>>24644513
Taking the dust jacket off is like completely undressing before taking a shit

>>24642315
Fuck you.

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>>24645378
bodied

>>24645846
Incorrect similes are like an anteater with a glass eye.

Burgers of Ass
They all say it’s terminal
No smarts, wit, or sass
Just a fat retard, virginal

He never had a first kiss
Or a date to the prom,
So he roleplays with bots
That all talk like his mom

Watch him spam this thread
Like a frantic freak tard
He’s losing his head
Attached to 500 pounds of lard

>>24646635
Work on your scanning retard

>>24646639
He emerged pale and sickly
Face full of fat flesh
His words stumbled thickly
From lips greasy, grime fresh

He has not the brain
To retort with mirrored vigor
So stay the fuck in your lane
You fat retarded nigger

When submissions close will the jap hoe poems be eligible for voting? Asking for a friend

My votes:

>>24644182 #1 gold prize
>>24646635 #2 silver prize
>>24646508 #3 bronze prize

>>24644426
No. The links I posted are from this link.

https://archive.org/details/familia-romana-and-colloquia-personarum-audio-files

same but a few clicks in
https://ia601005.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/29/items/familia-romana-and-colloquia-personarum-audio-files/lingua%20latina%20audio.zip

In that same link is the audio for Colloquia Personarum.

>>24618933

>>24646295
If you go back and read that discussion I never said a thing about education in classical antiquity. Some retard brought that up and derailed the discussion. Neither "classics/classical studies" nor "a classical education" means "education in classical antiquity". I've already pointed this out like 10 times and you keep talking about it.

>>24646373
That's also what the Latin Wikipedia uses, so yeah you can probably get away with it.

forget the classics, what are some interesting Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin texts to read?

>>24646636
tried to read some Dante, the Latin is nice but got filtered by too much Aristotelian terminology, can't escape the Greeks

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>>24641906

whoever applies this formula for millennials is making beaucoup bux
oh wait just write ya bestiality

>>24641034
There is no advice for you there, you can't become a good writer by imitating the words of Stephen King.

You can't copy anyone else, you have to be yourself.

>>24641034
> what if car was evil
> what if writer was evil
> what if pedophiles were evil
> what if cellphones were evil
> what if past was evil

it's really not that hard to imitate Stephen King.

>>24646486
where does the fantasy part come in

>>24646251
Didn't Elliot give up on shooting a dorm/party because the door was locked or a Chad told him to fuck off?

>>24646290
THe door was locked and he left. The only thing he succeeded in doing was killing his two Chinese roommates.

>>24645039
>Elliot was an incel midwit who had lost all hope
He was an autistic sociopath, he actually wrote pretty well. Elliot's was a more entertaining read, it's actually laugh out loud funny, but really no redeeming qualities so I'm not going to encourage anyone to read him. Probably should only read people who are good

>>24646159
You should read the rest. Its really good.

>>24646144
That’s what a truecel is and “disprovable” lol let me guess you know dozens of broke 5’4 sub-3s who go out with models

she looky like a corpse

>>24643619
>that is dasha nekrasova
more like Dasha Necrophilia, becuase that's what you have to be be interested in this corpse bride

>>24642134
>zoom zooms wont remember this, but there was actually a time when the atheist movement was understandable, perhaps even needed. after 9/11 bushist america was in jesus-frenzy and as recently as the early 2010s, there were vast areas of america were christianity was not only the norm, but also the expection and atheists were unironically persecuted or at the very least ostricized.
New Atheism was at its core a reaction to the GWB Presidency. Younger people don't remember the not-so-good old days when schools in some Southern states earnestly tried to ban the teaching of evolution because it was seen as un-Biblical. Nowadays it's widely accepted on the right because it provides grounding for Racism. New Atheism itself split into the proto-Alt Right and into Wokeness due to arguments over Feminism.

Offtopic. Take your invisible-sky-daddy bullshit to /his/

>>24644248
>Catholic hates the Protestant
>Protestant hates the Jew
>Jew hates the Catholic
news at 11

>Hobsbawm was a Jew
OYY

>>24645012
you're reading what you want to into it. the depictions are not only much more varied (american culture isnt portrayed as uniformly shallow, and as nabokov has said poshlust can be found everywhere, not just america) but the depictions are colored by HH enough that its less a commentary on america and more on HH.
>Humbert, in his European pretentious "culture" is in the end no better though
why cant that be just Humbert. why do you need to connect that to being European. do characters have to be symbols for cultures for you?
>The idealized Europe of his youth that he imagines literally doesn't even exist anymore, it's in rubble.
if europe stood for some larger idealized past, the failed marriage in france wouldn't be included. youre simplifying the narrative by imposing symbolic intent on it.
>He's constantly recognizing and showing interest in other children, and he's chasing his idealized "nymphet" of which Dolores is just his favorite outlet for.
even in the end when he kills a guy while not being attracted to her? surely just the fact that we're reading the manuscript is proof that it wasn't just lust.

>>24645055
I'm not saying it's one or the other, I'm not saying this is the only meaning of the book and I'm not even saying it's the most important or prominent theme of it. The characters are the characters and yes you're right some of what I'm saying is an oversimplification for the purpose of summarizing the point. Nabakov is too great and nuanced as a writer to write a 2-D allegory, but he's such a great writer that themes that lesser writers would ham-fistedly hammer into the reader, Nabakov can touch on lightly and with more nuance

>>24645094
but what is being said then? about culture

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>>24645199
NTA but the clearest statement imo is just demonstrating the way in which America's infancy (or pubescence) being taken advantage of those capable of understanding the superficiality of consumerism, in this case the old world Europeans, which is a reflection of the way Humbert can take advantage of Charlotte or Dolores with bribes or the concept of being a housewife to indulge into homemaking and home improvement as some sort of surrogate activity that keeps them happy. Perhaps not just a statement of Europe entirely, but a demonstration of this dynamic between the knowing and the unknowing. The experienced and inexperienced.

loli hehe

>>24645895
>>24645574
Yes, they reproduce with other races. Elven genes just dominate the other races. Their gene is indicated with A.

Offspring:
Human male (XY) + elf female (XA) =
>XX - human female
>XA - elf female
>YX - human male
>YA - half-elf female

Human male (XY) + half-elf female (YA) =
>XY - human male
>XA - elf female
>YY - unviable, pregnancy doesn't take

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>>24567943
I'm planning on having my ultimate villain be a cosmic entity of insanity and corruption, born from a flaw in the formation of reality, that wants to ultimately corrupt and/or destroy all of reality (no one is 100% sure, maybe not even it), that can only twist and copy what already exists instead of making anything new. The problem is, they can't manifest in the physical world reliably, so they need servants to do their dark work, and I'm trying to think of different types that can be led by a commander that answers directly to the entity, like an archmage driven made by its power commanding other mad mages, etc., and I could use some ideas on other types, like maybe a lich for the undead that serve the entity, (but not orcs, they’re just a normal race) do you have any suggestions please?

>>24638968
Where does the gold come from? Do random alchemists make it or is it only made by a specific organization? Do they stamp some kind of insignia on the gold?

In The Jackal Among Snakes they use something called Rose-gold. It was created by the Order of the Rose hundreds of years ago. The organization has disappeared by now and the coins have become very valuable.

tl;dr if you want people to understand your coins are still related to gold then the name has to mention it. Make it X-gold.

>>24646223
Daring, are we?

>>24646529
What exactly do you mean?

etrvscan sovl

But Greeks didn't wear pants?

>>24646569
them nips tho

Peterson's a better thinker than most on the self-absorbed arrogant do-nothings on /lit/ who convince themselves otherwise.

>>24644174
>You think people on this site are mentally well?
I see you've never spent any time on /vg/. Good for you.

Mental illness is, tragically, not just a juvenile buzzphrase on this site. It's very, very real.

>>24644146
>i'll just say this pithy thing with absolutely no justification whatsoever because i want to sound anonymously smart without sincere effort to other anonymous people

>>24644053
Maybe if he just went back to being a clinician everyone would be a bit happier again; he would be able to regain his wellbeing, and we wouldn't have to read his shitty zionist twitter poetry.

indeed

>>24642972
If you think there are no warning signs for those women then you're already a victim.

>>24644684
There are unquestionably instances where anons say this kind of thing under questionable and largely unprompted pretenses but I don‘t think a recent transplant detailing the ways in which she is falling victim to uniquely american psychoses is one of them.

>>24644303
Weil was sub-mid

>>24644295
>That bread truly had the taste of bread
That's hipster as fuck

>>24644295
She's talking about Christ

>>24646330
Aquinas is often looked to as the answer to perfectionism but this involves redefining the word. You're still stuck with playing the which came first game.

>>24646337
His arguments stem from contrast with privation though. Utilitarians have already cored this one. You could claim Nozick but he used organic justification so you didn't solve anything and made Aquinas secular. Marxist arguments are out there against the utilitarians on this issue but convertibility doesn't go anywhere and agreement on worthless by itself is standard and you are removing notions of good and replacing them with use and exchange values. This is a long way of saying that if everyone involved all has the same definition of good then there won't be any issues. Otherwise metaphysics ensues.

>>24646401
You haven't supported your claim that Aquinas holds to "becoming." Which he doesn't.

>>24646562
You haven't offered a substantive rebuttal. I never said he didn't, I could say x exists and this is tautologically posited in the sense that if it's existence can be verified then the statement is true. From a Thomist perspective unity is already contained and we've offered a verified statement but that statement also doesn't mean anything. If you can demonstrate otherwise without converting or resorting to metaphysics we can leave it at this. Congratulations on being, trying to say whether this is even good or not? Ethical although for Thomists this is metaphysics and you have converted. If you want to stay tautological I won't ask you how x got there and so long as the question is of whether it existed we can say it had to become to get to that point and flourish or whatever and right here and right now it's being but the next time we check it's becoming so we won't ever check it again.

>>24646600
>You haven't offered a substantive rebuttal
You haven't given an argument to rebut.

>>24646620
I'm glad we've agreed to worthless. Enjoy pure being. Let Descartes know I'm still waiting on that eternal truth, last I heard he was still working on that one.

>>24645975
>after all, we're the ones writing history
>thus the pen be mightier than the toilet

>>24645797
as if the bookfag couldn't just have a boxcutter in their pocket and mark up your face like a bored boy on a schooldesk. Why do people assume "Might" only equals brute strength and not mental fortitude to: Do the deed as macbeth says.

>>24645797
He says in written words

>>24646087
Booklets always care about consequences, so they never push back. It's always "I'll be emperor of this office soon, I'm so brainmaxxed ultra-philosophical" until I come around and it's "thanks mr. illiterchad, this toilet water is so yummy" time again.

>>24646139
Anon are you living in a baboon society in the jungle? I will count of Monte Cristo revenge this toilet dunker until all he loves vanishes before his eyes.

strong for a moment, weak for eternity.

>>24644459
But that's what you want, that still gets you off

Misogyny is just really hot.

>>24646260
Can you explain why?

>>24635073
>I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't indulge in any other vice. I will indulge in this one.
What's the difference in being killed by one man, than being killed by ten men? You're dead either way, so if you want to claim the moral pedestal of being a virtuous man occasionally indulging in a vice, you're just as bad as the strung out junkie fiending over his next fix. Don't care what moral system you've got, but claiming that you don't do some other vices to justify having a vice doesn't hold up the house.

>>24635073
Dude, I implore you as an anon that cares: try and leave porn behind. I've been porn free for more than 120 days and it's hard to explain how much that frees up your free will. I do not miss it at all. Sure, every now and then out of habit some old porn sexual fantasies pop up but I truly believe that fades with time. I see a random girl and I get the urge to just talk to them and get horny just by a girl smiling at me. And using sexual transmutation to increase your productivity is also a big help. Do it for yourself, anon. I'd literally almost rather you drink than porn, that's how bad that shit is.

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>>24645914
Nah some other idiot, I have no idea why Rob lowe was written on the ceiling there, I didn't make any of the doodles

What do you believe

>>24645927
It was a number one bestseller and was a headline review in every major publication on both sides of the Atlantic, exactly what your Bellows and your Mailers used to get.
what is your point? Are you just going to quibble about what counts as important?

>>24645937
A female in a salmon outfit, so much for the noble fish. It only won that distinction based on cuckery so death to the true nobles!

>>24645969
>It was a number one bestseller and was a headline review in every major publication on both sides of the Atlantic, exactly what your Bellows and your Mailers used to get
>exactly what your Bellows and your Mailers used to get
Oh, I see the problem. You don't understand what words mean.