the japanese say you have three faces. the first face you show to the world. the second, to friends and family. and the third, to 4chan because it's anonymous.Thoughts on the usage of online posts within multi-nodal works? Some of my more autistic and orthodox colleagues insist that it's post-modern bullshit but I see no difference between it and regular epistolary novels.
>>25189645What does it mean when I show pretty much the same face to everyone?>>25189652I know the Greeks and Romans believed that the soul was housed in the stomach.
>>25189656>What does it mean when I show pretty much the same face to everyone? Autism.
>>25189843Cope
>>25189645if you give a man a mask, he will tell you the truth
>>25189656no, anon is right. being able to adjust your personality to the situation is an important human behaviour that requires recognizing and understanding contextual nuance. that you apparently can't do that is a strong indicator of autism.
This book is reddit. Pure reddit. I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 30 pages it was so painful
>>25187932Seethe more this book kicks ass
>>25188420More like licks ass (as in eats shit)
>>25188534
I didn't read the thread, just finished M&D. I liked it, but I think I missed a lot. What should I read next?
>>25189175Try AtD.
the hills of norvos 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: >>25156285
>>25189786Fastest wall crash of all time
Is Asoiaf more detailed and vivid than Akotsk?
>>25189627My poor boy Quentyn got roasted
>>25189816Have you seen her brother
>>25189829He's obviously still alive.
I shouldn’t have to strain to understand what an author is saying to get little to no pleasure from it. Reading should be fun, which isn’t to say I read only mollycoddling garbage like Lord of the Rings. But my life is too short for Mrs Dalloway or As I Lay Dying.
>>25188949
that may be the second worst "criticism" of tolkien i have read
>>25188947>>25188949>>25188954https://worldwithoutmoneyarg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/moorcock-1978-epic-pooh-in-arena-2-anarchists-in-fiction-2011.pdf>Writers like Tolkien take you to the edge of the Abyss and point out the excellent tea-garden at the bottom, showing you the steps carved into the cliff and reminding you to be a bit careful because the hand-rails are a trifle shaky as you go down; they haven’t got the approval yet to put a new one in.
>>25188697>Reading Should Be Fun>posts the most boring space opera ever
>>25189586>space operaYou've never read it.
Barring direct Priest-King intervention, is there anything Goreans could do if Jason was transported to their shithole and started rampaging, or will he just become their own version of SCP-682? He destroys any of them one-on-one physical stats-wise, unironically probably has better equipment (which also still fits into the restrictions imposed by the Priest-Kings, explaining why they wouldn't interfere), and whoever gets close to him, which is the only way they have of fighting him, will have a tough time not just surviving but also damaging him more than his regeneration can handle.
The Spider People could probably seal him up in a web, then have the humans toss him off the side of a ship at sea.
>>25189676Pre Part VI, Jason gets ganked. VII and onwards it's Jason all the way.
>>25189751Possible, I haven't even though of that.>>25189760Seems so, unless they pull off something really unlikely.
>>25189676Jason was a massive simp. Figures my best friend likes him.
Will literature ever regain cultural prominence?
>>25189371george lucas didnt make star wars as he proved with his prequels. copyright destroyed writing
I was watching the show madmen, its set in the early 60s, in one scene the secretaries are passing around a risqué book whose name i dont remember.My point is none of that shit would happen todaybooks used to be part of the cultural conversation. even in the 2000s you had harry potter, twilight, 50 shade of grey. Now no one has the attention span to read
>>25189100>he's not the richest or the most famousshouldn't it be "he's not the richest nor the most famous"?
Of course old-school books/authors are not as influential as they were but the creative force is still vital; it just finds its way into other forms (products).Regardless of the modern entertainment, it's genesis is still someone and their ideas (and a desire to express them).I see writing as vital because it is the least meditated of the art forms. Consider all the efforts made, the number of people involved, in adapting an author's work into a film/tv show. So many egos, opinions, constraints and obstacles exist that the writer avoids, snug in his garret, living in their imagination.Consider the struggle for authors to get published in the past, if their themes were heterodox to their culture, race, politics. Many were prosecuted and exiled in a manner that few of us could contextualize or really understand (off the top of my head, see Solzhenitzen).If you have an idea and some ambition, you have a million ways to make that a reality that people in past did not have.When an author achieves mass popularity, they can also become a character/public persona (or even caricature). Nowadays, someone becomes notorious first, or gets some niche attention, then leverages it to get published. Many of the agents I've listened to have made this point.I guess the point is that the forms that lit will take in the future are hard to predict, but that spark will remain.Hit me with your best cynicism and I'll try to defend my dung heap.
>>25189705"Nor" is typically used with "neither."
What is the proper way to read a play?
Left to right, up to down
Saturday EditionStubbed >>25180540>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.
>>25189855People are posting stuff that's only 12k words? Geez, it's fascinating seeing just how difficult transferring a web novel to print is. You would need 40 chapters if not more to get anything remotely publishable.
>>25189782>Is it worth continuing on?It wasn't even worth starting
>>25189879>People are posting stuff that's only 12k words? Geez, it's fascinating seeing just how difficult transferring a web novel to print is. You would need 40 chapters if not more to get anything remotely publishable.real sure they meant chapter length of 1,200 to 1,500 words. Personally in a traditional papernack format, I enjoy a healthy mix of chapter lengths with the course of say a 80k to 100k typical paperback. A 1,00 word chapter in the right place, but 5k and 10k is fine for others. And a big action chapter that could go more but was all culminating excitement you've been anticipating the climax being even bigger, sure that's fine. I think it adds to the paperback. I'm not sure that enjoyable paperback would be as good when microserialized down to have all those tiny chapters to farm views and numbers.
>>25189916>A 1,00 word chapter in the right placeI meant 1,000
>>25189918>100 word chapter is due tomorrowi can't do it bros...
We should be more like the Japanese
I'm the only one here who lives in Japan permanently and basically I have nothing but contempt for all of you no matter on which side of the issue you lay.
>>25173586yes, pornwise
>>25189170are you le ebin samurai with a harem of asian women yet, Billy?
>>25189170Sounds miserable, your attitude seems to imply as much too. Us gaijins are unwelcome after all.
>>25180469>conflates Americans with JewsYep, its a chudpost.
What are some good tasteful erotic scenes in serious literature /lit/?
literally any random page from gravity's rainbow
>>25188649Women like to stretch it and get fucked in it though, so maybe it's good?
>He whisked off her shoes and panties in one movement, wild like an enraged shark. His bulky totem beating a seductive rhythm. Mary's body felt like it was burning, even though the room was properly air-conditioned. They tried all the positions - on top, doggy, and normal.Exhausted they collapsed onto the recently extended sofa-bed. Then a hell beast ate them.
>Such a slender child: her throat swallowing, strummed to a moan as he grabs her hair, twists it... she has him all figured out. Knows exactly when to take her mouth away and stand up, high-heeled Parisian slippers planted to either side of him, swaying, hair softly waving forward to frame her face, repeated by the corset darkly framing her pubic mound and belly. Raising bare arms, little Bianca lifts her long hair, tosses her little head to let the mane shiver down her back, needle-tipped fingers drifting then down slowly, making him wait, down over the satin, all the shiny hooks and laces, to her thighs. Then her face, round with baby-fat, enormous night-shadowed eyes comes swooping in as she kneels, guides his penis into her and settles slow, excruciating till he fills her, stuffs her full...>Now something, oh, kind of funny happens here. Not that Slothrop is really aware of it now, while it’s going on—but later on, it will occur to him that he was—this may sound odd, but he was somehow, actually, well, inside his own cock. If you can imagine such a thing. Yes, inside the metropolitan organ entirely, all other colonial tissue forgotten and left to fend for itself, his arms and legs it seems woven among vessels and ducts, his sperm roaring louder and louder, getting ready to erupt, somewhere below his feet... maroon and evening cuntlight reaches him in a single ray through the opening at the top, refracted through the clear juices flowing up around him. He is enclosed. Everything is about to come, come incredibly, and he’s helpless here in this exploding emprise... red flesh echoing... an extraordinary sense of waiting to rise...>She posts, his pretty horsewoman, face to the overhead, quivering up and down, thightop muscles strung hard as cable, baby breasts working out the top of her garment... Slothrop pulls Bianca to him by her nipples and bites each one very hard. Sliding her arms around his neck, hugging him, she starts to come, and so does he, their own flood taking him up then out of his expectancy, out the eye at tower’s summit and into her with a singular detonation of touch. Announcing the void, what could it be but the kingly voice of the Aggregat itself?
Where do you usually get free e-books for your Kindle?
>>25187793People think bib is frozen in time since the-eye. You can get anything at Anna's archive or irc or any library overdrive anywhere. With a request worth enough people will straight up purchase a book to upload. I got several in Swedish from bib because people there are desperate for upload.
>>25188626Yeah. It's frustrating how many older books are either PDF-only or the only epub copy has really bad OCR errors.I've tried to tinker with the advanced conversion options before and have had some success, but the spacing is never right.
>>25188661Or the ebook is 50 bucks and the pdf is the only pirate available. I'll pay that for a hardcover, or something I can see myself returning to often like reference material. Not something I'm reading once out of curiousity. Maybe when we get flashable ereaders - 500 flexible eink pages that you turn like normal paper and reflash into another book when done. The young lady's illustrated primer, or more specifically the drunken neanderthal ancestor.
>>25187780I've done it manually several times before discovering the "send to amazon" feature.
>>25186485Drop your manga that you got from nyaa.si into KCC for epub conversion. Set custom resolution to match your e-ink screen and select manga mode. Or download something like Tachiyomi on your reader.
>t. Midwit
>>25188334history is not an area in which i would feel comfortable giving recommendations id suggest looking through some university curriculums and working through the mentioned works (which will also mention other works)
>>25183386filtered
Intellectually stimulating myself by reading a book about 2 guys puking and shitting on each other
>>251898522 guys, 1 book?
>>25187570How is it pretentious?
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.
Here is my prompt>Each girl is born with a halo>Boys are not born with a halo>When a hymen is broken, the halo automatically transforms into the breaker of the hymenHow would this impact society?
Every single thing I write for the lore is for the purpose of creating a setting that is both utterly miserable to live in and yet formidable in combat. I design my magic systems to be hax personified, with every single spell or technique that is generally considered a game breaker power in the fantasy genre. I need my technology to be the absolute epitome of hard science fiction power a la the Xeelee Sequence.My only stipulations are that :A). It should be true to its genre. The only magic and supernatural events allowed are those that come from actual real life religion, folklore, philosophy and mythology. And not one single spell should violate the metaphysical doctrines that I'm allowing. If there's any contradictions, I choose one and ditch the other.B). That the tech itself should be as hard science fiction as I can manage. No FTL in real space, no perpetual energy machines, causality is a hard rule, and even economics need to be respected.
>>25189013This is fucking bullshit.
>>25189682It is what it is.
There's a difference between a practice being common and accepted, if you get my meaning. Some things may be common enough in a society because people can get away with it and get something out of it, but the majority of the population might outright hate it.
who is the jacon elordi of literature?
Can't say I know much about Elordi, but this guy was tall and crushed an unbelievable amount of famous poon.
Dear Retards,What have you read that truly lifted your spirits, gave you hope?Let’s skip the obvious ones like the Bible.
>>25189831NTA but no, being so politics brained like you is immature though.
>>25189831>strawmanning is le GOODdont forget to make a wish!
>>25188402
very cliche but TBK proved to me that there was a level of character complexity and introspection most authors dont/cant go to, and the meme trilogy revived my desire to learn as much as i can and to be as eclectic as possible, which public school squashed out of me. im just happy to be alive with a book and a brain these days
>>25188411>reading Cioran manages to lift me up a bit from time to timeSame. I actually find it consoling
