Will reading make me a better more intellectuel of a person?
>>24798758Whatever. Believe what you want
>>24795434ESL post
>>24796401>interracial propagandasubtle
>>24799071Based /pol/ schizo
The only real tangible benefit to reading literature beside enjoying the books themselves is that occasionally something will reference a book you've already read and you get to smirk knowingly and feel special.
Do you guys think we'll ever have another genuinely powerful artistic movement that includes lots of great writers and poets? The last one I can think of was Modernism and that kicked off over a century ago.
>>24799275not in our lifetime
The infinite jest of horror is what?
>>24795882What??????
>>24791233Infinite Jest. Stop being a plotfag.
>>24796196Yeah I read it alreadyIt's not horrorWhat's the infinite jest of horrorOr maybe Ulysses or Suttree of horrorJust tell me
>>24795805Ok but what about infinite jest
>>24793719OP asked for the IJ of horror
>An ever-worsening alcoholic, Faulkner was once begged by his daughter not to get drunk on her birthday. Faulkner responded by nastily remarking to her, "You know, nobody remembers Shakespeare's daughter."
>>24798690Unironically based as fuck. Moralfags constantly whine about how "muh alcoholism bad" but it is actually one of the most aesthetic addictions. There is something indisputably aesthetic about drinking your life away.
didnt happen
>>24799243OP is Faulkner's grandchild reciting stories mommy told him
>>24799240Getting fat isnt aesthetic
>>24799240Only to kuffar dogs. Speaking of dogs, why not go full shaytan and fuck that too, it's what you people are best at .
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.
“Ronny’s Axe”by NutellaSandwich>>24772961>But don’t nobody from here go down there.Ain’t nothing like a double negative to let us know we’re in Medieval Times:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative#Two_or_more_negatives_resolving_to_a_negative>He was drenched from shoulder to his waist,Awkward/asymmetric possessive pronoun.>Holy men had since descended for free samplesI am very impressed by your brilliant period-evocative phrasings, but you wiffed on this one.“Free samples” is way too corporate an idea for this setting.Follow the example of “Piers Plowman” and use ‘free tastes’ instead:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_sample#History>“Really good. I should skive more often.”You wrote it so that Adrian was “down[ing] tools for lunch” when Ronny offered him the drink, so technically he’s not skiving?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24798377some anons just have Oppositional Defiance Disorder and turn anything into a bitter battle of will, when everyone else is just crab raving and shitposting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50NdPawLVY
Whens the next competition happening?>inb4 next monthI mean any competition. Im fucking BOOOOOOOOOOORED.
>>24799216>Whens the next competition happening?>I mean any competition./wibac/, this Friday.Last month I said I didn’t want to discuss /wibac/ in /lwc/, but I don’t know anywhere else to source judges from.That said, there are 3 spots open.What say you, vampdaddy >>24785376, WouldBird >>24788780, and NutellaSandwich >>24786817?>>24796752>I don't read theseIf you did, and if there was a spot open, would you be interested in judging them, winnersclubanon?
>>24799265>This Friday Please, I cant wait that long
"Frustration" editionPrevious: >>24766768/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What does one do when they think they might have an interesting premise for a story, but don't know how to turn it into a story?
>>24799162it means that you don't have a story
>>24799162You post it in r*eddit as a writing prompt
saw someone accused of using AI to write their post because they said "This is not X, it's..." at one point, which is indeed a hallmark of AI writing. It's so over.
I tried for months, for years, to figure out where I wanted to put the story I've been working on for about five years now. I was told to self-publish it because it has some features that make it unpalatable to the big publishing houses. Also I'm a straight white male with some socially conservative political views so I'm basically a no-go for those houses anyway.I kept debating whether to put it on Substack, Royal Road, AO3, Wattpad, all these places, and then it hit me: I actually own the domain name of my pen name as a .com domain. I pay Google about $15 a year for it. So I'm just gonna get a website built on it, and put the story THERE.I'm getting it worked on as we speak. Very excited to see how it turns out.
Anyone interested in stuff like this
>>24793862There is the Eric Wilson mysteries that describe exactly what you have said except the second book is not Quebec based.
>>24794006>there are 30 booksholy fugg
>>24794914Based..
>>24790920yeet
>>24794006This dialogue bros..
Was he right?Is Liberal Democracy the ultimate Human System and will we never see something better?
>>24798254>It's a decent book, but it's nothing to make schizophrenic image collages over.Cope to downplay the very real and urgent developments that image is bring to the fore.> A "biotech created caste system" as Fukuyama describes it would only be a modern version of the Nazi's eugenics program, and the Nazis lost to democracy. Don't make me laugh. Is that why it was the totalitarian, Russian Communist Red Army that took Berlin? Is that why the imperial western nations, who were operating under Exceptional dictatorial powers at the time, waged total war to destroy the Third Reich? You're using bad history and paving over the extremely nasty contradiction inherent within the western liberal tradition via its imperial roots to handwave that the Nazi vision was within miles of taking the Kremlin and conquering Europe. Democracy had nothing do with it, democracy 9 out of 10 times is a euphemism used by western elites to cajole the public into accepting policy decisions already made behind closed doors. >AI is a bubble that cannot be trusted to parse a sentence, let alone control warhead.Irony of the grammar/typographical issues in this sentence. LLM are excellent at parsing sentences, and AI has already been integrated directly into military command and control systems, with Israel using AI systems for targeting of Gazan militants. Semi-autonomous drones have been fielding for years now and have been advanced by the war in Ukraine, with full autonomous slaughterbots slated to be field this around this time this year. >The visual navigation technology trialed by KrattWorks is the next step and an innovation that has only reached the battlefield this year. Meier expects that by the end of 2025, firms including his own will introduce fully autonomous solutions encompassing visual navigation to overcome GPS jamming, as well as terminal guidance and smart target recognition.https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-killer-dronesAlex Karp, lead of Palantir, commented upon these very developments, specifically that:>that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24798388And the wide use of drones by both sides in Ukraine demonstrate that they are a politically neutral tech, used by both authoritarian and "democratic" sides. Its simply of matter of who has the wider production capacity, which goes to China.
>>24798324None of this contradicts what I posted.>>24798388>Democracy had nothing to do with an alliance of democratic nations + Stalin (whose help was not needed) winning WW2Retard.>LLM are excellent at parsing sentencesWhich is why they stumble when you ask them to analyze kindergarten-tier sentences, right?And then you proceed to unironically link a Palantir press release as evidence of real technology. Frighteningly gullible.
>>24798559Massively unserious response.
>>24795568Here's the thing -- even if people disagree that liberalism is the "end of history" does not mean that there is no end of history at all. What reason do we have to believe that this technocratic kleptocracy you speak of won't be the same thing in the end? No big wars, no revolutions, scarcity has been solved, the masses are feminized consumer units, etc. That is what it means to be at the end of history and Fukuyama correctly believes that liberalism creates the best conditions for this.
So how is that book coming along, anon?
>>24799124Watch the episode dead freight with your idea in mind.
>>2479839760k novella and 30k novel in the works, 2nd and 3rd draft respectively.had a story published in a mag recently.all this despite a brutal day job that chews up way too much time and life force.I’d say it’s coming along well.
>>24799241*novel, novella.potatoes, etcetera
>>24798433For years I thought Organon was just the name of a steroid manufacturer.
>>24799157>>24799161oh shit you're right.yeah I did see that episode and makes sense.>>24799128alright alright
Name a bigger failure. Go on, I'll wait.
>>24798914Yeah but one of those opinions helps my in-group succeed and the other doesn't. I'd be an idiot not to take advantage of the other side's stupidity while downplaying the stupidity of my own. If I end up feeling hypocritical, I just remind myself that the other side is full of easy-to-dehumanize monster demons that will destroy society through their stupid malice. So it's okay to be cruel to them and operate on different layers of logic, actually. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to use clever wordplay to make my side lose.Why is it that the bad guys in political cartoons almost always look like nazi depictions of "degenerates"?
>>24798914> the right always assumes the solution is a return to tradition/pre-modernityEverytime I see that """solution""" incessantly parroted in right-wing spaces I heartily laugh because I'm forever reminded of Yukio Mishima: a man who was the literal embodiment of traditionalist ideals and fervant rejection of modernity, and a deeply closeted homosexual that died an extremely violent, agonizing death.Yukio was the absolute apex of the conservative "reject modernity" ideal, and look where that lead him.
>>24798978*led him
>>24798978You touched on something here: politically-minded people seem to portray subconsciously much of what they hate. It's why you see so many hateful supremacists on the left and so many degenerates on the right. Whenever someone infected with political brainrot talks at you about "empathy", "decency", etc., it's just a cover for the things they hate about themselves. Like verbal self-flagellation.
I am left wing on all issues but I think that the holocaust was a good idea that has never been tried. What is weird about me liking critical theory?
Classics written by woman > classics written by gay manExcept Melville, he gets a pass
>>24798875wtf, you are right. This is crazy.
>>24798882a flannel half zip? tha fuck?
>>24798875I had a flannel half zipper a few years back. >>24798882>>24798884>>24798885Ask me anything
>>24798889what brand was it? where did u cop it?
>>24797971>singlehandedly ghostwrites like half of the female-written classics>refuses to elaborate>dies
All of a sudden I'm seeing people overuse this new phrase. It entered the vocabulary of ziggers and there's no explanation for what it means or where it came from.1. Where do these new phrases come from?2. Why do zigs adopt these new phrases immediately without hesitation?
>>24798459dake Based Gott
>>247985496 "8" 7 o algo
>>24798862mexican exposed
>>24797745We have ebonics on 4chan now yay
>>24799238I have never once seen a black say crash out. It is exclusively the domain of young white crashout kings and queens such as myself
What is the best fiction book in the last 10 years?
>>24799198Doubtful James SA Corey and Sanderson shit on anything Pierce Brown could createThe Reaper is space Harry Potter
>>24799205But Sanderson, for all his creative and thorough worldbuilding, can't write a single beautiful sentence.
>>24799198It was pretty great.
>>24799205>Sanderson shit on anythingI like Sanderson and I like him a lot but Darrows saga is better than any individual series he's done.
It's Bakker.
How did we get here? Criminalising causing psychological distress by digital communication or merely 'hate-mongering' seems to be derived from some new way of thinking that didn't exist even 70 years ago. Is it related to the Therapeutic state mentioned by Paul Gottfried? Or any other works?
>>24798242The extraordinary Anglo impulse of avarice. Two world wars exhausted that impulse
>>24797387>whataboutism>not a disingenuous tactic used by the left
>>24798283*John Bunyan, not the lumberjack
>>24797545>>24797352Funny how both of these are non-answers that dodge the question.>a nazi is whatever we call a nazi, chud! Checkmate
>Buddha the pug does a nazi salute as taught by Count DankulaThis is kinda humorous tbdesu
Best books about partying and doing coke?
>>24796393Thanks bro. I'm going to use this line next time I'm around some girls doing coke. I'm going to get so fucking laid.
>>24799014This is why meth is the way.
>>24797141>>24796393agreed, coke is the perfect drug for horny, shallow, narcissistic egomaniacs
>>24797732This. Tho it’s more Ketamine and Heroin than coke
>>24799014It's clear you guys never did shit that isn't stepped on.
