Browsing the threads, I saw a couple of scattered ones sharing personal works, but I couldn't find a dedicated thread. I guess I'll just make one.

I encourage any and all to share their own works of literature, whether they are books, poems, short stories, or anything of the sort! I'll start with mine, a book and likely a series that has not yet been named. It takes place roughly 500 years after a cataclysmic event that wiped 90% of humanity off of the earth. It follows a man who's goal is to find a natural death, but cannot because what remains of humanity is immortal. It's still in it's extremely early stages, only having one roughly written chapter that will likely be changed in the future.

I am interested to see what works of literature the dollars have produced!

Oooh, that sounds like such an interesting novel I want to read it already :00 Be sure to update if you get a publisher :>

Also in some kind of stage regarding longer prose, have a series semi-planned (ie at least a trilogy but sometimes I doubt three will be enough for the way threads tie together to make sense so -shrug-) around an urban fantasy setting (admittedly standard fare there, vampires, mages and shifters of various types), with a violent disease tearing through a hidden society beneath our own and forcing it into public knowledge - half my problem has been cutting The Lore down, started on it when I was a teenager and now it's like... Well, this needs to be burned and rewritten from scratch.

I thought about sharing a poem I had displayed at an exhibit last year but it turns out my feelings towards this particular worl have changed in that time (ts is so personal why did I allow it into public ;-;) so it's only my fave lines

I never found the way my body fit around me to be a burden / until I realised I was living in a haunted house / and I tore the ghosts from my body into snarled words, sharp mirror shards hurled at the world / if they cannot see me without the ghosts I would rather they not look at all

That's the fun of writing a book though, isn't it? Having some grand epiphany about your own lore, almost as if you are the reader and not the writer, then going back and rebuilding it with your newfound knowledge. It is a riveting process, at least for me.

Ah see but that can also be considered a good thing. It's something that you can look back on to examine your growth not just as a poet, but as a person.

Though I know nothing about poetry myself, I think that you are quite good at it based on those lines.

If anyone is looking to get into a short read I just finished The Stranger by Albert Camus. Its a little over 123 pages and its probably one of the better books I've read in awhile.

While the plot revolves around a murder on a French Algerian beach its more about the development of the man who committed the murder as his case goes through the legal system. No spoilers of course but the main character has a very "comme ci, comme ça" (neither here, nor there) attitude towards life. In the real world if I talked to the guy I'd find him rather boring but putting him in such an odd situation makes him remarkably interesting to dissect. Definitely recommend if anyone enjoys books with a lot of introspection on the topic of existentialism, or as Camus puts it: "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd".

I like this one! Read it late 2025 and was really engrossed. Cool to see it getting the recognition it deserves!

how to pursue a lit degree at home like the stuff people learn in oxford edinburgh cambridge and harvad like everything incl theory and all the stuff lmao pleaseeeee

use annas archive to find book, and every other online resources you can find. but annas archive is a top ten tool for sure fr its like a mega online library thats open source. Go after the knowledge, and the degree shall surely follow as a byproduct.

do not look into truth. it is a waste of time, focus on learning which can be converted into making money. this way you can guarantee that centralized power will not come after you. no matter what do not look into the paper trail of many american federal agency operations and what devastation it brought. do not look into authors who though dedication to truth above all gave their lives to share their research such as the late great David McGowan author of the superb book Programmed to Kill. which lists many american serial killers and how negligence from the government allowed the further suffering of many more americans. Tracy Twyman was killed for her research and books related to the satanic ritual sacrifice of children for harvesting of loosh and other occult energies. as the anon above said anna's archive it the place to find all this information. just focus on other things than what our goverments are involved in or else they will silence you. especially in the age of palantir and larry ellison zionist hellscape only predicted by goated visionary such as the mind behind Psycho-Pass

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I found this essay fascinating, really gives depth into how the many people around me thinks. My perfectionism causes me to be sloppy, never getting anything done. While the bare-minimum casual folks doesn't bat an eye when something isn't immediately beneficial to them, resulting in what we deem neat. The fact that it was published in 1980 hits harder that this has been true for all ages.

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

I realized since I started reading lots as of late, I'm just gonna start making threads about each of the passages I've encountered here on this board.

Its about an employee in a big corporation that was supposed to be transferred into a new division after his old one got disbanded, but due to an error from management, never got assigned a new one. So the story follows his experience living his office job without an actual job and the ordeals he went at great lengths to not arouse any suspicions from HRs.

This story is (according to secondhand sources on the internet) was posted on somethingawful forum in the early 2000s and went sorta viral back in the day to the point of getting shared and reposted everywhere, the OP (original poster) eventually deleted their account (presumably due to being afraid of getting traced IRL) and all their posts. These archives are what remains and has been reposted countless of times.

Hey if you're looking for something to change your life, read The House in Fata Morgana. Just read it and look up nothing about it so it shocks you.

Fatamoru is amazing, and I know other fans might dislike it, but I do recommend (if you're the sensitive sort) to look up a list of content warnings for it. It can be a bit much.