/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17749907]

Can /lit/ invoke emotion just by describing pic related?

[Anonymous No.17749928]

>>17749907
Yeah, when a thread died for this.

[Anonymous No.17749945]

for sale: croc tooth, never chomped.

[Anonymous No.17749954]

>>17749907
He mouf be big. Bigga dan awl da ova gaytaz. Big bwoy mouf dat go da snap snap an ya awm gon. Gatta be dam carful awh heyah or youz gawn needa ambulanz. Mah bby gurl wardine she hate da gaytaz. She be cry

[Anonymous No.17749966]

>>17749928
You're so grumpy! Don't you enjoy any of the threads you mourn the death of?
>>17749954
Could have spilled from Faulkner's pen. Bravo anon.

[Anonymous No.17749998]

>>17749907
HOLY FUCK A CROCADILE

[Anonymous No.17750150]

>>17749907
The big scary lizard went chomp chomp and you died. But then you woke up, it was only a dream.

[Anonymous No.17750195]

>>17749907
You can't make people afraid without the threat of consequences. Words or pictures can't directly hurt you so you'll never be afraid of crocodiles whether it be a photo or a description of it.
The proper way to go about it is to make a character that the reader becomes emotionally invested in, and then have a crocodile rip him to shreds to make clear to the reader that there are consequences.
After that, the reader will feel a pang of fear the next time any character they're invested in encounters a crocodile.

[Anonymous No.17750203]

>>17750195
A photo of a croc could startle your sympathetic nervous system in the right contexts. Think like a cat turning around to see a cucumber and startling. That would probably be you if you encountered a large picture of a crocodile in a surprising location.

[Anonymous No.17750222]

>>17750195
yea its hard to evoke emotions if they don't have their salient component, thats why I like >>17749998

[Anonymous No.17750238]

>>17750203
I think, for me, jump scares aren't really emotional responses as much as they are purely instinctive bodily responses and don't evoke real emotion. What does evoke anxiety/fear in horror movies is the *threat* of a jump scare in a particularly tense scene, which only works if the viewer is expecting a jump scare.

You also can't really jump scare the readers in literature, or, at least I haven't seen anyone do it.

[Anonymous No.17750247]

Yes.

[Anonymous No.17750254]

[Anonymous No.17751595]

Yes. There’s a whole book about it. All over this board.

[Anonymous No.17751765]

>>17749907
The Nile always floods this time of year, and there’s always someone on the other bank that comes out in the rain to watch the crocodiles writhing on the bank, being groomed by birds, mouths agape . . . Whoever they are, I know they have a vertiginous longing to be there, staring down the maw of a century old gullet,— to be a Jonah to its Leviathan and just walk in there to meet Amit face to face and be devoured forever in the lake of fire . . . they have a heavy heart, sodden in the rain. Maybe the gesture would disburden them in the scales of Ma’at enough to float away unblemished— but I doubt it less than I doubt myself: the dead know the dead.

[Anonymous No.17751806]

I’ll try

Once there was an anon named OP. He made a thinly veiled Call of the Crocodile thread. 4chan was then ruined forever.

[Anonymous No.17751809]

!!GWAR!!
i cwocodiwle
chomp chomp chaos
uwu

[Anonymous No.17752042]

>>17749907
For sale: Baby shoes, bite marks.

[Anonymous No.17752049]

>>17749907
Of course. It would be something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt8VeUzG3Zc

[EL COCODRILO No.17752067]

El cocodrilo en su mente representaba la alegoria del poder escondido de un sujeto atormentado o iluminado.
Un cocodrilo tiene un tremendo poder en la cadena, un acero irrompible y ferrio. Del cocodrilo se espera que él arranque la carne de sus victimas quienes lo esperan.
Si el cocodrilo no hiciera esto y se dejará amar, sería enviado a un zoologico para ser explotado por las risas infantiles y cinicas de aquellos quienen buscan diversión.
Él jamás volvio a juzgar al reptil, pues los 2 servían sus respectivas torres de babel de la misma forma.

[Anonymous No.17752174]

>>17749907
HE'S A BIG GUSTAV
HE'S A BIG CHUNKY BOY
SUCH A BIG BUSTER
WE ARE SO OVERJOYED
TO HAVE A BIG CHUNKY BOI
A BIG AND WONDERFUL GUSTAV SUCH AS HE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywE2MwL3gXU

[Anonymous No.17752263]

Crikey mate shes a big one.

[Anonymous No.17752307]

You know damn well this board can.

[Anonymous No.17752321]

>>17749945
Genuinely sad when you think of all the strong predators that die as cubs, never having fully realised their strength and place in the world.

[Anonymous No.17752323]

>starting a thread on /lit by posting a pic of a crocodile.

Nigga do you realize what you just did. Might as well drop a nuke on this board.

[Anonymous No.17752389]

>>17750247
How does he fucking do it? Every sentence is absolutely benighted in perfection.

[Anonymous No.17752412]

>>17750254
Jesus.

[Anonymous No.17752463]

Imagine a video game where you play as Gustav and have to eat as many Burundi villagers as possible. Every now and then some hapless Western documentary filmmaker comes and tries to photograph you, and you get to him him too.

I remember that shark girl virtual YouTuber played some game as a shark, so we know the technology exists.

[Anonymous No.17752899]

>>17750254
gg

[Anonymous No.17753599]

These boots are made for walking. That's what they do. One of these boots is GONNA walk all over you (when I tear the skin off this crocodiles body).

[Anonymous No.17753632]

>>17752899
>natural selection
lol that can’t be real

[Anonymous No.17753645]

>>17749907
Crocs are fucking dumb
>hurr muh ultimate predator, unchanged for hundreds of millions of years
get fucked