>...and then Bilbo whispered to a thrush, a particularly old thrush perched on the mountain, mind you, who conveyed the message of Smaug's missing scale to Bard, who was very good with a bow, you see, and then Bard shot Smaug with the black arrow, which was a very special arrow, forged by the dwarves under the mountain long ago, which instantly killed Smaug!GRRM's autistic edgelord criticisms of Gandalf are nothing compared to this bullshit. If a modern author wrote this slop he would be thrown into a pit and torn apart by apes.
>>24949426Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the future, i wouldn't want any of you terminally online losers to finally flip and shoot out a school because of me.
>>24949426He called Hitler a ruddy little ignoramus
>>24948352>>24949426>>24949474Tolkien disliked nazis and Hitler for being too left-wing.
>>24948248>not knowing the bird languageerlendr
>>24949473>Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the futureNo harm done just don't do it again
>She was the daughter of a well-known theatrical manager, a willowy, wispy, fair-haired girl with colorless eyes and pathetic little pimples just above that kind of small nose which English lady novelists call "retroussée" (note the second "e" added for safety). I don't get it
>>24947835The second e makes it feminine. He's making fun of how shit authors like Agatha Christie pile on hamfisted Gallicisms so that you know how classy and smart they are.
>>24947849Did Nabokov really seethe at Christie too? I sure hope not. All his seething is so greatly disappointing.
>>24947875What do you expect? Everything about him from his opinions to his prose style screams prima donna.
>>24947896What DID Nabby like? If we take Pnin as autofiction he was a well of self loathing who wished he had been born American but also hated Americans. He was obsessed with English but didn't respect a single contemporary author.
>>24947896>THIS IS HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ANALYZE MY BOOK YOU GODDAMN IMBECILESHe's so cool
Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Slop EditionStubbed >>24943213>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.
>>24949540Cute.I'm going to finish my first book soon, and I want some art to celebrate.Can you do it?My last bro died.
>>24949526Stub just means the story was written purely to milk dosh and was never meant to go anywhere beyond that, so you should be glad the author signaled clearly and saved your time.
>>24949540she cute
>>24949547Sure but that also applies to trad pub books and all books on kdp and ku
>>24949572yes
I can't remember anything this guy said.
>Consider, for example, the writings of the school of Schelling, and observe the constructions that are built up out of abstractions like finite and infinite—being, non-being, other being—activity, hindrance, product—determining, being determined, determinateness—limit, limiting, being limited—unity, plurality, multiplicity—identity, diversity, indifference—thinking, being, essence, &c. Not only does all that has been said above hold good of constructions out of such materials, but because an infinite amount can be thought through such wide abstractions, only very little indeed can be thought in them; they are empty husks. But thus the matter of the whole philosophising becomes astonishingly trifling and paltry, and hence arises that unutterable and excruciating tediousness which is characteristic of all such writings. If indeed I now chose to call to mind the way in which Hegel and his companions have abused such wide and empty abstractions, I should have to fear that both the reader and I myself would be ill; for the most nauseous tediousness hangs over the empty word-juggling of this loathsome philophaster.t. Schopenhauer
>>24948671I read this in Zizek's voice
>To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
theres three kinds of shitters
>>24948663Was it in Slovene?
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
>>24947731> Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses.Please understand that attempting to be "free of your own circumstances", or a "true egoist" or, even worse, a "stirnerite" is as "spooked" as anything else. It's very similar to the buddhist joke about "but you desire to be free of desire!".Read everyone and anyone. Steal useful ideas from them (yes, other philosophers also have useful ideas), and discard useless ones. Do not take any of them very seriously, and do not fully buy into any one of them. That will allow you to come up with your own framework, and you will swap out parts of it as your life and opinions change. It will be a syncretic patchwork and not "original", yes, but the point is that it will be tailormade to your life, not anyone else's.
>>24947731
>>24947751Marx knew that Germany couldn't afford another Stirner.
>>24949361>attempting to be "free of your own circumstances", or a "true egoist" or, even worse, a "stirnerite" is as "spooked" as anything else.That's not what I'm saying. Egoism is (can be) a spook too. Spooks aren't some """morally wrong""" thing that you have to avoid, they're just tools to pursue your own self interest. Using spooks is necessary thing, even.The issue comes when you actually fall for the spook, genuinely believe in it, and act against your own self interest because of it. With Egoism this usually happens, as you say, when people become obsessed with the idea of dispelling or fighting against spooks, or being a "true egoist".My problem with philosophy is that I do not see very much utility in the ideas of philosophers. They believe in the spooks they create, they place them above themselves, and so are unable to fully understand them as they are (what they are useful for).That is to say, they can't see outside of their own framework, so they fail to convince me that their framework is useful outside of itself.Could some of these spooks still reasonably be useful to me? Maybe, but I haven't found any that do. I don't think philosophers or their followers are actually more successful in pursuing their own interests than anyone else. Usually the opposite, as they get so wrapped up in these spooks that they forgo the basic things that other people do simply because they haven't been told not to.I guess the primary benefit is gaining insight into the thought and behaviors of other people. Except very few people actually believe in these philosophies in the real world, and I don't believe that these spooks have very good predictive/descriptive power in determining the actions of other people.
Did Yuval Noah Harari reach some of the same conclusions regarding spooks in his book Sapiens?
Need a book for when I have an insomnia spell and can't sleep. I don't want to doomscroll my phone so it seems like a good way to get back into reading.
>>24949522Calvin's Institutes always puts me to sleep.
Fanged Noumena
>>24949522Moby Dick cetology chapters. I have fallen asleep multiple times now trying to read them and the book remains unfinished because of it
>>24949522>Math textbooks>Science journals>Books you've read before (this way you won't have to backtrack as much if you can't remember where you left off)>Books on Finance, investing, economics, etc.
>>24949522On the Heights of Despair by Cioran. Doomer stuff from an insomniac.
>The Enlightenment was... le BAD?
>>24948261>so yeah we should assume the universe revolves around the earth and bring back slavery because its heckin based and stuff!
>>24949061French-Jewish hands typed this
>millions must achieve freudo-marxist gnosis
>>24949103>individual woman doesn't exist>still weaker as one or a group>in a group they summon nature and speak for other women what cannot be spokenGet in there Adorno and slurp up that milk chocolate. Historical dialectic demands it!
>>24949094The universe revolves around any point you want it to, this was figured out over 100 hundred years ago.
"Hemingwrite" editionPrevious: >>24931322/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease 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.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24941143>sort of way>that told him>was like no other>seemingly>began to>up and>from his chair with a start>almostAnd many more such cases. These are filler words. ChatGPT can help by pointing them out. As usual, be skeptical and selective.
>>24949388There are actually 5 lines in your first part, so there are 5 different scenes. Bravo>"Greg...>"Greg Engram...>"He was...>"Life of...>"Yes, yes...
>>24949428What is your point?
>>24949462There's no reason to have it be five separate one-sentence scenes instead of five guys together talking about Greg.
>>24949494Obviously I disagree, but that's not really a question of formatting. So after all your bitching about incorrect formatting, there were no errors?
>buy cheap books on eBay>always have a present to myself on the way in the mailI like to treat myself nicely
Is it O.K. to be a luddite?
>>24948108A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite with KOReader installed. Amazon's ecosystem is absolutely awful but they make the best hardware.
>>24947268yeah i get the cheap ones at dollar tree and thrift stores
>>24949414>jailbrokenwhy tho?
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24948034Are you talking about their Celtic ancestry, or are you drawing a distinction between Germanic and Nordic (which the Normans were)?
>>24948051celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
>>24947882>may have influenced TolkienIt'd be a hell of a coincidence
>>24945653Or, uh, perhaps they were both drawing on the same mythic corpus.
>>24948034>Saxons are not Germanic
Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this! And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best! Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
bump
>>24948028>And half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spotThis is no longer the case, to this extent, in my experience.
>>24947969notebooklmdo you people even use google etc.
Kill yourself
>>24947788shut the fuck up, retard
The dregs of society pool together like the dirty puddles they tromp. Dublin is their city. Dubh Linn. Black Pool. The name evokes images of heroin rolling on foil. The Spire watches high over O'Connell Street, a lantern above the oily slick roads, taxis and buses rolling through them, like a needle penetrating the veiny patchwork streets.
>>24946850Dublin is owned by Afghan Bvlls while yt cucks do nothing
Bump
Have ye a euro fer a hostel bud?
What's your reading plans for 2026?Suggest a book to read in 2026 collectively. I'll add dubs (Jan to Sep, 11 to 99) and trips (Oct to Dec, 111 to 333) to the chart.
>>24948587Louis C.K.'s new novel. Check'em.
Norm's novel, man
00 means you start the calendar over
Rolling for Les Chants de Maldoror
>>24948587The Golden Bowl, Henry James
Faoiseamh a gheobhadsaSeal beag gairidI measc mo dhaoineAr oileán mara,Ag síul cois cladaighMaidin is tráthnónaÓ Luan go SatharnThiar ag baile.Faoiseamh a gheobhadsaSeal beag gairidI measc mo dhaoine,Ó chrá croí,Ó bhuairt aigne,Ó uaigneas duairc,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24948992Jabba wanin cheeco-wa rush anye katanye wanaruska, heh heh heh.
Everything you call "living" is just a massive cope to disguise the fact that your biology is desperately trying to return to the inorganic state it crawled out of. You think you have a will to power or life goals but that's just a mask for the will to nothingness. You are essentially a complicated rock that unfortunately gained consciousness and is now taking a circuitous path back to being a rock. The science is clear that the inanimate existed before us and the only real drive is to restore that silence, meaning your entire existence is just a temporary glitchy detour toward the grave. The universe is indifferent, cosmic extinction is guaranteed, and when the heat death of the universe hits it will be like none of this ever happened, so stop deluding yourself that this life is anything other than a long pointless walk back to zero.
>>24949184Nihilism is a self defeating belief since believing in nothing is itself a belief in something. It is simply an animalistic self loathing used to evade responsibility for one’s duties. The current paradigm of physics and cosmology is wrong just as previous paradigm have been wrong. This is just an aspect of the modern worldview made more clear. Modern man’s desire for power and belief in his own godhood, wanting to control everything and turn reality into base material so that he can reform reality into a creation that exists only to pleasure him.
>>24949290Are you misinterpreting Nietzsche?
>>24949278well, stab him then!
This type of view is far too backwards looking. It ignores that several genuine miracles have occurred, and a materialist can grant these as miracles either in the statistical sense or in the more profound sense of the inherent potentiality of matter in motion (or dialectical materialism if you will), which are the “emergence” of the existence of matter in the first place (this can be either temporal or the eternal miracle of existence’s inherent existence, its existential inertia), the coalescence of matter into complex inorganic systems, the emergence of organic self-replicating systems, the emergence of consciousness out of those organic self-replicating systems and the possibility of natural systems to consciously intervene in the unfolding of phenomena (labor and History), and the (rapid) emergence of more and more complex social formations out of these systems, each step is genuinely unthinkable on the basis of prior systems, matter is imminently developing ever more unthinkable systems of organisation. Mao talked about how after epochs of human development, communism itself would end, the human itself would be superseded, that this self-supersession is inherent to human conduct and all matter, that the universe, all reality is a non-teleological non-subject developing itself immanently into Something, a not-yet that isn’t yet even implicit. What is it? Idk more interesting than nihilism.
>>24949184>the only real driveYou are talking about one of the two major drives according to Freud: Thanatos. Todestrieb. The death drive. But there's also Eros, lebenstriebe or the life drive. Maybe life isn't that perfectly dialectical, but why would it so unidimensional?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive>The universe is indifferentThis is meaningless. The universe is an indifferent thing? What do you mean by that? I know thanks to context that you mean that we are not important in the greater scheme of things, but saying "the universe is [adjective of psychological origin]" is essentially metaphorical, there is no clear, primary meaning to this arrange of subject and predicate.Indifference is a psychological quality. Using a moral instead of psychological example, is Saturn inherently evil? You could say Saturn is indifferent as in outside of moral considerations, but can Saturn or the universe be psychologically indifferent? What do you mean by that? Are you implying some sort of anthropomorphised pantheism?
