Assuming you were around in '86 when this was published, would you have taken in this poor girl?
>>24715691How did you find them?
>>24715300It was 1986 fool
>>24716571>implying feminist sentiment didn’t exist in 1986
I think you guys are totally glazing over her self-appellation as “half mad.” Woman, especially young women, lack insight into their own mental states. For her to identify as “half mad” she is probably totally insane.
>>24715268So, Honor Levy
Write your suicide note with your best prose.
I kind of strayed from the point and it became a short story of sorts. Whatever.Forgive me. I don't need to tell your names, you know who i am referring to.I'm tired. This life holds no beauty to me, no pleasures, just agony and filth. As you know, for years i have poisoned myself with alcohol and cigarettes, an unconcious desire to part from this world, now truly realized. When you find this note, it will be too late. The authorities might inform you first.But that is inconsequential, i am rambling, and you must once again forgive me, an act that you were seldom good at. The truth of the matter is, that i hate you. Always have. You are not only false in bearing, your very being is a lie. What comes out of your mouth is lies, you clad yourself in untruths, your actions are false.And false too is your birth. Surprised? You never know what you might find when you dig out in the attic after the death of your remaining parents. I'm glad to know i share only half of my blood with you.I also sent a little screencap to your wife, conserning your "business associate". Perhaps this will teach you not to use the same e-mail password from when you were 12.There's not enough space here to accurately describe what else i have done to retaliate against the suffering you have caused me over the years. All while wearing the smug, self-important mask of a saint, while i know a devil smiled beneath it.So allow me to finish by saying that it's unlikely they will recover your car and even if they manage to fix it, my death has forever defiled it's leather seats.Goodbye.ps. enjoy the feeling of being cuckolded by a dead man
The clamor of those who want my head will finally subside. The world and its oysters have told me what I did not want to understand. A place of longing will never await nor will a place of damnation.With all the voices of my past, I announce to you, that my end has come. Forgive me or despise me, I shall let you know that I have always loved you. Your birth was painful and now my end with be even more so. A mother should never lose her son, but her son has lost his mind and cannot continue its masquerading. Her son strives to be placed alongside emotionless statues in a windy and peaceful plain filled with green calm. You were my only light in a world filled with catastrophe and unrelenting hatred of the senses. Your light will still shine, I promise.I love you.
Somebody once told me: the world is gonna roll me. I ain′t the sharpest tool in the shed...Well, the years start comin' and they don′t stop comin', I need to get myself away from this place".You'll never shine if you don′t glow
>>24707999Reads like a monologue from Rick and Morty
>>24707955>Write your suicide note with your best prose.nice try satan
>Struggle to get into real books>Read Slaughterhouse Five, really enjoy it>Struggle some more afterwards>Read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, really enjoy it>Find out later these are both considered the most Leddit pieces of literature ever written I kind of suspected the latter while I was reading, but Vonnegut took me by surprise. Wtf do I do? How do I purge the Redditor from my brain?
>>24716826Reddit is like feces, feces will not harm you if you are just seeing it on the ground or in the toilet and not touching it or eating it, and also feces can even be very useful like for fertilizing crops. Sometimes we get a little feces on our finger too when wiping our ass, and we just don't tell anyone. You will be okay. Just don't start sucking on your finger until you wash it.
>>24716826Just read what you enjoy. I got back into reading through vonnegut and now my bookshelf is way more diverse (DEI) and I read constantly. I recommend Cat's Cradle, great vonnegut book if you liked Slaughterhouse.
>>24716826We all start somewhere.
If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
>>24713064i don't trust you. we have never met. we are strangers, you and i. care to post an excerpt?
>>24713934Yes.
>>24713207>If you were talking about people valuing nothing in a book except the prose, I would see your point.So you can only think in binaries? People can still value prose too much and render themselves unable to consider any value in a book with pedestrian writing.>But the prose is the vessel that delivers the story, and a good story can be obscured by bad prose.Can be, sure.But I never see anyone actually make that argument. It's only "haha look at how pedestrian this passage is" "look at the author spoonfeeding to the reader here" and so on.
>>24713070>Did you ever play Myth? It has beautiful animation sequences and a great story, Never even heard of it, the only Video Game backstories I ever got into were Castlevania and Mortal Kombat, from playing them as a kid. However I wonder if the future for many fantasy authors now is in creating lore and dialogue for Video games like, God of War Ragnorok, and Elden Ring, rather then trying a straight up novel.
>>24713934It's great. Written by a university professor, i.e. someone who can actually construct a sentence.It's not fantasy, however, but science fiction. It's a "planetary romance" inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
So, any thoughts?
>>24712949I ain’t reading another german thinker that write unreadable cinderblocks of books.
Which translation should i get
>>24712949I only read a few chapters I should finish it
>>24714832thisany certified Übermensch willing to help?
>>24714832My understanding is Ford and Stalag are best. I unfortunately read Manheim and it's supposed to be the worst one.
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24703379>Thread Question:Post quotes or highlighted passages from books you've read (so we can admire or make fun of it)
>>24716074Permafrost (Alastair Reynolds)Shoot me now, I’m not sure I’d really care.The Surviving Sky (Kritika H. Rao)Could this dust be… pure possibility, independent of an attached consciousness?Emergent Properties (Aimee Ogden)You just hate the Orthodox Republic because of the time they infected you with that NFT virusRed River Seven (A. J. Ryan)The entire human race is facing an extinction-level event. Norms of ethics and morality are no longer relevant.Planetside (Michael Mammay)At least five soldiers checked out her ass as she walked past. I doubt that was an accident on her part.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24716796>Most women ended up as the property of drunken, filthy fools, why should I be any different?-My 17 year old future wife when I asked her dad if I could take her snowmobiling.
>>24716216Thanks, I was hoping for more of these types of posts. If you have more suggestions or experience feel free to share them.
>>24716059
>>24715701No anonThis is the official announcement of the lorn prequel It is hazard bedlamIt is not red god
Why strive at all, since striving itself is suffering?
>>24714859Do I actually have to read Fichte or is this a meme?
>>24714854Tbf his philosophy is good, his mouth made that easy though. Schopenhauer's particular brand of scepticism combined with his odd make the human condition metaphysics approach allows for high levels of introspection and provides a high standard for epistemology. This is a really good approach that keeps him out of a number of postmodern dilemmas while still keeping a venue for scientific discourse open. If you like paradoxes and don't mind spending time with a philosopher he is a good choice, but don't forget his scepticism was designed with a purpose, you may have a truth or 2 but the rules about speaking it apply to schopes too.
>>24714871you actually have to read him
>>24714983nobody's going to read it
>>24714854not nearly sophistic enough to come off as intelligent to pseuds
Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit. Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily. Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for. No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel. To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).ANONS feel free to submit! We will just use the no.# on the reply to identify your story. If you submit you should leave meaningful feedback for at least two other stories. Put in what you want back. There aren’t many places on this planet to get raw, no filter feedback, and it’s the best way to keep sharp and improve. And let’s not circle-jerk each other. Empty, positive platitudes do NOT count as a critique. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24709553I feel like this was a missed shot, unlike the protagonist who clearly got their man. The set up is good and I enjoyed the pulpy noire spy genre opening filled with regrets and multiple locations however the problem is, I just felt this went nowhere. There was little emotional investment on anyone's part. I never got to know the reason for the mission, so when at the last part everyone is put into danger, I didn't feel much tension because who or what or why anything was happening was still unknown. I did enjoy the last two paragraphs quite a bit, the geography and action was well done, but the set up to it faltered.
>>24709637>Heading up, hash-marked arrays of light seem to sink out of the horizon like drooping spiderwebs full of golden dustI thought to myself we must be on some sort of future spacecraft in another dimension but no, reading halfway through the first paragraph, it is the hallucinogenic cosmos of a normal rave.I’m sure you have heard that your prose is dense:>replaced by dark marble whose white veins sear under fizzling tubes of blacklightIt’s also very good, but is piled on top of each other so thick it doesn’t feel natural, it doesn’t flow as a sentence but is packed so tight I cannot move on without a re-read. I feel like I’m being smacked around with a beautiful book of poetry.I think the second part of the story is superior to the first because it moves briskly and I greatly enjoyed the last line, or the twist tying it all together. You are a talented writer but sometimes it feels like you are blowing up a paragraph with dynamite when just a simple wrench will do.
>>24716549apologies for that wack spacing, I was copying from notes.
>>24716205>Curious to know what's wrong with you lol anywaysI'm autistic
>>24709727>son of hermes !thxMIT/E4Y - https://rentry.co/theartoflosingVoice steady and bitter timeline hops tidy politics incidental wanted sharper finish.>Horrible Acne !xYjgkOxYdE - https://rentry.co/b63oi7gwBaroque relentless exceeds clarity idea sharp cut third.
what the fuck happened to commies, accelerationist trannies, gnostic schizos, failed poets, waah waah pessimists, cultural theory arm chairs fags, incels, chuddhists/vedanta jeets, christcucks, nazioids, basedence/woo-woofags? i dunno lads somethings is fucking missing. i use to see eternal marx, incel literature, pessimist and christcuck threads. what the fuck happened to them? they made this place more fun.
r/TheDeprogram got banned, so more communist shitposting should be incoming i assume
>>24716738Is reddit being purged after the Kirk shooting?
>>24716758Somewhat, it's odd that they will go after communist subs but not liberal subs celebrating the same thing
>>24716769Probably a 'keeping up appearances' thing
>Daily active user count still in the mid-two hundred thousands like it's been every day for fucking foreverYou guys are just dumb. Only thing that's changed since the hack is the jannies/mods have become just that much more paranoid/despotic. The day-to-day site-wide population is the same.
Post your own work and critique others.
>>24716407Aesthetic garbage. At least if you're going to kill yourself write something a little better than your trainwreck of a life.
>>24716407This is dogshit. Fucking embarrassing drivel.
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Etsy witches really killed Charlie Kirklmao lol jkBut maybe not, you do your own research.
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how do you read the bible?do you just read it in order as if it were a novel? or there are better ways?
>>24711277You are confusing the Bible with the Quran. The Quran is largely short stories interspersed with prayers and laws with no clear context. The Bible, by contrast, is roughly chronological and the books are generally complete stories -each one having a beginning, middle, and end- before going to the next book. This is because the Bible and Quran have different purposes within Christianity and Islam: in Christianity, the Bible largely serves as an instructional book; in Islam, the Quran is an object of devotion and recitation. If the Bible were suddenly given to an alien community who never encountered Christianity, and they accepted everything in it as true, they could construct a recognizable form of Christianity (though probably with a lot of beliefs considered heresies by mainstream Christians). If the Quran were given to an alien community who never encountered Islam, they would not be able to figure out what most of it refers to at all.
>>24711384Kek
>>24715579I was responding to how he said you should read it like a short story collection, some of the stories are not short. If you start Isaiah thinking you're gonna finish it in an hour you're badly mistaken
>>24716167Obviously I don't read the books in a day. I typically read about 1-3 chapters per day.
>>24711239You read it as a silly, alien, decadent Jewish byproduct.
maekar I targaryen, first of his name 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: >>24681455
>>24716449He’s gonna die with his fake Targ baby, would be kino if it happens after learning that Jon is Rhaegar actual kid.
>>24716524Aegon is a Blackfyre and therefore the real Targ though.Jon and Dany are some kind of bastard cousins from some dude named Daeron Waters.
>>24716562cope, Daeron is trueborn.
>>24715115The “fat pink mast” line is so infamous that I’d forgotten that this scene also involves breastfeeding (from a young mother, no less).You can really tell that the series was way less famous, if George was this brazen about showing his fetishes.
>>24704184could King Slanding have won the game of thorns if he survived the bear attack?
What periodicals do you subscribe to? I use to subscribe to Tin House, back when that was still a thing. I miss looking forward to a new, physical thing I could read.
>>24715238I'm the king of periodicals. I still subscribe to some. My pro tip is that you can find them readily available on Ebay and if you want to "try" one out then start by buying them there.One thing to keep in mind is that for that many of them their primary motivation is to sell you something. I think this explains why you often see more book reviews of "recently published." For some of the more academic/university issued this isn't always the case.But here are some thoughts :1. Three Penny Review : I had an issue with my subscription, and found the editor slightly off-putting. Also they do things like in the Spring 2022 where all the photographs are black people. Even as a liberal, I found this kind of forced and contrived. 2. Vanity Fair : I actually like this one - randomly interesting stuff, celebrity gossip, beautiful women in the ads. Check out March 2016 issue with the beautiful Jenifer Garner and a great article on a a prep school sex scandal.3. Cabinet Magazine : I really like this one. Beautiful photos, good articles. For example Issue 61 has an article of how the author has to pack his library and move. Another one is about the famous guests at the Savoy Hotel and their check in cards. Cool stuff like that.4. The Sun : by UNC I think. I like this one, rather small periodical but good articles. Check out the October 2022 issue for a good article on masturbation.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24716273These in order of recommendation?
>>24715238Good thread. I subscribe to Ploughshares, POETRY Magazine, and the NYer. I mostly keep up with online journals nowadays though>ZZYZZYVA>The Creative Writing Department>Joyland Magazine>American Short Fiction>Adroit>Kenyon Review>DIODE Poetryand a few others whenever I remember them. I miss Tin House so much.
>>24716730nta but Granta and N+1 are the two best magazines on that list; they publish high-tier, cutting-edge literature pretty consistently. Excellent excellent signal-to-noise ratio. Paris Review/LRB probably second best, LRB to keep up with the litworld zeitgeist (NYRB also works too) and Paris Review to keep up with the lit establishment (mostly good but sometimes they're just publishing names, although the Writers At Work interview series is worth its weight in fucking gold). Baffler's excellent, recommend. Vanity Fair's got very, very good longform pieces on various topics relating to culture/politics, you'd be surprised at how consistent they are. They're all good periodicals. I think Harper's is kinda boring though.
>>24716252No, I said good ones.
a lot of the hate for trans people comes from how much they are pushed. this includes in publishing. trans artists, of any kind, seem to be categorically mediocre and shallow. trans-focused media also always seems to be a surface level, zero depth reflection of the trans experience. so the things getting pushed are self-absorbed and uninteresting fluff at best and narcissistic and actively damaging slop at worstbut other kinds of lgbtq people have made incredible art in the past. sappho, woolf, proust, dickinson, and even plato are part of that group. so it doesn't seem like having an alternative lifestyle bars you from being literary so what is the problem? are trans people capable of producing art, and has there been any genuine art created by trans people that has stood the test of time? is the modern trans author a phenomenon brought by a problem with the publishing industry, or the nature of today's trans socialization, or some other issue? or are trans people categorically flawed in a way that prevents them from producing real art - and if so, what is this flaw?i'm genuinely curious about your viewpoints on this because it seems like all trans writers are relatively modern and solely focused on identity, which is not something that you often see other gay people do
>>24716664>all worthy artists are trans who are anti-LGBT and would only have intercourse with the sex opposite of theirs, with very few exceptions that just serve to confirm the ruleFTFY cowboy, you're ready to roll!
Idk about art but theres a lot of troons in programming/coding
>>24716602it's not "pedantic" to demand a basic understanding of history when discussing historical personages, or even just an appreciation that "the past" is distinct from the present at all. "sappho was lgbt" is helpless brainrot. blame it on /pol/ all you want but nobody with a three-digit iq will take you seriously when you say shit like that.
>>24716677>i'm using it as a descriptor of identityidentity that didn't exist at the time, hence the anachronism. also you yourself are very much "being an activist" when you say shit like this. you are working to create the false impression that a political movement from the 1990s is actually timeless and that it possesses some kind of privileged understanding of and the right to speak for historical persons who in fact would find the movement alien and revolting.
>>24716684I've noticed it tooit follows a pattern of fleeing from reality, doesn't it? I bet a large fraction of a stock market bets on "we keep their assholes massaged and they'll do whatever we tell them in exchange for money they'll spend on troonlogically obvious things we have a controlling stake in"like a company store but for "non-heterosexuals"
Why don't you buy your books from Amazon? They even sell used books now. You have no excuse. Assimilate or face re-education by labour at an Amazon warehouse facility!>pic unrelated
>>24715835It's called "unmedicated schizophrenic who struggles with disorganised thought."
>>24715895I live in a medium sized rust belt city and the library closest to my house has 4-5 homeless regulars who are there all day. One of them is a kind of hippie raver homeless guy who often wears a ripped tank top that exposes almost his entire chest and back. They only ever leave to smoke cigs directly outside the door. Coincidentally, I was talking about them with my ex earlier this week
>>24716463theres nothingin that poastindicative ofdisorganization@ allNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
>>24713329I just go on liben or any of the other torrenting sites.
>>24713329I don't buy used books online unless its rare. Nothing worse than opening a used book to find some asshole highlighted half of it.
