/lit/ - Literature

On the internet it feels like a personal slight if you disrespect my language with shitty ESL grammar. Like for fucks sake you can't learn the difference betweeen 'does' and 'is'? Or learn why you don't put 'how' with 'like' in a sentence?
In person its not a problem because they're clearly a foreign tourist struggling. But on the internet they're hanging out in the English area pretending they're one of us. Like just go to your own language forums if you can't speak English.

>>18842092

Mostly thing like how Tony Stark has replaced Odysseus in the colloquial, and how extraordinarily bad that is.

>>15151689
Neither, the old thread slid 5 minutes ago and you're here right on fucking cue

>50 page translators note
>1 paragraph of useful information

>>14578459
Alright, I have to ask seriously, what was JBP's actual fucking crime

Yes he uses terms like pomo and neomarxism lazily, yes there are far more clearheaded accounts than his of the origins of the current intellectual rot in the universities. Yes OP's pic is retarded and barely scratches the difference between modernism and pomo. But when people throw their hands up and act like they have NO CLUE what JBP is talking about, like there's no evidence for a state funded fifth column circlejerk of shit-tier academics all citing and signal boosting each other to confer legitimacy on their work, you're either ignorant or up to something

Everywhere I look, all the writing guilds on the internet are silly-billy cutesy-wutesy hugboxes for teen queers and their revleft allies. Where are all red-blooded Americans, or at least grown ass men? The demographics of these groups can't be reflective of the marketplace for lit considering shit like Tom Clancy still sells like hotcakes. Anyone know where it's still sane?

>go to local university
>take philosophy 101
>professor comes in
>piercings and tattoos all over his body
>"what's up you guys, let's get going with this capitalist bs"
>"if God is real why bad things happen"
>"are birds real?"
>"you guys can follow me on my Twitter and Facebook, since I don't use email"
>mfw

>>13668174
His endings aren’t particularly exciting. What he’s good at is the setup. But Arcane Dropout is pretty good so far. I enjoyed book 3, even if it ends on a cliffhanger.

>tfw no qt ghost gf

Stuck in an inspiration rut, art and music isn't helping and I need to get started on my new canvas soon. Any good books/authors with vivid visuals/larger than life scenes? Pre-modern preferably (>flexes in graeco-roman sculpture)

>there's an epilogue

Just give it to me straight. Is Catholicism true? Which books prove this?

>>13317491
why is stuff like this posted in every board in majority of threads? Im actually beginning to believe paid trolls do this.

Honestly, if I had to choose between removing the Christianity threads and removing the e-celeb/idiot threads, I'd pick the latter in a heartbeat. I can tolerate people asking about God and religion, but if I see another fucking thread about Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson I'm going to strangle someone.

>book is less than 750 pages
>book has chapters
>book is less than 100 pages and has more than one paragraph

>vonnegut defenders say bluebeard is good
>look it up
>novel is about a neurotic "painter"
Holy fuck Joyce and Gaddis are guilty of this as well

>>12544144
>that tweet

I genuinely want to mass-exterminate abortion supporters. Just pull a Hitler on them all. Round up all the pro-choicers into camps and gas them, then dump them in mass graves. They won't be missed by anyone that matters.

>>12480755
Got any more smoking girls?

>>12480769
>if you never experienced love in high school that it will forever scar your mental psyche
Anyone got a source on this?

Friendly warning that anyone who insults OP is gonna get the gun from me and the others who love him.

OP, please don't be embarassed or ashamed - even if the work does not meet the standards of conventional writing, it genuinely has a purity to it which few writers can reach. If I were you, I'd ask myself if I wanted to continue writing things producing unintended effects, or something which delivers exactly what you desire it to. Meaning, your present work is valuable as an exercise in irony, but if you were being serious with these texts, then you do need to improve and recognize certain flaws your work has at present. That said, it eould be terrific for you to become an ironic-writer, whose works revolved around consciously crafting absurd atmospheres, which seem unintentionally hilarious but are wholly by design.

Either way OP, never feel bad about yourself, and anyone here who tries to make you feel such is themselves the one who should feel bad for doing so.

How do I win a short story competition?

G.K. Chesterton's character Innocent Smith refuted the sort of pessimîstic suicidal thinking infesting this thread quite ably in Manalive, with a revolver...

I hate how he uses Tolkien as an example here, when at least Tolkien finished a concrete unit of storytelling. The Lord of the Rings stands on its own and you don't need to read any of Tolkien's unfinished stuff to appreciate it, which is more than I can say for Martin's disgusting hackwork.

>>11740508
>>11741219
Fuck you guys, the OP image is triggering me something fierce. Socks are supposed to be clean, not dirty.

>had had