[Image descriptions in order: a Reddit post on r/whatsthatbook by u/clownthrowawayhelp, titled “help solve a fight with my girlfriend - book with monster clown that can turn into fears but NOT king’s IT???” The post is tagged “solved”, and says:
i say it’s not king’s IT she says it is. we’ve been disagreeing about this on and off for a year because she keeps bringing up scenes and going on about how good they were in the book but i’ve read IT and those scenes aren’t in it. she says i read IT too long ago to remember. fair. it was a while. but she read it over five years ago too!
scenes she remembers that i don’t remember in the og book: it was set at a school camp during the kid bits and there were adult scenes too 20-something years later but she doesn’t remember them because they “weren’t as good”. the kids are different ages ranging from 5 to 20. there’s a demon clown thing hunting them and it keeps turning into the things they’re scared of to try eat them.
she remembers a scene where there was a rabid bear and one of the teenagers set it on fire using hairspray. at the end the clown is a female and there’s eggs, and every kid in the camp ends up ganging up to try beat the clown to death with rocks. there’s also a bit with some weird rapey werewolves but she’s less certain about that.
she remembers some scenes that are definitely from IT too like the fridge and bill’s bike and the bullies lost in the sewers so im pretty sure she’s mixing up IT and some other book. i need to find the other book or we’re both going to die mad about this. we need closure
sorry if this isn’t the right place i don’t use reddit but i’m desperate to solve this i need to be validated
she asked me to add this edit of things she also remembers even though she said she wants nothing to do with my search since she knows shes right - these are all quotes:
“the little guys died first and it was dreadful”
“there were so many horrible scenes in the camp bathroom king (she says)/the author as of yet unknown (i say) must have something against public bathrooms and by the time i was done reading i did too”
“someone died so enthusiastically they painted the wall with their insides”
“at least one person maybe more was described as ‘unzipped’ by the time the clown was done”
“there were at least two horny scenes” <– look how can she say this and still think its king the man is like 80% horny scenes 70% scary scenes and theyre usually overlapping]
[Screenshots of the comments of the post.
There is a comment thread which says
u/Deejaymil: Hey OP, does your gf read fanfiction by any chance?
u/clownthrowawayhelp: she says no but she didn’t say no fast if you get what i mean, very suspicious stuff. and now she’s giving me guilty looks. if she’s been telling me how good some random fanfiction is for the last 12 months while thinking it was the og i’m taking my pajamas and going home
u/Deejaymil: Haha hey this is awkward
Hate to break it to you both but I think she’s mixing up IT with a couple of fanfics. I can’t link them because they’re locked behind a privacy wall but one is an IT/Criminal Minds crossover (most of what you’ve described, though the details aren’t quite right), and the werewolf thing is a different Criminal Minds fic from the same author. Ask her if the camp they were at was called Camp Moribund, if you need evidence for your validation.
u/clownthrowawayhelp: i cant believe gabby has done this to me
she left the room when i told her it’s a fanfiction and then she came back to ask how you could possibly know that and now she’s left again. i think you got it. she wouldn’t be so mad otherwise
u/Deejaymil: I know because I wrote them Imao]
[u/clownthrowawayhelp: you are the best thing to ever happen to my relationship god bless your socks i will die telling this story to my children’s children. i’m so happy i could cry
sorry if my post sounded like it was dragging your horny scenes i’m sure they’re tasteful horny
thank you for devastating my girl’s emotional wellbeing she needed this]
[u/Deejaymil: I feel like I’ve walked into a crowded room and everyone has stopped talking and turned to stare at me, this is the worst whatsthatbook solve I’ve managed yet haha. Usually I just saunter into the obscure animal book threads because I was cat-obsessed as a child…]
[u/Deejaymil: I’m never going to emotionally recover from this.]
[u/Deejaymil: Haha well, in honour of OP’s poor girlfriend here’s the IT one. I turned off the privacy setting so it should be accessible without a log-in. She faced her demons today so I can face mine.
u/clownthrowawayhelp: she says “thanks this is exactly it. if i can’t have my dignity, at least i have something to read”
cheers. guess ill have to read it too now just to find out why she loves the bear versus hairspray scene so much
u/justmyrealname: “If I can’t have my dignity, at least I have something to read” is such a good line]
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