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What's up, wrote a poem and have no one to share it with so I'm dumping it here.

I will show you the hole;
the black earth and
the yellowing leaves
buried to my side,
as I stand waist high
watching families
visit their loved ones.

Beneath the mulch
and rotted bark,
they pass like
they were shopping
and without stopping
glance, as if
to almost ask:
"Who is it".

Spade sinks through loam,
and above guards
mute as stone
freshly etched rock,
its secret already known.

And below
entangled in shallow
pools dwell roots
disturbed from slumber,
having dreamt
in wonder.

Grave thoughts press
upon the mind, and
in a knotted rhythm
I find only time
to think of the past:
in the dying light
it shall be my last.

>>45239
This is nice, thank you for sharing comrade

>>44997
I would like to but it's confusing. I'm thinking of just using a company to self publish

>>45352
wrong. see watamote
but why would you even want to belittle your readers, be glad they bought your product!

>>45355
that's easy, gay rape, like the joker sequel

or here is a better one, don't write genre <- your audience will be more mature

>>45513
Wait its just a shitty gary stu face slapping story. Goddamn

I've been watching the handmaid's tale and for some reason it makes me want to write a Commando crossover fic where Matrix fucks up Gilead

wack.

>>45756
I had a bunch of funny ones from ao3 but I lost them, this is the only one I have on my phone

>>44997
I write "literary" fiction as well (though I haven't yet finished a novel) and I figure I'll never get anything published either.

What kind of fics/stories you guys been reading lately?
Been rereading a bunch of bnha fics from my bookmarks, seems to be in slow period of releases for stuff right now

>>45756
based

>>46103
*on cringe

>>46104
no u da not based

Anyone still looking for a reader? I have studied narrative storytelling a bit, I think I give decent insights and suggestions.

I'll be looking for some eventually. Unfortunately I haven't anything eight now but preliminary background for my fantasy world for the story I am writing, but I am down to converse about that as well.

>>46106
Preferably not fan-fiction. Rather read someone with aims of publishing. I don't read fanfics anyways. Haven't read one since I was a kid.

>>45513
>>44493
what the hell is crematorium, a cremation fetish?

Do you have any constructive criticism about my story so far? I am aware of a couple issues with characters not getting as much development as I would like because I had to cut their scenes due to plot / pacing reasons.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63403183/chapters/162445723

>>46151
Just read the last two chapters. The way you write the affini is genuinely terrifying. You might say most characters besides Minerva are underdeveloped, but as i see it most of her interactions with them are just very plot-driven and often more reflective of herself than anyone else. If anything is well fleshed-out it's the environments and spacial layouts of most places, your writing really conveys a sense of scale and complexity, No criticism here!

Which one of you wrote this? https://www.fimfiction.net/story/573394/billions-must-smile

Got my phone back after a month of being on a ward without an internet connection. Wrote this for one of the women here:

March gives way
to June; and
all the bitter
season of youth
Falls by blank
passage to a
sole proof: of
days wreathed in
loose threads
of ivy and
sycamore leaves,
whose soft foot
treads on
too-hard ground:

its rough Earth
the Eden of
your truth.

https://jpst.it/4niHw

Another I wrote on the ward, mostly as a fancy as there's no way to edit the verse so it was written for pleasure. The final line isn't fully mine.

The last thing I wrote before being admitted:

You have a shadow,
they cackle, but
I know that laugh;
its sharp harsh
whine which nips
at heels, heels,
and waits patiently
by the bed.

Little is said
greeting old friends
seeming as if
they never left;
I smile to myself
and think in secret
of the life
I have kept.

They are silent now,
the ritual throes
of passion spoken
they hang as if
flickering on the walls.

From the mantle drums
ticking, and as usual
their faces are hieroglyphs
scrawled in baited breath:

In the dark
I tell them all.

Last of these I'll post here: a failed verse on the false comparison between a medieval jewler and war.

What does he there
set upon the world
by that jewelers art?
-
To let dark night
by passion sparked
burn and shatter,
this cloister
scorched black
by racked coal
like witches pyre,
its white ore
witness to the beating
of a castanet's
falling ire.

Dust sweats
and settles this
blood gem'd crown,
ministering raw force
by Mars' princely state,
the wincing cry
drowning all sound
as light is drawn
by first breath:
baptised in the
Phlegethon,
and to fresh murder
shaped.
-
Set high that art
which by war wrought
and polished makes
of life's ends mistakes,
fathering no doctrine
save beauty unto death,
for beauty's sake.

has anyone looked into self publishing?

whats up with Fanfiction and bringing pseuds to the review section ?.

>>46282
no-historical materialism liberal incel who is seething at the thought of 7 foot tall women warriors lol

Matriarchal social structures exist in the weird transitional period between primitive proto-communism and early capitalism. Saying "matriarchy cannot compete with patriarchy" is like saying "indigenous tribal people in the Americas couldn't compete with Spanish settler colonialist nazis with more modern industrial era technology produced by a modern proletarian class"

>>46288
thats true, and every Point about how le bad were matriarchies apply to any underdeveloped mode of production.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31783615
Tragic Midna/Link at the end of Twilight Princess, plus a twist. All-around lovely writing with some especially standout lines and a couple of real gut-punch moments.

>>4040
>>4049
I tolerate the ubiquity of it out of noblesse obligé as a straight cishet man, but deep down, yeah, it kinda annoys me too. I don't mind the content itself, in principle, even though it's not for me; but rather the spiteful and, ironically, exclusionary atmosphere that often comes with it. Also the feeling of implicit hypocrisy in how this scene dominated by supposedly feminist women turns around and cheerfully fetishizes "queer bodies," to judo-flip their own lingo against them.

Some months ago I was listening to a podcast reviewing Santa With Muscles, the reviews described Hogan's character as a reaganite hero if not the quintessential reganite and since then this question has been eating me out: What would a (fictional) socialist hero be like? Who is the ur example of such thing?

>>46348
A discussion I remember seeing in the Kaiserreich subreddit on the topic of superhero comics in a symdicalist America suggested that socialist superhero teams would be a lot more prominent, and that whatever an individual's superpowers were, they would generally be complementary abilities that work better in conjunction than apart.

>>46348
>>46355
But also it should be noted that we have at least one openly socialist superhero already, and that's DC's Green Arrow.

>>46151
I finished my hatefic

>>46340
This was nice thank you

>>46358
I have started reading it I'll letyou know when im done
Also this human domestication world is fascinating it is drawing me in

>>46355
That sounds like the idea of socialism and outsider has plus I released I need to clarify something: I mean a socialist hero as a hero who is the product of a socialist society and not a hero who promotes socialism. That is the comparison that podcast about Santa with Muscles gave me.
>>46356
I have not been on this site in years but years ago an answer like this would not been made seriously. Are you serious?

>>46381
I don't read Green Arrow myself, but that's what I've heard from fans of his at some point, if I recall correctly.

>>46381
I won't dump the lore on you, but the Kaiserreich example WAS framed as "what kind of superheroes would the comics scene in a socialist USA produce?" and that was the most upvoted answer.

I love these titles

favorite edgelord sirlucifermorningstar came back to ao3 this time
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66261919

>>46453
ew

>MHA
100% ew

Many men spend a lifetime wishing for a warrior's death. Yet few in the modern era are granted this wish—unless they are soldiers, criminals, or perhaps cancer patients.

The cancer patient may seem out of place here, but make no mistake: to die of cancer is to die a warrior's death. It is a struggle to live pressed against an unstoppable foe—one so formidable that even humanity's most cutting-edge research, technology, and collective effort have yet to defeat it.

They call it remission, but the enemy is never truly gone. The risk merely recedes to a baseline of comfort, a semblance of safety. Like a jackal lurking in the shadows, like desert raiders stalking the night, like old debts returning to claim their due. The modern soldier rarely meets his adversary with naked steel; the cancer patient, however, is trapped in an endless siege, a battle waged across the very terrain of the self. There is no withdrawal without surrender. To fight is to endure constant assault—no clean kill, no decisive charge, only the grinding attrition of a war that rewrites the body with every battle.

Cancer takes no quarter. It observes no truce. It kills women, children, and men alike—the young, the old, the fragile, and the strong. It fells even the mightiest among us: leaders, brothers, those who stand as titans. Like a starving lion, cancer knows no politics, no finesse, no alliance. It exists only to rip, tear, and devour its opponent until nothing remains.

The cancer patient is the last defender at Thermopylae, the lone swordsman against the tide, the hunter staring down the starving lion with nothing but his own fraying strength. His heroism lies not in victory, but in resistance—sustained against an inevitable siege. Any man forced to face a tiger, a cancer cell, or a cavalry charge with only his will and his refusal to yield is, without doubt, a warrior among men.

When such a man falls, he does not fall to weakness. He falls because he stood too long against a force that would have shattered others far sooner. That is the warrior's death—not granted by chance, but earned in the holding of the line. To die of cancer is to die a warrior's death.

>>46502
I've thought this a lot. But I think it goes further. The real warrior's death is to die for whatever reason after fighting broad, intangible structural forces all your life. That's the hard path, and the one that is fighting against the real enemy. Capitalism is much worse than cancer because it limits people's lives by a few years, which accrues to be much, much more in the grand scale (this isn't to mention imperialism).

I finally finished my grace x alunya story. Thoughts?

>>46502
Glorification of suffering is cliche.
It feels of immaturity

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