To Kill A Mockingbird should be banned from all public schools.
>>24713165They so desperately wish to be jews they adopt their language of victimization as well. The terminal end stage of american christianity.
>>24717604He's like some sheltered kid who just found out about the USS Liberty on 4chan. So he's going full on hate for everything he used to believe in.
>>24713240KEK
>>24713165What books should be taught in school?
>>24713240Holy shit, he literally sucked a dick not to be transphobic
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>>24717795GHOST OOFFF PERDITIOOOOONLINGERING DEAAATH
Another year being a wizard under my belt.
>>24717795The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
>>24718213Hpy brdy
>>24718224thanks
I have 5 short stories out in pro rate magazines and a dozen poems in reputed literary journals. I’m working on a novel to make or break my career. And I have the literary agents lined up. Ask me anything.
>>24718107>How much networking impacts your work? It helps but I mainly just talk to other pro writers who need critiques. Offer yourself as a beta reader in special magazine discords and they will let you see their work; befriend them by giving good feedback.>Is it absolutely essential to network? No. I don't do it that much but I do talk to magazine editors and such on Discord. They honestly will reject a bad story just because it's a bad story, no matter who wrote it (even Stephen King gets rejected). Your name and status only helps you for book deals, not magazine publications.>Where do you get your ideas from? I research a lot then add imaginative flair. >How did you find your style? I didn't have any style to speak of for about two to three years. Until I just developed my own philosophical views and observations that I could put in the stories.>Have you gotten any pussy? I'm bisexual and got some twink to buy me drinks because I told him how to get a poem published.>How much money is in writing? My best sale was 12c per word. But don't get into it with the expectation you will succeed or get rich.>Do you feel lonely?Yes.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24718128>I research a lot then add imaginative flair.Can you talk about your research process? I have a hard time adding detail to my stories. How do you take notes while researching?>special magazine discord How would one find such a thing?
>>24718130>Can you talk about your research process?I go to the library and get out as many books as I can lug home. I usually read at the library for hours on end. Best way to use the library is to look up search terms, check appendices, and find books through the bibliographies. Try get out the weirdest books you can think of, like entomological catalogues of bug pictures, then try to make that a story. Trust me, creativity will come if you force yourself to do weird things. >I have a hard time adding detail to my storiesIn what sense? At the sentence level or the overall structure? If you are writing bland stuff, then you need to fill your mind with crazy art. Copy from as many things as you like until it is your own. I tend to try to ape everything from Lord Tennyson to Emil Cioran to David Lynch. All in a day's work.Another tip: Trunk stories you don't want to send out yet then get them up to scratch a few months later. Trust the process. It's all about routine and going back to edit once you let your mind rest and look at it with fresh pairs of eyes. >How do you take notes while researching?By hand or in a word document. But you should write in shorthand for quickness. Don't try to get slogged in note taking; that's the death of many a would-be writer.>How would one find such a thing?Apex Magazine has a critique section in their discord, so does Clarkesworld. You just have to sign up on their patreon to get access, and I think they have very cheap ones you can pay peanuts for.
>published author hereOPs mom just put his latest incessant ramblings on the fridge didn't she?-or-Turns out OP just write garbage for smut magazines and short stories for a scat fetish website.
>>24718177They're reputable pro rate magazines in the speculative fiction genre
Past a certain age, a man without a /shelf/ can be a bad thing
>>24718119The other issue is having so many toys to begin with. Having a trinket or two is fine, but that's just excessive.
>>24718119I'm a zoomer (24) I wasn't into painting miniatures until late last year but I live in a fairly small flat with my gf and haven't got any other space for them.
>>24718095You focus on specific instances rather than the general thread that links all. KYS.
>>24718226Do you mean the Jew? Because I do.
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I have out grown fiction whats next?
pornography
it's reverse for me, I've read all the masterworks and now I want dragonshit
>>24717871Read History
>>24717871Read Borges (Ficciones) and then Stanislaw Lem (Perfect Vaccum).
>>24717871Post your taste in this thread
Why didn't he kill himself?
its the same reason religions deny suicide, it's ineffective. when you understand that there are bigger things going on than your moment-to-moment comfort, you will intuitively understand why putting your momentary comfort over them is retarded and gets you nowhere
>>24716395Von Hartmann contended that collective suicide was quasi-religious if I'm not mistaken
>>24716382The hell it does. It stops the will from doing anything, how does that affirm it?
>>24718184schopenhauer doesn’t talk about ‘the will’ in an everyday sense. it’s an underlying, blind striving force. suicide acts because life’s pains outweigh its pleasures for that being. that calculation is still an expression of will.
>>24716388he had kids but they died in infancy
What are your thoughts on this short story published in the recent issue of Harper’s Magazine? It’s a short read, less than five minutes. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/09/girl-talk-weike-wang-story-sauna/“Girl Talk” by Weike Wang
>>24717718There’s a state level opposition and embrace of those respectively, trying to equivocate until it’s two sides of a coin doesn’t work. One transgresses societal norms the other does not. Frankly “the right” is an illusion as well, especially for the US where the right wing is even more rabidly pro-Israel and pro-Jew. You also managed to avoid the central point: it’s easy to find out what is actually transgressive art. The people who claim to be seeking it out are clearly not. “Transgressive” in practice means safely ensconced in a progressive worldview and challenges nothing whatsoever.
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>>24717726Don't hate on Mitski; that song is a banger.
>>24715021I wonder if those people will ever realize their attempts at educating people on racism never work because the people reading that crap seriously are the ones who already suffer from white guilt and not actual unironic racists.
>>24716893Fucking gross. I would never call my 100% Nippon blooded gamer girlfriend a chink because I love her.
the oxford history of the united states only starts at the american revolution, is there a recommended book that covers everything before this?
>>24717544>>24717549God DAMN IT, this is what I get for not reading the whole thread carefully
>>24717544Nice that this is finally getting published but I’m still more excited for the Imperial America volume covering from then to the end of the Seven Years War. I guess the only consolation is that it’s being written by the preeminent living expert on the Seven Years War in America. I do think the 60 or so years preceding it are also seriously underexplored and am curious to see what the author can unearth and interpret about it. Must be a bitch to research though because it is still early modern history which infamously people don’t give a shit about. The fact that the author writing the book on the Progressive Era though still hasn’t finished after almost 2 decades now is criminal. Unlike Anderson I think his problem is that he has an abundance of sources because arguably in that period print media in America reached its absolute apogee without competitors from any other mass media source so the amount of material to sift must be immense. Also he’s honestly covering at least 3 different eras, the “Progressive” era proper from 1896-1914, the WWI and after era from 1914-1920, and the roaring 20s, all of which had a different zeitgeist and could honestly have merited different books on their own. Must be strange for him to see that in the time it took to write that one book since 2006 America had again gone through at least 2 major cultural shifts
>>24717412That whole piece which you quoted makes me feel sick and if I was forced to read the book I would sooner kill myself. Truly ghoulish way of interpreting the past that these (((academics))) do.
>>24717667Early modern history is my favorite. You have no idea...
>>24717549oh ya hell oxford finna drop a prequel
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
>>24717112he probably said this before the CIA existed.orson welles said something similar
>>24717120christ but you're stupid and self-absorbed. no, i don't want anything to do with any subset of you freaks.
>>24717158>I'm not a fag! I'M NOT! I JUST TALK LIKE ONE OKAY YOU'RE ALL FREAKSKek even if you accept yourself they'll never accept you and you know it <3
>>24717160i am "them" you fucking retard.
>>24704007Probably most people can't make good art, trannies are a tiny number of people, small sample size=shit art
Why did so many major traditionalists become Muslim? Aren’t there are other ways of initiation? I don’t want to become Muslim to reach God.
>>24718167Ananda Coomaraswamy said he valued the Gospels, st. Paul, Philo etc just as much as more "eastern" sources. In fact he goes on to say he considered Meister Eckhart the greatest teacher. This is in his letters
>>24718153Do not do this>>24718149Yes and no. Its complicated by history
>>24718185Thanks. I should read him i guess
>>24718185How do I get initiated through Meister Eckhart?
>>24718199Your choice of German Roman Catholics or Lutherans
Post your own work and critique others.
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The dust I’d settled on her name beganTo stir inside the silence of my head;I wrote a song, as a haunted manWill bargain with the specters of the dead.So when I longed for a shadow that was you—A living likeness, traits and features true—I sought you out, to see a dead dream through,And grant the past an hour that was not due.You began with a measured slight,Fangs and claws to my bird call,Then, crumbling, pled your miserable plight,It was SHE, I did recall. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24718114Oh man. Riding the train to work, randomly opened this thread cos I'm bored and... this hit me hard. I had a BPD bitch once. What a beautiful nutjob she was. Broke up with her 17 times over four years before I could genuinely break free. Their oscillation from antagonizing you to wallowing in self pity to crying, to garner sympathy, is really something. They will hate you with such ferocity and then come cuddle in your arms like a kitten and then start kissing you and telling you how you are their entire life. And then suck your dick like their life depended on it. But really she is sucking out your life force. They're little sex demons. When you show them kindness they'll think you are weak and when you don't, you are Voldemort himself. Guaranteed best sex you'll ever have is with a BPD chick and for some reason they are always super hot but the damage she's gonna cause to your peace of mind is just not worth it.
Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
>>24717911Yeah machen was into the occult but later became a catholicAnd most of the references are made up just like lovecraft's references to other gods but there are a few that are real (troy towns are a real thing in britain) or are references to classical mythologynow you've read machen time to read blackwood if you haven't already. they're like two sides of the same coin when it comes to the transcendental spiritual view of nature
>>24717886Pickman's Model. One of the few horror stories that has actually creeped me out.
>>24718088If you want to keep up the horror theme, go with Frankenstein.
Tonight's horror story was Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King. Wow. I hadn't read anything by King in years but that was pretty good, definitely on the Lovecraftian side for sure. Apparently it's a prequel to his (earlier-written) book 'Salem's Lot, which is about vampires so I'm not even sure if I'm interested in reading it (I find nothing more trite in horror than the vampire trope), but the short story was really cool. "De Vermiis de Mysteriis"! Hahahaha. Now bedtime.
>>24717996The Shadowy Street/Gloomy Alley (depending on your translation) by Jean Ray. The Mainz Psalter by him as well, they're both in the same collection
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>>24718057>>24718067The tragedy of capitalism.
Did Samuel Beckett have autism?
who doesn't these days
Possibly. Watt certainly does.
>>24717557Yes. I've read his three novels
And they said never to start a sentence with that word... But you know what? I think it's actually worse if you end a sentence with the word "and". Same with "but".Why were we never taught this?
>>24715612Your sentence? Weird structure and poorly formed, larps as old timey. Technically a mess by prescriptive standards, irritating and ambiguous by descriptive standards. Complex sentences should develop linearly with a clear path for how the dependency works. If you want the "by me" there it would be better off in em-dashes or parentheses. I would go with parentheses but the case could be made for either; in context of a larger bit of writing it is easier to say which would be better. >>24715617It is not a rule, it is a guideline to make retards less irritating to listen too.
>>24715650But surely you realise this is just what people talk like?
>>24715649How would that provide a pause? Are you trying to use starting with a "but" to refer back to a previous sentence? Can you provide an example?
>>24715636Because that's part of the English language.
>>24713472>uses irony wrong>"no anon, that isn't what I meant, you didn't understand">is asked what they meant>doesn't answer>calls the other person retardedGo figure, kek
