/lit/ - Literature

The Sandersonite CRETINS have come out of the woodwork to defend their indulgent drivel. I don't care about the CRABS or the PLANTS or your DUMB MAP when your characters have no spark of humanity and only exist so they can FLY AROUND AND FIGHT. Authors worthy of the name can draw real human tragedy from just 20 pages of two people talking in a room; the modern fantasy "author" can't provide a glimpse of humanity from 1000 PAGES of the most APOCALYPTIC CLASH of GOOD AND EVIL. I recently attempted to get through book one of Sanderson's "epic" Stormlight saga, and was FLOORED when he had to represent how characters feel by MAGICAL EMOTION FAIRIES because he was UNABLE to convey it through BELIEVABLE DIALOGUE. THIS IS THE MAN WHO HAS THE MOST POPULAR LECTURE ON WRITING ON YOUTUBE. It is no wonder that today's young fantasy writers think CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT is synonymous with "LEVELING UP". World-building represents the D&Dification of the Fantasy genre. The focus foremost on setting rather than character, prose, plot, or theme, can only be explained by the influx of AUTISTIC sons of 35 year old mothers who cannot understand or conceptualize human emotions or relations, and can't write for shit. BRANDON SANDERSON has destroyed an entire generation of writers, along with VIDEO GAMES, ANIME and AUTISM. It should be no surprise that the current trend in the genre are so-called "LitRPGs"--a derivative of ISEKAI, D&D, and VIDEO GAMES, because these stunted shut-ins have no exposure to the world beyond the mediated glow of their computer screens and the musky back rooms of tabletop gaming centers. MAGIC SYSTEMS are the product of STEM AUTISM and are completely irrelevant to anything that makes a story worth reading. The entire genre has become one big MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAM. The only solace is that fantasy is falling into such disrepute that it can safely be consigned to the same bin as YA fiction and romance slop.

>>22803123
Anything written by Gene Wolfe. More schizo than science though.

>>22544825
Why yes, my books do have the best titles, how did you know? Did The Fifth Head of Cerberus or The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories clue you in?

>>22178709
It's fun to have these threads ever so often
Make another a few months from now, maube by then others will have read it and can join the discussion
>he smiles because you dont understand but he knows you are trying to

>>21478800
I'm not reading any self pub.

>>21350075
You are welcome.

>>20762316
Wolfe

Read Wolfe.
Read Tolkien.
Read Herbert.
Read Bakker.

>>20493392
Another one (non-catholic) bites the one.

>>20482673
based

>>20460862
holy kino, based

>'Ate Cradle
>'Ate Reverend Insanity
>'Ate Xianxia
>'Ate chinkshit
>'Ate wuxia
>'Ate self-publishing
>'Ate webnovels
>'Ate litRPG
>'Ate anime
>'Ate manga
>'Ate progression fantasy
>'Ate Sanderson
>'Ate Moogy
>'Ate trannies
>'Ate the OP

Simple as

>>19533959
I feel like there is a wave of anti-woke all around the world in different instances. We might yet see a revival of so many things.

>Fuck chinkshit
>Fuck cultivation
>Fuck webnovels
>Fuck litRPG
>Fuck anime
>Fuck manga

Simple as

>>19456970
>Of course a lake seems deep when you have never been to the ocean
oh, wow, you've read Borges? Holy cow, Anon

>>19424813
By definition LitRPGs are not good. Have you considered playing video games or watching anime instead? Reading real books might not be for you.

>>18729846
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>>18732420
thanks for the replies, guys. I will post more under the name "The Pluvian" at some later point with some revisions and some excerpts of later sections of the draft. I like the harsh criticism that /sffg/ gives purple prose wannabes like myself and >>18732521
sort of echoes my own feelings. I'll be seeing you guys later.

>>18235910
See
>>18235970

>>18215601
Based.

>>18200087
No, this is the /wsffg/ OP

>>18175521
I haven't read Wolfe yet. But he is on my reading list.