>what if trees... but SCARY?
I think these willows are more brushlikeBut ummm. Ya. Weird fic is cool. I read Great God Pan recently and really enjoyed it
>>24772896I won't lie. Blackwood is good at describing someone's descent into terror and the panicked state of mind that follows.
>>24772888This was a great story. It took me multiple attempts to finish it because the opening where he was describing the islands of willows in the river made me so wistful I had to stop reading and imagine it.
The Wendigo was another weird fiction classic
Post your own work and critique others.
>>24769286Gay
My Heart Ran 18 Kilometers: The Earth Trembled With MeChild of breath, gold-borne son,he ran, eighteen thousand heartbeats.The earth turned and trembled,time marched through his living veins,beating against the sun.
The air trembles with unspoken alphabets,Arabic vowels blooming beside French sighs,Each sound is a child learning to breathe again.
What will we do, now that the Temple is gone?The Activated, now exiled from their home-stations live aloofIn line with glyphmakers who bound them in commerce-sigils.Without no-thing to signal to them, they fall.Unactivated, trapped in eternal Rubedo, burning further and further away.They burn for nothing but an eternal jade, unable to match your brilliant blood,Your sacred, burning heart, bearing light not seen since the time of Genesis.But your Tribe, transcending time imaginary, lies now only a ghost.
As one and one may equal three,Thereby a thousand genders there can be…Performing many genders, here and there, A queen of drag, I am so debonair, A theorist known for nonsense parody,I count that one and one may equal three!
Each one of those last pages was a dagger trough the heart.
RIP
Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit.You will have until Friday Midday BTS to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE.Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel.To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).ANONS feel free to submit! We will just use the no.# on the reply to identify your story.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24767942fair dos
>>24769777Just keeps getting worse.
>>24769777https://rentry.co/ups94e2sI'm in.
Ronny's Axe:https://rentry.co/NutellaSandwichRonny
>>24769777>not even a hint of HalloweenDude.
>but you don't have to take my word for it
Post literature that dismantles christcuckery. I've already read everything by Nietzsche.
>>24758422Forgive him? She was probably involved.
>>24759238She is literally a Jew. Her parents are both involved with the Israeli government. She was in on his assassination.
>>24771877>>24771871Well shit.
>>24759150>ITS A DEADLY LEAKED BIOWEAPON FROM CHINA>but it is also not as bad as the fluI'd tell you to grow up, but you americucks are mentally stunted.
>>24759238Charlie is fucking dead, and his wife will be on the cock carousel once she's done grifting his dead body for money. Also, lmao at charlie kirk for creating fatherless children.
GIGA EDITIONAUTHORS FROM THESE THREADS: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQSimple guides on writing: JUST DO ITThread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDB8SuLrngNowrites from here on out are to be cast into a volcano.
In a room full of devices humans wouldn’t understand the purpose of, a short, slimy, gelatinous, green, man-shaped thing stands on its tiptoes looking into a periscope. It extends up and out of the ground looking towards the star-studded sky of the moon. On the horizon is a tall glittering structure in the distance covered by a transparent dome like a Christmas snow globe which it ignores entirely. What it's focused on is a human doing donuts in a moon buggy. Transfixed by the unbridled joy on his face as he whirls around and around over and over again it doesn’t even notice the doctor walking into the room. “Thirteen where’s my- what are you doing?” The doctor inspects the hypnotized Thirteen confused as to why it isn’t answering him. He snaps next to his ears and gets no response but after slapping him in the face so hard it jiggles he finally turns to look at him. “Huh?” “What are you looking at?” He pushes him out of the way causing him to stumble into huge stacks of boxes and get sandwiched between them. The doctor looks into the periscope and says “What’s an alien doing this far out?” Thirteen pulls his body out and tries to push himself back into the periscope much to the doctor's annoyance. it asks “What’s that thing he’s riding on?” The doctor elbows thirteen away “Some primitive vehicle. What’s it to you?” “I don’t know, it looks fun.” “Oh sure if you like smashing your head into rock. What if those wheels get caught on something? Primitive fools haven’t even discovered basic hover technology…” The doctor walks away from the periscope and thirteen scrambles to look back into it. “Do you think you could build one of those for me?” “Easily...” The doctor looks through a table of tools and devices tangled with wires. Thirteen looks away from the periscope and enthusiastically approaches the doctor. “Really?”“But I would never waste the time.” Thirteen frowns, dejected, and lumbers back to the periscope. It looks back into the device and watches the human drive around using craters as ramps to catch air. It turns back to the doctor and says “Do you think it would let me ride if I asked?” “No.” The doctor gives Thirteen a very stern look. “Oh…” thirteen looks down, thinks for a moment, then says “do you think IT would build one for me if I asked?”“No! Never talk to any primitive races. Trust me you don’t wanna go down that road..”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24772649“Because it’s a pain in the ass! They either get scared and try to kill or capture you or they start mooching off of you for your technology. Believe me it’s a nightmare. DON’T go out to interact with ANY of them.” He looks at 13 to point aggressively then goes back to looking through his tools. He picks up something that looks like a screwdriver, inspects it, and walks away. “Ok.” Thirteen watches The doctor leave through the door. The human continues to ride around in circles laughing like a child until he sees Thirteen standing looking at him and stops in his tracks.
>>24772439Sorry I just don't know what I can see myself doing when I get out of college. I am being told that visuals can help compensate for a lack of writing quality, but I am not sure by how much. I am still flipping between going full comic book. Or taking a page out of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and having a page devoted to being a visual to help the reader's imagination every few pages. What are your thoughts, lads?
I do the exact opposite of everything my beta readers tell me.
I can only write beginnings. I want to write a novel full of beginnings. All beginnings. It ends with a beginning.
What else belongs on this pile?
>>24769414why we sleep? is not a midwit slop
Any book with F*ck in the title.
>>24769488small hats are just mad he calls them out every day on x dot com
Any political theory written by blacks or hispaniks
Anything on bestseller lists.
This might be the most extreme and dangerous book I've ever read. Fucking devastating.
>>24773001it follows that god created us to eventually invent time-travel so that we can go back into the past to prevent the advent of godwhich makes a lot more sense than anything else I've ever heard of
>>24771391>terminally online blackpilled shit everStop talking like a retard
/lit/'s intellectual capabilities have fallen quiet a bit
>>24771391>non-existence is the only logical win.Its not like you can escape it.
>>24772359Ah yes the trenches of 1874-5
Sup, stackers? These threads are pushback against the stack threads that are just people showing off crap they bought that they'll never actually read. Post last week's stack, post this week's stack, and tell us what you read. I finished The Lost Languages and The Antiques Magpie since the last time I posted a stack thread. I felt reading a novel so I started reading David Gates' book Jernigan. I'm about halfway through and it's alright.
>>24771199i recently bought me a kobo e-reader that i loaded up with hundreds of short classics <200 pages i fear for the future of stack threads
>>24771199Stack accountability threads always die because all the real niggas left this board. Bitch niggas rather engage b8
>>24771563>fuck off OP.lmao mad as fuck because you're expected to read and not just buy shit to show off
>>24771199I am one to read a lot of books at once. I have consistent routine so its not a big deal.>bodhidharma's zen teachingmain book, 30 minutes a day. It really short, includes the original chinese, will finish tomorrow. Need something new. I'll probably read two more Buddhist books before I finish my initial study of it and move one. Will probably be something Pure Land, or Tibetan Buddhism related. Also possibly something by Merton.>Invitation to a beheadingsecondary book, 15 minutes a day. I rarely read novels so its a good change of pace. I've been wanting to learn to appreciate the form. About half way through, fun so far. I'll try to read at least one more novel this year.>Das doppelte lottchenGerman book, 15 minutes every other day (swapping with my russian read). I'm 3 years into german learning. This is a reread. Noticeable improvement in comprehension from the first time i read it a year or so ago.>French Short storiesStarted french this year. One short story a day (about a page). French is quite easy to read once you know the basics, lots of cognates.>cвeт нeвeчepнийRussian,15 minutes every other day (swapping with my german read). Over 5 years into russian. Definately a difficult read, only about 20 pages in. Though theology/philosophy like this is easier to read than classic russian novels, because the vocabulary is very set.>psalmsread 2 a day>The apocryphal new testamentComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
pro-natalistbros... our response?
>>24772941books
I agree with the image and still would rather be born
>>24772942You complain about ritual sacrifice because it takes a life, yet you don't consider life worthwhile.Curious.
>>24759704No one experiences non-existence definitionally. The right box is blank because it is impossible to quantify. As it it impossible to ascribe an objective value judgment to non-existence, any attempt at an objective comparison to existence is inherently fallacious. Life may be tough, painful, full of suffering, and meaningless; it cannot be objectively stated that non-existence is superior.
>>24773033nor worse I guess. better the devil you know though.
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>Thread Question:Who is the rising star author within SF&F that you think will become a big name in the future?
>>24772939Pic related. And yes, quality pulp is written surprisingly well-written.
>>24772940Thank you, /lit/erarian of the Fantasy General.
>>24771795It's basically a self insert story from a virgin teenage boy, not surprising they didn't like it
>>24771502A bit useless too, it took me 15 pages to cringe out
>>24770207Very limited historic print runs due to his estate being difficult. They're also the reason new print is not happening, they want too much money to make it viable
How am I supposed to interpret this?
>>24772811Based 4chimps footnotes
Sharing the same bed with someone of the same sex is not an indication of one's sexuality. Abraham Lincoln frequently slept with his bedmate Harold Speed yet he still remained loyal to his wife, Mary Lincoln. The idea that physical intimacy is intrinsically linked to sexuality only causes more confusion and frustration regarding relationships and the body. Imposing sexuality on simple acts such as bedsharing or handholding only contributes to the loneliness epidemic and the crisis of meaning men are facing right now. From Jaeger:>Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean.
>>24772975Can I share a bed with you anon...
>>24772795just bros being bros
>>24772975>>Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean.Aww they were roommates
Where do I go from here?
>>24773024what about reading the classics instead of reading about people reading the classics?
I read some of the goldfinch but got bored.Try The Rules of Attraction, The Shards, and Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. And The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon.
>>24773030Lucky Jim feels both dated and still relevant. The writer would also probably hate every person in Secret History. It's like the working class perspective of university.
>>24773086Sell me on this. I looked it up and it seems a bit stereotypical. A bunch of people in NYC trying to be famous, but oh no rent is expensive.
Let’s talk about books, authors, philosophies, philosophers, or plain ideas that you ultimately reject, whether it’s their application to your life, the values they advocate or imply, or the propositions they propose, but still respect for being thought-provoking and actually interesting. I’m a theist of the Christian persuasion, probably on the path toward Eastern Orthodoxy, and I find pic-related pretty fascinating, even artistically inspiring. An honorable mention would be Schopenhauer’s aesthetics.What about you anon?
>>24771519>I find pic-related pretty fascinating, even artistically inspiring. An honorable mention would be Schopenhauer’s aesthetics.How so?
