/lit/ - Literature

I guess in the same way that doctors get used to seeing fucked up people all the time, reading history kind of forces you to be desensitized to people doing awful things to each other.

But some things are just so creatively fucked up that it bothers me, like pic related. I mean rape, torture, murder etc obviously happen in wars.

But making dads bite their son's dick off is just something else. Otherwise normal people were put into a situation where they ended up thinking it was ok to make a kid chew his father's
penis off. No thank you

Gulag Archipelago was also genuinely disturbing. Reading this stuff combined with thinking about my job prospects does not help my mental health. Oh well