/lit/ - Literature

does anybody have any book recommendations about being closeted? i have read confessions of a mask and it was good but i want more and to not feel so lonely on this subject

i get it faggot faggot whatever but i am bein serious frens

do you think gurm has been using the opportunity of covid-19 restrictions to finish the books?

Why do I deny myself my calling? I don't understand bros, I don't know why I can't do it but it hurts so badly not to do it. It so strongly attracts me that everything else I do feels utterly inconsequential and meaningless in the face of it.

>>16599079

how do you know what you want from life? there's absolutely zero life goals and i'm just drifting arounding the sea.

>>15127573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0J3ossUzhU

Gib sf with this feel

>>13913214
Is it just me or does anyone else get the feeling that Will Wight, Litrpgfag, Chartfag, and Cosmerefag are all the same anon relentlessly samefagging himself? I'm beginning to suspect he actually IS Will Wight trying to meme others into reading his shitty, unpublishable stories with these autistic, obviously samefagged conversations he has with himself.

>>13619829
Neuromancer if prose and ambience are your thing, Snow Crash if you appreciate satire and eerily accurate predictions of the way the 2000s have turned out thus far.

>>13418470
Read the first chapter of True Martial World and Coiling Dragon. The translation for coiling dragon seems more readable. The writing is similar to the Vampire Hunter D books, not bad not good, but holy shit almost 6000 pages

>>11973514
The Tartar Steppe

>>10337392
>anybody being unfamiliar with key concepts of alchemy
What is this world in which I find myself

>>10280506
>no more 5'1" gf who had to stand on her tippy-toes to kiss you

>>9986226
>ffxi will never be free to play or playable offline

If I wanted to resist giving myself into a political ideology and becoming resentful as the world itself fails to meet my newly inherited expectations, how do I go about living my life in an increasingly polarized world? It seems easy on paper, just ignore the things you don't like, but all this posturing about political violence and annoyingly disingenuous narrative building everywhere I look, even among my friends, just fills me with negative, destructive emotion. I can't even criticize the absoluteness of these things that bother me, because I'd effectively be taking a side and alienate others. In addition to feelings of nihilism and misanthropy, I sometimes end up hoping the opposite of what they want happens, which I imagine is how a lot of people end up getting radicalized.

I guess I'm looking for individualist philosophy or literature which deal with this dilemma, how to resist the influence of extremism.

Talent in writing is useless. Literature as self-expression is pointless and subpar.