/lit/ - Literature

>>16486644
Dude I literally already wrote all this above. At this point, to “for whom,” I’d say: not you.

>>16448354
I used to think like that, and for the most part still do.
The reality is that bloodborne might be the only video game to actually compete with serious western thought. It honestly stretches the medium far past anything that came before it.
Sure, there is the heavy overcast of Lovecraft and the various vicissitudes and aesthetics of the “eldritch”—but so much more. The nietzschean tones, the will-to-knowledge and power, the creation of a true “unique one”/overman, the eternal return—it is all there.
Thomas Muntzer, the iconoclasm of sacred wood-worshipers, the holy night battles, the solder-saints with robes roiled in blood—it is all there.
The decadence, the promise, the fury, the decline, the collapse, the hope, the faith, the love-that-is-hate—it is all there.

Hell of a video game. Would i call it literature? No, but it is something else, something to be reckoned with on its own terms and as a unique human experience unto itself.

>>16433374
For what its worth, anon, your story is immediately compelling. It is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. I make no comment as to the difficulty of actually living through hardship like that, only that at this point, and in the right hands (which i think you have), that is some real and tangible ammo. Not to sound too neoliberal (I work in advertising and PR), but you really do have a “brand” here that puts you a cut above/beyond a lotta people. Not that you should, or even want to, but you could leverage your history at this point into some really interesting positions, etc. You could uniquely capitlize on all of it.

Would love to discuss and connect more; I’ll send you a discord invite when I’m back home. Cool beans, anon.