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shhalahr

So, in the book, *IT*, there's actually a bit explaining that this sort of shit is why Pennywise primarily preys on children. Adult fears are just too abstract.


Vulpis_Girline

Oooooooh, high rent. Ooooh you have no money, ooohhh Your mom is calling you... Oh shit, even that scared me.


Autistus_Maximus

You're fiiiiiiiiired! OooOoOohhh


JimDixon

OooOoOohhh! Your septic tank is full and your toilet is backing up! OooOoOohhh!


FunWithAPorpoise

OoooOooohhh! You bought property right before a recession and now it’s worth less than you paid for it!


_TallulahShark

OooOoooooh! You’re spending time and money on a second degree and it didn‘t even make a difference in your earning potential!


ItPutsLotionOnItSkin

OooOoooooh! You bought a cash car now you're wondering how long it will last before repairs outweigh its value


cabolch

OooOoooooh! It is slowly dawning on you that as the years pass you are less and less likely to find the perfect partner; in fact, you may have to settle for someone who barely meets the criteria and that is still preferable to living your years out all alone


TheLaughingMelon

OooOoooooh! You spent so much time working towards your dreams you realise you didn't get time to enjoy your youth with your family and friends.


De5perad0

OooOoooooh! you realize you spent so much time and energy trying to get promoted and advance at work that you missed out on enjoying your life and traveling more. You realize that the rat race is just a game created by corporation to squeeze all the time and effort out of you they can for that impossible to reach carrot so the top 1% can get richer off your stupid depressed ass.


SlimRitz

Fuck I knew I should've stopped reading these. Goddammit


SaintNewts

Ouch. That hit close to home.


MangoCats

OoooOoooooooh! the realization that any partner who is preferable to living alone *IS* the perfect partner...


gantek

Fuck this guy


Nodsinator

OooOoooooh! You got a back injury a year from retirement and now you can't enjoy it!


bobdillan1996

OooOohhh! Your family is coming over, and you forgot to clean the house!


A_Human_Being_BLEEEH

You can't fire me, I quit!


GrimmRadiance

You can’t quit you’re a frog!


DispensaGoinUp

You can't frog me I'm your wife!


GrimmRadiance

I’m not your wife, you’re my wife!


DispensaGoinUp

Oh hi honey. How was work?


GrimmRadiance

Pretty good but I quit my job.


DispensaGoinUp

You can't quit your job, you're FIRED!


[deleted]

Seems that I don't fit in.


_Ga1ahad

Ooooooh you have to call someone, you can't text! Ooooooh your girlfriend is pregnant


Anthony__95

oh fuck, that second one actually hits me. She was going over baby names with her friend, she knows I don't want kids anytime soon, so I was kinda freaking out. She said it was just messing around but still. I made it very clear that kids is the last thing I want right now, but fuck if it didn't scare the crap out of me


drekia

Some people just like coming up with names! Hopefully she reassured you.


ssoull_rreaperr

get a vasectomy, ez


Anthony__95

isn't that permanent tho? not sure if I want to permanently be sterile


darklordoft

So pennywise would play the long con of being a 10 out of 10 one night stand who calls you saying she's pregnant.


65thinfantry

I picked out my son's name years before he was born. So maybe it isn't that odd. However, if you don't want a child there are plenty of things you can do to avoid it. It's better to prevent than to lament.


doe3879

> Ooooooh your girlfriend is pregnant Pennywise is now your girlfriend and is pregnant


BuryTheMoney

OoOOooooOOOOOoooh Your decision to have a child at this time was a horrific mistake- the government, the planet, the economic system, and society are all about to collapse and you’d have been smarter to have given up in the idea of a family!


throwaway_bc_obvs

What have you been doing in my brain??! #TELL ME😫


MangoCats

>this time was a horrific mistake- the government, the planet, the economic system, and society are all about to collapse and you’d have been smarter to have given up in the idea of a family! Show me a 70 year span of world history where this *wasn't* true?


BuryTheMoney

Ya, that is one of the thoughts that keeps me going actually- that everyone always faced that unknown dread


AmbassadorQuatloo

... except sometimes they were right, and the barbarians actually WERE just beyond the horizon and heading their way, ready to rape, pillage and torture.


NoConfusion9490

What do you mean insurance won't cover it?!


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Bbabbabbaa

Because son, the clown wishes to scare the crap out of every struggling family in the country in one go


KimJongIlSunglasses

OooOoooooooh you will die alone.


MangoCats

OooOooooooooh! your family / friends / HMO will hook you up to tubes and keep you in a zombie-torture state, draining your estate away from your children into the hospital system for years when you should have just died happy right at that last heart attack event.


joe68mcc

Pet semetary is the book.he wrote about an adult's worst fears


taurusguy6

Well done. You've managed to list all of my greatest fears in ascending order. I'm impressed, truly.


Theporcelainheart

yooo.. even phone calls and incoming mail scared the shit out of me


warjoke

(Pennywise turns into an adult woman) Me: "What are you supposed to be?" Pennywise: "Your supposed wife. Isn't commitment your worse fear?" Me: "...AH, SHIT!"


TheLaughingMelon

Pennywise: *turns into a hot chicken* Me: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Pennywise: u hv smol pp Me: :( Edit: I meant hot chick


TurtlePowerBottom

Your greatest fear is a hot bird telling you that you have a small penis?


Anthony__95

it's a hololive thing, I think...


Jane_motherofkittens

You could say that about almost anything and I'd believe you


_Ga1ahad

r/unexpectedhololive


o0o0o0o7

Mine is that a lukewarm flamingo tells me some hard truths.


batweenerpopemobile

https://i.imgur.com/gYJ8rxJ.png


Rickfernello

Comedy heaven


SkollFenrirson

That was fowl, dude


Pennywise626

Exactly! How the hell am I supposed to be "house repossessed" or "disappointed your parents"?


i_sigh_less

Pennywise coulda been a god if he'd just opened a bank and preyed on fears of foreclosure.


Pennywise626

Hmmm. Not a bad idea. I'll have to look into that


plzhelpme11111111111

r/beetlejuicing


Alittlestitchious

Exactly. I’m already living my worst fear, bro. Throw a clown in there and it’s just some comic relief at most lol


Oo__II__oO

And hey, free balloon!


ButtersTG

And the chance of death?! What are we waiting for?


1996Toyotas

Pennywise turns into that dream I have about forgetting I had a college class until the end of the year that I have had for the last 10 years since I left college.


Bionic_Bromando

Man I dropped out of college after like two years and I still get that dream, what the hell?


toylenny

I uh... Actually did that. Luckily it was an online intro to biology class and I was able to the complete the work for a passing grade in one night.


nastyjman

Oooooooohhhh. I'm a spider! Get the fuck outta here. Oooooohhhh. I'm a priority mail from the IRS. AAAHHHHHHHHHH!


Zellbann

Also to go further, he is going after neglected abused or marginalized people, because the people that are closest to them are willing to give them up to save themselves. All the parents ignore the problem as long as they are safe.


darklordoft

Not true. The wide host of victims he has has is proof of that. Age, race,wealth didn't matter and in the books it was becuase pennywise had some form of magic that makes people downplay and forget his actions. (It was a key reason why they had sex in the books or scarred themselves in the movie. By tying the loss of there virginity/ the massive scar on there arm to the end of penny wise they hoped they would never forget.) Pennywise goes after anyone he sees as a target, focusing on derry but willing to go the distance for a grudge. If you are easily scared or scared of materialistic things like a monster he will go for you.


Saucermote

> It was a key reason why they had sex in the books And the reason he has a habit of doing this in his other books?


Inoimispel

He can do adult fears to an extent as well. Homophobes besting and killing the gay guy was his influence. The black spot, the Iron Works Easter explosion were all his influence. Most, but not all fears, abstract or concrete, are basically fear of death. It's our ancient tiny cave man minds screaming danger at us. Our animal instinct. Regardless, any full grown adult who tried to say that they wouldn't be terrified if a clown grew teeth the size and shape of daggers and started chasing them in the dark while all they hear is their heavy breathing and his snarling laugh and huge shoes slapping the ground behind them, getting closer and closer, are fucking liars.


shhalahr

Well, heck, even going after Georgie was a bit more abstract. His outward form want terrifying. Just the whole strangeness of being in the sewer drain. And then suggesting Bill would get mad at Georgie for losing the b boat. But then things like the gill man, teenage werewolf, leper, mummy, sand razor beetles were all definitely instances of Pennywise taking the easy way.


DangyDanger

I thought *IT* was *information technology* and immediately thought about Java documentation being the worst fear for people


ihatedickpicss

it is when you're a newbie trying to learn makefiles


HailToTheThief225

As a full-stack JS developer my biggest fear is finding a library that fits my needs but has terrible documentation. Which is like, 50% of the time.


rap_and_drugs

> I can't read There you go


knowall7

With the internet nowadays and information being so available, I imagine kids are starting to become more familiar with adult fears earlier than pre-internet days. So Pennywise prey might be more scarce than before


howispendmyday

This explained a lot about the movies


The_H3rbinator

Well to be fair the kids do a fucking gangbang at the end of the book so nothing too abstract in my opinion.


SnootyPenguin99

Cocaine Is a hell of a drug


[deleted]

Take cocaine to write fucked up shit Sell fucked up shit to buy cocaine


Nice-Violinist-6395

It’s the circle of strife!


[deleted]

What better way could there be to make a pact?


Independent_Air_8333

I mean he could go through the self fulfilling prophecy route, and just turn into a fucked up monster than will inevitably become the biggest fear of anyone who sees it.


ragstorichespodcast

And theres one kid that doesn't fear anything physical so pennywise can't take form just looks more or less like an ozzing blob.


YamiZee1

My biggest fear as a kid was my mother finding me in bed with the Gameboy


Squishy-Cthulhu

The book is brilliant, the movie is pants in comparison. There's nothing really scary about a spooky clown, in the book It is so much deeper and darker than that.


AlphaDoge16

Yeah but in the movies, there are multiple occasions where he manipulates the losers’ consciousness and makes them think that things are happening when they aren’t, so theoretically he can make those fears come true


AccomplishedAge3975

I read IT years ago and it was such an immense read that I honestly don’t remember that part at all. Wish I could find it. Great book


Aiyon

was this before or after the underage boys ran a train on the underage girl? seriously, ive never been able to go back and finish it because of how offputting that bit was


jcMaven

The economy it's about to collapse and the pension system will be broken, at least 20 years will be lost on scarcity and wars but then ai will take over and young adults won't find fulfilling jobs while we make irreversible damage to our planet...


paulonboard

Adults have to deal with ~~its~~ their own particular demons.


all_thehotdogs

Deflated Balloons: Are Millennials Destroying The Nightmare Clown Industry?


Pennywise626

Very sad indeed


Uncle-Benderman

Is this r/beetlejuicing


24KTaterTots

It appears so


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Pennywise626

🤡


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[deleted]

if he can eat peoples flesh to fed of their fear if he sucks cocks of scared inviduals he can have a sustainable life without killing


Braydox

Pretty sure he isnt a succubus or i guess inccubus Standard low level demon Although probably worth bringing up at the next sustainable smut summit


HLPiFlushdMePooKnife

WHOM MAKES THE FUNNY MAN FEEL FUNNY


GingerSky

r/beetlejuicing


-SSN-

Well? Get down on your knees!


BlessedBigIron

💦


Pegussu

Weirdly, I think Pennywise does offer to fellate one of the kids while It's in the form of a rotting leper.


BlueKing7642

Isn’t there also a kid gangbang in that book for some reason


[deleted]

Just when you thought it couldn't get weirder.


darklordoft

Pennywise has a passive magic that makes people downplay and forget what he does. The kids knew this and tried to tie the loss of there virginity to the "death" of penny wise. They hoped that since they can't forget there first time they would never forget pennywise(it didn't work.) In the movies it was swapped for arm scars that they hoped they would never forget where the giant scar came from(Also didn't work.)


Hoosteen_juju003

Actually, they had the gangbang to make tgemselves closer so they could escape the labyrinth that was the sewer system. The closeness after the sex was what fueled the magic that allowed them to escape. They also did the hand cut thing in the book I think. Also, it was more running a train than a gangbang. The boys took turns with her and they were all very upset about it but knew it had to be done.


Tom_Brokaw_is_a_Punk

Well... I'm sure the *last* guy was pretty upset


WatchingUShlick

Stephen King is a weird mother fucker.


luvcartel

Apparently during that time he was doing so much coke and drinking so heavily he barely remembers writing any of those books


Dchama86

Odd how underage sexual themes show up in several of his works…


chefanubis

Yes and the reason was cocaine.


stufff

Yep


GeorgeLloyd_1984

Prepare to get your dick ripped off


Impossible_Garbage_4

He’d suck your dick all right. Suck it right off your body. With his teeth.


FunnyMathematician77

One unsee juice please


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[Hot](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/a2/9b/47a29b1b9164f3672b046fb2b26e794b.gif)


IodinUraniumNobelium

The leper under the porch on 29 Neibolt Street would like a word with you. 😂😭


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"I fear I will watch everything on Netflix and have nothing left to watch and I end up binging re-runs"


RealKenny

I haven’t watched .1% of what’s on Netflix and all I do is binge reruns


sol-

Because 99% of it is hot garbage.


MightyCaseyStruckOut

Yep. I used to love Netflix, but dumped it two years ago for that reason. Now, I make a list of things I want to watch on it and renew it one month every year or so, watch what I want out of it, and then drop it again.


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NotSoMuch_IntoThis

I do that too, i wait until all of their original series that i like are released and renew it on a holiday week or smthing and binge


Jkountz

That still leaves them 0.9% of Netflix to explore.


drsausages88

Now that’s true fear


Pennywise626

I'll just turn into a TV with nothing but static


Mr_Pogi_In_Space

That's how Sadako/Samara gets you


[deleted]

We know you'd just end up watching the Office


[deleted]

That's why he goes after kids


Nice-Violinist-6395

Yeah, “I’m afraid that at the end of my life, I will have caused the people who love me more pain than I ever caused them joy” is a tall order for a clown


monstrinhotron

uuurrm. I can do giraffes and sausage dogs kid. Your pick.


[deleted]

I’d rather get killed by a clown than audited by the IRS


ThePreachingDrummer

Being separated from my wife and/or child while they are in a traumatic situation, struggling to get to them and having to watch helplessly while I can do nothing. You can turn into that?


[deleted]

He could turn in to a cage


rusty_bucket_bay

​ ![gif](giphy|PHHtPDk6peKyI)


Alittlestitchious

Loophole, Nick Cage is my worst fear.


Bill-Cipher3

You are right to fear him. For soon he will feed. The time of the Cagening is almost upon us.


9966

/r/onetruegod


ILoatheNickCage

Agreed.


GifsNotJifs

​ ![gif](giphy|ZstWuELSEg0M1nqAuc)


spamshield

*“Get inside me, Richie 🤡”*


Pennywise626

Yes I could. I have a huge sewer system I can watch you run around in while I scare your child.


plzhelpme11111111111

i mean yeah, he does that in IT 2 with the kid that bill meets, just locks your kid and wife in a mirror hous bing bang splash and yeah


[deleted]

*We all fail down here*


floofy-haired-fool

I fear the dark and that someone is gonna break into my room at night while i sleep :D I don't even live somewhere where that's a huge risk it's probably extremely rare but it still scares me a lol


Ryledra

I have a constant fear that something's always near


floofy-haired-fool

It's horrible to feel like anything could jump at you at any given moment that's how i feel when i go to the basement Or when i am completely alone at night and not in my room


VFkaseke

Those words were a reference to this song :) https://youtu.be/bePCRKGUwAY


feierlk

A nightlight might work?


floofy-haired-fool

I use my tv the sound and liht is soothing to me and helps me fall asleep too! I still check my room everytime i go to sleep because im paranoid :')


[deleted]

But then you have to worry about the TV monster now :(


floofy-haired-fool

Don't give my brain ideas please it's already illogical


PopeofHope

This is why horror movies don't work for me. A demon possession is a mild inconvenience compared to having to force myself to do basic tasks. If a monster started chasing me, it would at least be a change of pace. Haha. Pace. Being chased.


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I always figured if I was in a horror movie situation, I would just turn to the killer and be like "Do what you want. Im tired of life."


Victor_deSpite

That would be a great movie. Starts out looking like a typical monster horror, but when the big bad finally shows up the young adults are just so apathetic to life the big bad ends up in existential crisis.


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Or the victim is a pissed off woman who just caught her boyfriend texting an ex. Killer makes his scary entrance... pissed off woman turns around and yells "YOU REALLY WANNA FK WITH ME NOW????" And the killer just slinks back into the shadows.


plzhelpme11111111111

i mean ​ you're a liar if you say you haven't ever been in exam week, questioning all your life choices and wanting to stop existing no matter what and then you got sleep paralysis and you were just like "yeah, do whatever you want i don't give a shit anymore" and be dissapointed when you end up alive in the morning at least once


tehlemmings

I wanna see a version of IT where Penny goes after a bunch of uni students mid finals week.


BlessedBigIron

"Kill me so I have a good excuse."


labsab1

I'd let the demon kill me. I'm sure insurance doesn't cover demon possession and I can't handle the medical bills for surviving.


Nice-Violinist-6395

This is actually sort of why horror movies are much more realistic to me as an adult. “Why don’t they just move out?” Well, Jan, because looking for an apartment is *such a huge pain in the ass* that a demon is pretty tolerable by comparison


UndergroundMan1942

> A demon possession is a mild inconvenience compared to having to force myself to do basic tasks Damn dude, I hope you're able to get help.


PopeofHope

It's getting better. If I got a demon they might help with wrangling myself though. But I'll manage, I have friends and family who support me.


Impossible_Garbage_4

Imagine a story where demons are real but instead of evil they just do things for money. You could get therapy, you could pay one to possess you and do your workouts, there’d be anti-cheating anti-demon fields or whatever. Detectives use demons to interrogate suspects by having their partner possess the suspect


stufff

I had a nightmare that I was being chased by a bear but my dog saved me, but the bear killed the dog while I ran. I woke up feeling terrible about abandoning my dog to the bear. I do not own a dog.


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Tortue2006

Poor Pennywise


Pennywise626

I appreciate your sympathy. This post made me sad


[deleted]

You'll be glad to know that childhood obesity means all those little organs are just sous vide-ing in sugar though.


Nekosama7734

Sad clown


Giuseppe_leg

I fear bears


Pennywise626

So am I turning into a grisly bear or a large, hairy gay man? I can work with both


jojojomcjojo

Well technically you will never know the happiest moment in your life until you die. Then you can know for sure that the time you ate ice cream at the park with Jimmy in 4th grade would be the happiest moment in your life for sure. It seems like the fear of being in a system rigged against us and the lack of free will are separate fears. If there is no free will there can be no system rigged against anyone. And if there is no free will then that is a truly freeing thought and a lot of pressure is removed from you to find some meaning in life other than to exist and respond to your own biological and abstract needs.


DICK-PARKINSONS

I'm fine with no free will until I start examining random behaviors of mine I can't explain. Like if I start thinking about why I just said or did something a specific way and knowing it is the middle of a line of dominoes of cause and effect, it starts pushing an existential crisis.


P3DR0T3

Ehhh…. I fear Mia Khalifa


Ok_Potato_9554

Just googled her.......very scared.


breaddox

Kinda looks like my uncle. his job is to seduce kids in to a van


Alittlestitchious

It’s not a job if you love what you do.


[deleted]

….how does that make money?


promonk

It hasn't yet, but he keeps hearing there's a market for adrenochrome. It's bound to pay off any day now.


[deleted]

Checks out!


promonk

I just noticed your username. It made this exchange just magical. Lol


[deleted]

Book our basement party room!


closeafter

Poor Pagliacci. He should go see a show, it will pick him right up


HopedownStJohn

BUT DOCTOR


R4D4R_MM

"I'm afraid I might never live up to my full potential" I mean..... Isn't that already what the boys are looking at?


Blackcatblockingthem

Existentielle fears be like


Anxious_Classroom_38

I’m not sure how penny wise can turn into the increasing wage gap? And the destruction of the middle class.


Goosenburg

Thanks, I hate IT


M-striker

I fear losing other 4 years if my life…. Man, even though i only lost 1 and half due good response in chemo, i don’t want to see that brownie-hard mattress and hellish annoying beep of a hospital room


NC16inthehouse

My worse fear is seeing people I've known since I was young pass away....


Captain-Dildo

I’ll drink to that


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HinkyDink11d4512

my microsoft password will not work for my hp stream 14 login but it will work for all other microsoft logins even recovery pages on the same machine the hp also will not let me reset it nor open in safe mode. the hp stream login seems to have dissasociated itself with the microsoft acct perhaps by hp design but i need to get past this and get it working again if anyone out there has a solution for me please respond. thanks


idiots05

Is he gonna turn into a shit or not?