/lit/ - Literature

>>22562972
A lot of civilian writers even of literary fiction or poems like to make their war fiction extra "grim and gory" to match something terrible they can't fathom but secretly yearn for in their boring lives.
Some of the grimmest most depressive modernist writers post-WWI were civies.
Then when I see actual veterans they refuse to write gore scenes in detail and try to focus on the hope because they want to leave the experiences behind for good
Compare Remarque's "Three Comrade" to T.S Elliot's "Wasteland"; both are grim but Three Comrades has so many moments of joyous friendship and decent heroic people trying to find love while Wasteland seems listless and bleak
Yet it was Remarque who was the actual WWI veteran
Same with Tolkien and the grimdark fantasy writers that came rolling after
I wish there was a paper on this topic

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>>21835719
What up with writers who dislike Tolkien having a scat/fart fetish? It's too much of a coincidence that I keep seeing this bullshit.

>>21794054
>Bear
Oh boy; I can't believe it exists to this day. Made by a mental patient on commission from an Aboriginal chieftain, its kind of a myth

>>21782775
This is one of my favourite books from when I was a kid unironically the first piece of classic /lit/ I read and I was so sad. But I do recommend you read it.

>>21777633
I know she had a brother who was an artist and lost to mental illness so its likely she had a soft spot for the guy in OP

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>>21754912
To build on it everyone dumb enough to actually watch it is cheering for the evil White guy in Velma because the brown people are constantly violent towards them, and it makes him seem sympathetic.
I think Tolkien talked about feeling like good fiction can never try to force a reader to feel a certain way, and I agree. The more an author wants me to hate a character, the more I tend to get uncomfortable and want to hear his side of the story
The era of woke will produce hundreds of White Shylocks

>>21752862
It is a psyop. The professors in my humanities courses that young women wanting to fuck were typically saying shit like this (the professors themselves were long-nose) and the young women copy them to seem enlightened.
To make you feel better, average young woman either only reads romance and average nerdy woman doesn't care about what other girls think of her. They've often already been bullied to the extent that they are numb

>>21748561
I'm sorry bro. I guess the other thing that you need to ensure is to teach your kids self-defense. The conformity police also went after my sister with Assbergers in till my older black belt brother kicked their arses.
I wish someone like that was there for you too, everyone deserves that. But Idk if its worthwhile being well-inserted nowadays; I've been so very disillusioned with most people, and I am glad I am not like them.
I hope it gets better for you