when you wanna write a horror story but you're too high-key a monster fucker to create an unsympathetic ghoul to terrorize the townspeople with

Pull a King with Derry, Maine. The real horror was the institutionalized racism and misogyny along the way.

the most unrealistic thing about that entire film was a town like Derry having the budget for hosting multiple days of a carnival with more than one ride in it.

the most realistic thing about the book AND the movies was the fact that there was exactly one black family living in that town.

wait how big was derry bc my town of 25k had a carnival every year

and.... also one black family, sigh

With that main street, Derry couldn't be more than 15k. My hometown is 40k and it ain't got a multiple-day carnival.

HUH yeah we had one or two every year

it was always super busy bc there wasn't anything else to do