/lit/ - Literature

>>23126256
Its just one example of an authors subtextual emotions colouring a story. Things like that are really common if you start looking for them. A good example is how authors write good and bad mouthpieces for what they want said. What they allow certain characters to say and act etc.

What you're describing is just authors who can't write sex well enough for it to produce any emotion you want while reading.

Sci fi is the Sanderson of fantastical fiction anyway. Too obsessed with a codifying and quantifying mindset over sublime experience - which is what all the best fantasy hits both in terms of story and writing.

There is love and sex in something like pic related. We would just never consider it so because it doesn't fit into the modern autistic mold of "he speared her hot mound and deeply drilled into her volcanic lowness" slop.

I'm making a list of Indo-European epic romance poems. So far I have Tristan and isolde, Troilus and Cressida, Ruslan and Ludmila, Khosrow and Shirin, Layla and Majnun. Are there any that I am missing? If you want to add some Arab, Chinese, and Japanese stories too, I would not mind.

>>18189991
without a doubt healthier

>>15717464
Sick of the maids and stuff in traditional isekai worlds, have your character isekaid in a more medieval world influenced by romances or some shit

>>15095025
Hear, hear.

>>9459612
I've read Tristan by him and it made me reassess my whole life - neither the plot nor the prose is good but it is a great provocation against Apollonian aesthetics. It also helped my understanding of Nietzsche.

3/10, made me a better person.

>>9165270
How serendipitous, thanks for the suggestions.

Malory seems like where I'll start

what is the best version of Tristan and Iseult?