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13 votes
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson
11 votes -
The literary world’s DEI checklist
17 votes -
[Poem] Things Artificial Intelligence Can’t Do - Aaron Belz
29 votes -
Maps of the journeys inside classic novels
19 votes -
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" as read by actor Burgess Meredith (1962)
36 votes -
The best American LGBTQ+ books
10 votes -
Readers’ top 100 novels of all time published in English
18 votes -
Fifty great classic novels under 200 pages
18 votes -
The 100 best novels of all time published in English
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Was the creepypasta subculture as a phenomena already dead by somewhere in the mid 2010s?
Had been wondering about this for a bit. The "classics" we know had already all been written and popular by then. Right now, I don't see any major piece of writing apart from the occasional...
Had been wondering about this for a bit. The "classics" we know had already all been written and popular by then. Right now, I don't see any major piece of writing apart from the occasional r/nosleep posts that would evoke that kind of feeling when being read which I would get reading say, "Psychosis" or "Gateway of the Mind". The "backrooms" theme was the only recent concept I know that came to be in that subculture, but that was lot more visual than in a literary format. Thinking about it, a kind of mainstreaming of this culture happened in the years before 2020 through memes and animations, and then it just faded out of memory. What do you folks here think happened to it? Where might the authors be now? Horror as a genre doesn't feel the same again since creepypastas have gone.
Edit (from a comment): Might it be so that text-based subcultures died out in favor of visual ones? SCP articles rely heavily on the visual aspect of things. I can't imagine someone putting out the effort to write out something like "Ben Drowned" and get a good audience nowadays, though of course I may be wrong.
18 votes -
I wrote a book, and I'd love for you to read it!
40 votes -
The lost documentary about an impossible house
22 votes -
I before she — on the shift in narrative perspective in romance novels
33 votes -
Typing for love or money: the hidden women’s labor behind modern literary masterpieces
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C'mon, professors, assign the hard reading
32 votes -
Karl Ove Knausgård never maps out a story or creates a plot structure and he never writes for anyone but himself
7 votes -
This life gives you nothing - Your attention is all you have. Wasting it is annihilating
48 votes -
Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it?
I'm doing some sci-fi worldbuilding that requires spaceships. So I am looking for inspiration not only on the spaceships themselves but also on how other people design them! Thanks!
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A drum machine where you can search classic literary works for specific words at a defined rate, triggering drums each time your favored terms are found
19 votes