>>24945344your newfag ass spamming buzzwords does not mean "/lit/" is in an "uproar" about anything
>>24945167okay? why should we care? maybe if you weren't such a pussy this wouldn't be front page news.
>>24944492>Everyone who can read Greek thinks Wilson's translation is good, even great at times.Everyone who has seen the Emperor thinks his new clothes are good, even great at times.
>>24944446I will accept any criticism of her translation which is made in Greek.
>>24944492>the holy town of Troy
What's the greatest short story of all time?
>>24944337It's a normie pick but I still love Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."A lot of thematic depth in so few pages.
>>24944337The Dead, by Joyce.>inb4 too long, doesn't count
>>24944337La Morte Amoureuse, Théophile Gautier (1836)
>>24944337>Borges
>>24944337Definitely not that- though that is an okay Borges story but its nothing spectacularMy vote is Rustico and Alibech
>writes best translation in your path
>>24944917Why is it that women are such shitty poets and such incredible translators? And vice versa, most men cannot translate worth a damn. It's uncanny how the skill doesn't seem to translate between the genres.
>prose translation
>>24944917Why are writers stupid enough to smoke tobacco? You think those retards would have read a book saying it causes cancer. Holy fuck writers are retarded.
>>24945021>Why is it that women are such shitty poetsEdna St Vincent Millay?
>>24944927Reads like a shittier version of Lattimore.
After Genderswap Reincarnation I Raised the Strongest Slopper EditionStubbed >>24936451>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.
>>24945657If you haven't read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin, and Dream of the Red Chamber, you are ngmi.
I wrote a fanfic called Feeding Taylor Swift 78 CheeseBurgers and 1 HamBurger, and I'm currently writing the thrilling sequel, Feeding Taylor Swift 78 Krabby Patties and 1 Chum Burger Take a gander if you please: https://archiveofourown.org/series/5474361
>>24945386Not him and >>24945506 is some kit glove coddled Mary Sue shit.But if you are after reincarnation slopa -Carve The Ley or low fantasy OccultistIsekai sloppa - A Soldier's Life or In The Shadow of MountainsSciFi/ Fantasy slopa - Changeling or Thresholder Not a real cultivation or xianxia consoomer so any recs you probably already know.
>>24945720Chapter 1 unironically is a great example of how and when to end a chapter to hook a reader to click next chapter.Chapter 2 is a good example of how NOT to hook. It's just the conclusion, there's nothing left over. There's no tension at the end because the previous tension (eating the cheeseburgers) is already finished.One more sentence would have fixed it: "omg now what do I do about the eras toor??"Chapter 3 has a good hook because Taylor is concerned about getting fat, so now I want to see if that happens (it will, and I will be pleased again)Chapter 4 also ends with no hook. This is more like two separate stories so far, not a coherent, extended narrative.Chapter 5 was great for mixing up the formula, but chapter 6's typos finally went over the line for me, and the ending (I won't spoil it) kind of ruined the third part even more than the vore.Overall I'd rate it 3 stars, taking a star off for typos and a star off for not having a full six chapter narrative. It was more like three separate stories.
>>24945638>bringing this up in every single post you make?are you...schizophrenic?
In order to understand Gilroys Postcolonial Melancholia, need I start with Freuds Mourning and Melancholia?
>>24945737Why are you shilling this guy
>>24945737Havent read either but Im going to guess, no.
>>24945740Im just the curious type
Never been debunked btw
>>24945613LOL
>>24944128>>24944843>>24944847>>24945297Since you sophists can’t understand what I’m trying to say regarding Taleb’s take on IQ, I’ll use his illustration to make the point clearer. An IQ test cannot be a reliable model for measuring intelligence because it falsely treats correlation as causation, produces misleading data, and lacks scalability. If you want to know whether a man is truly competent, you must test him directly in the field (like playing tennis), not rely on an IQ test that merely filters out stupidity (via negativa).
>>24943500I fully accept it, east asians are on average smarter than whites, and blacks are always at the bottom. I also like how asians don't even pretend that there is no difference between the races, it's entirely a western phenomenon.
>>24943094>jewish book says jews are most cleverlol
>>24944761james may
prev: >>24935706Erich Heckel edition
>>24944782He's unlikely to change, but you can set your expectations and act accordingly instead of waiting for him to read a book on how to be a sane person. Compliment his haircut and don't let him drive you anywhere, you know?
>>24941253For me, it's Greek music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nt4Rb2WlVA
>>24945468Take out the last two parts and its literally me.
Nobody likes me and I'm going to die alone. Cheers /lit/!
>>24944782>When you confront him, he goes into a rageIf I hint at something that might be taken as a criticism dad either growls and shuts down or flies into a rage.Then later he takes on a corny, preachy tone to talk to me about *my* rage issues.He was an alcoholic when I was younger but I didn't mind, he left me alone. After AA he turned into the most arrogant, delusional dick I ever met.
How does it compare to other translations?
>>24945446>christfags claim to be objective>can't even standardize a denomination to follow>spend 2000 years killing each other over their 'objective' beliefsNice try asshole
>>24945319Black Hebrew Israelites and the Christian Identity movement should debate while neither of them speak greek /hebrew
>>24945319Can some of you trad caths repudiate this serpent seed theory as false and British israelism as heritical?
>>24945475good thing war decreased proportionally with the decline of Christianity.. oh wait
>>24945541He didn’t even understand the point being made
Which volume of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle are you guys on?
>>24945184>>24945187Why are you both lying on the internet? The same lie in the same thread?
>>24945246I showed my girlfriend your post and she laughed adorably and now she's giving me a backrub and also cooking me dinner and she's a pawg btw. Plus none of my short stories have ever been rejected by a literary magazine that I was sure was niche enough to accept them.
>>24945252Woah it's like I'm in On the Calculation of Volume IV, the same faggots telling the same lies over and over without end
>>24945246>he fell for the nogf meme
>>24945254This is objectively funny. My girlfriend got a laugh out of it.
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24944840No, Op is right. There aren't that many similarities but some are so obvious that it's impossible Tolkien wasn't influenced by Wagner.
>>24944832It was named for the incantation that activates it, and it predates Wagnerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel
>>24944745Wagner is one of the only writers I've read who was as wise as the Greeks
>>24944745Wagner plagiarized mythology
everything is a plagiarism
This thread is dedicated to third lost Eleactic Melissus.He was the most radical of all of them. Unlike Parmenides he said that Being was necessarily unlimited because to limit it would require something to exist outside of Being which is impossible. Also unlike Parmenides who posited that Doxa was real but needed to be correctly evaluated in regard to Being, Melissus held flat out that all Doxa and change is illusory like a mirage. He would say Doxa is just pure falsehood rather than being part of a larger whole. Here is to Melissus!
>>24942361why does this guy have the male version of my sister's name?
>>24945236>>Melissus, while also an Eleatic who defended the unity and immutability of being, uses arguments that suggest a more direct, logical conflict between sensory evidence and the conclusions of reason. Instead of simply dismissing sense experience as a separate, illusory path, Melissus employs counterfactual statements and a radical form of modal reasoning to demonstrate that one cannot consistently hold both that "what-is is sempiternal and immutable" and that "sense experience is reliable". His approach is an attempt to prove the unreliability of sense-based opinions through a rigorous, self-sufficient deductive process, rather than presenting the doxa as a separate, untrustworthy cosmological account
>>24945224Sadly, the platonist reading caught on and now you'll invariably encounter retards talking about a "shadow world" of illusions.>>24945231Melissus has more surviving direct quotations than Zeno for sure. But yeah, people have been seething about Melissus from day one - Plato and Aristotle also name him and try to avoid good faith engagement via denigration and misrepresentation. He clearly had his fans, but we aren't allowed to hear about them... Megarians, Dialecticians, these people who possessed genuine philosophical insight.Re: the Polybus section, I don't take that as necessarily an insult to Melissus. But there is also an important additional observation - it is the earliest reference to an Eleatic, and it isn't Parmenides. It is Melissus. Similarly, Melissus seems to have been a big name in other sources, perhaps eclipsing Parmenides, and it is Melissus who really established "One" as a title for Being. Another teaching perverted by cringe (neo)platonists.
>>24945707Yes you are right about Polybus. It is more accurately an insult directly to Ionians and the followers of such philosophers for engaging negatively with Eleatics that they essentially support through shared monism. >>it is the earliest reference to an Eleatic, and it isn't Parmenides. It is Melissus. That stood out to me as well. Yes. That he chose Melissus as the Eleatic he would reference to denigrate Ionians and the Eleatic he chose was this less known third guy Melissus not Parmenides or Zeno.
>>24945707>Sadly, the platonist reading caught on and now you'll invariably encounter retards talking about a "shadow world" of illusions.I have had this very discussion on the board before. That the Greek word used by Parmenides is “dokimos” which he claims is to be meant as believed in an illusory sense and he claimed I was wrong when I took it to mean the world is believed as a part of Being. Basically the translation I used had dokimos as “correctly evaluated” and this poster had a hissy fit over it.
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24944804Ruthie Crockett. Ben is friends with her high school English teacher, Matt Burke. They talk about how she struts around without a bra on a few times. The hunchback that runs the town dump is obsessed with her and takes her as his vampire bride after he's turned. They sleep in a discarded chest freezer in the dump.
>>24941306@grok what percentage of novels contained sex scenes prior to the jewish consolidation of the publishing industry
>>24945621Basically none, because that happened in like the 1910's.
>>24944804Ruthie. After the MC speaks to her class they converse about her sexy lisp and mimic it. The guy who runs the dump also pervs on her and the vampire offers to make her his for his help. She's last seen coming out of a refrigerator or something with him at the dump.
>>24933848never read the book or seen he film but i know about it. does pennywise really ask a copper for help?
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
There’s a real vocabulary wall I’m hitting around chapter 28 or so of LLPSI where the vocab per chapter ramps up a ton. I guess anki and rereading is all I can do, but at this point LLPSI seems more difficult than just reading the Bible or something.
>>24945428I saw a spreadsheet in the latin subreddit wiki that had you read about 15 different works between chapters 25 and 28 for this exact reason, youll find it if you search for it
>>24945543I was able to power through up to about Chapter 26 no issue starting from Chapter 15 just by doing 6 chapters a day, advancing one per day, so I would get at minimum 6 per chapter, 27 wasn’t that bad either, and tbf I could read much of 28 right away from vulgate reading, but often from maybe Cave Canem onwards chapters have like 20 words that are only used a single time per chapter so I’m just not as comfortable with the vocab as I want.I’m flying all day today so I did more careful reading and did chapters 24-31 for the first leg, second leg I’m gonna try to crush the Living Latin reader by Paideia. Excited to switch to primary sources entirely instead of just the Bible soon, gonna do composition exercises to hone grammar then too.A lot of the side readers are just crap though. I’d rather just reread an FR chapter than read something from fabulae faciles.
My life is so busy, I barely have time to do what I need to do during the day and read in english, let alone translate for fun. Where do you guys find the time? I miss college.
>>24945678I’m unemployed
This was fire.
>>24945668Grow up manchild.
>>24945670I hate Warhammer, but you sound like an insecure overweight non white retard.
Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24748733
>>24942665Important people having bodyguards is an old idea. Sometimes these bodyguards would decide to usurp the person they were protecting, but the concept remained in use nevertheless.For a ruler, casters with mind-affecting abilities would be the greatest threat, far more so than someone capable of taking the place of artillery on a battlefield. The latter would be comparable to a powerful feudal vassal commanding many men and therefore a significant force in politics, but the caster with the mind-affecting abilities could potentially undermine the entire system without having to play the same game as those without such abilities. Think Wormtongue in Tolkien's works or Lelouch in Code Geass.>Just being strong doesn't automatically mean you can rule a force, but you need to have strength to do so.The strength could well be strength of character and/or strength of tradition.In a world in which magic is powerful and useful and can be taught without special requirements, the people in charge would probably see the use of becoming at least passable wizards themselves. It would be like a medieval lord being skilled in armed combat.
>>24942331I didn't reply to him because he clearly doesn't know how the world works and will write fantasy slop that nobody will read
>>24942328Strongo, God of Strength
>>24942328Meh, why not? It's a tie between four different characters. >One is a greedy corpse hidden under a mountain.>One is a prince of Israel>One is a trillionaire techbro in Afghanistan>One is a starving student in GreeceAll of them try not to fight the others, so I can't tell you which is the strongest.
>>24932810>Magic as a whole has almost no limits. Individual schools of magic have weaknesses and strengths, however.What are the major schools of magic?
