/lit/ - Literature

>>21519128
Clit-ophon

>he hasn't already read everything ever

>>21252817
>fucking hate the democrats
>only vote for them because lesser evil

>>20576078

>>20465990
>I read only classics and philosophy

>>20465736
Thanks for dropping by specifically to prove my point, soi.

>>20427137
>Damn lit only reads entry level trash

>>20426727
>These are actions

>>20279860
>he doesn't understand the Bard

>>20270492
>Can't say I'm crazy about the prose. Maybe I'll read it untranslated someday.

>>20246817
>lol just because you don't really have anything divine in you, why does that make you less? Lmao.
Faggot.

>>20178667
>I can't enjoy writing unless it's in Old English and iambic pentameter, sorry plebs, I just can't.

Also, you're an ignorant faggot. Try "Blindsight" and its sequel, if you want some hard sci-fi with very complex language and structure.
But you won't, because you don't really want to read good stuff, you just want to look as if you do. Pretentious faggot twink.

>>20106027
>sucks
>>20105954
>but this is not particularly good.
Willing to bet it's better than anything you'll ever produce, pretentious little faggots.

>>20051143
>Tomb of Sand
>>20050240
It's about the author's vagina.

>>20051873
>Why the fuck would the creature described as possessing such inhuman power be
>>evil, nihilistic, sadistic and hateful as fuck
He's nihilistic and hateful because he openly hates life and existence itself, knows that there is no hope of improving it, and wants to murder the Goddess responsible for it. He's "evil" in the sense that he has no qualms about exploiting/torturing/killing other beings for his purposes, and he's sadistic because he actually finds pleasure in hurting others and asserting his superiority over them because, as said, he hates all existence, including the other living creatures around himself.
He's not simply indifferent to life and other creatures, he doesn't consider them simply tools or products like chickens, he hates them and wants to see them suffer and then disappear. He's sadistic for the same reason he's nihilistic and for the same reason he aims at the destruction of existence: he finds other living creatures repugnant.

Why would a smart and powerful being HAVE to be cold and indifferent? He can feel hatred and contempt and rage, he can have overwhelming instinctual feelings, nothing forbids it. This idea that smart villains need to be polite, cold, calculating and soft spoken is itself reddit tier, just a rehash of the usual argument that "institutions, corporations and bureocracies are evil in an impersonal way, really evil people only care about profits, you can do horrible things just with pen and paper in a 9-5 job, think of all the german bureocrats that allowed the lolocaust to happen", etc.
It's not as "grown up" as you seem to think it is. At this point, it's banal.

I prefer villains who, despite being smart, are not autistically cerebral and incapable of feeling anything strongly (which is itself a reddit stereotype, and a boring and untrue one at that, since geniuses are not devoid of irrationality and instincts). I prefer villains who are dominated by some unsuppressable urges and put their extreme cunning to their service. They're as goal-oriented as your hyper-rational chicken farmers, it's just that their goal is the destruction of an existence they find repulsive, instead of some sterile monetary profit.
This doesn't make them or the author juvenile, just your analysis.

>a dependence on human and elven fear, despair, and all other negative imagination. The dragons must feed on negative imagination to continue their existence. The cruelty they inflict and the terror they inspire with their presence is integrated into their need to survive or their will to grow. They consume spiritual energy and the flesh cage just produces it. Which is why they hunt sentient prey and or manipulate the environment to manifest more sentient prey to better attune with their need.
You're describing IT from the Stephen King's novel. Already been done, boring. Just a monster who creates fear because he feeds off it.
You're just not on Swanwick's level, not remotely.

>Funny this post came up. I just got done writing a thesis on why atheists human rights are contestable at best. Logically they're defined by a negation, unlike ethnic groupings or language groupings or regional peculiarities so logically they don't have a leg to stand on

>>19933337
>"I bet you're one of those midwits who consider two completely irreconcilable ideologies different just because they're in fact different."
>"Real high IQ people know that they're actually the same."
I'm also a vegan who eats meat and fish every day.

>>19904644
>just not the way you think.

>Übermensch

>people who haven't read the book think Frankenstein is the monster
>people who have read the book know Frankenstein was the creator
>people who have understood the book know Frankenstein was the monster

> "Nestled" implies a sort of arcadian pastoralism that does not exist in America.

>Hardly.

>>19679183
>~ Jordan Peterson
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>>19332349
>correlation does not imply causation