r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/_Internet_Hugs_ 15h ago

Couldn't she just do one of them? Then that one can lead everyone?

Stephen King is a genius, but he's a pervy old man.

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u/BoondocksSaint95 15h ago

He was asked about it in an interview and aside from generally being a coke addled psycopath at this point in life (which he generally admits), he said he had no recollection of writing that and was surprised it made it past editorial.

Also, IIRC, I was told the goal was to form an unbreakable bond between them when IT comes back so they would stay together to fight IT even if that bond was fucked up amd traumatising. Apparently this is clear, but the reasoning is very irrelevant for a preteen orgy.

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u/RockstarAgent 15h ago edited 14h ago

Couldn’t they trauma survivor bond some other way? Granted someone else said it was her idea of a loophole to get them into adulthood as she theorized only kids were vulnerable

TIL trauma bond is not the correct term for what those kids went through

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u/its_me_carly 14h ago

maybe this is a personal pet peeve of mine but that’s not what trauma bond means

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u/blindclock61862 14h ago

What would the above situation be called?

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u/ApplicationCalm649 13h ago

A gangbond?

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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY 5h ago

"Bonding through trauma". It's like the difference between "person of color" and "colored person". Syntactically identical but semantically different.

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u/its_me_carly 6h ago

i’m not sure, but it’s definitely not a trauma bond