30000th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

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#29116

my mom could see my book purchases since i read p much exclusively ebooks. she was like “are you sure i heard it’s scary” and i was like “ill be ok” and it wasnt pushed far past that. I think if she looked it up it would’ve been a hard no since we were both still catholic at the time and also i was 11.

honestly maybe 11 was the best time to read the book because anything significantly past that would be… weird. i remember the book being kinda. er. visceral with the descriptions of the kids activities. which would be ostensibly kinda weird to read as an adult. but also i dont think there really is a good time to read it at all. i mean i remember it being compellingly written just yeah fucked up

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#29117

Steamed Hams but each lie sends Chalmers to the start
Those are good steamed hams.

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#29119

shoutout to Guiding Lights almost being in Arcane

#29120

i missed the part where it is said “thou shall not read Stephen King’s 1986 novel It”

deffo not age-appropriate for an 11-year-old though lol

#29121

bleh
i do not feel good

#29122

i wonder what types of stimulants i can take to compensate for not being adequate enough

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#29123

also i should not have had milk that hurt my throat

#29124

why do they even sell throat-hurting milk?

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#29125

I’m always asking myself this

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#29126

fwiw i think the visceral descriptions are intended to be an uncomfortable experience as the reader like as part of the horror.

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#29127

and the ending was foreshadowing for the author’s future travel plans in the caribbean. bravo stephen

#29128

This

#29129

sometimes silviu sends me a project with tens of data points and little descriptions of them all in Romanian and says “you wish you were me”

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#29130

tas

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#29131

we were much more against stuff like that at the time. i had a decently restricted media diet influenced pretty heavily by religion. i dont think catholicism in theory or practice does/should disallow reading It, but it would’ve for me at the time and how my family practiced it.

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#29132

NYAAAAAAAAAAA my mom insists against playing dungeons and dragons for religious reasons
fortunately I never was interested in playing it though so I didn’t have to argue with that

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#29133

she thinks it’s like, satanic or something IIRC

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#29134

i was never restricted from d&d or harry potter or whatever for “satanic” reasons at least though I knew people who were. I had a friend who played the ttrpg Traveller pretty much exclusively instead because d&d was “satanic” though. which sucks but also Traveller rocks

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#29135

stephen king is well known for having literally written It while on hard drugs

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