What books did you receive from Santa this year /lit/?Not gonna post a pic but I got: >The Encyclopedia of Demonology & Witchcraft>The Imago Sequence by Laird Barronand>a first edition printing of Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison Fairly modest haul but you know what, I'm satisfied. Merry Crimbus everybody!!!
>>24972100kys
>>24970445I got a ton of books that I'll post tomorrow, I'm too tired.
>>24972015As someone going through William Blake I hope you are up to date on your latin
>>24972163Bumping to keep the thread alive for you lad.
>>24970424based archive in between enjoyer.
LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Chapter 6https://youtu.be/KXMW-OkqicA?si=XYK6YbQzMxMSNQvbMerry Christmas!
not even a chub from the bitch>t. nofap day 118
>>24971901keingooningsama
>>24971657I hate women so much its unreal.
>>24971657>>24971864>>24972128Can't believe this softcore goon material is freely available on YouTube.
>>24971657Perverted bitch. Fuck you stinky.
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
>>24971539why don't you engage with anyone's answers? why the fuck does OP have to do it you lazy nigger
>>24971965What are you looking for as far as a temple?
>>24971965think about the architecture as an extension of the element (ie water buildings should have a flow, not look all bunched up and awkward). look into the symbolic meanings of the elements to different cultures, or how they worship deities who represent those elements.
>>24970041>Are there any prominent ruins, abandoned places or remains of great cities in your setting?Main setting is basically a portal fantasy. Certain portals aren't just sealed off, but have whole fuck off dungeons to kill off anyone who isn't very strong or clever from getting anywhere near portals that lead to dangerous places. Which leads to>Have there been any kind of large scale disasters in your setting?The main portals sealed in this way lead to "the land of the immortals". The Immortals were absurdity powerful mages who eventually warped and twisted the main realm they existed on during the Assertion War.Now it's a chaotic wasteland filled with monsters, mutants, and deadly dungeons filled with the most forbidden of forbidden bits of knowledge and magic in the multivers. I am basically saving this info for the very end of the book I am currently working on.A last revelation and explanation of why the vampire lord is where he is and what event was powerful enough to force him into torpor (vampire death sleep).Basically he used to live in the same realm as the Immortals, nearly died and watched everything he loved or cared about be destroyed in seconds due to the indirect effects of two of the Immortals fighting during the Assertion War, and with his last remaining strength ran through a portal that he sealed behind him, made a few minions to set some stuff up in the new world, and then dropped nearly dead in a sarcophgos to very slowly recover and await a point in time when the Immortals are gone.Beyond that most ruins get reused in pretty short order by someone or something. Nothing stays truly abandoned for all that long.
>>24971962Then it would never get build.
Unironically, what did it teach you?
>>24969483I'm not sure if there is a personified deity, but the Bible does have a high degree of the poetic genius (as Blake describes). KJV onlyists love to mention the "power" of the scriptures, but what's objectively happening is that the aesthetic quality of the poetry and prose is very captivating.
>>24969483how to really appreciate the western canon and western thought with it deeply embedded in everything about society. also, old testament God was metal as fuck.
>>24969483A lot of references that I wouldn't have understood otherwise.
>>24969483You talk to God in prayer, God responds to you with his Word, all 73 canonical books. His nature, His promises, His plan, all are there to guide you to accomplish your destiny, embracing your eternal Father in a realm where there is no anxiety or distress, but perfected, perpetual peace and blissful joy.
>>249694831- General culture referenced in most of the A.C. western canon, mythological stories, and the base for the understanding of all abrahamic religions. 2- All humans are sinners, we are born this way. Nobody is perfect and we shouodn't judge others because we are in their same position. We should rather help them in their battle against evil3- Forcing rules upon ourselfs that go against nature never worked and never will. To defeat the evil in us we need something more: a relationship. Through a relationship of trust with Jesus, we can get salvation (freedom from sin). If you put your whole trust in him, then you will enter a state of reflection and you will attempt to be a better person. 4- The knowledge to debunk fake myths about the book. Sadly, there are hundreds of them. 5- The experience of a beautiful story that goes from the creation of the world to the end of it 6- The realization that John should be put at the same level of Homer at least. Gospel of John AND book of revelations? That's crazy.
Spooky Psychic Vampires Edition>Old:>>24957211>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
>>24969017I keep telling myself they'll make a TV miniseries, eight episodes to a season, one season per book, and they'll be called the Wanak. and not the wankh.
>>24972021I can never tell if that pull quote was in on the joke.
>>24971971The Flashman Papers. They're more comedic-historical.>During the course of Fraser's novels, Flashman goes from his expulsion from school into the army. Although he is a coward who tries to run away from any danger, he is involved in many famous military episodes from the 19th century, often taking actions that cause or affect events, such as his flatulence affecting the Charge of the Light Brigade,[a] or being the person who probably shot George Armstrong Custer. When circumstances run against him and he is forced to fight, he often does so relatively capably. Despite his cowardice and his attempts to flee, he becomes a decorated war hero and rises to the rank of brigadier-general. He also meets people who either were notable at the time—such as Benjamin Disraeli and the Duke of Wellington—or became well known after Flashman met them—such as Abraham Lincoln. Flashman either has or tries to have sex with most of the female characters. By the end of the ninth book he estimates that he has had sex with 480 women.
>>24972118Cuckolded by his own virgin bride, tho
>>24968664because goodread feminists ruined everything
Why are French/Belgian comics considered literature but american comics and manga aren’t?
>>24972261none of them are considered literature, except by reddit söyboy faggots
>It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Why is it considered as one of the worst openings ever written? What's so bad about it?
>>24971571Nothing it's just what niggercattle prattle about.
The "(for it is in London where our scene lies)" interjection is an extremely clunky way to establish the setting. Like, come on.
>>24971571More description =/= more better prose.
Basically I'd like to understand why he felt the need to abandon the usual progressive strategy of pushing the BIG changes anti-democratically through the courts. This was always the way to go for the prior 100 years. I know he was concerned that this had somewhat run out of steam (as he mentions several times in his speech writing notes in the margins). Obviously we now see the results of trying to force a major change through the democratic process instead of forcing it on the populace at the end of a lawsuit.But was there a general consensus among progressives at the time that illusory democracy (where all actual sovereignty is held by the judiciary) thing had in fact played all its cards/ his hand was forced, or was Obama going solo here?
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
>>24972216this portrait is so shitwas this really the best painter they could get?
>Reddit spacing>strawmen>False premises >Allusions to alleged things with no sources>"judiciary" (It was passed by the legislative)>ForceLemme explain something to you right now. The ACA was plan based on a Republican thinktank group that had already been squeezed through in Massachusetts. It is a gift to the insurance industry with marginal (and now sidestepped) provisions that they not drop people for "pre-existing conditions" after you've paid them a ton. It is shit, but it used to be even shittier. It is shit now because of the private insurance industry. The general consensus among progressives is that they would like Bernie Sanders Medicare for all INSTEAD. This is why Hillary lost so handily.>>24972258Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is "Show, Don't Tell" good advice for writers?
Reddit tier advice
>>24964161Writing is an art form. Each artist has their own style, and each reader has his own likes and dislikes. So write however you want, and see how your target audience responds to it.Tom is angry.Tom grounded his teeth and kicked the chair.Tom grounded his teeth in boiling rage and savagely kicked the chair.With boiling blood, Tom, a man pushed beyond his limits, grounded his teeth and savagely kicked the chair. Tom, a 40-year-old social worker from Michigan, angrily kicked the chair.
>>24964161>Aaron's mouth opened in shock>Daniele frowned sadly>Carl's face felt happy>Kashvi bitched bitchily
>>24964161>Aaron was shocked, as if he had seen a nigger.>Daniele was sad, because she had seen a nigger.>Carl felt happy, he hadn't seen any niggers.>Kashvi started to feel irritated, that nigger had her H-1B cancelled.
>>24965872>>24972217This and this. Show don't tell is good advice for beginners who have no fucking clue what they're doing and can't write a scene where stuff happens with characters. Sort of like "don't use adverbs" is good advice for people who write like this >>24972218But when autistic morons take this advice too literally, as if it's the key to success, they in for a rude awakening. No. Having literally zero adverbs in your story won't make it successful or a good read. No. Showing every single thing regardless of how unimportant it is will not make your story a hit.
God I wish I was Icelandic.
Help I'm fucking Icelandic sir
>>24970659Iceland is so boring. How many icelandic people can you name? The mountain's actor in game of thrones? I have never seen an icelandic flag while playing video games online. Being danish or norwegian is way cooler
>>24971063>we’re known for an elaborate culinary traditions and fine wines>you know, the uhh simple pleasures
>>24972094:)
>>24970669Ungrateful nigger like you had no idea how blissful it is to be able to read a book in silence with your friends, relatives, or family. These days you'll have some niece or nephew screaming and behaving like niggers in family gathering, uncs that are talking about nonsense, women like aunts or mothers that are constantly laughing like a devil with each other, and other family talks that are more likely going to lead to another conflict or so. Being able to just sit and read a book in total silence except for the sound of hot chocolate slurping or turning a page is a damn fucking bliss
Will I like Anna Karenina if I'm an unapologetic mysoginist?
>>24965698>Anna's friends all encourage her to go through with the whoring, and set up the degeneracies for her to do so.>Once it's made public they all distance themselves from her and dont want anything to do with her.Why are women like this? Even in this day and age. They encourage women to divorce and leave their husbands/families, then disappear when she has to deal with the ramifications of that. Or their friends in stable relationships (who also encouraged her to divorce and to go on tinder flings etc after) begin to distance themselves very soon instead of following the same degeneracies they encouraged
>>24970382Sounds very accurate of women in general, especially ones who spent their days on phones all day long while being a "homemaker"
>>24965698Read it so you can know what BPD girls are like. It should serve as a warning.
>>24971292Dating or marrying a woman who has had sex is disgusting. Dating or marrying a woman who has been in love with another man is even more disgusting. That said, 99% of women grow hopelessly in love with the guy who takes their virginity and never forget him. In general they never forget their first loves. Like I said, read The Dead by Joyce.
>>24965698My favorite chapter in this book and the one which I find myself constantly returning to is the one where Levin reminisces on his heartbreak after being rejected by Kitty, and how much anguish he's in that his lifelong desire to marry and share his love with someone has to be delayed yet again, and he desperately hopes that the news will come one day of Kitty announcing her engagement and he could put his memory of her to rest. He decides on being patient and focuses on his life in the estate so he doesn't have to bear the humiliation he endured. And then the harsh winter that Anna has just trapped herself into thaws into the most wonderful spring for Levin as he becomes a more rigorous person with the most beautiful descriptions of natural life and greenery that I've ever read before. Today the word of her engagement got back to me in the worst way possible and revealed just how deep the deception went and how much I was humiliated for nothing, but I feel no relief. I just pray to have a spring like Levin's so that this winter in my soul can finally thaw.
Why is it, that every time I’m reading Heidegger, I get the feeling that he is saying something new and profound in philosophy? (Everything else in the history of Philosophy seems to expand on or restate something already incapsulated in ancient philosophy)I’m not yet able to put it into words, but I will work on it in the coming year.
>>24971221What Husserl and Rilke? You mean Malte Laurid?
>>24971667The issue is that of course “everything makes sense.” But there’s an irreducible core of nonsense, your impending demise being exhibit A.
>>24971660Philosophy does not permit itself to be lowered to the standpoint of the masses; the masses must raised to the standpoint of philosophy if they are ever to taste of the sweet sweet milk of the big round juicy tits of wisdom.
>>24971680skill issue
>>24971655I get that. But let’s be real for a second. If one reads being and time for the first time (and one understands what is being said), how can one not come to the conclusion that Heidegger broke out of the traditional course of western philosophy in order to tackle fundamental problems that just weren’t discussed in western philosophy?For me it’s clear as day.There’s also other stuff Heidegger introduced into philosophy, like reading platonic texts with his students to reconstruct what these texts were about, before him this wasn’t practiced in university. Today at least at European universities this is the bread and butter of philosophical works at universities (mainly reading and discussing the original texts, not just Plato of course).
I have been reading Chinese classics lately and finished this one. Out of all of the ones I've read so far, this has to be the greatest.Has /lit/ read traditional Chinese classics like Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Journey to the west, Dream of Red Chamber, Investiture of the Gods, and others?
>>24970735if you guys like Chinese literature you are going to love BOM
>>24970597which one was raise the red lantern based on? that was probably zhang yimou's best movie
>>24971144Wives and Concubines
>>24970749You're reading translations so it doesn't matter anyway. 看不懂中文就没法享受到三国演义字眼的美丽和贴切。>>24970597>>24970725True and correct takes. Those classics are also like 100 chapters and most Chinese people don't read them they only know the stories through TV and films. No Chinese person will ever tell you to actually READ journey to the west they tell you to watch the film.Philosophy like zhuangzi mengzi Confucius etc is worth reading but it's in classical Chinese which is not the same as modern Chinese and most Chinese people today need translations or a lot of footnotes to understand it.
>>24970597>The 4 classic Chinese novels aren't classicsShut the fuck up lol
Am I wasting my time by reading "everyday life in the modern world" by Henri Lefebvre?
The bulk of western fantasy (yes even today) is based on Christian philosophy, or its bastard child humanism. Good and evil, sin and redemption, sacrifice, justice, moral character arcs, etc.The remaining works that aren't, are largely based on some flavor of nihilism or existentialism. There's nothing wrong with this, but I want something fresh. Off the top of my head the only western fantasy series that isn't really based on the above is the Earthsea series.
>>24972214>the fantasy genre was literally made by devout ChristiansThe genre arguably predates Christianity in the first place.Even in the modern, English speaking, western sense, there is still that whole other strain of fantasy that came before and still existed after Tolkien. Case in point >>24972151>I read the works of Eddison, long after they appeared; and I once met him. I heard him in Mr. Lewis’s room in Magdalen College read aloud some of his works–from the Mistress of Mistresses, as far as I remember. He did it extremely well. I read his works with great enjoyment for their sheer literary merit. My opinion of them is almost the same as that expressed by Mr. Lewis on p. 104 of the Essays presented to Charles Williams. Except that I disliked his characters (always excepting the Lord Gro) and despised what he appeared to admire more intensely than Mr. Lewis at any rate saw fit to say of himself. Eddison thought what I admire ‘soft’ (his word: one of complete condemnation, I gathered); I thought that, corrupted by an evil and indeed silly ‘philosophy’, he was coming to admire, more and more, arrogance and cruelty. Incidentally, I thought his nomenclature slipshod and often inept. In spite of all of which, I still think of him as the greatest and most convincing writer of ‘invented worlds’ that I have read. But he was certainly not an ‘influence’.
>>24972219he's a nihilist
>>24972220If we define fantasy as supernatural elements, then that obviously goes as far back as the stone age. But by that point its no longer fantasy and more like ancient legends & myths. Since ancient humans literally believed in magic and dragons and spirits and what not. Tolkien created the fantasy that everyone knows about today and his Christian religion played a huge role in defining the fantasy genre.
^ some anons unironically believe this
