/lit/ - Literature

>>6851021
i was first published when i was 6

i wrote about bluebirds without even knowing what a bluebird looked like

such a poseur

>>6430689
something about the cul de sac's one streetlamp and the play of light from the television made this a sentimental read, and i think that must have been intentional. it feels inevitable that this is either your childhood home or will be the home of a childhood some day (though that may be untrue). lovely little snapshot
>>6430869
it's your use of "come" rather than "go" that impressed itself upon me. it's a little too short to tell if that ruined or improved what you were trying to evoke.
>>6430930
you could benefit from repeating this exercise under different conditions, i think. it seemed like it wasn't a challenge to write so little, which i wouldn't expect from someone willing to contribute to a prose thread.
>>6431016
you on a trip, anon? this could have been written about any experience i've had past midnight in a kansas truck stop, but you have insight unique enough to be worth imparting. it does feel very blunt at its ends, but you said that it is an excerpt, so i can forgive that.
>>6431094
you're clearly working with some powerful emotions, and they'd be best worked through in a longer format.
>>6431108
i know those mornings well
>>6431269
"glinted...like a knife in a back alley" is a bit garish of phrasing. you and >>6430689 are "no moon at night" twins
>>6431307
you're using an interesting perspective, with your "quest for affirmation" thing. your final sentence was powerful, but it feels disjointed from the rest.
>>6431357
can i see a picture you've taken? i know this feeling, it's what attracts me to film. even the most high-definition footage with the most realistic color grading is still not enough, though i'm not sure i want it to be.
>>6431372
i don't like that you seem to have attenuated your emotions for the sake of this writing. when you said the headlights seemed mocking, you were setting me up for a payoff that i did not get with the long wait there at the end.
>>6431641
this seems dishonest, which is probably a product of factors i could know nothing about.
>>6431727
it was intensely lyrical and ended with a sudden "blah"
>>6431769
i love that you began with "suburban purgatory" and ended with "beautiful days like these," it seems like a sudden growth of maturity very in keeping with the latter paragraph
>>6431779
too too much
>>6431782
i'm sorry ;_; i must have skipped it accidentally! please point it out to me if you still want my insipid comments
>>6431830
sounds like you need to move out, anon. this is an experience that a lot of young people have, where they're awake at night but in a house full of people who go to bed at 9. interesting choice of topic.

>>4709808
my last named character just went by Goop
put me in the hall of fame

>>4623455
i'd read that paper
op, do this
>>4623738
the female rape fantasy is largely based on a falsified, romanticized view of the act of rape that is highly personal and only in contradiction of the vampiric need for blood regardless of blood source

>>4551776
i'm the only person who gets to post liartown usa pictures. get off my turf.

people have already answered you but yes, utilitarianism is a consequentialist philosophy. there is no "difference" between the two, as utilitarianism merely builds atop consequentialism.

>Afaik, consequentialism is the belief that an action is moral if it brings about the greatest net benefit.

consequentialism is the belief that one should assess an item using the consequences of that item, which is obviously in line with utilitarianism. utilitarianism is different from other (but not all) forms of consequentialism in that it asserts that of all the consequences of an action, those that impact the welfare of humans (or sometimes animals proper) are morally defining.

>>4543886
>You are traitors to man, breakers of the social contract. I can only hope that monsters like you are educated out of existence one day.
high talk for a guy who thinks putting a dick in a butt is a travesty

Imagination, man