/lit/ - Literature

he CUTE

>>18683532
this talentless chink is just a victim of my repressed homolust

>>18683532
Only waldungfags care. He's a retard from Australia who thinks he can write.

>>18683532
he has a pudgy baby face. looks like an actual infant.

>>18683532
He’s a YouTuber that people here started shitting on after he self published his own book.

>>18683532
So all it takes to gain some proeminence is not looking literally deformed and take a bunch of heavily staged photos for social media? Is it that easy? Fuck, I'm gonna try that.

>>18683535
I think his neonatal features make people feel protective of him

>>18683532
A nobody.

Thank God I found the Waldun thread.

He is the object of /lit/‘s authorial lust

why cant i just cream his bussy and cuddle him afterwards :(

The Learned Disguise is not as bad as people say it is

> t. actually read LD

>>18683532
He is a booktuber or something. Dunno, I watched some random video of him about note taking and it wasn't bad. It seems that it is mostly about coomers, considering what anons are posting until now.

>>18684982
He hasn't posted a book review in, 9 months? Now he's mostly a writetuber

>>18684997
I don't know, I don't really watch his channel. I remember checking it out a long time ago when anons were shilling it and I was somewhat very curious about how people took notes and started checking out every single youtube channel I came across. Even kat has a video on that.

>>18685012
That figures. Youtubers are expected to release videos on a fixed schedule, usually weekly, and that's not enough time to read a book thoroughly enough to have anything meaningful to say about it and make a yt video about it. They have to pad out their schedule with filler videos, and there's finite number of vaguely literature-related topics out there.

>>18685073
Hm makes sense why most are so bad at it.

>>18684974
I'm giving serious thought to making a Youtube review of Learned Disguise. It's like an an open psychological reading of how RC sees himself and how he wishes to be seen

eop2dbros...

>>18683532
the face and soul of the new renaissance

>>18685112
Do it the only other review is the one by that faggots kyke who does not go nearly deep enough into how embarrassing it is

>>18685112
There are Waldun scholar anons. They are writing their stuff on it.

>>18683710
U should really thank Him

>>18683532
He is the physical manifestation of this board.
All our cringe, all our ambition, all our pretentiousness, all our fear that we aren't actually good enough to make it, all condensed into a single human form and brought to life.
So that's why we both love and hate him.

>>18685431
I hope I can get in contact with them and they can help me out.

Here's a list of the things I want to go over in the Learned Disguise review
> overview of Dark Academia
> plot summary of Learned Disguise
> inspiration for LD, on the official material, it says it's inspired by Faust, but both from a literary standpoint and from the now deleted LD announcement video, it's inspired by Sorrows of Young Werther
> go over the common criticisms of LD, just to get them out of the way
> characters of LD and how they're stand-ins for the people in Robin's life

Arthur is Robin Wu, but white, he plays the same Mozart pieces as Robin, gets pushback for leaving stem for the humanities, like Robin did from his father (RC talks about his father's disappointment in a Let's Play with another Youtuber), speaks Chinese like Robin alleged does, likes all the same authors that Robin does, wants to be a writer just like Robin does

Mr. Morton, generic old lit teacher

Felix, stand-in for Robin's high school friend who supported him through the writing of the novel, RC talks about him during the Learned Disguise announcement video and the Let's Play

Gretel, ??? I guess the novel needed a girl

Veda, stand-in for his crush, possibly Indian?

Timur, I find this character the most fascinating. This is the only character who ISN'T a stand-in from someone in Robin Wu's real life, I believe anyway. Timur, or Tim as he goes by, is the servant to the group, always calls everyone Sir, very submissive and takes on the opinions of everyone, he's so poor that he can only afford one book, is so thankful to Arthur for opening his eyes to the literature that Arthur likes. At the end of the book, Arthur has finished his novel, and has allowed his protege Tim to use his beloved typewriter so Tim can create his own literature. Now Learned Disguise was written in 2019, and at the time, this was not interesting in of itself. But then ... comes 2021, and Robin meets Jay

What is Jay's relationship with Robin?
> on social media, Jay constant talks about how amazing and smart and literary Robin is
> Jay is poor
> Robin is possibly financially supporting Jay so Jay can create the great literature that he is capable of
> Jay takes on the same literary opinions as Robin
> Robin allows Jay to use his beloved typewriter

So Jay is Timur 2.0

pic is the ending of Learned Disguise, where Arthur talks about his future relationship with Tim

>R. C. Waldun
Rice Cock Waldun

>>18687184
Never read it, but he has a discord or something.

>>18687184
autism alert

>>18687203
he used to have a discord, but he disbanded it after Cooper leaked a lot of the conversations

They have a hate boner for him, nothing more nothing less.

>>18687199
Actually it's Rittre Cock Waldun, get it right you fucking bigot.

>>18687229
He's the epitome of a pseud
>retarded aesthetic
>typewriter
>l'academie (doesnt speak French)

You cant make this up.

>>18687237
he's made several videos on language learning, although he has never recorded himself speaking a foreign language besides English

pic: French language error in his book, it's supposed to be jaRdin des plantes

>>18687263
That is probably a typo.

>>18687274
100% correct, especially as the book is full of typos and he does get jardin right later in the book. Just as he knows that How are you in German isn't "Wie ghets" and the author of Frankenstein isn't Shelly. This will go under common criticisms section, it's one of the first things that people bring up but I don't think it's that important, relatively speaking

>>18687184
>Whilst in front of me COMMA a new beginning COMMA was afoot PERIOD
>THE END
haha that's terrible

>>18687226
Why did Cooper betray Waldun? Also, has Cooper ever talked about his actual character? Also, Cooper is fucking bitch faggot. Rice Cuck needs to learn to never trust an Anglo, does he not know anything about the CCP.

>>18685112
Agreed. There's something very interesting about unskilled earnest attempts at art that always reveal quite a bit about the artist.

>>18683532
This board is filled mostly with people in the age bracket of ~20 years of age, which are known as zoomers.
Zoomers have a need to deify e-celebrities, and are at an age of sexual discovery in their lives. First they went through a cycle of deifying e-girls, now e-boys. The next one will be an e-transgirl, or maybe they already found one.

In either case, just observe this as an oddity and move along. Nothing to waste your time over.

>>18687495
I think Cooper knows/knew RC in real life because he said that they met when he was talking to a friend about a book on Melbourne University's campus, RC overheard him, and pointed to him and said, "You! You have IT!" and made Cooper his muse, confidant, and protege. RC gave him an expensive camera to start his photographing career. When they hung out, Cooper said that RC would often talk with him to get ideas for writing and ask him to reassure him that he was a good writer and he was doing the right thing

>>18687226
>>18687495
>>18688605
Who tf is Cooper?

>>18688625
Cooper leaked screenshots of the original Waldun discord and got kicked out of the group. Some people say he was jealous that RC chose Jay and Jaiden to be his best friends, but others say that he couldn't morally encourage RC to do what he had been doing
>>/lit/thread/S18537773#p18540042
>>/lit/thread/S18496149#p18501205
>>/lit/thread/S18496149#p18498452

Here are Cooper's leaks
>>/lit/thread/S18146522#p18148716
>>/lit/thread/S18146522#p18148763
>>/lit/thread/S18146522#p18148800

>>18688605
Dear god. The namefagging on this board is intense. I feel ultimately he did the right thing, all things pertaining to the lolcow must be leaked. The laughs are worth the consequences.

>>18683532
I don't hate him. I think he's a meme because he lacks self-awareness and has never given a unique take on anything. He's like the human equivalent of a "Live, Laugh, Love" sign. He has had an incredibly easy life and his motivation/optimism hasn't been tested by reality as most people experience it. That sounds pretentious, but I mean it in the sense that he has always had so many materialist things going for him and yet still LARPs about having empathy with "the human experience." His vanity and the pretense of him spouting canned wisdom makes you want to show him what getting punched in the face and then kicked when you're on the ground feels like.

The main character of Learned Disguise, like RC Waldun himself, is interested in the idea of being a polymath or a Renaissance man, like Da Vinci. A lot of the things that LD's Arthur talks about are also the subjects of youtube videos that RC made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVAs3aJHBmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clZ9aDCLKeE

>>18687304

There are 2 things that I am genuinely curious about, maybe some of you can help me out.

The first is the term "proses". I've never seen the plural form of prose used in the stuff I've read, and I want to know where he learned to use that term. This isn't a typo like Van Gough or Mary Shelly because he uses proses throughout the book

>>18689410
the second thing is this sentence structure
> normal sentence [noun] [adjective]

the two pictures show examples of this
> she also loves proses elegant and sentences proper
> unpacking all those layers elaborate

My instinct is that he is mimicking something he's read. But who or what is he mimicking?

>>18689438
He probably just thinks it sound cool.

>>18689410
>>18689438
You're looking into it too much mate. He's just retarded and can't write.

>>18689486
Waldun's a good guy, I like his style!

>>18689486
And it kind of does at leas in the first sentence.

>>18689489
I really think he's mimicking authors he's read. For example, he uses the term "afoot" a lot in his novel, but not the way Sherlock uses it. He wrote "dinner will be afoot in 20 minutes." They don't teach afoot in esl classes, so what happened here is that he read Arthur Conan Doyle or watched some Sherlock parody videos and decided that he needed to say afoot to sound literary

>>18689341
We all go through struggles anon. The point of life is to make it better for everyone.

>>18683532
I thought that Michael Reeves for solid 3 seconds

>>18683535
>he

>>18683532
Literally cease existence.

>>18689524
That's why I don't hate him. (However, I completely and fully understand those who do).

>>18690833
>those who do
the motivation toward doing so*

>>18689524
He has made life better for nobody. Prove to me youre not nobody.

>>18683532
He makes cringe literature, has a cringe literary aesthetic, and is a cute fuccboi e-celeb.

>>18690856
He introduced me to writing again by the hyper-romanticization of it and allowed me to rediscover it again after losing the drive to do it in adolescence. Dark academia, as faggy as it is, inspired me to read again, and now I've hit around 40 books for this and last year, after 0 from 15-19. He's done good, but in a total quixotic way. He's an inspiring oaf.

>t. a certain namefagger

>>18690937
i also forgot to add that now i've realized how cringe dark academia is but it's an ok starting point to convert normies into this niche shit

>>18683559
but I am deformed (as in I am fat, have a skin condition, and a goofy face)
what now?

>>18690946
Can you explain how? Wouldn't simply picking up a book that interests you be enough of a reason for any normie to read? How did it inspire you, more specifics if that's alright. This isn't a shitpost or flame, i'm genuinely interested and would like to know more.

>>18691342
Not that guy, but I bet it's something like you try something only because you think it'll make you look better to your peers, but it turns out you unironically like it. Like maybe I'd try yoga only to meet hot fit girls but after a few classes, I find out that I actually like yoga. I actually did this irl, doing yoga, but it's turns out I don't like it at all.

>>18691342
because of the romantic nature of self-discovery through high culture is appealing to zoomers like me looking for an identity. i was attached to books at a young age so it felt nostalgic in a way to get back into it, and the fantasy of being a "dark academic" seemed cool.

>>18691364
I can get behind that.
>>18691375
Thank you. I might delve into it a little more and see if maybe the above might happen

>>18691388
true but the downside is now i like to dress like a pretentious faggot

>>18683532
These threads are approximately equally boring as their subject.

>>18689438
He glorifies old writers, and this is an old-fashioned way of writing in English. But today it just comes across as obsolete

>>18683532

He is to book writing what Rupi is to modern poetry.

>>18691425
As oppsed to dressing like a 15 yo way into your 30s? You'll be fine. I still have to meet a girl who doesn't like guys dressing formally

He's v cringe but kinda cute n based

>>18692263
What's with all the new tripfags?

>>18683532
Cringe

>>18683557
Would have been more impressive had he self published someone else’s book.

>>18692652
Isn't that what he's doing now, as he's set up his own publishing house and is planning on publishing Jay and Jayden's respective books?

He’s rp’d on the jq

>>18687184
>>18685112
I really want to see such a review, good luck anon.
That about Jay is really fucking creepy.
>>18687184
yeah the fucker literally doesn't know basic punctuation, fucking baffling. Does this nigger proofread?
>That moment, I knew one thing for sure, that I must, help out this young man
Want some more sentence for your punctuation? Christ