>read book >cry >not even sad scene just cry But why?
>>25182458You need to self-reflect. If you're crying for "no reason" it's because something in the scene resonated with you.
>>25182558Sure, maybe. Or maybe he kinda is just a smidgen, just a little bit of a little pussy bitch though?
>>25182458Sometimes happens to me with random songs or movie scenes. Something would just go straight go my heart and i have not been able to figure out the cause.Guess things just affect me sometimes.
>>25182458If the beauty of language cannot make you cry can you even consider yourself a living, breathing and thinking human being?
>>25182760>>25182558For me it is usually two things - adversity and sacrifice against the forces of evil or a rare act of sincerity in a world that doesn't reward it.
the walls of tyrosh editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25132678
>>25182367He also hated Gandalf coming back from the dead, yet resurrections and false deaths are far more common in asoiaf than lotr.
>>25182394Lady Stoneheart is so fucking stupid man it annoys me to no end. Cat had a perfect ending.
>>25182394He's fine with resurrection if there's consequences and the character comes back lesser.
>Every character has a different end. I told them who would be on the Iron Throne, and I told them some big twists like Hodor and “hold the door,” and Stannis’s decision to burn his daughter. We didn’t get to everybody by any means. Especially the minor characters, who may have very different endings.>They did it very physical—“hold the door” with Hodor’s strength. In the book, Hodor has stolen one of the old swords from the crypt. Bran has been warging into Hodor and practicing with his body, because Bran had been trained in swordplay. So telling Hodor to “hold the door” is more like “hold this pass”—defend it when enemies are coming—and Hodor is fighting and killing them. How will Bran becoming king and Stannis burning Shireen possibly be more palatable?
what are the most popular & likely fan theories i should research before the sixth book comes out?
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.
>>25176110You can really make many different types of enemies with those charts, including multiple different aspects of Sauron but also villains from Lovecraft, Bakker, Wheel of Time, Moorcock's Chaos, etc. or dungeon master type protagonists from isekai, though spending all that effort and opportunity cost for making a dungeon doesn't appear to be particularly effective for attaining the challenge goal.(The >>25181240 proposal was inspired by Tom Bombadil with a dash of Smith of Wootton Major.)A nasty idea that came to me involves picking Lustful Minions and Brood along with some nasty races (possibly involving Mutants) and then running wild with rampant hybridization. This might be the single most effective "making the goddesses rage quit" tactic possible based on the precedent of the Nephilim.
I now realize why so many people use standard dnd races. It's hard to communicate about your world without a common cultural knowledge to back on.
>>25182526>It's hard to communicate about your world without a common cultural knowledge to back on.What specifically are you having trouble communicating?
>>25182549The fundamentals of whatever OC rave or faction I want to talk about.
>>25182735Have them tell stories to each other. What are their boogeymen? What are their heroes like?
why did he betray the German people? >In 1942, he wrote in his diary that he was ashamed to be a German soldier after seeing Jewish children in Paris forced to wear the Star of David.he even wrote jewish propaganda in his "diaries", mentioning various alleged atrocities the german army committed throughout ww2 i thought this guy was supposed to be based, but he was a full on jewish race traitor. why do people here push this loser so hard?
>>25182601>>25182603>>25182612Mentally retarded
>>25182601the sad thing about this anti-post WW2 order revolt, is that retards will genuinely think the hollywood created villain personalities are valid.Genuine "Nazis" will be called jewish shills, or shabbath goyim.
>>25182601Probably just seething at the fact that he wasn't able to conquer Paris in his time
>>25182601>the nazis aren't hardcore enough, they should be full on national bolsheviks>OOOOH GOD I JUST SAW A POOR JEW TODAY I AM ASHAMED TO BE GERMANCan't help a contrarian. You can give him anything he wants and he'll find a reason to disavow it
>>25182612This. How stupid do you have to be to not see nazis as vulgar populist NPCs that are today woke or whatever? They were basically national-social justice warriors.Of course an aristocrat of the soul's divine intellect will recognize them and their deeds as fundamentally niggerlicious.
>suffering builds character>therefore we should increase the ammount of suffering
>Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.-Romans 5: 3-5
>>25182547You'd love it in hell.
>>25182668If you're in Hell you're cut off from God, and therefore have no hope or joy.
>>25182730That's some fucked up psychological bullshit. Stop spreading verbal disease.
>>25182734Sorry, anon, you're drawn to the truth whether you want to be or not.
Are the Eton, Oxbridge English upper crust still this smart and literate? Or have they been watered down like everyone else?
>>25182253What exactly do you have invested in this? Be specific.
>>25182405Health, money, and time. Can't be decadent without a fair amount of drugs, you know.
>>25182388Well you can look these things up. Classicists were made to defend their theses in Latin. (I can't imagine they do this anymore?) Thomas De Quincey talks about impressing his teachers by being able to translate newspaper articles into ancient Greek on the fly.Believe it or not, schools used to teach...
>>25181479Nah, this was back when only wealthy aristocrats could afford a liberal arts education. Democratizing the arts effectively killed them.
>>25182388I think some people are naturally that good with languages. I struggle with Norwegian. My great uncle spoke AND read English, Greek, Armenian, German, French, Russian and Chinese fluently. And classical Hebrew, apparently, but I think that was a retirement project.
Previous: >>25122533https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25122533~Itinerary~• Friday, April 3rd, 10:00 AM GMT>Character & theme requirements revealed; start writing!• Monday, April 6th, 11:59 PM GMT>Submission deadline; voting and critique begin.• Friday, April 10th, 10:00 AM GMT>Voting ends; winners crowned; critique persists with thread.~Rules~WritingComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Last thread, I wrote>If this thread dies before I write any feedback, I’ll just post it all in next month’s.and I will share it here, but as a rentry link, not as individual posts, so as to not bog down the thread.I just have one left to write, so I’ll link it tomorrow, before the requirements drop.>[Countdown to requirements reveal]https://countingdownto.com/?c=7009435
I cried at the end of The Road, but was completely indifferent to the fate of the Kid, or anyone else in Blood Meridian.
>>25181055do you look like that
the kid dosent have a contrasting philosophy to Holdens, hes just slightly less evil. nothing about him would warrant sympathy
>>25181055I was sad about the bear
>>25181055They’re all just a bunch of evil cunts in BM. That all being said, I don’t care for anyone in either book. Glanton, he’s cool.
>>25181055Blood Meridian is not about characters, but gnostic problem of evil.
History general thread. What have you been reading and what have you to recommend–>discuss? I started this last night and it's kino of the highest order. For fans of Storm of Steel. Next history book I'm going to read after this will probably be Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. I'll finish Ghost Wars eventually.
>>25153806Age of Capital is vastly superior, for something more focused picrel>>25179927This and Michelet’s are the only classical histories of the French Revolution worth reading today, and solely for the literary aspect.
>>25175795Nobody?
>>25181918>most of humanity were still semi-nomadic by the industrial revolutionInteresting, where was this? India? Middle East? Africa? Because Europe, North and South America and China were not doing this at all. They were all modern agrarian civilizations, with maybe some small exceptions.
>>25182122Bizzump
>>25182656Is there any books with a wide scope like this written by actual historians similar to Felipe-Fernandez Armesto's edition of the Oxford History Of The World?
Which philosophers have totally 180d on their previous held views and repudiated themselves?
>>25182625He probably wants it to remain fictional I'm assuming
>>25182659Well, do you see pride parades in Abu Dhabi or Beijing? There are plenty of prostitutes and transgenders there, but not one LGBT flag
>>25182663China has too much of their own problems to worry about gay pride parades like sweatshops and infectious diseases.
>>25182702And besides the only reason they don't is because protesting is illegal there. Pride parades qualify as protesting so they're banned. But they still got worse things to worry about and I don't get the whole deal with "x culture sucks so therefore culture y will be much better" the whole grass is greener on the other side fallacy which Aristotle already disproved in the Nicomachean Ethics. The answer is always a secret third thing and it's neither McDonald's globohomo or sand nigger religious fundamentalism.
>>25182707Meant to quote >>25182663
No, its not that I don't understand, or I get bored, or I'm not cultured enough. Quite the opposite. Dostoevsky is fake-deep slop for midwits. I cannot comprehend how an actually intelligent individual could like his works. It seems to me that its more normies circlejerking to seem cultured.
>>25179602Ivan is the biggest strawman I've ever read. "Oh no, I've stopped believing in God, but I still secretly believe in God, but I have to keep saying I don't, oh no. now I'm going insane and seeing the devil because I actually still believe but I'm just lying about not believing." This is the exact kind of propaganda a Christian would concoct about a non-believer and it's just embarrassing. Dosto was constitutionally unable to step outside the framework of his own Christianism.
>>25180560This is like saying Fifty Shades of Grey is literature. Dosto is just misery porn with a Christian Orthodox accent to assuage the reader's super ego and allow them to indulge in the depravity of the narrative.
>>25181816Good goy, stick to video games and anime like I told you.
>>25182678>This is like saying Fifty Shades of Grey is literature.No, it's not. Fifty Shades of Grey is erotic fiction/genre fiction. Dostoevsky is literature.>X is just YVery shallow analysis. Maybe books aren't your thing either?
>>25182684>Can't engage with why X isn't YWow, you capitulated so quickly.
Should Nobel Literature Prize laureates be selling A.I.-generated slop novels?
>>25177124They should give him the Nobel War Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize
>>25179661What is BOM?
>>25180553Just some shit that is self-shilled by some spic. Ignore.
>>25180553The Book of Marlon. I think there's a free copy floating around somewhere if you look for it.
>>25180132Bob Dylan is probably so retarded he thinks the AI generated monologues are actually what Napoleon and Alexander the great would have said. I doubt he understands you can get an AI to make Napoleon talk about how much he loves Hatsune Miku.
truly a piece of art, what do you think about it?
Where do you usually get free e-books for your Kindle?
picrel, and open-slum.org to see what's up when a mirror gets slapped down. bookmark that link, OP. comes in handy
>>25178030It used to be a website that sold pens.
>>25177653z-library
>>25182175You are not even there.
Anyone has a good copy or epub of みずうみ by 川端 in jap of course. The only version in anna is an absolutely shit pdf
I simply REFUSE to believe that this retard sold enough books to own a PENTHOUSE.
>>25180701More people irony bought Waldun. No one irony bought books that the author knows are absolute shit and not in a funny way and banks on people buying them ironically because he keeps trying to monetize coal.
>>25180765I've heard Gardner's books are actually somewhat entertaining though, if rather amateur? Waldun's books are just meandering and shite.
>>25180701the penthouse money is his family wealth. they are one of the wealthiest families in chicago. you know the old saying about chicago. everybody from chicago knows it: chicago, the home of the and the cubbies and the mob, where the pritzkers talk only to the gardners and the gardners talk only to God.
>>25182563Nobody has ever said his books are entertaining except him and the members of Unreal Discord which he is on and who all shill each other here, even though he refuses to contribute to their publication unless they pay him. His books are pumped out as a cash grab that tried to monetize /lit/ culture with zero effort. Waldun is actually sincere which is where the ironic value is. Gardner is just a piece of shit trying to make money knowing his product is dogshit, he is a salesman with the same values as someone working in a South East Asian call center
>>25178200yes, and?
