/lit/ - Literature

my diary, tbh

>>7083989
So true.

>implying it hasn't been done a million times before except without computers

>>7083989
About a man who finds God and the meaning of life. After a while he realizes he's God and life doesn't make any sense for him anymore.

This guy wants to become a saint so he starts performing 'miracles', bribing bishops, faking his death, etc.

The irony of course that no saint sets out to become a saint, and he's a shitty person.

>>7084114
why does he want to became saint?

>>7083989
Pynchon already did it in V. with the Whole Sick Crew, which is kind of 60's /lit/

>>7083989
Is it OK if I save that Pepe?

>>7084136
No, he's mine.

>>7084136
of course anon, here have some more rare pepe

>>7084134
cool, I need to read Pynchon already

>>7083989
>Be writing screenplay
>Writing is my life calling, i finally discovered
>Get horrifically depressed when i write because it's all pointless in the great scheme of things and i cannot stop death
FUCK YOU 144 IQ, FUCK YOU

>>7084215
>thinking depression and babbies first nihlism has anything to do with IQ
>implying you're unable to write because of some existential crisis that everybody's already gone through in high school

nice humble-brag by the way

>>7084215
lmao when's prom faggot

>>7083989
Everyone but a stand in for me disappears from the world, but everything goes on exactly the same including getting messages from friends and family on his phone and computer. He still sees cars in the distance and hears the voices of neighbors, and all signs point toward him just being totally shut out of but supported by society. He lives a life composed totally of leisure time and pursues varying courses of self improvement through mental and physical means. His perception of the world becomes more and more warped as his interaction with people is entirely through posts on the internet, and towards the climax he cuts himself off totally and tries to live a totally self-sufficient life. This fails and he returns home.

I don't know what his final action should be though, and maybe it should just end with him sitting at home ignored but taken care of.

>>7084283
thanks fam

>>7083989
>searching for "meaning"

you don't know this board son

>>7084215
>he actually got his iq tested

>>7084294
Life already feels like that to me, same for you I assume?

>>7083989
It's a quasi-stream-of-consciousness encyclopaedic text with no overarching plot or higher meaning of any sort. There are a number of different , ranging from completely banal accounts of banal people doing banal shit to pastiches of various styles and genres,earnest autobiographical passages, outright plagiarism, inchoate rants, short theatrical pieces, fictitious encyclopaedia articles, speculative journalism ungrammatical internet comments etc.

My intent is not literary, but overtly anti-literary. Chief influences: wikipedia, weed, old YA novels from my local library

>>7084347
sounds awful

might as well some adventure time fanfiction fam

>>7084340
It was a mindset I had, but I've immersed myself in working toward my goals. I want to end it with the protagonist deciding that he needs to reenter society despite being shut out and stop focusing on changing himself. I want to present it as being more of a struggle created entirely by the protagonist who had some belief about being above interacting with a society he sees as being flawed, and according to him beyond fixing.

>>7084362
>might as well some adventure time fanfiction fam

I was planning on including some fanfiction there too, thnx for the reminder. Like I Literature is over Culture is dead it's all just information now. I am trying to create a text that reflects that. there is no longer a thing like good books and bad books, either

>>7084391
i hope you choke on your pomo kool aid.

>>7084362
Finn pulled the Remington slowly from the cloak of his trenchcoat.

Even pressed against his body for the last half-hour, the metal was cold and heavy in his hands. Pregnant with destruction. He could tear apart the structure of anything before him with the simple contraction of musculature in one finger. A pulse of intention, a command that flowed down from his motor cortex, through the spine and out into the periphery. Intention could become reality in less than a second. All he had to do was will it to be so.

"Something something, quirky and whimsical," said Jake. He couldn't listen to his lies anymore. Ever since donning the Glasses of Nerdicon in Season 2, Episode 15, life had become a shade of what it once was. He had seen everything, and it meant nothing. A senseless spark that emerged from darkness and would return just as quickly as it had arrived. All was for naught.

Jake had walked ahead, a few feet up a merry path made of chocolate and ice-cream. But he had stopped abruptly, in a strange, menacing way.

"I've been able to hear your thoughts Finn. I always have. I've known everything. These last few months have rested heavy on your shoulders. Nihilism has rotted your soul inside-out. But you are a fool."

"How?" Finn asked the question despite feeling suffocated by a mental miasma of shock and hope.

Jake's lips curled slowly into a smile, and then widely into a toothy grin. "The Munchausen Trilemma, you big dummy!"


"...Also, you'd never be able to kill me with that shotgun, I'm magic, innit."

>>7083989
>tfw you realize /lit/ is all about the search for meaning of life by depressed 20-somethings

I think /lit/ is more about the search for identity and for self-improvement. I think insecurity is probably a bigger issue than depression.

>>7084310
>he didn't take two minutes to look up those charts that correlate SAT scores to IQ
>he has no curiosity whatsoever
Anyone who went to college has a loose idea what their IQ was junior year of high school

Supernatural murder mystery.

Main character never utters a single line of dialogue as he was cursed by an angry god nine years before the story and has been trapped as a wolf ever since.

The murderer is the diabetic old lady who supplies the apothecary with herbs. It turns out she's been conspiring with demons so she can murder the god bound up in the old hemlock tree out in the cemetery because she wants power.

>>7084436
Sometimes you get them done anyway. I had my IQ done as a part of a round of fairly intensive psychiatric testing while I was in the ward. I happen to know that my verbal IQ is 140, and my general IQ is 125, but it's useless knowledge.

>>7084435
>I think insecurity is probably a bigger issue than depression.
this

Ok /lit/ post 'em

My novel is centered around a college teacher and a college student who struggle with the real fact that everyone (including them) lives in their own little world and just makes shit up about what happens to them irrespective of what objective reality is. As an example, the teacher is a lesbian and her partner gets pregnant and believes 100% that it is the teacher's child (which is hard for the teacher to believe). The student gets involved in a student anarchist organization opposing the for-profit corporation that is slowly absorbing the college and distorting the education to serve their own means, but struggles with the need to use violence to effect change.

It's all written in a subdued magical realism style (e.g. the teacher really is the "father")

>>7084486
lets not turn this into a horoscope thread.

>>7084492
stealing :^)

>>7084495
>not enjoying a light bit of ego stroking

>>7084435
insecurity is a great deal of the board psychology, but why the constant babble about analytics, Christianity, quantum fluctuations etc.
I don't think it has to do with one's identity and it amounts great deal of board posting.

>>7084486
i remember being 15 :^)

>>7084495
Why are your humors so unbalanced, bro?

>>7083989
It connects the dots between Gravity's Rainbow and Evangelion. Shit's gonna be huge.

>>7084498
good, then I can just steal it back when it's done.

>>7084215
iq will literally have nothing to do with writing ability and even less to do with your ability to grasp any form of existentialism. most smart people are fucking idiots, good at math but shit at everything else

>>7084492
it sounds pretty good. written any of it so far? i'd love to see an extract

>>7084534
How is evangelion popular?

"Ok, let's assign this talented 14 year, that may be our only hope, a hot, childish woman to put him in his place. It's not like we are the military and should assign him a drill sergeant or something."

"Oh yes, he is so gonna obey us now. What a TOOL. Trying to listen to authority in the face of alien things. Hahahahaha"

"It's not like he needs discipline after not having a father figure"

"derp"

That summed up what I watched. 2 nukes weren't enough, tbh.

>>7084480
>tfw 150+ by all measures including legit IQ testing from my school
Feels weird because my parents are both smart but were hindered by their parents not raising them to their full potential. Somehow they figured out how to get my sister and I to play life on God Mode (inb4 why are you on 4chan. It's a trap, help). For the most part I just feel pressure to do something with my life because I don't have any excuse not to.

>>7084570
Holy shit, I googled 2 nukes weren't enough and a state representative said that about anime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/27/nick-levasseur-apology-an_n_516058.html

I fucking love this country.

>>7084570
what disturbs me the most is the constant presence of muh waifu connotations through every fucking single anime I tried to watch. I turned off evangelion within like 5 minutes. Fucking horny weaboos.

>>7084570
It's pretty silly. My story doesn't directly address Eva nearly as much as GR, to the point where you could read it and really not get that I was writing in little jokes to myself about Eva happening like twenty years after the end of the novel's timeline.

I don't remember /lit/ being this shitty around this time last year. Is it all over?

>>7084566
nothing yet that isn't total shite, I'm only churning out as much first draft material as I can right now

glad to hear the idea is appealing to someone though

>>7084627
fuck off

>>7084492
yeah, this sounds interesting

>>7084073
So Nietzsche's autobiography?

>>7084302
>Stirner
>communism

Epic spooks dude

>>7083989
What video is this pepe based on again? I've seen it but I can't remember who's in it.

>>7084929
seems to me like a parody on 70s talk shows, is it based on one in particular?

The second coming, and how the child born as God experiences the world and the conflicts of its people

>>7084943
Yeah, it's something to do with analytical philosophy, the guy on the left is some sad guy with glasses and the one on the right looks exactly like my grandma.

>>7084906
its a brand of communism that admits its a bunch of spooks but at the same time it is what benefits the individual the most and allows him the least alienation

>>7084951
Wait, nevermind, this pepe was reminding me of another pepe based on what I was talking about, the OP is from twin peaks.

>>7084951
found it, its from a 90s show called Twin Peaks. it appears in the final episode

>>7084975
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>>7084951
>>7084943
>>7084929


>plebs that havent seen twin peaks

>>7084929
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>>7084975
are you motherfuckers kidding me?

>>7084980
>>7084987
is it good? im not into crime dramas

>>7084994
I watched the first couple of episodes but thought it was just sort of boring.

>>7085000
>>7084994
>these are the people you share this board with

>>7084994
Yes, it's good, specially the first season.

Now, please explain to me how the fuck have you been raised up to 18 years without never seeing Twin Peaks be mentioned or refereced or anything, because you can only call it a crime drama if you've only read a very small synopsis of the first episode or some shit like that.

>>7085000
i'm picturing your smug grin as these people's responses flood in and it makes me smugly grin

>>7085010
Just because you've seen it referenced doesn't mean you know what it is.

>>7085012
Not even baiting, just genuinely wasn't interested.

>>7084391
>>7084347
So it's basically Infinite Jest. Right

Need some advice, lit.

I'm writing a novel as part of my independent study, and met with my advisor last week. I'm male and she's female.

We discussed my ideas for the novels structure - it would take place from the perspectives of four different men at different stages of their lives. I wanted to eliminate as many differences as possible so that I could concentrate on the one distinguishing factor: their families and how they change them.

My professor advises using at least one female character, but that sort of fucks with the above state idea. Then again, I might just be a stupid shitlord.

So, outside opinions: do I stand my ground or take her advice?

Thanks in advance, everyone.

>>7085129
Don't follow her advice, it's your book after all.

>>7084590
The creator of Eva hates waifu culture, particularly it's focus on his show and it's characters. That's why in the End of Evangelion, Shinji does something disgusting. It's meant to shock the viewers, and make them feel a little shameful about sexualizing cartoon characters

>>7085129
well there's going to be female characters in the family, so try and not be a neckbeard and write them well.

>>7085129

>>7085159
this. Male perspective on the females is arguably an important method of comparing the characters

>>7085159
>>7085176
I should clarify: obviously there are going to be female characters. What I meant was that she wants me to use female narrators.

I'm not opposed to it, but am straddling the line between my ideas and hers.

>>7085365
Write with the male narrators. If female narration would change what you had in mind for the story then don't do it just because someone told you to.
Aiming to eliminate as many differences as possible but then making one narrator female adds a needless difference

>I turn 30 next month

>>7083989

It's about how we don't get to choose who we are. Our genes choose for us. Our circumstances choose for us. From that point of view, it's very valid to hate ones self. In a weird kind of way, you aren't yourself. It's a miserable novel full of people who hate themselves, and wrestle with the idea that they were born to suffer. It's called Dysphoria, and yes it has a plot.

Don't know whether to write in the first or third person. Is there a general rule when deciding or is it a purely aesthetic choice?

I feel as though first might be easier but third may suit the narrative better.

>>7085432
Does your name start with a K?

>>7084182
How will you explain your folder of rare pepe to your children?

>>7083989
A girl who acts as a mediator between mankind and its many gods.

It's going to be like the literary equivalent of Touhou. I'm going to make so much money off of lonely nerds.

>>7084467
Metal

>>7085156
Something that irks me about Anno is that he tries to critiscise jacking off to cartoons, yet he's clearly into it as well. Remember Gunbuster? How much money do you think he's made off of Asuka body pillows?

>>7085527

No. Is this novel similar to someone else's work? Who?

>>7085633
>A girl
dropped

>>7084953
Spooky

>>7085694
Are you GAY son?

>>7085689
>Dysphoria
A friend of mine had a similar idea, his name is Kris, and the title last I heard was Dystrophy. I was wondering if you were him and had changed the name.

>>7085010
>Now, please explain to me how the fuck have you been raised up to 18 years without never seeing Twin Peaks be mentioned or refereced or anything

I mostly just read books.. I honestly haven't watched a tv series since like 2004 and naturally when the references come up here I just skip over them without wondering what they mean.

>>7085712
faggot

>>7084929
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>>7085000

You guys are either trolling or underage af.

I'm writing about Mary finding out that her pious husband Joseph is impotent and she has an affair with Zechariah (John the Baptist's rabbi father) that results in the pregnancy of Jesus. She makes up the "revelation" dream and Joseph believes her because she is so virtuous and he is so pious.

When Jesus is born they tell him that he was born of a virgin but the boy spends a great deal of time with John the Baptist and Zachariah in the Temple. (Thus the story of kid Jesus being in the Temple and talking about his "Father's house" he is really speaking about how Zachariah was essentially the man who raised him and Mary hushes up any chance of rumor about her adultery by bringing up the "God did it" thing again).

Jesus spends that whole "lost period" dealing with his status as a potential demigod or blessed being since he believes he was born of a virgin. By the end of it he decides that he is probably the Son of God and goes out preaching.

Mary is terrified about this because her simple lie is now spiraling out of control but she cannot say anything for risk of both ruining her family's reputation and weakening the already shaky structure of the Temple by showing a rabbi to be an adulterer.

When Jesus is accused the Rabbis, of whom his real father is one, are the ones to condemn him. When he is on the Cross he expects to be raised up to Heaven before death but can't understand why God doesn't do so ("Father, why have you forsaken me?"). He finally despairs and realises that he is just a man after all.

"It is finished."

>>7086143
Twin Peaks has been off the air for 25 years, anon.

>>7083989

writing specifically about clowns. Im trying to make them cool again... if they ever were

>>7084215

you are a faggot

>>7086226
real original

>>7086569
when /lit/fags post as though they believe the left variant I can never decide if they're trolling, projecting, or just unforgivably stupid

>>7086545
>what is pop culture

>>7086558
Have you not read Böll?