/lit/ - Literature

>always pick up university's free short fiction journal when I'm on campus
>mfw undergrad poetry
>mfw undergrad prose
>mfw undergrad narratives
>mfw i legitimately can't discern whether "I woke up and realised I'd forgot to close the gate" is ironic post-post-plus-ultra-modern awful grammar or just awful grammar
>mfw all the authors' names are Ndendu Nuthangu and Amal Abu-Israel Queen Latifa and an endless list of white basic bitch hipsters
>mfw all the stories are about alice munro so-banal-it-isn't horseshit like grandpa skating on ice in the 30s
>mfw all the poems are about shit like lovers meeting in a forest
>mfw i waited years to try to get anything published because i felt like i would be competing with junior DFWs
>mfw it's literally just retards and whiners and minority whiners as far as the eye can see

>be sjw
>literally think man or men cannot be objectified as part of the setting of a narrative because that would be racist!!!
>you're not allowed to use powerful themes of human otherness that have existed for thousands of years because that would be racist!!
>you're not allowed to inhabit and explore the perfectly historical perspective of other cultures or civilizations or modes of living as barbaric or cthonic or other because that would be racist!! blacks have feelings too!!!

HOw MEANINGFUL. EVERYTHING IS RACIST

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>Ancient battle strategy implys bronze age or earlier