Thread 214496847

Why does an all powerful cosmic spider hang out in a bum ass town eating 6 year olds all day?

>>214496847 (OP)
Why not?

It's a nice quiet place to raise spiderlings.

because its funny

>>214496847 (OP)
>Why does a creature hang out near its food-source?
Gee, what a mystery.

>>214496847 (OP)
It’s definitely a Groundhog Day situation for It. When you’ve already done everything there is to do eventually you’ll just become Albert Fish Wayne Gacy forever.

What was Derry's HOA policy?

>>214496847 (OP)
Nigga gotta eat, derry was just unlucky

>>214496984
The hoes get gangbanged.

>Small town in the middle of nowhere that no one will investigate
>Parents that accept that the town is haunted and look the other way
>Kids too afraid to do anything
Pretty simple. Pennywise also only takes a handful of kids every 27 years. Manageable loss.

>>214496847 (OP)
Because like with other pedos its better not to attract too much attention about what you do

that's where his plane crashed also no coloreds

>>214496847 (OP)
Because Stephen King is a pedophile who masturbates to child porn and snuff films.

>>214497243
Would it not be less obvious that someone is missing in a city? Had to suddenly move out of town type of stuff?
Besides more food?

They tasty

>>214496847 (OP)
He want do eat dem.

>>214497735
It doesnt need more food. It just wakes up every 27 years

>>214496847 (OP)
Black people taste bad.

>>214497735
More eyes = more chance of being seen. Not many cameras in small towns.

It's very clearly explained in the book.

Why couldn't he go back home?

>>214496948
The weirdest thing about IT is how eldritch it is compared to his super mundane goal. Might as well have just been a guy in a suit

>>214497949
I just assumed they tasted like chicken

The clown in the woods sequence in Weapons was very much like scenes in It and was probably my favorite moment however brief.

>>214497735
>>214498815
It's not worried about being seen, retards. It brainwashes the entire town so they look the other way when bad shit happens.

>>214499425
>a child orgy scene in a chapter titled The Ritual of Chud

>>214496847 (OP)
The actualy answer is that it just fucking fell out of space thousands or millions or years ago. The town was built around it, maybe because of the magnetic attraction of its bad juju, idk. Anyway, at heart It is just a cosmic predator and It gets to eat Its fill whenever It wants so why do anything else?

>>214499425
>>214499603
The thought of this playing out is actually really fucking funny
>Whaddaya mean there's not gonna be an entire child orgy at the end? Who's the fucking author here?!?!

>>214496847 (OP)
>

>>214496875
this
he's got the time

>>214499473
You cant brainwash security cameras which was my point you stupid fucking faggot.

>>214496847 (OP)
that's where it landed in the first place. It was eating Penobscot indians before the town was even there.

Maine is so fucking comfy, bros. Strong recommend for a trip.
>small coastal towns
>Acadia National Park
>Baxter State Park
The most /innawoods/ you can literally get east of the Mississippi River

>>214500671
>You cant brainwash security cameras
You think an entity that can distort photographs and live television is worried about being caught on a security camera? Holy shit you're dumb.

>>214496847 (OP)
Switch the order of the OPs verse to reveal the reason for the spider's throbbing thirst

Doesn't seem like its all powerful.

>>214496847 (OP)
Stephen King once wrote a short story about a black hotel maid who ate a racist white author's semen off the bedsheets to transfer his talent to her unborn son.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedication_(short_story)

Not only written, but published. Apparently this qualifies someone to be a political commentator on Twitter. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

>>214500866
>let's make this a twitter thread
No

>>214500832
It's power is corrupting the people in its vicinity (i.e. the citizens of Derry) and it has some type of sense that gives it a window into your psychology (it can read your mind or is somehow all seeing like a supernatural Big Brother). It pervades the entire town and can manipulate people to do it's will. It's limited to an extent, it has to suggest things to people and can't simply possess and act through them, but over the eons it has been in what eventually becomes Derry it has formed a sphere of influence on the environment.

People saying "durr, it should attack a city because it can do more damage" are retards. Why does a serial killer space out his crimes instead of just engaging in a mass shooting somewhere? It's just the type of evil it chooses to engage in. There's also nothing in the book/movie about choosing it's location. It crashes into earth in the area that will eventually become Derry and remains there.

>>214500755
If mental gymnastics was an olympic sport, you might make the finals with cope posting like that

>>214496847 (OP)
what would you be doing if you were pennywise?

>>214500744
>what is the adirondack mountains
the only cool thing about main is going to portland to do drugs at the ocean

>>214501023
>mental gymnastics
Where are the mental gymnastics, retard? You're saying a magical entity that can distort time and space is worried about security cameras. How stupid can you be? You're just as dumb as OP.

>>214501087
It changes the perception of the viewer not the media faggot. It's not going to be able to do that for every camera and everyone watching each camera or footage. hence being in a small town works so well.

>>214501134
>It changes the perception of the viewer not the media
Holy shit. How are you not getting this? Its presence pervades the entire region it's in. It's noncorporeal for the most part--it's a presence that exists in multiple places at once and isn't bound by time and space. It can enter into the mind of those it chooses to corrupt in order to have them do it's bidding.

Why are you talking about security cameras, retard? It's not that type of monster. Part of the horror of It is not knowing how the entity knows what it knows or does what it does. All the reader/viewer knows is that it somehow understands your personal psychology and its presence exists throughout the town. On top of that it is defeated by its hubris the first time it comes into contact with the Losers Club (i.e. it sees humans as insects and has no fear of them) and 27 years later it depends on Henry Bowers to take out as many of the Losers as he can because the group has a connection that makes them dangerous to it.

Give up the Cinema Sins mentality you complete and total retard.

>>214501293
If it could affect everyone everywhere all at once it would have taken over the planet and demanded sacrifices from the insects every 27 years. The fact it hasn't, and is scared of a handful of insects that has worked out its tricks just shows you're a dumb cunt obsessed with SCP stories and are just spurging out.

>>214497287
This is the correct answer.

what did pennywise think when the kiddies started diddling each other?

>>214501459
>If it could affect everyone everywhere all at once it would have taken over the planet
Where are you even getting that idea from you complete and total retard? It's power is limited but it isn't clear to the viewer/reader how and why this is so. We know that it exists outside of our sense of reality (i.e. time and space) because it doesn't have a physical form (i.e. It's noncorporeal). In the book there's also the shit with the turtle (that also exists outside of space and time) which we know is true because it references it while attacking Bill (it says the turtle is dead...either it's lying or it still exists in whatever region of existence that is and has a window into it). It's not about avoiding security cameras in order to get away with murdering kids, dumbfuck. It's a supernatural entity that exists outside of time and space BUT it takes delight in corrupting it's surroundings and nourishes it's physical form by feeding on children--it can also taste fear).

Holy shit you're next level retarded. Imagine being filtered by something as accessable as a Stephen fucking King story.

>>214501459
>it doesn't have a physical form
>nourishes it's physical form
If you're confused by this seeming contradiction change the second use of "form" to manifestation.

Seriously though, holy shit you're next level retarded. Not everything is a Marvel movie where stakes only matter if they're planetary in scope. Fuck you're dumb.

>>214496847 (OP)
But that is exactly what one does if you are a spider of sufficient cosmic power.

What if she landed in India?

>>214501789
>i made a mistake
>better make up some more bullshit and blame (You)
ok sperg i think my job here is done

>>214501523
Everyone born before 2000 is fine with pedophilia, they enjoy watching creeps get btfo in videos, but they don't actually think teens aren't sexy.

>>214496847 (OP)
The same fucking monster is in The Library Policeman. IDK if King was just blasted out of his mind and completely forgot he already wrote about an ancient horror that feeds on the fear of kids 5 years before or what.

>>214501835
pretty shit bait there zoomer. haven't you got a free palestine rally to go to

Im not the first person to say this but IT feels like two seperate novels.
1 is about a cosmic entity that can be anything your afraid of
2 is about a serial killer clown that has haunted a town for generations
Its the reason it feels like theres a disconnect sometimes
Pennywise was given a name and backstory and then he kind of throws it away by just making him a eldricth entity

>>214496847 (OP)
>Why does an all powerful cosmic spider hang out in a bum ass town eating 6 year olds all day?
Cool it with your anti semitism

It is similar to Wishmaster in that it could only its power through other people. In It's case, it's through people's fears. Small town people are less sophisticated and thus easier to control and manipulate.

>>214496847 (OP)
No crime so they are totally clueless and don't know how to deal with it. It would be like Edward Scissorhands coming down from the castle and mauling everyone. They wouldn't be ready for it.

>>214501812
>>214500825
Drider!!! It's a DRIDER!! Gawd!

>>214496847 (OP)
He isn't all powerful and kids are easier to kill because they have more simple fears he can lure them in with. Adults also have a higher chance of just shooting his ass

>>214501631
There’s a reason he didn’t stop them

>>214500825
Day all olds year 6 eating town ass bum in out hang spider cosmic powerful all an does why?

>>214501890
That is a very racist hurtful term and this is a spider safe space.

>>214501850
That story also has a fucking bizarre and graphic scene where the protag has a flashback to his childhood and getting raped by a gay, lisping hobo pretending to be a library employee. Seriously, it goes on for multiple pages and it talks about how he thinks the hobo's huge dick is gonna blow his guts out.

>>214496847 (OP)
unironically, it came here during the Jurassic period on an asteroid. It just happened that Derry is in the same spot it landed.

It's also not exactly a spider, it just assumed that form during the fight as it was the most effective against the kids.

>>214501826
>i made a mistake
No mistake, retard. I knew you'd be too dumb to understand it is noncorporeal (has no singular physical manifestation as evidenced by the fact it repeatedly changes forms) but still undertakes a physical form (i.e. it manifests itself). Thereby, a retard like yourself will need things spelled out very clearly because it's quite obvious you're the type of person that is easily confused.

You're retarded.

>>214502088
It doesn't assume the form of the spider because it's effective. It's the closest thing to a physical manifestation of it's true form that humans can comprehend.

>>214502088
That’s not why she’s a spider dumbass

>>214502052
fucking stephen king man

>>214496847 (OP)
It spends a lot of time in the book in the form of different 50s movie monsters to fuck with kids. I know Freddy and Jason are a tangled mess of copyright issues, but it would have been cool if WB used some of their other 80s properties like Gremlins or Creepshow in the 2017 movie. They could have had Big Steve reprise his role as Jordy Verill or something.

>>214500671
It quite literally brainwashes the whole town. This is why The Losers’ Club is established because of their circumstances they resist It. When Beaverly is being felt up by the bullies and the old man just turns the other way and keeps on walking that’s It’s influence on the people in Derry. When they go their separate ways they forget all about it… until they return and have shared hallucinations of their dead friend Stanley. This only happens in Derry because of It’s influence

>>214502330
Doesn't weird stuff happen to them when they come back too? Like Bill starts stuttering and Richie's eyes get fucked up and he has to wear glasses again. Like It wants to revert them to childhood for a rematch.

>>214501869
i think that plays
you see him as killer clown cause you don’t know his truth
you try to stop him & learn his truth, and that changes your perception
Maybe killer clown wasn’t even his final form?

>>214502201
The Shinning has a random digression about how Jack, King's self-insert, wrote a play about a child rapist and how closely he identifies with the character.

>>214501631
He probably didn't know because for some reason people think they gangbang before they confront him but they actually do it after they beat him and he runs like a bitch, which s/he actually is

>>214501134
In the book It permanently alters pictures, there is no reason why It couldn't do the same for video

>>214502442
I think that's more just their psychological regression by being exposed to the trauma they went through as kids. There are other things at work that pull them back to the town (e.g. the scars on their hands fade after they defeat it at the end of the story) and it is genuinely scared of them. This is why whenever they film it the second half comes across so badly--in the book you have jumping narrative timelines whereas the film versions split each period according to their childhood encounter and their return as adults. That doesn't really work because it is on its back foot after being defeated the first time (e.g. it has to enlist Bowers in an attempt to weaken them) and they have to relive/come to terms with their childhoods to understand what they had that was effective against it as adults.

>>214501869
I literally just finished the book and I agree with this. The last third tries to have some mystery by expanding on what It is, but most of it is lost by that point. Not a bad thing though, I liked the book a lot. But it seems like he just thought the clown was scary and had to justify it lol.
Why the fuck was the clowns name ALSO Bob Gray?

>>214502573
After it is defeated the first time their connection with each other dissipates and King thought it was a good idea to have them reconnect by running train on the female member of the group. It's also supposed to symbolize being initiated into adulthood but it was just retarded and awful. Cocaine/booze.

>>214496847 (OP)
In the book it’s explained that it’s an alien or something and it’s been on Earth for millions of years and there’s a turtle in the explanation and King was obviously high out of his mind when he wrote it and I was really disappointed in the second half of the book so I didn’t finish it.

>>214502505
Clowns have an archetypal symbolism to them that lends itself to the ideas of the novel (they were generally used in indigenous traditions to open a portal between the ordered world and primordial chaos) and circus clowns generally appeal to children (so Pennywise is a perversion of that). It doesn't have a physical form and is more of a presence that manifests itself throughout the town. In our reality the closest thing to it's real physical form is the spider and it nourishes itself on corrupting those around it and feeding on fear/children.

>>214502668
It also seemed like it was supposed to be a direct rebellion to what Bev had experienced earlier that day, with It influencing her dad to check her virginity/getting mad she was with boys/trying to rape her/trying to kill her. Taking control of her own life by being a total whore or whatever
Hope someone makes a graphic novel!

>>214502664
>Why the fuck was the clowns name ALSO Bob Gray?
It's the name it uses when it pretends to be human. That's pretty much it. The mystery as to why it chose that name gives depth to the story/character.

>>214501850
Pennywise/It is pretty damn similar to the Ancient Enemy in Phantoms too. That book drops the ball so hard after an amazing buildup that it would be improved 1000% if the culprit was an intergalactic space clown though.

>>214502201
EVERYTHING he wrote has some weird shit in it. On Writing is about the creative process and advice for new writers navigating the ins and outs of agents and publishing and all that jazz.
Yet it has an aside about how he had a fat black babysitter who held him down and blew huge farts in his face while shouting KA POW!

>>214496847 (OP)
Because every important thing in Steven King's universe of cosmic horror happens in a few shitty towns in Maine.
The fact this is where Steven King is from is purely coincidental.

>>214499428
King is an awful writer.

>>214496847 (OP)
Adults could kill him when they realize that them not being scared of him and having weapons is all you need
A pair of shitty cops could kill him

>>214496847 (OP)
There's rumor and it says pennywise is actually real, but he's in Japan and every nips occasionally rape & eat their own kids so they don't even know his existence