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Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy
Well I think there was a whole one world government thing in Brave New World and they put all the complainers on some Galt island to go bitch in solitude. I like the concept of obstacle golf for making fun of poo poo. I should really read that book like they told me to in high school.

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Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!
maybe if you had you wouldn't have such a favorable view of unquestioned authoritarianism

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



i bet that motherfucker terry brooks ain't even a elf

Two Free Toppings
Jul 1, 2007

SUCK
THE
SHIT
OUT
OF
MY
OWN
ASSHOLE
Goddamn so if I want to write a book it has to be about a loser white dude in his upper 20s who drinks too much and gets depressed? Man that really only leaves room for one or two of the million identical aspiring writers typing furiously on their macs at Starbucks. Competition is going to get brutal.

What is also weird to me is that I remember the Guardian as being a pretty good read with a lot of excellent journalists. I think that's who Robert Fisk wrote for and his War for Civilization was a really awesome look at western intervention in the ME in the last hundred years. That dude interviewed Bin Laden twice (pre-9/11) and on another occasion got the poo poo beat out of him until some friendly imam or something saved him. Unless I'm remembering the wrong reporter maybe? Whatever.

This article is WAY lamer.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

frankly I agree and will not be satisfied until all literature is class and racially conscious nonfiction

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

as a white man i

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Peebla posted:

Goddamn so if I want to write a book it has to be about a loser white dude in his upper 20s who drinks too much and gets depressed? Man that really only leaves room for one or two of the million identical aspiring writers typing furiously on their macs at Starbucks. Competition is going to get brutal.

What is also weird to me is that I remember the Guardian as being a pretty good read with a lot of excellent journalists. I think that's who Robert Fisk wrote for and his War for Civilization was a really awesome look at western intervention in the ME in the last hundred years. That dude interviewed Bin Laden twice (pre-9/11) and on another occasion got the poo poo beat out of him until some friendly imam or something saved him. Unless I'm remembering the wrong reporter maybe? Whatever.

This article is WAY lamer.

The new editor has sais that she wants austrailian and american clicks. Theyve even started using american spellings in a lot of articles. RIP Manchester Guardian.

All their good journos hosed off a while ago.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

jeb lund, nuff said

green chicken feet
Nov 5, 2015

spray-paint the vegetables
dog food stalls
with the beefcake pantyhose
Grimey Drawer

Peebla posted:

Goddamn so if I want to write a book it has to be about a loser white dude in his upper 20s who drinks too much and gets depressed? Man that really only leaves room for one or two of the million identical aspiring writers typing furiously on their macs at Starbucks. Competition is going to get brutal.

Change your career to international superspy and after only a couple of decades you can write the next James Bond novel.

tenspott
Aug 1, 2002

by FactsAreUseless
I'm gonna trigger the gently caress out of you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtmi4Nc-3dE

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

quote:

It became about the fact that a white man should be able to write the experience of a young Nigerian woman and ... he should not be ... pilloried in any way

lol outrageous

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

yogizh posted:

Only cool whites are Slavs. :dealwithit:

since when have they been white?

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot
*eyes my catalog of amazon "literature" that brings in the big dozens of dollars a year*

*starts sweating furiously*

Berious
Nov 13, 2005
I'm glad my video games will only feature white dudes now because they are made by white dudes

Take that gamer gate

GORDON
Jan 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
I heard a male author once wrote from the point of view of a female character. can you loving believe that?

yogizh
Oct 12, 2015
Dumb Helicopter Joke Enthusiast

Worldshatter posted:

if slavs count as white does that mean it's okay to write about them or is it still evil cis white male scum behavior?

asking for a friend who needs to finish his novella

Worst things about Slavs are written by themselves. Write free (that is the only kind of good writing), nobody will give a gently caress blyat.
I am expecting a signed hardcopy.

yogizh
Oct 12, 2015
Dumb Helicopter Joke Enthusiast

Hogge Wild posted:

since when have they been white?

There is a theory that we are naturally bleached Asians who have more common with Indians or Iranians than with Celts, Germans and Anglo-Saxons.
Many words are similar to Sanskrt.

green chicken feet
Nov 5, 2015

spray-paint the vegetables
dog food stalls
with the beefcake pantyhose
Grimey Drawer
Also, no one can write about old age unless they are elderly. No one can write about death unless they have died. Books about the past are forbidden unless it's an autobiography, and books about the future are forbidden since you don't know what a future person's life is like. If you're a time-traveler, it's OK, though.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
I've never talked about "colour" you limey twat, its spelled "color"

Squashing Machine
Jul 5, 2005

I mean boning, the wild mambo, the hunka chunka
I'm angry at the lack of diversity and representation in works of fiction. I also think white people, men especially, need to keep their loving hands to themselves. If you see a white man working on a novel at the coffee shop, it is your moral duty to shove him out of his chair and write the novel yourself

Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

Without men writing the songs our female pop stars perform I fear that women's ability to express their sexuality will either disappear entirely or be informed solely by pornography.

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR
since it is easier and now more rewarding to be offended than it is to be educated, only one of these things will be common ever again

reflect on this and weep with me

mecum omnes plangite

gingrich
May 26, 2007

i'm the osiris of this shit

Applewhite posted:

Yeah this is like one of the things that bugs me the most. It's like, God help you if your protagonist isn't a Proud Woman of Color but you're also racist if you make your protagonist a Proud Woman of Color. This is one of those things that discredits modern liberalism as a perpetual outrage manufacturing machine and makes it hard for real social issues to gain traction.

it's intentionally contradictory because what they really want is for white people to stop writing and just go away. just go away white people and sit in the corner and don't do anything and let the overclass of jews and their coalition of angry minorities take over

house of the dad
Jul 4, 2005

It's important to me that white people don't do things that they enjoy so my crappy books and short stories about talking animals who fight crime with an 80's attitude can get published

LT56
Sep 9, 2016

by Smythe

gigawhite posted:

It's important to me that white people don't do things that they enjoy so my crappy books and short stories about talking animals who fight crime with an 80's attitude can get published

also i like pickles

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Lichy posted:

we are taught British English in the racist European world

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR

gingrich posted:

it's intentionally contradictory because what they really want is for white people to stop writing and just go away. just go away white people and sit in the corner and don't do anything and let the overclass of jews and their coalition of angry minorities take over

gingrich is not only spot on about how huge women's butts should be, but he also understands the true nature of most of the current social justice movements

whenever we have the discussion 'why isn't it just called equalism?' i finally know the answer

if all of the movements were one in the same, about true equality, it would not give people thousands of job opportunities to use their gender studies degree to become OFFICIAL CNN SPOKESPERSON ON WOMEN, OFFICIAL FOX NEWS BLACK GUY, FEATURED MSNBC RACE WARRIOR, etc, and all of those people would have to fight together, with actual equality, rather than with a new privilege: ALL THE JUSTICE AND MONEY IS MINE, I REPRESENT ____

ask me anything, i'm al sharpton. on behalf of all black people: give me one million dollars or i will call your company racist. will i give this one million dollars to the people i claim to represent? ask me that again and i'm about to fire off the R word in a tweet

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

The White Dragon posted:

maybe if you had you wouldn't have such a favorable view of unquestioned authoritarianism

Mustapha Mond did nothing wrong and if you disagree you can gtfo to the island! :smugbert:

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
I think white people are pretty cool, mostly cause im white and cool as heck :c00l:

Blue Star
Feb 18, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

yogizh posted:

There is a theory that we are naturally bleached Asians who have more common with Indians or Iranians than with Celts, Germans and Anglo-Saxons.
Many words are similar to Sanskrt.

Since when are Celts white??? Also whut about Basques, Spaniards, Italians, and Greeks?

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

Blue Star posted:

Since when are Celts white??? Also whut about Basques, Spaniards, Italians, and Greeks?

since like forever dummy

Typical Pubbie
May 10, 2011

yogizh posted:

There is a theory that we are naturally bleached Asians who have more common with Indians or Iranians than with Celts, Germans and Anglo-Saxons.
Many words are similar to Sanskrt.

Get on that. Being able to claim oppressed minority status while still appearing visibly white is like magic. Just ask any white Cuban-American. The Irish used to be the same way but nobody's buying it anymore.

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

there is nothing worse than some tow-headed boghopper trying to foist his history of abuse

this my tribal celtic tattoo it reminds me to stay strong

Thirsty Girl fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Sep 10, 2016

8-Bit Scholar
Jan 23, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
Man, the future should be cool but instead it's lovely and gay.

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

8-Bit Scholar posted:

Man, the future should be cool but instead it's lovely and gay.

right now we are living through a national neurosis imposed by a heightened awareness of our own neuroses in the future we will live post neurosis where everyone just starts laughing and crying and when they meet and they also carry around giant mirrors like gopros

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
"Hello" I said to myself, "How are you doing?'

"HOW DARE YOU NOT KNOW ME AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!" I cried.

I tried to ignore myself and turned to a family member to shift the topic of conversation before remembering that they weren't there because I was in a book.

"WELL?" I was still yelling at myself.

Might as well. I jerked my green sweatpants down. My pflatz was as rigid as a car tire, several long strands of goo ran out the tip. Other me became fearful. I grabbed his hair and the threw him over one of the dual headed parking meters so his rear end was up in the air.

"THEY DON'T HAVE PARKING METERS ANY MORE" I yelled at myself "THEY TOOK THEM ALL OUT AND PUT IN THOSE SOLAR PIECES OF poo poo SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY A GUY TO GO AROUND AND COLLECT THE COINS AND HAVE HIM STEAL HALF OF THEM ALL THE TIME."

"Oh no you don't," I said, "This is historical fiction."

"HOW CAN YOU WRITE ABOUT PARKING METERS? YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S REALLY LIKE TO BE A PARKING METER!"

Before I realized it I was stood there with dick out, aimed at my own as, myself being bent over another myself, standing on a sidewalk of selves gripping eachothers limbs to make a surface. A car went by made entirely out of copies of myself, the four pretending to be tires running along, the one pretending to be the engine making engine sounds.

raton fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 10, 2016

clam the FUCK down
Dec 20, 2013

How could a writer's 2-week half-assed research capture a person of color's life experience?

clam the FUCK down
Dec 20, 2013

Sheep-Goats posted:


"HOW CAN YOU WRITE ABOUT PARKING METERS? YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S REALLY LIKE TO BE A PARKING METER!"


Nice objectification.
I bet you compare issues of sexual assault to car theft as well.

Manticorny
Sep 7, 2016

It's a sad and beautiful world.
contemporary fiction is already an enormous masturbation orgy as it is, so write about whatever the gently caress you want

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Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

William Stoner posted:

How could a writer's 2-week half-assed research capture a person of color's life experience?

you wouldnt evem begin to know, as you are not him

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