/lit/ - Literature

i like that his self-publishing vanity press is called ”literary publication”, truly the product of an fresh and original mind

>>18707698
Care to show us any projects YOU have completed, anon?

>>18707646
more like passing gas

>>18707646
I just read his new audio book and it was absolutely exceptional. While there are three totally original stories, even the older tales are reedited for the die-hard Waldunchads.
For example, in my favorite tale, "Men's Handkerchief," the shopkeeper no longer questions RC on the difference between a men's and a woman's handkerchief. Instead, she tells him they only have women's handkerchiefs in stock, thus confirming that yes, there are distinctions between a man and a woman's handkerchief in the year of our Lord 2021 and that RC Waldun is not a self-conscious fool.
I encourage all anons to purchase this modern classic.

>>18707718
jfc it's true
these threads are literally just Jason Bryan threads
what is it about Waldun that you admire so much JB? or do you just want to finger his butthole like you do your son?

>>18707839
Raped your mom

Coming for your boipucci next

Can we get this thread back on track, please?
Let's discuss Waldun's 9 minute epic. That's right. The FU Burger.
In this stunning piece of narrative Waldun and a John Green order at Hungry Jacks under the alias "Frank Underpants." I won't spoil the climax, but lets just say the employee has to call out the initials so the order goes to the right customer.

>>18707895
Any great quotes?

>>18707912
>To me, that specific combination of things – the concrete building and the abominable lobby decor – made me want to throw up. To live in that apartment, I’d have to drive to a bulk department store and get a batch of vomit bags. But, for the record, being a student in the liberal arts, I simply didn’t have money to afford that many vomit bags. I turned to Jay: “Let’s go. This is not worth it.”

>>18707956
I can relate, lobby of a building I lived in 2008, makes me want to vomit

>>18707956
Where is the best place to purchase Waldun merch or books?

>>18707956
I can't quite pin down what is wrong, but there is something very offputting about his prose; maybe if he read it aloud to himself and heard how it sounded and re-wrote it accordingly, it wouldn't be so hard to read

>>18707989
Any particularly egregious samples?

>>18707989
It sounds right if your internal monologue is Australian.

>>18708008
well just in the one that was posted
>To me, that specific combination of things – the concrete building and the abominable lobby decor – made me want to throw up
'to me' and 'made me' are repetitive; also, he uses em-dashes to elaborate on what he means by 'that specific combination of things' but he doesn't elaborate enough to justify using the em-dashes in the first place

>To live in that apartment, I’d have to drive to a bulk department store and get a batch of vomit bags.
This is very clunky; 'bulk department store' and 'batch of vomit bags' need to be re-worded to flow better; also, the image he set forth isn't strong enough to justify this entire passage; if he (humorously) wanted to joke about excessive vomiting because he had to live in a certain kind of apartment, he'd really need to drive home how repulsive he found said apartment, before he dropped the joke

>But, for the record, being a student in the liberal arts, I simply didn’t have money to afford that many vomit bags
This is just abrupt; you're reading along, thinking he's making another point before he violently goes back to the vomit bags he previously mentioned; the joke isn't strong enough to sustain two sentence, this part would be better off in parenthesis. For example

>I found that specific combination—the dull grey concrete mixed with that gaudy lobby decor—absolutely repulsive; My first task upon moving into such a place would be to drive to the nearest department store and buy as many vomit bags as I could get my hands on (being a liberal arts student, however, would severely limit by budget)
or something like that; then again, maybe I'm just being pedantic, idk

>>18707718
Nice build anon

>>18707973
https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/511284150/Passing-Tales
Free trial

>>18708103
Thank you!

>>18708051
>>I found that specific combination—the dull grey concrete mixed with that gaudy lobby decor—absolutely repulsive; My first task upon moving into such a place would be to drive to the nearest department store and buy as many vomit bags as I could get my hands on (being a liberal arts student, however, would severely limit by budget)
Would severely limit my:
>VOMIT budget
>BAG budget
>VOMIT BAG budget
I think an adjective is needed for the joke.

>>18708132
The opportunity presents itself to not use "budget" and instead "...however, I could never afford enough." Honestly I would cut out the inane comment about le poor liberal art student, but if waldun didn't have meme thoughts he would have no thoughts at all.

>>18707833
Thank you for your close reading and scholarship. I've just ordered a copy!

>>18707956
This is actually almost funny but he really needs to edit

>>18708198
Please let us know what you think. Especially the story where he eats raw bacon and gets white girl wasted

>>18708051
wow that was a pretty apt analysis. your version is somehow way more palatable, despite the content still being banal beyond belief.

Daily reminder that these threads are started and spammed by a 46 year old gay man

>>18708051
Jealous faggot

>>18707776
Kek

>>18710270
And that's a good thing

wow, 1.5 years of French! This guy is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQrhqYzdFk

>>18707956
>the concrete building... made me want to throw up
the quote that ended brutalism

>>18710529
Holy based in one year he already sounds like a native

This guy has already written two novels in his second language and now he's mastered a third in the space of a year. I understand why he makes /lit/ seethe.

>>18710589
No one draws more ire than the man who does.

>>18710569
looks like one too

>>18710600
Waldun doesn't look Somalian?

>>18710589
and he learned English with the superior American accent instead of sounding like Crocodile Dundee

The virgin Waldun hater vs. the Chad Waldunchad

Being ruthlessly mocked on lit is a step above what almost any litizen achieves except butterfly. I mean look how hard cumgenius tries to get attention and nobody cares. waldun has something, a true spark

>>18707718
No sorry, my RX-7 is still on jack stands.

>>18710658
what about F Gardner

>>18710668
the marketing was certainly notable

>>18707776
>those digits
checked, and witnessed

>>18707833
>this modern classic.

>>18711014
>muh digits
not even digits
>muh frog image
you just outed yourself as a newfag who does not even understand what digits are beyond your cringe 2016 praise kek and shadily bullshit.

what digits faggot? go back please

Jay's video where he calls Waldun his "sugar daddy" has been deleted. I wonder if Waldun made him do it, or if he did it himself out of shame. But why delete the whole video? Why didn't he just edit that one bit out?

>>18711348
I though the whole "Waldun pays for Jay's life" thing was bullshit, but that is actually quite suspicious

>>18711364
Realistically, no one would do what Jay does for Waldun for free
> allow Waldun to hang out at this apartment until 3 am doing """"writing"""""
> pretend to suddenly like the beatniks
> film and take pictures of Waldun for social media
> hang out with him at cafes every day
> read all the books that Waldun tells him to read
> make social media posts and videos about what good friends you are with Waldun

>>18711017
are you really so stupid that you can't see he's joking?

>>18711348
>>18711364
>>18711428
Who is Jay?

>>18707833
>>18711450
Not that guy, but I don't get the joke. Is there a difference between a man and woman's handkerchief and why did he change his story and how does that show that he's self conscious or not self conscious

>>18711458
Jay the Author

>>/lit/thread/S18600786#p18611638
>>/lit/thread/S18600786#p18613659

>>18711460
people in the thread are only pretending to enjoy Waldun's story. Calling the story a "modern classic" was tongue in cheek

>>18711515
I got that part. What about the handkerchiefs

>>18711528
if you got that part then why are you responding to my comment that was only about that part?
anyway, women's handkerchiefs are smaller than men's so there is a difference.
as for the rest, idk. maybe reading the story for context might help you out.
https://rcwaldun.com/blog/mens-handkerchief

>>18711428
So it's a gay relationship with a paypig aspect?

>>18707646
Is that a real picture that he put out? Revolting

>>18712274
Of course it is

>>18711428
So what do you think Jay gets out of it? Other than YouTube exposure and maybe a few free coffees.

>>18712346
Id love to fuck his face

RC Waldun is bullied so hard on here by pseuds who can't write.

>>18710529
holy based i thought he was a native speaker for a sec

>>18707646
That cover is beyond parody even for him kek

>>18713217
he truly has a pudgy face even for a chinese especially around the lips I don’t know how that part is called he looks a little like a hamster

>>18712835
He gets enough money to not need to get a job. Andrew Yang promised $1000 a month, is that enough to live off of in Australia?

>>18707956
maybe he could afford a pack of brown paper bags if he didn't pay for both his and Jay's rent

>>18713657
kek

>>18710589
Ye, I'm unironically a waldunchad now.

>Robin labels himself ‘a literature student lost in thoughts’ on his YouTube channel that has over 190,000 subscribers and 5 million views.

>But Robin is much more than a literature student. He’s a published author. He’s a student of life that captures mundane moments and turns them into literary treasures that speak to everyone.

>I’ll be forever grateful to Robin for including our late night visit to Hungry Jack’s in Chapter 8 of Passing Tales, entitled “The F.U. Burger”. I won’t say anything more as the story deserves to be listened to in its entirety.
Guess this man's age

>>18713874
>Robin
Don't dead-name him. His name is Waldun

>>18713885
He's Robin to his friends. You're not his friend

>>18713885
I'm so sorry. I never meant any disrespect to Valdun. I naively believed that by posting someone else's words I wouldn't be attacking Valdun myself.
I now realize how wrong I was.
There is nothing I can do to erase the harm I have caused. I will continue to live with this shame until I die, but I promise to learn and do better in the future.
If anyone knows any good Trans charities I can donate to, please let me know. I know a donation isn't nearly enough (nothing ever will be), but I would still like to amend in what little ways I can.

>>18711620
I tried reading this story without bias, as if it had been posted in /wg/ asking for feedback. The main issue is setting description and pacing. The opening line is at odds with the next paragraph. It is unclear whether there is a gift shop in the library, or if we are now in a flashback.

The next scene, where he has a brief discussion with another patron of the library, is clearly described. What is unclear is the author's intention with the scene. Is the "bookshop at the back of library" meant to be social critique? Or this is a common thing in Australia? I can imagine a library selling worn copies of books which aren't commonly checked out, but I've never seen a library which had an actual bookshop. It becomes increasingly bizarre when the author describes his fellow patron as self-obsessed for inviting the author to see his play, but at the same time our narrator apparently expects to be recognized in public for doing book reviews on youtube. If this meant to be a bit of tongue-in-cheek self-deprecation, it fails because the narrator is actually recognized and treats this encounter as commonplace.

We are then shown a misunderstanding with a waiter, which is described as a wit-contest, leading to our narrator's main goal: to find a handkerchief like the one his grandfather owned. Again, this passage suffers for unclear description and directionless word choice. I think I understand now what the author hopes to convey with this story: for his grandfather, the handkerchief was a functional tool which reflected certain aspects of masculinity, which disgusted the narrator in his youth. Now, as an adult, the narrator sees the value of a handkerchief, not just as a functional tool, but also as a signal of masculinity. However, time has changed the concept of gender roles, hence the confusion when he specifically requests a "men's handkerchief" from the female clerk at a gift store which is curiously stationed above a "bookseller", seemingly implying a society which places commerce above knowledge and art.

He "escapes" (directionless word choice again, meant to imply that he had bowed out of an awkward social encounter, but since the encounter with the gift shop clerk described is less awkward than the wit-contest with the waiter from earlier, the reader has no reason to believe that our narrator was "trapped" by social convention in this scene) the narrator then enters another metaphor for the commodification of masculinity: a men's grooming shop. This male clerk does understand what our narrator wants, and brings back an overpriced pack of handkerchiefs. However, there is no commentary on the price, the narrator instead focuses on the fact that it is a 3-pack of handkerchiefs, and makes yet another unclear allusion to socks. The last line, about planning early retirement, doesn't feed back in to the overall metaphor about the commercialization of masculinity. It's just a non-sequitur.

Overall: B- idea, D- execution.

>>18713906
He wants to be called RC WALDUN! YOU ARE NOT IN HIS COMMUNITY. YOU DO NOT GET TO CALL HIM BE HIS DEAD NAME!!!

>>18707646
For a second i thought that read "pissing tales"
It had me confused for a moment, why would he write piss fetish erotica?

>>18710270
Well no one else is going to do it are they?

>>18713571
If you're talking Australian dollars and he's living in Melbourne fuck no, but if it supplements some other income, for example the dole or Ausstudy allowance it might work out.

>>18713921
hmm... yes...

>>18713921
> “Men’s handkerchiefs?” The woman at the gift shop looked at me. “No sorry we’ve only got women’s”

That's supposed to be a comma after "No" and a period after "we've only got women's". Two grammar errors in the vet first paragraph. I don't understand why his written English is like this, especially when his spoken English is actually really good for a foreigner

>>18713969
The next sentences:
>I spent the entire morning at the library, bored out of my mind. After that, I circled around the building and went to a bookshop at the back of the library, and browsed the shelves.
If he circled the building he would be back in front.

>>18713969
As noted in this post >>18707895 he added this section to the story. Obviously slapped on quick.

>>18713996
If he edited it properly it would stick out like a sore thumb
>“Sorry… The kitchen’s closed we only serve coffee.” The waiter said.

>“Coffee’s fine.” I said, “May I take a seat?”

>“Sorry, you’d have to wait here if you want to get your take-away cup…”

>“But I want to dine in.” I said.

>>18713921
> can imagine a library selling worn copies of books which aren't commonly checked out, but I've never seen a library which had an actual bookshop.
My library accepts book donations and then sells them once a month in the conference room. I just don't get the point of the story. It's like reading someone's diary entry

>>18714002
At least Waldun has the excuse of being a Chinese person learning English. F Gardner makes the same dialogue punctuation errors and he's white and a monolingual English speaker

>>18714021
>It's like reading someone's diary entry
It is literally that. Do you know nothing of Waldun?

>>18714044
I was promised diary entries that were transformed into literary treasures

>>18707776
kek

>>18707833
> For example, in my favorite tale, "Men's Handkerchief," the shopkeeper no longer questions RC on the difference between a men's and a woman's handkerchief.
Anyone have a copy of the original text

>>18714087
I think the story on his website is unedited. It's only edited when he revisits it on his audio book collection

>>18707776
based

>>18711620
>I nodded with a smile and he invited me to see his play. More often than not, university plays are oxymoronic without the oxy. Naturally, I didn’t want to go. I forced a smile and walked away.
this is just bizarre behavior. does robin have autism?

>>18714096
Interesting. I will have to pay $6 if I want to hear the new version with Walden and the shop assistant's conversation about handkerchiefs. I like Waldun, but I think I'll pass on this and wait for L'Academie

>>18708051
yeah absolutely agree
and this entire parenthetical
>(being a liberal arts student, however, would severely limit by budget)
is completely fucking irrelevant and pointless, he just wants to bring up the 'poor college student' image. Also specifying going to a bulk department store and talking about the budgetary impact of buying vomit bags completely deflates whatever weak humor there might be in such a basic 'joke' as "this decor makes me want to throw up".
>>18713921
The whole concept is so unbelievably fucking banal
>>18713969
>I don't understand why his written English is like this, especially when his spoken English is actually really good for a foreigne
You need to read to learnt to write, and I find it highly doubtful that he actually reads and absorbs things much.

>>18714105
Waldun confirmed oxycodone addict?

what the hell is wrong with his mouth

>>18711111

>>18714096
>>18714114
The story on the website HAS been edited. Tracking down the original work is akin to finding a first folio and better left to Waldun scholars.

>>18707853
Baste

>>18714021
>I just don't get the point of the story.
The point of the story is pretty trite: symbols of masculinity lose their initial functional meaning and are repackaged as aesthetic commercial products for the next generation. Much like beards were originally grown because shaving was a pain in the ass without safety razors and aerosol creams, so lumberjacks and sailors didn't bother with it after a rock-hard, throbbing day of salty labor, but toiletry companies now forward the concept of growing a beard as a masculine enterprise in and of itself, requiring lots of fancy ointments and specialty grooming tools. This is demonstrated by the difference in reaction between the two clerks: the female doesn't understand what he means by "men's handkerchief" but the male clerk understands immediately. Kind of like when everyone was offended when BIC released a line of pink ballpoint lady pens, no different from a "normal" ballpoint pen aside from the color scheme.

It's difficult to see that because the story has a lot of nonsensical details thrown in, ostensibly to create atmosphere, but more likely to increase the word count. This is especially frustrating because Waldun could have taken those extra words and clarified his metaphor a bit by describing his grandfather's handkerchief and how he feels it differs from a "women's handkerchief."

>>18714291
Have you tried using the wayback machine?

>>18714282
crooked teeth

>>18707646
What’s the relationship between waldun, Jay, and Jayden? In Jays videos they speak of a collaborative writing effort?

I give them props for trying…doubt any of them would get the time of day from a publisher. Getting some guerilla marketing to get their work out there isn’t a bad idea.

>>18714556
Way back machine only caches websites once every 2-3 months, and Waldun changes his stories more often than that. It may not have caught that. I do however, download a lot of Waldun's videos and I have the sugar daddy video on my hard drive
>>18711348

>>18714980
Upload it somewhere and link it for Waldun scholars to study

>>18707646
I live in Melbourne and frequent the same coffee shop as Waldun. AMA.

>>18715199
what’s his usual order? does he actually sit and write in his notebook or is he just on his phone like everybody else?

>>18714971
Is this the Jay that people talk about in these threads? I always thought it was a schizoposter. These guys really give me gay vibes https://youtu.be/9blu9oWOv9I

>>18715199
why haven't you beat him up yet

>>18715236
I'm not the Melbournedag, but I am a Waldun scholar, and I know that English Breakfast is his usual order. He wrote about English Breakfast a lot in his old blog as well as referencing it several times in Learned Disguise

>>18715199

North, south, east, west, or south-east?

>>18715175
The infamous sugar daddy video, it's at 10 seconds. I just uploaded it, so you may not be able to watch it for a few minutes
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lj3XRUDP4tNi09HPBlj53Jf3sHusBszV/view?usp=sharing

The Learned Disguise announcement video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-3OAnl6vFdNEiY_TFv62T5rFNrF5l2xB/view?usp=sharing
pdf of transcript
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tPqDpWCjaZa3nDx0h_rPmY92wJKTUPBA/view?usp=sharing

Here is my Waldun folder. I'll upload more, but my internet is slow. I'll prioritize videos that Waldun has deleted from the internet
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XyFx3dnWOd6nTh0wb4hYTS0RV5OSSLNI

>>18715358
He seems so uncanny valley. Like you put a bunch of gay lit memes into AI and it made this video

>>18713225
he should thank us for the marketing

>>18715236
Quite often he will bring his own drink. Its strange.

>>18715259
Because he would be able to beat me up. I once saw him get out of his chair to walk across the road and defend a woman that was being physically assaulted by a 6ft4 roider.

Do any Waldun yarns contain an element of the life-or-death struggle, real dramatic tension? This nigga is just buying handkerchiefs and hamburgers?

>>18707839
>like you do your son?
why do you keep saying this...

>>18715458
I think he's embellishing things that happen in real life, everyone talks like a chat bot with shitty AI

over the following days, I became the “shower guy” at the gym and it would always go along the lines of:

Receptionist: “Hey! Back at it again?”

Me: “Sure.”

Receptionist: “Did you have a good workout?”

Me: “Just worked out how not to stink like a horse.”

Receptionist: “You haven’t touched any of the equipment?”

Me: “Does that mean you’ll charge me less for my membership?”

>>18715199
>I live in Melbourne and frequent the same coffee shop as Waldun
I can't even imagine how hipsterish this fucking coffee shop is.
>AMA.
Onions latte or chai?

>>18715731
Hot chocolate. Never mocha. Only hot chocolate.

>>18715199
lmao its the one on flinders lane isn't it? i have also seen the gang there.

>>18715788
This one?
https://thefrenchbrasserie.com.au/

Is this the same restaurant at 1:50 of the sugar daddy video?
>>18715358

>>18707646
yes i am a waldun scholar. the first one, in fact. i have a program that sends alerts to my phone as soon as waldun puts out something new.

>>18715864
im in sydney but i might fly to melbourne and wait at this cafe everyday for a chance to make sweet love with waldun

>>18715240
Yes, that is the Jay that people talk about. But I don't get a gay vibe from those two. Jay has a girlfriend, for one. It seems to me that Waldun has more of a hero worship for Jay. Whenever Jay makes a joke or observation, Waldun enthusiastically agrees and then repeats the same ""joke"" or observation that Jay made. For example, look at the video here at 2:20
>>18715864
Jay says it's been fun writing with Waldun and Jayden, but sometimes it's frustrating and he wants to kill Waldun, wow such joke. And then Waldun spends the next 2 minutes making variations of and expanding on the initial """""joke"""""

>>18714971
Jayden seems like the third wheel friend to me

>>18716221
Ok I just checked, it's not 2 minutes, it's just 20 seconds. It just felt like 2 minutes. Same with the Waldun joke about Jay being an Instagram gf who takes pictures of food, and the video ending with "I love you"

>More often than not, university plays are oxymoronic without the oxy.

Jesus Christ the CRINGE

>>18715240
please tell me everyone is simply meming about this fag.
what a faggot

>>18707776
Kek

>>18716354
We're all having a joke but we're also deadly serious.

https://youtu.be/KjFCVxaQeus

KEY WALDUN LORE

>>18716532
lol this fuels the fire of the romance reading.

>>18716532
Around 2 minutes in Jay implies that Waldun moved to live in Melbourne because of Jay, whereas before we had the impression that he had moved just for university. Why would Waldun change where he lives to be nearer to a friend he at that point had basically just met if they are not having consensual sex?

>>18707646
>published by "Literary Publication"
LMAO

>>18716354
Ok im bisexual and have a good gaydar…here’s my serious guesses. I apologize if ai offend anybody’s sensibilities.

Jay - this is one good looking dude. But I think he’s straight. Writing is a pretty homo profession but I see him using it to his advantage to get some pussy.

Jayden - Straight.

Waldun - Like a lot of writers I’m guessing probably bi. Maybe Jay is his muse.//.I don’t know.

I guess I’ll wait for the literary biography to see if I’m right.

>>18716990
Waldun already lived in Melbourne before he met Jay. Still, I always wondered why Waldun said that Melbourne University was his dream university, and why he transferred universities. To be closer to Jay? Did Jay always dream of going to MU? Who the fuck dreams of going to M

What about this Instagram post? Jay says that he met Waldun because of his Youtube channel. He specifically sought out Waldun

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ7ISojl28b/

>>18710589
Yeah, him learning french and really committing to it shows he's really trying even though he's still a hack. Might as well give the guy a break

>>18717820
>>18716990
hm, interesting, he says, "he moved to the city" to be with Jay. Maybe Waldun lived in the suburbs

What was the dialogue at 2:20? I can't understand Jay's Eliza Doolittle accent
> Jay: I showed you all the greater (?) shit, stuff that makes your (?????) curl. Somehow you've moved to the city with me.
> Robin: *laughs* Yeah, I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjFCVxaQeus

>>18717844
ah, confirmed. 9:30, Waldun said that he grew up in the suburbs, never went into any of the dangerous "dark side" places

26:00

he says that he got a sponsorship, that's why he has money, that's why he doesn't have to work for 1 month, and it turned out to be 2 months from the later Instagram posts

>>18717844
I won’t get into specifics because I don’t want to dox him, but as a melb person i can contextualise Robin. He lived in the outer eastern suburbs (typical of asian migrant) which is close enough to the city, but just far enough that you need to commit a bit of time to getting there. Having spent a bit of time in these areas they are soul crushing for anyone with a creative spark. Blocks of land are large, and roads tend to be high speed and wide. It’s not the place you can flaneur, but also not particularly dangerous. Just brutally boring - think those dead mall videos on youtube.

Robin followed the typical studious asian path and went to monash university, which is the other esteemed uni. The difference between monash and melb, and the reason asians migrants favour the former is that their image is based on getting into a 9-5 asap. Monash is study for work, while melbourne is more study to study. I theorise that melbourne forcing students to do cultural subjects for the sake of it, and it’s majestic victorian architecture/ city location, contrasted with monash’s gross brutalist and backwater location to entice robin.

>>18715358
You are doing the Lord's work. Thank you.
>>18718075
It checks out that Waldun never lived in or did anything interesting. All his content (videos, writings, insta posts) are completely ripped off of other internet personalities and movements.

>>18718075
>Having spent a bit of time in these areas they are soul crushing for anyone with a creative spark.
only plebs.
You can be a hikikomori and be creative

>>18718192
worthwhile creative activity (i.e. art) requires a social context

hikkis can only make shitty nightcore music and draw fetish manga. creativity degenerates in isolation and without competition

>>18718075
Can you give some context for these Australian universities? Literally never heard of any schools down under. Is Melbourne Uni the Yale or Harvard of Australia, and Monash is like their MIT or Caltech?

>>18718448
yeah, that’s exactly right. they’re the best unis in the hemisphere but pale in comparison to their northern counterparts.

BREAKING NEWS!!
An update on L'Academie and a new story. Waldunchads get in here!
https://rcwaldun.com/blog/bird-trouble

>Bird Trouble
>Written By R.C. Waldun

>“You know what’s really crazy?” B and I got on the phone after I had read for a few hours. “This bird came into my bookshop once…”

>“Mhm.” My eyes wandered around my apartment and I was half engaged with the story. The bird reminded me that I used to breed zebra finches and those little bastards had a bunch of babies before the daddy bird kicked the bucket. So, I ended up with so many birds that my parents eventually sold them all off.

>“So, it just flew in one day and was trapped in the display window,” B continued, “There was an empty box in the display window, right? The bird hid under there so it looked like it was crushed. Which it wasn’t.”

>“And?” I was tuned in because a bird who pretended to be crushed under a box sounded interesting.

>“I had to close the store and called animal service. They wanted me to buy fruit. FRUIT! To lure it out. I tried everything. I tried a broom, tried a thing that played bird noises on my phone, everything… Then I had no choice but to run out and get a mango, only to find that I didn’t have anything to cut it with!”

>“Mhm!” At this point, I was excited. What could be better than a case of a trapped bird involving a broom, a mango, and idiots at animal service who conjured up such a ridiculous solution?

>“Luckily, my boss had this habit of leaving all his shit around so I found a butter knife under the counter. They had CCTV footage of me cutting up fruit pieces! When that was happening, people lined up at the counter to tell me there was a bird in the window. I was annoyed so I laid out a whole trail of fruit but it didn’t take the bait!”

>“And how did it get out in the end?” I leaned closer to the phone.

>“It just flew out eventually and my boss was literally downstairs the entire time! I told him: ‘hey, there was a bird in the window and it took me two hours to drive it out!’ and all he cared about was that I did all the shelving on time…”

>“It wasn’t like he could do anything about it,” I said, “A bird was trapped in the display window, for word’s sake.”

>“I don’t know? At least he could show me that he appreciated all that work I did? And yeah. It was a bird, for word’s sake.” B sighed.

>>18718996
A true snippet of todays Americana.

>>18718996
wow.... so this is the power of Valdun...
A story that someone else told him. Such imaginative genius from this creative visionary

>>18718996
B's story doesn't check out. First she closes the store, but then there are people lined up at the counter?
Also with lines like
>They wanted me to buy fruit. FRUIT! To lure it out
and
>They had CCTV footage of me cutting up fruit pieces!
I really hope Waldun is plowing this chick because there's no excuse to put up with any of that otherwise. I suspect he is though because she repeats his interjection "for word's sake" at the end, signaling she's into him.
There's so much to unpack in this story. Like how does one learn closer to an object against his ear? Or does telling the reader a story is interesting make the story interesting?
Truly another masterclass by Valdun

>>18718996
>I used to breed zebra finches and those little bastards had a bunch of babies before the daddy bird kicked the bucket. So, I ended up with so many birds that my parents eventually sold them all off.
very interesting! really unique! totally worth including in a piece of flash fiction!

>>18719191
and that climax when B got the bird out of the bookshop. Thrilling
>“And how did it get out in the end?” I leaned closer to the phone.
>“It just flew out eventually

>>18718075
> He lived in the outer eastern suburbs (typical of asian migrant)
> I theorise that melbourne forcing students to do cultural subjects for the sake of it, and it’s majestic victorian architecture/ city location, contrasted with monash’s gross brutalist and backwater location to entice robin.
That makes sense. In a livestream, Waldun says that his father was very disappointed that he gave up on his STEM career to be a writer.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11M7pYRVdnmm3y0xEel6M2gRNJ0wYvcZO/view?usp=sharing

Despite Jay getting the sponsorship from National Geographic, I'm still not convinced that Waldun is not partially funding Jay.
1. The NG sponsorship lasted only a month, and Jay said that he was funded for 2, although it is possible that they extended the funding period
2. In another livestream with this Minecraft/video game/philosopher named Cody, with guest Clark, when Clark complains that Cody's camera won't focus, Waldun straight up offers Cody a free (Oat? old?) camera. Of course Cody is a grifter so he accepts.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ALK4dAxTb6oV1fSvy1RoscVJOpsE6sjj/view?usp=sharing

This is hearsay, but Cooper said that Waldun did the same for him, he just gave him a free expensive camera. Waldun seems to be the type of guy to go around giving people expensive stuff for free. However, Jay had to buy his own expensive camera. Maybe at this point, Waldun learned his lesson, or he ran out of cameras.

>>18719714
based Waldun scholar

>>18719272
Why the fuck does he write like this? He clearly doesn’t talk or think this way

>>18720149
He used to use coarse and vulgar language rarely, he probably thought it was improper, but ever since he's moved to Melbourne he's definitely increased the slang. I bet it makes him feel gritty to use phrases like "bastard" and "kick the bucket."

>>18720000

>>18720149
That .
is LITERARY
DAMN.
BOOM.
FK YOU

>>18720274
I hope he goes full Henry Miller and writes vulgar 50s creep sex scenes

I feel like reading shit like this helps me improve my writing more than reading a great novel

>>18720409
Theres years of bad fanfiction you can read

>>18720424
I still need something to get me into it like shitting on this gook

>>18708032
I’m an Australian and you are wrong.
Waldun is clunky as fuck.

>>18711113
>those digits
Checked, witnessed and based.

>>18719714
are there any pictures of his old camera?
i could prove that i have it

>>18719714
I'm not sure if I buy the Robin funding Jay narrative. In the Melbourne context it doesn't make any sense. The cost of living is too high for Robin alone, and Robin's generation of recent Chinese migrant (ie. not gold rush era) are typically very individualist and 'tight' with money. There's no way they would fund it even if it means Robin has friends.

>>18721130
wouldn't that just prove that you have the same model of his camera?

>>18721481
i guess, i just want (You)s,

>>18717820

Nah this is quite easily explicable. Melbourne Uni is tied for the top uni in the country (and the southern hemisphere) with ANU in Canberra. It's an old uni by Australian standards with a lot of prestige attached to it and extensive resources and programs.

>>18718474
usyd and UNSW beat melb and monash for art/stem respectively, where the usyd/sydney chads at?

>>18721637
Fuck off cunt. Melbourne Uni is a joke. As is the city and everything else that has to do with the most pozzed shithole in this shithole of a cuntry.

I know that it's a meme that Waldun is a fairy wants to dress up in a skirt and take everyone's cocks, but real talk, is Waldun bisexual? Sometimes he says odd, homosexual stuff and his male friends feel awkward because of it

When doing Jordan Peterson impressions, everyone goes silent after Waldun makes a comment about Clark's rendezvous
https://vocaroo.com/1mqyhv4x9wRW

Waldun compares Jay to an Instagram girlfriend
https://vocaroo.com/1PHUqHOTZrfU

Waldun tells Jay that he loves him, and Jay responds that they're friends
https://vocaroo.com/11ms4c7ZViMd

Again, Waldun tells Jay that he loves him, to which Jay responds that they love each other and laughs
https://vocaroo.com/17KfX78MDJqH

Waldun thinks Jay's naked women t-shirt is weird
https://vocaroo.com/15LBaWXbnX0K

Waldun says that they're together, but they're not together together. It's a commitment and then he makes an aside to Echo, and Jay says that Echo is very chill ie, she doesn't get jealous
https://vocaroo.com/1dovavnLC5wH

>>18713921
>Or this is a common thing in Australia?
Yeah, our state libraries usually have a generic bookshop + cafe. More of a gift shop really.

Waldun's fixation on handkerchiefs is strange. He mentions it often throughout his social media, and it seems like he's been holding on to this idea of not being able to find a hanky as if its this great commentary on the decay of society.

It's silly because it's not that hard to get a men's hanky. Target/etc (Australian costco), which can be found at any shopping centre, sells packs of five for $8. Waldun probably hasn't even considered looking at a place like that, because he expects there to be some wood-panelled artisan's shop staffed by an eccentric literary sort who hands him the perfect hanky.

You see this happen in a lot of Waldun's interactions in shops/cafes. He refuses to accept Australia's culture for what it is, and tries to impose his dreams of NYC/paris onto what is at the end of the day a city of normies who just want to drink and go to the beach

>>18721990
He said that his new project was to bring diversity to the literary world. At first I thought he was going to write about Chinese-Australian stuff, but he said that New Yorkers have a stereotype of being loud, rude, hate tourists, walk everywhere, but there's no such stereotype for Melbourne. He then lamented that the only 2 stereotypes for Melbourne. The first is that people wear mismatched clothing, like they'll wear pants and a tank top, or shorts and a parka jacket, and that's because the weather is so unpredictable. The second is that it's full of yuppies. He wants to change that and write about the real Melbourne and get the world to notice. I also think that's why he writes about clothing so much, to combat the stereotype that Melbournians have bad fashion sense

>>18721990
Handkerchiefs or wankerchiefs? Am I reading too much into this?

>>18722020
and Jay combats the second stereotype by writing about the hobos he meets

>>18722020
The interesting thing about Robin is that a lot of his diagnoses towards Melbourne are spot on, but he lacks the ability to combat them. In fact, they're so ingrained that no one can do anything about them. There's a reason why Nick Cave and all the Australian new wave directors not only has to lave the city, but are more popular/known overseas. If Robin lets go of this delusion of being able to culturally heal the city, and focus on an international niche, his work will actually serve a purpose.

>>18722034
Can he even be a representative of Australia or accepted as a Melbournian when he has deliberately cultivated an American accent and is indistinguishable from any random Asian American from California? And furthermore, I think Melbournian literature has got to have something more than mismatched clothes if it wants to compete internationally

>>18722034
>If Robin lets go of this delusion of being able to culturally heal the city, and focus on an international niche, his work will actually serve a purpose.

The most intellectually honest choice would be to accept things the way they are, appreciate what your culture has and doesn't have, and be true to it.

Waldun wants to Melbourne to be this ersatz NYC, when really he should be seeing the cultural desert that is Australia for what it is - an opportunity, a frontier, one with very little competition. I think there's a lot of possibility in a serious literary thinker standing their ground and focusing on Australia as it is (and not what they wish it was).

>>18722156
Literature about putting the shrimp on the barbie, that's not a knife now that's a knife, diggereedoos, boomerangs, Steve Irving, kangaroos, the original convicts, living in the bush with the abos and doing bangera dance?

>>18722058
this, he fucked himself from the beginning. Does he really think anyone in australia is going to connect with a book titled in french? And why would an international audience care about such a thing when they can just turn to the real deal?

>>18721990
Lowes is the home of handkerchiefs.

>>18722020
That's actually really cool. Here in Vancouver, we are in the same cultural morass. We have no culture outside of drugs, crime, and expensive housing. Oh, yeah, maybe we have "ohhh the mountains, ohhh the sunset" shallow type of beauty and superficiality culture.

>>18722512
What's with Canada and Australia that makes it like that? I'm from Brazil and every region could be a country itself just by how diffentevery culture is

>>18722674
two words; cultural cringe. it's unfortunate, speaking as an australian myself.

>>18722209
As if waldun or any other latte sipping melbournite would ever go into a Lowes or Dimmeys.

>>18722020
>He wants to change that and write about the real Melbourne and get the world to notice
Thats already been done, except in video format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1f6r7P2gU

>>18722020
>>18723149
>>He wants to change that and write about the real Melbourne and get the world to notice
>Thats already been done, except in video format.

You've probably already seen it, but I highly recommend the full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp8ZNqaG-dE

I implore anyone whose entire view of this city is shaped by Waldun to check it out to get a taste of "the real Melbourne".

Has Waldun ever been further west than Spencer St?

>>18721718

the numbers don't lie mason

>>18723425
What's west of Spencer street? Niggers?

>>18723536
the western and northern and outer eastern suburbs are jisoe-melbourne
the city and inner south-east is waldun-melbourne
i can guarantee you that waldun's interactions with actual autochthonous melbournians have been limited to the point of nonexistence. watch the videos >>18723149 and >>18723370 to understand the daily milieu of a fair portion of the people around here

>>18723149
>>18723370
>>18723628
based jisoe posters.

>>18723742
based king of melbourne

>>18721447
Then why did Jay call Waldun a sugar daddy? Is it because Waldun is self-funding the entire publishing company

>>18723805
I think Jay has literally 0 money (pre the vice/nat geo stuff) and RC being a regular person has enough to shout coffees and whatnot.

>>18723813
It must be nice to be such a good looking guy. You can be broke, no uni education, no real career, rely on some guy you found on Youtube to buy you snacks, and still you get a gf like this
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHfX4vmBJgw/

I can’t believe you people care about this. Is this your excuse for not reading?

>>18723828
A low tier gook?

>>18723828
Is summer the name of his bull?

>>18723964
You haven't started reading the entire RC Waldun canon? ngmi

>>18724036
So fucking hilarious, dude. I’m in stitches. If you’re not going to take literature seriously enough to stop joking about some Melbournian twink, then get the fuck out of my face.

>>18723964
Yes

>>18724040
I'm only half joking. I've read Learned Disguise and if you ignore that it's written in Chinglish, you can appreciate it for what it is, a story about what a 19 year old imagines the perfect dark academia life to be

>waldun thread
>only 200 replies after 3 days
>on page 9
>no new cum tributes so far
What the fuck happened to /lit/?

>>18725108
I think the level of autism displayed by the people writing detailed essays on his life are still based. But yes, the lack of new cum tributes is very sad.

>>18725108
Waldun has transcendence meme and become author

>>18723628
That's really interesting. I never knew Melbourne was like that. I'm actually really glad you showed this because i was starting to think that Melbourne's gritty art scene consisted entirely of larping beatniks drinking at expensive French cafe shops.

It puzzles me that Waldun is so into reviving the beatniks, who did drugs, played with guns, andhad a rebellious philosophy, when Waldun's own aesthetic is so prim and proper. I know he tries cussing and follows Jay around like a puppy, but it's only highlights the house sheltered upbringing and his cozy British professor clothes

>>18723828
>https://www.instagram.com/p/CHfX4vmBJgw/
Your personality is at least 50% of it

But but I read the new F. Gardner books.

>>18726599
*no but.

Is this better than Waldan’s old stuff?

>>18723133
Indeed.
Their (Lowes) knitted sweaters have been top notch this winter and only $20.

>>18725926
how. is. he. so. CUTE?

>>18723149
>>18723370
>>18723628
>>18723742
>>18723759
>>18726544
Hey dumbs dumbs. That documentary was show 15 YEARS AGO. A lot has changed in Melbourne since then. If you want to know what's really going on I suggest checking out Waldun and Jay's instagram. They cut to the heart of 2021 Bourne.

>>18726955
So dark yet so academic... How does he pull it off?

>>18727786
Nothing has changed. All the best writing in Melbourne is on trains.

>>18727786
Are Waldun and Jay the best representatives of contemporary writers from Australia, who also haven't moved to the UK or the US?

>>18727876
Until we discover a third writer, yes.

Captcha? More like Aptcha

Waldun and Jay have unironically become the best artists of Australia because everyone else is too busy spraying graffiti on trains

>>18728014
whatever is on the trains is unironically more truthful and pure an art than whatever waldun has ever produced.

>>18727806
>Nothing has changed. All the best writing in Melbourne is on trains.

Based graffiti enjoyer

>>18728014
I much prefer reading the graffiti some 16-year-old eshay scrawled on the side of the train line while on his comedown after triple dropping MD at a doof then some prissy prose about some art hoe in the state library.

>>18726599
I just Jigoku. Heard about it from /vp/. Didn’t realize it was by the meme book guy at first. It was great. /vp/ was freaking out about it being like the most competent fanfic related story ever. I don’t ever read fanfics but it was certainly a wild ride.

>>18727786
5/10 bait
there are far more graff disciples choofing it up in public housing in Coburg alone than there are people like Waldun or Jay in this entire country
if you don't have a broad australian accent you cannot be representative of australian culture at all; waldun doesn't even have an australian accent at all, let alone a broad one, he's a total fraud and a cultural imperialist
>>18728014
if you don't like graff there's Murnane and Coetzee, Waldun doesn't make the cut any way you look at it, unless you're a dumb fucking seppo

Wasn't aware that so many anons like graff. It been the real culture of Australian cities since the 80s and will never stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UkTFmVSRiA

>>18723628
>>18726544

waldun certainly does not understand anything about the city or people he writes about, but cmon, eshays tagging trains is hardly the "daily milieu" of outer suburban australia

you're going to be disappointed to find that most working class australians make generally comfortable livings in the trades/mines and read shit like the barefoot investor while they daydream about the investment property they'll buy with their misso. The ones that are truly languishing usually fucked themselves through divorce+child support.

Thinking that culture needs to be validated by some nebulous gritty factor just makes no sense in a country like Australia with a social safety net.

t. live in logan

>>18729434
> most working class australians make generally comfortable livings in the trades/mines and read shit like the barefoot investor while they daydream about the investment property they'll buy with their misso.
but then what makes that culture different from that of any other major city in a 1st world country? the only change is instead of trades/mines it'll be whatever the primary industry of that region

>>18728386
>there's Murnane and Coetzee
I've read The Plains and it was quite good. Any Coetzee recs? I know he's been supposedly influenced by Kafka and Beckett which has me excited.

>>18729434
>eshays tagging trains is hardly the "daily milieu" of outer suburban australia
Perhaps not. But it's an example of a very real, transgressive subculture within Melbourne that has relevance. No matter how much Waldun deludes himself, he isn't a part of any tangible 'movement'. As these anons point out, there's no degree of subversion to whatever Waldun is doing, like the graffiti artists or like the beatniks he so desperately tries to emulate.

>>18707956
It's relatable but utterly unoriginal, this isn't writing.

It also seems like his heavy Asian accent is leaning into his prose, as writing comes from speech, so maybe he should fix that or embrace it in some original way I don't know, but one thing's for sure: he needs to study the forms of things much more. I don't think he would ever (in his current state) study the specific accents in Chinese poetry and then try to emphasise that in modern English or anything along the lines of serious research.

>>18707989
in that example I think it is too many commas

>>18729434
Normal australians are in their own bubbles. The lads have been a constant force of the suburbs and city for decades. Everything else changes but that element remains.
Even looking at places like kings cross. Its changed so much since the 90s and early 00s, with fags and yuppies everywhere, but theres still the chance to get rolled in an alley.

>>18729515
>graffiti
>transgressive subculture
you have to be 18 to post here

Melburnians' greatest defining trait (some would call it a superpower) is their ability to change clothes according to the weather.

>>18707969
I, for one, welcome mandala-core

>>18731325

I am traveling next week to australia just carrying a maid uniform and duct tape.

My goal? Conquest of RC Waldun anus.

>>18731396
reported

>>18731396
You'll be disappointed to have come all that way just to find my initials scratched in there

>>18725108
>>18725169
alright if i roll dubs here ill do it

>>18731396
Waldun's anus is conquered territory. Jay planted his flag there years ago.

>>18732759
AGHHHHHHHHHHHH
I JUST CAN'T STOP ROLLING

>>18732771
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I MUST ROLL AGAIN
THIRD TIMES THE CHARM

>>18732762
based if true

>>18732759
>>18732771
>>18732783
it's valdun lad, you don't need dubs to do a cheeky cum tribute for the king of /lit/

>>18732759
Do it, pussy

>>18732759
How about trips?

>>18733000

>>18732928
why do people can him Valdun? Is it because he pronounces Werther in an attempt at all German accent

>>18733000
based, we're waiting eagerly.

>>18707718
Mental illness

>>18733000
Based
>>18732759
Start jacking it

>>18733420
More like cope that he is in the dole whole he has an illegitimate son raised by a single mom

Clark Elieson has read and reviewed L'Academie!
>@r.c.waldun You mad lad, you did it.

>I just finished R.C. Waldun's latest novel, l'Académie, the tale of a dystopian society that is centered around learning. Students, adorned in blazers color-coordianted to their branch, will go to a special institution called l'Académie, wherein they will have new information integrated into their memories for 2 hours 6 days a week. New facts are crammed into their minds, the only thoughts worth thinking. But when an individual by the name of Eddington begins to think thoughts outside what is allowed, a full exploration of the way we educate ourselves is anticipated.

>The book was incredibly engaging, and I am excited to say that Robin and I will sit down for a livestream together on the day of launch to discuss the philosophy of education. Make sure to get yourself a copy on September 1st!
Can't wait to hit up that livestream with my fellow Waldunchads.

>>18733722
eddington? EDDINGTON?????

>>18733745
Waldun is making an allusion to the 1919 experiment in which Arthur Eddington attempted to measure the gravitational deflection of starlight passing near the sun; the sun and starlight representing the Truth and students, respectively. The education system in Waldun's universe is a burdening, unavoidable constant of reality... or is it? But how will Eddington shed his color-coordinated blazer? How can a man... fight gravity?
L'Academie.
September 1st.

>>18733722
This guy is exactly like Waldun but white. I don't pay attention to booktube, is there an entire community of like this?

https://www.youtube.com/c/ClarkEli/videos

>>18733917
He's a total dilletante. I once had a convo with him, I used a quote by Sartre and he wouldn't stop artistically mentioning all the books he's read by him and wasn't engaging me in his lecturing whatsoever. Total aspie. Ask him about where his equipment comes from (he's a very spoiled rich kid)

>>18733745
Eddington - not just the name of a gay male, but the name of a spoiled bitchy bottom.

>>18733861
I thought Pynchon already did this with M&D

>>18733932
> he wouldn't stop artistically mentioning all the books he's read by him and wasn't engaging me in his lecturing whatsoever
See, that's even better. Waldun does that too. In Learned Disguise, he lists the 10 books he's read over and over and over and over and over
> James Joyce
> Emerson
> Thoreau
> Goethe
> he tried reading John Milton but couldn't get through this
> Nietzsche, Russell, Roseau, etc
without ever talking about what was inside the books. Even on his Youtube channel, when he talks about the books, he just says that they're good and aesthetic

> Ask him about where his equipment comes from (he's a very spoiled rich kid)
Waldun is very pleased with his high end camera too. These two are two peas in a pod

>>18733963
Precisely. Clark is far, far more in-your-face about it than Waldun is, to be honest. He's far less appealing as a person, which is why he's ngmi

>>18733969
Yeah this Clark guy seems like a narcissistic dweeb. Sure we rag on Waldun, but deep down we all love his naivety and pudgy little face.

>>18733969
Waldun's personality seems very innocent and naive, has neonatal facial features and a twink physique, and openly wrote about his dream to be a writer, which a lot of /lit/izens also have. I think that's why Waldun appeals much more to us than whoever this guy is

Wait a second, is this the Clark who has type 1 diabetes? I've seen a livestream with Waldun and that Clark, they're already friends

>>18734022
Yes, he does. He was big on the discord long before it got nuked.

>>18734022
Not sure about the diabetes but they are "friends."

>>18734046
They had a falling out for a short while. I'm not sure what happened post-nuking of the discord. Waldun disliked him for the reasons everyone dislikes Waldun.

>>18734056
>for the reasons everyone dislikes Waldun
He thinks he's a hack?

>>18734076
He thinks he's overly pretentious and an unreasonable snob. Also, partly the hacky part, but from what I've seen, Clark was more well-read than him. Probably jealousy.

Have any melbourne anons actually tried to meet Waldun?

Not gonna lie, having a bunch of lit bros to wander around alleys, drink coffee with and discuss goethe sounds pretty comfy so long as you were self-aware that you were larping.

>>18734095
>Not gonna lie, having a bunch of lit bros to wander around alleys, drink coffee with and discuss goethe

high-school ended years ago anon

>>18734095
Unfortunately Waldun isn't capable of discussing literature.
I'd encourage any Australians to bump into him though. You're almost guaranteed to be immortalized in one of his stories.

Waldun used to do Minecraft livestreams with these youtubers named Cody and Clark, and Clark is who I believe this Clark is. During these livestreams, they would talk about philosophy and books and dark academia.

I believe that this passage in Learned Disguise refers to Cody and Clark as the characters of Cody and Callum. What do you guys think?

> Those friends of mine were also under the same sentiments. We sat around a flame, entertaining the warmth together with the connections of the hearts. Jokes, so witty: seemed to flow out of us spontaneously. Laughter, so genuine, became commonplace throughout our conversations. Sentiments, so personal: where all seemed to open up to reveal their inner complexities. There was Roger, with a top soaked with rain and decorated with mud, telling a tale about a pet goat he once owned. There was Cody, wrapped in an ill-fitted raincoat, recounting his memories at his country homestead. There was Callum, so excited he was that he dashed into the stream with his black top still on. Once he emerged, the shirt was glued to his frame, as those curls he once had no longer remained.

> Strange is it not? Gentlemen, once wandering across campus, stoic and dignified in their dark suits, will soon unleash their child-like delights in a setting surreal. Is this our true nature? Utterly unrestrained, where spontaneous joys could soon flow through. Streams of sublimity infused the logical mind, giving man deeper access to the truth, truth of his surroundings.

>>18734133
yes, that is exactly who he is talking about.
I used to be on his discord and knew Waldun intimately, I'm camera-anon-- and Waldun simped over these guys. I had no clue they went that far back. Cody is a writer and on Literary Publication before it was moved to rcwaldun.com he published a short story of his.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201119140922/https://www.litpublication.com/fiction/blog-post-title-four-new2a

>>18734133
This is awful

>>18734163
and was published on*
where he published a short story of his*

holy fuck I'm aspie who can't type

>>18734133
I think the Cody guy quit Youtube because I can't find his channel anymore. Waldun did lots of livestreams with him nonetheless. Do you think philosopher livestreamer Cody is the same as Learned Disguise Cody?

23rd of March

Last day at this lovely campsite. I was fairly quiet for most of the hours, as I recollected fond memories whilst sitting on a tree’s stump.
Cody seemed to have sensed my mental absence. He came over and sat on the grass in front the stump.
“Why are you so quiet?”
“Oh, nothing much. I’m having a hard time grappling with all the pleasantries.” I paused, as a morning bird chirped on the adjacent tree, “It’s fine, a little time for my idle thoughts shall suffice.”
“Stop talking like that. What, do you live in the 19th Century?”
“There lies no harm nor risk in trying to speak properly.” I smiled, whilst my attention still dwelled on those dazzling sceneries that surrounded me.
“Hmm, I will leave you to that. Also, I’ve heard something else...”
Immediately, my wonders were ruptured, as I soon detected a grin on Cody’s face.
“What? Where did you hear about it?”
“So there is something... or, someone... Special perhaps?”
Under a state of distress, I desperately tried to lower Cody’s voice.
The others were packing the tents, for I did not want them to know my hidden thoughts.
“Jesus, Cody. Not that loud!” Paused once more, as I looked over my shoulder, making sure none were overhearing the exchange.
“Hey, hey! look at you.” the grin morphed into a broadened smile, “That’s great. Who is this person?”
“Well...It’s... a girl I knew last year. Veda. Do you know her?”
“Hmm, I think... I know who it is. And I also think I’m not the only one who knew.”
“How did you... What?”
“The library lady, she knew something was up with you. Caught you staring at the books, smiling. ‘Something out of the norm’, she told me.”
“Oh, dear. Christ. You go to the Library?”
“Yeah, well. Not really. I bumped into her after school, and she told me some things about, you. Also was it not obvious enough? You chasing her down the corridor?”
“I needed that book back. That’s all there was.”
“Yeah, yeah...” The broadened smile turned into laughter, “You and your books. I’ll leave you to it. But, my friend, ‘cease love if you can’, you’ll do great.” He padded me on the shoulder, and soon joined the rest to pack.
I smiled, still resting on the stump. Maybe it is the case that, I should experience something, out of the norm.

>>18734133
You sure it's the same Clark? I remember the Minecraft Clark being unironically autistic.

>>18734173
Yes. I can 100% confirm they are the same guy. I'm trying to find the stream, but I think he took it down.

>>18734163
is this why Waldun said "that is literary. BOOM."? His idol, Cody, wrote BOOM and now he has to say BOOM too?

>>18734183
No, lmao. He actually said "That is literary. BOOM!" after writing something himself. Here's the actual screenshot.

>>18734173
Minecraft Clark talked about his type 1 diabetes because he talked about his needles and insulin. If this reviewer Clark Eli also type 1 diabetes, then it's the same guy

>>18734133
>Waldun used to do Minecraft livestreams
And yet I still want to breed his boypussy.
Weird how that works

>>18734192
Why don't we ask him ourselves?

>>18734182
no worries, I downloaded the stream

>>18734208
holy fuck and I thought I was the toppest scholar

>>18734208
>>18734216
why tho

>>18727953
kek

>>18734208
>>18734216
Goddamn. I'm playing checkers over here.

>>18734191
it's like your little brother copying what you do

>>18734163
After reading his old stuff it's obvious he used to have an editor. Maybe it was Clark or Cody, I don't know, but the shit he posts to rcwaldun.com isn't even proofread.

>>18734291
Cooper was once an editor on litpub, I think he said so.

No because Waldun is very boring. If I wanted to read a /lit/ meme author that’s actually entertaining I’d read F Gardner.

I don’t think scarves were as common in pre-war semi-casual dress as Dark Academia larpers think they were

>>18734304
If you can't find the beauty in Waldun's inability to express the beauty in everyday situations, I pity you.

>>18734379
yeah its like seeing a blind man trying to describe colors.

>>18734095
yes, i go to uni with him. he is very nice.

>>18734208
holy shit - please upload these!

I can confirm all the stuff about Clark. Been a longtime member of his discord. The guy's unbearably unapologetic about his pretentiousness. Not even larping, either. All too eager to shove in your face how many books he's read, and sure, he has some good points at times, but the way he comes off is cringe

https://youtu.be/NvquoDJGMGU

wtf, in this early vid his accent is completely different.

>>18735129
if just 4 years ago he was into physics, after literature, what do we think he'll be into?

>>18735129
can we get a Waldun Iceberg going, you Waldun scholars?

>>18734163
ok but are we going to talk about the short story, tho?

>>18735215
I miss Waldun's I fucking love science phase
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IQkBIIXNmEYFS1gAIvANJW2BI4FplEGB/

>>18734757
I plan to, but I have a slow internet connection so it may take a while. I'm going to try taking my laptop to the library and using their fast internet

i have a suspicion that robin never read the jest.

>>18735372
wtfff science robin fits him way better.

Melbourneanon will buy a copy of L'Academie and scan the pages for us

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ8NHtnlhgB/

>>18735447
i thought australia was hot, but they're all walking around in layers of coats and jackets?

>>18735129
this is by far the most retarded video ever ive ever seen and I seriously cannot tell if this moron is joking. this charlatan is repeating the basic fact everyone learnt in school that weight is different from mass. you can just tell this video was the product of some mental gymnastics inside the feeble mind of waldun to cope with his own weight. disgusting.

Waldun, if you're reading this: chapstick.

>>18714096
Unabridged Waldun when?

>>18735383
>>18735802
Robin switched from science to philosophy to lit because he chooses the path of least resistance. It's VERY easy to fake literary knowledge, even in an academic setting. I have an English degree from the University of Toronto and I literally did not finish a single book during my time there. (wasted years, I know)

>>18735129
>cannot pronounce “th”
Holy fuck this is not endearing or cute it is just fucking annoying

>>18735802
Won't lie, while the content is weak, if RC wrote and edited the entire video at 16 I'm a little impressed.

>>18735802
it sounds like a school project you light-weight

>>18737266
Not gonna lie, I find it cute.

>>18735378
whatever gave you that idea?

>>18737885
he never finished it. he said he got 400 words in

>>18735378
>>18737885
>>18738049
To witness the top level of Waldun's fraudiness you'll have to subscribe to his Patreon and listen to his Gravity's Rainbow "review." All the more tragic when you remember he spearheaded the #nofear big books movement.

Sorry fags, this thread ain't dying on my watch

>>18738620
but it's already hit the bump limit?

>>18738758
Noooooooo!