Why does it seem that all anyone on this board wants to write now is either fantasyslop or sci-fislop?I have seen some decently skilled writers throwing themselves away writing the most derivative, infantile, autistic, Royal-Road-coded shit imaginable:>Narrowing his eyes at the approaching hoard of T’zendians, Klayden clenched his fist and summoned forth a burning shadow spear…Just stop! Is this all because you’ve watched a small handful of fat guys be moderately successful producing this gutter oil? Why can’t you write something real? Do you have no real life experience to draw from?Just downright right peculiar, thas’ all.
Because this board is full of manchildren.Even the manchildren who pretend they're literary geniusus spend their time pretending genre slop like gene wolfe and cormac mccarthy and dan simmons are on the level of shakespeare and milton and cervenates and proust.
What should I read to not seem like a manchild? I read Art of War for business class.
>>25181062They all want an escape from reality.
>>25181068Why does this chart cause such seethe from manchildren?
>>25181080Because it strikes deep down to their very soul.Manchild-Core is masculine-oriented genre slop that's slightly better than shit like sanderson and airport reading material so it allows midwit manchildren who want to appear literary, cultured and intelligent to appear so without putting the effort into reading difficult material.if you're a manchild who can't read poetry, or literature written before the year 1900 then you'll flock to shit like wolfe and mccarthy and tolkien because it's like your favorite dark souls vidya or warhammer slop and uses babby's first literary techniques like unreliable narrator and lets you feel like you're a based intellectual.>Oooooh... what's this? A book written in the last 50 years that has blood and gore and violence and esotericism?>I'm literally so deep and intellectual, under my incel veneer I can enchant any woman if only they got to know me and my dark triad jungian nietzchean based tradcath traditionalist spirit>btw i act like patrick bateman despite being 290 lbs but its ok because sam hyde does it and he's my idol and totally not a loser
>>25181062>hoardAnon, don't think you're ready for the big leagues. I get this serves as some elaborate stage to audition your fantasy slop, but try mastering basic English first.
>>25181062do you think, after he combs his hair, he intentionally picks out those little strands and positions them just so?
>reddit spacing"literary fiction'" isn't a real genre.
After being trained to read slop by Harry potter books, the Harry Potter readers had to graduate to either Stephen King or Branden Sanderson
>>25181062There is nothing in the real world worth writing or reading about All adventure, discovery, masculine optimism and spiritual yearning is absent from the modern world and from newer generations
>>25181093>>25181111
>>25181068>>25181088What is your favorite piece of literature and why do you like it?
>>25181072Jane Austen
The real world sucks and is getting worse. Those genres offer escapism through imaginary worlds so far beyond our own they can only be captured through imagination. I prefer hard sci-fi that still captures the selfishness and greed of modern humans
>>25181068>shakespeare and milton and cervenates and proust.Why would I read those outdated boomers when I can read Pynchon or Delillo?
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>>25181062You aren't as smart as you think you are.
post the chart for intellectual literary chads then. (I seriously hope you don't include DFW in it)
Downie physiognomy
>>25181236BAKKER is KING!
the greatest book in the world, the divine comedy, is fantasyslop
>>25181062Who would want to write about our faggot ass society? The ones who do (women) either write smut or woe-is-me-I'm-not-white DEI slop.
>>25181062>>Narrowing his eyes at the approaching hoard of T’zendians, Klayden clenched his fist and summoned forth a burning shadow spear…What's wrong with this sentence though?
>>25181282>guise the divine comedy was actually le heckin you have to go back
Not me, desu. I want to write historical fiction mystery slop.
>>25181062because I can add cool shit. The themes are abstract anyway, the setting can be separated so long as you have something grounded enough for a story to happen in.>>25181068haven't read a single one of these (though I intend to read Dune but idk)
>>25181062I liek mysteries and puzzles and also magic :)
>>25181062I read three in one of his series. It's fine for what it is but it's slop. Won't read him again. One of his books could be 300 pages but somehow they're 4x longer than that for no reason.
