>>24660302
>Tampa
Lolita who doesn't know. Yet what is Tampa. I'm on 4chins so I'm almost afraid to ask yet this is /lit/. I might not die from the shock. Go on and tell me. I mean you have to tell me because I can't google "tampa" I'll get travel brochures for florida.

>>24660367
It's basically reverse lolita

It's not porn, nor is lolita, I was making a joke.

>>24660276
The problem I see, is that the OP itself (her/him) won't put his money where (her/his) mouth is. Post your work first, to encourage others to contribute. Not just ONE sentence story, or a "link" to a story, but make use of the god damn thread.
Other thing is, a 4chan user DON'T TRUST LINKS TO WHATEVER THE FUCK random site he doesn't know anything about. I don't ever follow links on this site EVER. Just youtube videos and that's it.

This is an anonymous board to make use of the freedom to write whatever the fuck you feel like writing and share thoughts with others. If you try again, you will have to put some effort in writing some stuff to get anons interested in writing their own shit. The problem is, they too will be hesitant to write their "masterpieces" and get their "brilliant ideas stolen" lmao
This "capitalist" shit system became such a deformity that people can't even shit a turd without taking it out of the toilet, and try to "sell" it.

>>24660379
>The problem I see, is that the OP itself (her/him) won't put his money where (her/his) mouth is. Post your work first, to encourage others to contribute. Not just ONE sentence story, or a "link" to a story, but make use of the god damn thread.
don't get your brightly colored knee socks unraveled, anon. I did post my own to break the ice. In the general I tried to get going as well as here I posted.
>
You might ot know this, but an author dropping a *link* to a WEB NOVEL SITE, is not a "sketchy link" that can be tracked. All web-novelists regularly post links to their established commercial WebNovel sites they are hosted on.
>
granted if you wont click but a YT link that's on you. But you do you anon. Just sayng that in mor ethan one general thread here that authors posting links to their work is entirely normal.
>
get a grip

>>24659617
Literotica is pretty good, has something for everyone while also having enough moderation to keep the vile stuff away (in other words it’s not Ao3). Probably the best collection of cuck/ntr stories on the internet.

>>24659666
Based TERF calling you out

>>24659666
Got me thinking of that record store scene in Human Traffic, but it's a library instead and anon asks the british-jamaican librarian for the latest femcel goonerslop

>>24659710
Lel

>>24659666
I read in the library all the time and have never had a bad experience, but I'm good looking so that might be the difference.

>>24659666
I remember going to a used bookstore and buying a bunch of margaret atwood books and the girl at the counter looked at me and asked me what I like about her.

I guess it would be pretty hard to get into the more trippy stuff about consciousness and presience without having had a heroic LSD-trip yourself

>>24658289
To understand the normie, you have to think like one. Imagine that up until now your only exposure to sci-fi was Star Wars, where everything is black and white and spelled out in a way even children can understand. Now imagine you read Dune. The parallels to Lawrence of Arabia and Islamic history fly over your head because the only thing you read is Sandersonslop. The struggle between master morality and slave morality flies over your head because you've never read Nietzsche, and to you morality only makes sense in black and white. The mysticism flies over your head because the only thing you understand are autistically defined magic "systems." The cerebral aspect of the characters flies over your head because you only like characters that "likeable" and "unproblematic." The central thesis against charismatic leaders flies over your head because you're looking for a Luke Skywalker to cosplay. The worldbuilding escapes you because you have no grasp on even the basics of Middle Eastern history. Now, this would all be fine and good if all these layers were just secondary to some sort of plot, but the issue is that they're not. They are more important than the plot, and for you as a normie plotfag this is the final straw. This is why you prefer the movies to the books, as they completely strip away all the ideas that you don't understand and leave the hollow core of just the plot. I fucking hate Villeneuve so much, the most autistic director alive picked to adapt a novel of deep nuance was bound to end in failure. As shitty as Lynch's Dune was, it kept some element of the complexity of the novels, and ofc normies hate it for doing that.

>>24658289
>baby's first sci fi series
>makes normies uncomfortable

>>24658302
My gf loved the latest movies but dropped the book after a few chapers

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>>24658289
I finished God Emperor yesterday and didn't really like any of the books. Am I just retarded?
>None of the characters in any of the books are interesting, they may as well just be cardboard cutouts
>Paul never really does anything bad in the chapters told from his point of view. All of the horrible shit happens off-screen
>The writing style itself has some of the shittiest prose out there. Ctrl+f "presently" will give you a hundred results per book
>Everything related to Alia
>Everything related to Jessica
>Everything related to the weird amounts of horniness in book 4
>Every book introduces a new location that is extremely important to the lore and the universe but it was never mentioned in previous entries
Genuine question, am I stupid and the books' 2deep4u themes are flying over my head? Nothing in them really seemed all that deep or philosophical, MAYBE Leto's fate of becoming the god emperor and trying to guide humanity towards the golden path but that's it

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except that's wrong you leftist

>>24660360
what love teemu outfits and jewlery she likes t- woah! please give full source!! PLEASE! wtf i didnt know this was porn

>>24660380
>the last literate generation is soillennials who grew up with harry potter and game of thrones
grim

I really want to get a physical copy of Celine's pamphlets

>>24660131
How problematic could this jew be?

>>24660131
How come Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide aren't considered problematic but rather gay icons?
They literally imported arabic kids to diddle them.

Yes. Plenty of them have commited the worst crime of them all — they disliked the Jews

>>24660131
Why do brits love buggery?

>>24653860
22
Light in August
I like and hate him and its making me depressed but it pulls me in still

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>>24653860
22
Clockwork Orange (with the original ending)
Man, people REALLY didn't understand how brown and negrified everything would get in the future even in a shitty dystopian crime world

>>24653860
29
Rereading Jane Eyre
Still my favorite book, some of the best atmosphere ever written

>>24653860
27
1001 Nights
Man this is so fucking good, but why is every other story about interracial cucking? This must be what libtards feel like when they watch Birth of a Nation.

>>24659344
Absolutely fucking insane debut novel. But allow yourself to be confused. Read slowly. Things will unfurl with a little bit of effort, a little bit of surrender.

>>24659351
mirror time is the key to every pynchon work

>>24659354
It really is just a bunch of pynchon tropes thrown at the wall. PTA is good, but kind of just a rich man's Nolan I guess.

>>24660291
>rich man's Nolan
I don't see how this can be construed as an insult. Obviously he's not on the level of one of the greatest novelists in American lit but he's a great filmmaker

should have started with CoL49. imho V. is pynchon's worst work, its insane long but doesnt really have anything more than
dd

>>24660164
Bulychev, duh!

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zara dropping more bakker praise kino

>>24659480
maron shed in book 2 is the best piece of shit ever

>>24660185
that is NOT him
lmao

>>24660370
>eceleb
>bakker spam
>kino
Holy newfag nigger.

>>24659721
>>24659778
Actually I'll make that simpler. You only need these two links.

https://youtu.be/XLlThlqCFeg

https://elements.ratherthanpaper.com/1.1

Do this proposition and report back.

>>24659804
>don't be an asshole
Shut the fuck up and stop being a sperg. I was perfectly clear the first time before your autism tripped and needed to find every way possible to excuse your misunderstanding of basic English sentences, while ignoring the most relevant example of what I was talking about at >>24659019 and acting like fucking AI and Wikipedia are elite authorities.

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People in this thread are talking about a book they haven't read and are using jeetpt and Wikipedia, meanwhile I have pretty much the entire first 6 books written out in my own manuscript

>>24659963
Why so much words

>>24659963
>I have pretty much the entire first 6 books written out in my own manuscript
I envy your dedication for acquiring knowledge

"SLYTHERIN!"
The hat shouted. I could feel my whole body being washed over with pride and relief. I think I nearly pissed myself on that stool. But right as Mcgonagall removed the hat it quickly whispered "Be careful what you wish for" and the whole hall applauded as I took my seat at the Slytherin table. I didn't pay any attention to the rest of the sorting, my head was both racing and paradoxically blank as I sat there basking in the feeling of success. I was roused from my well of thoughts by the final dismissal of the headmaster, the sorting had concluded. I hadn't heard a word of the final welcoming speech but I figured it wasn't that important and followed my fellow Housemates out of the hall. That is until someone tucked harshly on my robes. "Not you, you wait here for a minute" It was Mcgonagall who had a very stern look in her eyes. She turned around hastily and walked off. I thought of just following the rest of the students but I wasn't about to disobey a teacher on the first day of school and she seemed very serious so I instead just waited nervously while the Great Hall started cleaning itself for the next day. After a few minutes, which felt like an hour, Mcgonagall returned and beckoned me to follow her out of the hall without another word.

After walking for a bit she broke the silence. "You come from quite a prestigious family." Mcgonagall bluntly stated as she lead me through the now quiet halls of the school. The murmurs of the students were gone and aside from a few candles the hallways were large and covered in darkness. It all felt almost overwhelmingly ominous. I answered "Yes ma'am, I'm proud to follow in my families footsteps." No response aside from a slight huff. We returned to walking in silence for what felt like ages, going up and down stairs through this labyrinth of a school. Until we ended up somewhere that felt like a basement. It was damp and even darker here and I felt a shiver creeping up my body as some sort of vague warning. I was about to speak up but the tension was broken by Mcgonagall. "This is your House common room. No student of another House may enter. Be sure to remember the password" She said in a cold tone. I don't know why I got this special treatment but I was starting to get annoyed at her standoffish attitude. Shouldn't a teacher be more welcoming to new students? But as I was finishing that thought the stone walls in front of me started to writhe and morph as if it was alive, revealing behind it a large door richly adorned with silver, with snake motifs from top to bottom. "Go ahead" she said, and before I could thank her she spun on her heel and left the way she came at a hurried pace, leaving me standing in front of this door that suddenly felt intimidating.

"Alright. Deep breath. Deeeeep breath..." I prepared myself mentally and placed my hand on the door. I was ready to give it a heavy push but with just the slightest touch is started to squeak open, revealing the amazing decor behind it. The room was massive with a lower ceiling, the wet-looking stone walls dimly lit by blue and green glowing orbs that floated around freely through the damp air. Everywhere you looked there was fancy furniture, exquisite art and luxurious-looking decorations. However, as I slowly stepped forward taking it all in with genuine wonder something felt very wrong.... where was everyone?

The common rooms were supposedly always filled with students from all years, but this place was bereft of anyone. Had they all gone to bed already? Aside from the sounds of distant running water it was deadly quiet. At this point I considered if all that transpired was just a dream and I was about to wake up. But I didn't wake, and it all felt far too real. I was starting to feel light-headed. All the rushing emotions of the past hour took their toll. This quickly turned to dizziness and nausea, I carefully took a few more steps forwards toward a small table and chair and leaned on them, lightly gasping for air. I could hear the door shut behind me and decided to sit down with my head wrapped in my hands, trying to regain composure.

I had barely gotten back to my senses when a new sound startled me into clarity. Heavy-sounding footsteps came from around the corner followed by a scream.

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"YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!"
A large, rotund, dark-skinned man clad in green came barreling towards me, holding the largest steel wand I had ever seen. I instinctively put my hands in front of me for protection, shouting for him to stop but he had already reached me and slammed the wand into my stomach, knocking the air out of me. I tried to plead with him but he just kicked me face-down unto the floor. I had no idea what was going on.
"Like it says in the books, we are both blessed AND cursed."
What fucking books!? Why was he doing this? Is this some sort of hazing ritual? My mind was racing, I had never felt pain like this and I was gasping on the floor trying to catch my breath. Another slam of the wand to my side. I started crying and tried to plead for him to stop but he completely ignored me.
"Same things that make us laugh, make us cry."

Then I could hear someone else approaching, was it someone to help?
"OOOOOOH Draco, my dog! Whassup baby!"
I could see a concerned-looking student, flanked by two others, approach us. But instead of reaching down to help he looked at me with pity. Then I noticed he was holding the Sorting Hat which had an expression of utter disdain, saying nothing as I was writhing on the floor.

The black man turned back to me and upon seeing my utter confusion, chuckled heartily.
"People have to open their eyes, and their hearts. I'm talking about the choices all people face. Sometimes, they seem real, but other times there's no choice at all..."
With those words he took one step, lifted his wand up high and slammed it downwards into my skull. Bits of bone and brain splattered across the common room floor. My short time at Hogwarts already at an end.

>>24657476
my diary desu

>>24657476
>An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.
OP is a faggot.

>>24657999
How did this compare to My First Summer in the Sierra? Its one of my favorites and often see them listed as similar. Desert Solitaire has been on my list for a while now

>>24658517
Explains the Garth Greenwell blurb lmao

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>>24658370
>the dragons are the only good part of the story

>>24653188
is this official artwork or a fan comic? why is it so devoid of quality or character? it's incredibly ugly.

>>24659430
He's right though.

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>>24659156
That’s kinda cucked ngl

Just for the record because a bunch of people are still in this conversation about "referunt," I posted >>24660112 and I think that was my last post on that topic.

>>24660219
lol
that ego
welcome to 4chan, newfriend

>>24660112
>The other poster you're referring to (triviumanon) posted a while back about running into difficulty in chapter six (which is a much harder chapter than chapter three), and he had much less of a defeatist attitude about it
that was me, I'm not the trivium guy though. that was the first chapter that felt like a challenge but not too bad in the end

To avoid confusion, my posts:
>>24658436
>>24659760
>>24660144

I think I really, finally got to the bottom of it.
In the huge entry for refero in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (page 627), there is
> 6 quae fere pro mercede, praemio, dono sim. recipiuntur, colliguntur (ad usum cf. imprimis p. 605, 60 sqq.)
Almost every single example cited is a Late Latin author, with Tertullian appearing multiples times (unfortunately not with my excerpt, but they're not supposed to be exhaustive), for example:
> ut boni seu contrarii meriti iudicium a deo referat homo
So no wonder it's not in the Oxford dictionary with a cutoff date of 200.

The reference in the parentheses above is the equivalent of the spolia referre usage (as in "to bring home/back") that I had found before, so that confirms my suspicion.
It seems that in LL the meaning became more general and simply meant "to acquire", whereas in CL, some kind of movement there and back was implied.

>>24645263
>>24645335
Have you read/studied the Trivium and Quadrivium?

>>24658375
that was a disguised bump you ignorant homo

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>>24658919
follow the script bro, this thread is going to die if we don't act retarded
Just answer the question fag

>>24659445
I want heaving bosoms
>>24658939

>>24659445
roman policier

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>>24655533
Fantômas is strangely great, you would never think they were released once per month. It was basically automatic writing. Surrealists bowed to Fantômas.
There is a reedition of the original now but only the first 20 are out. Few are translated in English for some reason.