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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • it had nothing to do with escaping pennywayse they were lost iN the sewers after they thought they'd killed him
[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It's another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children's library and the adult library.

-Stephen King

The book even specified that the intent was for them to be together and unified as a group again, like they had to be for the fight. And they instantly remember the way out after they're finished. Just because they don't spell out that their explicit intent was to escape him by having sex, doesn't exclude that meaning.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Except It eats adults. It just goes primarily after kids because it's easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)

Becoming adults won't give them an escspe from Its predations - the whole adults storythread wouldn't exist if it did.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)

They weakened it, and did something that changed how it can interact with them by transitioning to a different state. Unifying, just like with the fight, as a way to overcome the power. That's why they remember the way out after the act. Which shows that it was literally a way for them to escape the power, at least temporarily.