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What magazines are /lit/?
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>>24948869
Well, just about every university has a literary magazine that sees little traffic. You could always start with universities around you, but if that's not your style, type in a genre of writing you like, or adjectives you would use to describe the writing you like and then add the words "literary magazine" to the end. So long as those words aren't egregious, you'll find some, and probably with more traffic than you'd expect.
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>>24948883
I said NAME the magazines. Give me the names.
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>>24948867
>>24948869
I'll be honest I submitted half a dozen poems 3 or 4 times over to literal-who publications under my own name and they got rejected every time. Changed the name to silly ethnic shit like Malcolm Oluwale or Zuri Chukwu and they all got published first try
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>>24948922
Jeeze, anon. I gave you all the steps I followed to find my own list of literary magazines. Why do you need that list to prove that I used them? Do you think I'm making this up?

I haven't read as many this past year, but the year before I had a low-effort office job and would read about 3 stories a day from 20 or so magazines.
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>>24948926
I'm calling bull. Because they're not linked to your name, you could share them with no repercussions. Go ahead.

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Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
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>>24946037
Polygamy is how you enforce narcissistic psychopath societies where 90% of the male population hates women. Completely dysgenic and irresponsible.
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>>24946653
interesting. i hope you realize you are very very lucky
only similarity of your story to mine is that i also fell in love in college but only thing i got from that is extreme, prolonged and intense suffering for 5 or so years. i tried to make a move, she would leave me in orbit always, late replying to texts etc. then she started running through boyfriends and that's something that if not breaks you irrepairably( hopefully not), just makes you suffer immensly. im happy for you bra, i always wanted true love.
let's hope i will have better luck with love in future
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>>24948203
Are you really using terms like "word cells" unironically while posting on /lit/
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>>24945823
ABSOLUTE TRVKE
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I wonder what gay people think. What are their philosophies about love? Do they believe true love is possible between gays? Are they purely lust driven? I think you can glean a lot about reality just from how gay people perceive things. If monogamy is near-impossible among gay people then love is probably doomed purely from a behavioral standpoint for how the average man behaves.

What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed you
I just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
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>>24946542
How Is She Insufferable?
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Has anyone read any of pic related?

Who is the true heir of Ligotti?

I ask because I have read all of his short stories, and I still yearning for his brand of horror.
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>>24946642
Just FYI, all of the stories in Matt Cardin's Dark Awakenings were republished in To Rouse Leviathan.

Also, an expanded edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism came out.
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Well I finished up Loop and I guess the original Ring trilogy. That might be an all time swerve in fiction, probably the best case of fiction within fiction I've read.

I got the remaining other two books on my table, can't wait to see what else is in store, though I'm not sure how you follow up that ending.
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>>24946566
I can't stand her. And she's an absolute bitch in She and Allan.

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>evil cannot *uurp* create
*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
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>>24948024
english are not germanic and the reason tolkien stole was bc he lacked english myth
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>the english will literally name themselves after a germanic people but then turn around and say that english people are "white" but germanics are not
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>>24948034
Are you talking about their Celtic ancestry, or are you drawing a distinction between Germanic and Nordic (which the Normans were)?
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>>24948051
celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
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>>24947882
>may have influenced Tolkien
It'd be a hell of a coincidence

Two Weeks Left Edition

>Old:
>>24936611

>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
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>>24948759
>latch onto one writer or style or genre
welcome to /sffg/. this gets reinforced by the boring normalfags here in every fucking thread.
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Reminder to report and ignore newfags like >>24948799 who have been spamming off-topic for literal years.
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21311319#p21323327
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>>24948881
You missed your calling as a janny
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>>24948309
The Anvil of Ice?
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Just learned the news that R.A. Lafferty was recently outed as a holocausts denier. Saying in 1990 "I myself never did accept the idea of the Holocaust in the context of the Six Million".
I just burned my Lafferty collection. Now maybe he will have some idea as to the pain that the Jewish people faced during the Shoah™.

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Overrated or deserving of praise?
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>>24948919
Are you capable of having a conversation with someone without being a sarcastic and condescending jerk or is it necessary for you in order to compensate for your false sense of superiority?
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>>24948927
You should be thankful that I'm bumping your retarded thread so that someone as stupid as you might see it and take your question seriously.
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Good writer, shitty person. Many such cases.

I regret not getting to see him at a convention the year before he died.
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>>24948906
>>24948919
>>24948929
unprecedented levels of reddit energy
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>>24948940
You probably go there given it's the only place Ellison is actively discussed.

2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
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Wilderness War by Allan Eckert
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>>24947281
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>>24947364
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Unnecessary cursing
>11/10
>All-time favourite
You have to be 18 to post here, Europoor
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>>24947281
Candide
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>>24947281
Suttree
The Tunnel (the Argentine one)
The Glamour by Christopher Priest
And the Second Apocalypse fantasy series which is 7 books
Honourable mention to Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe, and Hard to be a God by the Strugatskys.

As far as nonfiction, I haven't finished these books but Laocoon and Wagner's On Music and Drama.

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>match with woman on dating app
>we both have literature as shared interests
>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??"
>"I'm more into the classics"
>"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?
>"I like transcendentalist literature"
>"oh ok"

Why do they ask
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>>24947357
You all come across as so conceited and douchebag-like when you get angry that some woman on Tinder doesn’t want to listen to your lecture on In search of lost time vol. 5
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>>24948563
>>24948586
see this is why you niggas get no pussy.
you don't go to tinder to find the love of your life.
you go to tinder to get your dick wet.
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>>24947390
>He's afraid to mention the book here

Are you seriously not gonna tell us which book?
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>>24948721
That's why I don't go to tinder.
Tall, rich, handsome, high charisma, high int btw.
It all correlates, also correlates with general health and I go to the doctor less than once a decade.
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>>24948091
I mean, I just haven't had a context where I could develop a friendship with a woman. I'm a coder, back when I worked in an office it was just guys, and my hobbies just don't have women in them, although curiously, that's beginning to change with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

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And what size?
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>>24948276
>20 when writing, 12 when exporting
just zoom in dude
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>>24946557
He's right, Calibri looks like putrid shit
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>look at me, i'm a wolf. I have worms, ticks, lice and mange, i sleep in a muddy ditch and watch my sister getting fucked by the alpha male!
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>>24948298
I don't find Times New Roman very easy on the eyes for extended reading
I think the characters are too tall, there's not enough uniformity in stroke width
I find Sitka much more legible
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Bitter for reading
Iosevka SS03 for text editing
IBM Plex for general UI stuff

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So they adapted a Pynchon novel for film
I've never read Pynchon before but like
"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?
I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.
The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.
This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.

Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
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>>24948699
it's a poorly formed question.
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>>24948690
>reading modernists
Degueu. I read 19th century historical novels and old classics, not narratively and aesthetically fried "form experiments".
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>>24946217
I have a dream of rampaging through a parking lot full of buzzword spouting freaks like you and caving your skulls in with a tire iron
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>>24946267
Truth social might be more your speed, Cletus. Now calm down, the suboxone clinic will be open first thing in the morning.
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>>24948538
Nta but I believe the credit at the end of the movie was "Inspired by" rather than "Based on". It arguably shouldn't be called an adaptation; its similarities with Vineland are much looser than Apocalypse Now's use of Heart of Darkness.

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>december 2025
>novel still unfinished
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>>24948774
So you are ahead. Some anons haven't even started.
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It's just me and you, anon

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I read approximately 300 pages today and it’s only noon. This doesn’t feel all that different from doing nothing desu. Unless you’re actively learning something, or you’re artistically obsessed with a specific kind of fiction, most “reading” of fiction is just passing the time.
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every second you spend not having sex with underage girls in the Philippines is wasted time
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i learn a lot about the real world reading fiction. good authors don't waste your time.
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>>24948700
Not everything resonates, even if one thinks it would.
>>24948707
You think it’s the correct choice?
>>24948728
I’m a Physicist and I was talking about Gore Vidal’s Julian and Delilo’s Cosmopolis. They were fine, but I didn’t feel as if I gained anything out of reading them.
>>24948787
I get that, but I happen upon this resonance far too rarely. More often than not reading literature fiction leaves me, not cold, but rather unfulfilled. Unless I “gel” with something.
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>>24948794
I wish I was an aristocrat…
>>24948803
Uh-huh…
>>24948814
But those are rare and I think it’s also subjective when it comes to personal attraction towards a certain novel or some such.
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If you're not trying to do anything special with your life then you're retarded.
If you're actually trying to make an impact on the world in some way then just read books that will make you closer to that aim. If you're trying to be an artist or a politician just tell yourself that reading well written fiction improves your rhetoric.

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It is not exactly well known in modern circles but much of Hemingways writing had fetishistic undertones for the sexual fetishes be possessed. It is well known that in most of his novels the main women has some sort of ratchet short haircut. Lady Brett Ashley,Maria and Catherine Barkley all had very intense details on the short hair they had. Further most of his wives had short hair and it was a subject of contention for His first wife Hadley Richardson and a mainstay with his second Pauline. Further the topic of women on male anal stimulation comes up in some of his works but more overt. The garden of Eden book truly is the embodiment of the Hemingway sexuality. Hemingwaybros how do you cope with the great man’s man writer liking women with boy haircuts and getting his buddy tickled. Personally I enjoy it.
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I had the same reaction.
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>>24944831
Based. I love Hemingway's writing, and I love women with short hair too.
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>>24948644
I hate women with short hair, but I like reading.
What is something short but sweet from the old Earnest? Then which is his best novel?
I have read Old man and the Sea.
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>>24948659
Farewell to Arms is his best novel. That said, Hemingway really shines most in his short stories. If you only read one thing by Hemingway, the Finca Vigia collection is the one to go with.
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>>24944831
If you can't disconnect author from his work and distinguish fiction from reality then you are genuinly low IQ. Or are you just brown? Do you also think Hemingway got shot in his dick during WW1 since Sun Also Rises is about that? Do you think Agatha Christie was serial killer since she wrote about murders?
Do you have inner monologue? Can you imagine hypothetical situations?

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Who's up for a good ol' fashioned stack/recent cops thread?
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>>24946935
Yeah bro, I don't actively browse this board everyday unlike you.
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Stack for december/january...I won't actually read GR it's there just to show I'm really cool
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>>24940199
hopefully not. it's peak consoom behavior.
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>>24947588
What is?
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>>24947510
makes me happy to see Italian sisters on this board
If any italian is reading this, what's the withman of italy?

Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
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>>24948046
All billionaires are egoist
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>>24947750
So, Taoism?
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>>24948041
>ignoring the reality of the world and power...

Stirner didn't ignored nor denied it, he actually recognized it by what it is instead of justifying it with some bullshit pretext like law, politics or god.

He pierced through the bullshit like no other philosopher.
Other philosophers would have written a super mambo jambo salad of words just to not say "real power is whoever wields it". And that applies to property ownership too.

His writing style is shitty and chaotic though, but that doesn't diminishes the lucidity and accuracy of (some) of his ideas.

Spooks everywhere, you too got spook'd.

>>24947773

You too, spook. Your ego is a spook.
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>>24947731
You dont enjoy philosophy, you live it.
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>what if… YOU are the spook
you didn’t read the fucking book


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