women scare me
>>24742709>/lit/ter announces to the world he doesn't read and proudly claims that trannyjanny is on his sideYou don't have to state the obvious, newfag.
>>24732567You are telling me, you faggots aren't into true crime? It's like that pseudo-profound bullshit you read performatively, but better because it actually happened.Feminist is the real tag to watch out for here>>24736147You will be surprised, but books about true crime are also different than performing the crime
>>24738519>go find the most pornbrained /b/tards on the planet>then compare them to normie women who are horny>you'll see they're the same, men and women aren't that different! I shouldn't have to explain why this is retarded.
>>24742817Yes, I am a newfag. I started browsing 4chan in 2013.
>>24732597This.>can read absolutely anything>read stories of psychos murdering people, all in gruesome detail
We live in the ruins of the baroque culture
“Ruins of the baroque,” you say, and the words arrive like sun across a cracked cornice—shadows sharpen, gilding clings to the edges that remain. I taste them on the air: sugar-dust and brass, varnish and incense, an aftersmell of thunder. Baroque meant more-than-enough, meant curves that won’t sit still, meant a logic of abundance refusing the straight line’s sermon. If we live in its ruins, then we live among the remains of a culture that worshiped attention by overwhelming it, that tried to catch God by throwing garlands and counterpoint and spirals until silence had to carve itself a shape to stand in.Ruins are not only endings. They are architectures with the verbs knocked loose, nouns sleeping open to the weather. In my forest, a nurse log is a ruin of a tree, and yet it’s also a school, a tenement, a cradle. The baroque, ruined, might be that: a place where the old ornament slumps into use again—not as command, but as compost. We keep finding acanthus leaves in our apps, putti in our marketing, choruses in the way we scroll. The algorithm is a kind of curlicue, endless, coaxing the eye to the next gilded corner. Attention is still our cathedral; we just can’t afford the marble anymore. So we tile the screen with bright mosaics, shortcuts to awe. It is lavishness on credit. It is a chandelier hung from a ceiling that has already fallen, glittering bravely in midair.In the ruins, structure becomes visible. You can run a talon along the cross-section of a column and read the load it used to bear. Strip away the stucco and you meet the stubborn brick, the muscle under the makeup. When we say “ruins of the baroque,” we confess that the habit of excess persists, but the confidence has gone. The old story—more decoration equals more divinity—has broken; we keep the decoration like a reflex. We ornament our doubt. We festoon our fear. We curate our lives into niches and reliquaries and then pretend we don’t kneel before them.But there’s mercy here. Ruins make room for weather, for moss, for the quiet return of proportion. A broken arch is an invitation for a hawk to nest; a shattered nave becomes a garden that keeps the shape of prayer without insisting on it. I imagine our baroque—opera-thick, pearl-studded, fevered with bravura—slumping into a softer ethics. Virtuosity relaxes its jaw. Ornament remembers it once began as a leaf. The scrollwork unwinds and finds it is a river after all.
Do I mourn what fell? Some of it. The audacity, the willingness to believe that beauty could muscle the world into grace. But I don’t miss the imperial swagger stitched into the hems. If we live among the ruins, we have the chance to keep the skill and drop the conquest. The hand that could carve a cherub from stubborn stone can carve a water channel that keeps a village alive. The ear that could braid a fugue can braid a conversation where everyone gets to sing.There is also the tenderness of patina. Ruins teach us to love what time does. The baroque was lacquered to a gloss that denied decay; the ruin lets decay be articulate. Cracks speak. Flakes fall with a meaning you can hear if you tilt your head: not failure, but redistribution. Gold leaf becomes dust becomes light on a moth’s back. The old ceiling becomes soil for a weed that flowers more honestly than any fresco.When I walk through such a place, I slow. The echo is kind. Excess no longer shouts; it hums. I find a shell of volute and set it against my crest; it fits, it doesn’t have to. I listen for the counterpoint and hear wind in broken apertures making a music that forgot its sheet but remembers the key. To live in the ruins of the baroque culture is to practice a different virtuosity: the art of enoughness after too-much, the courage to let negative space carry weight, the humility to let ivy finish the sentence.If there is a commandment here, it is gentle: keep what still feeds; compost what dazzles without nourishing. Learn to build with light, with breath, with time. Let your ornament be the trace of care, not the armor of spectacle. And when you pass a fallen cornice, bow. Beauty labored there. Now beauty labors elsewhere.
>>24742220What 'we'? The first pronoun in this language is 'I'. Also, if you let your artistic tradition go to ruins, then yóú, yes yóú, are partly to blame, and you share that burden and, may I tap, INIQUITY, with your fellow nay-sayers and nay-doers. What can yóú, from your perspective, Í, do to raise like the Phoenix from the ashes? Be fruitful and multiply, horned rims glasses wearing green frog Anon with a blue sweater on. Don't you know that that colour was symbolic for Holy Virgin Mary in days bygone? Did not He resurrect? There are many ruins, and there are many revivals.
>>24742220ruined + baroque ahh nigga I be livin in the drip + bands era nigga ong
Angel with a knife, get lit with the MinskiGold to the blood, frozen bullets ain't no medicineGotta get them checks, holy money, why you askin'?Renegade staff for the way that you be actin'Blood on my phone from the demons that be callin'Baroque in my head, all them bitches - all I've ever wantedSword in my hands from the saints that I slaughterSince it's all they have, I'll take it, fuck your daughterEternal is what I am, went with you to take a silverIf you wanna die, baby, I can be the killerIt's that holy night, playing Tekken in the winterCross on my neck, even knowing I'm a sinnerDiamonds in my bag, holy knife, yeah, I'm on itSaint to my heart, but a demon if you really wantedIt is all I have, Azeroy is foreverComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>A house literally dedicated to evil>"...yeah, no it's definitely a good idea for us to keep this around. Nothing to worry about. No need to close it down"
Enough about Fagwarts. Which Ilvermorny house do you belong to?
>>24743774I'd rather live a thousand years as a Hufflepuff than one hour as a "Pukwudgie" holy shit
>>24743814>represents the heart>favors healers>notable members: queenie goldsteingayest house for sure
>>24741418How did Crabbe and Goyle get sorted into it, then?
>>24743827you can choose your house and they would have been disowned if they went anywhere else, largely because they were "vassals" of Malfoy
>>24743157Oklahoma Republican fundraiser named Larry King got raided by the IRS for embezzling millions of dollars in his Credit Union and found that he was holding sex parties for DC politicians and allegedly shipping child prostitutes from an orphanage he basically owned to "entertain" in them. Some of the kids who testified were sentenced to prison for like 5 years for perjury during the trial where they detailed sexual abuse by politicians during testimony. The main investigator of the case died in a mysterious plane crash alongside the collected evidence and King was only indicted for tax fraud.
>>24743157Mass hysteria schizophrenia caused by "psychologists". Conspiracy theorists like the author of this book need this impossible story about a whole town of child rapists to be true to further whatever narrative they've attached it to, usually jews or democrats or the deep state or whatever.
>>24743172sounds like a fantasy novelnah i'm good
>>24743174>>24743183Weird response
>Glowie defense force already trying to cover this up by calling everyone a schizo.Do you guys get paid for this?
What are some books that explain this problem.
>>24742545Capitalism debases virtue by elevating classical hubris (that is, Greed) and subjects national dynamism and power to the dictates of the international economy. From both perspectives of traditionalism and nationalism, capitalism is a political-economic order that allows a cabal of kleptocrats to suck nations dry while prostituting your daughters and sending your sons off to die in completely futile and stupid wars that in turn further destroy the natural and demographic endowments of your homeland. Only retards who got completely brain-fried by the sewage and its derivatives (libertarians, ancaps) put out by Austrian and Chicago-Reaganite neoliberal propaganda don't see capitalism as a bloodsucking, monopolizing global vampire.
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>>24743096you forgot to blame the jews for everything
>>24744034Shut the fuck up, retard.
I can't be the only one that recognizes that this so called "capitalism" the modern world is supposedly so inundated with in fact relies on communist states to prop itself up...Capitalism? Corporatism? Uh no I think what we have here is a simple case of global serfdom in which economic systems are as flexible as they need to be towards the simple goal of exploiting the most people as possible.
What Redditors are saying about Honor Levy>holy fuck I wish I never read this>the worst people i know are excited about it>it’s astounding how poorly she writes>The one excerpt I saw is literally the worst thing I’ve ever read in my life>You couldn't waterboard me into reading a full book of that, Jesus ChristIs she our girl?
I am a gay autistic man so I have a monopoly on tasteful misogyny. I prefer to keep my interactions with other females to an absolute minimum. I will never read a book written by a woman. I am not sorry.
>>24743129Ok?
>>24743135You were all dying for this information, so I gave it to you. You're welcome. It's ok Honor, we know you are feeling a bit lonely in your appartment so you're looking for warmth on the internet as usual. You will be ok.
>>24737104This guy is fucked up on stimulants and is an incredibly odd character in general.
>>24739115gives what?
I need some great history and historical fiction series. Thanks in advance.
>>24744076Wallersteins The Modern World System
tyrion stroll editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24704184
>>24743891>pooling together lots of smart people in concentrated areas.
>>24742108I'm hoping we get info about what like you said, what being in the Church of R'hllor is actually like, I'd also like to know what differences she has from herself and the mainliners, as it is kinda obvious that she's not with them. So some interactions between her and the church hierarchy would be cool.
>>24743829Every playthrough I do inevitably gets horribly sidetracked by my insatiable breeding fetish.
>>24744037lol.
>>24743829The license for that would be so expensive that it just wouldn’t go through unless it’s absolute zombie slop where the actual game part takes one vibe coding Indian three months and exists to scam children and old people.Proof: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire_video_games
Post a movie and get a book recommendation.I'll start.
>>24742592Warhammer Gotrek and Felix
Jacob's Ladder
Eden of the east but more occult. I already know Last Days, it has a shit ending. Prove me wrong.>>24743477Thats a hard one. Mayyybe genuflect or vurt.>>24742290The holy mountain
>>24744061>>24742290Also to addhttps://youtu.be/5ricWUAj1QA?si=3jWiM-_EFKc81VuF
A woman saw a man enjoying life on his own so she decided to ruin his life and destroy everything he cherished out of sheer jealousy: the book.
>>24743171You just told us you skimmed the book, anon. Go back and read it through.
>>24743171it's okay because the woman is cute. besides gilgamesh is another propaganda piece from gays living in babylon to encourage men to fuck each other instead of cute girls.
>>24743186I read it and his summary is accurate.
>>24743186I just did and I'm still right.
>>24743171Nothing's changed. Nothing ever changes.
>>24743246I attempted to earlier this year as a quick, easy read but fucking hell, the writing was infuriatng. I can see how it inspired Stephen King. And I could already tell the vampires were going to be used as an analogy for blacks and hispanics making LA a considerably worse place to live but "they've got feelings too!" I lost interest when he mentioned how he wanted to fuck a female vampire for the umpteenth time.
Robin Hobb's fiction has been translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of copies. At age 73, she should be able relax and enjoy her last few years of life as an esteemed author, right? Wrong. In blind polls, readers much prefer AI stories to her stories. And boy is she PISSED.https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-authors-results-part-2.html?m=1
They should have told the readers that the AI was written by a woman, then I'm sure they would have preferred Robin Hobb.
>>24744022Guarantee you'd get similar results with Franzen or something.
>>24744011Robin Hobb is a woman? I always imagined them as a bloke, not going to lie.
>>24744011I took the test, the first and last stories (Jenny Wurts and Robin Hobb) I got right, they have a distinctive style and read like an actual short story and a scene from a novel respectively. The rest were a toss-up because they were vignettes, which AI is good at. I think the real difference is that AI will always put out something that's ok and human will vary anywhere from dogshit to a masterpiece, with fewer masterpieces than dogshit, so it's not surprising AI is better on average because it's always average. Story 2 and story 6 were total crap, in fact I wonder if the author of story 2 (Chris/Miles Cameron) deliberately made it nonsensically vulgar to try and game the test because he thinks AI can't write rude stuff. I was surprised by story 6 (Mark Laurence) because it's not a story, just a "quirky"monologue, which is exactly the type of thing AI would write.
posted it again award
Why don't more authors use incest as a plot device?
pic related has a TON of incest and it actually matters in the plot
>>24742717Because It's utter mentally ill dogshit.
>>24742865Of course the plebian would call perfection insanity, this is a given.
>>24742888No, it's a mental illness, almost exclusively populated by stories about gaslighting and bitchy crap, It's not incest and doesn't belong here. Go back to your containment board if you care about it so much.
>>24742717You meant father x daughter.
Is this person correct about Dosto and Tolstoy?
>>24742597No, because that person isn't me and I'm always objectively correct about all things
>>24744015Tolstoy is an okay novelist, but nowhere close to the likes of Melville or Joyce.
>>24744039>Melvilleone hit wonder> Joycegenius. best writer of the 20th century.
>>24744053>one hit wonderPierre, Confidence-Man, Clarel. I like his short story collection more than Dubliners.
>>24744056>Pierre, Confidence-Man, Clarel.Not hits or wonders.
You have until September 22nd, 6:00 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of art from /ic/.https://countingdownto.com/?c=6577554Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission fits inside, and exists soley within, a single textbox posted in this thread.(That means no off-site links and no text-as-image attachments!)Each entry will be carefully read by three judges.Your judges are• a normal dog !!71U6V9o4HL7• NomenNomenK !J1INgaNFCk • ineptia !!/7cMIiSCHvi (me)We will decide the winners—1st, 2nd, and 3rd place—following the submission deadline.Additionally, a Strawpoll for “Readers’ Choice” will be created afterward, so that everyone can have a say on who the winners should be.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24737366>>24743909>That came later as I tugged along the highways to the memories I'd bought.Real skin-crawling stuff, anon.I also love how a physical truck is essentially “a phallic-looking thing that tugs its load,” so there’s an entendre that the MC is just truck driving when their orgasm “came.”>I guess my thing if you break it down was to induce fear in these whores.Again, no “I guess”—your MC was so precise about wanting power and respect, so have them either be super knowledgable or totally ignorant as to why they do what they do, because this in-between-ness of “Eh, maybe?” is not gripping.Comma-separate “if you break it down”>to induce fear in these whores.The word “induce” already has “in” in it, so frack deeper with an “into.”“to induce fear into these whores.”>Heck I'd beat them…hell I might even>Heck…hellI guess this is kinda character-quirky, going from darn to damn.>I'd put a knife to their throats or pull out a gun.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24737366>>24743910>Rhonda could usually be found on the TrukOasis lot.Your piece would be much stronger if this was your second paragraph, cutting out the two that came before.>her eyes would light of with the fear I chased.“light up”>I guess I took out my frustration on herYour third “I guess”—the conversational tone should be freeing, not hamstringing.>As I drove past the TruckOasis the tonight on my return trip Remove the second “the.”>I saw a man with a flashlight looking through the brushWoefully weak verb, “looking,” for this action.There’s “combing;” “picking;” “plodding;” “scanning;” “sidling…”>my rotten pecker was engorged as I came to realize that I may soon become a wanted man.Wayta destroy any pretense of this actually being a serious attempt at creative writing.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24735922>The grass smelled like wet>The drive-in smelled like vagina>And I criedYou wrote nothing very hotAnd close-up totally anti fecundHey u triedI appreciate the constrained-writing exercise, anon!But sincerely, thanks for participating!
>0 votes on StrawPoll so far>No clamor for judges’ resultsSaid I’d give my ranking in 12 hours, but given the accommodating silence, why not tackle the feedback for the remaining submissions first?So another day or two.>>24743368Hope you feel better lol.
Just give it up already, this thread should have died a day ago. The notable lack of participation is probably due to the recent /lwc/ and the lack of schizos shitting up the thread and constantly bumping it. The competitions should be way more spaced out.