Sneaky Snakey Snake Edition>Old:>>24929120Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs).https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
Hi, guys. Is there any good urban fantasy in a secondary world during some pseudo-Victorian era? Like Dishonored or Heart: the city beneath TTRPG?
>>24946013Powder Mage is a bit earlier it’s more French Revolution era but it’s urban.
>>24946013>>24946055Pressed enter too quickly. Forgot to add Mistborn is urban fantasy. Era 1 is probably similar to Dishonored, era 2 is more modern steampunk. Theres also the divine cities trilogy which is a good urban fantasy series I enjoyed.
>>24946013Have you actually checked out Dishonored novels?
>>24940841We rec slop here Xir.
>completely dismantles leftism in your path
calling Hitler a leftist makes me assume this is a jewish work
>>24944150>hitler
>>24945069>The Nazis were overwhelmingly Catholic Right WingersBrown hands typed this.
>>24944269Kind of interesting to me how obsessed the chuds have become with indians recently. Is it because you found out they're profiting greatly off your cuck fantasies?
>>24945439>>24945441back to /pol/ with you subhuman retards
>>24930314Could 32 be Borges?
>>249302972. The Great Gatsby?4. must be the Bukowski one but I don't know him well enough to answer5. The Old Man and the Sea6. Room with a View7. La Belle Damme Sans Merci10. The Third Policeman
>>24945395>46: The Wasp Factory by Banks?Correct.
>>24945402>Could 32 be Borges?It could be. Now we just need someone to offer a story title . . .
>>24945626>2. The Great Gatsby?Nope. Gatsby doesn't say much about himself, does he? Also, F. Scott Fitzgerald has been found (#77, A Diamond As Big As The Ritz). >4. must be the Bukowski one but I don't know him well enough to answerNope. This one is Sylvia Plath. Bukowski is still out there.>5. The Old Man and the SeaNope. Hemingway is #1 (The Cat in the Rain).>6. Room with a ViewNope. Both this and #5 are short stories, not often mentioned on /lit/.>7. La Belle Damme Sans MerciComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I have an idea for a treatment. It's called "The 12 Tongues of Israel." It's about what happens when the gods finally talk to humanity. Here's how it works>it lasts one year>every month, a new message is displayed among the stars>the stars literally burn out and appear out of nothing in order to create the message>everyone sees the message in their native language>for the first time ever, scientists admit there is no possible explanation other than intervention from some kind of higher powerINTROA whole bunch of shit goes wrong because the first message is in Arabic and everyone takes that as a sign that Muhammad is the one true prophet and everyone needs to commit jihad, lmaooooo
After Genderswap Reincarnation I Raised the Strongest Slopper EditionStubbed >>24936451>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24945893wiping COUNTRIES from the map because of weapons of mass destruction or goku finally showing his true power or whatever is fine. but if you have a bunch of schizo racial-cleansing villains runnning all over europe to incinerate every person with a drop of montenegrin blood or some shit then yeah you'll probably bother a number of readers
>>24946036you forgot the ai generated max level crafter one, i think that hit top 5 rising stars a bit ago
>>24945855I think it's notable that you refuse to actually name who this "wiped out culture" were. I can only conclude that this is because you realize it'd be controversial.
>>24946060They come in here every other thread and do this 'teehee i'm writing something reactionary, will "they" be shocked by me' routine with slightly different phrasing>>24946036I don't get RR trendchasers. There's loads of popular stories where people want more of the world and you could easily tell one in an ocdonotsteal version of the setting.We rarely get those. Instead we just get the exact same premise as a popular story again but this time done by someone who can't write characters.
>>24945855>>24946060>superhero web novel>"Hm, this reminds me of the sudden disappearance of the long-nosed merchants, the beginning of our golden age..."
I willingly didnt return my library books after the library near me is suddenly going through unexpected renovations and its been sitting on my shelf for close to a year since i was too lazy to drive across town to another library.I was planning on returning the books when the library opens again in a couple months but at this point i'm tempted to just keep em since I've just been buying my books instead for the first time in my life instead of using the library and i'm liking my growing collection.The library books are the illiad, the odyssey, the aeneid and mythology.I wanted to have this certain set of books anyways and at this point i dont wanna pay for it.Is this wrong of me ? Who else is gonna read these old books in my crappy bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere?they probably have multiple copies anyways.
>>24945971?
>>24945973Los subhumanos de piel morena no están en posición de dar lecciones de ética, Panchito.
>>24945987YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL.
>>24945852>1 million qurans
>>24945852Heh, that's funny. I also have library books that are months overdue and I was thinking of returning them sometime this week.
In less than three weeks, every single book published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain.Some notable titles include:>As I Lay Dying>The Maltese Falcon>The 42 Parallel>Strong Poison>The Murder at the Vicarage>Charlie Chan Carries On>A Fighting Man of Mars>Tarzan at the Earth's CoreYou can find more titles here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_in_literatureSo what will you be reading in January? Last January, I read A Farewell to Arms and The Sound and the Fury to celebrating their becoming public domain, and next January I plan to read As I Lay Dying and The Maltese Falcon.
>>24944657That is often the case, but some IPs lend themselves so well to adaptation (Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, the works of Shakespeare, etc.) that it becomes an inevitably that someone somewhere will make something worthwhile at some point once everyone has legal access to the source material.
>>24944657This desuThose Winnie the Pooh horror flicks from a couple years ago are the quintessential example: the guys that run that production company had a goal of making 100 movies before they turned 30. They managed to do it, but their entire output is bland slop turned around on a production schedule of a month at most.I still kinda respect it despite the low quality though, since they usually hire their actors on 6-week contracts and get them to shoot scenes for 4 different movies all in one volley.
>>24944709They’re like the 21st-century Roger Corman, whose best work, coincidentally, is the public domain: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(1960)_by_Roger_Corman.webm
>>24944730I hold out hope that like Corman, they can provide a launching point for the generation-defining talents of tomorrow (like Corman was for Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, et al.)
>>24944574>if we get any new film adaptations of The Maltese Falconi think mickey mouse is public domain now you can have a maltese mickey
>last book that made you yfw
The silo seriesAlmost right away it's transparently a screenplay that's been workshopped into a book after being denied multiple timesI'm betting whoever wrote it knew a producer that was looking for sci-fi properties to adapt and they both quickly wrote a terrible book to steal money from Apple
>>24941392Me when reading the Phenomenology of Spirit. Fuck Hegel, with other difficult philosophy writers I can tell there is something important to get at even if it's hard to understand, with the Phenomenology it was just gibberish. I even read some of his other works based on his lectures and they were comparatively easy to understand, which only proves he didn't have to write like that. The impenetrable prose of the Phenomenology was a conscious choice.
Literally every chapter is a new way the Saudis (pastoral tribalists who had zero experience negotiating) dumpstered American rich, experienced American businessmen.They washed them for hundreds of millions of dollars over decades, kept their government strong, made the right decisions, and ended up taking over ARAMCO All-time great finessers and I had no idea beforehand
>>24941392The Rust Programming Language
"Hemingwrite" editionPrevious: >>24931322/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24945864I want so desperately to do that shit, but I can't even write anymore. wrting that ventpost took an hour and a half because of how many times I rewrote it
>>24945869Sounds like you enjoy the stimulation that stress brings. Stop stressing over perfection, edit it down and publish what you have.
>>24945863Not a single one here. I am not merican
>>24945863>>24945881Also of course I have done the most basic of market research. When you assume everyone else is an idiot you reveal yourself to be one.
>>24940898How do I get started?
I am reading deleuze’s what is philosophy at the moment and the part about the creation of concepts, the analysis of their components and the resulting impossibility of discourse in philosophy is blowing my mind. The discourse becomes impossible or at least fruitless because the terms and concepts discussed, although homophones, aren’t comparable because they’re on different planes of thought and have different components. So we think we are speaking about the same things, while only confusing ourselves and wasting our time. I mean the idea is almost trivial, while the execution and explanation is outstanding.
hes a fag
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24946009No one has been in love before. They had crushes before.
>>24946008Just the Bhagavadgita, it will be a matter of getting to the right understanding of what it is and isn't saying though. It will be a project in itself.Aurobindo (Essays on the Gita), Evola (his Doctrine of Awakening), Guenon's work in hinduism and vedanta, can be helpful..
>>24946023Thanks anon, will look into it. :)
>>24945959What illusion? The illusion of choice?
Most societies don't have a concept of love because most societies aren't monogamous to begin with.Most of the thread seems to ignore that the concept of love is only a thing in abrahamic cultures because of their monogamy. If love was a true concept it would have been universal among humans and different cultures. Meanwhile you have places like ancient China and Japan where women weren't even expected to be monogamous because that's how little the husbands cared about their wives. Having as much women as possible was not only expected, they literally couldn't even comprehend the concept of monogamy when westerners introduced them to the concept.Most of Africa is still not monogamous even with centuries of Christian proselytizing, that's how much it goes against human nature.The concept of love rapidly crumbles if you stop looking at the world from a eurocentric perspective.
>/lit/ tricked me into reading Freemason propagandaI feel violated
>>24945244great post, you sum up what I love about the book
>>24945244OK, now what's the deep and literary reason why every single character gets into a threesome?
>>24945583he's talking about Sinclair Lewis
>>24945583Wyndham Lewis, probably.
>>24945056What the fuck is he talking about? AFAIK Joyce, Lewis, Eliot and Pound weren't freemasons or occultists in any sense. What rituals have they used as a basis for art activity? What is he quoting there?This leaves me with so many questions.
Is this a good book to start studying informal logic? What exactly should I expect?
>>24945566I think Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft is a book in the Scholastic tradition. This too:https://archive.org/details/logicorrightuseo00watthttps://archive.org/details/logick_2507_librivoxtable of contents:https://www.heritagebooks.org/content/Logicsample.pdfThere is also:https://archive.org/details/manualofmodernsc02merc/page/133/mode/1upListen to this:https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNnqqvK2yDEFVdM_5wV4Od8kV2GaSo7jz
An Elementary Treatise on Logic: Comprising the Essential Principles and Different Modes of Reasoning in the Form of Question and Answer by Hezekiah G. Ufford, publication date 1823https://archive.org/details/anelementarytre00uffogoog
>>24944819Thanks anon
>the philosophy majors are turning the first logic chapter from a discrete mathematics book into a semester long borefest that doesn't even get to the interesting applications of logic like circuit design again
https://youtu.be/yJxiWmmJ3dc
>>24945058Imagine denying the truth and sticking with a falsehood. Is there any lower depth a man can stoop?
>>24945026Start with the Greeks.
'The Grand Inquisitor' a poem-excerpt from The Brothers Karamazovhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htmit explains how Jesus is a pick-me and how that's good actually
>>24945949If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
>>24945026Philosophy, theology and arguments do not convince people of religious claims. The arguments work on those who want them to work and don't on those who don't/are neutral. At the end of the day you either believe or don't and THEN you justify it all.For the vast majority of religious people it's not a matter of having read the right arguments, they just 'feel' it, they 'experience' something that convinces them.For the vast majority of people who aren't religious it's also not a matter of being convinced by the right arguments, it's just that... they don't believe it. Nothing has convinced them. God, religion, prayer, the supernatural etc. just isn't a part of their life - divine hiddenness.
The deepest thinker on the left (Hegel scholar) Vs the deepest thinker on the right (Nietzsche scholar)... A debate between these two would be priceless
>>24932734Both products of CIA NGO industrial complex. Both believe all of the same things about Israel and Ukraine.
>>24942362hint : you now perceive this thesis as the face of a curtain drawn over a stage
>>24944858>Israel and Ukrainewhy do you think these countries or the foreign policy regarding them is so important? I would say domestic issues are far more important. Wether or not we support Israel doesn't change much
>>24945076Jewish control of major financial, entertainment, and NGO institutions. They're important because the people who ACTUALLY run the world view them in high esteem.
>>24943914>quoting a genreslop author as an authoritykek
