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Who's up for a good ol' fashioned stack/recent cops thread?
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>>24950784
The Bible is the foundation to any serious reading program.
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>>24950805
This guy has a neo-vagina.
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>>24945672

>A book about the celebration of Jewish thinking is titled "To Life!"
>Jewish thought is defined by extinguishing the life of the people you stole land from

Pottery
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>>24942138
Garbage


>>24943238
Poverty shelf. Did you model your life on will hunting? How about them apples?

>>24945672
A mitzvah

>>24945672
Best stack by far
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>>24947510

Do you know if that's a good translation of Obscene Bird of Night?

"Chanukah" edition

Previous: >>24940898

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Please 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.
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(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
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r8 my character dialogue:

"As the viper makes their den, there in their teaming bosom shall I be unto them their worldly night, coiled about their love to pierce beating heart with sharp toothed venom - to devour their fading life of spirit, and by slowing passage of time as thinner the blood runs extinguish by my entry all hope of renewal.

So shall I be unto the virgins breast like knife to sheath, and run all warmth into unsated soil that whets the appetite of my feeding"
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>>24953215

>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water. When she closed her eyes at last, Dany did not know whether she would be strong enough to open them again.

Truly the height of literature to be aspired to in the modern day.
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>>24953286
who speaks like that?
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You may need to watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HzgAtnLEz0

What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed you
I just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
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>>24919376
>The Accusations
>Lewis was accused of unoriginality because he essentially created a "pastiche" by borrowing plot motifs, characters, and entire scenes from various European sources.
>This practice was not as strictly policed as modern copyright law dictates, but critics used it to malign Lewis's literary standing, especially once his identity as an MP was revealed.
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>just read George A. Romeros' "Clay"
Holy shit.
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>>24923511
Ooh, gonna have to look up Fear of the Deep, I love oceanic horror.
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Finished The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
Ranking best to least enjoyable. Total blast to read along with the prior two collections.
>Men from Porlock
>Blackwood's Baby
>Hand of Glory
>The Siphon
>Jaws of Saturn
>The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven
>The Redfield Girls
>More Dark
>Vastation
Reading Creeping Waves now.
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>>24953299
overrated author

I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?

Because I've tried to make money off talking about philosophy and its just futile. I thought of the 48 laws of power for instance and then I realized that book is just obvious hot garbage.

I thought of so many other things like economists, internet bloggers, and even psychologists. And they're all either just spewing lies and falsehoods, writing a whole load of useless filler, or making money in some weird abusive way like taking taxpayer dollars, embarrassing college campus kids or something like that.

I think if I could go back in time with the best writing possible, I couldn't convince anyone that the Earth revolves around the sun in a way that makes me money...
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>>24952840
>wah wah my family didn’t give me handouts
Shut up faggot. Make some money like a man.
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>>24952773
>I think it's impossible to make money off of sharing abstract knowledge. Can you prove me wrong?
There are many people who make a living solely from technical blogs
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>>24952773
It's not impossible because people have done it and still do it. What you mean is: it's very hard, and a lot of factors go into it. Yes, indeed. That's not a particularly unique insight.
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>>24952773
the only way to make money through mere knowledge (so not skill e.g knowing how to do x but rather knowing that x) is through deceit and corruption, see charles ponzi and wallace fard muhammad or joseph smith.
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>no tomoko gf
Why do I even bother

Two Weeks Left Edition

>Old:
>>24936611

>Recommended 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
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>>24953263
Do you want the main character to have the ability to look like a different movie actor in every tome?
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>>24953278
Is there no noir urban fantasy? I thought that at least Harry Dresden fits.

>>24953280
I have described what I want.
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>>24953296
https://forms.gle/prDdNXyrgtXnTVeD7
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>>24952728
>>24952728
>le mind wipe to make everyone friends
That ending was really off-putting.
The spiders basically mind control and enslave the humans to ensure their obedience. And that's presented as a good thing.
I guess the author had no idea how to plausibly resolve the conflict.

>Made me not want to read the rest of the books.
You didn't miss much. I only read the second book and it is the first book again only with a less interesting premise and less interesting alien species.

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Anyone read picrel? It was unbelievably depressing.

I hate thinking that the best times are past us and that we are doomed, but it is hard to reconcile this level of consumption of empty stimuli with a future worth living in.

People were leveling the same arguments against the printing press and the radio, so I can't help but feel too alarmist. What do you think?
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>People were leveling the same arguments against the printing press and the radio
People didn't carry printing presses or radios or televisions around with them for sixteen hours a day.
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>>24953038
Gooning is revolutionary that’s why the zog-feminazi regime fears it. Heil the incoming thousand year goonreich.
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Yeah. It started out feeling very pearl-clutchy but then I started to see what he was getting at, and at the end he blatantly stated it: gooners are simply ahead of the curve. The kind of behaviors they exhibit are only exaggerations of the current zeitgeist. Gooners obsessively consume short-form video content for several hours a day, they form parasocial relationships with internet celebrities, they waste even more time bragging about their favorite celebrities on social media as well as broadcasting their niche interests for fellow obsessives. This is basically how all of Gen Z behave on the internet, and a few Millennials as well. Gooners simply wedded these behaviors to porn so they could jack off while doing it, which in the author's own words, "simply makes them more honest".
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>>24953038
so are you gonna post a link or what

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Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
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>>24951891
Unironically, niggers
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>>24951891
fresh princes
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>>24947942
No wonder this place is such a shithole then
>T. Boliviano
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>>24951891
"Provincianos," Peruvians, Bolivians, Paraguayans, fresh off the boat Africans.
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>>24952502
>fresh off the boat Africans.
are there a lot of those these days?

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>can't win over blacks
>can't win over poorfags
>outright enemies of blue collar workers
>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies
>can't/won't win over the armed forces
>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies
>can't/won't win over the politicians

>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.

Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
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>>24950509
>While middle class and intellectuals as well as gay people absolutely hate it.
Frankfurt and Paris universities might as well be glavsvet central.
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All communists deserve death.
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>>24951911
all this to glaze an idiot
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>>24950477
>doesn't know Web Dubois, Dorothy Day, Upton Sinclair, Smedly Butler, Pancho Villa, Harvey Bullfinch Lovell
Get back to books kiddo
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>>24951946
>Look, blood! Whats you got against living in a cage?
It's unnatural, bitch.
>success and conquest?
For the super wealthy alone, you dumb fuck. Imperialism is majority slaves. You talk like a fucking child

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I just finished reading Journey to the West for a book report. holy shit Chinese books are awesome. Does anyone have the china /lit/ recommendations?
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>>24951338
Read Confucius. Wikipedia does not count.
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>birth name
>courtesy name
>nickname
memorizing chink names is hard enough without this bullshit
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>>24952611
Don't forget
>family nickname
>friendly nickname
>literary name
>names won as achievement
>obscure pun name used to avoid imperial censors
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>>24952617
>>24952611
but enough about Homer
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>>24951501
The classic works will have annotated editions, though.

>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
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>>24951847
Did you gain any readership?
Would you consider yourself a graphomaniac?
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>>24948669
Because my ideas are actually kind of fire and I like writing. And I have a lot to say paired with an outlook that I think is a needed one.
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I'm high IQ and have a lot of empathy and can intuitively understand how people think. Only real problem is being a shut-in with little life experience and while that definitely hinders me I don't think it's a fatal blow. It just means my work should lean heavily into expressing the pain of isolation and alienation.
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>>24951814
good mindset, good analogy
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>>24948669
I have seen the top books goodreads. Its not that hard.

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What books should I read in public to attract women?
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If I had that guy's jaw and hair I could be reading ecchi manga on the train and still be attractive to women.
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>>24953260
my diary desu, certainly
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>>24953271
I don't think women will like you if you bring a human jaw, hair, and ecchi manga on the train
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>>24953283
Golly jolly, I'm howling lolling!
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>>24953260
James Marsden looking motherfucker.

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Do you guys ever check out little free libraries
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>>24952635
I haven't find yet a intresting book to read from these things
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If you ever got a good book out of one in west philly it was probably me who put it in there
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>>24952635
I put Orbit #10 in one because I wanted to buy a higher quality copy for my collection.

I also put an unread copy of the Man who fell to Earth for reasons I won't go into.
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>>24952635
when I get the chance
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>>24952769
pinchone is woke garbage for midwits

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Behold! The brilliancy of Danielle Chelosky's genius! Terror is one of my favorites from Danielle's little book called Female Loneliness Epidemic, and it is little. It's only 4in by 7in and 0.25in thick
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>>24952863
Yes, they are lovely
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Check out this great story from Danielle, fellas!
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>>24953310
Oops, I forgot the link
https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/blood-and-buffalo-66
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>>24953313
Nice areola.
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>>24953325
That's not her areola. That's a hickey from some lucky lover sucking on her delectable titties.

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I can't deal with the hurt of pining over females anymore. How do I completely kill the instinct for female intimacy within me? Any Lit that will kill romantic delusion? I'm so tired and it hurts too much.
>Bingo, Bingo, baby
>I love you, ain't that crazy?
>I want you, I want you over again
>Bingo, Bingo, baby
>I love you, ain't that crazy?
>I want you, I want you over again
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>>24952024
nta but 0.1ml of estradiol enanthate injected weekly plus 12.5mg of cyproterone acetate oral daily plus 200mg of progesterone boofed daily after 18 months of the former regimen and you'll get over liking women.
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>>24952113
say, if someone spiked their roommate's meals with this ( as a prank, ) would they notice before it's irreversible?
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>>24952024
You should become pro-life. It will fill you with a hatred of most women since most of them support abortion up to the moment of birth. The vast majority of women are child-murdering ghouls.
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>>24952024
Start with one of the oldest truths passed down in mankind. Genesis 3, usually the second page of the Bible.
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>>24952068
>females' own brutalist comments
they always seemed a bit bauhaus to me desu

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>age
>location
>current read
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>>24931414
>35
>isPain
>Young Werther, Rite of Rebirth, Violence and the Sacred
Also I'm looking for some Spanish translations fo Saxis Grammaticus to read in Spanish
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>>24933678
gay overthinker detected
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> 28
> London, England
>Selected stories of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton
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>>24933314
Why do you hate it? its really not that bad compared to some other philsophical works
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>30
>Burgerville
>Don Quixote


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