/culture/ - arts & literature

Does it have to be fiction books? Are you excluding manga?

I was thinking that but lets include animanga sure

1. Mishima's Sea of Fertility (Temple of Dawn might be my favorite)
2. Taira no Atsumori (the play)
3. Kobo Abe, Woman of the Sand Dunes

wow i need to read more western fiction oopsies

I just finished Shimeji Simulation.

It's been a long time since a piece of fiction moved me this strongly. I feel all raw inside.

I don't even know what to do next. I think I'll go for a walk and feel the sun.

Book: RuneScape Return to Canifis, the second of the original RuneScape novel trilogy. It's a very fun and interesting take on the RuneScape world, worth a read if you're a fan of the game. Probably not if you aren't.

Manga: Pokémon adventures, specifically the red & blue series. Again, a really interesting take on a well known universe. It feels a lot more alive and intelligent than the game, which is obviously limited by the game design. In battle a trainer is as likely to attack the other trainer as they are their Pokémon, which makes sense really. Two opposing soldiers have guns, do they aim for the gun or the soldier?

I just read A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck, finished it yesterday. If you want to experience existential dread, this is a good book.

I'm stalled on "Little, Big", the Otherside Picnic light novel series, and the complete Sherlock Holmes collection.

>>632
just finished the piano teacher liked the ending quite a lot. not sure if i relate more to erika or walter tbh.

I am reading Proclus on Plato's Theology translated by Thomas Taylor. I want to unveil the deepest secrets of number!

>>1656
I struggle to journal consistently. My head is full of schizo mind vomit. Right now, I'm trying to annotate holy texts. I genuinely want to experiment more with prose and my writing style but I always feel frustrated with it. And if I put stuff online, where does it go? Where to? A collaborative writing thread would be nice but sushi can be an inhospitable place to creative minds and those who think different.

>>1669
I'm not sure I could consecrate a journal to anyone in heaven. I don't know anyone in heaven. I know several saints, one who appeared in my dreams to encourage me, but I cannot vent my thoughts to them. I'd feel ashamed. I feel ashamed by schizo theories too. I could never send anything to a bishop. That would be worse. I have a bad relationship with clergy (there's no clergy in our religion but whatever) and I don't think they'd approve of my schizo theories.

>>1781
For the Catholic, there's a multitude of reasons for why you should present your private thoughts and schizo-theories to a saint:

1) We should bring everything to prayer. (Phillipians 4:6)

2) The saints are in heaven. Church Teaching is that the saints are enjoying the "beatific vision". They are seeing God fully, and so their heart's deepest desires are being quenched, and they know that these desires will be quenched for all eternity, and so they're incapable of experiencing any negative emotion. You can't interiorly disturb them.
(Confession: I want to disturb them! I actually want them to be shocked! I even used to want to see my bishop corrupted by my theories! Haha!)

3) The saints want to pray for you. They, out of love, want more people in heaven.

4) It's good to resist the prison of shame. Shame has this isolating effect. In the Catholic faith, it's believed that the devil can use one's shame to steer them away from confessing their sins, and returning to communion with God.
i) Shame closes you from asking for help. In the Catholic faith, it is taught that God wants to help you, but you have to ask for it. "He created you without you, but he won't save you without you" is the saying. Shame keeps you from asking for help.
a) One method for dealing with shame in the Catholic faith is to offer it up. In the Catholic faith, it is possible to request an ongoing offering of one's shame, and for it to be offered to God or a Saint of one's choosing, for a noble cause of one's choosing (e.g. for one's country, in reparation for sin, etc.) I used to be so burdened with shame, that I had difficulty with examining my behaviour in the day for my past sins. I requested an ongoing offering of these negative emotions whilst I did the examination of conscience, and I felt the burden lifted! I was free! Perhaps your religion has a similar capacity?
b) Another method might be brute-force. To list out the thoughts and theories that shame keeps repressed, and then create a dedicated time for sharing them. Intimidating, surely, but also, ultimately liberating.

Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

sadly, I had to ditch my physical diary to go completely digital, due to
- Never touching it for most the day
- Handwriting worst than the fucking holocaust

>>1662
I do the same thing, except I consider it useful, because writing the spiral out on paper means I'm not sending it directly to my ex or some other poor victim instead. For me, it's a core need, and it'll express itself one way or another eventually.

I have an ULTRA BASED thought journal, where I write crazy metaphysical proofs for things.
I would include something here but idk I'd want to make my thoughts presentable first.

The name Naomi is actually Hebrew and not Japanese. Give it back Japan! *bombs another hospital*

>>1770
Doesnt it come from India by way of Chinese (tai-fun)?

>>1771
>quadcopter should become quadropter
but that's missing the "spiral" part of the word, which is still present on a quadcopter. Quadro-pter would just be "four wings" which makes it sound like something that flies like a plane or bird.
Quadcopter works just fine as a contraction of "quad-helicopter"

Now, quadbike is a worse offender. "Four-two-wheels". Really? And it doesn't even have 8 wheels.

I am not sure if I already talked about this one here, but it is one of my favorites.
The word for pistacchio comes from greek pistakion, which in turn from persian pistag. The persian word also went through arabic as "al-fustuq" and reached Spain where it turned into "alfóncigo", while at the same time the greek pistakion through italian pistacchio turned into the word "pistache."
Thus, in spanish, there are two very different words for the same idea, and with the same etymological origin.
>>1771
reminds me of the "ornithopters" in dune, which they only mention by name and never describe. But the name is enough for a reader to make a mental image of them.

The proto-indo-european word "ḱr̥sós" went and descended down two separate paths to become both "horse" and "car"

>>1247
I'm a pretty big dude. Wanting to leave humanity behind.

>1) Where are you at?
I'm 182cm, 105kg, was 115kg a year ago but was way fatter.
>2) What is your goal?
Goal is to go back to 115, then 130 but leaner. Not lean, leaner.
Hoping to up all my big 4 lifts by at least 20kg each.
>3) What have you archived so far?
In a span of 4 years I went from 60kg, to my current 105kg.
Lifts are
OHP: 110kgx1
Bench: 165kgx3
Squat: 240kgx2
Deadlift: 250kgX3, strapless
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

I've been trying to do weights and cardio 5 days a week, I just want to get fit and lose some weight. I've gotten stronger and a better stamina but I haven't seen much weight loss. So I'm starting a calorie deficit (currently 75KG, ideal would be 55-60KG).

>>1247
>where I'm at
around 92 kg and able to run for about a kilometer before I feel like dying
>my goal
I guess 85 kg or whatever is enough to lose the round belly.
>progress so far
I'm at least down from 100kg and able to run more than 200m so that's nice
>next step in my master plan
uhh keep running and eat less junk I guess? This thread may have just motivated me to go outside so I guess I'll do that first, brb sushis.

back up to a 32 inch waist…need to either stop eating so much or accept my fate and buy larger clothing

I am at 170lbs, down from 195lbs at the beginning of this year. My goal is around 140-150lbs.

I tried taking Muay Thai classes late last year, but my shins and the bottom of one of my feet started getting unbearably sore, so I dropped out. The pain went away after several months of Calcium and Vitamin D supplements and taking it easy. I want to try again once I've lost enough weight to put less stress on my legs from the strenuous footwork.

i love blogs, especially reading old ones from the 2000s or 2010s that are long since dead. its almost nostalgic. i do want to create my own blog, but i'm unsure what service to use… blogspot? tumblr? medium..? if anyone can point me in the right direction i'll be grateful thanks thanks

>>1624
I want to start a blog too. I've been thinking of using bearblog. You can check it out.

>>1541
I do have a blog. Personal blogs + rss > "social" media

I've been thinking of starting my own blog for some time. A place to share my thoughts, musings, reviews, etc.
I feel like it's partially an influence of my time on Lainchan and my time watching Luke Smith's videos that I want to do something more inline with how the internet used to be. But yeah, having my own website where I post my thoughts feels like a nice idea.
"The internet was at its best when it was a place for people who read books" is the sentiment I've internalised from those two aforementioned sources. For me to be more of a reader, and to share my musings on my website, would be cool! :D

>checks link in OP

… Okay.

these books are a well-written catalogue of all the secrets of the Universe, written in non-esoteric language

the author was the head librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

>>1748
ill check it out :)

>>1755
good luck sushi! you should be a bit familiar with bataille and at least the basics of kant and such but that's ez

>>83
blinding isnt the main issue for me its the fact that i read a book right before bed to avoid screen time but the backlight is legit just blue light so its useless in that regard

I like Dune because it's cool. God Emperor of Dune is the greatest love story ever told. Sheeana is my favourite character. I always laugh when I imagine her standing in the desert hurling insults at a captive sand worm and stamping her feet. Or bullying the priests for treating the sand worms with reverence instead of calling them by the derogatory name that she forces them to use.

>>1761
Are you against using AI? I wanted to find the name of a film I watched on a plane-trip once, and I found it using a specialised AI that focuses on identifying movies.
If I were you, I'd google "film ai identify" or something and try one of those chatbots. Good luck stumbling upon a human being that knows this one thing you watched though.

>>1762
As much as I hate AI, I already tried with no results. It hallucinates too much and the conclusion I've come to is that I need a way to search by camera angle instead. It's such an usual choice for a suicide that I believe anyone who has seen the scene would be able to identify it.

these are all very cool, i wish i could draw like that

fuck me furshi rolls

my fake internet boyfriend doesn't have a fursona. the lynx i drew in >>1733 was originally for him based off of a really rough old drawing he did but i got really attached and now its mine

but now i want a fox fursona, if not just because i want to be able to give him a fursona

i have no idea what im doing. i need advice

also as seisatsu said foxes are really common so i need advice on making it unique. but simultaneously not ugly? the woes of 21st century man…

also ONLINE DATING IS SCARY qwq

i consult the oracle for guidance

>>1737
You don't have to be a regular red fox or gray fox. There's other less common foxes like the fennec fox.

>What are some creative species for fursonae that you think are overlooked?
I saw someone's sona being like a regular Ant, and it made me realize how little "common insect" sonas there is!

>>1704
pic rel i drew fan art of SHADOWFAX in paint :3

im feeling sad and my polish computer boyfriend isn't awake help me sushis qwq

>>1740
i guess bro