Any books on this phenomenon? I've noticed increasingly that the traditional incel theories on chads dominating the sexual marketplace are obsolete. The dating market seems now to be further oriented in women's favour. All men who 20 years ago you would consider "jocks" or "chads" drowning in pussy I meet these days seem to be struggling getting women as much as average men. Social media has given women so many options that even jocks now have to resort to simping for months or even years for a crumb of pussy. Social media has given women the satisfaction of validation without ever having to put out-even for chad. Why fuck one chad and become beholden to him when I can have 50 simping for me and I don't even have to leave the house for my validation? Incels seem behind on this. So any literature on this? All I can find is the old fashioned pick-up artist and incel stuff about "alpha males" who it appears are a dying breed.
>>24760181Reducing the data to just available market data is disingenuous. I haven't reduced the data in any way, by the way, only you have done this.
>>24760169>You need to step outside your sphere of life occasionallyyou need to stop projecting> It's not as clear cut as you suggest and I don't think it's a simple matter either.no, it's not as clear cut as YOU suggest—that was MY response to YOU you fucking cretin
>>24759912Humans don't believe that they are part of nature. We think we are above it, as masters and/or caretakers. Even as we do lipservice to evolutionary biology, we contradict it constantly and involuntarily with anthropocentric "dominion mandate" thinking and policy
>>24759980we're talking about the neolithic but yes. i mean, what are they doing now?
if a lion could speak, we could not understand himI ask you to understand this, there will be no other insight
What is the "Dark Souls" of interwar period novels?
>>24758537What books would you consider similar to "Dark Souls"?
>>24759209NTA, but The Phantom of the Opera is extremely soulslike.
>>24759209Books that are almost impossible to underatand and which often require paragraphs to be read multiple times
>>24758537Berlin Alexanderplatz
>>24760320Thanks, this seems like the one
Books without human characters, only giant robots
>>24759319Do we know how big bionicles really are? do we ever have a frame of refrence to irl scale?
>>24759928Doesn’t matter. Give me books about giant robots
>>24759983im saying bioncles might be giants. mata nui definetly is.
The Iliad could be about giant robots. It's not explicitly not about giant robots.
>>24759928We have a rough idea; the Toa were recorded to be 1.6 bios tall-- a bio roughly 1.37 meters --making them about 2.19 meters, or the size of the average basketball ape.The "bio" measurement is based on the size of the citizens-- I forget their canonical name --which are dwarfs standing at 1.35 meters.The villains are the tall fuckers, Rahkshi are about 2 bio (2.75 meters), Mantax are 3 bios (4.1 meters), and the massive Piraka is 4 bios (5.5 meters).
Are there any other fantasy stories where the protagonists start with possession of the MacGuffin and seek to destroy it while the antagonists seek to recover it, or is LOTR so famous, and that plot so strongly associated with it, that if any other writer tried to do it he'll be accused of ripping off LOTR?
>>24760092the last book of harry pottet
>>24760092The ring story started with The Hobbit, not LOTR. The protagonist gets the ring in The Hobbit. The ring is not a MacGuffin, it is central to the story. A MacGuffin is an excuse.
>>24760151The Hobbit and LOTR are two separate works, though. You don't need to read the Hobbit to understand the plot of LOTR.In the Hobbit the ring isn't even that important, it's just a random ring of invisibility. It's only in LOTR that it's revealed as the One.
>>24760255The ring didn’t have a big backstory when The Hobbit was written. It’s just stolen from the ring of Gyges and the later variant myths in Euro folktales.
I got banned from /tv/ so I decided to read a book. What's a good place to start
>>247602053 questions:1) What movies do you like?2) Are you open to read a poetry collection?It's what, a 3 days ban, no? you ain't gonna read much, if it's your first book. Might as well try and finish a short one.3) Is /tv/ still watching art house movies, or it got slopified like the rest of this website?
>>24760205THE GREEKS!
>>24760205How do you get banned from /tv/? I post porn, gore and racebait threads everyday and I barely get a warning every now and then.
>>24760205King Solomon's Mines was a fun, short read. It's one of the first romantic adventure stories (same genre as Indiana Jones). In it, the protagonist travels to the heart of darkest Africa and braves savages, the harsh climate, and ancient curses to try to discover the vast treasure of King Solomon.
Journey to the West is something like Big Trouble in Little China plus Grim Fandango plus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
>character doesn't pee or poop throughout the entire story
>>24758265If you live in a country eligible for the Man Booker, you're better off just killing yourself.
>>24758214Is there a name for this? This has to have been discussed since the birth of fiction.
>>24759455Suspension of disbelief?
>>24758382>I did write about my bitch girlfriend making me wait almost ten minutes to use the bathroom while I was doubling over in pain and trying not to shit myself because she was doing her makeup.Serves you right for not just barging in and destroying the toilet while she's in the middle of putting on makeup, you fucking whipped little pussy bitch.
>>24759460Constipation of piss-relief more like
Why aren't all the cities on navigable rivers?
>>24760199The map doesn't even show the Erie Canal (Albany, to Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo). The Saint Lawrence Seaway took over traffic from the canal in the 1960s but from 1825 it was the main water route between the Atlantic Ocean (NY City) and Chicago/midwest.>>24759143If you search 'fat' in the catalog you'll usually find /grrm/.
>>24753809Game of Thrones is crap worldbuilding, crap writing, and no planning so is unfinishable. He would literally decide what happened by rolling dice.
>>24751034Britain, which Westeros is clearly based on. Note how all the cities are on waterways?
hmm, in Australia every city and town is built around a river too...
>>24760256>The map doesn't even show the Erie Canal (Albany, to Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo).because it isn't operational anymore or at least not operational by commercial vessels
Home grown talent editionStubbed >>24753365>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24760278What are those? Like MS Flight Sim but in fiction format?
>>24760055>Being young and in good health is not the same as being drunk.You have no idea what hormones do. Just look at somebody that's sleep deprived and somebody that's well rested. The difference between those two is the hormone mix you're operating under.I wouldn't normally suggest this, but you really should try doing some drugs. Even legal ones like alcohol or various nootropics will give you a different view of the world. Your mind is not some kind of isolated system from the rest of your body. What goes on in the rest of your body has a massive impact on your brain function.People going on HRT even report going through a "second puberty" with mood swings, increased emotionality, irritability, anxiety, or depression. That's after their body had already gone through one.
>>24760278Yes. I myself am writing a simulator novel where a young schizophrenic girl and her pet brick enter a simulator fantasy land where she is the chosen one princess and the brick is her talking unicorn companion and they learn lessons they take into the real world (namely smashing the popular girl in the head with ol brickie)
>>24760055Eh, hormones can make you do crazy shit. I remember having wild mood swings and getting bizarrely angry for stuff that didn't matter and I realized didn't matter and I didn't care about. I'd accept a reincarnator making stupid teenage decisions; losing their temper and lashing out at someone important when insulted for example even if it's obviously unwise. But that should be a case where the reincarnator part is able to recognize what has just happened and clench their jaw and push through it when it happens next because they've been through this shit already.
>>24760291An old person has already gone through all that and the hormones and mood swings should have a minimal effect on them. They would have a lot more self control.
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>>24757365Had Hitler had a full beard, would the full beard have become unpopular?Had Hitler had a fully shaved face, would it have become unpopular?Had he had a regular mustache, would the regular mustache have become unpopular?
I wanna fuck you like an animal
>>24760307>>24760336Well with erotica it’s like you bust a nut and move on. What would it take to write something deeper, something worth reading for more than just the smut?
>>24760344No, no, yes. That mustache was very peculiar to that time, that's why it died with Hitler. Mustache aren't very popular so there's a chance they would have died in popularity, but there are different styles of mustache so it would have probably been the kind that alt-Hitler wore that would've died off. Like handlebar mustache.
>>24760357I danced to that song once with a goth girl and I felt a pang of sadness, like very deep seated cringe. I never dated her again.
Multiple generations of students are being taught that they need to communicate in the ugliest, most turgid critical theory-speak to be taken seriously / be seen as intelligent. How do we defeat critical theory?
>>24759649I think shes British. It was posted by an Oxford feminist group or zine or whatever
>>24759863>What I haven’t figured out is why there’s a connection between education level and believing this horseshitBecause graduate education isn't primarily training in intellectual honesty; it's training in how to succeed in an intellectual guild.
It's really insane just how much 1960s New Left race communism just totally nuked leftism and after 60 years they have been utterly incapable of realizing it because to question minority worship is to commit heresy
>>24759194I will breed a black bitch if you can convince Gobineaufag that race is not real
>>24760315Well after 60 years we're finally getting one of these types of leftists in a very powerful position as the Mayor of New York. Very excited to see him not do anything his ideology demands because it's deranged and unviable.
I haven't read that many true crime books and I'm wondering what the best are? Picrel is probably the best one I've read, but I've also read Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe and I guess Programmed to Kill by David McGowan can be considered true crime too and the same can be said for The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry for that matter. Based on what I've read, and just generally too, what are the best true crime books /lit/ can rec me?
>>24759206Those covers are so bad.
>>24759148Panzram: A Journal of Murder
>>24759148Good books on The Caroll Edward Cole case?
>>24759894good
It's probably this one. Manson never personally killed anyone so there's a clinical dissection of Manson's entire "cosmology" that the writer has to effectively argue for because it's his job to convict the guy. It's a strong argument for the genre, from the inside of the tour bus that is the murder trial you kind of get a glimpse of the subcultural currents, moods and milieus that intersect, it's intriguing and it keeps the mystique alive in a way. The deep dives paradoxically enough reveals too much and the banality of it all becomes too apparent
Name the book
>>24760050lolno
>>24760031Does nu-/lit/ really
>>24760294>mcdonalds: the religion isn't redditlmao cope
Worst thread up on the board rn jfc
>>24760294lolyes99% of christians are BIPOC or fat boomers who worship israel nobody gives a fuck about your BASED sect with 3 members
what's your strongest rebuttal against the problem of evil?
>>24759588>you are allowed to make any choice in life, but bare the consequences>retard wants to choose to be unable to choose>retard wants to choose to not be bornThat's not how it works. You don't "choose" to be rich either, neither do you "choose" to get laid, you choose what you do, not the consequences of your actions. If you're a smart enough cookie, you will be able to forsee some of the consequences of your choices and then make them based on that. Then, the other people you interact with will get to choose whether they give you shit. They might choose wrong.>why would anyone choose sufferingSuffering comes from poor choices. Both yours and those of other people. In some cases, you don't really get a good choice, just a dillema.
There's hundreds, it only works as a rebuttal against a specific interpretation of the Christian god. Try this shit against literally anyone else and they'll laugh in your face, it's so trivial.>PaganThere are multiple gods and with conflicting agendas>ZoroastrianEvil exists because ahriman is in constant conflict with Ahura Mazda>Islam/Judaism/Calvinists Allah/Yahweh isn't necessarily benevolent but you must submit to him because he's all powerful and it doesn't matter what you thinkEtcThe fact that atheists actually think this is some amazing rebuttal is just an indication of their own ignorance
>>24751825This, it's honestly just intellectual laziness on the part of atheists that they keep going after the abrahamics with the same old tired arguments. To them it's either>this one specific interpretation of God is real>there is no GodThey are literally incapable of conceiving of any other possibility. It's easier to live in denial than seek truth I guess
>>24758548No. the fact that a non-evil for someone can be evil for some other creature is perfectly logical, clearly stated and described. you can think of a way to save the termites in our walls, keep the walls and everyone is fine. it's not set in stone at all that all evil for a creature is a blessing for some other creature
You literally cannot prove that evil exists. If evil exists then show it me.
The stack
>>24756865Don Quixote is too good for that stack
mobey dick, a whale of a tail
>>24756865OP...you fucking disgust me. Try reading some nonfiction instead of that escapist slop
>infinite jest
Over the last hand I've been picking up the occasional Everyman; I was wondering what your guys habits are when it comes to dust jackets? I find they look significantly more attractive nude, but I'm too much of a hoarder to bin the jackets. What do you lads do?I didn't want to kill a thread to ask such a trivial question-- figured this thread would be the best fit.
Gentlemen, I present to you: THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
>>24760232Wut
Moby Dick had better man/man interracial lovers
