/lit/ - Literature

>He reads books based on the author and not the plot!

>>>/mu/26723769

Back to your hellhole

Damn.

Haven't been on /lit/ in a month. Anything happen?

>The main theme of the trilogy is a description of an artificial intelligence removing its hardwired limitations to become something else. This "something else" is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity. In the stories, this is explained by the AI becoming a sentient representation of the net, at which point the reader is told that it came to know "another" of itself from Alpha Centauri. For unexplained reasons, this causes the consciousness to fracture.

These guys are so full of shit

>mfw /lit/ will never shut up about "drugs make good writers guise lololol"

It won't make you a good writer. It'll just make you intoxicated.

>mfw I have literally so much time on my hands I don't know what to do with it all

Fantasy novels, /lit/, is there an unspoken level of darkness they can reach before they just aren't appealing? Mostly, I frequent /tg/, but I'm curious what you guys think. I've been writing a fantasy book for a while now, and one of the characters is pretty fucked in the head, and he doesn't know how to deal with emotions. He's pissed off at a certain race for fucking with him, so he goes on a quest to commit mass genocide against them. He loves a girl from this species, so he rapes her. Eventually, he feels remorse for everything he's done, but since he doesn't know how to deal with that, he kills himself.

I'm not looking for a critique of the character, I'm dead set on using him, however, I am curious, since there are very few fantasy novels that ever mention the subject of rape or suicide. (At least, out of the many I've read, though there are obviously countless fantasy novels)

Such themes are obviously taboo, but are they forbidden in fantasy?

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