Anyone know where I can read this for free? Not paying for a pdf.
https://kallidorarho.itch.io/warhound-volume-oneYou can't pay $7 to support an artist whose work you want to consume? Okay cheap fuck.
>>751102Nope. Also when I finish my book I am posting it on here for free.
>>751104So? That's your personal decision, while for others it's their way of makind ends meet.
>>751149No offense but using art as an economic means is kinda shallow especially in this day and age.
You earn more working at fast food and that's saying alot
At that point it's just laziness.
>>751158How much you make depends on the artist. Also art is very demanding, but you wouldn't know that.
>obscure scifi anthology only on itch
your best best is searching for it on #bookz on undernet through irc or just ponying up the money uygha
>>751160Just because art is demanding doesn't mean it's viable as economic means.
There's a lot of people who make art and post for free. It's like having to pay for erotic pics when there's plenty of free erotic pics online.
Anyone who wants to make money as an artist better be into multimedia or something. Static images are not gonna cut it
>>751097Here you go, king.
>>751162It's on zlib. Looks like enough people cared. That's cute.
>>751102Sorry Peter Thiel, not giving you another data point directly tied to my legal identity to molest with big data.
>>751163There are thousands of people who get rich off of selling their nude images online and millions try. It's not to be discounted.
>>751102its not really that much nd its not going to fund some corp slop
>>751169>There are thousands of people who get rich off of selling their nude images online and millions try. It's not to be discounted.Those are the outliers. Those are the lucky few who have a small clientele of simps with fat wallets. The average Only fans content creator gets merely pennies for their pics.
>>751169> kingS poster is a girl.
>>751149>>751149If it makes your petit-bourgeois arse feel better my rich american friend just paid for it for me
>>751097It's literally free on AO3 I saw 10 seconds reading the comments
>>751170I agree but it's good practice to avoid using digital banking as much as possible. Every single digital banking purchase you make is heavily monitored and stored indefinitely by some of the worst people to exist, who in turn sell and leak it to the rest of the worst people alive right now. Any given purchase may not be a big deal but it accumulates into a unique profile that will tell an awful lot about you because big data is a thing.
>>751097Ugh this shit isn't even good, I feel dirty for having read it, just because some freaks on bsky said it's 'deep' or 'lifechanging' or something, it's just lurid repetitive BDSM slop
>>751235Let me enlighten you on the amazing insights on the human condition I have cleaned from reading like 30,000 words of this
>Everyone has a submissive side and a dominant side (except my Mary sue evil dom character)… I bet you didn't know that<Did you also know that everyone has le good virtuous side, and le evil pervert predator side?Wow truly amazing concepts
>>751241It's erotica isn't it? What did you expect?
>>751241This is how a lot of these S&M fanfiction stories are
>>751235>>751241thinking pornslop is deep arises from soylennial ressentiment against the puritanism of mainstream US culture + being illiterate and not progressing beyond reading more complex literature than YA novels
>>751302Actually, most historical literature is kinda along the lines of YA
Also, how are soylennials illiterate?
There's a difference between not knowing how to read and reading slop.
>>751305I didn't mean literally illiterate but forgot that literacy rates are actually declining in the United $$nakes. what a time to be alive.
you aren't wrong but I didn't mean that you have to read le great book classics of the western canon to be have a refined engagement with literature. a lot of the shit that people read in public schools arguably has overlap with YAslop but just happens to be written better on a technical level, unfortunately. this is very evident if you try to read a lot of English literature for instance; so much of it is tedious as fuck. this is because Anglo-Amerikan culture is ontologically reddit.
>>751308People always say literacy rates are dropping yet, from what I see, there were less kids who attended school back then.
Even now, a lot of adults who were born from the pre-Internet days have a hard time reading.
Meanwhile, Internet kids from millennials to Gen Beta are writing walls of text using fancy words or writing novellas.
Also, Anglo American culture is not ontologically Reddit.
I compare it more to Christian political science websites.
Also, irony is, a lot of our historical writers were quite illiterate themselves and often had to have translators or aides help them.
>>751097Is mlm mechsploitation a thing? As someone with a petplay kink the concept interests me but everything I've seen so far seems like it's written for and by lesbians, which I am not.
>>751325You have no idea the kind of English people spoke in the old days.
Alot of it was broken.
In fact, the reason why have dialects and accents is because of people being illiterate.
Also, words change in spelling and pronunciation.
Alot of the standard English as we know it since the late nineteenth/early twentieth century would be considered degraded English compared to the sixteenth/seventeenth century
>>751325Ebonics has declined in the past decade.
We still have slang but it's not "ebonic"
>>751327What are you talking about. That was a big point of contention in recent years about how "zoomer slang" is really just AAVE aka rebranded ebonics.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zoomerification>>751326I guess, but I think if you want to do well on your SAT vocab you should read books from the 1800s. They used to use a lot more big words. They're still words in modern English, just no one knows them anymore.
>>751330>>751332I mean just listen to rappers from the 90s to now and see how much more erudite everyone was lol.
>>751330
>What are you talking about. That was a big point of contention in recent years about how "zoomer slang" is really just AAVE aka rebranded ebonics.That's because millennials are being solipsistic. Millennial slang also has ebonics in it.
Also, those slang terms like "cap" and "bussin" and "frfr" are only part of zoomer slang, not the definitive part?
I remember back in 2012 when people were accusing millennials of ruining English with SWAG, YOLO, and other slang terms.
>I guess, but I think if you want to do well on your SAT vocab you should read books from the 1800s. They used to use a lot more big words. They're still words in modern English, just no one knows them anymore.In the 1800s, the grammatic formality that we praise now was looked down upon then.
Also, less people read back then. It was expected for rich people to read so of course it was more wordy.
If you really wanna be formal, go read King James Bible. Or any literary medium from before 1800.
I don't count 1800 as "classic".
It's too close to the start of electrification.
>>751334>>751332People complain about slang and modern neologisms but forget that language was built upon slang terms.
Every chronological era of civilization had slang due to illiteracy or ethnic pronunciations that eventually become formalized.
You'd be surprised how many standard words started out as slang.
>>751335>If you really wanna be formal, go read King James Bible. Or any literary medium from before 1800.Well like I said, 1800s English is still perfectly correct modern English for the most part, they just used more vocabulary, vocabulary that is still correct English.
>>751339Do you consider fourteenth century English to be correct English?
>>751340>Do you consider fourteenth century English to be correct English?It's not correct modern English. Ye is obviously not the correct form of you in modern English.
>>751341 me
I don't think I ever heard this comedy sketch before, I just independently came to the same observation years ago and now I just found it in a search.
>>751341Those guys probably had their letters dictated. You forget that writing and reading wasn't a common ability for most people back then.
Also, the grammar back then was more wordy because it was expected that literacy meant you were posh.
>>751348Again, the "deteriorating" of English is due to it going through an umpteenth change.
Original English was Celtic.
To Anglophonics from the fourteenth century, the language deteriorated in the eighteenth century
>>751326>You have no idea the kind of English people spoke in the old days.Colloquial use doesn't matter. What matters as a measure of comprehensibility is the written corpus. English literature became standardized shortly after Chaucer, when the previous court use of French had declined. In Germany you had a "high german" dialect used in most official writing, "low german" that was closer to various local dialect, but more or less standardized in reaction to baltic trade ramping up, and Latin, which was still in widespread use throughout all of medieval Europe.
All that is to say, people always tended to be literate when they needed to be and over the course of the middle ages increasing centralization and rising demand for intelligentsia naturally drove an increase in literacy. The mass literacy programs of the late 19th and 20th century obviously represented a tremendous leap in quality of life and workforce skill continuing to the modern day, yet what we're seeing now may be capital rescinding this privilege.
>>751365>yet what we're seeing now may be capital rescinding this privilege.Where and how?
If anything, capital is promoting literacy as a moral skill.
>Colloquial use doesn't matter. What matters as a measure of comprehensibility is the written corpusAnd most people weren't literate in terms of writing.
In fact, did you know that our famous Greek philosophers, whom were the foundations of western intellect, were horrified by the idea of plebians having the ability to write
When writing was introduced en masse to the plebians in the first century AD, the elders decried it as "dumbing down the youth".
Most language was strictly oral.
You had memorize everything in your head. Also, oratory was a skill that had to be honed.
Writing meant that oratory was no longer the only way.
>>751366>If anything, capital is promoting literacy as a moral skill.The state is not mobilizing to counteract the currently falling literacy rates in the US, which is as good as condoning them.
>*irrelevent tangent*Oral communication naturally has a wider range of comprehensibility, in others words people are usually able to understand many dialects similar to their own, not the least through the ability to adapt to the recipients. Writing in contrast is created with the express purpose to be legible to a current audience and a speculative future audience.
You see this in Mesopotamia, where Babylonian, one of the oldest written languages, became the lingua franca among peoples of different semitic tongues, then was slowly superseded by Akkadian over the course of centuries, while still remaining a popular literary language.
Writing, by its nature, simply needs to have a far higher baseline of comprehensibility and stasis.
>>751370Oratory back then was the same as today. You're using Donald Trump as an outlier example.
Barack Obama was a good orator.
Donald Trump speaks like an elementary schooler in his tone of voice not so much his vocabulary.
Also, I like how people use grade levels to determine academic maturity, as if though schoolkids' competency is determined solely by their age/school year.
I can tell you about Andrew Jackson, the founder of the modern Democratic Party. He was not a good orator. And he was from the nineteenth century.
>>751374>The state is not mobilizing to counteract the currently falling literacy rates in the US, which is as good as condoning them.Again, people say this but where?
Because I encounter more kids writing walls of text than pre-boomer elders and an write pages of words.
The literacy crisis has been advertised for seven, if not eight decades now.
>*irrelevent tangent*How is what I'm saying irrelevant?
Because it exposes that the previous eras you romanticize so much wasn't heralded by the intellectual elders who lived through it?
Also, oral language isn't always universally understood.
Can you understand Louisiana Creole in spoken form?
Or how about Caribbean Creole?
I can understand the spoken language of Caribbean Creole to a certain extent due to growing up with Caribbean relatives.
Had I not, I would have a hard time understanding them.
People have often complained about not being able to understand other people because of different accents or dialects.
>Writing in contrast is created with the express purpose to be legible to a current audience and a speculative future audience.
Graphemes are not the same as phonemes.
Graphemes have been changed to represent differing vowels or consonants.
Try reading English words in Japanese graphemes.
Difficult, isn't it?
We are used to the Latin alphabet because it's been lingua franca for Europe.
Or if you're in a Christian country, the Biblical names in their respective currently translated form, try them in the Hebrew grapheme system.
>>751375>Donald Trump speaks like an elementary schooler in his tone of voice not so much his vocabulary.I mean, he kinda does tho. I recall many instances of him using a word out of his typical vocabulary range and everyone always acts shocked he knows such a word. I can't pull any examples off the top of my head but I've noticed it on a number of occasions.
>>751380Maybe because people pay too much attention to his mannerism over his actual vocabulary.
He doesn't talk in slang he uses correct English except in rare instances where he slurs his words (dementia).
Have you ever seen his speech patterns before his presidency?
Like back in the 1980s and 90s?
>>751376Newgene I knew it was you even without all the very direct clues. You are the most contrarian fucker I've ever encountered, but it's cool, I dig it. Shine on you crazy diamond.
>>751380Also why do people think having a vocabulary of fancy big words is "mature"?
What's so bad about using plain, common non-slang words as your oratory?
If an elementary schooler does talk like Trump (in terms of his fluency) that wouldn't be so bad.
You have to admit that his speaking fluency is good.
Imagine if he used fancy formal words but had a scratchy stuttering voice.
>>751342Ye was used as recent as the early nineteenth century, which is pretty modern
>>751376>Again, people say this but where?See picrel. We should definitely also worry about numeracy, but 'muhricans have been so mindbroken by their calculus class, that it's socially acceptable to be contrarian about that.
>Can you understand Louisiana Creole in spoken form?>Or how about Caribbean Creole?You know creoles and pidgins form, when people need to be minimally proficient in multiple languages, right? If i met someone speaking it, we would probably be able to communicate in English, i don't know any other languages except my stupid yurop tongue and bits of latin unfortunately.
>Because it exposes that the previous eras you romanticize so much wasn't heralded by the intellectual elders who lived through it?Sentimentality is meaningless. What matters is that Bellum Gallicum endures, while Caesars propagandistic speeches don't.
>>751384>You have to admit that his speaking fluency is good.No it's not, no I don't. The only thing fun about Trump is he speaks off the top of his head so much. Most other politicians stick strictly to their prepared remarks and the teleprompters, but he hates reading.
He's not fluent, but he is authentic.
>>751387>See picrel. We should definitely also worry about numeracy, but 'muhricans have been so mindbroken by their calculus class, that it's socially acceptable to be contrarian about that.Why should calculus be mandated as numeracy?
How many adults do you encounter in the working world that can do calculus off the top of their head?
Why do people think that calculus and philosophy is automatically considered universally important for individual education?
Also, according to the graph, Americas literacy rates went back to the same levels as early baby boomer era.
I thought that when people talked about literacy decline it was a straight line down. It shows a curve with not much qualitative difference.
Methinks the real problem with academia is programs like No Child Left Behind.
Any sort of academic prep program that's executed usually results in less competent students.
People think kids are all monolithic in terms of skill sets and preferences.
Tabula rasa is the worst childrearing philosophy ever.
Calculus and philosophy should only be for kids who not only demonstrate a high level of understanding it but actually want it.
Mandating it for ALL students is never a good thing.
Otherwise, adult education should be mandated.
>>751387>You know creoles and pidgins form, when people need to be minimally proficient in multiple languages, right? >If i met someone speaking it, we would probably be able to communicate in English, i don't know any other languages except my stupid yurop tongue and bits of latin unfortunately.Can you understand anyone speaking with a (relative to you) foreign accent/dialect but in the same language as you?
>>751387Can you calculate your gross pay by hand? Without calculator?
I never took calculus but I can calculate my gross pay by hand.
>>751387>but 'muhricans have been so mindbroken by their calculus class, that it's socially acceptable to be contrarian about that.<he thinks Americans take calculusOh my sweet summer chile. I stopped math before I got to calculus in high school and I was on the upper levels at my school lol. You're only required to take 3 years of math and I was at trig when I got to 3 so I never took calculus. Lol, that you think the average American ever took calculus.
>>751391>Can you understand anyone speaking with a (relative to you) foreign accent/dialect but in the same language as you?Yes, in fact. Song is hard though.
>Tabula rasa is the worst childrearing philosophy ever.No, that one goes to eugenics.
>Calculus and philosophy should only be for kids who not only demonstrate a high level of understanding it but actually want it.Knowing at least the basics of these fields makes someone a more astute person in general. Revising this long-revered tenet of general education is perfectly in line with producing deskilled worker drones though. Childrens averseness to education is only a symptom of the hellish conditions created within public schooling.
>>751393Then it's probably "trig", that people lose their minds about, courtesy of the "education as rote memorization" approach often taken towards math.
>>751393Man yanks really live life on easy mode
>>751401>Then it's probably "trig", that people lose their minds about, courtesy of the "education as rote memorization" approach often taken towards math.Most Americans don't even get to trigonometry like I was saying. You do like algebra in middle school, then you do geometry, then you do algebra again. But I was like ahead of the pack doing geometry freshmen year so I don't really know what the rest of them were doing. I guess Algebra 1 and then it's 2? This is still not college level algebra.
>>751402I don't know if it's easy per se. It's a lot of fucked up stuff. Like we have to take this standardized test every year, not the SAT, just the state exams. Now this exam doesn't count for anything, so the kids just sit there and use the scantrons to make artwork with the bubbles. It wasn't until I was in high school and the school was like begging students to just get their parents to write them a permission slip that would allow the school to skip the test for the student, because apparently, the only thing the test counts for is giving your entire school a grade. So all those kids getting like a ~0% makes your shitty school have a shit rating, so even if you get straight As on your transcripts, the college will weight that by how shitty your school is. Now they're trying to do away with the SATs so that is solely what you are judged on.
Speaking of, I hate that shit, I've always been a "good test taker" because I actually know shit, but the average college-bound American complains about how they are "bad test takers" because they don't know jack shit. I always thought it was so unfair that in countries like Japan, the only thing that applies for college admission is the entrance exam.
>>751404Mane, I don't know if there are any true liberals that ever stepped foot in a public school lol. Like even all the teachers, I swear, if they're liberal, it's with an asterisk. They know how fucked up America is they live that shit every day. That shit will turn you conservative quick.
>>751302What are some good erotica that you would recommend?
>>751401>Knowing at least the basics of these fields makes someone a more astute person in general. To a certain degree. Irony is, the more invested in academia a person is, the more dull witted they are in meatspace affairs. Also there's a common misconception that high level academia generates empathy or color blindness.
It doesn't. Alot of our academic figures, past and present were racist, sexist, and were total fuckups in basic worldly affairs.
>Revising this long-revered tenet of general education is perfectly in line with producing deskilled worker drones though.You know that K-12 education system was invented for semi-militaristiv social programming?
>Childrens averseness to education is only a symptom of the hellish conditions created within public schooling.Children aren't averse to learning. It's just the style of schooling that hurts them.
>>751408>Also there's a common misconception that high level academia generates empathy or color blindness.I would argue it makes you more likely to agree with marxism or some form of liberal humanism, but you're absolutely right.
>You know that K-12 education system was invented for semi-militaristiv social programming?I was refering to the humanistic concept of "liberal education".
>Children aren't averse to learning. It's just the style of schooling that hurts them.How much self-awareness do you have about your own education. My experience is, that current schooling does work, if and only if you have good teachers. With a few teachers i've had bad grades most of the time and seen most of my class fail as well. In hindsight i can't really pinpoint what lead to these difference, except it never had to do with whether teachers were "strict" or "friendly". What i do understand, is that public schooling in low-income regions has long been on a pedagogical downward spiral and that i've had to commute to a relatively wealthy part of the city for that privilege and our school wasn't even that well-funded overall.
>come into thread about the AO3 fic that has all the trendy transhumanists getting into petplay and stepping on my puppygirl toes
>argument about English linguistics
Okay
>>751458Who cares about sex when you can debate about the much more transcendental problems of the limits immanent in language
>>751413>I would argue it makes you more likely to agree with marxism or some form of liberal humanism, but you're absolutely right.You mean absolutely left
>I was refering to the humanistic concept of "liberal education".What is humanism exactly and what is liberal education exactly and is there a "conservative" educational counterpart?
>>751465Cunning linguistics to the rescue
>>751404Thank you for noticing this.
Most Yankee schools are measured by the test scores rather than homework scores.
What's sad is that all that shit students are forced to learn isn't gonna help them in the adult world.
>>751401>No, that one goes to eugenics.Tabula rasa is eugenic in a way. It assumes that children are fresh warm clay to be molded by adults' whims without much thought to their limits. Children who show flaws/weakness in any area are often patronized or beaten.
There's a reason why kids confide more with counselors, coaches and teachers before parents.
Parents often wanna shut down their kids personal lives whenever kids have a slight hiccup in their lives.
>>751404
>How much self-awareness do you have about your own education. My experience is, that current schooling does work, if and only if you have good teachers. >With a few teachers i've had bad grades most of the time and seen most of my class fail as well. In hindsight i can't really pinpoint what lead to these difference, except it never had to do with whether teachers were "strict" or "friendly". >What i do understand, is that public schooling in low-income regions has long been on a pedagogical downward spiral and that i've had to commute to a relatively wealthy part of the city for that privilege and our school wasn't even that well-funded overall.I know this is gonna piss off a lot of people, but I think the real problem with public schooling in general is once again, the tabula rasa philosophy.
Kids are seen as monolithic golem physically, socially, psychologically, and even industrially.
Adults assume children's nature is age-based.
"They're five years old, what do they know about this?"
I've seen adults be completely dumbfounded at toddlers counting in double digits past the number ten.
Or just reading a few sentences with moderately formal words with ease.
It's not that incredible. It's nice, but it's not that anomalous.
The dichotomy of childhood and adulthood has become Greatly exaggerated.
And I blame our current pop culture that comicalizes children as supposing to be doofuses with no intuition or ability.
What's missing from public schooling is the right of personhood and individuality.
Peer pressure is due to adults dismissing and abandoning kids in a socio-physical purgatory. With no rights or resolutions for autonomy and industriality.
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