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[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 219 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 154 points 1 day 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 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day 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 3 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours 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 5 points 21 hours 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 21 hours ago

One might say, they couldn't be arsed.

[–] gurty@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day 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 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

No minigolf in Derry, or laser tag

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day 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 10 points 1 day 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 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

That makes it worse!

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"They're actually 900 years old" or something

[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago

Ah, the classic anime workaround.

"Nigomichisichason is technically 1000 years old so when I jerk it to Rule 34 fan art, I'm not actually jerking it to anime of a kid even though she looks and acts exactly like one"

[–] NoosFraba@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day 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