Do anyone else not imagine visuals when they are reading? Like are you supposed to be so cucked that you let your mind create visuals described by another person? When authors describe things, I just take their word for it, and I will not allow an author to control me or tell me what I am supposed to be imagining.
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>>24784052I imagine visuals, but it's like a dream kinda. My conscious mind is focused on reading the text but my unconscious mind is like generating the imagery for the text
>>24784052So picking up a book with somebody else's stories an ideas is somehow not being cucked, only imagining the things described? Idgi
>>24784052I enjoy directing scenes in my mind while reading fiction. It can be hard when I don’t know the setting, but I’ll look up things up or look at fan art if I need to. It helps a lot with remembering small details.This too >>24785093
>>24784052>I will not allow an author to control me or tell me what I am supposed to be imagining.Sometimes I will imagine a character however the fuck I want if the author's description doesn't meet what I think the character should look like. Nothing too egregious, just sometimes I think the physical appearance I imagined is better.
Why did Tolkien make Sauron the titular character of The Lord of the Rings?
man, lots of banger art for my boy Tolkien
Which e-reader do you have /lit/? Are you happy with it? Is it complicated to get books to it?I am thinking about the Kobo Libra but it seems like getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted process that involves Calibre, KOreader, some plugins, and I don't even know what. And then I looked into Calibre and the first thing I see about it is that it doesn't let you put books in your own folders and it copies your entire library according to its folder scheme. Is there a better library program and a better reader or a better overall experience that isn't like installing Linux? At this point from what I've read I think I should just continue buying actual paper books because this all just sounds like an extreme annoyance. Or maybe I just need to install a good reader program on Windows. What's a good Windows program to read books in like ComicRack for comics?
>>24778719The Dying Earth
>>24777830Why would I by a device that imitates a paper book instead reading a paper book?
>>24785068cause it's small and light and you can read at night
>>24777834Can Amazon detect if your shit is pirated?
>>24785133Why connect a book to the internet in the first place? So you can slowly scroll through ads?
I read some of the "anti-racist" biographies at the public library, and the level of hatred these brown women have towards white girls is insane. There was one with a black girl at some anti-racist seminar just demeaning and making fun of this white woman doing her best to apologize for her implicit biases and privilege. With all these books about race being published everywhere, all these experiences as a diaspora. When is the actual unspoken truth going to get published? the burning resentment and hatred that non-white women have towards white women? Or is that too much for the publishing industry?
>>24781611>rapescroteBack to the lolcow farms, sweaty.
>>24784962>They'reGO BACK TO URANUS SPACENIGGER
>>24784962Yes. Seek wisdom
>>24784221It's only distantly relevant, but your post reminded me of Orwell>I suppose I had not been five minutes on Moroccan soil before I noticed the overloading of the donkeys and was infuriated by it. There is no question that the donkeys are damnably treated. The Moroccan donkey is hardly bigger than a St Bernard dog, it carries a load which in the British army would be considered too much for a fifteen-hands mule, and very often its pack-saddle is not taken off its back for weeks together. But what is peculiarly pitiful is that it is the most willing creature on earth, it follows its master like a dog and does not need either bridle or halter. After a dozen years of devoted work it suddenly drops dead, whereupon its master tips it into the ditch and the village dogs have torn its guts out before it is cold.
>>24782027Incels are right about basically everything.
not a big reader but I recently watched The Dark Crystal and its Series and really loved the setting. But I´m new to the genre and was wondering if there are anons that could recommend books with a similar feeling or any other fantasy books with this almost (doomlike/post-catastrophic and yet mythical?) feeling
>>24783584no but the cover looks good>t. judges books by their covers
>>24783418The Dark Crystal is eerily peak fantasy precisely because of how alien it is. It has no humans whatsoever. It’s all props. It’s peak art (capital-a Art), period.
>>24783701>>t. judges books by their coversKek me too.Her old covers were always peak.
>>24783804it truly is, henson created a masterpiece and then noone ever created something similar>>24783897is it good?
>>24783418Chronicles of Thomas Covenant fits the bill.
Is atheism more about not wanting to believe in God than about actual evidence?
>>24785045>That's literally what you're doing over and over againNo, u.>you have zero basic clue on what the Christian faith is It is the denial of death because some demon became half man and brought some other man back to life, then came back to life himself and floated into the sky, then rained down fire on his friends so that they could train the first generation of a line of costumed mages who can turn water into half-demon blood for the rest of time.
>>24785046Concession Status— Accepted.
>>24784454Absolutely heretical.>>24784458It's considered heretical by most Christians today and wasn't a reading of the Scriptures until 1500 years after Christ.
>>24784849>"Man is god, do what you will, nothing but pleasure matters"i haven't met a single atheist that thinks like that. you sure you're not making that up to have a convenient man to fill with straw?
>>24784450dumbshit argument. if everyone believed in fairies and made moral proclamations based on fairy lore and tried to impose their fairy morals on your and in law, you'd be justified in writing a book pointing out that fairies don't exist and we should stop listening to people who insist they do.
*shits all over your Christianity*
>>24782894an engaging book*
>>24782894I agree. Even though it's prosaically a B-tier or C-tier literature, the level of engagement he's able to repeat in every chapter for the whole book is masterclass. He should stop writing his langdonslop and write a book about writing.
>>24780235IMHO the only reason it's famous is because it's controversial. Specifically, what's presented in media as the right "cool kids" type of rebellion, and that's against christianity. That's why the publisher saw commercial potential in it and made big ad campaign for it. Remember that the jew will never miss a chance for shitting on jesus christ and making it part of the culture.
>>24782894>>24782929he actually did a masterclass interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGaCYbGJHI
>>24782538>several catholic presidents Only 2. And they assassinated the first one.>whose supreme court and legislature are currently captured by catholics,Nice fanfic> who gives out billions of annual tax benefits to catholics to the point their healthcare and education systems are largely run by catholics.Oh yeah, the catholic education system riddled by post modernist marxist professors that preach liberalism and atheism one every lecture. Very catholic /s
raiders raiding 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: >>24748377
>>24785055Ten. One to shoe it, eight to lift the horse up, and one to have sex with it.
>>24785050>Valyrian>subhumansThey were genetically engineered super humans (Homo novus) from our future who colonized Planetos.
>>24785075They were devil worshippers who practiced blood magic in order to create abominations.
>>24783617Tower propaganda.
what if the hightowers were cute femboys?
The state of literature in 2025 is beyond parody. https://archive.ph/0ZeJQ
>>24784933You do understand that you are completely full of shit, yes? Who exactly do you think you're going to convince on 4chan with this pathetic faggotry?
>>24784951Who championed the legalization of gay marriage?
>>24784947>>24784951nonsensical hyperaggressive response that hooked on keywords and misfired
>>24784951>if i respond to things like a whining woman and turn every statement into a question i will winNo you will be gay
>>24783930>communism wins againchuddies...our response..?
>father was an author (RIP)>so many books>what's this?>open to a page. oh this book's about eating ass>it smells like ass too>put it away, disgustedat least on 4chan the computer doesn't smell like the book did.There's enough BRAPhog threads around these parts, I'm sure the marqui de sade would post here.
>>24785150https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lSiXZpoGM
How to read without getting distracted by phone
>>24784343>put phone in plastic baggie>swallow plastic baggy phone>wait to poop plastic baggy phone before you can use your phone againShrimple as that.
Many phones have a "relax mode" which locks you out of the phone for a certain amount of time.
>>24784343>Read a chapter>Browse Tiktok and 4chan for an hour>Read another chapter
>>24784343every time you get the urge to check it just go gaze out the window and think about nothing.
>>24784343Fix your diet.
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My confession is that I use AI to generate modern dresses of old Byzantine drawings I find
Anyone else remember how long the chapters were in the Harry Potter books, especially the latter ones? Some chapters would take me more than two hours to read.
>>24783845He means you're trash so you should date trash or even lower
>>24785097I never read any Harry Potter and that's for the best
There are some deer living near me. A mom and her babies, and a buck. Just passed the buck walking with a very pronounced limp and missing an antler. I’m worried he may have been hit by a car. I hope he makes it.
Why do the rich worship Jesus if he considered them his enemies at the time along with the pharisees? The Sermon on the Mount is literally a proto-communist manifesto.
>>24784576That Hideous Strength
>>24778791This entire thread so far
>>24784576What does this even mean? What are you trying to say about "the Faustian Spirit"? What does Christianity have to do with aggression? Honestly make requests that make sense instead of spouting a bunch of garbled gobbledygook
>>24778791Because if you use your wand and ask who’s god it’ll come back and say Jesus if you ask what religion is correct it’ll say Islam because it’s demonic shit
>>24784478>Most Catholics are far more adherent to the faith than prots who "believe" because it's convenient easy believism bullshitIt's quite literally the opposite. The vast majority of Catholics are just Catholic because they were born in it and get a flyer ever so often. Then they confess once a year and pretend they are great moral Christians. For most it's pretty much just a facade of righteousness they can hide behind.
What's the infinite jest of horror?
>>24784887My life tbqh
>>24785031Do you have a diary I can read?
I am writing a short story with my protag being a 36 year old married white woman HS Teacher that fucks her former student and likes driving also her only daughter just went off to college.
>>24784612Hm, okay, I'll consider this, thanks. It's gonna take place in Quebec. Driving is gonna be a big aspect of this so I guess Montreal to Quebec city would e a big aspect of this. I think QC has Laval University so that could be an aspect. Whatever im rambling. Thanks dude.
>>24784633I just made those suggestions because I think it'll help keep the story tight if you have a shorter cast of characters that are playing more roles in the story. Will also give you a lot more time to develop them of course (and because the cucking idea earlier anon suggested was very eroi desu). Anyway best of luck with the writing.
>>24784612This, and also she's a primary school teacher and her daughter just started high school
I just realized Quebec has a weird as fuck school system. They end secondary school at 16 and then from 17-18 they go to a college prep school instead before going to college. Weird. >>24785003I dont have the balls to write /ss/ senpai
>>24784182Isn't this just the plot of the devil in the flesh