If John Keats hadnât died from tuberculosis at such a young age and was still alive today, what would he write about?
>>24784387> what would he write about?Tfw no gf
>>24784387Hopefully he would finish Hyperion
If Keats hadn't died, he wouldn't be remembered. He fit the sensitive young artist male who dies a tragic early death because he's so sensitive archetype that was popular in literature and art at the time. His poetry is mid.
>>24785211Do you think anyone would remember YOU if you died right this instant?
>>24785228Yowsers. I never thought of it like that.
What kind of fucking cuckoldry is this
>>24783292Kek, true.God in the Bible canonically has sense of humor.
>>24782078Holy filtered
>>24782212my dick.
>>24782078think of it this way:Job is an upright man because he's self employed and his "just in case" sacrifices are quarterly estimated taxes, He trusts the government, yet he gets fucked at the end during spring tax season and god and satan are politicians
Reminder that Jobs are called Jobs because God is punishing you for just existing and laughing the whole time. Better get to sleep so you're not in late tomorrow, wagie.
Based edgelord lit
>>24782392>second best
>>24781231My Twisted World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24781661LOL, I remember Peter Sotos (the pervert who appears in Apocalypse Culture who writes about serial killers and child pornography) defending Adam Parfrey and talking shit about Trump in his latest book. I always imagined that the edgelords of yesteryear would naturally lean towards the MAGA movement, but apparently that was only the case with Jim Goad.I would really appreciate it if someone could provide me with the PDF of Apocalypse Culture 2. I've been looking for it for years. In exchange, I'll give you a link to Peter Sotos' entire bibliography in PDF format (which isn't much and isn't recommended; I find Peter more tedious than âedgyâ).https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yo5Neai-MiNlqQHj-vg0whz7pLliBYj1
>>24784606>only the case with Jim GoadBoyd Rice is very pro Trump. Sotos is a gross pedo
Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction.No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarianâs Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg - HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2vComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24780889>I'm looking for books that Edward Said would hate.In that case, you should try to find English translations of Emilio Salgari's Sandokan series.
>>24780394>I have that inch againAnon's one-incher springs up with joy at the thought of vampires.
>>24782005Yeah >T. Haven't read it yet
>>24782090Interesting, thanks anon
Deploying an emergency bump Also a requestRecommendations for western pulps
Tropical Beach EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24667235
>>24782083Jelly fish, sea Turtles, land sharks, eels(technically different), coral monsters(walking reefs)
>>24782083Piranhas
>>24782083Crocodiles and dire plovers.
What it feels like to say "I don't know" in response to shit you didn't care to talk about in your setting.>what is the tax code?>what do they eat?>why is there new world crops?>why don't they use nuclear reactors instead of natural gas?>how come the thieves' guild hasn't been stopped yet?>if there is ghosts does that mean there is an afterlife?I don't know (I don't care, imagine your own answer).
Do you have ghosts in your story?
Have you ever marathoned a very big book in a very short amount of time?
Read The Fountainhead in five days when I was 19, at my first job, and didnât know what to do after work except come home and read for six hours. I regularly think about all the ways I could have put that week to better use if I hadnât been young and stupid.
>>24779155>did you ever chug away a good wine?No, I have not; that would be a waste.
>>24779155I read most of Infinite Jest in a single weekend. I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.Was a bit annoying having to pause the playback to read the endnotes, but it was manageable.
>>24783482and, what would you have rather done?
>>24783507>I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.
So it was all in Runciter's head, is that it? And was the real villain Jordy or Pam? And why is reincarnation mentioned so much? What's the point? Help me I'm dumb.
From what I remember, the protagonist is dead and in this world people can be kept in a stasis between life and death. That means that people from the outside can sort of contact them but not really. The protagonist is in this stasis world and it's being slowly corrupted by some fuckass boy that turns everything back in time. It turns out the boy is some form of entity and the protagonist used Ubik to fix things. If you read Androids dream of electric sheep, you'll find that he talks about kipple. At the end he throws a curveball insinuating that Runciter is also in this stasis chamber, but from what I read PKD rushed the ending.
It's been a while since I've read it, but the ending with Joe chip on the coin was pretty shit and was just a tacked on WHAT A TWEEST
Do anyone else not imagine visuals when they are reading? Like are you supposed to be so cucked that you let your mind create visuals described by another person? When authors describe things, I just take their word for it, and I will not allow an author to control me or tell me what I am supposed to be imagining.
>>24784052I imagine visuals, but it's like a dream kinda. My conscious mind is focused on reading the text but my unconscious mind is like generating the imagery for the text
>>24784052So picking up a book with somebody else's stories an ideas is somehow not being cucked, only imagining the things described? Idgi
>>24784052I enjoy directing scenes in my mind while reading fiction. It can be hard when I donât know the setting, but Iâll look up things up or look at fan art if I need to. It helps a lot with remembering small details.This too >>24785093
>>24784052>I will not allow an author to control me or tell me what I am supposed to be imagining.Sometimes I will imagine a character however the fuck I want if the author's description doesn't meet what I think the character should look like. Nothing too egregious, just sometimes I think the physical appearance I imagined is better.
The thing about this is that it's very hard to try to explain to somebody else how you perceive mental images in your head. That being said, I do visualize everything I read, subconsciously, I don't do it on purpose, it just happens. Sometimes it's pretty vivid, sometimes it's like remembering a dream, or those first dal.le pics. Reading a book feels like watching a movie to me. Afterwards, if I remember a certain part of the book, I don't remember specific sentences or how it was written, I remember how it looked in my head. It has its ups and downs. Since I mostly read prose and fiction it's fun to "watch" the characters doing stuff, but when there's a lot of introspection my mind stops visualizing (because you're just reading about mental thoughts of characters) and if I don't focus enough I lose track of the text. Like, I'm so used to visualizing while reading that I use it to make sure I understand what I'm reading, and when there's nothing to visualize it's harder for me to understand stuff. Anyone else? Or am I nuts?
War is le⌠good?
>That passage just before the Spring Offensive where he talks about the energy in everybody and how they all felt that the fate of the world was to be decided>That passage where his platoon is completely wiped out by artillery and he's left sobbing in a shell hole>The passage where he finds his brother alive>The passage where he walks back to his lines when everyone around him is being captured after being shot through the lung.Absolute fucking kino. As close to a modern Iliad we will ever get.
>>24782635what war did you read it during?
No, it's more like: >All Quiet On the Western Front: war is hell :(vs>Storm of Steel: war is hell :D
>>24783848I've gotten a little more out of it after reading the ww2 diaries but I tend to agree. it's one of his early works and it shows. maybe you had to be there.for me it's eumeswil > glass bees > heliopolis for the three I'd recommend without reservations
>>24782656>99% of it is dry description of troop movements and logisticsSounds kino
Did Nolan not understand what blue-eyed virgin means?
Is this a reference to Black Athena?Kind of disappointed
>>24783443>defending HollywoodThe only appropriate /lit/ attitude towards the current state of film and television is that Los Angeles deserves another fire to finish it off.
>>24782958All white stories must be diverse. All non white stories must be racially accurate.
>>24784861The greeks weren't exactly white. They saw actual whites (Germanic Euros) as brainless savages. There's not a single Greek actor, even if the blacks weren't there, it would still be inaccurate.
>>24782958Why not make her chinese and r native American or india? Why itnalways has to be a black woman? And why ir always has to be a masculine butch black woman?
>be gay hedonist>write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touch>get your dick cut off and locked in a tower until you die>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"I feel like the entire situation could have been handled better by all parties involved.
You either die unrecognized or live long enough in the minds of others to be horrendously mischaracterized.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0&ppbased gay selfdestructing aphorist
Wilde was always the midwit's Walter Pater.
Homosexuality is sadomasochistic. Yes, he hates himself for being a dirty disgusting degenerate, and that is why he is a dirty disgusting degenerate. His self-loathing fuels his furious cocksucking and the more cocks he sucked the more he hated himself the more cocks he sucked. This process used to go on and on until the government would arrest them for propositioning young men in toilets, then it would go on and on until they developed AIDS and died. Now the cocksucking is endless.
I thought women didn't like sex or intimacy or men or rajas in general. What gives?
>>24784743Not a fag but the average man is far better looking than the average female nowadays. Unless you're in a big city or university town, the chances of seeing an above average woman are small. The average man has been looksmaxxing and working out for attention whereas the average woman dyes her hair and gets tattoos. If women didn't have vaginas the majority of them would have no one.
>>24785171>The average man has been looksmaxxing and working outYeah you're a fag and chronically online>the average woman dyes her hair and gets tattoosAnd have been sequestered in a basement since 2016
>>24785183Bitch I go outside and see with my own two eyes. You're just a fat washed up hag whose only argument is:>ur an incel loser who still lives in a basement!
what does the writing like in the highest selling of these?
>be a women>sexualise everythingExhausting
Is atheism more about not wanting to believe in God than about actual evidence?
>>24785046Concession Statusâ Accepted.
>>24784454Absolutely heretical.>>24784458It's considered heretical by most Christians today and wasn't a reading of the Scriptures until 1500 years after Christ.
>>24784849>"Man is god, do what you will, nothing but pleasure matters"i haven't met a single atheist that thinks like that. you sure you're not making that up to have a convenient man to fill with straw?
>>24784450dumbshit argument. if everyone believed in fairies and made moral proclamations based on fairy lore and tried to impose their fairy morals on your and in law, you'd be justified in writing a book pointing out that fairies don't exist and we should stop listening to people who insist they do.
>>24785021Society never accepted pedophilia. If anything, they get away with it more than ever.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/19/how-was-an-alleged-israeli-child-sex-predator-allowed-to-leave-the-us
What's the cutoff point before the Dune books start being bad?
>>24783181Dilating religitard. You are the cattle the bene gisserit use.
>>24783179The absolute cutoff is when Brian starts writing them, but they progressively get wackier starting with the first one. There are more and more questionable decisions as the books progress. I would say maybe God Emperor is the last one where the interesting and the stupid are still balanced in favor of interesting.
>>24783723No I'm just making a general statement about the degeneration of American culture.
>>24783179the consenus is 4, i stopped before finishing 2. herbert's statecraft is still cool, but he makes brazen retroactive changes, and i was bothered. one is plenty for me.
Its bad after the first one, period.
âAutobiography of a Yogiâ (1946) is a fucking great book so far and Iâd even call it a modern spiritual classic. If youâre looking to get into Hinduism but reading older texts like the Gitas, Vedas, or Upanishads generally sounds daunting to you, then this would be a great primer.(Yes, to get it out of the way, I understand people today and online have grievances against Indians, particularly for flooding en masse into Western nations like the U.S. and Canada, abuse of the immigration system and H1B visas, etc., but itâs still just a great book. Iâm aware of the meme answers Iâll get in response.)As a story itâs incredibly entertaining, too. Yogananda has a great storytellerâs touch, a novelistic coherence to the whole thing, with lots of nested stories within the book and many fascinating characters met along the way. Heâs a surprisingly eloquent stylist, too, the book is ornately written with poetic diction. Some people have made it a habit to mock Westerners today interested in Eastern spiritual teachings, the whole excesses, hypocrisies, or flaws from the hippie counterculture to the modern New Age movement and the like, associated with this spiritual tourism; but, when you study some authentic forms of Eastern spirituality, like the Kriya Yoga lineage brought to the West by Yogananda and its roots in Vedic teachings, itâs hard not to see why some people are impressed by it. They go more straightforwardly into some deeper philosophical exploration of core existential issues than, perhaps, the mainstream forms of religion that more in the West are familiar with (Christianity, Judaism, and increasingly Islam today from immigration) often do, in peopleâs experiences with them. And this is not necessarily even in a supremacist way, but in a harmonious and universalist way, open to other traditions and even claiming a possible shared origin and unity with them. Teachings like Yoganandaâs make me see and respect Christ and Christianity in a profounder way, for instance, much as some may be angry or contemptuous of that very notion (out of the mindset of viewing religion like a competition).What do people think? Any other Yogananda enjoyers here? Am I a race-traitor for even appreciating some of Indian spirituality seriously as a Westerner? Whatâs going on in your heads?
>>24784749Because jeets aren't even self-aware much less capable of enlightenment.
>>24784758Nigger
>>24784763Pajeet my son you are like 85% African.
>>24784777Trips of truth â but Jeets are more capable of enlightenment *because* of their lack of self-awareness â I was just calling you nigger because you are fucking stupid
Autobiography of a Turd
