>>24742979
>>24743015
>>24743023
I'll also add that there are a bunch of songs in Ancient/Koine Greek if you want the benefits to memorization that a melody provides.

>>24740553
>you DO pay attention to vowel length when reading prose, don't you?

No. I can't hear the difference anyway.

>>24743498
>>24743436
>not attaining fluency in Hungarian before embarking on the study of Latin

ngmi

>>24743712
The funny thing is, I speak decent Japanese and have little issue with vowel length in it but I can't easily carry it over to Latin, it's like different phonologies are different "gears" I switch my mouth into and I can't just freely mix and match them.

latinfagging update. made it to chapter 14 of sallust's jugurthine war and i managed to do all of 13 in one sitting without killing myself. sallust likes putting conditionals within indirect speech which gets the tenses all fucked and i hate him for it but otherwise the grammar is getting easier. jugurtha did nothing wrong btw

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>>24742905
It's more than just "the heebs"
It's the fascist takeover that is the CIA/Israel

>>24743040
I saw a podcast with her and she didn't seem crazy.

>>24741432
The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose

>>24741432
Mein Kampf

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>>24743040
The CIA is ideologically driven, but I would not call it Fascism...

>>24742356
i want to fuck this bird

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Been putting off the next chapter because I was getting stumped, so now I'm coming back to it after a week of setting it aside. This is the opening sentence for it but it doesn't feel right. I aped it from a passage from Iliad, but I don't remember which page it was now. What do you guys think I could improve on with it?
It was dusk. The hospital ward was bathed with an auburn tint, as young Dawn’s vast and all-encompassing skirt settled down for the night.
Revising it as I wrote this poost:
Young Dawn retired for the night, her all-encompassing skirt no longer gracing the face of all of Fasnakyle. Twilight succeeded her, swallowing up without ease the auburn shades which gave the hospital ward complex its ripe filter.

>>24743764
demon
>>24743740
it's fine
>ripe filter
is dumb

>>24743740
very purple. 10x so for this being the web novel thread
try
>Dusk bathed the hospital ward with an auburn tint as the day came to a close.
that's the style of prose that's expected in pulpy fiction
or unironically even
>The hospital ward washed orange as dusk ended.

Getting more complex than that is reader poison

Also, how is "young Dawn's skirt settling down for the night" the same thing as "It was dusk, turning to twilight"? Am I retarded? Very possible

>>24743768
deleted because I had an error, but also on rereading, questioned the logic of the metaphor to begin with
anyway, he can write ornate prose if he wants but it definitely is VERY potent reader poison. and moreover, it is not 'fine' ornate prose, it is decidedly purple and not good if he's trying to be a flowery writer

>>24743779
I could work with that, thanks. I'm doing my best to keep things anemic.

>Also, how is "young Dawn's skirt settling down for the night" the same thing as "It was dusk, turning to twilight"? Am I retarded? Very possible
You and me both.

>>24742838
AI slop.

>>24743539
Nein! Ich bin Amerikaner.

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get this one

>>24743167
It is indecent

>>24742782
the worst thing about this is that it's med-coded and highly ungermanly

The trick to getting people to read your stuff is simple: just write stuff people want to read

Nobody wants to read anything anymore

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>write a new sentence or tweak an existing sentence
>have to reread the sentence
>have to reread the paragraph
>have to reread the group of paragraphs in which that paragraph lies
>have do it all over again just to be safe

>>24743325
I would like it. I honestly don't think it can even be a negative. This is probably some unfounded worry caused by overthinking the little things. Your story will not flounder because of this.

>>24743325
>Hmm how do I make certain things about the world clear to the reader? I could show these things through dramatic action, but that would require an ounce of creativity and trust in the reader's ability to read.
>I know! I'll just frontload all the exposition instead; that's sure to set the stage for an interesting read.

>>24743721
Louis L’Amour

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>>24743721

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

>>24743744
lmao.

>>24743721
Looks a bit like my dad

>>24743403
Yeah, well I got Slytherin on the sorting hat test, so that makes sense.

Thought I was gonna get Ravenclaw, but I got fucking Slytherin.

>>24742233
>the heckin' based /pol/ house
>it's full of mutts
I can't imagine anything like this here, no sir, I am drawing the blanks

Everyone and their grandmas is ravenclaw nowadays. Due to the huge inflation in ravenclaw members i decided to be Hufflepuff

>>24742823
if the judicial system repeatedly fails to publish a violent criminal who goes on to kill, like DeCarlo Brown, his victim was to all practical purposes executed by the state without even the nicety of a trial.

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Enough about Fagwarts. Which Ilvermorny house do you belong to?

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his wife btw

>>24743340
That doesn't look like Elena

>>24731257
yes you can. you can carve some stunning designs into a piece of wood, but if no one is buying, no one is buying.

>>24743516
That's the injustice of it. It's not even necessarily about the product or the market. It's about access to market, nepotism and many other factors.

>>24743270
>Why would Israel allow them in then?
To offset Arab birthrates, obviously. They're notorious for doing this

>>24734499
Holy mother of all bait

>>24734501
I hope he finds a new loving bf in prison.

>>24734479
Lolita

>>24734479
You enter reality is fake

Your entire worldview and reality is a lie. People are not god. You are not god. People do not control or determine reality. The people in power do not control or determine reality. People are not equal. People are not blank slates, people are not inherently good noble savages, people are not perfectible, people are not rational and rationally disconnected from their environment. There is no realm of higher purely rational thought disconnected from emotions and impulses. People and society cannot be improved through social engineering by leftist collage educated experts, managerial bureaucrats, or the state.
Progress is not inherent to reality. Reality is not entirely and fundamentally material. reality is not fundamentally dead but alive and consciousness and responsive and evolving. Reality is not fundamentally only literal. Reality is not fundamentally and only rational. Reality is not fundamentally disenchanted. The divine and spiritual is real. the meak are not more moral than the great, morality and greatness are two different dimensions of reality. Weakness and tolerance are not virtuous. Everything just is what it is. Reality is inherently mysterious. Self loathing is just as evil as hubris. Your entire worldview is just a rationalization for the ruling managerial class and the totalitarian state to gain ever increasing amounts of power and turn people into cogs. Your entire worldview is just lying and stealing and parasitism. Your entire worldview is just a way to deny reality and evade responsibility and remain immature and evil and not grow up and be virtuous and responsible and act like an actual fucking adult.

>>24734479
I find myself sympathetic to Tyler because he got caught up in a Mossad plot to kill Kirk and is actually innocent

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>>24724325
he was based

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>>24723585
Good and (darkly) funny.

>>24723588
literally the only scandibro who is worth reading

>>24733105
How's Melancholia? I picked it up recently, have been wanting to read it

>>24723645
Burnt-Njál's Saga is a genuine world classic. The rest of the big ones are pretty good too.

>>24742169
>Extremists exist. They are born due to the surrounding environment. You're born in war torn Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria due to invasions sponsored by Israel and white countries, what do you resort to? Extremism and violence. All Israel/USA had to do is set fuel to the fire through funding.
The Qu'ran explicitly calls for the killing of infidels and even the moderate Arab states punish "apostasy" by death. Islam is a pathetic excuse of a heresy and a desperately embarrassing lie that scourges men all across the planet.
>There are many other absurd stories worthy of laughter recorded in this writing, which he
insolently boasts descended upon him from God. But when we ask, “and who testified that God
has given him a scripture? And who among the prophets has announced that such a prophet
would rise up?” they are at a loss. We then relate to them how Moses received the law from God
who appeared on Mt. Sinai in the sight of all the people in a cloud and fire and darkness and a
whirlwind. We also relate to them that all the prophets, beginning with Moses and in succession,
foretold the coming of Christ. They also said that Christ is God, and that as the Son of God he
will come by taking on flesh, and that he will be crucified, and die, and rise again, and that he
will be the judge of the living and the dead. We ask them, then, “how is it that your prophet did
not come in this same way, with others witnessing about him? And how is it that God did not
give him the scripture, of which you speak, while in your presence, as God gave the law to
Moses on the smoking mountain while all the people were looking on, so that you may have

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>>24740665
>My problem with Islam is that it is not satisfied with simply being an independent belief system: it has to try to retroactively attach itself with existing religions, while also ignoring the much longer histories of those traditions and the contradictions that arise from this attachment.
It does reduce Islam to one of the most obviously false religions in history. That counts for something, at least, making the goodhearted search for truth that much easier. It refutes itself. A follower of Islam in our age of information must be in the end a lover of lies.

>>24741576
lmfao, if you think iq was debunked by taleb you are one retarded muzzie and fucking stupid as fuck holy shit nigger go read a book on psychometrics and see that niggers cant learn modern physics even

>>24743568
>and see that niggers cant learn modern physics even
one of the best undergraduate texts on electromagnetism was written by a "nigger" from africa
>but that's just one guy
and yet you say "niggers cant learn modern physics" as if they're all dumb animals.

>psychometrics
you're a midwit

>>24742925
right, and the West is famous all over the world for their honesty

>>24741911
Gilbert and Sullivan were opera weiters

>>24741911
big if true

>>24742279
The OP pic is not of opera singers.

>>24743052
OP is a dork
Have some hot Carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-0vjdjSSs

>>24743087
I was speaking in 3rd person.

>>24732179
soulless, gay. My 12-year-old self would've never read The Lord of the Rings if it had had a cover like this.
>>24732190
Sovl and memecore. This is the kind of book that a guy who earns 6 figs and has a stable marriage would have on his bookshelf.

>>24736104
Not true. Britain also has Bleak House (arguably, any big novel by Dickens would do just fine), Orlando, and Therese of D'Urbervilles, and Japan also has Kokoro and The Gay Novel (Confesssions of a Mask). Also, Germany's big novel is Buddenbrooks.

>>24729700
God I wish I could draw like Gustave Moreau

>>24742240
Me too

>>24719955
modern actually refers the the 19th century

>>24743407
... you haven't read the book you're shitting on?

>>24743411
wait until you get to the scat scenes (plural)

>>24731668
>Virgin lounge
Why on earth was she there then?

>>24731668
How do you know she's bitching and not admiring?

>>24743471
Because it’s a woman