/lit/ - Literature

why does he dress like that, how far is the larp going to continue

you only dont understand ulysses if youre a pseud

Stop posting this faggot I’m tired of seeing his face every time I come on here!

>>18836198
its crazy how much this lad clearly wishes he was white

>>18836186
westaboo gooks are embarassing. I guess this is how nips see weebs.

>>18836204
>waldunchads
this will never not crack me uo

>>18836186
Daring imitation of James Joyce

>>18836186
Hey guys! I hope you liked the video uwu

~Waldun

>endeavors to talk about ulysses
>doesnt talk about the actual text
>its um...le modernism
can this dork get anything right?

>>18836364
sorry, picking the correct outfit took too much time, couldn't read or think enough

>>18836364
Hey, Waldun here!
Could you elaborate on your criticism a little bit?

Hope you liked the video!

~Waldun

>>18836186
Why is one glass black?

>>18836374
>Could you elaborate on your criticism a little bit?
No, bend over now

>>18836381
Hey, Waldun here!
Ummnnn I guess you missed the memo buddy! I've got one word for you: JOYCE

Hope you liked the rest of the video!

~Waldun

>>18836405
eyepatch ≠ black glass

>>18836372
>cameraman, cameraman, am in shot? this building looks old-timey enough right? wait let me wipe the sweat off my brow, this tweed bullshit is fucking hot, ok ok do i look like im reading? am i wearing enough BROWN? BROWN MEANS PENSIVE AND LITERARY RIGHT? DARK ACADEMIA!? let me mention my "favorite passage" and proceed to read it incorrectly and then elaborate no furtger

>>18836435
Hey, Waldun here!

Eyepatch ≠ dark academia

Get with the program!

You can watch my video 'Did Someone Say Dark Academia? - What Actually Is It?' to see my treatment of it.

~Waldun

>>18836451
>Hey, Waldun here!
Prove it.

>>18836186
CRINGE

>>18836210
i wish i was white

You see, us Waldunchads have a deep need for people to hate Waldun. Thus we post him, we praise him, we give him money. All of that so that you can post thigs like >>18836198 >>18836202 >>18836204 >>18836210 >>18836214 >>18836364 or, why not, >>18836484


We waldunchads feed off from (you)'s and growing threads.

We will never stop.

Long live R.C. Waldun.

>>18836509
Waldun here!

~Waldun

daily reminder that these threads are spammed by a 46 year old gay man

Waldun here! I'm gay and my dick is small

~Waldun

>>18836537
Waldun here!

Good!

~Waldun

>>18836551
What’s the next novel going to be about?

>>18836569
Waldun here!

I am currently writing on the subject of dark academia. I have no ideas yet.

~Waldun

>>18836537
hot af desu

>>18836569
another iteration of "god i wish i was a white english major"

>>18836364
What a waste of my time =(
>tells you not to take a masterpiece of literature seriously
lol

>>18836509
you’ll grow out of it fren

>>18836186

He ruins absolutely everything that he touches. He and his ilk make me embarrassed to even be literate.

>>18836581
Write a dark academia erotic novel, and add a bunch of dream sequences.
Or not.
Do you think the dark academia is just a phase or are u going to keep that aesthetic for the rest of ur life?

>>18836619
It’s a bit disappointing, but it might work for some people to read it and then gravitate towards it.

>>18836186
He says the same shit about every book he reads. It transported him to a different world and effected him on a subconscious level that cannot be articulated. I'm started to think this guy's a hack

this guy is obsessed with aesthetics over all else

>>18836198
he is literally just having fun with his channel you seething faggot

>>18836186
i wanna bust the fattest nut inside his tight hairless bussy that has a faint smell of onyons and garlic

>>18836709
>he is literally just having fun with his channel you seething faggot
Hi, Waldun

>>18836685
People used to write critiques of this kind of behaviour a century ago, the foppery that isn't even real decadence anymore but just routinised foppery, but zoomers are like that phenomenon dialed up to 4000%. It's so oversaturating it obliterates everything around it and can't be approached to be critiqued. This coolie zoomer has all the manicured effeminacy of 500 gay Belle Epoque dandies but none of the earthy "this is of a certain cultural moment" context to go with it. Even Der Untertan style schmisse-mongering late Wilhelmine faggots had a certain weight to them, there is still something to be SAID about why they mongered their schmisse.

Zoomer shit is like a 75 IQ cargo cult version of all those fin de siecle kitsch decadence behaviors, all the worst aspects with none of the good ones, thrown in a blender and turned into a brown slurry. Usually there is some kind of hierarchy to it, with some actual visionary trendsetters at the top even if they are degenerates, and then kitschy late to the party cane twirling faggots at the bottom, but look at something like "dark academia." Its trendsetting elite are teenage girls who don't even know what continent they're on, they just know that tweed is a kind of fabric. That's beyond retarded, that's full blown cargo cult tier, that's bone in nose tier ooga booga tribesmen wearing tattered suits and tophats because they think that's how the gods used to dress when they still visited the world.

>>18836685
Not even aesthetics just shallow style.

>>18836541
>I'm gay and my dick is small
hell yeah dude

>>18836210
his options are Journey to the West and The Joy Luck Club

>>18836186
The fact that he is an autodidact is so fucking impressive.

>>18837190
Can't tell if this is a joke or not. He is neither self-taught nor does he know anything really.

having done the exact class he is doing rn i can confirm he did not read ulysses.

>>18837289
Waldun here!

The Dark Academia module only requires me to own a copy of Ulysses!

~Waldun

>>18837190
this. people have made him into a meme, but his self taught knowledge of literature is uncommon

>>18836186
He’s getting better bros….
Smarter, better read, more articulate, more informed, less pretentious
If he keeps it up in 5 years he’ll be a leading public intellectual and internationally renowned man of letters.

Prepare to kneel, Waldun-haters….

>>18836518
This is the Manifesto of the Waldunites of /lit/, this is the Waldunchad thesis!

>>18836716
Tribute.

>>18836186
WHY I WANT TO FUCK WALDUN

WALDUN AND THE CONCEPTUAL BICYCLE DISASTER. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in terminal paresis (GPI), placing Waldun in a series of simulated bicycle crashes, e.g. pileups, head-on collisions, condo attacks (fantasies of pedestrian and elaborate assassinations remained a continuing preoccupation, subject showing a marked polymorphic fixation on handlebars and rear basket assemblies). Powerful erotic fantasies of an anal-sadistic surrounded the image of the literary contender.


Subjects were required to construct the optimum bicycle disaster victim by placing a replica of Waldun’s head on the unretouched photographs of crash fatalities.

In 82% of cases massive rear-end collisions were selected with a preference for expressed fecal matter and rectal hemorrhages. Further tests were conducted to define the optimum model-year bicycle. These indicate that a three year model lapse with child victims provide the maximum audience excitation (confirmed by manufacturers’ studies of the optimum bicycle disaster). It is hoped to construct a rectal modulous of Waldun and the bicycle disaster of maximized audience arousal.

Motion picture studies of Waldun reveal characteristic patterns of facial tones and musculature associated with homoerotic behavior. The continuing tension of buccal sphincters and the recessive tongue role tally with earlier studies of facial rigidity (cf., James Joyce, Nabokov). Slow-motion cine films of YouTube lectures exercised a marked erotic effect upon an audience of spastic children. Even with mature adults the verbal material was found to have a minimal effect, as demonstrated by substitution of an edited tape giving diametrically opposed takes…

>continued

>>18837666
INCIDENCE OF ORGASMS IN FANTASIES OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH WALDUN. Patients were provided with assembly kit photographs of sexual partners during intercourse. In each case Waldun’s face was super imposed upon the original partner. Vaginal intercourse with “Waldun” proved uniformly disappointing, producing orgasm in 2% of subjects.

Axillary, buccal, navel, aural, and orbital modes produced proximal erections. The preferred mode of entry overwhelmingly proved to be the rectal. After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that the caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation. In an extreme 12% of cases, the simulated anus of post-costolomy surgery generated spontaneous orgasm in 98% of penetrations. Multiple-track cine-films were constructed of “Waldun” in intercourse during (a) YouTube lectures, (b) rear-end bicycle collisions with one and three year model changes, (c) with rear basket assemblies…

>continued

that kid is so fucking gay

>>18837681
SEXUAL FANTASIES IN CONNECTION WITH WALDUN. The genitalia of the perennial literary contender exercised a continuing fascination. A series of imaginary genitalia were constructed using (a) the mouth parts of Clark Elieson, (b) a Schwin, (c) the assembly kid prepuce of Jay the Author…In 89% of cases, the constructed genitalia generated a high incidence of self-induced orgasm. Tests indicate the masturbatory nature of the literary contender’s posture. Dolls consisting of plastic models of Waldun’s alternate genitalia were found to have a disturbing effect on deprived children.

WALDUN’S HAIRSTYLE. Studies were conducted on the marked fascination exercised by the literary contender’s hairstyle. 65% of male subjects made positive connections between the hairstyle and their own pubic hair. A series of optimum hairstyles were constructed.

>continued

Why do all his videos have shit view counts when he has 190k subs? Did he buy those subs?

>>18837699
THE CONCEPTUAL ROLE OF WALDUN. Fragments of Waldun’s cinetized postures were used in the construction of model psychodramas in which the Waldun-figure played the role of writer, critic, philosophy major, venerated professor, etc.

The failure of these roles to express any meaning reveals the nonfunctional character of Waldun. Waldun’s success therefore indicates society’s periodic need to re-conceptualize its social media leaders. Waldun thus appears as a series of posture concepts, basic equations which reformulate the roles of aggression and anality. Waldun’s personality. The profound anality of the literary contender may be expected to dominate social media in the coming years. By contrast the late Book Club remained the prototype of the oral subject, usually conceived in pre-pubertal terms. In further studies sadistic psychopaths were given the task of devising sex fantasies involving Waldun. Results confirm the probability of social media figures being perceived primarily in genital terms; the face of Jay the Author is clearly genital in significant appearance–the nasal prepuce, scrotal jaw, etc. Faces were seen as either circumcised (John Green, Clark Elieson) or uncircumcised (The Book Club, Better Than Food). In assembly-kit tests Waldun’s face was uniformly perceived as a soft penile erection. Patients were encouraged to devise the optimum sex-death of Waldun.

>>18836186

>>18836186
Reminder to all non-anglo Waldunchads: We need to translate his work and spread the word.

>>18837891
We need to spread his bussy

is he trolling or does he really not know how to pronounce Camus' name?

>The only problem with Joyce is he is insanely boring and in his 3 novels that I have read absolutely nothing happened. It was the equivalent of watching paint dry.
This is the top comment and liked by Waldun. Why do so many people who base their entire personality around books all hate reading?

>>18836186
lmao look at him tensing his babyfat cheeks as hard as possible in the thumbnail

>desperately wanting to be seen as educated in the style of the white man
Why have the asians been totally disconnected from their own intellectual traditions?

>>18837731
Exquisitely clever, anon-kun.

>>18837891
oui oui je sui adoré le waldun...!

>>18838486
uh-oh looks like someone didn't pay attention in French class

>>18838486
>>18838500
Frankoids and francaboos will NOT be tolerated on this literature board

>>18838509
verpiss dich, du neger

>>18836186
RC Walden is the latest /lit/ filter. Good to see many have been filtered in this thread. Continue the good work waldunchads

>>18838518
Can you take Goethe's dick out of your mouth when you speak to your betters? I can't quite understand your jigaboo tongue

>>18837891
anche io amo i'intelectualini cinese waldun molto moltisimo. ill boipussini di sono bambini waldini deve essere molto bello... devo eiaculare dentro il suo bellisimo anglofilo culo

>>18838527
everybody laugh at the monoglot anglomutt

>>18838541
>il boipussini
cchecchorino

>>18837501
Reading Wikipedia summaries is now considered autodidact?

>>18836462
no anon don't or he'll post his tight asian femboy sphincter like last time

>>18836537
They call it love in the old greek way.

>>18836186
waldun exists to convince you that you aren't him

>>18838355
>is he trolling or does he really not know how to pronounce Camus' name?
I think he was pluralizing Camus to indicate the possessive, "Albert Camus', The Stranger". Though I'd like to think he would mispronounce it right after bragging he can now read literature in French lol.

>>18836186
I unironically think he looks very cool but I know for normal people he looks like a clown. It sucks. I'd love to wear clothes like that.

>>18836186
why the eyepatch lmao

>>18839450
refer to >>18836451

>>18838842
We've all seen Q's video thanks

>>18838369
They want to seem intellectual and well read without doing any of the work because it's too hard

>>18836186
waldunchads... we can't stop winning

>>18837190
It's really not. He learned English in China. From there all he had to do was googling "most acclaimed english novels" and then making a video pretending he understands them.

>>18838842
this

>>18836186
what is it with this posers face in the thumbnail? looks like a fucking potato, its so pudgy and grotesque. my god everything about this human being is utterly repellent.

>>18837501
Most every retard that frequent this board knows more about literature

I ain't watching this video, does Waldun offer any literary insights into Ulysses?

>>18836210
He does really seem to want to be some English white writer. Although thats good for him. Too many trying to be black these days.

>>18842954
How do you become Persian writer?

>>18836186
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>18842887
you already know the answer

>>18836742
Everyone is ignoring the literal time traveller in this thread

>>18836654
If you truly loved literature, nothing could ever make you self-conscious about it, something you would have learned by now had you read L’Académie™

You think he has fans willing to have sex with him? I'm white and blonde, I could buy some fancy clothing and start my own youtube channel where I talk about what I felt when I read the Iliad or something. Will that get me laid?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER WALDUN THREAD!?!?!?

>>18843426
But Waldun is straight. He's friends with Cody and Jay for a long time and they haven't fucked ... or at least, I think they haven't

I wish I was rich and could larp like this guy

>>18837701
I think most of his subs were from his pre-Learned Disguise days, when he was still doing the modern Renaissance man dark academia polymath thing

>>18836742
holy fuck this is one of the greatest comments ive read on 4chan in 15 years of reading this website

please tell me you have a blog

>>18839535
who is this Q

>>18836742
I want to dress like that but I feel like it's too tryhard and I'd look like a fag.

Instead I dress like a typical Miami douchebag because I live here and I can.

>>18836186
ahoy matey, today's we be dark academia yarrrrrr Dead Davey Jones Poet Society thar she blows

>>18836186
Wow.
Why would you dress like this under 30 as an asian. He literally screams "dunk my head in the toilet."

>>18844121
Newfag

His larping doesn't bother me at all, and if he finds some inspiration in it then good for him.

>>18836364
A true literature veteran knows that reading literature is not about picking apart everything. Suspend your thinky thinky

https://youtu.be/XSgPQY7kTBc

This guy was bred for BWC

>>18845778
>he activates his thinky thinkies on the first read
OH NO NO NO

>>18846047
kek

>>18845778
I'm probably not getting an entirely fair picture with this snippet, but this was seriously some of the strangest advice I've heard. Don't think during your first read? Take it in, how? What??

>>18836742
Incredibly based observation

>>18836742
nu/lit/ didn't have the attention span for this nugget of gold.

>>18836186
what the fuck this retard lives in my city

>>18846352
Anon, you've got to either kill him or fuck him. Or both. In the based order.

>>18846371
I walk past the cafe he is sitting at in this photo to go to work lmao

>>18836186
that little motherfucker is the most cringe character I've ever seen memed on 4chan

like, jimmy numale was a hundred times better than this pathetic mulatto

>>18836198
The larp has gone on so long that it's now reified and his original identity has assumed that of this bowtiewearing anglo wannabebeatnikthatdresseslikeTSeliot

>>18836374
Yellownigger

>>18845778
he is wise beyond his years and anyone who dares deny him prestige is a mongrel that deserves to be hung up by his thumbs, snipped off, and sent to the canary mines. im trans by the way

>>18846402
You can tell he's deliberately controlling the expression on his face to look pensive, to seem like the focus of his attention isn't the distant object he's looking at, but his overwhelmingly profound thoughts.

When really his only thought is "I hope this photo looks impressive".

This guy 100% smells his own socks, farts and toejam.

>>18846156
He said that first read is for taking it in, second read is for analysis, third read is for true understanding. And he read The Road three times so he truly understands it now

Waldun, Clark, Spencer, Blake, Casey, I know you all read these threads. I want you to know the camera he gave me works well, although I might just sell it. You're all at fault for Robin's pseudness, as am I, stop enabling it. He's NGMI

>>18836742
very true. empty vanity is eternal

>>18847194
Not sure who the other guys are, but you're telling me Clark isn't a pseud?

>>18848155
I meant he enables Robin to be a pseud. Clark is as big of a pseud as they come, pure dilettante.

>>18848584
Do you think someone in his entourage came up with the term "thinky thinky" or did he learn that at Melbourne Uni?

>>18836186
Holy shit can this bugman consume product OR WHAT!

>>18837666
holy based

Quite literally made for BBC

>>18847194
> Clark, Spencer, Blake, Casey,
literally who?

Guys, remember to live that goon life daily.

>>18847194
Cooper Barron literally stfu, you cocksucker. why dont you start minding your own business? before you drown on that petty-ass jealousy of yours along with the bottle of shit of whatever alcohol you use to drown yourself out of the fact that you're a fucking nobody.

Just let this thread already die. Holy shit. I hate you youtube watching faggots so much. Sage

>>18850387
Looks like he got your number, hapa boy.

>>18850179
I don't know who the others are, but Clark is Clark Elieson, a dark academian youtuber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6L1CRP5AKw

>>18836198
yeah fuck all larp niggas last friday i saw a clown copycat of bob dylan i wanted to hurt him badly later i was told he was smoking a pipe i said i wish I could shove that pipe down his throat the absolute lowlife i so despise larpers and copycats anons

>>18850630

>>18850387
Elliot Aldwyn
Fernanda Martins Da Silva
Ned Hoang
Eidi Hibro
Timo Pfestorf
jeremiah andrews
Susan Sylvester
Qinthara
Ziyan Ye
paul
Jeffrey Anderson
lucidzen
Abdulrahman M AlZamil
Tiffany P
Jeesoo Kim
Ashley Gallaher-Pollard
Ryan Bloomfield
Jane Cooper Ford
Cooper Barron
Lennora Gray
Thomas Collingwood
CitizenKane359
Andrew Powell
Rita Zerbinatti
Bryan Sutherland
Mark H
Maxime Bornemann
Abdul N Sana
Senia
Dorka
Axel Dockhorn
Kristie Worthey
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Ricardo
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Ayesha Ansari
Justin Raper
Micheal Argandona
Sam Propst
Georgia Ally
VIVIANA WAI
Joshua B
Yu-Han Sun
...
Who is Cooper Barron?

Imagine splitting his bussy open over the course of several minutes, then leaving it agape for a tender moment just before he squeezes it shut, excreting enough cum to fill two shot glasses which he downs with pleasure before finishing himself off -- alone -- while I go take a shower

>>18836186
is that a black lens? does this nigga think hes in metal gear solid or sumn ahhhhh

>>18850689


this guy: >>18850630

>>18850387
I'd rather be a nobody than a pseud.

why are you sucking on his dick still then? get the fuck off it and start your life you're still in love with him you sickfuck. get a life and move on, waldun doesnt love you anymore

>>18850846
Shitposting is too fun. Laughing at dilettantes is a fun activity.

>>18850712
that would actually be boss

It's so weird seeing Waldun's real inner circle come to defend his honor in this thread. Waldun is Rebecca and they're his Ivanhoe?

>>18850895
it's not even that it's just that this cooper shit is annoying the heck out of me

>>18850920
I feel really bad for Waldun. He opened up to Cooper, gave him an expensive gift, considered him a true friend.

>>18844045
same

stop shilling this fag
actually, on second thought, mods please ban op. its definitely him

>>18836186
cute twink ricecel

>>18839535
he talked about Waldun? link?

>>18836742
A scholar and a gentleman

Waldun typifies something quite sad about modernity, which is the ability to educate oneself without discovery. Old fags remember how when it came to anime or books or board games you had a group of friends and some forums or magazines and you learned through passion and dedication. About five years ago I decided I wanted to get really into film, the first time I really dived into something new since Web 2.0 and fuck man. The internet offers so much information that I can talk about French new wave or Italian neo realism etc without ever having seen any of those films. I mentioned this phenomenon to a friend in regards to Waldun after he said Waldun could name drop with the rest of them. You can read what you want but frankly there is no reason why a 16 yr old should be reading Proust and the stuff he reads, and if they are then it should be under a tutor of some kind.

tl;dr nowadays people learn lists of shit should they should now without any organic discovery and understanding

>>18852643
>lists of shit should they should now without any organic discovery and understanding
stop having a stroke

I want to FUCK Waldun.
Violent, bloody, shameful, gay, library sex.
I want to beat him up, just a little...and then fuck him!

>>18852658
Small typo retard. I understood just fine. He's also100 % right. Learning without a sense of discovery is terrible

uh... Waldunchads?

>>18852769
SOMEONE GET ME A LINK!

>>18852773
https://www.amazon.com/LAcad%C3%A9mie-R-C-Waldun/dp/0648963209/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1629041671&sr=1-1

>>18852773
>>18852871
HOLY SHIT SOMEONE PLEASE UPLOAD THE PDF!!!! FINALLYYYY!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!

>>18852876
seem like the ebook isn’t out yet unfortunately

>>18853047
And physical copies only ship on the 1st. Waldun doesn't know what he's talking about. The sneak peak is awesome though.

>>18853057
Waldun accidentally makes Eddington jaywalk in the first sentence.

>>18853057
I read waldun like I watch Tamers12345.
This is going to be fucking great.

>>18853057
WIAH WAIT WHAT
THERE ARE SAMPLES OUT ALREADY????!!!!!!

>>18853071
eddington! ahahahah

>>18853154
Oh, you didn't know?

>>18836186
Waldun has ironically become /lit/'s other chad, along with Quentin.

They need to collab.

>>18853171

>>18853175

>>18852773
>>18852871
>>18852876
>>18853047
>>18853057
Jokes on you niggas, I'm getting my physical copy on Tuesday

>>18853123
>>18853172
Imagine if this was just a big and elaborate shitpost from walduns part. What if it was all a big act? I'd say Waldun would actually become a chad.
But he's way too deep in it to ever back out.

>>18853187

>>18852773 #
>>18852871 #
>>18852876 #
>>18853047 #
>>18853057 #
Jokes on you niggas, I'm getting my physical copy on Tuesday

>>18836186
That shirt is wrinkled
Iron it

How many times does Eddington need to mention that he's wearing a smart gray blazer in the first chapter

>>18853205
>>18853228
Things like these make me believe in >>18853193

>>18853199
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What country?

>>18853198

>>18853199
I'm getting my paperback on Monday

> Tomorrow, Aug. 16
> Estimated delivery

>>18853248
> a beige blazer

>>18853255
>>18853199
I have to wait until the 1st. Why has Waldun forsaken me?

>>18853248
>>18853260
>>18853270
bros this is literary genius

>>18853270
Most the Amazon printers are in the US, I bet that's why it's so fast for us

>>18853314
Do you mean the UK? The US is getting it in September, the UK is getting it on tuesday

>>18853327
I'm in the US and Amazon is telling me that my paperback will arrive tomorrow. I can't buy the ebook until September 1 though

>>18853336
Wtf. What country is the Countdown-anon in then?

>>18853345
Waldun originally said that L'Academie would come out September 1. Originally on Instagram, he said that he printed 100 copies and would sell those on the street of Melbourne before putting it on Amazon. But I think there are lots of covid restrictions in Australia now so maybe he can't do that.

As for paperbacks coming in early, my guess is that Waldun fucked up Amazon's pre-order feature and only picked the ebook option and forgot to choose it for the paperback

4 days until l'academicies

>>18853366
btw I have both autism and no life so I will be scanning every page of L'Academie and posting it here

>>18853376
Based

>>18853376
Good man.

>>18853270

>>18853560

>>18853577
That's all for now. Who knew Waldun was so learned in history and linguistics

>>18853584
I wonder if the Man of History is a wh*te man and the Biochem drone students are Asian.

>>18836186
never watched a video of this man before, skipped to the last 4 minutes and i already hate him a LOT

>>18853057
That's awfully written. This is going to be great.

>>18852893
hilarious this guy thinks he is anything more than an a pseudo-intellectual poser.
writer: his writing is absolutely shit
speaker: his spoken command of the english language is awful
social critic: this moron has nothing insightful to say about anything

>>18853777
what the heck?? waldunbros...

>>18853777
You are speaking the truth. Those trips don't lie.
But the point's that we waldunchads like that. He's shit, dumb fags will buy his shit, he'll produce more shit, and we'll be able to laugh.

>>18853814
yes, seeing a man bat way out of his league and yet have thousands of followers is both hilarious and a striking reflection of the times.

>>18852717
>You learned through passion and dedication
>Organic discovery and understanding
>Learning without sense of discovery is terrible

This is just meaningless babble and he is absolutely wrong. It’s a better time to learn than ever faggot.

>>18836186
I kneel...

>>18836186
Why do zoomers have this love/hate relationship with online celebrities? It is very unhealthy.

>no emmie threads

fuck waldun

>>18853584
Lmao. Glad Waldun is now stealing ideas from British television shows.

>>18854630
>watches her latest video
>she's not cute anymore
Thank god Waldun has a few more decades of hotness in him

>>18853248
I want to like Waldun, seeing a young guy really trying to be /lit/ but oh my goodness is this writing terrible. This isn't like shitting on a real author because you find their prose too dry or stories uninteresting, it's like he's just learnt English and is adapting fictional diary entries.

>>18853248
>>18855012
A few things of this passage confuse me. For example, does he claim the man in the beige blazer is "playing smart" because he has a pipe? It seems like it's contraband in this world, but is it because it contains an illegal substance or because it's a Dark Academia accessory.

>>18853376
Bro, what time do you think you'll be posting the PDF? I really want to read it lmao it'll make me feel better about life.

>>18855028
>playing smart" because he has a pipe
one of the reasons it seems like ESLery (which he is) is because of errors like that. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like he was trying to convey something "playing smart, are you?" instead. Like the linguist was trying to pull something sneaky—smoking indoors I would guess, just from the context.

>>18855042
Maybe Wednesday morning my time

>>18853248
>>18853270
Is the Man of History autistic?

>>18853924
Did you not read the Waldun samples where he spits out linguistic jargon with no understanding? My statement is proven correct in front of your fucking eyes

>>18855080
Perhaps you're right, but let's stay on our toes. This is Waldun, we're talking about. He likes to subvert our expectations as shown mere sentences ago:
>The Man of History clapped as he made his way to the counter. Eddington stood silent.
>"You, there. Hey, put that thing away."
At this point, the reader is probably visualizing the man walking towards the counter and yelling. However, as we find out in the next sentence:
>The Man of History was at the counter, speaking to someone in a beige blazer.
Ha! Waldun plays with our expectations of space, time, and human interaction. Careful, for only the sharpest minds makes it out of L'Academie alive!

>>18855080
I thought that Jay and Jaiden were helping Waldun write the book and therefore it wouldn't be ESLy

>>18854630
this

>>18853584
This scene is very poorly blocked in general. You have no idea who is speaking, where they stand in relation to Eddington, or how the dialogue progresses in the physical world after Eddington attempts to leave.

>>18854630
Omg who??? She's perfect ... My waifu

>>18852893
>social critic
everything Waldun writes is about writing or drinking coffee in a cafe or being in a bookstore, there isn't an ounce of "social critic" in his body

>>18836537
It all makes sense now . . . .

>Amount of things that are interesting about Waldun
>Amount of posts that are made about Waldun on 4chan

These two phenomena share an extremely a-symmetrical relationship.

>>18852593
Seems like the video's gone now, but he hardly touched on him. He more or less said exactly this >>18838842

>>18836186
Why did he pick the same passage as the school of life?

>>18854693
Just like Hideaki Anno
https://youtu.be/LB12HNNDDcc

>>18853270
The prose is a genuine improvement over the other examples I've seen posted previously. None of those annoying attempts to be witty.

The issue is there's nothing here to make it seem dystopian. It's something you see in a lot of amateur dystopian fiction: they want to cultivate a disturbing society but they identify too strongly with their character so they can't make them suffer. So they give their protagonist a privileged position in their new society and the reader is always kept an arm's length away from the actual oppression, or they go with this route, and they create a "dystopia" in which one of their obsessions receives an unhealthy amount of fixation from the rest of society. And so, in the absence of physical deprivation or pain, it starts to look an awful lot like the author's ideal society, and it's one wherein the author themself ironically lands at the top.

Something tells me that this is going to be a lot like Divergent, except instead of being for mediocre girls who want mediocrity to be a societal ideal, it'll be for intellectual waders (self-proclaimed renaissance men multi-potentialites) who want intellectual specialization to be demonized. Something tells me Waldun will be projecting in this book, essentially proclaiming that people who simply memorize things to get high grades or good careers are somehow less intelligent than more "creative" people, except Waldun doesn't realize he does the former to make people think he's the latter.

>>18856555
>Waldun doesn't realize he does the former to make people think he's the latter.
Amen

>>18856555
>Waldun doesn't realize he does the former to make people think he's the latter.

trips of truth

do you guys seriously think any of you are in any way LESS of larping pseuds than this guy…? do fucking any of you have opinions that aren’t the consensus on this board? enjoy watching your youtube videos lmfao

>>18856555
>proclaiming that people who simply memorize things to get high grades or good careers are somehow less intelligent than more "creative" people, except Waldun doesn't realize he does the former to make people think he's the latter.

Wow, anon. Concise and perfect reading into his entire schtick, with the trips to boot.

>>18836186

Why do slopes all adopt a Cher accent? Is that supposed to make them sound white? Tim Pool does the exact same shit.

>>18836186
KYS Waldun. Everyone HATES you.

>>18845778
SUSPEND YOUR THINKY THINKY

>>18837666
>>18837681
>>18837699
>>18837731
lol who is this schizochad and why is he so good

Stop posting this mutant freak

You niggas have yellow fever like crazy

>>18857934
youre on 4chan . . .

>>18857948
Shut up vermin

>>18856555
> Something tells me Waldun will be projecting in this book, essentially proclaiming that people who simply memorize things to get high grades or good careers are somehow less intelligent than more "creative" people, except Waldun doesn't realize he does the former to make people think he's the latter.

This is certainly true, however, I believe that there's an additional component to this.
1. In past interviews, Waldun praises the """well-rounded intellectual"""" that are unlike the rote-memorization robotic non-creative intellectuals at his high school. However, he has a fixation on those well-rounded intellectual's girlfriends. When he says that they live life, he mainly means that they have romantic interests. I believe that what really drove Waldun to literature was a belief that if he became a dark academian, he would get a gf

2. I think he's using Jay as a surrogate girlfriend, or at least a surrogate apprentice. He tried to have a similar relationship with Cody but it didn't work out.

3. When Waldun talks about why he is studying English literature, and he doesn't talk about what exactly he likes about books. I've actually never heard him analyze a passage, he always just says something like, "that's so good" or "I really like the aesthetic." Instead, it seems like he believes that becoming a scholar of literature will transform who he is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFVAsKST0s

>>18836186
I find it difficult to watch his videos because of his enunciation. He pronounces 'th' as 'd', among other things, and slurs his words quite a bit, and it's difficult to listen to

>>18836186
>look at me, I dress like a foppish old sartorial dandy now don't I? Care to palaver while we peregrinate upon the greensward? I must be soooo literary!

>>18858087
also that penguin edition of ulysses he has is bad. It is the "corrected" edition which Joyce didn't approve

>>18858071
Sneed, your videos are always great lad, keep them up. can't wait for the full learned disguise review

>>18855307
Poseurs like Waldun have always existed.

>>18858087
That's intentional. Most people don't know this but Waldun is a member of Mobb Deep. He's just speaking Dun talk

>>18853270
>hat's off to you
didn't this nigga brag for a straight year about having an editor

>>18858137
you think that he's using the idiom hats off to you, which means you're impressed by someone, but that only shows what a pseud you are. The Man of History is clearly saying that Eddington does not have a hat, therefore, the hat is off to you

>>18858071
kek this was fantastic, as always. And as crazy as your theory sounds, there is perhaps nobody that knows him better than you do lol so I buy it. When is the full learned disguise video coming out?

>>18858071
he's not self aware. You begin to really hate yourself if you're self aware and still decide to be like this

>>18858172
>>18858107
I had hoped to get the Learned Disguise review done a few days before L'Academie was released, but as I will be getting the book tonight and then scanning and uploading the pdf, Waldun has beat me to the punch. Still, I plan to get the entire review done a few days before September 1

ourguy KDBooks lives in Wales so he should be able to get it early. Someone needs to tell him that he can already order l'academie so we can get his review ASAP

also what idg is why a guy who's cultivated a lit pseud persona would want to be known as the writer of badly written sci fi. it doesn't even have a compelling premise.

>>18858185
>I will be getting the book tonight and then scanning and uploading the pdf
Unbelievably based. Eagerly anticipating your video. Godspeed anon.

lol what fags

>>18858319
Where did you get this from?

>>18856555
> None of those annoying attempts to be witty.

There's a passage in Learned Disguise where Gretel chases a stray goose. At first, I thought this was ESL humor, because it's a literal wild goose chase, oh ho ho ho ho. But then I watched Waldun's historical humor video and I found out that he thought the act of chasing a goose down a street in a historical setting was itself funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdl2EgrBWM

>>18858392
it's from the short book he's just released with the other two
https://www.amazon.com/Theres-Tale-This-City-Khan/dp/0648963225/

>>18858403
> Jay, the restless wanderer, rocks the lives of two strangers by introducing them to the strange world he has stumbled across-the streets of Melbourne. Rick, the bookworm, is torn away from his mundane academic life. Johnny, the paranoid poet, is released from his small-town worries.

I wonder who Jay, Rick, and Johnny represent

collab when

>Which he collected, and used, to feed.
what? at least Waldun can be excused as an ESL

>>18858457
What the fuck. Should I try to get published? These guys suck, even I could write better

>>18858526
There's a reason they've self-published.

>>18858403
they had to review it themselves lmfaoooooo

>>18858560
Jesus that is just sad. He could have at least gotten fans to do it or something

>>18858560
holy shit that is disgustingly embarrassing

>>18858634
Waldun has at least 40 fans on his patreon. He should've asked some of them to write reviews

>>18858403
> written by Jay Khan
Why is this written under a fake name for Jay? He used to write under his real name, Jay Ventress

Real name novel
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08FWY3TVR/

wtf he changed his Instagram name to Jay Kahn Ventress
https://instagram.com/jaykhanventress

Almost four days of seething now. I'm thinking he's based.

>>18858319
fuck i thought this was a canadian thing only lmao
glad to see our cuckoldry has spread across the globe

>>18859032
Don't tell me that's his gf's surname...

>>18858560
it's ok because it's funny and they did it ironically haha

>>18858403
>Publisher : Literary. Publication

>>18858185
Did you ever know that you're my hero...

>>18859118
No, thankfully. His gf is Echo Liu.
https://instagram.com/itsjust_echo

>>18859124
That's how you. Know. It's. Literary. BOOM!

>>18859154
FK YOU!

>>18837178
Journey to the west is based
>>18843142
You write poetry about fucking boypussy

>>18837666
motherfucker I was going to do this

good job

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnXvPypk37/

Jay is going to make the L'Academie audiobook. What is the special clue word? My guess is strapon

>>18857875
JG Ballard

>>18853248
The hell is this

>>18858395
Holy fuck that last bit made me cringe like a fucking maniac. Nice editing anon

The earnest staring towards the audience while hoping for a laugh and the seeming eternity between Waldun laughing and the guy recording him laughing. Holy fuck what cringefuel.

>>18859267
It's their other book, not L'Academie.
https://www.amazon.com/Theres-Tale-This-City-Khan/dp/0648963225/
>>18859304
heh

>>18859145

Of course he goes for some ugly ass asian bug girl.

>>18859585
And of course you have absolutely no-one for a girlfriend

>>18859628
Better to be alone than poorly-accompanied

>>18858071
>both of his pals have Asian gfs

we should rewrite the learned disguise for waldun

and also le academy

>>18859145
>echo liu


Was that a westernized version of the name Liu Liu?

>>18859965
She's jewish

>>18858403
we are being overloaded with Waldunkino

>>18860505

Truly

>>18858457
>>18858560

This is unironically the most pathetic, contemptible, embarrassing thing I have ever laid eyes on.

SNEED! SNEEEEEED!!!

>>18858071
>he would get a gf
Waldun wants to be a person who receives invitations to give lectures at prestigious universities, but he would most likely settle for magazine interviews. I'm guessing his ideal spouse is one that he rarely sees or talks to, because he's so ~*~passionate about his writing~*~ that he doesn't need human affection.

He's a pseud. Not difficult to understand. Intellectuals study reality or art and make interesting observations which reveal the deeper meanings of these works to the masses. Pseudointellectuals study intellectuals and make efforts to imitate them in the hopes of gaining respect (eg a gf). What sets Waldun apart is that he has the courage to do this in front of an audience, whereas most of us only do this to people we know IRL, after we've gauged their intelligence and education and we can be reasonably confident that they're not going to catch on to us.

Apart from that he is no different than any other literary pseud. He had a fixation on publishing a short story compilation, he tends to go on and on about how a famous story made him feel (as opposed to offering a personal interpretation of the symbolism or themes), and he dresses like a jackass from a hundred years ago. I doubt that he legitimately enjoys reading, I think he just lacks the discipline to study math or science or even psychology.

I'd like to elaborate on my first point for a moment, about the short story compilation. You see this fixation a lot on writing forums. Amateurs tend to really, really want to publish one right out the gate. Probably because they assume the short length means less work. It's basically the hallmark of someone who wants to have written as opposed to someone who wants to write. Because having gotten a book published indicates a certain level of intelligence and insight, and the less familiar you are with books, the more impressed you are inclined to be with the publishing industry. So people like Waldun have this notion that they can write a short story (something which they incorrectly perceive as simplistic, like Raymond Carver's Cathedral) about once a week and then publish it and people will be impressed. Only the really, really shamelessly bad authors actually attempt to do it though, people with self awareness tend to notice imperfections in their writing and attempt to fix them, leading to a genuine desire to produce quality fiction.

>>18861958
That short story point you made is pretty true, but I disagree with it a little. I think the short story is a good format for young writers to adopt when starting out-- but only if they're being written correctly. This is because the *correct* method of writing a short story involves obsessive editing and plotting. It may be 10 pages, but those 10 pages need to be incredibly high quality. The short story is a much more forgiving teacher than the novel is; if you want to fundamentally change the skeleton of a short story, it's a much less arduous undertaking to rewrite than it is for a novel.

Short stories are ridiculously hard to write, and I think they really serve as more of a filter for young writers than anything else. Depending on what you're able to learn from them, they can be a kind teacher or a cruel mistress.
>t. been writing a short story for the past couple of days

>>18858071
>if he became a dark academian, he would get a gf
Hasn't he admitted to being a volcel?

>e celeb thread
>300 replies
/lit/ truly is /v/ for pseuds

>>18862066
>This is because the *correct* method of writing a short story involves obsessive editing and plotting.
Your fundamental point is correct, it absolutely is a mistake to think that a short story doesn't deserve the same level of focus and thought as a novel, and a beginner writer should take advantage of the short length to understand the purpose and process of editing. But I think you're mistaking my point. I'm talking more about motivation than actual production.

People who really, really want to write will start with short stories because it requires less time investment and it's more manageable. People who want to be seen as writers will start with short stories because they misunderstand the process, and probably aren't even aware that they can 'edit' something they've already written (obviously Waldun realizes this, he updates old blogs sometimes, but he probably thinks editing just consists of replacing mundane words with fancier ones). They think they can just devote one afternoon to a story and then forget about it, and then repeat the process until they've produced a novel's worth of material. Or they can kind of edit on a rotating schedule, gradually changing each story until they can think of nothing else to change. And then compile them and sell them, not realizing that the compilations they see from famous authors are the result of decades of magazine submissions and that each story was a unique project, not a part of an effort towards a larger goal.

It also explains Waldun's choice of subject matter. Going back to Raymond Carver's Cathedral, it would be easy to mistake it as nothing more than a description of an interesting evening in the author's life. It's set in a mundane home and there's no violence or real conflict. It's so accurate and dry that it never occurred to me the first few times that the author might have invented the entire evening. It's only later that it occurred to me that the author had something to say besides "wouldn't it be difficult to try to explain sight to a blind man?" So someone like Waldun sees a story like that and knows that it's considered high literature, and probably does legitimately enjoy the story when he reads it, but never gives it any deeper thought. Very few people would at his age, I certainly didn't. So he's convinced he need only transcribe events from daily life, with a few details changed to spice things up, in order to eventually stumble across "good fkn literature DAMN YOU" or whatever he said in that one screencap.

>>18836186
Don't even fool yourself to think i would listen to a non fellow celt lecutre me on what the far sniffer meant.

>>18861958
>>18862066
>>18862194

His retardation engenders greater discussion than most high-brow lit does on this board.

>>18862788
Waldun unironically brings out the best in us.

>>18857182
Suttree is trash.

slowly scanning the book, will update the file as I go along

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vOsrf55Wc_Vg3awyrT7Qbha6GQ0mNWL0/view

>>18863312
You are doing fantastic work anon, at this rate /lit/ will have the pdf before the ebook is even out

>>18861958
>Intellectuals study reality or art and make interesting observations which reveal the deeper meanings of these works to the masses. Pseudointellectuals study intellectuals and make efforts to imitate them in the hopes of gaining respect (eg a gf). What sets Waldun apart is that he has the courage to do this in front of an audience, whereas most of us only do this to people we know IRL, after we've gauged their intelligence and education and we can be reasonably confident that they're not going to catch on to us.
Nice observation, I agree.

>>18863312
Kek, shit like this is why I love this board. Where else on the internet would you find this type of thread??

>>18863312
>Everything else was gray: his shirt, his bedsheets, his nightstand.
not exactly proust is it

Does anyone have a theory on how he doesn’t seem to realize that his writing is so poor, despite the fact the he seems to read a fair amount of books? I do understand the he wants to be seen as a dark academia scholar (or social critic like in >>18852893, kek) and therefore will name drop books he has read whenever he can, but even if we take that into consideration he must be reading more than the average dude. Heck, probably even more than the average /lit/ visitor. I’m not sure if I could write a book much better than he could, but how come that he is so utterly incapable of seeing how trash his writing actually is while I, on the other hand, can?

>>18863312
good lord that typeface is enormous (and amateurish). there are less than 200 words on page 10, when you should be able to cram at least 70-100 more on there without impacting readability. this screams novella-masquerading-as-novel. not off to a good start waldunbros

>>18836214
The equivalent of a weeb would be a Jap who only watches capeshit and Calarts cartoons while going on and on about how cultured America is because he saw a guy dressed up as a cowboy at a tourist trap one time.
At least is interested in actual western culture.

>>18863482
i think that some people read a lot but retain/”get” very little to nothing. waldun might be plowing through the classics but nothing sticks, it’s just words flashing by. his mark of quality seems to be ”hearty chuckles”. i appreciate good prose, it’s the main reason i read books long and short, casual and difficult, but i’m totally blind to things like themes and ideas. i, on the other hand, have made peace with my brainlet fate, while waldun keeps battling the little bugman inside of him. commendable, but that ulysses vid sealed it for me: he has no sensibility for literature

>>18837166
>>18837166
nick please get sttav off of the podcast, he is not funny.