolfing or something?

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 15 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 4 points 7 hours 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.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 38 points 22 hours ago

So ... adult-minds having sex with children's bodies?

That makes it worse!

[–] NoosFraba@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 19 hours ago

My ex went on to get a PhD in English with Stephen king as a specific area of interest and I'm glad I don't know exactly the email to send what you said, well it would be super awkward and probably misunderstood