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"Anomaly" edition

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Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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>>24689735
Red hair is exotic and is an easy way to make a female character visually striking / memorable.
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>>24689426
>Unironically, I have found that sparser writing is much better at establishing tension.
Explain.
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>>24690019
NTA - If you explain every feeling and every thought, you end up leaving nothing in the reader's imagination. Part of the tension in the EVA scene comes from not knowing what either Rei or Best Girl is thinking.
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my storys so cheesy lmao. trying to decide if its time for the psychic coyote chapter or wizard al quaeda chapter. my book is so juvenile lol
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>>24690025
>Rei
>thinking

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Redpill me on Brandon Sanderson.
Are his books worth reading?
Is he woke?
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>>24688458
>Sanderson’s barely hidden commentaries on Chinese food being greasy were odd
I mean it's greasy as shit? I get a diarrhea after almost every time.
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>>24689900
There's therapy in D&D world?
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>>24689567
Your responses indicate low reading comprehension
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>>24690044
There is now! It's even essential to the final battle iirc. The more I remember the more retarded it gets.
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>>24690099
Who performs it? Is it magic?

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Post your own work and critique others. Or just talk about poetry more generally and share poems you like.
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>>24684001
This 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.
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>>24688133
>Isn't it sometimes worth pointing out which of the two it is and why
Yes, but not as often as your hopes may rest on
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>>24688807
thanks man, emboldening words. i was pleased with that one myself. if i manage to turn it into a longer poem with a proper narrative i'll be sure to post it here (for i have no other audience).
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Here is my poem

Iron men and iron law,
March in step towards war,
Hide the feelings deep inside,
The weeping anima you must hide,
Repress that dream with total war,
You'll keep it from the door,
Think of it not, march on still,
Its time to feel your iron will,
Suppress the truth, march now,
Never to weakness will you bow,
You can do it, don't let it win,
Throw that dream into the bin,
Don't look in mirrors, that will remind,

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>>24683283
Me too anon
>>24683236
I like it

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The one continuous issue that I've been having with the little bit of sunni literature that I've been getting through, especially related to the biographies, is this constant reminder that this is THE way to live, and if you're not attempting to follow each of the examples set by the sunnah you are drifting further and further apart from goodness itself, and if God forbid you try to deny or argue against the fact that it is the superior way of life in comparison to the countless ones that have formed the whole of human history you are automatically deemed a Kaffir or a heretic at the very least. There's not much room for the experiential, the phenomenological, or for mere curiosity even, and it's a constant exercise in games of Purity solely based on textual evidence as opposed to exalting in the sublime as you would find in, say, a desert father's writings. Not to say that there aren't examples of the latter across islamic literature, as that's sufism in a nutshell, but the fact that they are largely and uniformly deemed as misguided heretics, and that the actual hadiths themselves explicitly argue against trying to find your own inner path through the skies tell you all about the mindset that is encouraged right here. Basically, I'd like to know how muslim thinkers balance this forced dismissal of ''the other'' with the actual experience of life itself. How does someone as brilliantly daring as Ibn Arabi find it in him to continue to hold that way of life as the unquestioned path to the Truth? It all seems so incredibly reductive to me that I find it revolting at times. Are you really supposed to accept that 98% of all of human existence is nothing more than the devil's plaything? I'd have no issues with it if it were a complete rejection of the world, as you'd find in Gnosticism or in Theravada Buddhism, but it's the 2% that really puts things into question here. I'm not writing this post out of malice or anything of the sort, as God is my witness I'm only doing it out of pure bewilderment, and I'm more than willing to call myself ignorant on these matters. Why didn't I post this in a more muslim-friendly corner of the Internet? Well I'm not really here for proselytizing, and I've come across a good number of very sensible Islamic threads on this board over the years believe it or not. If there are more of you well read muslims who have already been through this spiritual rigamarole, then please guide me with some useful books on this matter. I have no issues with untranslated material.
Al Ghazali also sucks btw. The guy that I've enjoyed reading the most is this turkish Said Nursi fella, who was at the crossroad between a rapidly modernizing ataturk-driven society and the rotting corpse of the ottoman empire. Cool stuff.
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>>24688414
jews think jesus is burning is excrement
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>>24688661
Justinian was ever-based for ordering all Talmuds to be destroyed
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>>24688661
No proof that Yeshu was the Jesus, you are using circular reasoning with that logic as many people of that name are mentioned in the talmud.
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>>24680635
>Outward practice is more important than inner belief; the person who prays 5 times a day but who doesn’t believe in God is a better Muslim than the person who misses prayers but believes in God.
Nigger what the fuck are you on about? No Muslim would ever say this. Not only is this nonsensical, but the Quran is full of lines condemning not atheists/disbelievers, not Christians, not Jews, but hypocrites instead. AKA the people you are describing.
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>>24685276
>The epitome of Islam is knowledge.
sure wouldn't know that by looking at the islamic world today

Happy first day of October!!!!!!
Post Halloween books!!!!!!!
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>>24689766
>It's set on Halloween
Thank you anon
I especially love books set during halloween, but they're hard to find
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>>24689835
Do you have any recs?
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>>24689906
Maybe this one but I haven't read it yet
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>>24689990
Cheers I'll give it a look
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>>24689729
Turn of the Screw?

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Do Japanese brains just work in a way where schizo babble makes perfect sense
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>>24689912
Both. 25% of it is garbled recycled english and the rest is typical honorabul respectful stockphrases with every other sentence has an Onomatopoeia. Imagine if we talked to each other unironically using words like beep boop, kablam, pow, swoosh. Thats japanese
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>Imagine if we talked to each other unironically using words like beep boop, kablam, pow, swoosh
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>>24689997
I know right, that'd be ridiculous. Anyway.

After chowing on my squash, I burp, sneeze and squeeze a fart until I fall in bed with a thud. I yawn and snore until I'm awaken by the buzz of a fly and the hiss of a kettle. I grunt and go to the kitchenen, where I cook crack like the quack I am. It sizzles on the rust, the sink gurgles. My stomach has a rumble. Outside the dog woos a bitch and howls while banging. While the sink drips it clicks to me to write a pop jingle.
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>>24689997
I almost cum when I hear a Japanese girl yells out 'Yafuuuu!!' and 'Potechi~' to her friends
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>>24690028
I mean yeah, that's really shitty writing full of onomatopoeia
Proves his point

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What position do you read in?
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>>24688686
power move at the library
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>>24688945
Well obviously he was just laying that way so he wouldn't block the title
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Basically the OP, with minor variations.
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>>24688686
Like this except I'm balding.
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usually in some shrimp mode position with my face 2 inches from the book because I can't see for shit even when wearing glasses

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was a movement to make English spelling rational by either phonetic spelling reform or an entirely new script. It's never happening. They tried to make it happen for a century, and that was BEFORE computers. By now, the way words are spelled is so entrenched that it's essentially permanent. Obviously there's IPA but it will never be the common orthography, especially since dialects make a "universal IPA spelling" impossible.
However, hear me out. If the written word is immovable, then there's still a way to rationalize pronunciation, which is just to pronounce everything how it's written. I'm not saying it's a good idea or wouldn't sound stupid at first, but it's *possible*.
It might even be an organic process, there are already obscure words that get mispronounced a lot because most people read them rather than hearing them spoken. Imagine a future where 90% of interaction is typed (some people are almost there, honestly), pronunciation would basically reinvent itself.
Is this a serious recommendation or prediction? No. Just something that crossed my mind.
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It was never going to happen in the 19th/20th centuries either. In the mid 20th there were various schools which taught with these alternate scripts/spellings, it was a massive failure and the students left school being functionally illiterate.

Pronunciation is constantly reinventing itself, as is language. Just the standard natural evolution.
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If things keep going the way they are, the world will develop a common pidgin and individual languages will mostly die out or more accurately become dialects of the pidgin.
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>>24689331
Fuck I hope not.
The best defense against it is that it sounds extremely silly to other (some would say fluent) speakers of the language.
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>>24689347
That would not be an issue because by that point a fluent speaker of English would be the equivalent of a fluent speaker of Latin today; English would be a dead language. Even with the help of the internet this will take centuries.

I guess it would technically be a creole by that point but the dialects could be pidgins and never stabilize.
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>>24689314
Dialects actually aren't too bad. You could try to make it consistent for old Queen's English, and that accent has none of the new mergers (e.g. Americans pronounce "Mary", "merry" and "marry" the same way, it's 3 different sounds in RP) and all the common splits (e.g. trap / bath have a different A) so if you make a system for it, you can easily adapt the system to every other dialect, because functionally they're all the same thing with slight simplifications.

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ITT we discuss the details & literary merits of various history books.
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>in the middle of reading Marx' das Kapital
when you get to the point where he describes how Factory owners literally worked children to death and created a "degenerate" class of midgets because of overworking entire families to the point that even their offspring turned out fucked up, it finally clicked how communism was able to take over the world (partially) in the 20th century
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bump
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>>24674975
Try Peter Kemp memoirs. It's not exactly what you asked but you might like it.
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>>24681355
everything flows

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>“Everything is perverted by this civilization, the gentlemen in suits have fouled and besmirched everything. Lithographs and etchings by old dotards like Picasso, Miro, Dali, and others, which are sold in all the stores, have turned art into a huge unclean bazaar. The money they have is not enough, they want more and more. Paintings in oil, in tempera, are not enough; drawings, watercolors, and gouaches are not enough; to make even more money they do their hackwork on stone and put it on sale in hundreds and thousands of copies. They've devalued everything, the bastards. Many of them are burdened with wives and several families, with relatives and friends; they need lots of money. Money, money and the greed for money, guides these wretched old men. Once rebels, they have turned into dirty operators. The same fate awaits the young men of today. This is why I have ceased to love art.”
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You might want to read Marx's own analysis of what was going on in France before gracing us with your own thinking about the haute and the petty bourgeois.
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>>24688321
>Yes. I even talked to a good number of them.
No you did not. Stop lying. I just posted the photo in the previous post - what does it say? What does it mean? Where did it happen? Can you search it without Google Search? Can you quote exact words of manifesto that nazbols declared about the president of Azerbaijan? And how does it fit into your narrative about "liberal romantics with a knack for épatage" and "bruh edgelords"?

>I question your Marxist cred
Like if I give a shit what a "spiritual aryan" with a chip on his shoulder thinks.

>if the actual class reality of an individual is irrelevant to you in the light of his rhetoric.
It is irrelevant indeed. Proletarian class reality means nothing without proletarian class position, and Limonov didn't had one. You lack theory.

>Calling Drigaia Rossija a political party is a tremendous stretch.
And yet you didn't deny that they're nazi. That's progress.

>a political fraud turns his clowning on the political arena into his livelihood. I don't see Limonov as a fraud, because he turns his clowning on the political arena into an artistic performance
Literally potato-potáto. It's literally the same thing. There is nothing real about politics.

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>>24687772
>I'm russian marxist.
I'd bet you're an American transexual kek
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>>24688442
only the Russians are still obsessed with muh nazis you have been brainwashed to hate the Azov battalion
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are you guys trolling or are you genuinely stupid?

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>Some people back then used to think... who was it, Socrates? Yeah, Socrates... He believed that writing stuff down made your memory worse... Like what a stupid idea. He didn't write anything down and then we started writing shit down and technology fucking SKYROCKETED. Like imagine if we took this guys advice and didn't write anything down, where the fuck do you think we would be right now? Plus it's not even true. I write shit down ALL the time. All the time... And my memory is awesome. Writing things down actually helps your memory; Socrates was retarded.
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>>24687576
you say it in a way thats retarded but i agree
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>>24687735
>Studying mandarin
>recognize the characters and therefore the sounds, but don't know that last word
>hmm let's look up 犹太人
I don't know why I expected anything else.
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>>24689455
Will someone PLEASE get this poor man some constipation medicine
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>>24689684
How do you study Mandarin now that Duolingo has gone to shit?
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>>24690009
Duolingo is a joke of language learning. No one has ever gotten good at a language by playing Duo for 15 minutes a day

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>>24689909
>I've no faith in the little apex predator
Good luck
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>>24689954
That sort of cautiousness is vital. Without it you end up with the AIDS epidemic
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Nami is so hot hnggggggggg
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Hoes mad x20.
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Well that sure was a weird looking dude with a butchers knife looking suspicious on my evening dog walk. He tried to conceal it but the glint in the streetlights was unmistakable. When he saw me and my dog he fucked off and looked scared, but I assume that was based on trying to look casual. A giant in flipflops and a corgi arent fighting anyone, but we would have been loud as shit.

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For me, it's chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, the most beautiful chapter in literature.
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>>24689660
it's probably because he's a virgin
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>>24689653
The whole universe, all things
animate or inanimate,
are gathered here—look!—enfolded
inside my infinite body.

But since you are not able
to see me with mortal eyes,
I will grant you divine sight. Look!
Look! The depths of my power!

After he had spoken these words,
Krishna, the great Lord of Yoga,
revealed to Arjuna his majestic,
transcendent, limitless form.

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>>24689673
SOVL
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>>24689545
I like the part about doing your work without caring about the reward.
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>>24689673
Based UpaniChad

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We tend to see it in visual mediums more like spaghetti westerns and the Hitman games. But besides Flannery O’Connor, what is the kino literature along this theme? Generally fatalist Catholic motifs combined sarcastic, bleak cynicism and nihilism toward humanism
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>>24689931

The nihilism of Catholicism is best expressed not as some byproduct, but as a sincere outcome of core doctrine. "The Fewness of the Saved" is a good example.

https://fewnessofthesaved.com/
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>>24689931
I'm a Protty nihilist tho
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>>24689931
my father's diary if he had one.
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>>24689968
Catholic nihilism has to do with pessimism toward the fallen state of humanity and the belief that everyone is evil except Jesus and Mary

>>24689973
That’s called a Calvinist
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>>24690049
>That’s called a Calvinist
You nailed it

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>The further you get out of line with your intentions, the more distrustful she will be of your actions and words. And the more distrustful she is, the more insecure she will feel and the creepier you become. For instance, if you approach a woman and stand there and talk about the weather, but you’re staring at her rack the whole time while licking your lips, then you will come cross as creepy. Your actions and words are completely out of line with your intentions and she can see that.
>Even if you tell her honestly, “You have great tits,” you will be creepy. Not for lack of intention, but because she doesn’t know you and most women are not comfortable being sexual around men they don’t know. Trust takes time. She has to see that your actions line up with your intentions before she can feel comfortable exposing herself to you and making herself vulnerable.
>Women have a lot more to lose from expressing their sexuality than men do. They make babies. We don’t. They get raped and/or sexually assaulted at a startlingly high rate. We don’t. They have five thousands years of sexist cultural history making them feel like a slut. We don’t.
>The second you make them feel uncomfortable sexually is the second you become a creep and the second she’s finding an excuse to get away from you as fast as she can.
>This is why vulnerability is so huge. When you’re vulnerable around someone you don’t know, it elicits trust in them and they will become more vulnerable toward you in return. The more vulnerable a woman is willing to be around you, the less likely you will be to creep her out.
Is he right?
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>>24690018
I don't really get it either. He says "just be honest" but then goes "actually don't". So I have no clue what to do.
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>>24690030
Yes.
Many ugly dudes are shit out of luck and no cosmetic surgery will help, but there are some ugly dudes who'd benefit greatly from surgery.
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>>24690040
There are also non surgical things like how you dress and skincare
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>>24690018
you have to hang out with other girls while you're holding a mega torch for some oneitis so you won't notice you're attracted to the other girls long enough for one of them to start giving you signals. then you just hope to forget the oneitis at the right moment.
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>>24690050
>>you have to hang out with other girls
sounds like absolute hell, man. Have you heard the kind of inane shit they yammer on about? I guess if I get a lobotomy I might be able to stand it, it might even make me more attractive to them.


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