>t. Midwit
>>25184165Im a truck driver :( and a midwit as previously mentioned. Riding & listening is pretty /comfy/ ngl
>>25184206Ah, okay, no that’s fair I take it back.
the midwit ids with Sancho the schizo ids with Quixotethe schizowit with both
>>25184216I amd the wind mill
>>25184114this must be bait or mental retardation. Cervantes was a Catholic noble who fought against Ottomans in the legendary battle of Lepanto.
I ran out of space
>>251838212/2
>>25169811Heh, truly based, fellow chud.
>>25174463kek
>be me a few years ago>been a student for ~7 years>live in multiple shitty student rooms in European city centres>always about 7 or 8 second-hand bookstores/goodwills in 15 minute walking/biking distance>some of which are on the route to uni/city centre/supermarket>make it a habit to pop into these stores whenever I visit the city or university>collect a respectable amount of books, probably around ~50 a year (some years more, some year less, as everything was closed around the covid years)>books spread out on multiple shelves in the cozy student room>comfy>be me now>have been working a 9-5 job 5 days a week for ~3 years>get a nice apartment in a suburb of a moderately big city>finally put all the books in a nice, well-organized bookshelf>no bookstores in walkable distanceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25169779Are you german? I’ve been learning German for 5 years and still can’t understand Buddenbrooks.
Monsters, Dragons, Beasts, Creatures, Horrors, and Miscellaneous Lifeforms Edition Version 2: Magical and/or Alien BoogalooFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Me personally, I can't move on til my conlang is complete
>>25184597If your characters keep wandering around their potential future timelines trying out different options, eventually a sudden freak accident will occur. Then people will lament how the 20-year-old genius student who always got the perfect grades and learned French in a day suddenly decided to go drinking in the bad part of the town and died in a bar fight in which someone pulled a gun/drunkenly slipped on ice on the way home/got hit by a falling flower pot.
>>25184911I don't think you get the logic of it. Imagine a sheet filled with dots. Each dot is the consciousness of the wizard at any given interval in time. The wizard can move between them at will as long as he stays inside the sheet of paper.It's effectively impossible for a wizard to die if there is literally any chance whatsoever that he could find another future where he didn't.
>>25184916Based on what you wrote earlier, if your character was minding his own business and suddenly a stray bullet came from somewhere and hit him directly in the brain without a chance to notice or react, the character would die there for real and his death would become the final, true timeline.I would put the chance of accidentally stumbling into a sudden unavoidable death much higher than the chance of successfully taking over the country through precise timeline manipulations. In fact, the higher the character would attempt to rise in the society and the less ethical the means, the higher the chance would be that someone would decide to send a skilled assassin after the character. Then if the assassin decided to use a sniper bullet rather than, say, poison, there could well be nothing that the character could do.
>>25184974>Based on what you wrote earlier, if your character was minding his own business and suddenly a stray bullet came from somewhere and hit him directly in the brain without a chance to notice or react, the character would die there for real and his death would become the final, true timelineI suppose that's true. I was assuming we were talking about whether the ability itself can be defeated in cases where avoiding fate is possible.If he didn't use his prophecy, he's just another man and would die like one.
>The enigmatic or secretive character of William Baylebridge was due in part to his special war service; in part to circumstances of his personal life which biographers eventually may, or may not, discover;I don’t get it. What was so special about his personal life?
Where do you usually get free e-books for your Kindle?
mIRC
>>25183082Holy based, grandpa.
>>25177653z-library, through their telegram bot or the desktop app, the website is hit and miss
Eink readers with physical buttons? Had a kindle forever ago, but it looks like they're all touchscreen now, whether kindle paperwhite or kobo clara pw.>>25183082Undernet's #bookz was great. Wonder if it's still there.
>>25184900>Undernet's #bookz was great. Wonder if it's still there.it is
how do you deal with a lack of purpose and a lack of faith? i can't seem to find meaning or purpose in things, and i cannot create it for myself as of yet. individual things are nice, but as a greater whole it all ebbs together into a "ehh it's okay" whatever.
>>25184962>Trying to post hoc rationalize what is irrational.Holy projection
>>25184963So are you stupid or just pretending?
>>25182946There’s no way that’s a real language lmao
>>25184969Norwegian is unironically the easiest language for an english speaker to learn. Especially if you're familiar with some of the older words in english. The sort in fantasy novels. Apotek - pharmacy. And then there's jokes like bok (book), hotell, også (pronounced ogso, but mostly sounds like and means also), dyr (dear as in expensive), Norge (Nor-gay) and minibanken (atm). Some odd grammar rules, but no weird conjugations. Duolingo is actually an okay way to pick up vocab for once and mystery of the nils is an excellent text to learn further - and the rules. There's lots of anki flashcards about with sound, too, which help. From there finn.no, or learn words like jødesvin and start posting them on norsk facebook. Jøde is a favourite primary school insult for a reason.Going through the crap so I could immigrate from Au to Norway was the best decision I ever made. Just don't go to Svalbard, those people are insane.
>>25184964Are you fake or are you gay?>>25184978Lol minibank
So it's just stoicism + astrology?
>>25184559I don't see why Platonism implies Stoicism rather than any other kind of ethics.
>>25184559StoΙcism teaches you the fundamentals for pursuing ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΕΡΓΟΝ
Stoicism is (literally) Cynicism for dweebs
>>25184540Neoplatonism is really just like stoicism with idealism. See for instance Simplicious' commentary on Epictetus' Enchiridion
>>25184572Stoicism grew out of Platonism, and Plato's Socratic ethics is the background of Stoic ethics
We should be more like the Japanese
>>25184512I do want to check it out. It looks pretty schizo.
>>25180424>NTR>The Japanese art of enjoying the transient nature of relationships
>>25184635>The Japanese art of sharing; of generously offering your fellow man the opportunity to taste the same lips that you have.
>>25173586So hoarding, essentially.
>>25173586What pisses me off about this, on the same level as hygge or lagom, is that tsundoku is not some “concept” invented to describe a specifically Japanese practice. It is an ordinary word. Once you purchase a book, it is 未読 (midoku), “not yet read”, and once you read it, it is 既読 (kidoku), “read” and if you're a compulsive buyer, it becomes 積ん読 (tsundoku), “piled up”. Japanese is keen on forming various compounds on the fly, it doesn't have any meaning lost intranslation. There's no reason to use a Japanese word. It's shorter than “accumulating unread books”? Duh, most words are.
But if you think the writing is extremely amateur then are you implying you could do better? That you can actually write something that entertains a lot of people? Can you really, amateur?
>>25182837>>25182840This must seem really good to the kind of person who doesn't normally read. Based on the fact that you ctrl+F'd "math" I can tell that what you like about it is that it dumps a bunch of high school science trivia, so you can feel smart for knowing the kinds of things known to everyone who's ever been clicked through wikipedia out of boredom in the middle of the night.The prose is really insufferable. Every time the narrator tells a joke or tries to sound lighthearted makes me physically cringe. Trying to write the way you talk really is an amateur mistake, there are phrases you can get away with in-person that simply look bad in print. The way the narrator barely even seems to care about his situation really robs this passage of all its narrative tension too.I've seen this sort of scene done well. Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pirates of Venus features a great passage about being stuck in a spaceship hurtling off-course toward certain doom. It's got prose that actually sounds good, and a narrator who actually cares about his situation to make you feel the narrative tension. It's even got some science trivia in it, though unlike in Weir's writing it doesn't detract from the more pressing matter of the impending doom.Your problem is that, like most people who insist that books should only be "entertaining," the crap you're shilling simply is not entertaining. Basically any classic work of pulp scifi does what this book does a thousand times better.
>>25181008Can someone explain to me what the connection was with The Beatles? I didn't get that.
>>25184267He named the beetles after the Beatles. That’s all there is to it.
>>25184253your selfie yeah
>>25180878So what did the author do to trigger you trannies? Go on a "chud podcast" and deride your favorite TV shows?
You have eyes but failed to see Mount Tai! EditionStubbed >>25172742>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'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25184945Delusional?(Nta). Maybe I can't picture it. What's an example story/book similar to what you propose?
The fatigue is starting to hit after 9 months of posting bros. Chapters have slowed to once a week, follower count has firmly stagnated, neither growing nor shrinking for almost a month now, and my interest in continuing dwindles every time I hit publish. How do you lads keep pushing on when this feeling hits?
I'm awed by the sheer balls of a reader telling the author their character is acting out of character. Bro, the characters literally live inside my head, if it seems to you they're OOC, you didn't understand the character, retard
>>25184959I know that feel bro. I'm six months in myself and still keep churning out three chapters a week. I've been so close to giving up so many times and have a ready draft for an axe announcement, but it's still making just barely enough money to be worth it. But I'm trying to write another story on the side, and if it gets more popular, I'll drop this turd on the spot.
>4000 words in two daysholy shit bros it's really easy writing a story when its premise actually generates scenes and dialogue
>references works from Molière and Foucault>jokes from Much Ado About Nothing, Brazil, Fight Club>quotes Politics and the English Language>features multiple fat niggersis Office Ladies /ourgame/?visual novel bread
>>25184822Holy pseud
>>25184822It's more of a JRPG than a VN, but close enough.
>>25184849Step one: transition.
>>25184824>a tripfag discussing standards. Kek, ironic.
>>25184967anon come on are you new?
Is this a good read?
>>25182774Not a single US boot on the ground and Russia still gets hardmogged.
Is that supposed to be Natasha. I never really imagined her looking so asiatic...or young. I think Andreis affection for her was creepy but I brushed it off based on it being on his admiration of her youthful glow/joy of life. Looking at this picture makes me cringe a little.
>>25184125Her head is tiny and she kinda look like an alien, dark eyes too.
>>25184125Countess Rostova is described as having oriental features so it'd make sense for Natasha to have them too. In any case she has dark-brown eyes and hair. I don't believe that cover is an accurate representation of her though. But she was very young, 13 at the start of the novel and I believe about 17 when she falls in with Andrei? Her youthfulness/childishness is kind of the central part of her character..
i think its really good. one of the best even. all of the characters have top tier character arcs and all of them are meaningful and relatable on some level and make you reflect on life. probably the standout thing is that each main character has such a vivid and natural inner-life and everything just flows so smoothly with tolstoy's style. the setting of the napoleonic wars is of course pure kino, an aesthetic bow wrapped around the package that brings it all together and adds just the right flair to the whole thing. its wholesome and unpoisened by modern sentiments. not really big fan of the essays though but oh well
Previous: >>25122533https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25122533~Itinerary~• Friday, April 3rd, 10:00 AM GMT>Character & theme requirements revealed; start writing!• Monday, April 6th, 11:59 PM GMT>Submission deadline; voting and critique begin.• Friday, April 10th, 10:00 AM GMT>Voting ends; winners crowned; critique persists with thread.~Rules~WritingComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Last thread, I wrote>If this thread dies before I write any feedback, I’ll just post it all in next month’s.and I will share it here, but as a rentry link, not as individual posts, so as to not bog down the thread.I just have one left to write, so I’ll link it tomorrow, before the requirements drop.>[Countdown to requirements reveal]https://countingdownto.com/?c=7009435
>>25182719I remembered about the competition in time to participate and it so happens that it's the 1 year anniversary of my last entry. I'm now bound by an implicit Solomonic contract which disallows me from participating again until April of 2027. I know, I know, but I don't make the rules.I better make this one count boys or you're gonna have to see me again next year...
As promised:https://rentry.co/lwcMar2026_Critiques_by_ineptia(I’ll do the late “Pelagic Spine” submission later on.)>>25183867>I remembered about the competition in time to participate and it so happens that it's the 1 year anniversary of my last entry.When all calendars are contraband, and nobody can tell what month it is, the whole world will rely soley on your appearance to herald spring, DollFucker.
~Requirements~Character: Has a body mod (body modification).Theme: Invisibility.>[Countdown to submission deadline]https://countingdownto.com/?c=7011492
I remember school and university, where trying to get good grades and paying attention in class made teachers and other students think I'm a nerd, when I would actually just study, say, math on my own, with a tutor, in class, read about it online and still barely pass exams and testsI easily learned english as a child, but when it came to learning a third foreign language in school I was very below average, one of the worst students in my group, it was humiliatingI've now tried to learn a few languages (French, German, Latin, Spanish, Russian, probably a few others I've forgotten too) and I've struggled with them a lot, even studying every day for 3 hours (I did manage to keep up that pace) would generally not net me anything. it doesn't help that there are so many charlatans in the language learning "hobby space" that you don't even know what "method" to use while learning a language. probably the worst thing is that language learning communities are full of intelligent people who have many languages under their belts and this is their special interest and you can't compare yourself to themI like reading books and don't really like video games or TV, so I spend a large chunk of my free time reading. I know a bit about history, philosophy, things like this which automatically make other people think you're intelligent, but it's a bit of an illusion and I've disappointed pretty much every teacher I've had in my life. in general I am a pretentious failure who is well read enough, knows about history, philosophy and thinks he's intelligent, so I can discuss things with other people, but honestly, with the philosophy that I've read it's more that I memorized the logic but don't actually understand anything at all. it would take one actually intelligent person who's read enough as me to show that I'm just a complete fraud and retardI'm too stupid and lazy to ever learn another language
>>25180947You sound like a genuine loser honestly.It's good to know yourself to the point you're aware of your capabilities, and humble, so that you don't think embarrassing things like what you admitted to in this thread. You're halfway there in that respect, realizing that you're not a divine creature because you once read big books and that true intelligence is more than mere learnedness. But your entire thought process is entirely pathetic. How young are you? I assume you dissappoint your tutors because you have a chronically low self-esteem
>>25181488Genuinely high intuition IQ post. Read Bergson. You'll make it
>>25181488checked>>25181397>>25181396>can't put it into satisfactory languagedon't confuse thinking (words) with languagelanguage can be many things (art is also a language, a visual one), but words are somewhat limited and even deceitful, even though they hold great power because you can program your brain with them... although I do not recommend this, remember the story in the Bible with the snek & al.>The feeling is not really in the language the same way it is not really in the paint.it can be, although it takes masterful orchestration: a lot of things pointing towards the same "feeling"... maybe not too many, though, man also has other things to do in life>understandingyou are abusing that word; I understand (lol) why that other anon recommended you Bergson, as he uses "intuition" for what you mean by "understanding;" Easterners call it awareness or attention, although there is a slight difference because these require effort while intuition is "automatic" and is served by degrees akin to IQ; some philosphers call it apprehension ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprehension_(understanding) ), as it's closer to the notion of "understanding," just like you intuitedI would not recommend you read Bergson... just go directly and read either Edinger (non-fiction) or Calvino (fiction), some of their works are decent; once you understand (lol) what you are looking for, you'll find other relevant stuffComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25181636>>25181712>>25183102This seems incredibly naive and reductive to me. I think it's nothing but a grandiose fantasy to think you will speak "plainly" and "clearly" and be "understood" by a room. In reality you will speak in a way that perhaps to you seems "plain" and "clear", the room will pull whatever bits and pieces they like out, misinterpret what they please however it suits them, and not care at all what is "plain" or "clear" in your mind because it will just as easily, without effort, become abstract and poetic in their own whether they are feeble or strong. And it happens free of their will because that is the natural work of the mind.The struggle for "plainness" and "clarity" is (ironically) itself a vague subjective effort. What it achieves is often a defeating of itself as this dogged adherence to plainness and clarity robs the thoughts of their innate power. I suppose scientism is to blame for this idea that understanding is only achieved purely through recurring simplification. That you can just "boil down" whatever you like via a "practical" intelligence. That the end goal of all discourse is a de-constructive "breaking down" for its own sake. It's no wonder that art itself often becomes simplified in a post scientific revolution world.
>>25181712>Speech and language are core intelligence domains. They are assessed during IQ testing.IQ has nothing to do with "speech and language," there are strong IQ tests that don't use words at all. Aside from that, a person who knows only 100 words but recognizes the relationship between them will score higher on an IQ test than a person who knows 50000 words but doesn't.It's true that since public education became a thing, there has been a huge accent put on words... but that's mainly because words don't count for much ergo not dangerous. The unfortunate side effect is that we have all kinds of aggressive retards prancing about abusing people using words as an excuse... pronouns much?Also>reddit spacingLol.
No, its not that I don't understand, or I get bored, or I'm not cultured enough. Quite the opposite. Dostoevsky is fake-deep slop for midwits. I cannot comprehend how an actually intelligent individual could like his works. It seems to me that its more normies circlejerking to seem cultured.
>>25183777I can't believe this moron gets trips
>>25184880Those four years of penal servitude Dostoyevsky spent in Siberia he spent in the company of murderers and thieves, no segregation having been yet introduced between ordinary and political criminals. He described them in his ''Memoirs from the House of Death'' (1862). They do not make a pleasant reading. All the humiliations and hardships he endured are described in detail, as also the criminals among whom he lived. Not to go completely mad in those surroundings, Dostoyevsky had to find some sort of escape. This he found in a neurotic Christianism which he developed during these years. His emotional life up to that time had been unhappy. In Siberia he had married, but this first marriage proved unsatisfactory. In 1862-63 he had an affair with a woman writer and in her company visited England, France and Germany. This woman, whom he later characterized as ''infernal,'' seems to have been an evil character. Later she married Rozanov, an extraordinary writer combining moments of exceptional genius with manifestations of astounding naivete. (I knew Rozanov, but he had married another woman by that time.) This woman seems to have had a rather unfortunate influence on Dostoyevsky, further upsetting his unstable spirit. It was during this first trip abroad to Germany that the first manifestation of his passion for gambling appeared which during the rest of his life was the plague of his family and an insurmountable obstacle to any kind of material ease or peace to himself. Just as I have no ear for music, I have to my regret no ear for Dostoyevsky the Prophet. The very best thing he ever wrote seems to me to be ''The Double.'' It is the story - told very elaborately, in great, almost Joycean detail (as the critic Mirsky notes), and in a style intensely saturated with phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness - of a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity. It is a perfect work of art, that story, but it hardly exists for the followers of Dostoyevsky the Prophet, because it was written in the 1840's, long before his so-called great novels; and moreover its imitation of Gogol is so striking as to seem at times almost a parody. Dostoyevsky characterizes his people through situation, through ethical matters, their psychological reactions, their inside ripples. After describing the looks of a character, he uses the old-fashioned device of not referring to his specific physical appearance anymore in the scenes with him. This is not the way of an artist - say Tolstoy - who sees his character in his mind all the time and knows exactly the specific gesture he will employ at this or that moment.
>>25184912>who sees his character in his mind all the time and knows exactly the specific gesture he will employ at this or that moment.Being impressed by this is kind of low IQ, I'm a mediocre writer but I can imagine entire movies in my head if I want to.
>>25184940It's more the fact that Dosto is such a poor writer he completely ignores the physical aspect of his characters after introducing them.
>>25178764No. I'm sure that if I read it again I could appreciate it more. As a teen I was barely even thinking of the book as a book.I reiterate that I cannot really judge his quality as a writer then admit in my post that the book made me angry (not an assesement of quality) because I felt preached to, was somehow convinced every righteous prostitute in fiction was supposed to be Mary Magdalene, and that you cannot prove points through fiction. None of which are good reasons to decry a work. And all of which I have changed my mind on.
