who is the audience for this crap
>I'm going to get unreasonably mad at this random youtuber because he doesn't share my political views Chuds are such pissbabies
Me
>>24784572Critical drinker is cringe personified. A middle aged man who rants about women in Marvel movies is absolutely pathetic.
>>24784213Male quirk chunguses
>>24784479>entirely wrong account, stated with full confidence
Yeah I think it’s over. Not just literature but art in general. Just being realistic here, I don’t see how it survives this century with the forces of technology and the sloppification of culture
>>24784427>Post-mass-literacy society will resemble pre-mass-literacy society: autistic monks will keep literature alive for its own sake, not for market demand.Hopefully that means someone will want my books when I die. Not that I have anything of particular value but it would be nice if one or two can find a home and they all don't get pulped.
>>24784475Bro they're gonna get thrown in the dump faster than your auntie's Beanie Babies. Your Sudanese caretakers in 2080 are gonna have zero fucking clue what books are.
>>24774439*lights cigarette*digital has been the death of art*coughs*
>>24783788>>24783738i thought it was just me that stopped watching
Reading is for homos
Who is the current protagonist?
>>24781338>too much groveling before the USdo you have any examples?
>>24784428xi is uncle iroh lol.I'm remembering that one anon. thx
>>24779937You cannot name anyone else whom the entire world's attention has revolved around for the last 10 years. Whether you like him or not is beside the point. Cope harder.
>>24784428It must be surreal to be Xi Jinping. Imagine having absolute control over 1 billion people.
>>24784649no one can have absolute control over any more than a dozen or so (at the highest) people, youre forgetting that xi is just as mortal as his population
>used to play a lot of video games>got bored and stopped>used to watch a lot of movies>got bored and stopped>used to listen to a lot of music>got bored and stopped>used to read a lot of booms>got bored and stoppedWhat now?
>>24784293>Already get plentyhow? you don't go outside.
>>24784354I already said I do everyday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24783745what the fuck is TL for us idiots?
>>24784357you never said that
>the picture of dorian grey>it’s a novel
>Faust>no one gets punched
>Poetics>it's about theatre
>The Trial>he does not try at all
>todos los cuentos>I can in fact think of cuentos not included
>>24778030>Donkey Otie>donkey's name is Pancho or something
What spawns your desire to read? Also, where do you read? Do you have a comfy spot at home? Do you read in your bed?
>>24784609Yeah but you'll never be a writer if you don't read.
>>24782862I like to read about cool shit and expand my mind a little. Simple.
>>24784559it's not too late it's never too late
>>24784636If you're over 25 and have never written anything it's absolutely too late.
Seeming smart--and seeming smart in public. . .And uh, also I write in public. . . to seem smart.
>someone restores the /lit/ wiki after Fandom shut it down>site admins update the sticky with the new site>https://lit.trainroll.xyz>no account verification>no captcha>wiki spammed with bot pages>wiki admin deletes>bot spam returns>repeat x100>pajeet porno links on main page>(Deletion log) [Anonymous Admin (807Ă—)]>wiki admin completely locks the wiki down>whole thing is now read-onlyPage creation, file upload, and even login are all disabled. Before the whole thing got locked down you could create pages and accounts with zero verification or captchas, even though Media Wiki supports both of these:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserVerificationComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24781845I'm not saying give up hope, just that you've got to be realistic about these things. Finish it up in a Google doc or similar that has open access for others to edit or add to and then hope one day the problem resolves and it can be copied there. Otherwise, the only options are a mirror and trying to get it replaced in the sticky. I don't know how many even go to the wiki from the sticky. What surprised me was that my mega is linked from another site that has a lot of resources and they have a view count for it, which shows that my mega has been viewed 10k times from there. That's absurd really if it's accurate. I agree that the mega isn't suitable for a lot of stuff.
Waiting For Godot: The Thread
The wiki's vigil continues
>>24772775Didn't know there was a wiki
Can you recommend books (or other media, but pref books) with a character who reads a lot? In a bit of a slump right now and need to get fired up about reading again. Usually encountering a reading role model works for me, bonus if it mentions real life books I will get excited to read.
Stoner
>>24783932>reading role model
>>24784438:-(I didn't know how else to put it. I just generally get motivated reading, playing, or watching media about people doing things i need to be better at.
>>24783932Drusas Achamian from The Prince of Nothing series by R Scott Bakker.
I am writing a short story with my protag being a 36 year old married white woman HS Teacher that fucks her former student and likes driving also her only daughter just went off to college.
>>24784382She cucks her daughter?
>>24784431No, he's just a classmate and they only bang like two or three times. Her daughter's boyfriend is friends with that guy though. Her husband is 12 years older than her and is a lawyer, so she bangs her student because her husband cheats too. She also hates her job so the main point of the story is for her to sort of still feel free despite the circumcstances she lives in now as a woman in her 30's in a near dead marriage, no more kids, and working a job she kind of really hates.I'm a 27 year old dude writing this, so I have no idea if I'll be able to write an older female protagonist in this situation well or just fumble it. The people that are going to read this are mostly going to be women.Also, uhhh, I didn't want to make this thread about my story, I was hoping anons would share their protagonists as well.
>>24784607It would be better if the student is one year younger than her daughter and also her (former?) boyfriend that she still keeps in touch with long distance and loves despite also slowly becoming a whore at college. Daughters bf confides to the mom about this which is how they start sleeping together.
>>24784612Hm, okay, I'll consider this, thanks. It's gonna take place in Quebec. Driving is gonna be a big aspect of this so I guess Montreal to Quebec city would e a big aspect of this. I think QC has Laval University so that could be an aspect. Whatever im rambling. Thanks dude.
>>24784633I just made those suggestions because I think it'll help keep the story tight if you have a shorter cast of characters that are playing more roles in the story. Will also give you a lot more time to develop them of course (and because the cucking idea earlier anon suggested was very eroi desu). Anyway best of luck with the writing.
I read some of the "anti-racist" biographies at the public library, and the level of hatred these brown women have towards white girls is insane. There was one with a black girl at some anti-racist seminar just demeaning and making fun of this white woman doing her best to apologize for her implicit biases and privilege. With all these books about race being published everywhere, all these experiences as a diaspora. When is the actual unspoken truth going to get published? the burning resentment and hatred that non-white women have towards white women? Or is that too much for the publishing industry?
>>24784125Same here. I love our women, I love our people. Only a white woman can have a white child, and we're humanity's finest. They wouldn't be trying to deny us an identity if they didn't want to be a part of us.I happen to like white girls. Why do you think I took so much offense to the contents of these books? Most white girls I meet try to take the general feeling of all people into account in the environments they're in. I did charity work for DOC, it was only white girls, and I mean -ONLY- white girls that cared for animals. Not a fucking single brown face there setting possum traps to save the native birds. I've seen hundreds of people at these charities and not a single brown face. I've never seen a brown girl care for an animal, I've never seen a brown man at an environmentalist preservation charity either. I'm a low empathy chud who gets dragged along by my family, but I know what I am and don't deny it. Non-white girls could be pretty. But take a fucking look at how they treat animals in their third world shitholes. How they whip and beat donkeys all across north africa. Imagine having a child with one and that child inheriting that mentality. Our people are the only ones that care and love about nature and the world. A brown girl could be pretty, but she'd still torture a dog to death if it gave her some advantage. I'm an apologetic white supremacist because I know my blood is the only blood capable of love. And yes I'm violent psycho myself, but I see what I see in my own people, and love my people for it. Even if they have too much empathy and idealism to be assertive and wish to preserve the most beautiful and caring race that ever existed, I will.
>>24784221>I happen to like white girls.You say this as if it was something rare, when pinkos by a wide margin are only interested in other pinkos >it was only white girls, and I mean -ONLY- white girls that cared for animals.How many of it is done as a way to gain good boy points though>How they whip and beat donkeys all across north africa.True, but you have to admit white pepo can love animals way too much, the whole furbaby stuff for example. I remember I read some ancient guy talking about the romans if I'm remembering correctly, and how their women would not have children and instead would raise and pamper monkeys and other animals as their offspring. Sounds familiar?
>>24784276No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage. I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as Karens for so long is because they're genuinely nice people, who take the shit you say at face value. It's a way for you people to virtue signal too, go along and care for animals. If you can, that turkroach Hasan Piker couldn't even resist shock collaring and abusing his dog on stream, I doubt you'd last a week before breaking the wings of a small bird. The single claw of a dog is worth the life of 1,000 people who would abuse animals. The English in particular take great offense to animal abuse. You don't think I'm close to non-whites too? We live in demographic replacement countries after all, and we're forced into the same environments. Do you really think a brown girl hasn't vented to me about how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates didn't actually come from poor families and had nepotism? Dumping all this information on me in a longpost, whining about how social mobility is a myth? You think white people don't see Indians worship tech billionaires like gods? You think I haven't said "don't people in your country get married younger?" (based on a statistical fact) and the person in question just dismissively going "Oh that's just for poor people". Never heard a white person shrug off and say that's for the poors. I might online, but even I wouldn't IRL. You want to prove me wrong? Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.
>>24784308>No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage.I didn't say they only did it because of that doe>I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as KarensIn what part of my post didn't I even alluded to this?>go along and care for animalsI personally don't care for it, but my dad and sister rescue animalsThe rest of your post is pure seethe so I'm not going to address it. I'm guessing you think I said all of that in bad faith because I call white people pinkos>Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.We don't really have those in my country, same with the racial grifting, people have tried to do it but it doesn't stick up here and its quickly dismissed
>>24779524A German mayor just got stabbed by her adopted black kid.
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24784430I miss college for this aspect. The college I went to, as shitty as it was, had a really nice three-story tall library with giant windows. At night I'd go over after dinner and sit at one of the chairs by a window on the third floor where no one went and read for a little bit. But then again I also got held at knife-point walking down the street there, so tradeoffs I guess.I like being an adult with my own place and a family, but I miss the lack of responsibility and amount of freetime I had back then.
>>24784199>just headin' to the library is coolYeah that's true. I very rarely check anything out though, especially from my local branch which is quite small. The last time I borrowed anything from the library it was a couple of books of Monet and van Gogh prints, which must have been in 2020 abouts. I do like going there to read, but I can't vape in there so usually I don't bother lol. It is a great place to study, doe.
I live in 3rd world. No library culture here
>>24784124My library has mentally ill people around it and in it. Also browns. I do like kanopy and the audio book thing.
>>24784124i saw a cute college girl in the library once. i was 28/29 at the time.
How to read without getting distracted by phone
>>24784343Next time you spend 10+ minutes on your phone stop and write down what you got from that mat phone session. I guarantee it’s absolutely nothing
I suspect this frogposter doesn’t even lurk /lit/, it’s one guy going board to board and frogposting. Call it a hunch
What is so interesting about your phone? I have very little use for mine.
>>247846134chan.
>>24784343Read on your phone, then you won't be tempted to pick up your phone because it will already be in your hand.
>be in used bookstore 15 years ago>in section for memoir type books>see Million Tiny Pieces>nearby it is some book with a lot of photos in it>heavily stylized>dark, color filters on pictures>each page has captions telling this story>one of them talks about him finding his dad's porno magazines>he talks about how he put little black dots on each of the nipples and pussies to censor them>gets poetic about these little black dots>still sticks with me 15 years laterDoes anyone know this book? It was some kind of illustrated memoir type thing. I remember asking ChatGPT and it gave me fake books.
>>24781316was it a photography book or not?
>>24780865it wasn't something by derek mccormack was italso it may be an "art" book rather than straight up lit
>>24780865just look up books like mystery.docx idk it's a small genre
>>24781910It was but they were heavily filtered and collaged
>>24782677>>24782970I looked em up, doesn't look like it. it was definitely published 2011 or before.It was almost like a kid's picture book, but for adults, with the way it was laid out and how the text was presented.
“Autobiography of a Yogi” (1946) is a fucking great book so far and I’d even call it a modern spiritual classic. If you’re looking to get into Hinduism but reading older texts like the Gitas, Vedas, or Upanishads generally sounds daunting to you, then this would be a great primer.(Yes, to get it out of the way, I understand people today and online have grievances against Indians, particularly for flooding en masse into Western nations like the U.S. and Canada, abuse of the immigration system and H1B visas, etc., but it’s still just a great book. I’m aware of the meme answers I’ll get in response.)As a story it’s incredibly entertaining, too. Yogananda has a great storyteller’s touch, a novelistic coherence to the whole thing, with lots of nested stories within the book and many fascinating characters met along the way. He’s a surprisingly eloquent stylist, too, the book is ornately written with poetic diction. Some people have made it a habit to mock Westerners today interested in Eastern spiritual teachings, the whole excesses, hypocrisies, or flaws from the hippie counterculture to the modern New Age movement and the like, associated with this spiritual tourism; but, when you study some authentic forms of Eastern spirituality, like the Kriya Yoga lineage brought to the West by Yogananda and its roots in Vedic teachings, it’s hard not to see why some people are impressed by it. They go more straightforwardly into some deeper philosophical exploration of core existential issues than, perhaps, the mainstream forms of religion that more in the West are familiar with (Christianity, Judaism, and increasingly Islam today from immigration) often do, in people’s experiences with them. And this is not necessarily even in a supremacist way, but in a harmonious and universalist way, open to other traditions and even claiming a possible shared origin and unity with them. Teachings like Yogananda’s make me see and respect Christ and Christianity in a profounder way, for instance, much as some may be angry or contemptuous of that very notion (out of the mindset of viewing religion like a competition).What do people think? Any other Yogananda enjoyers here? Am I a race-traitor for even appreciating some of Indian spirituality seriously as a Westerner? What’s going on in your heads?
>>24784516>streets shitter canon>even the cover looks yellowish brownew
>>24784516>heI thought that was a girl.
Your post is mostly defending reading the book rather than really advocating it. 4chan will always say what upsets you. You invite it. Buddha was an Indian and no one says anything about Buddhist threads
>>24784516I'd rather read the Autobiography of Yogi Berra
I’m wanting to read more into fascism and it’s philosophical and political inspirations as of late both for myself as a fascist and as a means to better describe or show people the intellectual tradition it stems from.I’ve read most of the boilerplate literature (Doctrine of Fascism, Mosley’s 100 Questions for Fascism and other assorted works, some Falangist works, schizoposts from when IronMarch still existed etc.) as well as some of the thinkers that inspired them such as Hobbes with the concept of the state, legitimacy and the sovereign as well as Nietzsche and his concept of Will to Power and to strive for strength and abhor weakness.Is there anything else you guys would recommend I should read next or what thinkers I should look into, be it from the fascist tradition or from thinkers that predated it.
>>24783551>There are some people who seriously doubt that Johann Georg Hiedler was the father of Alois. Thyssen and Koehler, for example, claim that Chancellor Dollfuss had ordered the Austrian police to conduct a thorough investigation into the Hitler family. As a result of this investigation a secret document was prepared that proved that Maria Anna Schicklgruber was living in Vienna at the time she conceived. At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back to her home in Spital where Alois was born. If it is true that one of the Rothschilds is the real father of Alois Hitler, it would make Adolf a quarter Jew. According to these sources, Adolf Hitler knew of the existence of this document and the incriminating evidence it contained. In order to obtain it he precipitated events in Austria and initiated the assassination of Dollfuss. According to this story, he failed to obtain the document at that time since Dollfuss had secreted it and had told Schuschnigg of its whereabouts so that in the event of his death the independence of Austria would remain assured. Several stories of this general character are in circulation.> Those who lend credence to this story point out several factors that seem to favor its plausibility. >1. That it is unlikely that the miller's assistant in a small village in this district would have very much to leave in the form of a legacy. >2. That it is strange that Johann Hiedler should not claim the boy until thirty-five years after he had married the mother and the mother had died. >3. That if the legacy were left by Hiedler on the condition that Alois take his name, it would not have been possible for him to change it to Hitler. >4. That the intelligence and behavior of Alois, as well as that of his two sons, is completely out of keeping with that usually found in Austrian peasant families. They point out that their ambitiousness and extraordinary political intuition are much more in harmony with the Rothschild tradition. >5. That Alois Schicklgruber left his home village at an early age to seek his fortune in Vienna where his mother had worked. >6. That it would be peculiar for Alois Hitler, while working as a customs official in Braunau, to choose a Jew named Print, of Vienna, to act as Adolf's godfather unless he felt some kinship with the Jews himself.It's interesting to me that the Pentagram website wikipedia ignores this detail about "Hitler's" genealogy and instead points exclusively to a debunked theory.>Nazi Hans Frank suggested that Alois's mother had been employed as a housekeeper by a Jewish family in Graz, & 19-year-old son Leopold Frankenberger had fathered Alois, a claim that called the Frankenberger thesis
Fascism no longer exists in its original form. Capital no longer wants or needs a singular strongman to guarantee endless return on investment. They have been able to expropriate and privatize more or less whatever they want from the commons for decades. Most contemporary self-indentified 'fascists' are lone individuals looking for some kind of transgressive persona in order to scrape some kind of autonomy in a world that affords them less and less.
>>24783720"Fascism" is the name of a dog that the Freemasons brought up.
>>24782144Parliamentary, there has to be some form of checks but not the nonsense we have today in Europe for example where it's mostly ceremonial. I'm talking about a true constitutional monarchy.
>>24784598>true constitutional monarchy.As all the rest and anytime other "true constitutional monarchies" are tried, they turn to shit on wheels.The only ONLY alternative is for communities to take charge of themselves. Welcome the responsibility.
