/lit/ - Literature

>>13249949
https://www.wattpad.com/story/188107323-eschaton-book-1 is where the book is at, tho I'm porting the chapters on a google doc to make a pdf

part 2, pic is still unrelated

For several minutes, his mind still ended up wandering. Now that he answered his most burning question, there was still a lot he had to answer, but didn't know the question to.
For one, he attempted to stand up, though the weakness of his muscles caused him to fall back into the jelly he was covered in. He was exhausted for whatever reason, and out of breath. He figured that whatever happened wasn't explainable, so he didn't bother to wonder what even happened before this moment.
Concerning that, he wasn't able to explore anything happening on right now, so he just decided to sit there and think. He didn't know what to think, though, so he lay in this blood-like jelly and let his mind drift. There wasn't much to drift in when you have basically nothing in your mind at the moment, however, so he just did nothing.
After not much time, his lack of energy caught up to him, so he just fell asleep.

When he (it? she? they?) woke up, his mind was so abhorrently damaged as to disallow any possible conscious thought for several seconds. During that moment in time, he was just in the air, floating, as if suspended in aspic. Unable to breathe.
Like a match held to a small fire, though, he started to think about things in little ounces and smidgens, and eventually he was able to perform conscious thought fully.
His first question was what he was in the first place. What WAS he? He tried to stare into his own mind to try and remember some detail, anything at all, but nothing. The last thing he remembered was waking up. It was a complete memory wipe, either that or dissociative fugue, which he didn't know about because everything in his mind was removed.
His next question was where he was. That was easy, he was surrounded by sticky, red, jelly-like fluid and what looked like a bag split in half. He was covered in the stuff, which also reeked.

pt 1, pic unrelated

>>13224348
lol

>>13222626
I was thinking that, too. The setting is what really created the idea, rather than vice versa.

thx anon

How do you suppose I can write a novel with a them of psychological hedonism while also balancing it with a Dostoyevskian air of suffering and mental trauma?
The novel I'm writing in question has to do with several characters undergoing burdensome circumstances (having divine-level beings sharing their bodies, subsequent side effects and past experiences), and often being miserable, but still finding ways to enjoy life and try, despite the circumstances.
Does my premise already match what I ask for?

>>13210102
The Americans and others not only accepted the forces of Chaos, but embraced them, by creating a world where humanity has dissolved into nothing, a unifying genome or power being ripped to shreds.
However, this has also been a curse for them, too; each time a species would be switched, they would gain a sort of new "personality," from the alien hormones and genetics now stored within them. This meant that were quite terrible at remaining consistent, with subconsciouses often claiming the body for themselves at any given moment. Lithuania wondered why Raziel would be such a dick, since the last time they met he was quite kindly.

* * *

Lithuania, while hopping between people's feet as the walked across the streets of the Golden City, ended up finding a bar.
The reason he would risk going out in public to a populace which would still be very frightened of him (they had never considered such an odd form as him before) is because... he liked people.
He hated being with the same people for an extended period of time. People became predictable, and as he was a pessimist, their predictability often got on his nerves. Seeing new faces who he could talk to and resonate with was like honey for him.

Lithuania had decided to ditch the HQ building overlooking the city (which he was de jure supposed to stay in at all times) and look around the streets below to see if there was anything worth doing.

* * *

The "people" of Babel, with quotation marks, completely lacked any sort of overarching look, or face. Since the 2020s, they've been stripped of their human forms and stuffed in animal bodies, often not of the same sex as they would want. This torture persisted for an entire generation, until some scientists found out what Q-viruses were, even though Lithuania knew they just found segments of Raziel, messing with reality.
They ended up finding out how to manipulate the Q-viruses, and as such people could be restored to their human forms, of which they did in the majority of Central America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their new assigned bodies were revolting, and it was better to ditch them as quickly as possible.
Still though, the majority of America and Western Europe accepted their curses with time, and as they bore children, also bearing the curse, the idea of a humanless humanity became entrenched. When quantum technology allowed them to now be able to change species, sex and any number of things when they wanted, any remain of a face that was held by these people were now gone.

>>13208969
>>13209000 is right sort of, Eschaton is heavily inspired by NGE, but also has a lot of pseudo-crossovers with other stuff, but with major differences (e.g. Pokemon but people don't really treat Pokemon like Pokemon and call them "animals," Kim Stanley Robinsons' 2112/Utopia stuff but it's even more communist and a lot less interpersonal individuality). The Earth that the monolith is on is Earth-Babel, based off of "Pradise" by Jon Buck. The books are basically everybody becoming animal people (for some reason), and many years later, technology is invented to transform them into any species (or sex) they want. The thing is that I've changed it so that Multiple Personality Disorder is extremely prevalent within Earth-Babel (at least in more liberal places like the USA and West Europe. East Europe, Africa and the Middle East took the chance to become human again immediately), so they're really shit at managing their own governments, because they'll change bodies and personalities for whatever reason, sometimes without warning.
>>13208969
MS Paint and a few minutes of my time.

"At 10:29 AM, on July 18th, 2063, a massive monolithic structure appeared 4 kilometers southwest of San Fransisco, CA, USA. Analysis of the object from afar have shown that it is definitely not of a human origin, and have led speculation that it is an Angel Polyp. Due to this, all flights, shuttles and Q-Ports within 35 kilometers and having to move within 35 kilometers of the Monolith are now closed until further notice. This has caused outrage from the citizens of the San Fransisco Bay Area, who have attempted to protest against TUDF's (Trans-Universal Defense Force) random embargo on all long-distance transportation, effectively giving millions no better method of transportation to important meetings, and so on. TUDF has stated that Angel Polyps (and other Angel development stages) are extremely dangerous and should not under any circumstance be close enough to said Polyp, in fear of being destroyed."

* * *

Poland stood on the top of the balcony and stared at the monolith. Since he was about 22 kilometers away from it, he could barely see it from the intruding skyline of a bizarre San Fransisco; it was absolutely monstrous, however (about five kilometers high), so it still stuck out like a sore thumb, along with its pure black, smooth exterior.

>>13203919
Either work or sleeping

What are your favorite book covers or book covers you really like, /lit/? If you made covers for your own literature, you can post that in this thread, too, or covers you're doing in general.

Picrel, a cover I'm writing for some shitty story about eldritch abomination and weird pseudo-crossovers.

>>13188463
Yeah

>>13196571
I'm currently writing something on Wattpad, even though I don't really like it, since almost all of the popular stories are gay BTS shit and werewolf erotica. There are some gems on there, though, a lot of which aren't paid. Doubt my writing will go far tho
>>13196804
What are you writing your thesis on, anon?

>>13192656
https://www.wattpad.com/story/188107323-eschaton-disguised-as-the-world%27s-worst-fanfiction
Here's my story that's gonna take me a while to finish. Basically Angelic Abominations + Polandball +in general sad hours.

>>13192603
Anyway, the book gives me a few Blade Runner vibes at the beginning, especially when Vander (I think) arrests that woman with Five and they start to mention "Mods."

Kind of funky, but in a good way.

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>>13192585
whoops, forgot to see the "critique before posting" part. I'll critique >>13189580
desu

>>13192585
After you guys get done reading it (if you do), what author does it remind you of?

https://www.wattpad.com/story/188107323-eschaton-disguised-as-the-world%27s-worst-fanfiction

Here's what I'm working on right now, and will probably be doing for a long while. Long story short, Angelic Abominations plus Countryballs, some trippy shit and general sad hours.

Here's an excerpt from "Eschaton disguised as the world's worst fanfiction." Some special agent is designated with solving an unexplained event where a massive explosion happened near the Kansas-Colorado border.
>>13191594
thx

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