/lit/ - Literature

>>21473948
>Caricatures look like the people being caricatured

Okay so i might be wrong but doesn't Shakespeare predate any british colonization?

>>18111056
It's all fake

What's the oldest preserved literary example of sarcasm? The oldest I'm personally aware of is from Numbers 11:12, where Moses has a very "What am I, your mother?" sort of comment expressed in a Hebrew idiom. That would make it around 6th century B.C. Does anyone know anything older?

/lit/,

how do you not get burned out from reading? For example I try to read as many as books I can but sometimes you get confused or burned out or lost.

How do you deal with this, /lit/?

If I borrow (read: steal) a "magical" system from a form of media and file off the names and numbers - yet still keeping it similar in form, but not as grand in scale across my fictional world - would that be considered plagiarism?

Because I'm contemplating using the Bending system from The Last Airbender, but limit the elements to a couple of individuals and let the Main Character be able to learn and master the Four Elements, but without the Avatar/Reincarnation aspect to it. That way, the world doesn't focus around the usage of the elements like they do in the series and are considered unique instead of a norm.

Hey /lit/. Instead of advice or input, I'd like your honest opinion. So the setting of my idea is Fantasy, most likely with themes from the Western Medieval times, Warring States, and some Norse-Viking all jumbled together appropriately.

Problem is, I'm stuck between two ways to handle both the main character and the story itself. Either I go the Narnia/Portal to another world route where the Main character is from our world and finds himself in said fantasy world. Before he knows it, he's strung along in some quest to become "The Chosen One". A story mostly focused on the MC accepting his role in this world and becoming said hero that he's destined to be with side stories involving his companions and finding the other people who, unbeknownst to the MC, came to the Fantasy world as well. Similar to an origin story of a cape hero, but set in Fantasy. The world around him is grim, but his actions can make it better.

Or I go with the idea that the Main character is a nobody of an oppressed race in a Noble Dark world. In the midst of his shitty life he finds himself - by chance, luck, and a dash of misfortune - tied up with an individual who's part of an Order tasked with hunting down otherworldly creatures in the depths below the surface of the world. Suddenly the chance to become someone appears before the MC and he's not about to miss out on it. Compared to the previous idea, this one is more dark, gritty, and quite a lot less heroic.

My question to you is, which of these two still shallow Plots/Main Characters do you think has the most potential to become something interesting?

Does anyone else here read crap on purpose, just to kind of revel in how bad it is?

I got a copy of the Baldur's gate novelization by Philip Athans, and it's like textbook on how not to write. I can't stop reading and giggling though.