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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 (to be fair, I was also pretty confused by the denouement in general) 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.
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.
"And you thought I was fucked up? I didn't have anything to do with that! I just eat children!"
Oh come on use the original.
(also maybe don't do child gang bangs in your books, its a bit weird)
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?
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.
I thought that in order to be a train they should be connected to each other.
That's the "train position" you're referring to. It's different from "running a train".
Why? I don't know.
The latter comes with a stripey hat and a steam whistle.
That's a centipede
There is an old painting about this. Tho they are adults.
(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)
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Surprised nobody's volunteered to write the English caption yet.
One might say, they couldn't be arsed.
And this was the stuff he got published. I’d dread to read his drafts and unreleased material from that era.
I remember it being for the need to destroy their innocence or something
It was actually closer to needing to restore the power of friendship
Couldn't they just like... go minigolfing or something?
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.
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.
So ... adult-minds having sex with children's bodies?
That makes it worse!
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.
Oddly enough, I put that BS down far before the halfway point back in the day, and never picked it up again.
Thankfully, the only knowledge I have of this King-style WTF Deluxe?
Vicariously. Phew. 😬
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..
What makes it bad is they're not teenagers. They're 11 year olds.
"How could we remeber each other forever?"
"Oh I know, lets all do a childhood trauma!"
😑 i thought they were like 14 or something....it makes even less sense now
Cocaine is a hell of a drug...
Washed down with some Listerine according to his On Writing autobio
Fuck, that's nasty.
Which flavor? Napalm Mint™? Yellow Horse Breath? Amethyst Apocalypse?
edit: Now I've got a 3pc band in my head of straightedge Mr. Cleans w/ scrubby-bubble brushstaches in Ned Flanders fit, called The Listerines.
Don't get it
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.
Also, this friend group is all children. Not teenages of age, or even teenagers of questionable age, children.
The book has child porn in it. A group fuck where they all fuck the girl.
Not joking.
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.
