You have until October 20th, 6:00 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of art from /ic/.https://countingdownto.com/?c=6650318Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission fits inside, and exists soley within, a single textbox posted in this thread.(That means no off-site links and no text-as-image attachments!)Each entry will be carefully read by two (or three) judges.Your judges are• vampdaddy !mAddgdAU5M• ineptia !!/7cMIiSCHvi (me)• [Open spot for any previous placing /wibac/ author—just ask!]We will decide the winners—1st, 2nd, and 3rd place—following the submission deadline.Additionally, a Strawpoll for “Readers’ Choice” will be created afterward, so that everyone can have a say on who the winners should be.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24816566>Im just that nigger guy
So who won? Was it me?
>>24818562Which one was yours? tell me and I'll critique
>>24807927Sliding, 10-22-25Into the acid nightAs friction drives the keyboard towards my abdomenMy right hand fingers massage the bones of my forebrowIn habit. In peace. In tic. A friend has given me a rock of Hitlers nest, on my desk.And its insensitivity yells nothing. It is bland. And rugged.Silence would be better than this now, yes. Silence. More than tune.But the music plays. Of human condition and so forth. Whatever. When the water flows, the levee breaks. Those who have nothing will bubble to surface, their skin will peel like a boiled chickens. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Bump
/ourgirl/ finds out about Dark Academia :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUnNXq5xZ4
>>24821108academia has been anti-white for the last 80 years, chuds only started creating culture recently, it's still uncharted territory in most institutional enviroments
>>24818760Copraphobia is driven by exposure. Who knew that Apu was holding back the truth all these years.
>>24819588Oh man, this shit happens so many times it gotten boring, i will be listening to a indie novel review and in the middle of it the e video maker will go ehh the only reason this got mo much hype is because the tiltok algorithm is racist and helps white people with blonde hair get on the top, like what did this have to do with the novel review?
>>24821000>>24820759Nice armpit hair and forearm hair, shit tattoos, shit opinions.
>>24818638Based penny pincher
Didn't see a poetry general. What do you guys think of this poem I wrote?A skeleton arrived in robes of white,a crown of thorns, and sandals made of light.His eyes observed the ashy landscape viewof blackened corpses, where the vultures flew.Around the dead, the scattered casings laidin circles. Overhead, the sunlight madereflections on the shells – the mushroom clouds.“A shame,” the skeleton remarked aloud,“to see the shape the Kingdom’s taken now.”– And, nodding slow, departed with a bow.
>>24820482You're welcomeI forgot to say you understand meterThat puts you in the top 1% of this board for hearing meter in poetryMeaning the top 1% of humans
>>24820629Ethnic tensions likely
>>24820362Bump for OP
>>24820362Then why not make a poetry general and post your poem in it? Why do you think your dogshit work deserves its own thread?
>>24821630Nothing is stopping you from posting your own work in this thread. Stop being a little bitch.
I hate them so much.
>>24818107By 1776, the Thirteen Colonies were already less than half-English. One in six of the white inhabitants were from outside of the British Isles. One in five were from Scottish and Ulster Scots backgrounds.People first began commenting on differences in accent between England and the American colonies sometime ~1700. Americans were said to have a 'purity of speech' and to 'speak without idiom or tone', and this applied even to the black inhabitants. A levelling-off of disparate accents and dialects would make sense, especially when a Kentishman and a Lowland Scot found themselves neighbours to a family from Devon, and especially when they had to interact with Germans and Huguenots who were only occasional speakers of English.Ben Franklin's phonetic alphabet from 1768 is all the evidence you need that American accents have changed massively in the last quarter-of-a-millennium, and that rhotic R's alone are not proof of total colonial lag
how much of this is due to Webster's crippling autism?
>>24819427chudster has a lot to answer for
it happens
>>24811034I use both and I'm English
Who defines what words go in the dictionary? I just made a word to capture an idea>Dispiresomething that is supposedly that pushes things away in a non degrading yet still forceful manner wherein otherwise there would be interest or at least should be.Who has 'dictionary' duty?
>>24818000>>24818148Seems like it just means dissuade.
>>24818405Thank you, Gemini
>>24820223 To prevent (someone) from a purpose or course of action by persuasion. "dissuaded my friend from pursuing such a rash scheme." To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). To divert by persuasion; to turn from a purpose by reasons or motives; -- with from. "I could not dissuade him from his purpose"Persuade is generally conversational/social/communication based. It's closer to uninspire, which apparently also isn't a real word, but to be also do so in a more impartial effect, and also to be more clean from the users PoV so as to use in a professional setting, ie >Warren Buffets investments in AI have dispired people's expectation of ChatGPT being the go to dominant AI>The apple's taste dispired the expectation of good American pie
>>24818000Learn to etymology before you start inventing words. "Dispire" means, if anything, the removal of spirit, or breath, i.e. to kill someone.Such a word is inescapably related to "inspire" (to instill spirit) and expire (to release spirit, to die.)
The dictionary of obscure sorrows will entertain you.
ἐρώμενος editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24763657>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24820758I don't know that that's all that he knew about, that was just one of the ones he shared with me when the topic came up. What other ones do you know of, though? I'd be very much interested.
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ἀπιστώτατον τοῖς πολλοῖσιν εἴη κεν τὴν ῥᾳδιότητα τοῦ /κλγ/ σκώπτειν αἰεὶ κατὰ τὥμοια φλυαρήματα
>>24816748machine translation> catamite >Author: Xiao Gang > The beauty of the child is super flawed > The feather tent is full of morning fragrance, and the pearl curtain leaks in the evening > The emerald quilt contains mandarin color, and the carved bed is carved with ivory > Miao Nian and Xiao Shi are more beautiful than the morning glow > Sleeve cut Lianbi brocade Woven fine mullet flowers > The pants are lightly red, and the temples are slanted > smiles when she squints her eyes, and her jade hands are just picking up flowers > Huai guessed that it was not a post-fishing secret love like a car in front of it > is enough to make Yan Ji jealous and make Zheng Nu sigh>This dissertation focuses on an emperor-poet, Xiao Gang (503-551, r. 550-551), who lived during a period called the Six Dynasties in China. He was born a prince during the Liang Dynasty, became Crown Prince upon his older brother's death, and eventually succeeded to the crown after the Liang court had come under the control of a rebel. He was murdered by the rebel before long and was posthumously given the title of "Emperor of Jianwen" by his younger brother Xiao Yi (508-554). Xiao's writing of amorous poetry was blamed for the fall of the Liang Dynasty by Confucian scholars, and adverse criticism of his so-called "decadent" Palace Style Poetry has continued for centuries.
>>24821274Feeding Classical Chinese into a Mandarin -> English translator and expecting the result to make sense is like feeding Latin into an Italian -> English translator and expecting the result to make sense.
give me your best books on this part of the world
>>24819505There are lots of croatian soldiers who died for a noble cause in the 90s. And they arent czech or german. Look up Blago Zadro. There are so many its stupid to list them
>>24817616I will read him sometime. I've seen him in real life and he looks very down to earth. And seeing his books in bookstores when I'm on vacation somewhere does inspire patriotism.
>>24809955The commies had some based things during the cold war, sad that they're all dead now
>>24809968>there was another side to The Mountain Wreath far more sinister than its praise of tyrannicide. With its call for the extermination of those Montenegrins who had converted to Islam, the poem was also a paean to ethnic cleansingBased>>24809985>Serbia is the only Ex-Yugo country wich never left the Union to become an ethnostate. They were the only ones who wanted to keep the multicultural communist government.Gay
>>24821143Of course there were because most Croatian soldiers who were fighting within Croatia itself were just defending their homeland. I don't understand this Serb propaganda where they pretend that Croats were just as equally depraved and nationalistic as them when they were literally the ones attacking THEIR country. I understand that there was shit that Croatia was doing in Bosnia but I don't understand where this view that Croatians were equally bad as Serbs come from when they were the ones protecting their lands from getting bombed and taken over. Not to mention there were also Serbs who fought on the side of Croatia as well because they saw what was really going on.
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>>24820033Saar...
I'm looking for accessible literature on zoroastrianism, mostly historical, but i can find almost nothing. Best i found was some stuff about communities of modern zoroastrians in Iran and India. What would you recommend?Pic related, i got interested in it after that /his/ thread about how killing a beaver was seen as worse than murdering someone in Zoroastrianism.
>>24821287Why are beavers more important than all those commandments then?
>>24821379Probably something to do with how Avestan is a dead language that is not attested anywhere outside of the Avesta itself. That kind of situation is highly conductive to critical interpretation errors creeping in over the centuries.
>>24820687>gay sex is the worst sin Zarathustra, I kneel...
>>24821477And what would it be like, then? Keep in mind that Zoroastrianism is pretty anal about some animals being very sacred while others being haram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrafstar
>>24820757Shit, just saw that i replied to the wrong post. Meant for >>24820715
How so?
Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted—in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word. Consider how a young girl will toy day after day with a child, dance with it and sing to it; and then consider what a man, with the very best intentions in the world, could do in her place.With girls, Nature has had in view what is called in a dramatic sense a "striking effect," for she endows them for a few years with a richness of beauty and a, fulness of charm at the expense of the rest of their lives; so that they may during these years ensnare the fantasy of a man to such a degree as to make him rush into taking the honourable care of them, in some kind of form, for a lifetime—a step which would not seem sufficiently justified if he only considered the matter. Accordingly, Nature has furnished woman, as she has the rest of her creatures, with the weapons and implements necessary for the protection of her existence and for just the length of time that they will be of service to her; so that Nature has proceeded here with her usual economy. Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.Then again we find that young girls in their hearts regard their domestic or other affairs as secondary things, if not as a mere jest. Love, conquests, and all that these include, such as dressing, dancing, and so on, they give their serious attention.
>>24820815>>24820816this sounds like the relationship I have with my own sister except slightly less violent.
>>24820798well that I guess that's something. huh.
>>24820815>>24820816Holy based
>>24820841Is she older or younger? How do you let your sibling bully you? Parents i can 'get' but siblings? Far more equal ground.
>>24820816>Indeed, the most stinging might have come from the young man’s mother, who asked sarcastically whether his book [The Fourfold Roots of the Principle of Sufficient Reason] was for pharmacistsLmaoooooo kek
Should I read Journey to the West or Dragon Ball?
>>24813294You are already in the West. Read Journey to the East instead (by Herman Hesse).
you should READ journey to the west because it's literature, you should LOOK AT dragon ball because it's a comic, i.e. a visual medium
>>24813294Call me Somali the way I drag my balls in the West.Europe has fallen and incels can't sex.Epstein screws lollies, and diddy the rest.Boy see you in valhalla, my jeetbro Rajesh.Call me a dispensory, the way i write pottery.Wrote this eventually, on the potty you see.Bringing in a rap while taking a crap.Bro I've wrote more /lit/ while taking a shit.
asian niggas love monkey man ong
The android saga is the sexiest.
>The four arts of the Chinese scholar were the four main academic and artistic talents required of the aristocratic ancient Chinese scholar-gentleman. They were the mastery of the qin (the guqin, a stringed instrument, 琴), qi (the strategy game of Go, 棋), shu (Chinese calligraphy, 書) and hua (Chinese painting, 畫), and are also referred to by listing all four: 琴棋書畫; qínqíshūhuà. How much better would the world be if everyone in politics or working in the government had to study: a musical instrument, a visual art, a strategic board game, and literature[1]?It seems like now (at least in the US) people in politics are invariably law school graduates, former military, or from business/corporate world. I think this is only allowing a worldview where government and politics is only seen through lenses of law, military, and economics instead of how to further virtue and beauty within each person. Which is sad when you think about it.[1] replacing calligraphy
>>24818399there is a lot of stuff older than that even that is just as or more beautiful
>>24818696post it
>>24817825The level of larp you're on is embarrassing.
>>24819678projection, you don't know me
Ear cleaning is the cat's meow after seeing it on xioaync.
Everyone talks about learning Spanish, or Greek or Latin, but would i gain more considering the state of the world by learning Hebrew instead? I used to know the Hebrew alphabet by heart as a kid but its mostly escaped me now. Its for college mainly.
>>24820230I'm a Jewish convert and a student of ancient languages. I would not suggest Hebrew over Greek or Latin. I enjoy Semitic languages, but Greek will do far more to expand your horizons.
>>24820266>You should only learn Hebrew if you really want to read the Old Testament in the originalThe first OT, according to the letter of Aristeas, was written by Greeks.
There is no "ancient" Hebrew. There was Aramaic, and before that Canaanite. It's historical revisionism to write in Hebrew as if it were old. It's just a ripoff of Aramaic.
Would it help you charge Israel with war crimes? There has to be evidence in modern hebrew.
>>24820358fucking lold
What is the albino blacksheep of literature ?
>>24821594Charles Brockden Brown
