two sentence horror
>>24845204>"I shouldn't be that hard"Anon wins two sentence horror thread with one sentence on pure accident. Sasuga anon.
>>24844989"I'm left wing," says your son.
>>24845518zoomers shit and piss themselves when they see this
>>24844989It was the summer after his last year of high school. He sent an application to clean up his favourite website.
>>24852231>>24852209Wait>- I'm left wing, dad. >- Hearing this shouldn't make me this hard. There. Perfection~
A thread for writing literary fiction, non-fiction, and other genres, and discussion of literary craft. Rococo editionPrevious: n/aBe polite and cordial. Do not feed the trolls. Share your work, but retain some grace and limit yourself. Do not spam.Follow thread prompts and discuss these exercises to enrich our understanding of the craft. Thread prompt:Write a scene where a small, ordinary object (a ticket stub, dented spoon, chipped mug) reveals a secret about the narrator. Begin in medias res with a sensory detail. End with a line that reframes the object’s meaning.
absolutely riveting feedback
>>24851823Flows better with the extra comma i-m-o
>>24851531a lot of people get this close to having a significant experience/takeaway only for it to end up as pessimism and or hatred. and they live like this, fully aware of the consequences, deeming horrible things as "necessary evils", justifying their vile inconsiderate extremist behaviour towards the entire world including themselves.i appreciate the ambiguity in this brother. theres no room for nuance in the world for most people, and that's a shame.
>>24851932>i appreciate the ambiguityPeople only appreciate ambiguity in poetry because it's either short or they expect to be left with a feeling, not an answer.
>>24852223>t. John Wayne Ambiguity is great
Women seem to be the predominant readers and it seems predominantly porn for them. If men read books it's predominantly long-running sci-fi series. I've had success and interest in readership but it's not sci-fi (Epic fantasy) and my most success wasn't even a proper novel but a comic. The problem is comics are pretty much dead as well for English speaking countries. Am I wrong or do I need to start prioritizing different countries?
>>24850098>>24850138>>24850209The point of the article is that the actual difference in readership between men and woman is marginal. Yes, there has always been a trend towards woman reading more fiction. But the only real peer reviewed survey showed that there is only a 10% difference between the two. This small difference doesn't warrant the outrage or the worried conversations that have sprung up around it. And the reason we have just accepted this view is because people desperately need a scapegoat to blame the misfortunes of the world on and this is just one of many.>Of course the people who voted Trump into power don't read! Of course the people who made Andrew Tate popular at one point don't read! Of course the group I percieve as sexist are un-empathetic and therefore non-readers! Evidence be damned! I'll believe it anyway!
>>24850138>These are not books which reflect the zeitgeist, but rather the intellectual preoccupations of academia.I've made this exact same point over and over, particularly in regards to what Americans consider their classics. Moby Dick is the epitome of this - an autistic intellectual's fixation hated by everyone who isn't also an autistic intellectual.
>>24850738Russia is able to invade Ukraine because there isn't a truly globalist system anymore. And the idea that defending your country from an expansionist petrostate is "synthetic" is an amazingly vapid take. Russia isn't some emancipator against degeneracy, it's a civic nationalist hub of chiId trafficking with the highest rate of HIV in Europe that massively lacks proper toilets and has a higher divorce rate than the West
>>24851098The only reason Russia dislikes NATO is because it dissuades them from invading smaller countries they border. That's the only "concern" they have.
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The West needs you. These are troubled times. Stop "having fun"."Fun" is not for men.Stop smiling.Always wear a suit.Grow a beard.Be cold.Be serious.Be stoic.Grind for 21 hours a day.Gym for 4 hours (while manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational audiobooks/videos/podcast play on the background).Take a 2min cold shower.Read manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational books for an hour.Sleep for 3 hours (at most).Monetize a hobby.Get a passive income.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24851274You're an idiot, anon. You have nothing to offer anyone.
>>24840624fpbp
>>24850955Checked. Whenever chuds and trannies are in alignment it's an automatically indication the correct take is the opposite of whatever they're saying.
>>24840620Thanks I prefer Fascism and hardcore racism, a 4 hour workday and endless laughter.
>>24849327I guess it's different if you're born into some eastern bloc shithole where 99% of Christians are Orthodox. You should go where your conscience compels you.. but how do you develop that conscience without first reading scripture?Are you a Westerner? I'm convinced virtually all of the American's online who claim to be Orthodox are just LARPing and aren't actually members of a church. Eastern Orthodoxy represents less than 1% of Christians in America and yet I see kids all over 4chan and twitter claiming their Orthodox. I just don't buy it. 30 minutes in a pew next to Boris and Olga would be enough for Kevin from Duluth to realize he's made a terrible mistake.
Post your own work and critique others.
>>24851245Free verse is fine. The problem is poets who ONLY read or write free verse (i.e., ~95% of published contemporary poets). It's a "you have to know the rules before you break them" sort of situation.
>>24851266free verse is not fine.
>>24851326It is. Every English translation of the Book of Psalms is in free verse. Whitman is mostly in free verse. Much of Eliot and Pound is in free verse. These are some of the greatest works of poetry in the English language.
Those words don't reach through to meFoolish I look like I speak no english
It cradles joy and ache, still burning bright,as Friday’s drums call lightning through the room.We moved from house to club, the people’s fire,two mirrors facing, each becoming one.Bodies shimmered like saints undone by rhythm,and time remembered, trembling through the floor:“Dance while you can,” the night told every soul.
>What type of university did you attend?>What era?>What did you learn? How do you feel about your education now?I did an English Lit degree at the premier university in my country (hah!). The Australian National University. I was told it was the best, hardest to get into, highest ranked, etc. Turns out that just meant the place had more postgrads than undergrounds, was predominantly research oriented and got a shittonne of citations. Doubt it made it better than half the other universities in Aus. Was a helluva place though, beautiful, bright and stimulating.My era - thank fuck! - was pre-woke. We still had blue hairs screeching but there were approximately zero mentions of critical race theory, gender theory, grievance studies or the like. 20-ish years ago.My fading memory of the curriculum, in order of importance/volume:- poets, poems and poetry- shakespeare, milton, chaucer, donne, wordsworth, blake, probably a few others i'm forgetting- literary movements (medieval through to modernism with the most time spent on romanticism - weirdly, don't think we did any postmodernism let alone postcolonial)Another fun fact, we studied a shitload of australian authors, like books of poetry by former anu students, but not a single American work. Oh wait, no, Emily Dickinson was big and T.S. Eliot if you still count him as American. But I only learned about what Americans consider 'the classics' years after - Melville, Hemingway et al. Funny to think how invisible all that was to us back then.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24852013fuck Australia. I need to get out of here and move to another country, preferably one with more culture than a pot of yoghurt.
>>24852013>>24852198>>24852200Have either of you fellas seen Danger 5?
>>24852013What are you workings as now?
>>24852013Did an English Degree at an East Coast elite school, with a focus on early modern Lit and a minor in European History. Loved it, taught me to formally express my thoughts and how to find a credible premise for a claim. Sadly only the soft skills, people skills of expression and communication not the hard stem type to get instant great employment but doing ok now. I found that universities are not infested with woke morons, only certain majors are. Anything political having to do with borders and migration, anything historical having to do with the ethnic studies of a people or gender, def have "wrongthink" and you will be ostracized if you think the law should exist in some capacity beyond punishing rapists and corrupt cops. overall great experience but wish I had mixed with a hard skill to make money immediately, only academia and law are built for the humanities.
>/lit/>educationlmao
so now that philosophy has been going for a couple thousand years, what is their conclusion? have they've even gotten anywhere? i suspect it's all a meme.
Death, consciousness, free will, meaning, and the fundamental nature of existence remain complete mysteries despite millennia of inquiry.We are characters in a story trying to understand the author, building elaborate explanatory systems that never actually solve the enigma of why anything exists at all.
I reread The Dark Enlightenment at least once a month and it's probably the most impactful piece of writing I've ever laid my eyes on. How comes his reactionary writings get so little attention compared to his earlier methed-up schizo nonsense, asides for hand-wringing dismissal and moral grandstanding disapproval from political opponents? They try to act like it doesn't exist or that it's just "stupid" and nobody should ever read it, despite embodying one of the most compelling critiques of the Leftist project ever made.
>>24851197>have you read it No. I read fanged noumena and gave dark enlightenment a shot after but found it boring. Maybe if I read it in 2015/2016 when right wing judeo capitalist civnat politics were cool it would have resonated but at this stage of the game it’s stale
>>24850780I don't need to make it any more complicated than that.
>>24851300there are plenty of uncapitalised markets and new ones are created regularlycommunists have thought capitalism is verging on collapse for 200 years now
>>24851620Nope. There are still many natural resources to exploit but cost of extraction vs. proven reserves has put marginal limits on this.This is exacerbated by limits on human capital.Thanks to feminism, IQ rates are going down.Thanks to the institutional needs of the post-war managerial hegemony that protects and advances the prerogatives of global capitalism, meaningful talent is being suppressed in favor of politically compliant managerial officers.There is no more human capital to develop that won't be disruptive to the system of capitalism as such after Indian human capital is fully developed.While I would agree the Indian tap of mediocre, strings attached, destined-to-backfire talent is far from fully tapped, there is no more room in developed economies to accommodate more jeet replacement.The marginal value extracted from using jeet labor as replacements for Western labor has run dry - not due to lack of additional Hindus - but due to the relatively full replacement of the white Western middle class in upcoming generations.Capitalism has no more low hanging fruit and is already in a process of total cannibalization. I don't think it can even last very long in this process simply due to its marginal fragility. There's plenty to cannibalize, but without undercapitalized markets in resources, consumption or labor, that cannibalism will fracture social stability and break supply chains.
>>24851448>but at this stage of the game it’s staleit's more relevant than ever, are you even aware of who's president right now? we have reached the political singularity, or are at the very least edging its event horizon.
What’s the literary equivalent of this
>>24850539I would crack you like a twig and feast on your entrails cunt>>24851337Ur fat hihihi
>>24844949Yes beautiful thing are morally good. Ugliness is deeply immoral and it shows a twisted, rotten soul.
>>24850959>impossible for such a force of nature religion to go off the railsthis is so vague that it's not even a claimmaybe you should put your big-boy pants on and try again
>>24852138>>24851981Shock value is lame, ofc. But as for the ugly - these days it's in the ugly that spirit dwells. When civilisation was a constant struggle to raise ourselves from the prehistoric mire, then every polished surface and subtle colouration and harmonious form was a symbol of the power of consciousness to strive for and achieve a better world. In beauty we sensed our own creativity. But now polish and harmony can be produced at enormous industrial scale, the very idea of 'aesthetic appeal' recalls the calculated manipulation of neuronal receptors - it has the odour of ASMR videos and advertising - and in all this replicable beautiful we see only another aspect of the production process in which spirit has been fully submerged. It is in the ugly that spirit breaks loose, becomes self-conscious, develops a sense of humour and flexes its faculties. The endless stasis of the marble halls of Platonic beauty was a powerful ideal, but once achieved, it can only exclude the movement of consciousness. The death-mask of beauty has been generated by ChatGPT; but in the the eye-sockets of the corpse-face beneath, new species of flourescent worms are writhing and alive.
>>24851337I support this actually, but instead of an oar I want a guillotine but without the blade, just like a big lead weight where the blade is supposed to be, and you stuck the guy in it face-up.
What are some books, referred to by some as 'sigma lit,' or 'incel lit,' that provides practical advice to men who are alone and who want to remain alone? I've already read Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, and I'm going to read the Hagakure. Is there anything else? I'd like a book that more directly tackles the life of an incel, provides advice on how to get on in this life, how to deal with normies and the workplace, and how to be unseen. Pic unrelated.
>>24851396You can avoid this happening by avoiding making up fake stories that didn't happen.
>>24851912I'm not lying.
>>24851329incel I just got my balls licked secretly by a big titted professional last night, why wouldn't I want the same for you instead of indulging your delusion that you are an unlovable freak?
>>24851329Not exactly in the same vein, but in a similiar one. The main character of the Fountainhead is the only man with integrity and principles in a world that is devoid of morality, and is driven by herd mentality. He has his livelihood taken away from multiple times, and is repeatedly subjected to character assassination and ruination for his entire adult life, but he still stands tall and courageous against the mob.Ayn Rand's works are inspirational and very obviously virtuous, yet her works have been thrashed as fascist, nazi, incel literature by most readers.
>>24851329>practical advice to men who are alone and who want to remain aloneSo volcels, not incels.Try the spiritual exercises of st. Ignatius of Loyola.
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My friend in japan sent me a job opening for an english teacher there. Should I apply?
>>24852105What do you have to lose?
>take a shit >shower >have to shit again >mfw
>>24852086So long as she was born before 9/11 it's fine.Anyone born after 9/11 is a perma-baby.
I can't think of a more embarrassing living thing to get turned into than a female pig.Like getting turned into a dung beetle or amoeba would be less embarrassing. Or a mushroom or something.
The freemasons and the powers behind them lied to you about literally everything. Either half-truths, false concepts, or blatant lies to confuse you and give you a false understanding of the world, mankind, time, history, and your place in it so that you dedicate your life, soul, and energy to their doctrines in which they have full authority over every aspect. They control Science™, they are the priests that ex-plain and ex-plane the earth for you, they wield that trademark, and that means they control our space in life (if we give them authority over the earth).Right from the start this world lied to you about the very ground you stand on, the 3 dimensional reality you live in. A fundamental lie, and everything people derive from this false reality will consequently be some kind of falsehood. We are now at the point where mankind believes they are mutated animals, and they are spinning around themselves on a perfectly spherical rock in random space that exploded once. A psy-op, mental conditioning. Do not underestimate the spiritual life-guiding implications of this godless concept. Most people are not level-headed, they are not stationary, they are not based, they are incapable to see physical truth at this point. Common sense isn't really all that common anymore. They rather believe in jewish mysticism like space-time and relativity, which leads to everything being "relative". No distinct up and down, which leads to good and evil being "relative", male and female being "relative", all empty space and imaginations in our mind. Let that sink in, the majority of people ultimately don't even know what is UP and what is DOWN. In other words, there is no absolute truth in this universe.
>>24851139Basically as long as golems like these exist, nothing will change and the COVID fraud showed us exactly that. Most goyim cattle will side with the government or whoever is projecting more force, and whoever pays them. It's all money with these vile animals, that's where their loyalty lies.
>>24852080show us all a better way and we will follow you. But you never do, it's always ad hominem and appeals to emotion.
>>24852163stockholm syndrome ahh post
>>24852194history reader post, look at the Cuban revolution, Iranian, cambodian, french, Russian. one blooth bath after another and just the new owners acting the same as the old.
>>24852080He does make a point, its not enough to point at the shadows of the world, but also provide an alternative system thats largely better than the current one. Im not suggesting revolution and its not a good start to call your fellow man 'goyim'.
How is this guy not even relevant ? His Metaphysical and Epistemological arguments about Will-to-live being the Will-To-death and that Death is not a phenomenon of the Will-to-Live but the true halt to life and the will to death strives to die because the Universe is the corpse of a suicidal god.Seriously how the fuck these genius is not popular it's literally the best argument
>>24843262>Zizek cited him in an article earlier this year and that's how I first met Mainlander, his work does sound interesting.Can you link the article? And what book did you get?
>>24839086Just some pseudophilosophical mumbo jumbo lyricism. And don't get wrong, I love Kierkegaard, but he at least had autistic ramblings about the nature of time and poked fun at Hegel in between spewing emotional period blood on paper.
>>24851627Ad hominem
>gendering god
>>24851272https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/why-a-communist-should-assume-life-is-hell/I don't know what book I got, I already moved it into aback up hard drive and connecting it just to check a title will be too much work.
Some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read
>>24851611thanks for the recommendation!seriously.
does anyone have that meme of the family group chat where everyone is sending condolences after someone announces their dog died and the grandad completely ignore them and texts "a book I got today" and posts a picture of this book. lmao
>>24851611Hit us with a sample anon, so we may bathe in the beauty.
Give me one good reason why he isn't the greatest writer to have ever lived
>>24848297After the surprising wit and social comedy, there's an almost metaphysical solitude. The sense that in the end, you're utterly alone, and that salvation lies not in romantic love, society or politics, but in moments of pure perception. Redemption is only found in contemplation of art and nature, because those are the only moments where the will falls silent and time briefly ceases to exist.
>7 volume 1.5 million word story about absolutely nothing.
>>24852144Plotfags btfo once again
>>24852144And yet you haven't read a single word of it, so your opinion is irrelevant. Anyway, people read literary fiction for the aesthetic experience, and if you can read below the surface, great literature (like In Search of Lost Time) is essentially philosophy, only entangled and coded into prose and narrative (in this case, an exceedingly ornate one, and a barely existent story). I don't expect genrefags to understand this.
>>24848286Je lis Proust en Anglais a l'instant mdr. Je l'ai en Francais chez moi mais c'est juste trop difficile a comprendre pour moi.
