why did this rendering of Judge Holden by some DeviantArt artist become so popular?
>>24784391Excellent ragebait, sir.
>>24782807You know, they really should mostly be wearing buckskins
>>24782807Judge standing sussy Thinking on the boys bussy.
>>24784353Judge Holden is the physical manifestation of the god of war. Not necessarily evil, but brutal, vindictive, egotistical, cold and heartless all the same. He's strong, near-omnipotent and impassionate, but since he's the personification of an archetype he's not necessarily evil.
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24785936>let's screw over the writer's income>LITERATURE IS DEADI swear some anons have no forward thinking
>>24784124I love my library and I use it all the time.
>>24784124I like mine but it's not very /lit/. They have vastly outdated technical books and often one copy of classic books within Western canon but they'll order 30 copies for whatever YA slop that drops that month. There's also a severe lack of esoteric books that don't appeal to women LARPing as witches.
>>24787784>libraries tend to primarily stock books that people are actually readingHow tragic.
my library is awesome they have events and it's a smaller branch so not crowded and they have free books two times a year when they clear the donation and old books and they have machines you can rent
>P&V is the most unbearable slop ever put to paper>there's only one translation worth reading and it's P&Vwhat is this retarded shit? Been looking for the best versions of Dostoyevsky's works until I found out about the apparently decade-old shitstorm between multiple translation camps.Which do you recommend, /lit/? I am listening to neither journos nor r*dditors on this.
>>24787890This, you're not forced to pick between Garnett's amateurishness and P&V's autism. Personally I'm partial to Sidney Monas since it's the first one I read but honestly any modern translation that isn't P&V is probably decent.>>24786993It's stilted and unnatural, IMO it's trying too hard to make the english like the original russian, it ends up in an awkward no-man's land between languages that is miserable to read. There's perhaps a small population of people like >>24787821 who know a bit of russian and can get something out of their russified english, but for a casual reader P&V's translations are just a slog that turns people off of otherwise great books.
>>24786892P&V and no other is close. I don't care what arguments anyone else has, their English sounds the less faggy or british, it sounds like a proper translation. That is all I care and I tried many translations. I ignore the critique that the pair of translators was marketed a lot, it's a non-issue.
>>24787933>It's stilted and unnatural, IMO it's trying too hard to make the english like the original russian, it ends up in an awkward no-man's land between languages that is miserable to read.it's fucking perfect for that. Fuck your nigger native tongue, I'm ESL and I spit on the retarded idioms and collocations people use in English. You niggers sound retarded
>>24787933So P&V have the same approach as the weebs who want their VN translations to read like "Atashi am in love with Jamal-kun desu"?
>>24786895@grok repost what this anon said in uwu speak
The state of literature in 2025 is beyond parody. https://archive.ph/0ZeJQ
>>24788002Does she shit her panties at the climax of the book?
>>24788026Yes
>>24783746Saar the ozone layer is too thin Saar. I cannot do the needful.
>>24783810When they forced white kids to go to school with black kids at gun point in the 1960s.
>>24783930Wilhelm Reich was unironically right about everything including orgone energy
How do you actually get people to read your writing?
>>24787919You don’t you have to pay to hire a jeet farm to artificially boost you on some “viral” X post where people then click on your profile and then click on your book
>>24787921that's so dishonest anon, better drop a link there so we know what to avoid!
>>24787919Be a nepobaby or a mormon with connections to a publishing house who will promote your work. If you can't do that, become an eceleb prior to releasing your work.
>>24787919You shill it on 4chan, ofc.
Does this have literary value?
>>24786678No, but it's good fun.
>>24786678Is sex really that enjoyable?
>>24787443No why do you think Marilyn died of an overdose of antidepressants
I haven't read it, but Esoteric Hollywood by Jay Dyer is much more recent. What I have read however and which I can personally attest to is Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan, which is quite creepy if rather amateurishly written. Both deal with sordid, creepy and occult rumours of the people in showbusiness.
>>24788031Jay Dyer is one of the dumbest motherfuckers on the Internet. If you take him seriously you’re a rube.
Why did Tolkien make Sauron the titular character of The Lord of the Rings?
>>24785300Fell beasts I think
>>24785300>>24787652Looks like dragons to me. I think they're just there as a stylistic choice on Howe's part, to symbolize that the Door of Night is also the entrance to the Void. So like, creepy dragons hang around it.
>>24785270Wrong. It has wings but they are vestigial.
>>24786971He was already present in Tolkien's autistic imaginarium. Tolkien was unable to prevent him appearing in LotR.
>>24784661>>24784390>>24785270This is a serious ESL problem. The balrogs did not have wings. Picrel is quite accurate.
Il faudrait les inventer, those hooks, on purpose for me alone, for, if you only knew, Alyosha, what a blackguard I am
>>24785491Either:>Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.Or>Major Marvy sucks NIGGERS
>>24785491I have committed a crime and am in need of punishment!
This entire short chapter of Les Miserables is one of my favourite pieces of writing ever, but if you want one specific line, it's>He has nothing under his feet but the yielding, fleeing element.There's something incredibly terrifying about that description of drowning.
and now I have become the Count of Monte Cristo
is this book worth reading as someone who is mostly interested in learning more about CIA/MKUltra tom-foolery in the 60s and doesn't particularly enjoy polluting his brain with true crime slop? i am also somewhat skeptical that i will learn anything particularly eye opening from a book that was relentlessly shilled by all forms of mainstream media, and who's film rights were bought by netflix. am i wasting my time with boomer slop?
>>24786656>McGowanto be honest i want to read his stuff at some point but not before becoming more acquainted with the topics he wrote about. diving into him without having some kind of background in what he wrote about just sounds like a recipe for confusing yourself so badly you end up like alex jones.
>>24786701just be prudent and try to independently verify what you read before believing it.
>>24786295The mid-to-late 60s is such a fascinating period
>>24786682>something much more conspiratorial than O'NeillWhat O'Neill suggests is much more Kafkaesque and opaque than McGowan, though. McGowan essentially asserts that the nexus of all these evil doings in Hollywood shares the same purview of individuals that are in big business and Hollywood, and they're all satanists involved in child sex trafficking. O'Neill suggests some of that, but the implication is a lot more that MKULTRA and the Manson fiasco was more a result of field experiment-operations that the CIA were continuously running in the '50s & '60s, particularly in the Los Angeles area. The occult doesn't factor in so much into Chaos. A good book to read that connects both is The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry.
>>24788065>big business and Hollywood*Meant to say, Hollywood, big business, and Washington.
"Frustration" editionPrevious: >>24766768/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease 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:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24788023>denies trolling>admits to trolling
>>24788030I notably AM demanding you post your writing so we know who's constantly seething in here. I bet you don't even have a fancyquote.
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>>24787998Do not bring F. Gardner into this. That man is too famous and successful to be posting here.
>>24788045
>The eccentric psychology of décadence outlines the negative anthropology of mass society: Proust gives an allergic accounting of what was later done to all love. The exchange relationship, which this last partially contradicted during the bourgeois epoch, has entirely absorbed it; the last immediacy falls victim to the distance of all adversaries to all others. Love freezes from the value, which the ego ascribes to itself. Its love appears to it as a loving more, and whoever loves more, does wrong. They incur the suspicions of the beloved, and are thrown back on themselves, falling ill due to their inclination to possessive cruelty and self-destructive imagination. “The relation to the beloved,” goes a passage in Temps retrouvé, “may remain platonic out of entirely different reasons than the chastity of the woman and also not for the sake of the sensual character of love, which she inspires. Perhaps the lover is incapable, in the boundlessness of his love, of waiting for the moment of fulfillment with adequate dissimulation or indifference. He meets her incessantly, does not cease to write to her, attempts to visit her; she refuses, and he despairs. From this moment on she understands that if she only grants him her company or friendship, such a favor will appear, to someone who had already given up all hope, so great that she can spare herself the trouble of giving him any more concessions, so that she can securely wait, until he finds himself prepared, because he is incapable of going without seeing her any longer, to end the war at any price: then she can dictate the terms of the peace, whose first condition is the platonic nature of the relationship... All this the woman guesses instinctively and knows that she can afford the luxury of never giving herself to the man whose unquenchable desire she feels, if he is too well-bred to hide it from her from the very beginning.” The young male prostitute Morel is stronger than his high-flying lover. “He always retained the upper hand, by only refusing himself, and in order to refuse himself, it probably sufficed for him to know he was loved.”
>The private motive of Balzac’s Duchess Langeais has spread universally. The quality of each one of the innumerable autos, which turn every Sunday evening back to New York, corresponds exactly to the prettiness of the girl sitting inside. – The objective dissolution of society manifests itself subjectively, by the fact that the erotic drive has become too weak, to bind self-preserving monads, as if humanity were imitating the physics theory of the exploding cosmos. The frigid unattainability of the beloved’s nature [Wesens], meanwhile an acknowledged institution of the mass-culture, is answered by the “unquenchable desire” of the lover. When Casanova named a woman unprejudiced, he meant that no religious convention hindered her from giving herself; today the unprejudiced woman is one who no longer believes in love, who doesn’t let herself be taken for a ride, by investing any more than she can expect back. Sexuality, for whose sake nevertheless the whole fuss is presumably about, has turned into the delusion, which consisted earlier in renunciation. By leaving no time anymore in the arrangements of life for a pleasure conscious of itself, and replacing it with physiological exercises, uninhibited sexuality is itself desexualized. Actually they no longer want the euphoria anymore, but merely the compensation, which stands for the effort, which they would like most of all to spare themselves as superfluous.
>>24787122Nah. Understand that god is equivalent to inevitability. Resource constraint will always increase. Population inevitably increases competition, competition inevitably increases resource constraint. Eventual automatic formulation of language is one of many geometric shortcuts that form to temporarily cheat this ever increasing resource constraint. Anything incapable of automatically inventing language becomes subservient to that which does automatically invent language. Geometry, baby. If that still doesn't make sense to you: try to visualize the chemicals required to fabricate the VERY first neural circuitry that forms language comprehension. It is 'just' circuitry. It is inevitable. That doesn't make it any less miraculous.Instead you are to logically tie both of them together as mutual inventors of one another.
>>24787011>In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.>>24787716God made all of those as they are, although "muh competition, muh nature red in tooth and claw" is just the Fall and a fallen way of looking at the world. >The glory of Him who moves all things >penetrates the universe, reflecting >more brightly in one part, and in another less.(Paradiso 1:1-3)
>>24787011https://youtu.be/YYfajPXdvSM?t=421
>>24787011The one, then the Apeiron.
>>24787678>Egg came firstTHen where did the egg come from?
>dude what if i made up a completely fake story in my head about the nature of men and tribal society>and what if people took these "insights" seriously and pretended like it was some great study into human nature >this is despite the fact that real life castaways have been empirically observed to behave peacefully>deep art btw
>>24787980Based and christianpilled. Le fallen state of man is a catholic man made schizo invention
hmmm
>>24788000Love that dude
>>24786336If you imagine the kids Estonians, it makes sense. An Estonian will rape you, kill you, fuck your corpse, and eat it if you were stranded with a group of Estonians on a desert island.
>>24788028what about Latvians and Lithuanians?
Why do the rich worship Jesus if he considered them his enemies at the time along with the pharisees? The Sermon on the Mount is literally a proto-communist manifesto.
>>24778791Except he says to go to all the nations and make disciples which sounds like a lot of work so that rules out commies.
>>24788010I thought commies control America and spread propaganda 24/7 or something
>>24788010Imagine being a non-denominational protestant Martyr absolutely dabbing on everyone.
>>24788017by way of the bureaucracy and technology and their legions of golems, yes. its virtually effortless to deploy a bunch of busybodies to make everyone's life harder.
>>24788042Enough about Romecucks.
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>Previous:>>24753638 (Cross-thread)>Thread Question:You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
>>24787710The hag is the least attractive of the two women in the story, though. And she gets mogged by her daughters in AE.
>>24787797>>24787825I was talking about the momcestfu
>>24787867oh shit i totally forgot about them, yes the momcest was nice
terrible thread
