I wrote a short story this weekend based on the characters from the Danchigai series, but with a deeper exploration of the Freudian subtext hinted at in the original manga. It's just a silly fanfiction story, but I'm really proud of how it turned out and thought to post it here.Enjoy. Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.
>>25167296>>25167398>bottom of the barrelWell, with Umineko, it was shilled to me for years by some friends and then I tried it like 5 years ago. It was a fun Christie homage but not much more, I don’t even like mystery but nonetheless, it was fun. Then it turned into a shonen anime with surface level allusions to Schrödinger’s cat (they seem to love it in Japan). Anyway, the fact that many people who love it call it the greatest work of fiction ever (they do, it’s crazy) despite being a fanfiction of an Agatha Christie book goes to show how little they actually enjoy literature.
>>25167439I still think they have some merit and might go so far as to say the majority of VN's are fighting an uphill battle with nonexistent choices, usually ugly as sin graphics, and inconsistencies out the wazoo. It's just the garbage prose people overlook when they shove it into your face and call it a "classic" as if it's not a part of the equation. For that reason I meant those two specifically were the bottom of the barrel in the writing capabilities more than their holistic enjoyment value. Fata's original JP writing is genuinely middle school level tier that got slapped around by the localizer to not have gothic horror mixed with internet slang. Which ironically made the whole debacle on tsundere to 'fragile male ego; all the more damning.
>>25168034So the conflict from the game appeal allows them to get away with poor quality writing.What would good writing look like after excluding all other possible draws? Could you write something mundane with no hook in an engaging way?
>>25168713>Could you write something mundane with no hook in an engaging way?Yes. The hook is deliberately inconsequential you could blink past it and the general "plot" without even thinking
>>25169248If visual/light novels did this, maybe people would start taking them more seriously. Subahibi is the only one I liked and when you think about it, there isn’t a whole lot that actually happens in that.
what did I think about this novel?
You found that it failed to dispel your reservations about female literature.
>>25166996You enjoy redditerature
>>25167040>>25167679Updated my journal
At least half of all well regarded political writings serve the purpose of paper weights post-epstein.
>>25167927Nobody is doing that but you. OP mentioned Epstein, not fucking Qanon or anything else. Epstein has established a new baseline to work from and now its up to fucktards like you to adjust instead of pushing this sophistry. Every institution should be suspected guilty until proven otherwise at this point.
>>25168021>The CIA directly employed the term "conspiracy theorist" with the help of assets in the media to discredit critics of the Warren commission and the CIA over the JFK assassination.I wouldn't doubt that in the least. I haven't read much about it but from what I recall seeding outlandish conspiracy theories to poison the well against actual governmental wrongdoings was systematized in the 60s with the Illuminati stuff. Some guy wrote a paper or something about how conspiracy theories could be used that way and did a test run with the most ridiculous one he could think of (i.e. illuminati) and was shocked that it actually caught on. I think he ran ads in the classified section of various men's magazines to seed it and it ended up spreading like wildfire.
>>25168045I'm married with a kid. Epstein told Peter Thiel himself that he represents the Rothchild's (who got raided just days ago over this), and Wexner and his foundation whom Epstein respectively had power of attorney over and ran the finances of were some of the biggest private benefactors of Israel. When John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released the Israel Lobby Alan Dershowitz's, the living demon, and Epstein tried to smear them, only demonstrating the Israeli lobby and ZOG's existence more.https://www.reuters.com/world/french-investigators-mounted-raids-probe-diplomat-with-epstein-ties-2026-03-24/https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbyThanks for providing a sound board to demonstrate how mentally handicapped people like you are and the overwhelming existence of this overarching problem, from conspiracy denial to ZOG.
>>25168067At its core power politics, especially in an age of perpetual global espionage, is deeply deeply conspiratorial. Take the very existence of the CIA for example. Their entire mandate is to conduct illegal espionage in target countries, which is illegal absolutely everywhere, clandestinely. And thats just espionage, much less covert paramilitary action, which they do literally all the time and even have applications for on their job website. And thats just one formal post-war institution, much less informal networks, which Epstein represents the best. All of this traffics in high criminality whether good or bad and conspiracy denialism launders legitimacy for these institutions and networks while providing cover for their very existence and actions. Well poisoning is just counter-espionage skullduggery meant to confuse the matter more. Frankly, the chasm between day to day life for uninformed normies and what global elites and institutions are doing and have been doing since 1945 is so massive its beyond comprehension, and utterly retarded bullshit like the libtard conspiracy denial gatekeeping is just systemic antibodies keeping morons from venturing off the green pasture too far.
>>25167659bro the essay is like six pageshttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
What are your favorite food descriptions? Suttree has some good ones:>The steaks arrived on iron platters sizzling in their own juice and there were steaming baked potatoes with pithy cores to melt the butter over and there was sour cream with chives and hot rolls and coffee.>She set before them each a white platter. Sliced turkey and dressing pooled over in thick gravy and steaming creamed potatoes and peas and a claretcolored dollop of cranberry sauce and hot rolls with pats of creamery butter. Harrogate’s eyes were enormous.
ulysses chapter 8
>>25166265He squatted on the ground and tried to lift out the bowl but it was too hot. Con permiso, she said. She reached down and took the bowl from the pail and lifted off the saucer and set the bowl in the saucer and handed it to him. Then she reached down and took out a spoon and handed him that.Gracias, he said.She knelt in the grass opposite to watch him eat. The ribbons of tripe swam in the clear and oily broth like slow planarians. He said that he was not really sick but only somewhat crudo from his night in the tavern. She said that she understood and that it was of no consequence and that sickness had no way to know who’d caused it thanks be to God for all of us.He took a tortilla from the pail and tore it and refolded it and dipped it in the broth. He spooned up a piece of tripe and it sloughed from the spoon and he cut it in two against the side of the bowl with the edge of the spoon. The menudo was hot and rich with spice. He ate. She watched.The children rode up on the horse behind him and sat waiting. He looked up at them and made a circling motion with his finger and they set off again. He looked at the woman.Son suyos?She shook her head. She said that they were not.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25166265I hate McCarthy and his "prose"I hate Americans and their "art">There was her face, mouth agape with her ripe breasts hanging over her ribcage and there was skin, covered in goosebumps under his big hands, and there was wetness that clung to her skin and it swallowed his thick member and her eyes seemed to lap at his lips, but her lips were stuck between his teeth.
>>25166265A pan of fried trout can’t be bettered and they don’t cost any more than ever. But there is a good and bad way of frying them.The beginner puts his trout and his bacon in and over a brightly burning fire; the bacon curls up and dries into a dry tasteless cinder and the trout is burned outside while it is still raw inside. He eats them and it is all right if he is only out for the day and going home to a good meal at night. But if he is going to face more trout and bacon the next morning and other equally well-cooked dishes for the remainder of two weeks he is on the pathway to nervous dyspepsia.The proper way is to cook over coals. Have several cans of Crisco or Cotosuet or one of the vegetable shortenings along that are as good as lard and excellent for all kinds of shortening. Put the bacon in and when it is about half cooked lay the trout in the hot grease, dipping them in corn meal first. Then put the bacon on top of the trout and it will baste them as it slowly cooks.The coffee can be boiling at the same time and in a smaller skillet pancakes being made that are satisfying the other campers while they are waiting for the trout. With the prepared pancake flours you take a cupful of pancake flour and add a cup of water. Mix the water and flour and as soon as the lumps are out it is ready for cooking. Have the skillet hot and keep it well greased. Drop the batter in and as soon as it is done on one side loosen it in the skillet and flip it over. Apple butter, syrup or cinnamon and sugar go well with the cakes.While the crowd have taken the edge from their appetites with flapjacks the trout have been cooked and they and the bacon are ready to serve. The trout are crisp outside and firm and pink inside and the bacon is well done — but not too done. If there is anything better than that combination the writer has yet to taste it in a lifetime devoted largely and studiously to eating.— Ernest Hemingway, ‘Camping Out’
>>25166708Based
Which is a bigger waste of time: philosophy, or occultism?
>>25168678>modernity sophistrySaaaar
philosophy used to be real
Everyone does philosophy whether they realize it or not. saying you don't have a philosophical perspective is exactly like saying you don't speak with an accent. One can however have unquestioned philosophical perspectives that they take for granted without inspection or thought.
>>25164801occultism is mainly a way to make drug use appear profound, so probably philosophy
>>25164890The computer I’m on makes me and everyone else that uses a retard so another loss for science
When I meet new people I always tell them I read Jurassic park when I was 8
>>25167060All I remember is the first book I ever read and the first novel that I read (I was six) but other than that... I know what books I really liked and read before I moved to germany, but I don't really remember when I read them or how old I was. But I read a lot of Dragonriders of Pern when I was 12. FUCK. Being a little kid again and reading the Dragonriders of Pern again for the first time would be so fucking awesome.
>>25167480are you dutch
did you really though
>>25167060Why don't they name it "late cretaceous park" if all the main dinosauris in the park existed during the late cretaceous for exception the stegosaurus from late jurassic and dilophosaurus from early jurassic
>>25168560Yeah along with diary of a wimpy kid 3
>dude, you should read "The Tower of the Elephant">hmm alright>seems like a pretty straightforward Conan story so far>oh that's weird>wait...what?>holy shit
>>25166931Why just your enemies? Why not everyone and the gods too?
>>25166995It’s just worldbuilding, christcuck. No need to get all worked up.
>>25166995Killing your enemies serves order. Killing indiscriminately serves chaos. Ironically, being a pacifist also serves chaos. A guy who renounces all violence is more similar to a serial killer than a normal guy willing to kill to defend his family and nation.
>>25166931Sounds really, really weak. Pagan religion was not like this really, human motives matter. German "barbarians" respected and revered Odin mostly for his intelligence and depth of character.
>>25166931Catholics BTFO lmao
I’ve got like 39 pages left. What have I thought of this outdated masterpiece?
>>25167024idk havent read it
>>25167132Difficult books don’t get the attention they deserve
>>25167024>outdated masterpiecenot at all. Literally since WW1 we have not left the life of the worker. You fucking morons don't even realize how abnormal it is for us to every day all year mobilize as many people as possible, sacrificing families, health, happiness for some absurd work effort for some imagined state of "war" that ultimately leads to... what??? more work?This book is more relevant than even Max Weber's protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism, and no one is rushing to say that insight is no longer apt to diagnose the modern neurosis. One thing Moldbug is right in is that our society is not building towards anything teleological, instead, future civilization will just wonder at us laboring to create so much of so many trivial things. Do people not realize, we are not actually at war, but our efforts are war like? We can actually calm down the work efforts; but no, everyone is intoxicated with the spirit of the modern worker who conquers the globe as Jünger describes it.
>book is written in first person
>>25164191Lord of the Rings.
>>25162677https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz-oBtwKxHY
>book isn't written
>>25161675>REMEMBER MY NAME: narrator is a third party completely unrelated to the case who does not even know the murder was committedthe screwtape letters
>>25161791I suppose The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time sort of fits, as this guy>>25163074pointed out.I didn't have anything in mind originally, but I suppose Confession Of A Crap Artist (PKD) pretty much works. Narrator is a retard who has no idea about the little domestic drama going on around him.>>25167815>the screwtape lettersDon't get this.
As the title says, I’ve been somewhat interested in exploring some non-mainstream (Hitler, evola, etc) political and philosophical books from the post-ww1 pre-ww2 interregnum period. I know there is a large amount of books from that period, but what are your favorites? It can be from any ideology.I’ll offer a book in turn. Le Feu by Henri Barbusse. It was one of the first war novels to come out during the Great War. Very messy, but I enjoy it.
Idk why,but for some reason, I am starting to find female body extremely gross,and picrel looks "vomit" tier gross to me.
You mean interbellum
Sorry! I was a little sleepy when I posted this so it kinda slipped past my radar!
>>25168513>non-mainstream>HitlerWhat happened? He was a very (in)famous person from 1923 until his chisen death in 1945. Even thereafter most people, at least in the west and east, knew about him.
hm
>>25150898*Alien robothttps://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2024/11/05/ai-has-likely-spread-through-cosmos-says-former-nasa-chief-historian/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-aliens-may-be-artificial-intelligence-not-life-as-we-know-it/https://futurism.com/seti-scientist-aliens-are-likely-robotic-life-formshttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a62990282/post-biological-ai-aliens/https://www.science.org/content/article/if-we-ever-meet-aliens-they-ll-probably-be-robotshttps://nautil.us/why-alien-life-will-be-robotic-235661https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160922-what-if-the-aliens-we-are-looking-for-are-aihttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2430601-dozens-of-stars-show-signs-of-hosting-advanced-alien-civilisations/
>>25165362That's a nice sentiment anon
>>25165362And what does he have in store for me if I reject him? Because if I've learned anything in life, it's that if someone punishes you for rejecting their love, they never actually loved you in the first place.
God doesn't have any citizenship so legally he would be an illegal alien if he suddenly descended down here on earth which I think is funny
What am I in for?
It was apparently Nietzsche's favorite book
Activation
I like when he goes on an antigerman rant toward the end
Striving for the highest good?Creating your own morals and values?Which team is lit on?
>>25168762>licks platos buttholeplato would 100% have gotten put in his place
>>25168766dubs confirmthis is as bot as it possibly gets
>>25168766>unironically not seeking the goyim state
You need both. Nietzsche intentionally sets himself up to be plato's counterpart as the Dionysian to his Apollonian
>>25168818/thread
How good is chatgpt for reading lists? I asked it for literature about animism to transcendentalism and it gave me this list1. Animism, Myth, and Original Meaning(Where meaning is in the world)The New Science — Giambattista Vico Foundational for the idea that early humans experienced reality as inherently meaningful.The Golden Bough — James George Frazer Classic (if dated) account of magic religion rationality.Animism: Respecting the Living World — Graham Harvey Modern reconstruction of animism as a worldview.The Sacred and the Profane — Mircea Eliade How traditional societies divide reality into meaningful (sacred) vs ordinary (profane).2. Greek Thought Transcendence BeginsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25167772>>25167774dont see the use of this since aifags dont read books, they read summariesmight as well just let chatgpt write a summary on transhumanism
>>25167772I'm begging you to actually read a book, just one
>>25168073>>25168225>thread is literally about judging AI recommendations for reading lists>anti-AI spergs can't help themselves and assume even this completely banal and harmless usage means that it's being used to summarize rather than readGet the fuck over yourselves already, christ
>>25168419theres actual scholarly work on the subjects so using ai for it is just lazythere are decent uses for it but this isnt one of them
>>25168437You're retarded
What are some books that have "transformed" you?Do you believe in the concept of transformative literature? Or do you think there are a lot of malleable brained lemmings who believe what they're told to believe? These are genuine questions.
Hmm.... Maniac MaGee got me to eat butterscotch krimpets back in the day so there was def some transformation that occurred thereBut I would not recommend eating then today, I tried within the last hear and omg it was so bad. They RUINED the formula or something, it was an oily mess and no longer had the super sweet taste I once enjoyed
>>25168719>there are also people who are convinced they are not lemming at allNot me, tho
>>25168749you're my special friend
>>25168712most of them, except some bad booksnow that i look at it, reading was very impactful on memainly greeks incl. homer, schopenhauer, nietzsche, descartes, leibniz, lacan, dostoyevsky
>>25168712Doctor Faustus made me interested in classical music.
