/lit/ - Literature

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>>14919879
I said literary, dyke impersonator.

>>14919891
That is literary. I am not sure what you are implying. Not everything has to have crazy prose and 2deep4me philosophical themes to be literature. What was posted was exactly animal crossing in book form before animal crossing even edxisted.

No, there’s nothing as empty and idiotic, in literature where you spend weeks and months doing nothing.
Literature can’t help but show or tell you something.
What you’re evidently looking for is a jumbo coloring book. Fuck off

>>14919920
>What you’re evidently looking for is a jumbo coloring book
Post the best ones. Perhaps a coloring book of Gustave Dore's illustrations would be literary?

>>14919868
I'd say "comfy" kids books. Think Heidi, Swiss Family Robinson, Little House on the Prairie, etc. A more exciting variation would be something like Tolkien, Lewis, and Carrol.

>>14919891
>implying anything as vapid and materialistic as Animal Crossing would have a literary equivalent
shut up queer

>>14920200
>vapid

he hasnt played animal crossing bros

Never played that game but possibly just ultra long books in general. You get a feeling of chipping away at a huge page count without any real timeframe of when it will finish. That can be a big comfort and works as a great distraction.

>>14919920
kek did someone crack this tripcode as well? this is parodically stupid and hostile

>>14920203
>catch fish
>sell fish for bells
>everyone in the village are automatons with zero personality
I played New Leaf and it sucked ass fag

>>14920218
>played new leaf
you need to be 18 to post here :^)

>>14920223
too bad for you i was born in 99!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>14920218
>he didnt organise his house according to feng shui to get happy home points

>>14919868
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings

>>14920259
Lord of the Rings very quickly stops being comfy

>>14919868
Walden maybe?

>>14920223
So how’s OP still here?

>>14920254
I forgot about HHA, that was a neat system they had going. I could see why people would want to design their home seriously
still a bad game though

>>14919868
Have you tried visual novels?

>>14920295
I think its a game where you get out of it what you put in. Theres nothing much to do, thats the vibe. Its like how you get a cup of tea and chill with a comfy book for a second.

Idk maybe Winnie the Pooh, Proust, etc.

henry green

>>14919868
>>14920193
>Think Heidi, Swiss Family Robinson, Little House on the Prairie, etc.
Good list. Add Secret Garden illustrated by Inga Moore.

Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows & The Reluctant Dragon
Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge
Otfried Preußler's The Little Witch
Paul Gallico's Three Lives of Thomasina
A Bunch of Picture Books (could list many)

Also, I prefer RF4 over AC:NH.

>>14919868
>>14920763
Oh yeah, I forgot Pettson and Findus. I love it. I can give more recommendations, including picture books if interested. I am a bit tired right now though.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>14920795
This, or Don Quixote.

>>14919879
based

The Growth of the Soil, though the neighbors depicted in it may be too realistic for your tastes

Kind of want to try it out for a couple days but buying a switch + an 80 dollar game just isn't worth it

>>14920795
>comfy, neighborly, and wholesome
>full of incest and mass killings

>>14921089
Get Stardew Valley. You can play it on your phone or PC. It’s cute and comfy if that’s what you’re looking for, pretty much a mini Ted Kaczynski simulator without any IED’s (yet, still holding out for the anti industrialist expansion)

>>14919868
I assume that what you're looking for are comfy slice-of-life, rural, maybe humorous books. So here you go:

The Little Prince
Frog and Toad are Friends
The Giving Tree
Goodnight Punpun
The Hobbit
Buddenbrooks
Tristram Shandy
A Confederacy of Dunces
Catch 22
Botchan
The Good Soldier Svejk
The Holy Qur'an
Dubliners
I am a Cat
Tales of the City
Siddhartha
Oblomov
Flatland

>>14921187
Buddenbrooks definitely wasn't comfy for me. The Magic Mountain was though.

Don Quixote most certainly

>>14921045
Literally this. First thing that came to my mind as well. Real sense of an ever expanding world as characters attend to quotidian matters. Only way it could be any more in line with what OP is looking for is if the characters were literally animals.

Damn not ONE person said Winesburg, Ohio

>>14919868
The secret garden

>>14921187
>Oyasumi Punpun
>Comfy

>>14921190
>>14921466

Both Buddenbrooks and Punpun aren't about nothing. They have very serious / morbid themes. But they have a realism to them and they present the everyday lives and growth of human characters (sometimes in funny ways). Maybe they aren't the best examples of comfy books if we expect happy endings and sugarcoated stories. But what makes them comfy to me is that they have a fine attention to detail and a comic attitude that relieves the tension of hard situations (in Buddenbrooks, the meals and the yellow teeth; in Punpun, his conversations with God and the way his family looks like birds).

here

>>14919891
>Tove Jansson's writing isn't literary

retard detected

>>14921664
Buddenbrooks is one of the best novels I've read in a long time. Despite it's unfortunate subject, I will agree that it is very comfy, all the way up until Tom's visit to the dentist.

>>14919907
>>14919879
This

>>14919868
Omensetter's Luck

>>14921187
>Siddhartha
>comfy
Sid was a dick and didn't change a whit, save becoming more smug. Glad Govinda got out when he did.

People cannot comprehend Animal Crossing their minds are too shot their brain is all burnt up from immediate reception and action and jerking off and getting high and being a shitstain upon the world I am thoroughly disgusted.

>>14922350
This

LOLITA and PALe Fire are both comfy asf. Nabokov has a really weird magnificent ability to portray the minds of people obscure mad men in such a bro tier manner whether they be patrician pedos or long lost kings who are jerking off their manfu

Jane Austen is super comfy

>>14920763
>Otfried Preußler
Based. Don't forget The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Little Ghost.

Michael Ende's stuff is pretty good as well, like Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver and Momo.

>>14919868
Fuck that babby shit. What is the literary equivalent to THIS? Something involving bashing groids and surviving trapped in a wasteland, because that's where we're headed.

>>14919868
I'm about to read ON pecoming a person by Carl Rogers. I am pretty sure is going to be very comfy and wholesome. I have studied his theory on pscyhology and it's indeed quite wholesome.
He's a psychologist though. I don't know if you would consider that literature. I certainly would.

>>14921187
What the fuck
>ACOD
>Catch 22
>Dubliners
>comfy
>rural

>>14920254
>not filling your house exclusively with gyroids
>being a cuck to the (((happy home academia)))
cringe

>>14923495
The only book I've read with that level of violence would be American Psycho.

>>14919879
This was my first thought when seeing the thread as well. Jansson is underrated as literature

>>14919868
bros do you think heidegger would like AC

>>14919891
Jansson is easily Borges tier lit you pleb

Wind in The Willows

>>14922350
Le late millenial face

>>14919868
you're probably looking for YA fiction
although I've only read one good YA fic book in my adult life and it was Earthsea

>>14919868

Greek Novels, especially the one about Daphnis and Chloe

>>14919868
Charletts web

>>14919868
Dandelion's Wine maybe

>>14919868
Maybe check poetry? Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, poets write about a lot of pretty evanescent things...

>>14919868
>tfw ordered my copy but it hasn't arrived yet

God I hope it gets here before London goes into total lockdown. It's going to happen, its just a matter of time, and by that point I really don't want to pay attention as to how my REAL neighborhood is going to degenerate.

>>14923495
Someone posted that the DOOM books were actually pretty good

>>14919868
Chronicles of Narnia is usually comfy. It's also made with kids in mind and has talking animals.

>>14925123
why didnt you just get the digital version

>>14925409
I guess I was still holding out hope that I'd be able to resell the physical copy when I was done with it. Thinking about it now it was kind of a retarded decision, what are the chances that second hand game stores will even exist when we're all finally allowed back outside?

>>14923495
You'll grow up some day.

>>14919891
GET OUT!

>>14922350
>>14923605
>>14925123
AC is overrrated as hell. It's just shilled to death by millenial women and effeminate men who are anti-social and often mentally ill, thus needing a game that can simulate a sterlized life for them. The game is literally for babies. Look at the artstyle. It is no different than grown men watching anime made for little girls.

I played the game as a kid. It was fine. I might even say I enjoyed it, but if you continue to play such things as an adult, you are going to end up a literal man baby. Imagine any man of your grandfather's generation playing such a thing.

>>14919868
Spice & Wolf light novels.

I get a similar vibe from the James Harriot series All Creatures Great and Small.

>>14925743
Go fuck yourself. I have an autoimmune condition and will not be going outside for a very long time. I have friends who also play it and since I won't get much of a chance to see them, this is as good an alternative as any to embrace a little escapism.

The sad thing is, its so obvious your resistance to the game has nothing to do with its actual content (which you admit you even enjoy); its the association with "millennial women" and "effeminate men" that puts you off. And that's a really, really sad reflection of your insecurity, that you don't want to do things that you enjoy because you're afraid of being affiliated with a certain group of people.

It might make me into a literal man baby, but at least I have no shame. My ancestors are smiling on me, imperial. Can you say the same?

>>14925797
> I have friends who also play it and since I won't get much of a chance to see them, this is as good an alternative as any to embrace a little escapism.
And so playing a game literally made for prepubescent children is the best way to spend it?

My argument isn't about the people, although you are right, it is a good reason to stay away. Playing games and incessantly consuming media made for children will infantilize you. Once again, ask yourself if anyone worth anything in years past would have spent his time simulating a town of animals within a children's video game. I unironically cannot help but be worried at people like you. This sort of Peter Pan syndrome is getting bizzarely widespread.

>>14922333
Fucking thank you

>>14925863
>Playing games and incessantly consuming media made for children will infantilize you.
You can take out the "made for children" part and this would still be on the nose.

>>14923495
Blood Meridian

>>14923495
This game is garbage.

>>14925743
Based

>>14925743
>Imagine any man of your grandfather's generation playing such a thing.
Are you kidding? I can easily imagine that. My grandfathers and their crowd didn't need a pretense or performance for their masculinity, clearly unlike your own forebears.

>>14925863
>And so playing a game literally made for prepubescent children is the best way to spend it?
I've got all the time in the world, anon. I'm also using it to write a screenplay that I'm getting a friend of mine who is an animator to draw up some character designs, he is also currently in self-isolation and has plenty of time on his hands. I'm gonna finally finish Proust and Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. You're so keen to paint me as infantile and dependent on children's media, but you don't know the first thing about me. All you're doing is making unsubstantiated claims about my character and rude attacks on my emotional development, as though this one aspect defines the whole of me. You are deeply shallow and judgemental, and yet you won't even confront your own personal insecurities. I am being completely open and honest with you, as one should be when we all have never been so alone. I am afraid for the future. Small, childlike pleasures give me comfort, just as much as Kierkegaard gives me the courage to face my own impending mortality. You will not make me feel ashamed or dispirited about who I am. Despite my medical issues, I am far stronger than you will ever be.

>ask yourself if anyone worth anything in years past
I am not defined by the sins of my forefathers. I have no standards to live by except the ones I set for myself. I wish you would do the same.

For me it's the superior Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games.

>>14920774
Aren't picture books for toddlers?

>>14925962
> Are you kidding? I can easily imagine that.
Based on the way you reply, somehow I'm not surprised.

>>14925966
>You are deeply shallow and judgemental, and yet you won't even confront your own personal insecurities. I am being completely open and honest
>I am far stronger than you will ever be.
How ironic that you want to take the moral highground yet say things like that. You don't know anything about me either :)
Anything that I have said about you is merely incidental to reinforce what I am saying. The point is that the game itself is infantile. The fact that you are trying to justify that is just sad. There is nothing of value in it. It is just mass produced escapism at best, and reveals a disturbing infantilization at worst. You don't need to be a pseud and name drop people in order to feel better about youself.
>Small, childlike pleasures give me comfort, just as much as Kierkegaard gives me the courage to face my own impending mortality.
I am scared to hear your interpretation of Kierkegaard if you think he is any way analogous to a nintendo game made for prepubescent children in which you simulate a town of animals.

>>14926026
>Based on the way you reply, somehow I'm not surprised.
You have a desperately fragile ego dear boy, and it shows.

>>14926026
>How ironic that you want to take the moral highground
I am not the one being antagonistic here. You want to ridicule and defame me for using cheap, facile entertainment as escapism, that's your choice, but that does not mean you are not intentionally trying to be cruel. Pointing that out is not trying to "take the moral high ground". For whatever reason, you associate youth or innocence with a tightly-wound sense of shame. I feel sorry for the child in you that you have killed stone dead.

>There is nothing of value in it.
all art is entirely useless. What we invest in significance, what we choose to use as coddling-blankets/transitional objects in times of stress, it is of no consequence if they help us feel better. You see it as infantilising, I see it as empowering. Why should it matter what these silly little trinkets are? It is no different to the St Christopher I wear around my neck.

>You don't need to be a pseud and name drop people
See? More hurtful ridicule, dictated only by cynicism and shame. I was sharing my wider interests with you in the hope that you might stop reducing me to only one of my interests, but alas, you have no awareness of social tact, instead brandishing them as another stick to beat me with. Why are you incapable of being respectful?

>if you think he is any way analogous
I did not say he was in any way analogous, anon. I think you should work on your reading comprehension. I said the comfort that AC provides is equal to the courage that Kierkegaard gives me to face the horrifying unknown. These are, evidently, not analogous in the slightest.

>>14925966
do whatever you want to do why do you feel the need to defend how you spend your time
>>14926026
why do you even care how other people spend their time

it doesnt affect you negatively in any way, if you think AC is making society shit or producing weak people then just revel in the fact that you should then be even more successful at whatever you attempt in the future because you'll be competing with them

go the fuck away /v/

>>14926139
> I feel sorry for the child in you that you have killed stone dead.
To wish to be a child is unequivocally a sign of mental illness. I feel sorry for those who have NOT made peace with their past and moved on to better things as an adult.

> all art is entirely useless
That doesn't mean all art provokes the same responses. You are literally retarded if you think that. Art made for children will affect the individual in a much different way than art made for adults.

>Why are you incapable of being respectful?
Anything I have said is simply an observation of the truth. If you find that to be distasteful, it is an issue with you, not me.

>I said the comfort that AC provides is equal to the courage that Kierkegaard gives me to face the horrifying unknown
The pseuds on this board have gotten out of hand. Please just go outside my man. You are just embarassing yourself saying stuff like that.

>>14926178
>why do you feel the need to defend how you spend your time
I am not trying to defend it, as I said previously, these hobbies are silly little trinkets, arbitrary methods of deferring the thought of death. By openly expressing myself in this way, I am trying to overcome the vast social distance that now lies between all of us through the purest form of authenticity I can muster. This inevitably means being a bit of a sad sop on 4chan, but now that my experiences will be strictly limited to my room, I have no interest in continuing to indulge that cold, unfeeling barrier that so often defines online discourse.

We thought New Sincerity is a dead end, but I believe it is the only way we may truly maintain the love and empathy of human connection, despite being locked away in our own personal boxes. It may well be that I come across as infantile, but that is a price to pay if one wishes to keenly feel the full range of human emotion.

>>14919868
Just play FarmVille like a real man

>>14926225
>but that is a price to pay if one wishes to keenly feel the full range of human emotion.
I cannot imagine being so sheltered and life denying to think that sitting in your room playing animal crossing is the expression of the "full range of human emotion" or anything even close to it.

>>14926187
>To wish to be a child is unequivocally a sign of mental illness
You know full well that is not what I was implying. One can be an adult, have a mortgage, a wife, a 9-5, etc., and yet still know the wide-eyed wonder of a child's point of view. This is why I mentioned Blake, he knew this better than anyone. It is a shame you have not read him deeply enough, for there is a wealth of inspired ideas there if you take the time to look.

>You are literally retarded if you think that
Once again, you turn to unnecessary aggression and confrontation. But you're right, art does not provoke the same response amongst everyone– so why should you expect me to respond to children's art in the same manner as a child? Why should I be unable to draw out other, more richer experiences from it?

>Please just go outside my man.
I have told you already, I will not live long if I go outside in the current climate. My immune response is almost guaranteed to kill me if I contract the virus.

>You are just embarassing yourself saying stuff like that.
And I say again– I have no shame. You will not break me. My strength lies in the total self-assurance of my identity. You call me infantile, and yet you tittle-tattle and tease more than any child I have ever known. If you were truly mature, you would either rise above it and respect my autonomy, or you would simply stop replying. I suggest you do the latter.

>>14926261
Once again, your reading comprehension sorely misses the mark. I am talking about this precise conversation– not the game itself, but this very exchange we are having now.I am speaking to you as honestly as I can, as openly as I can, delicate warts and all. Animal Crossing is simply the vehicle by which this discussion came into being.

>>14926300
>>14926283
Your naive moralizing is incredibly funny to read. I cannot imagine unironically writing "You will not break me" in response to a 4chan post as if I were some movie protagonist.
I am literally just responding to you for fun now to see how you will try and cope next. Playing video games meant for children will make you infantile and afraid of reality. End of story. The fact that you need to even debate that is just a reflection of your own weakness and life-denial.

>>14926336
>End of story.
What a shame. Once again, you retreat to cruelty and callousness as a defence mechanism. I am already afraid of reality, anon. No amount of Animal Crossing will add to that fear. Reality will kill me if I am not careful, and I must find comfort wherever I can, in what little time I have left. I am only 24, I have a longtime partner I love very much, I have a rewarding job... and yet this pandemic has torn it all away from me. I have not seen her in 3 weeks, as an at-risk individual I cannot go to work, and sometimes I worry I shall never see my family again, as they are too old to risk visiting me. Why will you not address this fact, that my alleged "life-denial" is entirely out of my hands? You are laughing at a man whose fate is already sealed. It's only a matter of time. I told you, I want to break down that cold, unfeeling barrier that so often comes to define the way we talk to each other on here. I am not trying to debate, I am trying to have as many genuine emotional experiences as I can, within the narrow scope I have at my disposal. Will you not reciprocate? Is your heart truly so hard?

>>14926401
>Once again, you retreat to cruelty and callousness as a defence mechanism.
There is nothing "cruel" about banter on a 4chan thread. I hope you are truly not that spineless. The fact that you assume me to have some deep emotional investment in critiquing you is pitiful. I am just responding to you for the lulz at this point. My point has been made, I am just looking to see how to cope with replies that you yourself know are wrong.

>>14926445
>I find it funny to laugh at someone who is seeking emotional connection because they are trapped in their room and will likely be dead within a few months
You are still dancing around the subject of mortality, anon. Three posts I have mentioned it, and still you are evasive. it would seem you lack the Kierkegaardian courage I was referring to, to address these difficult subjects head on.

>The fact that you assume
I do not assume anything, anon. I am hoping against hope that you will drop this callous charade and share a genuine emotional experience with me. I know you are frightened too, I don't know of anyone who isn't frightened right now, if not for themselves, then at least for their loved ones. This is the most difficult thing I imagine most of us have ever faced/will face in our lives. It is not something to overcome easily. But I want to try, and that is why I persist, against all the odds.

>My point has been made
And yet it is so easily dismantled. Unless you have some studies to show me that back up your claim that children's entertainment makes grown men infantile, then I'm afraid you don't have a leg to stand on, because anything else is pure speculation. Now that that petty issue has at last been lain to rest, will you at last confront your (and mine) own mortality?

>>14926512
I cannot imagine being so naive as to think that social analysis needs quantitative statistics.

>>14926533
Social analysis still requires a substantial amount of case studies to make a general claim like the one you have been pushing. My sad story is not enough, I'm afraid.

But, more interestingly, it would appear that you cannot imagine a lot, anon. It seems every
one of your replies has opened with that phrase. It would seem that you certainly have a lack of imagination.

But, a lack of imagination is no excuse for not confronting death. You are a coward, anon. I shall have to seek my connection elsewhere, as your emotions are evidently too stunted and brittle to be breached. I hope one day, perhaps in spring, they may sprout again.

>>14926590
> You are a coward, anon.
Nice projections lol
Once again, you try and portray yourself as some moral man, and yet you say these things. I am honest I say what I like. You on the other hand, have to go through two negations to do the same. You live a life of defeat and negation. You have to tell yourself that "I'm not like him, he's bad, so therefore, I'm good." The fact that you have to use this holier than thou moralizing in all your statements is just shows insecurity. Keep replying though, its fun for me

A wizard of Earthsea

>>14921187
>The giving tree for comfy

I don't know what you're smoking,
>Man has abusive relationship with local tree, takes her for everything, tree enables him to the bitter end
Is not a comfy book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZCP6OqRlE

>>14926009
Absolutely not. Picture books can be high-art.

>>14923495
Play a real angra game that uses subtlety well.

>>14921187
>The Holy Qur'an
Based

>>14919868
actual unmitigated /comfycore/

>>14928388
Speaking of Steinbeck and comfy in the same sentence: Samuel (East of Eden) is the most affectionately wholesome, neighborly character I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. I wish I had a Samuel just down the road.

>>14928397
the hamiltons in that book were all really great as a clan - lotta love coming from steinbeck to his family that you can feel in the writing. tom from that book absolutely destroyed me in high school. subtextually homo trainwreck of a man who had potential but loathed himself too much to move forward in life.

farmville for zoomers

>>14928443
This is a really low effort shitpost

>>14927842
This game flopping and getting poor reception from critics is proof positive that games will never be seen as a real art form.

>>14919868
Slice of life books have fallen out of favor but deserve recognition. Pic related. Also, even though /lit/ hates it with a passion, Ducks Newburyport is a relaxing read once you acclimate to its style.

>>14929485
Oh! and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.

Minecraft for zoomers

>>14926187
It's just animal crossing, a fucking video game. Chill the fuck out.

>>14926187
Only artwork of the extremes touches on the true nature of reality. On a rudimentary ontological level, there is absolutely no indeterminacy between good and evil. Artwork of pure good such as children's literature, picture books, and so forth capture the nature of the good. Artwork of pure evil such as horror literature captures the nature of evil.
Being an adult is about confronting evil to protect the good. Children have no idea of the nature of evil, for they typically only know good and dwell there. Growing up is about confronting evil without losing sight of the good.
I am planning to learn to shoot an AR-15 to protect myself from kikes and niggers. I am a warrior of Ahura Mazda. I prefer the age of swords and archery, but I have to get with the times as a MAN. I will slaughter many niggers of druj who dare trespass on this holy abode of Ahura Mazda. I am a prophet and cannot die now. I will go to the shooting range and ask for training session tomorrow and buy an AR-15 with my finger on the trigger ready to kill any disgusting, ugly nigger and kike who tries to break into this orb of light and taint it with their darkness.

>>14923495
Revelation

>>14920280
ofcourse the tripfags on /lit/ would have the most pretentious names

>>14919868
The Swiss Family Robinson

>>14919868
Something by PG Wodehouse? I always found those books to be comfy.

>>14928443
>>14929506
Not even close

>>14919920
god just make a decision on which column you want your words! it isn't that hard!

>>14919868
anything by Dickens

>>14926590
>>14926598
You both are massively retarded

>>14923495
The Bible