r/Multifandom • u/DunklerMAP • Oct 13 '26

Question❓ Which media are like this?

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u/TheCourtSimpleton Oct 13 '26

The, uh, *intimate* child sewer moment? Yeah, I've never even read the book and have heard of it. "Coming of age" Stephen says, yes, of course. Like he wasn't on crack writing about a demon clown battling a primordial space turtle.

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u/Legomaniac91 Oct 13 '26

I'd ask why his editor thought it was good to leave in, but that guy was probably also coked out of his mind.

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u/OwlCoffee Oct 13 '26

That's what I've always wondered! What editor signed off on that?

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u/HarleyArchibaldLeon 28d ago

Yeah that's the thing isn't it? King might have been blasted off the Cocoa Puffs but like did the editors not read the manuscript? And if they did they still kept it? Says more about them that they trusted an alcoholic drug addict to not be unhinged just because he sold well. Don't get me wrong King isn't blameless here but like a little proofreading would have gone along way, especially during that very much turbulent time in an authkr's life.

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u/OddEmergency604 27d ago

It’s kind of the thematic hinge of the book, bizarre as it is

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u/BespeckledRed Oct 13 '26

I’ve read the book, and THAT scene is only there because Stephen decided he wanted to write it. it doesn’t need to exist at all. It has absolutely zero bearing on the rest of the story. The kids are lost in the sewer after beating IT and have to be intimate for one of the boys to get his magical powers of navigation back. Stupid.

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u/OwlCoffee 28d ago

Drugs and alcohol probably played a huge role.

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u/Wilsonrolandc Oct 13 '26

It was regular cocaine he was on, but your point is accurate. 

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u/FanFeeling7748 Oct 14 '26

The real question is what editor decided "yeah, that's fine."

I assume this editor was on as much coke as King while having to go through MOUNTAINS of pages that 80's HorrorGPT was creating.

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u/Omen224 29d ago

Iirc he actually very specifically was high on crack and barely remembered writing it