/lit/ - Literature

>>23186966
>>23187741
>>23187749
That's pretty neat, if you view Blood Meridian as a theory on the evolution and taxonomy of evil in the same way that the Origin of Species was a theory on the evolution and taxonomy of life. Goes hand in hand with the epigraph mentioning the ancient evidence of scalping.

>>21858389
It's two things I think
The first is that - improbable but true - heterosexual women are sexually attracted to men and find them arousing. Gay porn has the highest density of men, so the highest density of arousal. After all, why settle for one Chad in your smut when you can have two? It's the same thing as men watching lesbian porn basically.
The second part I believe is more subtle and relies more on what romance as a genre offers. 99% of the written smut market is by women for women, because erotic fiction seems to scratch some specific itch women have in their erotic experience that men seem to lack. Smut fiction compared to visual porn is much more suited to present a psychology and inner experience of sex and romance (albeit obviously a reductive 'fuck me harder Chad-sama' one most of the time), which women are really attracted too. Here again the gay part comes in on providing the inner erotic experience of not just one but two (or more) twinks getting it on, which is strictly speaking going to be better than one.
I think one smaller thing might be that some women seem uncomfortable with female characters going through dangerous/abnormal romantic or sexual situations (e.g. having romantic feelings for an abuser), because they have the usual reader reflex of 'wow she's literally me' and find it somewhat uncomfortable. If it's a cute boypussy getting pounded by some grim male abuser there is more psychological distance, so less discomfort about whatever messed up stuff they're reading.

>>21608023
I think this qualifies for extremely low quality post and deserves to be reported. On top of that you are a tripnigger and your reputation is forever ruined. Kill yourself unironically

>>19687017
Let's

If you have never made money from traditionally published fiction, you need to STFU and be humble ITT.

>>12428673
>I identified with Hal deeply
Yes :(

>>11936684
ok... I'll read it.
this is the 1st PKD book I've ever read. so I'm not that much into him.

>>11833333
>tfw I get quints responding to my favorite album of all time