/lit/ - Literature

So I'm in a weird situation and I need someone's read on this. I'm writing a story set in a sort of fantastic version of 15th century Bosnia. I'll spare you the details, but I've got a character, who is supposed to be a sort of autistic, obsessively proper "knight" (a minor Boyar really) and I distinguish his pattern of speech from other people by having him just never use contractions except for one scene where he lets his guard down while drinking with a woman.

This is a pivotal scene for him because it's sort of his downfall, he's obsessed with honor and propriety, but he breaks his own rules and gives in to this harlot, essentially losing a part of who he is in a process--and this is represented by him slipping into "it's" and "we're"s instead of "it is" and "we are," that sort of thing.

The problem is that there are no contractions in Serbian. There are no contractions in any Slavic language. So this is a distinction that would literally only make sense in English. I'm not so crass as to have other characters point out "hey you know that guy, the stuck-up one who never uses contractions" to make it obvious, but it bugs me that it's one of those things which, if translated into the actual language the characters are speaking wouldn't make any sense.

I guess it's a slightly more autistic version of fuckups in books where nobody is speaking English but they make puns that only make sense in English (looking at you Sanderson) am I just overthinking this? I'm 200,000 words into this thing and I only realized this yesterday.

I just lost another internet argument on /lit/

My bf (female) is one. I love him (her?) and I can't save her

What does Stoicism say about being demoralized?
>inb4 just be stoic about it, bro

>>18100322
>what have i become?

>>17626717
Are you me?

But I can't find any books about gay sex. Are there any good books about gay sex? I'm not gay btw, just looking for an introduction

>tfw you want to be religious but don't know which holy book to pick and don't want to go to hell
Which holy book do you believe? Why is it so hard to pick the right one anons. All I want is to stop being a nihilistic shithead and believe in a higher purpose, but I just can't. I tried the Bible, Qur'an, larped as a pagan, even read a bit about Hinduism. Why is it so hard to believe

>There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay their meat. They are clothed like birds with wings for covering, they see no light, they sit in darkness.

any books that cure depression?

where'd schizo anon go he used to post here every now and then, did he finally offed himself?, are no longer worthy of his presence and schizo rants?

>tfw you finish a book with a good story, or even a saccharine one, and then you are overwhelmed with the realization that you will never, ever live a life like that.
>No great adventures, no beautiful romances, hardly a true love.
How does one cope with that? Life seems not worth living after all.

I know.

>Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.