Did he kill himself out of boredom?
He knew what Obummer was gonna do to this country.
how do you guys feel about this one
(((Milo Minderbinder)))
>>24688394He's very generous, and his syndicate has done wonders for the 256th Air Squadron (and everyone has a share!)
Irving Washington
>>24686973good for an 11 year old.
I read it, followed by its sequel, when I was 15. Enjoyed it a lot but I'll never read it again so that I don't soil it's memory by finding out I don't like it now as an adultI still sometimes say "where are the snowdens of yesteryear" to myself randomly
$76.240 Per Month EditionStubbed >>24682944>What is 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'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24688889Your desperate copium huffing does not manifest a victory.
>>24688876>no long plot arcs, self-contained storiesNobody wants this.
>>24688879>So, how do you guys make the font for the webnovel cover?My first novel had a shitty paint typeset cover. Tried making one on Photoshop with a font I've found on Google Fonts, but it was not good. One kind anon saved me from my own retardness.>I have the art but I have no idea what's the best program to add text to it.Photoshop or GIMP. You can find Photoshop CS2 version online, Adobe messed up and made it public years ago.>Also, how do I look for the best stylish text too?Google Fonts. I recommend against it though; you want easy to read even on a thumbnail.Best to generate a type with AI, honestly.Also, I'm not the isekai anon people are arguing with itt, but my next novel happens to be exactly what they're arguing about (lifted the trope from Slime 300).
>>24688036Actual answer, it stopped being 'one story' years ago.It's like 8 different very loosely connected narratives that have a cross over episode once in a while. Real autists will insist you have to read every single narative but in practice if you like one plot line just read it and skip over the other character POV's. Maybe look at the wiki if something happened in a side story you don't care to read.
>>24688904And by Google Fonts I mean: https://fonts.google.com/
Explain this meme
>>24688310It’s a tranny meme that’s converted. Dull ooze is the tranny.
>>24688310i remember saving this meme in 2019. i need a to get a grip on my life.
>>24688398What are Deleuize and Guattari talking in those books? >>24688416Fuck
>>24688427they're essentially shitposting by making a whole lot of very obscure references and writing in the most obtuse way possible in order to encourage a groundbreaking way of approaching all philosophical problems both as a hopeful gesture and as a giant fuck you to the general word salad atmosphere of french theory from the 60s onwards. what they say doesn't matter as much as how you feel when reading them. approach it as you would approach poetry, or futurist/early surrealist literature. remember: have fun.
meereenese throne 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: >>24667075
>>24688835More like retroactively adding context to a shitty ending he can’t figure out how to get to satisfactorily
Which Targaryen king was the most occult inclined? Who would have the most success performing a magic ritual?
>>24687937>He has a song," the man replied. "He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire." He looked up when he said it and his eyes met Dany's, and it seemed as if he saw her standing there beyond the door. "There must be one more," he said, though whether he was speaking to her or the woman in the bed she could not say. "The dragon has three heads."Targs are the Fire, he needed a Stark for the Ice.
>>24688079>So you think Maegor knew how to please his women?Do you think Maegor cared?
>>24681616There's gonna be le ebin reveal where it turns out Others are just climate refugees retreating from the melting polar ice cap
What written work of Christian apologetics can best convince atheists of the error of their ways?
>>24687860>>Morals aren't exclusive to religion>They are lest they're arbitraryIf god exists, anything goes.
>>24682807None because 'the atheist' is nothing more than the 21st century version of the Alien Other that monotheism allows you to blame various ills of society on. Apparently wokeys and trannies is because of science nerds not being convinced by cringe tradlarpers telling them that going to church is going to hand them a tradwife on a silver plate. Once you understand this stupid game, it becomes very boring to watch
>>24684077I feel like a majority of Christian youtubers are like this.
There is no one thing you read. Prayer, fasting, vigils, ascetic labors and spiritual exercises, these are as or more important. The latter were also considered essential by virtually all Pagan philosophers and the Eastern thinkers too. You cannot expect to reach truth and wisdom without developing virtue. Metanoia is a long process. That said, pic related is particularly good. I like it because a lot of people have a lot of bad preconceptions about what Christianity is, or only know very shallow forms of it. By approaching it through Chinese as opposed to Greek thought, it is easier to avoid misconceptions. People also get tripped up by Greek thought all the time because they have assumptions about it and don't realize how far the Reformation took the Western mindset away from what had dominated for most of history.>>24682998I haven't read that one but DBH is often quiet good. All Things Are Full of Gods is a nice antidote for empiricist philosophy of mind. Empiricism in general largely gets by through conflating itself with science DESU. Once you realize they are quite different, it becomes easy to see that so much of it rests on a patently bad epistemology that has to deny all value (and arguably even truth) from the outset, because of its presuppositions about what counts as evidence.
What are some books every anon should read?
It's unironically over for anyone who still thinks there's a point to any of this. If you drop the cope and actually use your brain you realize that without some sky-daddy there are no ultimate values, right and wrong are just made-up rules, and your preference for "love" over "hate" is as arbitrary as choosing a favorite color. All of Western philosophy and science, the supposed peak of human reason, just logically dead-ends at the blackpilled realization that life is meaningless. Your belief in anything, even reason itself, is totally groundless because rationalism ultimately eats its own tail and leads to nihilism. The most hilarious part is watching NPCs cling to the idea that life is inherently better than death which is nothing more than a widespread superstitious dumb biological bias hardwired into us like a fear of the dark. If you're a consistent materialist you have to admit you're just a random chunk of matter with no special rights over a rock and since non-living matter vastly outnumbers living matter, death literally wins by a democratic landslide. The only truly rational and egalitarian position is to treat life and death as the same, to overcome your provincial life bias and accept that it's all just nothing.
>>24688285hmm, do you think i should expand on it? but i doubt there isn't a better work out there about this specific topic that i'd never be able to match, hell even Nietzsche did it even though his position is more about making meaning out of this meaningless world, mine is simply laughing at it, essentially absurdism with a doompill like those clown characters... they're so they're so joyous even though their face is painted with tears... tragedy and comedy... insanity...oh wait that's just the joker LOL this is why i can never write anything worthwhile my ideas are extremely shallow
At the end of the day, this whole thread/line of thinking is way too anthropocentric.watch any nature documentary any given animal isnt thinking about this shit, its just trudging along, a whale cares for its calf, birds build nests, lions prowl, hyenas scavenge, not giving one second of thought to any words or language, if you want to call that animalistic thats fine, but just remember yall are a part of the tree of life whether you like it or not, if you want to "prune your branch" so to say thats fine, doesnt stop other branches from growing.
>>24688643>mine is simply laughing at it, essentially absurdism with a doompillI think you'll like Bataille and Cioran
>>24688643I recommend reading more serious literature to expand your thinking. Your ideas will feel shallow if they're just bouncing off of other thinkers and public consensus. You need to find something to put perhaps undue confidence into to discover something meaningful. Or just get a little older, who knows?
>>24688073He had been traumatized by war and the level of senseless brutality around him and had personally been plagued by depression at various times in his life. However, to characterize him as feeling total meaninglessness through his later life is false. He recommitted himself to the idea of simple living in close intimacy and love with your neighbors and family. In fact, you could make the case that his brush with nihilism and subsequent devotion to common cause with humanity shows that you can transcend even the most dire philosophical abyss through love and hope (I choose to state this regardless of the obvious abundance of saccharine trite cliche essence which hangs on such a statement).
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>>24687598Should i read alastair reynolds or this first
>>24687598Boring. I don't usually drop books but got 2/3 of the way through this and was bored beyond belief.
>>24687598what wrong with he head
>>24687598>here's a chapter that plagiarizes Shadow of the Tortuer>here's a chapter that plagiarizes Claw of the Conciliator>here's a paragraph from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, I'm sure nobody will notice me taking lines from the most famous sci-fi story of the last century>here's me aping Dan Simmons' "lion and tigers and bears" line that had a thematic connection to Hyperion because of the Keats cybrid but that just comes off as autistic parroting in my bookChristopher Ruocchio is the Quentin Tarantino of sci-fi: he makes collages of other people's work and adds juvenile depictions of violence into it to fill time
>>24688075I think this issue will just continue. Previous scifi and fantasy writers were pulling from their experiences in war, Christianity or religion, and actual literature.It seems to me that we're at a point where modern authors are too downstream, not really impacted or in tune with what inspired the authors they are attempting to mimic, thus a huge loss of authenticity.I don't really know the genre, so I wouldn't doubt I'm off a little bit, but I also don't think I'm entirely wrong on this one.
Will Borges's reputation ever recover from the recent attacks against him?
What's wrong with not liking football??
Alright, maybe I'll read him
>>24688614>racistDon't give a fuck if he said something about brazilians or niggers or whatever.>anti-populistElitism is good.>hated footballSo???>married kawaii desuBased.
>>24688614/pol/posting, only the first thing is arguably "bad," but probably doesn't mean what whoever wrote that thinks it means.
>>24688614chat is this true? He was a virgin until elderly? that changes my entire reading of him. I assumed because of his knife violence he loved to fuck and the knife was a penis.
Give it to me straight, how horrified would he be at the current state of the world?
>>24687184Bret Michaels is still alive.
He was a weakling crybaby, what he thinks about anything is below us who can at least get out of bed without crying
>>24687184Its interesting that literary culture of melancholic libs he grew up in and found success in is like completely gone now. Good riddance.I would look forward to his appearance of the Adam Friedland show
he would have survived if he had been brought up in anywhere but the pill subscribing west
>>24687184He'd probably be addicted to tiktok and kill himself again. He might have liked stardew valley.
Thoughts?
>>24685542O'Connor's femceldom permeates her work.
>>24678542I hate women.
>>24678714It'd be pretty funny if there were some aspiring world leader who was actually named Hitler 2.
>>24687540Good morning
>>24678666hahaha, you guys lost, satans
Carolingian edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24643783>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.
>>24686682Iratus de re incerta contendere noli:Inpedit ira animum, ne possis cernere verum.
>>24687116cūr irātus es? cum familiā meā cenam ēdī. cum lectum meum cubō ut dormiam, pro tē precābor.
>>24686682Read De Ira by Seneca
Achivum more eo palaestratum, idem facitote ut valeatis
>>24686682There was probably some sort of conflict involving Troy at some point in history. I can believe that Homer may have the broad strokes of the course of the conflict correct even if centuries of being passed down orally distorted the details, we know there are some bits and pieces that reveal knowledge preserved through oral tradition IIRC.
Post your own work and critique others. Or just talk about poetry more generally and share poems you like.
I wandered alone through the crumbling stone.A shadow that roams.My people are gone, yet my spirit lives on.All that remains is empty, a stain.In the streets, in the towns all the people are brown.An Empire in rubble, no fighting, no struggle.All that's left of Old England; a puddle.
SleeperShimmer and awake my love,the surf too cold for waking.Manic from the high dream,the dreaming too bold to touch.You the arbiter, lovely and ever-fairhave seen my swelling fruits.The seeming to hold so tenderand the cold lies bitter on the ground.And the cold lies bitter on the ground.
>>24688397I don't get the "my spirit lives on". I don't know why, but that bit seems out of sync with the rest of it. Lovely last 2 lines though.>>24688557>You the arbiter, lovely and ever-fairhave seen my swelling fruits.She saw your balls?
>>24684001This is very good; your imagery is vibrant. You say its a work in progress. Is there anywhere or any way I can read your other work? This excerpt is one of my favorite snippets of poetry I've seen on /lit/ in years.
>>24688133>Isn't it sometimes worth pointing out which of the two it is and whyYes, but not as often as your hopes may rest on
>>24688477>be me>on date>8/10 not bad>instant spaghetti>she leaves>but the data said this was more likely to be a green flag>mfw
>>24687499>change research>formed by a democrat party operative and some tech bro from san franciscoyeah i'm sure this is unbiased
>>24688477it means you arent using an iphone
>>24687661Yes.
>>24687654no one tell him
