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>>8039694
I play around with Dnd to explore themes through improvisational story-telling

Write solo in tandem with your RPing and it shouldn't hurt

Just do it with care

It's a very good idea but I doubt you'll find anyone willing to play with you. I did a lot by email back in 2000 but it's dead, now.

>>8039694
>where does it stand in relation to solo writing as a whole?
It is the slam poetry of co-written digital texts. Full of self-indulgence, narcissism, and power fantasies.

It has the same problems as any collaboration in digital spaces, in that it is very difficult to strike the right balance between quality controls and barriers-to-entry.

i.e. Trying to control people too much will drive them away. But failing to control people at all will leave your project vulnerable to idiots and spoilers.

>should i continue doing it? (i had some of my best times RPing)
If you want to. Just remember that even if you were the best forum roleplayer in the world, it would be pointless for anything other than your enjoyment.

>>8039453
Dark Side takes over
Fear not for the Galaxy
We know Good will win.

Sins last for ever
Salvation by Devoution
In G-d we shall trust.

the turgid shaft extends
the field yields to the plowhead
yeah take my dick boi

>>8039450
If they're all first editions in great condition and 15 of them are signed by the author, they're worth something or will be eventually.

Those books are fairly popular and may be around to stay as YA fiction.

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Christies sells everything, remember jacques is dead and its one of the most beloved series in england, it might not seem like much but to someone its worth something.

Also

>2-3,000

people buy vases from christies as much as sports cars on a weekly basis m8, its really just a tiny fun little auction piece.

>pic related something a little more valuable from a christies acution.

>>8039471
that shit isn't even a generation old yet, the rest of the auction was old musty shit that will fall apart if u sneeze on it and this shit is like some crap that could have been taken off a barnes and noble shelf a decade ago

What does 'psychological themes' even mean?

>>8038919
The life and works of Sigmund Freud.

>>8038931
Sorry if I did not make myself clear, books that focus on the human psyche.

>>8038875
Coldnt read more than a full page of either

PL. DC makes me want to take fatty snooze tbqh

Paradise, for sure.

>tfw only losers

When I was in kindergarden me and my dad wrote a poem in some sort of poem competition and won some candy

>>8038549
Chem Eng major, won a uni Shakespeare competition by taking the plot to the crucible and rewriting it using Shakespeare's own lines. I think i used lines from Henry IV and Julius Ceasar the most.

Won it last year, received a $100 gift card to the Union Bookshop. I'm rewriting the Illiad as a family drama, similar to Johnathan Franzen's The Corrections.

c'mon, there's 10 or so meme threads and none of you professors can answer me lmao

>>8038586
Simply by creating an unreliable narrator may better convey a descent into insanity. I think the pronoun shift may turn into too easily of a crutch. The art comes into creating the unreliable narrator's world both being reasonable and disjunct, therefor making the gullible reader fall prey. Look at Lolita for a pervert's empathizable narrator through wit, look at Poe for madness (The Eye, I believe it was called), American Psycho, Fight Club, etc.

Unless the pronoun shift is absolutely necessary, it may be just too cheesey.

>c'mon, there's 10 or so meme threads and none of you professors can answer me lmao
That's only the case because /mu/ and /pol/ is leaking in here. Many of the quality posters are frequenting much less often. Hopefully this board will return back to usual business. Perhaps after the summer plebs leave?

I don't recall seeing pronoun shifts except in free-flowing narration where they go smooth and unnoticed, prose-wise, unless hard looked at

>>8038945
I'm not a quality poster and I'm frequenting much less often so I think you're projecting something here

borges was a cuck

>>8038296
Wasn't he a virgin?

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>>8038296
Serves him right for falling in love with a H2G slut.

>How are the NYRB Classics editions?

What did he mean by this?

>>8038134
Dude, you can just go fucking ask OP directly. No need to be passive-aggressive like this.

>>8038128
they're doing fine, thank you for asking

>>8038125
The Calvin and Hobbes comics mix in a bit of social critique and philosophical nuggets here and there, if that's something you're looking for

>>8038139

don't reddit children

I guess.

Lemony Snicket is great you bum

more like banany snicket

>>8037903
I heard war and peace is alright but you're probably better off just watching the tv series

>>8037912

what a shite rec, who the fuck are you.

There's countless biographies on literally every side. Man you shithead.

Fuck guys like you.


Here's a few autobiographies of soldiers who served in the war, all good, they're all different nationalities and perspectives, some are superior naturally.


http://www.amazon.com/Legions-Napoleon-Memoirs-Officer-1808-1813/dp/1853673803

http://www.amazon.com/Notebooks-Captain-Coignet-1799-1816-Greenhill/dp/1853673137

http://www.napoleon-series.org/reviews/memoirs/c_Adye.html

http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Glory-Napoleon-His-Guard/dp/1853672645/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51H57H8YJ2L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR109%2C160_&refRID=1EYT10ZC9CEWSS45WN0R

http://www.amazon.com/To-Befriend-Emperor-Balcombes-Napoleon/dp/1905043031

http://www.amazon.com/Defeat-Napoleons-Russian-Campaign-Classics/dp/1590172825/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=41yLm%2BKOr0L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR102%2C160_&refRID=19N63X65TBJHVPGWCDVA

http://www.amazon.com/Sergeant-Bourgogne-Napoleons-Imperial-campaign/dp/1846771072/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=


For military specifics this is the superior edition

http://www.amazon.com/The-Campaigns-Napoleon-David-Chandler/dp/0025236601

Also, the biography everyones reading lately is by Andrew Roberts, its pretty good.

http://www.amazon.com/Napoleon-Life-Andrew-Roberts/dp/0143127853/ref=pd_sim_14_8?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Iu4lV18gL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=159RHCX8XY4ZAZN1TKSJ

>>8038025
In regards to biography I'd add Patrice Gueniffey's "Bonaparte". Volume 1 is out and it's ~1000 pages, it's Napoleon's early life until he becomes consul in 1802. I think I read there's going to be at least 2 more volumes.

I heard the TV series Roberts did on Napoleon wasn't all that good. However the debate I watched between him and another titled "Napoleon: The Great?" or something like that he did very well, can't remember the word for it but the guy who's supposed to control the debate was a complete idiot and biased as hell but Roberts still held his ground very well.

>Non Fiction > Fiction

yeah if you enjoy snoozing

>>8037899
>Use your brain and form your own opinion.

I'll start by disregarding your opinion.

>get book on film theory
>frame freezes, a record scratches, and the camera zooms in on my face

I hate the fucking world, too many god damn fuckers in it.
Too many thoughts about societies all wrapped up together in this place called AMERICA.
Everyone has their own god damn opinions on every damn thing and you may be saying "well what makes you so different?".
Because I have something only me and V have, SELF AWARENESS, Call it exortenstiolism or whatever the fuck you want.
We know what we are to this world and what everyone else is.
We learn more than what caused the civil war and how to simplify quadratics in school.
We have been watching you people. we know what you think and how you act, all talk and no actions.
People who are said to be brave or couragous are usually just STUPID then they say later that they did it on purpose cause they are brave when they did it on fucking accident.
GOD everything is so corrupt and so filled with little opinions and points of view and peoples' own little agendas and schedules.
This isn't a world any more, its H.O.E. and no one knows it.
Self awareness is a wonderful thing.

Is the song name wrong on purpose in this meme?
It's called Fortunate Son.

>>8037281
>book about a cuck

no wonder /lit/ loves it

>>8037316
by 'big pharma'

>>8037281

/pol/ is impressed with delillo's obfuscatory, pseudo-intellectual bullshit... not surprising.

>>8037316

We hate it.