/lit/ - Literature

Why do /lit/ters mock him so relentlessly?

>>22753093
Waldub was the perfect example of the posturing /lit/izen. Just as God became flesh to die on the cross and redeem mankind, so to does /lit/ in flesh become Waldun and martyrs him for our own sins.

anyone else peep that tattoo in his latest instagram post? lil waldicuckitini isn't so pure anymore bros...

>>22753064
Lifelong student?

i don't know who the fuck this is, but he has no fashion sense. traumatizing even

>>22753163
The Call of United Airlines author consistently mocks him for this and having no personality.

>>22753163
I don't dress like Waldun, nor do I aspire to dress like Waldun, but what is so bad about his fashion sense? It just looks like suit and tie, but he wears outmoded styles to look more like a 60's or 20's intellectual.

>>22753093
The pictures of him posing with an empty tobacco pipe are the perfect metaphor for his entire grift. He is all about cultivating an image without any substance.

>>22753275

Nothing. THey are jsut jealous that he spends so much money on the clothes and is more interested in style than skeelz

>>22753585
For me it's the wine glass with Coke.

>>22753275
>what is so bad about his fashion sense?
Le "dark academia." It isn't bad so much as the pretentiousness of it and that it draws attention to his LARP.

He's also a closeted homosexual and his focus on fashion is another clue of many.

>>22753093
We should return to our roots and start bullying Tao Lin again instead

>>22753275
i don't know anything about fashion, but i'm thinking it's wearing a casual shirt with a tie? rolling up the sleeves on a blazer? and maybe knitted ties are thing now, but still looks questionable to me. oh, he rolled up his sleeves but he doesn't have a watch? idk man. i'm not gay so i don't really care how other men dress, but there's plenty to nitpick there if you're the type.

>>22753093
Please read Learned Disguise. I'm 20 pages in and it's a damn slog.

>>22754236
Post some excerpts

>>22754226
is that guy still pretending to have autism for internet clout? his dad is rich as fuck, tao could get a new outfit same day delivered from mrporter every morning and throw it out at night and never run out of money but still dresses like a slob as part of his e-persona. total loser.

>>22753275
The coat fits poorly, is wrinkly and it's really bad quality. If he spent his money on a few good coats and got them fitted he'd be fine. A haircut could also do wonders.

>>22754240
You're supposed to say 'please'

>>22753112
This DESU, Waldun is the cringey side of us. More of us resemble Waldun than we care to admit.
So we cricify him, mock him, because we wish we weren't so much like him.

>>22754236
but the proses...!

>>22754246
Thanks for posting.
I'll say 'please' next time, forgive me for now.

>>22753112
>Waldub was the perfect example of the posturing /lit/izen.
In 2010, maybe. We've been colonized by wignat neckbeards for nearly a decade now.

>>22754226
Tao is much more talented

>>22754262
I forgive you, I know it wasn't intentional.

>>22753093
Waldun is what happens when you put the aesthetics surrounding literature above actual literary quality, as with the entire "dark academia" movement he is adjacent to. It's sheer consumerist posturing.

>>22754246
Jesus Christ...I forgot how eternally ESL that book was.

>>22754246
>>22754277
Post one of the "sir...sir, sir..." parts lol

>>22754350
What parts do you mean?

>>22754358
Post the one where his ESL brain rhymes Mozart with bizarre.

>>22754371
Kek :D

>>22754379
https://vocaroo.com/1gvYxJnOF31u
I'm not David Attenborough, but I tried. Who can perform the best reading?

>>22754371

You guys stop bullying Waldun and write your own masterpiece.

>>22753093
Twink Bloom.

>>22754246
>Näyttökuva
There are other finns on /lit/?

>>22755620
Yes, Waldun-chads too

>>22755620
kyllä kulta

>>22754350
he got scammed by some pakis on fiverr kek

Crammed down 20 pages more of this shit today. Can't wait to finish and start with "L'Academie". Crazy how Chinese people talk about their culture like it's some important thing when this shit is what they produce.

>>22754226
TAO lin could do to his asshole what he did to megan boyle's pussy

>>22754419
revamped version:
https://vocaroo.com/1mKZWbx0xOvK

>>22754277
>filtered by Milton
He really is a midwit

>>22753064
Waldun seems like a nice guy compared to that kdbooks retard- who has now sunk to the level of putting out cynical muslim bait videos

>>22757542
kdbooks was only relevant inasmuch as he engaged with Waldun. Outside of that, who cares?

>>22757576
He's a loathsome cunt for cultivating an audience of off the back of some overeager undergrad's SP misadventures.

>>22754270
go to bed tao

>>22757591
>cultivating an audience
His views on non-Waldun videos proves otherwise. You're just salty he BTFO'd you Waldun. Yes, you're Waldun. You're just mad someone with a critical eye actually took the time to dissect your works and demonstrate how subpar they are.

>>22755904
Here, have a free copy: https://files.catbox.moe/n1l2zh.pdf

>>22755904
The real mistake is his trying to write in a a language that is (I presume) not his native one. Most native English speakers can’t write literary masterpieces, or even halfway decent books, so why would an ESL author be able to do it? The list of authors who have written great works in their non-native language is pretty short, as in maybe five authors over a couple thousand years. The probability that you’re one of these people, or that Walden is one, is incredibly low.

Probably what makes Walden easy to hate is his seeming presumptuousness (cultivating a personal image that doesn’t match his ability level) with the fact that he probably doesn’t have anything insightful to say. Midwits are annoying even when they have a decent grasp of the language; they’re even more annoying when they’re using a non-native language they haven’t mastered.

For some reason, people give ESLs a pass with regard to their writing, and in some ways encourage the delusion that they can write masterpieces. This is kind of an insane idea though. For instance, if you decided right now that you were not only going to learn Chinese but also become a master novelist in Chinese, nobody would seriously entertain the idea that you would accomplish this. But for some reason when it’s non-white people learning English we’re supposed to entertain this idea and encourage it.

>>22757749
Nabokov was English Second Language. So was Joseph Conrad.

>>22755904
>Chinese people

He's Australian you moron

>>22757940
Thank you for the clarification, Rabbi

>>22757769
Did you read the part in his post about how the number of accomplished ESL writers is very short? You only managed to name two. So why are you acting like you disagree with what he said?

>>22758314
I'm not disagreeing. I just wanted to list some good ESL writers for those wondering.

>>22753064
This dude is making thousands of £ a month off his substack

>>22758325
No way. Does his page show his subscriber count? Is substack OnlyFans for literature people?

>>22753093
The simple answer is that it's a LARP. It's a young man who has placed himself in the position of a successful and learned person before he has any right to do so. You cannot just appear to be something and expect ipso facto that you are that thing.

He seems like his intentions about promoting an enjoyment of literature and learning in general are genuine though, so he's alright in that sense. I respect people who do that.

"Hey! pipsqueak! what was it you were saying about my friends book?"
"Yeah I'm talking to you."
"Not so tough now are ya? heh, isn't that right R. C. Waldun?

Waldun speaks
"Cat gotcha tounge?"

thanks for showing me this guy, /lit/. It's good to know that it doesn't matter how shit my book is when this guy has pumped out two shitterpieces and still has fans.

>>22759170
why does waldun have a proportionally weird head

>>22759209
big brain innit

>>22757542
have you read your quran today, anon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1aLj1ZsRvs

>>22757940
Sure thing Chang

>>22759338
i don't know how anyone can read the quran and not conclude that it is a book to make those who already believe believe even harder and make them scared of not believing. The quran doesn't try to convince a non-muslim that it is the word of god. muslims seem to believe that kaffirs upon reading the quran will realize it is the word of God (if it is so willed) and if they don't then the gaslighting begins "its is not the eyes that is blind it is the heart" etc that some how the kaffir knows deep down that it is the word of God but is disobedient

>>22759338
If you look at his other videos he seems to be a convert, even saying peace be upon him every time he mentions muhammad

>>22757769
Yeah that’s why I said there’s been a handful of people who have pulled it off. You listed the two obvious ones. The only others I can think of who successfully wrote in a language not native to them would be Thomas More (Utopia was written in Latin, with his native language being English) and Marcus Aurelius (Meditations was written in Greek, with his native language being Latin). There might be a couple other examples but it’s extremely rare. I mean specifically masterpiece works and not random, mediocre works.

>>22754215
>i'm going to give dressing well to the gays
why?

>>22753064
knitted ties should be illegal

>>22754246
man. i was expecting to dislike this just because i dislike the man and am extremely biased, but this is legitimately shit. like, i am actually a little embarrassed for him.

>>22754246
This would be impressive for a 14 year old. I'm guessing he's somewhere in the range of early 20's though

>>22760425
Yeah. It's incredibly shit.

>>22760200
I said "fashion" not dressing well.

>>22754358
Lol

>>22754246
>näyttökuva
:DDD

>>22754358
Why do you think he capitalizes “sir” sometimes but not other times?

>>22759370

It's spelled Zhang you dimwit

>>22761685
fugg :D

>>22754246
>no longer do I have to pretend to appreciate parts of the mundane,at last, there cometh a sparkling conversationalist. intelligent, she certainly was, but her intuitive wit refused to back down, when discussing ideas profound.

bro used every once of his intellect for this. I bet he wrote it with feather and ink on a Barnes and Noble note book.

>>22757749
>blah blah blah ESL cant write in english
>misspells the dude's name

like pottery

>>22762207
Waldun spells Walden wrong (his real last name is Wu).

>>22753064
Holy shit. Fuck this guy.

https://youtu.be/89T6mULCmqs?si=O8jdi5us3yqzP1rD

>>22753275
A mongoloid wearing the costume of a WASP prep school boy is agitating for some reason.

>>22762228
What bothers me most about this video is that, in twelve minutes of discussing poetry, he never talks about any specific poem. He talks about rereading poems, but he never says which poem he has reread so many times. He talks about the passion produced by poetry, but he never gives a line and tell us how it made him feel. It's as if poetry only existed in the abstract.

>>22762218

It's pronounced Wal-doon, dummy.

>>22762228
Made it 6 minutes. Whole video was just him saying seemingly smart things without ever discussing poetry. This video is the equivalent of "stunning and brave" book reviews. No substance; all intellectual fluff.

>>22762302
He spends the first half of the video repeating "even I, the guy who reads complicated philosophical texts, had trouble with poetry...but it's because I approached it as an intellectual."

>>22762207
Sorry, I mean to write Chink but my phone autocorrected it to Walden. Guess my arguments are totally invalid. Thanks for pointing that out.

>>22754277
Could I please have a link to a copy of TLD if you have it?

>>22762316
Shit bait.

>>22753064
There is nothing more cringe than wanting to be a writer, as opposed to wanting to write. Or just writing.

>this guy gets sponsorships and makes more money than all of us combined...

>>22762302
All of his videos are like this. He has a video that's like "7 tips to read Gravity's Rainbow" and he never says anything specific about GR.

>>22762790
>I hate writing, I love having written.
—Dorothy Parker

>>22757749
100% agree with this. I've never clicked or consumed any of this Walden kid's social media but it's insulting to assume that someone who can't even speak English properly is going to write literature in English.

>>22758352
What was the deleted post?

>>22759170
you joke but he is pretty damn aesthetic. post a picture of yourself and your outfit. I bet you look like fucking trash lol and you know it too don't you. you know he is better than you, has 2 novels out and 80k followers. he accomplished all this during his undergrad education and you are some 30+ year old 4chan loser with nothing to your name. that must sting...

>>22753064
i followed his Melbourne art hoe gf on IG and she followed me back so now I'm going to fly down under to rape her

>>22762228
did he really put his shit tier bachelor degree in a plastic kmart frame in the background of his video? lmaooo

>>22763031
Poser /fashion/ is pretty based, what outfits should i cope to look like a pseudointellectual harry potter?

>>22763031
chill out Waldun and finish that book

>>22763090
h&m has some great basics
>>22763093
cope

>>22763117
Now now waldun what would your intellectual friends think of you flaming people on 4chan.org/lit? That's not very enlightened pseudointellectual twink of you

>>22757749
have you heard about fucking latin, you pompous faggot? or greek?
People write great works in their non-native language all the time, and it's been like that for thousands of years.

>>22763121
Yea it's totally me Waldun /rolls eyes
You must be seething right now how rich and successful I am. You think I am cringe and ugly and can't write yea? Well what does that make you who can't quantifiably match my success in any metric? You must be less than shit!

>>22753064
I did not know about this guy before i saw this thread. and i have not cringed this hard for a very, very long time. fuck you and thank you, OP, in equal amounts.

>>22763142
>You must be seething right now how rich and successful I am.
Didn't 'you' have to take down both your books on release because they were both so bad? I thought being super a e s t h e t i c makes you a better writer? But to fuck up twice in a row? When the first book gave you enough money to hire ten editors? Well, it speaks for itself.

>>22763142
>/rolls eyes
Back to plebbit.

Who cares if the first books are dogshit? As long as he keeps at it he's gonna get better. The only thing to criticize him for is the fact that he published them which makes me question is self-awareness

>>22763218
Hey whats up Waldun

>>22763218
>As long as he keeps at it he's gonna get better.
From the critical response I've seen it seems to be that this isn't the case and the 2nd book was worse and had even less effort put into it. I can let a dogshit story slide for a new writer but if you're on your 2nd book having a dystopian thriller about a regime called 'The Regime' and filling it with grammatical errors, all while posing as a highly intellectual bookworm then something is wrong.
I also have a soft spot for new writers giving it a go but the pretentious social media presence doesn't give you much opportunity to make mistakes.

>>22763142
Doesn't really matter who you are, for this post alone kys.

>>22763045
Who, Dakota?

>>22763218
I don't think anyone would even mention him if they weren't dogshit.

>>22763218
This. 4chan incels literally think they are superior to someone who is actually living their best life. It's amazing cope.

>>22763419
>spend your life wanting to be a writer
>write 2 books, fail on both occasions because you half-assed it
>your only 'success' - your social media presence - is permanently tarred as a result
>this is living your best life

>>22759170
LOL what the fuck is wrong with these cunts? they all have such punchable faces.
but then again, don't they live in Melbourne kek

>>22763424
>permanently tarred
Nice cope. His engagement is huge and 100% of the comments are positive. Try creating your own content instead of just hating. You will get farther.

>>22763464
That's because they've never read any of his literary work. Waldun scrubbed it all from the internet. Anything written by him is just the script for one of his videos, or a script for an unfilmed video. So it's all academic hogwash that his illiterate following finds oh so charming.

>>22763498
Does that even matter if he inspires other young people to read and write? In this day and age that is commendable; and far more than his legion of sourpuss haters will ever do.

>>22763259
Where can you read his books? Is there an archive floating around?

>>22762825
This is incomprehensible to me

>>22763506
Just doing something isn't commendable. Otherwise people would be praising women for reading so much, even though its led to literature being dominated by quite crappy genres like YA and romance. Waldun has, and promotes to his audience, a similar level of engagement with reading.

The dude is trying to co opt an oxbridge aesthetic/engagement with literature when he got filtered by Milton, kek.

>>22754201
My mom used to do that, but she only drank diet.

>>22763464
>His engagement is huge and 100% of the comments are positive.
>Try creating your own content instead of just hating
>engagement
>content
ok zoomer, like and subscribe to my tiktok!
waldun took down both of his books immediately after releasing them. That doesn't count for shit
Try using your brain instead of relying on corpo buzzwords to prove anything, you will get farther.

>>22763543
libgen has both.

>>22763699
The Learned Disguise was available for quite a while. Probably a year. Waldun took it down once /lit/ discovered it and roasted him.

>>22754201
OMG sauce?

>>22756148
Now this is what art should be. Brave and Powerful.

>>22763856
Waldun used to be a teetotaller. Just check some of his old videos. He would regularly drink a dark liquid out of a wine glass (for the aesthetics) and then comment upon how it's actually coke he is drinking.

>>22763127
See
>>22760181

And exactly how many people do you think are writing great works in Latin or Greek these days, by the way?

>>22753163

harassment ensemble

>>22757940

Australian is an ethnicity you bigot

We milked this lolcow until the unthinkable happened – we grew bored of him.

>>22753093
Hes done what no /lit/izen has achieved. Writing comercially successful garbage books while larping as an early 20th century intellectual.

>>22754246
>Hence the most brilliant pieces of writing may not stem from a disciplined ritual but from one's ability to flow effortlessly: dancing with the concepts so stimu- lating and proses so emotional.
Eerm. Too prolix bro.

>>22763259
His second book was technically an improvement, but it lost the soul of TLD. Both are <3/10, but TLD at least had that Sonichu quality of being obliviously awful, which made it fun to read and discuss. L'Academie is nothing; just a F451 ripoff created solely as a course-correction for his career. It's like if you make fun of a kid for dressing in neon Naruto clothes and the next day he shows up in all black.
Honestly, this guy is a great example of why good writers can't be born from social media. Only maybe 1% of the reactions Waldun got to his work were nuanced and constructive. Everything else was either unquestioning love from his fanbase, which encouraged his bad habits, or virulent hatred from here, which led him to take down his books and perpetually try to reinvent himself as a good writer (because he wants to be one of "the greats," who in his mind were great from the start.)
>>22760181
Beckett is another one. Wrote his trilogy in French and even died in Paris.

>>22764545
>nuanced
Nothing nuanced about the shiteness of Waldun's books. I'll admit the criticism could've been more constructive from /lit/. But can you blame us when Waldun promised L'Académie would be a massive improvement? This is what happens in the self-publishing world. If the only person that vets your writing is yourself, you only have yourself to blame when the projet fails critically and commercially.

>>22764174
And his greatest achievment? Copulating with Dakota

>>22764623
Looks like the realdoll with Jim Norton's bootprint in its back from when he kicks it back into the closet after he's done

>>22753093
I dunno but when the cum tributes started becoming a regular thing I had to tap out of /lit/ for a while. First time I’ve really felt bad for one of these people.

>>22764688
Newfag here, can anyone update me on the lore behind Waldun in a comprehensive history, for the general reader? Every post regarding him only allows me slight pieces of hilarious information and I feel like I'm missing out.

>>22764701
Try searching up Waldun on the warosu archive. You want to start with the threads that beging in October of 2020. October of 2020 was the first time Waldun was posted to /lit/. He was originally posted because he made a "Dark Academia" video. He got roasted in that thread, but at that point no one knew about the novel he wrote. Then of course we found the novel, the polymath and Renaissance Man videos. kdbooks reviewed TLD, and Waldun had recently announce his second novel L'Académie. It took off from there. A straight year of Waldun posting hyping up the release of L'Académie. Waldun would make videos giving hints on the progress and how it was so much better and real literature this time. Then Waldun revealed some info about his "editor". Needless to say /lit/ surmised the editor was just selling Waldun a dream and milking him for money. Waldun spent a fortune on that editor for over a year, and all he got in return was L'Académie. Waldun released the editor has failed him and then released L'Académie hoping for the best. kdbooks roasted him again and demanded Waldun refund all purchasers because he was selling unedited, unpublishable shite, and abusing his audience for cash. That's when Waldun's career ended and he decided he would be an academic instead of a writer.

>>22763506
>Waldun is a great writer!
to
>He's living his best life, so that's good!
to
>Well at least he get people to talk about books!
gg no re

>>22764735
You gotta feel bad for the guy,in all honesty.

>>22764888
I'd feel bad for him if he was legitimately good, wasn't a try hard or an Aussie

>>22764056
nobody does, because English is the new Latin, you utter dimwit.

>>22760181
There are a lot more you just don't know about, pull your head out of your fucking ass.
Have you ever even heard about Simic?
Here:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exophonic_writers
And that list in incomplete.

Oh wow, the butthurt ESLs are really out in force today.

>>22765148
I brought it up because I was replying to a comment about Latin and Greek. I guess your English reading comprehension is about as good as your English composition.

>>22765188
Rand, Kerouac, Cioran, and a bunch of nobodies. Only Beckett and Augustine stand out there. If writing in a non-native language is such a wonderful idea, why do authors who speak English well, such as Murakami and Knausgard, still write in their native languages and not English? (Murakami, despite having translated English works into Japanese, does not write his books in English, and typically has other people translate his books for him.) English is such a complex language that even native speakers get the grammar wrong all the time and are ignorant of many English words. Excuse me for not thinking that some ESL retard from YouTube is going to write anything worthwhile in English. Not even the native English speakers in Australia themselves are capable of writing anything worthwhile, much less some pampered rich immigrant kid who doesn’t know the language.

>>22765502
>your composition on a spamboard, I muft be better than youuu

Go fuck yourself, you arrogant prick. Show me something you wrote.

And I didn't say that this particular dipshit is capable of writing anything even remotely good. But calling the people on this list a bunch of nobodies just show how fucking uneducated you actually are.
I suggest you go back to jerking off to furries or whatever you do with your pathetic existence.

>>22764011

You shouldn't even drink wine out of a wine glass unless you're a fag

>>22766008
Then what should you drink wine out of?

>>22766013
just drink it out of the can instead of pouring it into a fucking glass. it's not whiskey, you don't need to put ice in it.

>>22766114
>wine
>can

>>22762228
>poetry is a little block of text where you have to spend hours contemplating it
huh?

>>22766013
Straight out of the bottle/bag like a real man

>>22764735
the l’académie discussion threads were the most fun i've had on this board
>double-rods
>the man of history
>the jazz monster

>>22766410
The most fun I had were the The Learned Disguise (TLD) threads. I remember finding an old video on his channel where he is gushing about how much of a masterpiece TLD is. I posted the video in a thread. Waldun was getting roasted by people. Turns out Waldun was monitoring the thread. Within 30 minutes or less, Waldun deleted the video. Then people started commenting about how Waldun was monitoring threads about himself and commenced making fun of him again. We truly fucked up Waldun's outlook on life.

>>22764623
Fake freckles are so puke.

>>22763031
Cope. He sucks. Just because people on 4chan are hating doesn’t make it any less true. Who cares if he looks nice in his clothes. People like that are a dime a dozen these days with the dark academia bullshit. At the end of the day, he wants to be taken seriously as a writer and he sucks at that. All these people building these personas like Walden, Dakota, and Ruby will soon realize all they have is the surfaces they’ve created and that they are destined to the mediocrity they so desperately want to escape once they peer into their interiority for inspiration.

>>22763218
You either have it or you don't. No amount of work is going to save this bum from the mediocrity he currently inhabits. He's better of becoming a high school English teacher or a hype man for the real artists.

>>22766432
I remember that shit. Good times.

>>22763506
Fuck off Gardner.

>>22763145
You should have been here for the L'Academie threads.

>>22764623
Bullshit. He had a "partner" named Ella for awhile but everyone knew she was a beard. Waldun is a homo.

>>22766432
Jay deleted the Jazz monster video because of those threads. What did we do?

>>22766724
I still have a hard time believing that this guy is for real and not some kind of elaborate satire. It is mind-boggling, desu. I mean, he has people gobbling up his shit, wtf is going on?

>>22763031
Sup Dakota, everyone here wants to know if you let asian harry potter hit or nah?

>>22763142
Kys

>>22766772
kek.

>>22762182
Why does that part rhyme and nothing else rhymes? I’m lost here.

>>22763031
Aesthetic don't really mean anything, especially when it's all a 1920s larp. Gen-Z doesn't have its own fashion sense, simply rebrands past fashion trends such as Y2K and dark academia. The people who dressed as Tumblr girls and weebs 10 years ago are now dressing like this. In another 10 years they'll be wearing the next qurky, neurodivergent trend. Therefore their aesthetic is just that, a vapid aesthetic to present themselves as their new hyperfixation rather than their actual personality. Say what you will about Hunter S. Thompson as a writer, but at least he had an individual sense of style which complimented his over the top personality. Writers now simply become obsessed with Camus and Dostoevsky in order to wear overcoats and smoke cigarettes, the same way posers who wear Thraser t-shirts start listening to skater music, so as not to be called a poser.

>>22767784
>Writers now simply become obsessed with Camus and Dostoevsky in order to wear overcoats and smoke cigarettes
this is nothing new and was far more common in the past. the brooding existentialist in his coat is a joke at this point, even to wide-eyed zoomers

>>22757769
No, he certainly was not. He learned English, French and Russian simultaneously as a child.

>>22763090

>>22764623
This woman only copulates with black men

>>22767830
Yes but Waldun gets to watch and occasionally take videos.

what do students of a Literature Degree even learn in their programme?

>>22765502
Latin and Greek are shit answers anyway. The ancient Greeks mostly had Greek as a first language and Latin was frequently taught in school curriculums from the Roman Empire all the way to the 1800s. Neither Greek nor Latin writers were the same as ESLs who typically learn the language on their own.

waldun is a gay little twerp but he isn't homosexual. he's far too skittish about/around girls for that

>>22756492
He was also filtered by Edmund Burke apparently because here >>22762228 he likens him to a “first year philosophy student” (the fucking irony!)

>>22767942
>he likens him to a “first year philosophy student”
He just repeats platitudes and things he has heard others say using a quality camera/microphone setup and decent editing. Everything he says is contrived and derivative--he offers no real insight into the subjects he covers and regurgitates simplistic truisms that cover over the fact he has no real experience/knowledge to offer (e.g. "long books are intimidating...try breaking up your reading sessions to make it easier to get through them"). All style and no substance which is why /lit/ shits on him (note that he isn't talented as a writer so he can't even pull off style over substance and his books end up being unintentionally hilarious in their cringe).

>>22766161

>>22768454
>wine

>>22763609
ur cringe

>>22768454
Fuck off James Quincey I‘m not drinking your slop with dinner

>>22762182
>every once of his intellect for this
Fucking lmao

>>22768502
*farts on you and caves your skull in with a single punch*

I just checked his website and he took down all of his short stories.

>>22767876
waldun had a cute artsy white girl suck his cock before

>>22768576
in your dreams, waldo

This excerpt (pic) is a brilliant example of the complexity of Waldun--as a writer AND a figure of the Melbourne Movement. Notice the deep symbolism Waldun is using to code his repressed homosexuality?

A woman at a cafe--the archetypal object of desire causes our man to become self-aware. But what is he aware of? That he should desire but doesn't desire--she moves him from a light drink to a heavy drink. A call to adventure that the feminine has forced upon him. Notice the resonance of moving from tea to coffee as the symbolic object? The coded phallic language of "long black?" What does he really want and what has he accepted? The object of desire's friendship, full stop because that is all.

The sweet repression of emotion Waldun gives us via a delicate use of irony, the archetypical structuring at an inverse, is masterful. Fade into Jay.

The real object of desire is Jay (The Author). On the level of authorial biographical analysis--scholars a century from now will be talking of the tension represented in the line openly criticizing the friend and confidant. Using shade to shade in character--delightfully playful is our man Waldun (or 'Robin' as he is known to his Jay).

Jay is freedom; he cannot be constrained by formatting. We all know, deep down, that Robin will never convince Jay to share a cage. However, the Jay is teaching the Robin to soar--all gas, no breaks.

>>22768591
Wow, I am glad that you shared that Freudian reading of the text which reflects entirely upon Waldun and not upon yourself in any way at all.

>>22768601
The HH holds.

>>22768601
Ever realize that the greatest insult fags have on offer is to imply you're somehow like them? Lol

>>22768660
That guy read an excerpt about a woman offering him a coffee and immediately he was stricken with thoughts of interracial cuckolding. That’s totally Waldun who is the perverted one.

>>22768591
Ok, this is funny, but please get some bitches on ur dick.

>>22768669
Reading repressed homosexuality into Waldun's 'proses' is part of the meme, newfag.

>>22768772
>I’m pwning Waldun by being gay

>>22768797
leave with ur cringe

"waldun is le gay" is always the weakest part of rcw threads desu

>>22768570
He did that shortly after L'Académie's release. He renounced being a writer and scrubbed the internet of all his prose and poetry works.

>>22768820
His short story, "There's Another Me Out There" confirms Waldun is asexual.

>>22753064
Cum tribute thread lads?

>>22767851
You think his little clitty is caged?

>>22754246
>>22754277
>>22754379
:::::DDDDD

>>22769290
It was one guy who made a single post that linked to a picture of an iPad with cum on it. The screen was opened on a picture of Waldun. It could've easily been faked by cumming nonhomsexually and then navigating to a picture of Waldun.

>>22763031
yo RC, wearing a ralph lauren knit over a ralph lauren doesn't make you "pretty damn aesthetic", you look like a philistine

>>22769427
you think too much

>>22769427
Tbf I think it would be hard to use an ipad properly while it has cum on the screen, it’d mess with the touch detection.

>>22765502
Your not wrong, but just so you know, Murakami actually writes (not publishes, though) his books in English by himself and translates them into Japanese before publishing. Those published Japanese works are then translated by someone else back into English for the English market. So while he does not write the published works themselves in English, he does first write them in English, just not for his audience.

>>22769906
>in English by himself and translates them into Japanese before publishing
Wtf, what is that for? It is utterly inefficient

>>22768591
>The coded phallic language of "long black"

>>22769954

As much as he loves dick, he's not the type that goes in for BBC so chill out

>>22759170
I respect the hench cranium tbf

>>22768797
>angry at a joke on 4chan
See >>22768660.

>>22769352
We can hope.

>>22769290
F. Gardner was jealous of the cum tribute and tried to encourage people to do it for him.

>The Learned Disguise

>>22771254
Wow, that’s… something.

as an aspiring writer I am thankful for waldun kek

>>22771254
The funniest part is all the comma splices

>>22770248
It's obviously a playful allusion exploring the intersection of (repressed) homosexuality and societies (repressed) fascination black sexuality. Fuck, Waldun is such a genius.

>>22771286
>That moment,
>I knew one thing for sure,
>that I must,
>help out this young man.

https://youtu.be/dLcwevklLZg?si=g8RCm0h5la5Xmx-O

so what's robbo up to these days? still in the dark academia youtube racket?

>>22771308
>Move over dorks, the wigga literary movement is here (Waldun is our token asian academic)

>>22771308
Writing with a typewriter in this day and age is retarded and a sign you only pretend to be interested in writing rather than actually just writing in the most accessible and conventient way. I bet insufferable faggots like this existed in ancient times, where some people still refused to write with papyrus paper and instead continued to carve everything into stone tablets, to show how cool and unique they really were.

>>22753064
wait i went to high school with this dork. lets gooooo jmss

>>22771839
What was he like, anon? Was he bullied or popular? Any particualr stories about him that stand out?

>>22771853
he wasn't popular but no one was really bullied at jmss. the only thing that really stands out is that he almost drowned at the swim festival in year 11.

he was nice enough i suppose, but he wasn't into the whole dark academia schtick back then. he was like pretty much every other kid there, just trying to get into engineering at monash or melbourne. i had english with him and he spent most of the classes playing the web browser version of tetris

>>22771839
>I went to high school with this dork
In past threads, one anon claimed your school held an assembly to honor Waldun when he self-published his first novel The Learned Disguise. Is this true? Also what was Waldun's perception by his peers in high school? I assume he was relentlessly made fun of for LARPing as a 1920s white European intellectual

>>22771870
It's crazy that Waldun went to a STEM school, because he has claimed in past videos he has "dyscalculia", otherwise known as "I suck at math but actually I'm smart it's just I don't read numbers so good".

>>22771802
But stone stands the test of time, whereas paper dissolves in the rain...? It just makes more sense to preserve my words for all of time, whereas your paper is organic material so it will decompose eventually.

>>22753064
guys he seems to be like 18, why bully?

>>22772096
But paper covers rock, anon. Paper covers rock.

>>22762228
how many accents does he go through wtf.

>>22772218
I'm starting to feel bad. This could've been me if I had the balls to release one of my shitty books at his age.

>>22766013
an oversized mug

>>22755679
Do the needul, sir, redeem the book, Sir

>>22759209
Chink
>>22759170
So waldun obviously bottoms, but who tops and who mids?

>>22763031
You forgot to "accidentally" leave in an "I" rather than "he"
It would have made your bait much more humorous

>>22772429
Nothing wrong with publishing sophomoric stuff or even constructing his whole aesthetic like he did. Honestly I think if we had more young people doing so it would be a lot of fun. What's bad is he gave up the writing instead of pushing through the embarrassment and realizing that those poking fun have a genuine point. Plenty of fantastic writers started off as cheap imitations, pretentious whatevers, but he's refusing to learn from any of it it seems. He wants to be a writer more than he actually wants to write, putting the cart before the horse.

Waldunchad reporting in..

>>22771870
To say "that explains a lot" would be an extreme understatement, lmao.

>>22772218
Yeah maybe in 2019. Waldork is 22 or 23 now. He honestly should've known better about L'Académie after all the shit he got for The Learned Disguise. Waldork has only himself to blame because he's a clout chaser. He wanted the approval of the masses so he was desperate to show everyone how intelligent he is. Waldork's only problem is he's not even a mildly talented writer. If Waldork was so talented, why was he forced to self-publish? Waldork's hubris was his own undoing. He's kind of a tragic hero. Someone should write a tragedy in verse about Waldork's literary ventures.

>>22771870
>he spent most of English class playing web browser Tetris
Why were you allowed on a computer in a high school English class?

>>22773232
School is glorified babysitting. That’s why.

>>22773232
the school has you use laptops for pretty much everything. most people use them to take notes in every class

>>22773241
I graduated high school in 2014. The only time we were allowed on a computer in English class was when we went to the computer lab specifically to work on writing an essay or do research for an essay. Otherwise we were, prepping for the reading of a work, reading the work, or discussing/analyzing the work. It seems to me school is glorified babysitting if you don't go to an all-white school. Have you dweebs tried being white? It might improve your relation with education.

>>22773225
>The Waldunciad

>>22763142
and i thought the other anon was lame.

>>22773250
i went to a private catholic school which was mostly white. the lit classes were 50% memorizing vocab words and 50% getting stories read to us by the teachers. i agree w/ the other anon about school being glorified babysitting.

>>22773265
Interesting...it seems my high school experience is very singular. And I went to a public school in the Southern U.S.

>>22773265
I frequently moan about how I had to go to public school with the dullard kids who would struggle to comprehend the Dichsis of Cato but the truth is I bet, that even if I went to the fancy prep school my parents didnt have money for I probably still would have ended up with a lot of problems.

>>22772088
definitely not. assemblies were held once a term, and they wouldn't change that if someone won a pulitzer. he might have gotten mentioned in one of those assemblies, i don't remember, sorry.

>>22771870
>the only thing that really stands out is that he almost drowned at the swim festival in year 11.

L'académie, p. 290–291:

>He walked along the stream leading to The Archive, still with that smile about his face. The Prefects watched his moves while Archer smoked his cigarette in his long dark coat and kept still.

>Eddington knelt down, dipped his fingers into the
cold stream, and shook his head. Little sobs came
through the woods and soon turned into a howl. He started splashing the water and soaked his head in the stream. Archer stood by and extinguished his cigarette in the soil. By then, Eddington was entirely in the stream, howling and splashing.

>"That's it." Archer waved at the two Prefects.

>Take him away.

>>22771870
>the only thing that really stands out is that he almost drowned at the swim festival in year 11.

L'académie, p. 290–291:

>He walked along the stream leading to The Archive, still with that smile about his face. The Prefects watched his moves while Archer smoked his cigarette in his long dark coat and kept still.

>Eddington knelt down, dipped his fingers into the cold stream, and shook his head. Little sobs came through the woods and soon turned into a howl. He started splashing the water and soaked his head in the stream. Archer stood by and extinguished his cigarette in the soil. By then, Eddington was entirely in the stream, howling and splashing.

>"That's it." Archer waved at the two Prefects.

>Take him away.

>>22773343
What the fuck? Eddington just gets in the stream and starts screaming?

>>22773404
he finally cracked after learning the truth about himself, archer, amelia and l'academie

>>22773250
>>22773265
I went to a virtually all-white Catholic school which was one of the top performing schools in the UK. We wouldn't have gotten away with brazenly banging flappy bird mid-lesson or whatever it was Waldun was supposedly doing, but it was still glorified babysitting. The books we covered for A-level English were The Road and The Handmaid's Tale, you had to be a genuine spastic not to achieve top marks in the exams (unless you made some sort of concerted effort not to so much as glance at the books or imbibe anything that was being read aloud in class). Grade inflation has reached insane levels since covid, iirc something like 50% of students were obtaining As. I know of people that were being awarded As who themselves would have struggled to even pass their exams had they sat them in 2015.

And over here, it's the white protestant underclass who straddle the nadir of educational attainment. The only other groups vying with them for their abysmal spot are Caribbeans, pikeys and roma gypsies. Pretty much all other wogs comfortably surpass them, and that even tends to include Africans from the likes of Ghana. While the Isles themselves are generally dysgenic, the white protestant underclass is fucking morbid.

>>22773425
Lower-class british culture is PVRE SOVL

>>22773343
I'm sure he's gotten better. His substack articles are decently written

>>22773425
>the white protestant underclass is fucking morbid.
their women get me horny for some reason. mayhaps I can improve their lot by knocking up one.

>>22771802
yeah muslims are pretentious faggots like this
they want to write every quran by hand

>>22773439
It'll take more than malnourishment and entrenched deprivation to snuff out the patterspheric frequencies still reverberating through the likes of Belfast and Glasgow, but there is something uniquely 'bovine' about the English underclass. I am quite fond of the English in certain respects, however I can't help but notice how grotesque and vacant their underclass is. The underclass of Belfast/Glasgow are at least willing to assist in paring back their dole-induced surplus with violence and drug deaths, and they still have a piercing, energetic aspect to them. The English underclass opted instead to embody the flatulent negativity of their welfare-parasitism in the hope that they would rouse the wider group into getting their act together and putting them out of their misery. That cognitively impaired obese baldy bastard isn't just your SOVLFULLY endearing 'bazza' lurking about the pub giving vent to his dyspeptic musings. He's also an inert signpost made out of gouty, veg-oil saturated flesh redirecting you to a time when high child mortality rates meant that the underclass were perpetually perishing and being replaced by their demoted social superiors. A time when society actually enjoyed an organic and quite literal trickle-down effect and wasn't saddled with a pullulating mass of untouchables like the geezer you see in front of you whose existence you facilitate with your taxes. But aye there's a cost of living crisis because fat cunts like him can't blast their central heating 24/7...Russia's fault I suppose.

picrel was one of the books we read for year 10 english and he was absolutely insufferable about it. the school's like 70% asian so it's not even like his lived experience was uniquely insightful or whatever but he acted like it was

>>22773452
Retard

>>22773877
in my corner of the world pung means ballsack

>Waldun's so successful now that his classmates are seething about him

>>22773877
It's crazy that he claims not to be ESL. Like Waldun it's very obvious your primary language is Chinese and that it is the only language spoken in your household. I don't get why Waldun won't admit he is ESL.

>>22773760
You're not intelligent. You're not eloquent. You're not insightful. You're a dreadful writer. Never put pen to paper again.

>>22773877
>school's like 70% asian

What city was this?

>>22774063
melbourne. it's select entry but it's also publicly funded so all the asian parents who want their kids to be doctors/engineers but don't have the money to send them to private school make them study to go there

>>22774081

I bet his parents are both physicians.

>>22774024
NTA
How's it obvious anon is ESL?

>>22774105
I'm talking about RC Waldun being ESL.

>>22774113

Yeah just like Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov.

>>22774121
Nabokov wasn’t ESL. Read the fuckin thread. He learned multiple languages simultaneously as a child due to his elite upbringing.

>>22774121
If that's true then how do you explain the atrocious grammar in The Learned Disguise. There's many classic ESL mistakes in that """novel""". The most telling are the inability to correctly conjugate singular and plural tenses of verbs.

>>22774113
>Like Waldun it's very obvious your primary language is Chinese
Why would you use the second person "your" here, then, if you're not referring to anon as primary language Chinese?

>>22774146
Listen up ESL shitstain. That anon was ADDRESSING Waldun, meaning he was speaking directly to Waldun, meaning it is proper to use the pronoun you. Just like how I am ADDRESSING YOU right now, YOU ESL shitstain.

you will never reach this level of sovl, i'm afraid

>>22774156
If he were addressing Waldun, he should use a vocative comma
>Like, Waldun, it's very obvious . . .
He used no vocative commas, which made it sound like a simile
>Like Waldun it's very obvious . . .
>[It's obvious that you are like Waldun]

>>22774178
>The shelves so tall and reach
>tall and reach
>and reach
What is this ESLism? Any ESLs care to explain? Seem to be a lot of butthurt ESLs in the thread, so I thought I'd ask.

>>22774197
>ESL can't interpret English without grammar syntax
And that's why you'll never achieve Native Fluency. If someone said that sentence out loud you wouldn't be able to understand it.

>>22774156
kill yourself

>>22774220
>hurr durr it's your fault that you can't understand me if I type like a retard
kill yourself

>>22774228
Manuscripts from the Middle Ages had no grammar syntax and no visible spacing between words. That means no periods, commas, and the text is one long string of letters. You should kill yourself, because you're admitting to being dumber than a clerk from the Middle Ages.

HE'S JUST LIKE MEEEEEEEEE

>>22774242
Go back to the middle ages then. Kill yourself, and you might reincarnate as a monk of St Benedict.

>>22774255
>monk of St. Benedict
There's that ESL showing through again. A Native Speaker would say Benedictine monk. You can't win. You are eternally ESL.

>>22774262
>Noooooooooo you can't use rhetorical flourishes! Anything deviating from the norm is too difficult to understand!
Morons like you should kill themselves.

>>22774288
Your a retarded ESL.

>>22774302
>Your
Who's the ESL, motherfucker? Just kill yourself already.

>>22774211
>The shelves so tall and hard to reach

Obviously a minor typo, which his editor overlooked.

>>22774302
>Your
>[Deleted]
ajajaja

iPhone typing claims another victim. This is why screens are killing literacy. If you don't form the letters yourself, you'll never learn.

>>22774178
>Seemed to inspire me once more
>The shelves so tall and reach
>I know nothing about what I desired to read
>Hence
>Ancients to the Moderns
>Wandered back to the room, where solitude awaited

Jesus it really is that bad

>>22774642
The entire section is him saying the books look cool literally based on their covers and then struggling to even read any of them. It is low key comedy.

Does anyone have the page from lacadamie where the guy is in the bar and Walden tries to run a single alliteration for an entire paragraph?

>>22774178
>My commitment to reading will never cease to be.
>None of the reads captured my attention.
Motherfucker doesn't even know what he's saying.

>>22774642

Still better than anything you have written.

The problem is that he looks like he’s 20 but has already published two novels. As an artist it’s way more helpful to start with creating smaller scale works and gradually building up to more significant things. There’s nothing wrong with writing a novel when you’re 20 to develop your skills, but your time could probably be better used elsewhere and for Christ’s sake don’t publish it. Joyce was in his 30s when he finished his first published novel. Wagner, one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time, composed a symphony when he was 21 and at best it’s remembered as a competent Beethoven pastiche.

>>22769925
I don't know why he does it and I don't know for a fact that he does. I have heard that he says he does, but I haven't heard it from the man himself. Why he would go through this process is anyone's guess.

>>22774105
His enunciation and pronunciation are not that of a native speaker with no experience in a second language. He obviously doesn't live in a non-English speaking country and he's been at this YT thing for a while, so the only real explanation is that he grew up speaking something else in the home. It's fairly obvious when you grow up around Chinese/Cantonese speakers who experience the same upbringing. As communicative English it's no doubt more than adequate, but native he is not. Not that being ESL is a problem, but reading through his book seals the deal because his prose and flow do not follow the logical thought patterns of someone who grew up exclusively in an English-speaking environment and culture.

>>22774642
It's quite awful. I don't want to say that he shouldn't keep trying, but he might do well to adopt more humility and maybe take some classes to learn about logical flow. He knows a lot of words, no doubt, but he doesn't seem to know how to product logical synergy between the words he uses. It's almost as if he writes sentences based on words he wants to see in his writing as opposed to writing to describe a story being acted out in his mind.

>>22774178
I would be incredibly surprised if this guy was even able to get through the first ten pages of Ulysses. If he hasn't read through it, it's definitely not because it didn't "capture his attention," but rather because it was to difficult for him to get through owing to a lack of knowledge of the historical background and context. I haven't seen many of his videos, but he strikes me as the type to vocally profess their "love for the classics" while not actually having read through them.

>>22774812
That's a bold accusation. Are we reading the same picrel?

>>22774178
>It wasn't her potential rejection that haunted my soul, but the gnawing uncertainty was what tortured me most.
This seems redundant.

>>22774812
Sorry Waldun, can't hear you over the sound of Dakota's mac and cheese pussy

>>22775023
You're right. That sentence is also a good example of how we know he is not a native speaker of English. You are generally "haunted" by something with a connection to the past. And if you are indeed "haunted" by something, it is obviously redundant to say that your "soul" is haunted. If we are talking about a "potential rejection," more appropriate wording for the feelings he wants to convey would be something along the lines of "it wasn't the potential for rejection which haunted me." As you have said, the second part is redundant.

>>22775073
Having said that, I hope he keeps trying if he actually does enjoy writing.

>>22774138
Retard

>>22774156
Absolute retard.

>>22775073
If nothing else, his editor obviously did a lousy job. I shudder to imagine the unedited text.

>>22775112
I cannot imagine that his manuscript ever came across the desk of an editor, at least not one who is a native speaker of English.

>>22775199
It was a guy on Fiverr for his first book

>>22775023
The real tragedy is the sentence structure. It could work as two separate clauses that reflect on each other, but it doesn't work with a conjunction.
Frankly, laughing at ESL is boring and so is this thread.

>>22757749
It is entirely possible to write a really good work in your non-native language if it does not rely on prose quality and has other interesting things. Simple as.

>>22773760
You're intelligent. You're eloquent. You're insightful. You're a terrific writer. Never stop writing.

>>22771870
>i had english with him and he spent most of the classes playing the web browser version of tetris

>>22774799
Is this the "down the brown the brown goes down" thing?