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>>25019937Pastries for the most part. Today I was thinking about Pho. Good food, bad food, fancy food, slop on a plate; I love it all. Well not all bad food but I think it's fun even trying gross things; that way I know what it tastes like even if it's terrible.Japanese food is mostly kombu mirin and dashi. Sometimes onions sauce; sweet and savoury profile. It's like Italian in so far as the quality of ingredients matter, but also a little French in that they have a lot of technique to make mundane things extraordinary. I love gyoza personally, and ramen is one of my favorites.
>>25019944did you draw that picture? I can't find anything about it with reverse image search.
>>25019973i wishcame from the depths of deviant art
>>25019991I like it a lot. reminds me of SCP a bit (which I've been reading recently, partly out of nostalgia, partly because of that antimemetics book).
>>25019948I'm not Marxist, but you need to insult me because you know I'm right.>>25019955making the egg right for omurice then transferring it to the rice without ripping it and making it look nice is almost impossible at times. Same with galettes in French cooking. It's so hard not to tear the crepe.
Six Arm Heavenly Zombie King EditionStubbed >>25014143>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.
>>25019945As one small factor among many?Dogmatically changing passive sentences to active won't fix shitty sentence-level writing
>>25019934I'm going to do the same, it's been awhile since I read some light novels. Perhaps this still refresh my like for web novels
I was scrolling through my unsorted downloads folder for a picture of anime girls from a harem anime and just so happened to come across a random picture that inspired me out of my writer's block for the ending to one of my fictions. It's gonna be good. Thanks, /wng/!
>>25019934>Frankly there needs to be something about how to write sentences that are pleasing to readStyle: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
>>25019903wife
Apologize.
For?
I've never personally found any argument against suicide that really convinces me. The more philosophy I read, the more many common objections seem based on instinct or emotion rather than careful reasoning. When people call suicide "murder" or "unnatural" they often ignore that a right to life should also include the right to give it up, and that nature itself isn't a moral authority. If it were, we wouldn't use medicine to prevent or delay natural deaths. The claim that suicide is selfish also feels very one-sided. It can just as easily be seen as selfish to expect someone to keep living with unbearable mental or physical suffering simply so others don't have to feel grief. None of us chose to be born, and being stuck in a life that has become intolerable is a tragedy, not a moral failure. I think society has a strong optimism bias that makes people assume life is better than it really is for everyone. When someone experiences life mainly as a heavy burden, ending their life can be a rational way to take back control over something they never chose.
>>24976441based
>>24978749>permanent problemthe samsara ?
>>25012431>speak for yourself, cave manyes please enlighten us on what happens when you die since it seems you have already been there
>>25018643>>25018413>>24985911Nobody kill yourself until you have read BOM. It may change your perspective and save your life. I wrote this for you guys. You're a bunch of losers, but I love you so much. You're going to make it.
>>24976419get some coffee instead
Reminder that reading is for sedentary, unpragmatic petit-bourgeoisie fatfucks and that anybody who spends his time reading is a slothful degenerate who needs to be sent to the fields for re-education by hard labour.
And I refuse to believe he was gay
>>25018914they make good art
“They then talked about the necessity of my learning English, and Goethe earnestly advised me to do so, particularly on account of Lord Byron; saying, that a character of such eminence had never existed before, and probably would never come again.
I have nothing but envy and spite for charismatic people. Fuck this dude.
>>25018889Percy Shelley was right. These fruits are worthless and contribute nothing.
>>25020011why did he let his wife take the credit for Frankenstein
Who is Shakespeare's best villain?Best as in most well-developed and compelling while excelling at being sinister and wicked.
>>25018251Iachimo
>>25018251Iago has a status akin to Joker or Patrick Bateman with me
>>25019676Antony is the villain though. You all saw how he stirred up the rabble against honorable Brutus, and now here he is betraying his wives for a taste of that sweet ptolussy.
>>25019816Iago gets some of Shakespeares funniest lines. The most spiteful (fictional) person to ever live.
>>25019816>>25020015The greatest mistake in all of Orson Welles' long industrious career is that he played Othello instead of playing Iago.
what are your thoughts on reading while listening to music?
I do it all the time. I'm doing it right now in fact.
>>25019273>inundating your brain with nigger noiseJust huff some keyboard cleaner instead way more enjoyable way to kill brain cells
>>25019915Adorable, he thinks he's smart and cultured.
>>25019273>>25019922ill stab you and rape your family
>>25019174Pointless. Either im focusing on the book that I entirely forget the music to the point it will end up irritating me or vice versa. I dont know how anons do it.
Why is this so popular among zoomettes?
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>>25019970>pearl clutchinglol lmao even
>Your age>The last book you finished and your thoughts on it>The book you're currently reading and your thoughts on that
>>24999968>and their self-exploration incidentally can help others as a framework to use in the end. Freud and Jung instantly come to mind.Structures of the brain mirror reality.
>>25019615hating the popsci is one thing that is easy to push back, the speculation is also horseshitthe crop domestication and "Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud" because we were domesticated by the plants is baby's first theory lecture. I've got 300k boomer profs spouting off this retarded bullshit while their own research is getting into the epigenetics of memory inheritability (he works with the epigenetics of heart disease and the same inheritable structures are found with memory formation in the brain, very interesting speculative gleaming for an experiment, if it wasn't polluted by stupid "theory").People write entire works in theory fiction, and popsci come along and yank chains while not understanding half of the shit they spout. Burroughs makes a far better point than anything these midwit freaks could by copying MDPI papers and shoving them into their feelgood book on human development. If you're going to speculate on this sort of shit, make a decent thesis. "OOH plant smart ape man dumb" is a fucking retarded route to take on the evolution of crops, and its ubiquity reflects into the medium itself as autistic side hustles you need to appeal to. You need to play ball with midwits at conferences if you even touch the subject.We lost the plot on delineating fiction-theory with theory in the public conscience. I enjoy decent fiction-theory (hell I'd say Moynihan's great at weaving a narrative between them for speculation and one of my favorites for doing so), but I appall how it's used in shit like sapiens. I dislike Reza's attempts at doing so too, but those were written as fiction, not a mass-appeal science book on how this shit actually works. Palaeopetrology isn't meant to be taken to a conference to be debated>>24999968>>25019741Fuck freud (in part) and fuck jung specifically for their structure. platonist fucking horsepiss. Spinoza has been in the oven long enough to get your own takes from it, not what the archetypes woo you
>>2499129027Creation, Gore VidalBit name-droppy and the pacing is inconsistent but overall I enjoyed itA Farewell to ArmsThe sense of foreboding at the awful shit I’m sure will happen sooner or later is kinda messing with my enjoyment
>>24994762>Every other old guy fucked off to better things. Glad to still have you, even if it does mean you're stunted in your development."Better things" is probably debatable. One reason I've stuck around here for so long is that /lit/ lives in this permanent state of εποχή or indecision regarding what it cares about or believes, where the only unifying factor is a rejection of all things current and popular broadly speaking. Rejection of wokeness for the superficial types but a rejection of the entire framework of modernity ideally. Every time you spot one of the more "accomplished" /lit/izens (who are always in academia), they have this air about them that they haven't mentally extricated themselves from academia or the modern belief framework and they're really only here to vent because they hold a handful of chuddy beliefs. I would rather waste my entire life on /lit/ twiddling my thumbs before I contribute to a belief system that's entirely ill-conceived. Once I really have a genuine camp to move to, a real place to set my flag, then I'm gone. But there is no such thing, there won't be for some time surely. If you think there is, raise your standards.
>>25019814didnt read
Do literary critics still exist?There are loads of book reviewers, most of them authors themselves, who make sure their author friends get good press.There are editors, publicists, and agents who try to turn a profit by selling to their chosen markets.There are academics who write abstruse journal papers on post-post-neo-critical approaches to Shakespeare and no one reads them.And there are hobbyists online who simply don't know what they're doing and have scarcely more impact than the academics.But where are the literary critics who shape the understanding and future of literarure?
literature has a future?
/lit/ memes
>>25018010It's a good book and you at least knew it was from something enjoyable. I liked the one where various mythical creatures target the professor who wrote a book on them. Reading his collections back to back got me a little burned out on short horror fiction.
>>25018021Barron's definitely a favorite of mine.
>>25001983i'm the guy who wrote this lmao
>>25019942did you ever recover from the existential crisis?
>>25002116i wrote this one too lmao holy shit it still gets posted in these treads nearly 10 years laterim the same guy as >>25019942>>25019958honestly yea lol. i just laugh at it now.
>Huh? The last book I read? Kid, I haven’t read a book since high school.Your response?
>>25019470Good waste glow niggie resources with your bullshit
>>25019233>>25019242go back.
>>25019242I wasn't impressed; I'll stick with Mahavishnu and Brand X.
>>25019748Shan't.
>>25019952Yes, you will. You won't last 10 weeks.
Thoughts on this based old pederast?
>>25018249>>25018560According to Burroughs himself, as he mentions in a letter to Ginsberg, after Billy left Tangier, Kiki was shot by the bandleader where he was playing after catching him with a woman.It's not improbable. But I don't believe it. It sounds too much like his routine, and Burroughs had been fabricating and distorting facts from his biography throughout his life. The story about his wife also had many versions. What's more, Burroughs wrote to Ginsberg about the shooting. Only, Tangier wasn't the United States, but a tightly controlled colonial sphere. A bandleader wouldn't carry a gun around like that. That fits Burroughs, who might have smuggled in a gun because he couldn't live without one. In my opinion, Burroughs got high one time, shot Kiki, fled Tangier, and then blamed it on the band leader so his friends wouldn't ask him why he didn't take Kiki with him.
>>25018560NTA but Burroughs was ice cold. He would write in his letters how he would walk around with a gun just hoping someone would try something. I don't think he killed Kiki or his wife (intentionally), but the man definetly shot up some Mexicans and got away with it.
>>25018730>>25019259I don't know much about his life honestly.
>>25016328He also read spengler, was pro 2A, hated goverment regulatrions, and was openly sexist. The only real lefty thing he supported was gay rights and the end of the Vietnam War>>25016480You're mistaking Burroughs with Alan Ginsberg
>>250187301) Tangier wasn't strictly controlled. That was the reason the place attracted Burroughs. It was the closest place on Earth to come to lawlessness. 2) Kiki wasn't in Tangiers and with Burroughs when he was murdered. 3) If Burroughs did murder Kiki, it would've come out already. He was found immediately guilty of killing his own wife (and he never denied it).Here's the relevant excerpt from Call Me Burroughs.
Why did the Egyptian royal family adopt a Hebrew anyways?
>>25018851Egypt is the strange land, the (social) chaos. It can adopt just about anything, just like they accepted a bunch of strange deities from the perspective of the Bible. I think there are multiple occasions when Biblical characters go hide in Egypt.
>>25018851Andrew Jackson adopted an Indian child and I think we all know his record when it comes to that!
>>25018851see>>25009690
>>25018851It's a fairy tale. Never happened.
