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>>8420100
you're obviously new here or else you'd have picked up on the general consensus of genre/fantasy

someone post the excerpt with the unnecessary and lazy onomatopoeia.

Should probably delete this and post in the scifi/fantasy thread, or you're going to get berated by pseuds who hate fun.

Just fuckin write. Also, you are afraid. You are hiding from something inside yourself by seeking constant distraction. Or I'm projecting. Either way, you gotta start writing down your good ideas, at least in a little journal or something. just write lil pieces.

sometimes when I'm unable to write anything, ill just write a journal entry, but I'll attach some fictional aspect to it. It's usually pretty preachy and banal, but at least it's something.

>>8420043
Yeah I guess you're right, I'm kinda afraid. I'll do that. Lil pieces, sure.
>>8420052
I'll try that as well. I'd try anything if it gets me to write.

Thanks to both of you

>>8420030
I'm in 1:30 so far and I do agree with the guy. Do you realize how fucking HUGE the average anon's backlog is. Considering that literature is not the only media in which one indulges in. Reading random shit by people would be a waste of time. Even if there was a hidden gem it would not be worth the mountain of shit.

>>8418621

/mu/ stop shilling

No his sister faked it to ruin his reputation.

>>8419928
thats not how his nose looks like in other pics
>>8419957
elaborate

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>>8419928
Absolutely fake. Equipment was too rudimentary in 1899 to do things like the smooth zoom you see at around 45 seconds. It would be remarkable in its execution otherwise, a good deal of attention to the details, but using such a famous picture as the basis for your shots also makes it kind of obvious that something is afoot.

I suspect there is some CG involved using the famous picture in OP over someone with a similar head shape.

>>8419898
science fiction??
science shitshion :DDD

if the video isn't released i don't think there's much here to talk about, regardless of how many times someone says he was just 'speaking out' and the panel is 'enforcing' such and such

>>8419898
How can anyone perceive this shit as being anything but Stalinist? I literally can't imagine anyone being okay with this.

If you want fun, go with Eragon or the First Formic Wars trilogy from the Ender's Game universe.

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I would also check out The Book of the New Sun audiobooks by Gene Wolfe, if you haven't already read the novels.

>>8419896
Fug, I got to read that book for skool this semester.

>>8419869
but I like Plath
she has a very refined raft

>>8419869
As accurate as the typical infographic

100% accurate[\spoiler]

If you want modern poetry that's good, I recommend David Tibet's shit. That man has some real talent.

>>8419863
they are in my diary

Yes. You can distract yourself from it which could be seen as overcoming it by some folks

In a few billion years the sun is going to become a red giant and destroy the planet along with anywhere humanity could conceivably reach... but it's almost inconceivable that humanity will even make it that long. This means nothing we do truly matters. We're not even a blip in the grad scheme of things.

Sure, that means nothing matters. But it also means what we do in our society is all that matters. The goings-ons of the grand universe are irrelevant. The fact that humanity won't exist that long, and the memory of our existence will die out in a couple generations unless we create some amazing work, which could make our memory last a couple thousand years at very, very best doesn't matter either. Our world is the people around us, so we should create something great to elevate our world. We should create the best world we can - aim for fulfilling work on our own terms, have meaningful relationships, etc. is infinitely more significant than what's going on in other parts of the universe on a grand scale, because we are conscious, and we assign things value, and if there is no consciousness to assign a thing value then it has no value. Even if there are alien planets that are way more advanced than us somewhere on the other end of the universe, it doesn't fucking matter one bit. What matters is, how beautiful is your universe? Are you fulfilled?
Nietzsche, the most famous nihilist, believed in this fulfillment, following your own interests and not letting society's shackles hold you down. He knew the value of personal fulfillment. This is also the key point of Heidegger, as popularly understood - know that death and nothingness is imminent, and act accordingly, in the best ways possible. Camus literally did take a step beyond nihilism - he said, like the existentialists, that we create our own meaning, but he recognized nihilistically that we will inevitably see through that meaning. What he realized is that the meaning of life is in that very effort of assigning life meaning, and creating it.

At Swim Two Birds
The Doctor is Sick
White Noise is funny but I wouldn't describe as happy lit

I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki

>>8419855
Gravity's Rainbow is what you're looking for, my man. I'm more often disappointed by literature not being gloomy enough, so I can't relate with you. But Gravity's Rainbow is a book about making light of serious situations and it gets damn funny at times.

The Dead

>>8419854
The Canterbury tales are all somehow about cuckery

>>8419854
Othello

Well if you don't care about it why are you reading it?

I like the part where rome falls.

Imagining Nietzche without the moustache always makes me weep. I wish I could ride a wooly animal

To interact with my fellow intellectuals

I'm not smart

im not smart or intellectual, i just obsess over stuff and dont have any real connections with people.
i like the autistic and dry sense of humor this place has, sadly it doesnt work in real life.

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>>8419732
Like MTW, it would be funny and enjoyable if you didn't know the person who wrote it actually believed the shit he was writing.

>>8419732
>wtf I hate jews now

>>8419732
DUDE
LETS
NUKE THE WORLD
LMAO

Yes, they are. If you like mystery novels.

>>8419808
i don't know if i do because i've never read one .

>>8419814
then read it and find out you retard

zero

>>8419650
big if true

>>8419646
Zero. The more someone had read and knew, the more certain they would be that they didn't have the answers to any complex question. Only ignorant morons think they can easily fix or quickly define such situations.