Are Hunger and Growth of the Soil any good?
not just good, but necessary reading
Existentialist garbage. If you're Christian you're not going to enjoy it.
>>25184447So as a Hellenic polytheist, will I like it or not?
>>25184530you will love it
knutzi
Name the most based author you can think of?
>>25184571Probably Sade.
>>25184571Ted Kaczynski
>>25184667Correct.
Marquis De Sade.
david hume
Are there any good books about Netorare? I want to feel something. The bleaker and more gut-wrenching the better.
>>25184637Hamlet
>>25184637Naomi?
Oedipus Rex
>>25184637get help
Don Giovanni opens with him having (or so she claimed later) raped a woman while wearing a mask but his dick game was so big she begs him to stay afterward and says she won't ever let him go. He escapes and kills her father, she then demands her fiancé find him and take revenge. After he does she tells him he has to wait another year to marry because she isn't in the mood
I am trying to write fun novellas with good prose, but for the love of God, all I can ever write about is the problem of suicide, and the farthest I've strayed from his is low brown economics and political philosophies (the pro-wrestling of philosophy) masquerading as actual philosophy. My characters can barely pontificate about anything besides how they deal with their own suffering, like I am somehow repeating time and time again what Camus has already talked about in the 1940s.I guess it does not help that I have struggled with the problem of suicide myself, and frankly have so much ceased to find joy in the struggle that I'd have blown my brains already had I not given away my one gun.Everything else just feels unimportant, but I have nothing particularly interesting to add to what Camus has already written.
>>25184471They say actually killing yourself helps you to understand, you could try it and who knows, maybe the right ideas and the right words will come pouring out.
>>25184471I see a few approaches to try. Find another space to vent, whether within a different outlet or writing elsewhere. Let yourself see it through and it will be what it is, or turn it into auto fiction and use it to work through your pain. I don't know if you're just writing for yourself or an audience, but you could keep this one and copy it once your mind's off things. Pick and choose what you'd like to keep and what needs changed with a fresh set of eyes.
just shoot yourself up with opioids on your deathbed
>>25184471write your way out of ithttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-k9sTAYEQ
Monsters, Dragons, Beasts, Creatures, Horrors, and Miscellaneous Lifeforms Edition Version 2: Magical and/or Alien BoogalooFAQ:>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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I’ve started a new world building project focused on a place of learning, think the citadel from asoiaf. I want the main bulk of it to be in universe texts written in some of my conlangs that further explain the world. I started learning calligraphy with a dip and made an Arabicish script for one of them and got some aged looking paper and I hope to bind in universe books. I’m starting with a book of creation myths that the various cultures have. The pic is of the current version of the script.
>>25183713You should make a naming language conlang. Figure out the sounds that make dutch sound Dutch and French sound French. Pick a structure for the syllables then just make them up. Using this isn’t as complex as a full conlang but will allow the names of people and places in your world to be coherent and sound like they belong together. I recommend the zompist how to conlang web page but do just enough to make words. You don’t need to do any grammar or syntax work. You can also just search “naming language worldbuilding” to find good info
>>25183713Pick a name of a rural town from each country and call them that.
>>25183702>Without the ability to reset from sudden deaths, your characters would be likely to die young from freak accidents.Only if they couldn't see it coming.
>>25184566Bingo.
What am I in for?
A lot of humor including spoofing Daoism and Chinese culture
Which philosophers have totally 180d on their previous held views and repudiated themselves?
>>25184539I doubt America cares about the Iranian people or spreading democracy.They overthrew Assad to put literal islamists in charge in Syria that are now raping women in the streets and killing religious minorities. America's issue with Iran isn't that they're oppressive chuds, it's that the Iranian leadership doesn't like Israel. That's why they fucked up Iraq as well.
>>25184539The CIA and Mossad were behind that 5th columnist astroturfing campaign, with Pompeo and Mossad openly flaunting that they had agents organizing it. That's also exactly what they did in 1953 via Operation AJAX, which destroyed Iran's democracy in the first place. And lets not forget that Bessent said himself it was US sanctions that destroyed Iran's currency and caused protests in the first place. Israel is now openly pursuing a total Syria-tier state failure of Iran that has entrenched hardliners and given a brutal reminder to all the zoomer useful idiots who were rioting two months ago why their parents hate Israel and the US. You're just gloating about a ghoulish neo-imperialist war of aggression meant to undermine a strategic partner to both Russia and China.And FYI, Fukuyama made a strategic break with the US neocons over Iraq over this very matter, in that you cannot bomb a country into regime change and pro-homosexual liberal democracy, and wrote his entire two volume Origins and Decay of Political Order books to demonstrate this. You're also conflating flipping some mid-tier/semi-peripheral nation-state power into a phony liberal democracy vassal state as representing "the ultimate victory of liberalism," which is just flat out laughable. Fukuyama's original end of history thesis was entirely Kojevian, in that the collapse of the USSR would pave the way for the UNIVERSAL triumph of a global homogenous liberal state. Absolutely nothing of the sort has happened, and turning Iran into a borderline failed state with the dressing of liberal institutions wouldn't do it, especially when the US itself backslides into a corrupt patrimonial authoritarian plutocracy, to the side of the UN being months away from bankruptcy because the US wont pay its dues, and as China continues to actually develop in a rational, national manner with spreading global influence and clout. Frankly, fuck off. Fukuyama would spit in your face.
>>25171328the hyperstitionator
>>25182119Liberal skeptics of Trump have yet to develop a real answer to him in the last 10 years because at the end of all their whining and bitching they just passively agree with what he does because he's ultimately the leader of the Liberal Empire and anything he does is in liberal interests. It's why Europeans are cuckolds that command no respect, who know they're about to be hit with a catastrophic energy crisis because of this stupid fucking war that didn't need to happen, yet all they can do is call Iran a rogue state being a meanie for closing Hormuz and waiting for Trump to win. Fukuyama is actually ahead of the curve in recognizing that America under Trump doesn't even operate as a liberal state anymore, other liberals are still complete fools with their heads in the sand waiting for the storm to subside without realizing when they re-emerge there isn't going to be a desert anymore and the relics of the pre-WW2 world they tried to bury will be unearthed again. Liberalism is self-defeating for the very reason that it produces a population of castrated weaklings and all it takes is a strongman like Trump to spew his shit to rapidly rise above the mediocrity by manipulating the herd to his advantage.
>>25182609conservative america was never liberal to begin with. they never actually accepted liberalism at any point. they were always capable of falling into a cult of personality. so it is wrong to say that liberalism produces the conditions that lead to trump. liberal america, blue america, would never vote for trump regardless of how liberal they are.
I'm at a point in my life where I think I have a pretty good idea of what most people are like if I spend enough time with them, even if they aren't open about it. Except rich people, especially rich women. They're completely opaque, I can never know what they truly think or whether they really believe what they're saying. There's some non-rich people who also do that to me, but *all* rich people do it. It's like being unreadable is the essential skill to get there.I also recently heard of the "novel of manners" genre, is there something like that for the modern west?
>>25184472You could have just said “the only way to win in modern society is to be a piece of shit” and you would have gotten your point across more clearlyAlas I agree with you. I was recently given two job offers: one a Silicon Valley startup(they’ve been a “startup” for 8 years now) where almost all the employees are ex FAANG and another a basic satellite engineering company. When I met with the managers and employees of the startup, I was immediately turned off. They were all just pretty awful people, as opposed to the other where everyone was cool and down to earth. Guess which one was making more money. I couldn’t sacrifice whatever soul I still have to gain that much money and turn into whatever those fucks are.
>>25184241This seems uncharitable
>>25180706>It's like being unreadable is the essential skill to get there.What you do isn't interesting. Your financial sorrows, windfalls and net worth derivative observations aren't interesting. You're not Richard Branson. THEY aren't Richard Branson. Business and Politics are the antithesis of light conversation. When you broach these things - particularly over a meal - you've outed yourself as a bore, not of that world. Propriety is the highest good. It's simple: pretend you're a Fed and they're marks. >>25181159>"rich people" are essentially more obsessed with image and material wealth than your average ghetto drug dealerHaute bourgeois are even more mid, because Mammon cannot anoint them with better character, social graces, real learning . . . this is where the real 'consumerism' is. These aren't the 'unreadable' per OP, they're The Hollow Men, Patrick Batemans one and all. >>25181408>Being friendly to [outgroup] serves no benefit.Comes from The Help treating them like Tourists and attempting to up-sell and scalp you as a matter of course, for no other reason than they think you're soft, and to conflict averse to not just take the hit, 'because you can afford it'.
>>25181549What looks lazy is also ruthless efficiency. Autopilot's the goal. >>25183052>the idea of poor people being flesh automata is pretty on point.Communication breaks down once there's one or more standard deviations of IQ in play. Genetic distance between, say, the British aristocrat families and working poor may as well be as distant as an entire other race. >>25184164This is the right noblesse oblige attitude, and it's what Total Tech Panopticon State fetishists can't have.
>>25184333Didnt most of those Bible folk end you're talking about up looking up to the teachings of a poor carpenter? But seriously, you're saying the great writers that everyone looks up to are *checks notes* dan and moses? Did you even think about this?
Chinese literature recs? Looking for something from the past 50 years
>>25184247just throw a penny in a bucket down the stairs, it will be like an audiobook
>>25184490https://sample-28d703b6f6eebbbb825a47e20d6ee86a.read.overdrive.com/?d=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--1e647f7d864a96be7ec5bb434a6f3eca46a4a0b5&p=_eyJzbHVnIjoid2FuZGVyaW5nLWVhcnRoLWUxYmM4NiIsImZvcm1hdCI6IjYxMCJ9Here. The original link won’t upload. Starts at beginning of the novel. Click here
>>25184490https://i.4pcdnHere try if this works. Put the link together. .org/tg/1613032252191.pdf
Uhhhh Wing Chang?
>>25184247The Chinese are not a literate people
Thrice greatest edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25103936>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.
>>25183760Thank you!
>>25183710Wizardmogged
>>25165486>The outer circle contains the Roman characters ROTA. Read in this order they spell the Latin word for "wheel" but they may be recombined to form the words "ROTA TARO ORAT TORA ATOR." This sentence, (which is not good Latin) may be translated to mean, "The Wheel of Tarot speaks the Law of Hathor." Hathor is mother Nature, the Empress in Tarot. These Roman characters are counterchanged with the four Hebrew letters, Yod Heh Vau Heh (IHVH), which is commonly translated Jehovah. Observe that the Roman letters are read clockwise around the wheel, as is shown by the position of the letter R. The Hebrew letters, on the contrary, are read in the opposite direction, and this is true with the reading of all Hebrew words. This is interesting, since it denotes a double movement.
>it denotes a double movement.neque malus neque bonus
We should be more like the Japanese
>>25173593Post hand and nose.
>>25173586Sounds like my Grandpa. Hoarding is bad
>>25184512I do want to check it out. It looks pretty schizo.
>>25180424>NTR>The Japanese art of enjoying the transient nature of relationships
>>25184635>The Japanese art of sharing; of generously offering your fellow man the opportunity to taste the same lips that you have.
Why is this so underrated?
It's not, it's really highly rated by Greek readers in classical departments
>>25184499I mean more in the general population. Classical departments like it because it's written in easy to understand Greek for a beginner.
>>25184627That's not really what it's used for today. Passages are selected from a multitude of worksThe general population doesn't read classical literature anymore than they listen to classical music
>>25184495That's a horrific edition. Excellent job
So it's just stoicism + astrology?
You'd be shocked to find Stoicism is just Platonism hyper specialized on semantics and personal ethics.
>>25184559I don't see why Platonism implies Stoicism rather than any other kind of ethics.
>>25184559StoΙcism teaches you the fundamentals for pursuing ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΕΡΓΟΝ
Stoicism is (literally) Cynicism for dweebs
>>25184540Neoplatonism is really just like stoicism with idealism. See for instance Simplicious' commentary on Epictetus' Enchiridion
You have eyes but failed to see Mount Tai! EditionStubbed >>25172742>What is /wng/ — 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'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25184078>Writers that don't bother to describe the surroundings at all are my greatest gripe.Writers that waste words on shit nobody cares about is my greatest gripeUnless the environment tangibly matters, you get 10 words tops. Stop wasting my time
>>25182495>anti womanWhy do you care so much? People have the right to write however they want. If you don't like it, then don't read it.
I've been reading reverend insanity because it was recommended on this thread, it's my first Chinese novel. Is it normal for the MC to turn male characters into women and add them to their harem in Chinese novels? It's happened thrice so far (bai ning bing, ying wu xie, and hei lou lan but I guess she was a woman to begin with)
>>25184457people can write what they like, that's true.However if you write only men, you like only men. Which makes you homosexual.
>>25184364more description is objectively betterliterate readers can enjoy the scene while low iq zoomers can skim past it
Most so called "infohazards" are just knowledge about dangerous things, but nothing maddening or reality-bending or shaping in themselves. True infohazards is the kind that leaves you a gibbering madman raving at the moon, true to Lovecrafts endings in his writings.
The only thing that I think would be a genuine infohazard would be something you had to keep secret but ate you away inside.
>>25182868A lot of this sort of thing is unintentionally self-defeating. To accept a radically new type of truth you have to first accept that the old type is false. Once you've convinced yourself that truth, even that which is established or confirmed by your own experiences, can be doubted, you just start doing it to everything, including the new truth you were attempting to learn. You become either The Man That Doubts Everything or The Man That Believes Everything. /x/ is full of them.
>>25182868I'm writing a story about mind reading that works the opposite way. There aren't really any ideas that are hazardous in themselves, but accessing someone else's thoughts directly is hazardous because of how the metaphysics of the setting operate. Someone can read the mind of another person and only "hear" thoughts about grocery lists and mundane childhood memories and still end up injured or crippled if the conditions align in the wrong way.
>>25182868There are no ideas that can just make you go insane. Your brain literally cannot process ideas that could do that. And if you had a better brain, those ideas wouldn't drive you insane.Try to make a dog insane by whispering unfathomable eldritch secrets in its ear. It's not going to give a shit.
>>25184564What about that woman who left an elite party talking about how they were sacrificing and eating people? Info hazard seems like it is real, but it’s something you encounter not read.
