Who is your favourite English Romantic poet? You can learn a lot about someone's personality and intelligence depending on their choice.
>>24987128*A Victorian*
>>24984980I've been leaning to Blake lately.
>>24984980>Who is your favourite English Romantic poet?Percy gave me Frankenstein, so him.
>>24985795Keats was technically Irish, no?
The Original 18th century romantics (Gray, Beattie, Thomson, Warton, Chatterton) were far better than the romantics who came after but unforunately because most "fans" of the romantic poets aren't into their poetry at all but prefer gossip and drama about their personal lives they don't get nearly as much attention.You can tell people don't actually read the poets when they spend more time discussing about who byron or shelley fucked or was interested in rather than their actual poetry.
WHEN>tomorrow morning (Friday 2nd) at 10:00am GMT the character and theme requirements will be released. RULES>1. incorporate the theme and character requirements (creative interpretations allowed) into a piece of writing>2. submissions must be made by Monday 5th at 21:59 BST>3. you must submit using rentry.co >4. link of your piece under a unique tripcode (Namefield: Name + "#" + Password)>5 you are allowed to edit your work on rentry.co page until the submission deadline.>6. entrants must vote or will be disqualifiedVOTING>anyone can vote>a Strawpoll will be made where you can rank your top three: 1st gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, 3rd gets 1 for entrants:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24988102https://rentry.co/Celebrity_Replacements100 words
>>24988090>>24987534Rentry is fine
>>24988165>teremeity So prentetious and yet
>>24988179It's been edited, now everyone in the thread thinks you're dyslexic
>Anna's Archive
>>24988129I need to know what we're calling it for?
>>24988129All jokes aside I'm surprised how often this happens.I'm really old, so I remember the computer Acorn built for the BBC back in the 1980s. (I'm English if that wasn’t obvious.)One of the key software engineers was this hot chick called Sophie Wilson. She designed her first computer as an undergraduate at Cambridge I believe. (And this was "really designed a computer", not just "bought a motherboard and some memory chips from two different providers and put the memory chips into the slots", like that genius black kid they fawed over a few years ago.)Except that Sophie Wilson used to be Roger Wilson lol.OK, that's just one example. But it keeps happening. Most recently, a character called Justine Tunney is pretty cool. She HATES the obscene bloat of modern software (everyone just bolts things together and imports 10 Mb libraries to use one 2KB routine) so she dedicates herself to writing things as efficiently as possible. The sort of coding where you wake up in the night because you had a revelation how you can shave a subroutine down from 23 bytes to 22.Anyway "she" used to be a guy as well. Normally I go out of my way to call trannies "he" but I did have a little bit to do with JT about ten years ago and I think she is a good person so I call her "she" as a personal courtesy. (FWIW, she's not an annoying militant tranny. She just wants to sit in her bedroom and write super-fast web servers with a 4KB memory footprint.)
>>24988176>Sophie Wilson >hotNigga you need your eyes checked
>>24988176Also why are so many IT software types trannies?
>>24988183I don't think my irony there was really over-subtle. He's not just not hot, he's "uncanny valley" levels of unpleasant.>>24988184Good Q. One obvious thesis: if you're a MtF tranny, you can't have children, but you have the female-brain desire to have children plus the male-brain STEM chops to write computer programs, so you write computer programs as your "children".
ruins edition FAQ:>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: >>24868365
>>24987977 "Demon genes give me superpowers" has been a trope since the 1980s. Even Goku had it.
Honestly speaking, have ruins really ever mattered? Have we ever, in the course of human history, gained anything tangible by studying wrecked infrastructure?Writings from older eras are far more valuable. We probably never would have accomplished anything if we couldn't access the wisdom of the ancients.
>>24988013In dragonball the only way that came up was him turning into a giant ape when he saw the moon...so they blew up the moon lol.DBZ kinda had the sayan thing be a thing, but plenty of characters were on the same or greater level and the only reason goku pulled through is because he never stays dead for long, trains harder than anyone else, and never gives up regardless of the odds.That said I have no clue whatever the hell is going on with super or what they redconned since GT. As far as it being a trope since the 80s, maybe but it wasn't common and didn't happen as often as you are saying.
>>24987832The phoenix (bird) is an obvious one. There are lots of birds with colorful, 'fiery' looking plumage and there are birds in some parts of the world like Australia that have learned to start fires to aid in hunting. There are also several Native American myths where ravens were responsible for stealing fire and giving it to humans. Relatedly, mythic Coyote is also credited with stealing fire.
Is anyone else having problems with making your world so different from ours that you can't really get a perspective on it anymore?
Who are your influences? I'll start with mine:- Plato- Nieztsche- Peterson- Jung- Deleuze- Yarvin- Butler- Schopenhauer- Paul Ricouer-Hegel
Schopenhauer influenced me the most.
>>24978571>Peterson>YarvinWow great choice of grifters to have got life directed by.My only influences are Pavlov, Herbert Spencer and Machiavelli. If you need anything else you are either dumb or unemployed or both.
>>24987211yarvin may be a grifting namefag but moldbug is a pretty smart pseudoanon, for the 21st century at least. if only he wasn't as cowardly, he'd probably still say wise things like land. although land left xitter whereas yarvin has recently joined it so perhaps i'm just spewing from my cakehole there.
>>24978571Are there people who seriously attribute Peterson a level of influence equal to that of undeniably important thinkers like Plato, Hegel or Nietzsche? I can’t think of even one novel idea of his that would put him on par with any of those thinkers.
>>24987648>although land left xitterHe didn’t leave, he just got locked out of his Outsideness account. He still posts as @xenocosmography but it’s the same old geriatric boomer takes and Talmudic numbo-jumbo, so not even worth your time.
Smile, /lit/! You’re doing the rounds on xitter againhttps://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278?s=46
>>24987055Dude loves reading about ancient Jewish laws around how much money your daughter is worth to marry her to her rapist and how your daughter should be stoned to death on your doorstep if you marry her off as a non-virgin.
>>24978972>I like small niche thing/community>I am compelled to share small niche thing/community I like with millions of strangers from whom I can derive absolutely no benefit materially or psychologically that have ruined absolutely everything else they’ve been allowed to touchI will NEVER understand this impulse.
>>24987336Yes. Greek and Norse texts about the exact same thing too.
>>24987093>Troon Jr is mad
i dont know if this is unpopular or not but it actually insane how many kino passages the bible has and imo it absolutely deserves its spot on the top of the list from a purely literary standpoint
>he reads poetry to impress women
>>24984820Men who read or wrie poetry are fudge packers.
>>24988099And you're retarded.
>>24988103t. sword swallower
>>24988116t. insecure retard
>>24986055You know ive always wanted to titty fuck a chick but my exes always thought it was weird.
Can you grind to get good at writing? Did niggas like Hemmingway and McCarthy actually practice?
>>24985035this is like saying Seinfeld wasn't that great a TV show, Celine created hundreds of copycats who ransacked the style.
>>24984104Yes. Its not forever. Just. Be silent for a moment.
>>24982791It's the only way to get good, talent alone won't carry you. You need to grind life experience, style, voice, character, imagery, metaphor, yadda yadda. Takes about a decade or two.l even if you think you have chops after a few years.
I like coming up with rough outlines and never putting them on paper. I get all the dopamine i need by just daydreaming about the idea.
Hunter S Thompson used to type out the novels of F Scott Fitzgerald for the rhythm of the text.
I'm ready for the third series.
>>24986402Gnosis is considered sorcery no?
>>24987573Yeah but a sorcerer who is also a prophet is a shaman, like how a sorcerer who has no school is a wizard. This book has its own jrpg class system.
>>24984579>multi page autistic infodumpcan you specify which book, exactly? It can't be the first book and I honestly don't recall egregious infodumps in any of the books.>>24986465yeah there are a lot of reasons to dislike the series, but the world building isn't one of them. it's very detailed, but not overbearing.
>>24984579Which info dump are you actually referring to?
>>24984579>Book is called "the darkness that comes before" >Book opens with the darkness that comes beforeSome people are so filtered it's not even funny.
Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
>>24988126A defensive post when I point out that a particular type of belief is in service of assuaging death anxiety. Interesting. This says a lot about you, anon.
>>24988139Bacteria have subjective awareness? I confess, I'm incredulous.
>>24988145Indeed, you are the very next superjew Freud. Now fuck off.
>>24988147Why not? If you're a materialist, you can easily account for a non-anthropocentric framework that accounts for consciousness in all living organisms.>But it's not as complex-Irrelevant.
>>24987375The great thing about Islam is that it doesn't matter what your opinion is, all of this is traced back to the same origin point, The Qur'ran, but you're free to ritualize the rest of your life provided it meets approval.>>24987522From the sound of it no. After submission you will need what is commonly known elsewhere as a dowery but there is a specific term for it. She will decide, you will need money, all the rest is arranged.>>24987616The Qur'ran is mandatory. Hadith are not, but they can be. This depends on your assimilation, you may find dealings with other Muslims difficult without. The Qur'ran is always mandatory.
>>24987168Reminder that the list of all media and forms of human expression ranked on their artistic value go as follows:#1- Literature#2- Paintings#3- Sculpting#4- Opera and Plays#5- Music#6- Architecture#7- Film#8- Comic books#9- Pornography#10- Making content on the internet#11- Video games#12- Manga#13- Literally drinking diarrheaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24988130Switch music and literature. Music mogs literature to an obscene degree. Its not even close.
>>24987168Movies are basically just jewish propaganda pieces made to influence goyim to act the way jews want, so yeah, I'd say it's pretty shit.
>>24988135You seem to have mistaken this board for another. Here let me help you get to where you belong >>>/pol/
>>24988132I don't think Tyrone singing about how he wants to fuck bitches with big butts is anywhere near the same level as the Western canon but that might just be me.
just finished thiswhat should i think of it
>>24976060You need to be thinking "what is the most influential kike in my immediate proximity and how can I murder it?".
>>24985015A tense-looking but really very loose kind of writing
>>24977232Another Caribbean Rhythms enjoyer I see.
>>24977232I'm reading "War" by Celine at the moment and this has been my takeaway too. It feels damaging. It's insightful in a way that just hurts you.
>>24984187Only a pseud could dislike Pessoa
Dastardly New Age Edition>Old:>>24975110>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
>>24987856In my opinion yes. I found the characters, worldbuilding and writing enjoyable. Not read the tainted cup yet but I enjoyed the three divine cities books.
>>24987907only you get to decide which ones
>>24987777wasted quads
The cover that broke /sffg/
Can somebody post the final results to that giant poll that ran a few weeks back?
I just read The Dancing Girl of Izu and it was very soulful. Has /lit/ read any Japanese books or short stories recently?
>>24986909The Great Mirror of Male Love, Ihara Saikaku
>>24986909Schoolgirl (女生徒) by Osamu Dazai
>>24987124He's a male child being raised by a single mother entering adolescence during a time when you couldn't just go online to see tits and ass. View it that way and it isn't "incest" in the way your Western coombrain frames it. Also, voyeurism is a common theme for Mishima so take it as that as well--not just "he's sexually objectifying his mother because [insert sensibilities subjective to reader]".
>>24987670I read that, liked it, but remember nothing about it a couple years later.
>>24987634are you calling me a faggot, anon
Men are checking out of society at an alarming rate
>>24988111>normiesdumb fucking touristnigger
>>24988138No
>>24988117Gamers.
>>24988143NTA but yes, normie is a reddit word. We say normalfag here, sometimes normalnigger, normgroid etc. Never normie.
>>24988156No
