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Cute Male Literature!

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 01:48:41 2025 No.3997109 View Reply Original Report

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/cm/ + /lit/
Discuss literature about/containing cute males!

What's your favorite /cm/-centered piece of literature? Including shota-related literature, literature pertaining to cute depictions of male homosexuality, etc.

I remember we had a thread like this a while ago, and it was very nice.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 02:07:26 No.3997110 Report

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I'll start, I guess.

An underrated poet that I really enjoy reading is Sandro Penna. Penna wrote a lot about shotas, youth and the quiet tragedy that comes with the ephemeral nature of such. His poems are typically very short (only a few lines long), but also very evocative. Some of them genuinely leave you stunned in ways you wouldn't expect. Very depressing at times, but generally nice. You can pretty easily find translated versions of his loveliest work in the collection "A Boy Asleep Under the Sun" online.

>Midsummer at night.
>You close your windows and bar the door
>to satisfy your desire for a comfortable, familiar life.
>My silence hides,
>seething in the dark foliage below.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 02:23:48 No.3997119 Report

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In a radically different vein, I'd like to bring up the novelist Hervé Guibert. He's another guy I really like.
His work is cute/male related insofar that it usually pertains to attractive young men and male homosexuality, but is notably more... Grotesque than that of the aforementioned poet. I mean, he's most famous for writing about dying of AIDS lmao. Which is to say - he wrote a lot about decay, decadence and rot. But I think his work, especially his later work (My Manservant and Me, The Compassion Protocol, The Man in the Red Hat, Paradise, etc), is really worthwhile.
His photography is also notably interesting, but I'm not going to post any of it here, as this is a 2D-only board.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 03:27:29 No.3997130 Report

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I'll be basic and say The Song of Achilles

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 12:24:51 No.3997181 Report

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>>3997110
>>3997119
Oh this is crazy OP. I just read Sandro Penna recently. I found out about him some time early in October and borrowed a collection of his poems the next day. Funnily enough even though I picked him up for the homoerotic angle I ended up being much more affected by his descriptions of twilit piazzas, streetlamps, trains passing through an empty countryside at dusk, etc. Really beautiful and under-rated poet, at least in the Anglosphere.

Hervé Guibert has been recommended to me a few times (particularly by anons who want me to add him to a gay /lit/ chart I made - maybe you were one of them...?), but I always put it off because I have a bit of an aversion to books about contemporary gay life, clubbing, AIDS and so on... I guess I prefer stuff that is either bourgeois-sentimental or really off-the-wall Sadean. I tried reading Larry Kramer's 'Faggots' and just found it unbearable... (I enjoyed the 'The Normal Heart' movie though). Maybe I should give him a go. Speaking of French homosexuality, have you read 'The Screwball Asses'? That's also published by MIT Press. Initially they thought it was written by Guy Hocquenghem but it looks like they've changed the attribution recently. I usually dislike anything to do with 'queer theory' - I find that stuff so anaemic and ideological and overwrought - but this text is pretty short and evocative, super-charged with a real sense of indignation, the kind of rich steaming invective borne of dashed utopianism:
>Leftism has passed through, and Leftism dries up whatever it touches.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 12:38:24 No.3997182 Report

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>>3997130
Also I enjoyed this as a guilty pleasure. I liked how often she mentioned Achilles' cute feet...

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 14:13:32 No.3997188 Report

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>>3997110
This geenuinely makes me want to cry. Why cant youth last forever, I should rope before i hit 25 so i dont hit twink death

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 18:47:31 No.3997210 Report

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The Silmarillion if filled to the brim with beautiful long haired men

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 21:33:39 No.3997233 Report

Quoted By: >>3997234 >>3997235 >>3997478

>>3997181
>>3997181
>I just read Sandro Penna recently. ... Funnily enough even though I picked him up for the homoerotic angle I ended up being much more affected by his descriptions of twilit piazzas, streetlamps, trains passing through an empty countryside at dusk, etc. Really beautiful and under-rated poet, at least in the Anglosphere.
Wow, it's nice to see someone else who has read Penna - he is unfortunately very underrated. Call me Pasolini in how I'm constantly telling people to read him to no avail. I mentioned him in this thread primarily because of the homoerotic themes in his work, but yeah, a lot of his more landscape- descriptive work is beautiful as well.
Penna's poetry makes me really sad. It all feels incredibly nostalgic and mourning in an almost overwhelming way. My favorite poems of his are the ones where he connects his appreciation for youth with melancholic descriptions of his quiet hell - it's just so damn *tragic*. For example, I really like the one he wrote to Renzi Vepignani -
>The nights descended slowly upon the city
>and the world was blessed with peace.
>My youth was delicate
>like the gentle and unexpected joy of a soldier.
>
>Then came the war and in our life
>the nights were no longer patient and slow.
>The sunsets were dull because of all the dust and smoke.
>And the heavy malaise
>that overcame us when Spring returned, was without end.
Just... Holy shit. Stunning.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 21:34:49 No.3997234 Report

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>>3997181
>>3997233

>Hervé Guibert has been recommended to me a few times (particularly by anons who want me to add him to a gay /lit/ chart I made - maybe you were one of them...?), but I always put it off because I have a bit of an aversion to books about contemporary gay life, clubbing, AIDS and so on...
Guibert's earlier work is definitely very tied to that sort of thing - but as his disease progressed, his writing definitely changed a lot. Don't get me wrong, it absolutely still follows themes of decadence and the such, but it all becomes far less directly autobiographical, and a lot more surreal - cynical - almost satirical at times. A lot of it is about the humiliation and isolation that comes from having a terminal illness.
If you want to read Guibert, I suggest you start with My Manservant and Me - it’s very short, but very interesting. In sum - it follows a dying elderly man (Guibert’s self insert) who gets cared for and abused by a cunning young man (also Guibert’s self insert). It’s all very brutal. Almost Sadean, in a way. (In a similar vein, Guibert also produced an equally-brutal movie called Modesty or Shame, but I’m not going to talk about it too much since this is a /lit/ thread).

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 21:35:50 No.3997235 Report

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>>3997181
>>3997233
>>3997234
>I guess I prefer stuff that is either bourgeois-sentimental or really off-the-wall Sadean.
I’m curious as to what you think of Henry de Montherlant (who was very /cm/core himself!)

>Speaking of French homosexuality, have you read 'The Screwball Asses'? That's also published by MIT Press. Initially they thought it was written by Guy Hocquenghem but it looks like they've changed the attribution recently. I usually dislike anything to do with 'queer theory' - I find that stuff so anaemic and ideological and overwrought - but this text is pretty short and evocative, super-charged with a real sense of indignation, the kind of rich steaming invective borne of dashed utopianism:
>>Leftism has passed through, and Leftism dries up whatever it touches.
I haven’t read it yet, but I downloaded a PDF of it a while ago and have been letting it sit in my drive for a few weeks now. I am going to read it later tonight, since you brought it up.

(had to make three separate posts since I kept hitting the character limit, sorry)

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Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 22:48:53 No.3997248 Report

Quoted By: >>3997268

I must suggest More Than This, by Patrick Ness.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 00:22:40 No.3997268 Report

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>>3997248
More Than This is great until it gets raped midway through by the stupid Matrix plot

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 00:52:43 No.3997277 Report

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>>3997268
Yeah. Gotta take the good with the bad.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:15:02 No.3997284 Report

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>>3997130
I hated that book so fucking much. I don't understand how any of you can tolerate just how awful it is.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:24:11 No.3997296 Report

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>>3997284
What didn't you like about it?

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:36:05 No.3997300 Report

Quoted By: >>3997304 >>3997748

>>3997296
I don't know, but I personally discarded it entirely because it was written by a woman.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 01:40:26 No.3997304 Report

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>>3997300
That put me off but I'm sticking with it and it's fine so far.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 03:41:10 No.3997328 Report

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>>3997304
Upon reading further, there's a bit of feminist crap leaking it's way in, but it's more than outweighed by the rest.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 17:23:50 No.3997478 Report

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>>3997233
>>3997234
>>3997235
Thank you for the recommendation anon! I downloaded 'My Manservant and Me' - it is indeed short lol. That's awesome. I'm trying to read a lot of shorter fiction at the moment due to how busy I am. I will let you know what I think of it soon. I also downloaded 'A Boy Asleep Under the Sun' as it seems to have a lot more of Sandro Penna's explicitly homoerotic poems than the collection I read. I quite liked this one:
>Good and evil coexist in the lure of your gaze.
I may also check out the Guibert movie you mentioned.

>Henry de Montherlant
He's been on my radar for a very long time but I keep putting off reading him. I've got a copy of 'Chaos and Night' and I downloaded a PDF of 'The Boys' - it's a shame that the latter seems to be out of print. I'd be very curious to read his correspondence with Roger Peyrefitte. I wonder if it will ever be translated into English. What have you read of his? Curious to hear your thoughts.

Let me know how you find 'The Screwball Asses'. I'm guessing you've read Andre Gide too?

Another book I would recommend is Forrest Reid's 'The Garden God'. It's very short but really beautiful. Highly idealistic portrait of a boyhood romance. Reminds me of my early crushes.

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 18:44:54 No.3997506 Report

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>>3997109
yukio mishima wrote a cute short story called "cigarette" about his early adolescence feeling alienated from other kids, where he comes upon two boys who offer him a cigarette. it's like 10 pages long but it's very sweet, this is an excerpt from it
>Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adoles-
cent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is
opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the
treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he
gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In
other words, he is now a "grown-up." Yet was the chest really
empty? Wasn't there something vital, something invisible to the
eye, that got away at the very moment it was opened?
For me, at any rate, the process of becoming an adult refused
to feel like any kind of self-fulfillment, or graduation. Boyhood, I
believed, was something that should continue forever (and
doesn't it in fact continue?). Why, then, should one have to treat
it with contempt?...

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Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 18:48:04 No.3997507 Report

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>>3997506
Oh, great choice anon. That story is wonderful. Here's a copy of it for anyone interested.

'Martyrdom' from the same collection is also rather nice... I hope someone translates Kawabata's 'Shonen' sometime soon...

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Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 03:13:12 No.3997703 Report

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I thoroughly enjoyed Brideshead Revisited by Waugh. It's a novel detailing the relationship of an artist with an aristocrat, named Sebastian, and his family, beginning at their first term at Oxford. I have also been meaning to read a similar story titled Maurice by Forster. From what I understand the latter is more overtly homosexual, so much so that it took flak at the time of its publishing.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 07:53:04 No.3997731 Report

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I've been obsessed with Elric of Melnibone by Micheal Moorcock. He's one of the earliest examples of a dark fantasy anti-hero, and an early inspiration for the bishonen aesthetic, in short he's the first gothic pretty boy. I love his writing style and moody prose it's all such a vibe.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 08:20:40 No.3997743 Report

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>>3997731
he mentions elric's slim waist and hips a lot in the books, that was always the biggest thing that stuck out to me.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 10:59:48 No.3997748 Report

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>>3997300
>I HATE Song of Achilles!

Why?

>I dunno...

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Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 12:59:07 No.3997752 Report

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>>3997109
My own novel.
It's a sci-fi novel, and at the center of it is a friendship between the prince of a dying empire and his knight and sworn protector - the two being the last meaningful remnant of the empire as it falls to a revolution.
Part of the story follows them as they go into hiding together and try to blend in and live a normal, domestic life

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Anonymous Sat 08 Nov 2025 11:49:04 No.3998143 Report

Quoted By: >>4000262

Strange deja vu. I almost think I might have made almost the same exact post in the last thread >>3997752
Even with the same pic of MM Zero.
At any rate, I am obviously still working on the novel. Writing is actually very hard.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 02:48:59 No.4000262 Report

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>>3997752
What's the novel called anon? I'd read it when you're done with it, it sounds good.
>>3998143
>Writing is actually very hard.
It is. It took me the better part of a year to write my (web)novel. Just keep at it a little bit day after day and eventually you'll be done.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 05:11:27 No.4000626 Report

Quoted By: >>4000736 >>4006219

>>3997109
Recommending Hermann Hesse's (The godfather of BL) novels for intimate homosocial/homoerotic relations between males

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 22:38:23 No.4000736 Report

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>>4000626
Can you suggest one in specific?

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 03:14:29 No.4000909 Report

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>>3997296
Applogies it took me so long to reply.

There were several things I did not enjoy about that book. A lot of it had to do with the bastardization of characters in the Iliad. The fact that she took one of the most badass characters in the story, Patroclus, and made him a simpering healer for Achilies is the biggest issue really. That and the relationship was simply not developed. We don't really go into an understanding of their bond and most of it is just Patroclus there with a hand fetish and just saying how amazing Achilies is. Why does he think this? Why does Achilies even like him? What bond or real moments do these two have together that truly bring and bond them. It simply says they spend time together, which great, but show that time, show the bond and moments they have. Their relationship, the center of the book and whole fucking point of the retelling, feels shallow and dull.

What is the point of telling the story if you are going to completely change who these people are? Why ruin the interesting things about them just to force them into traditional seme/uke naritive? I think anyone who reads the Iliad then goes and reads this will have the same issues.

I also have issues on how she handled the female characters in the book. That is a whole essay that won't happen here on a cute male board. There is surprisingly, I never see good things there, a very good and scathing review on the book on goodreads that really goes into more detail. I discovered it when I was looking around to surely see that I cannot be the only one who has issues with this book.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 03:43:05 No.4000914 Report

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>>4000909
Sorry, I forgot it was his feet Patroclus was obsessed not hands. I probably mixed them up due to remembering all the times Patroclus describes how much and how amazingly Achilies plays the lyre or whatever. I wish I liked this book and could look past all this shit so I could enjoy it with everyone but I just fucking can't.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 07:34:23 No.4000944 Report

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>>3997109

Sandel by Angus Stewart is a fantastic work of art

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 08:05:37 No.4000948 Report

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>>4000914
>it was his feet Patroclus was obsessed not hands
This was based though. I'm glad she is introducing the beauty of boyfeet to a larger audience

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 09:09:28 No.4000953 Report

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The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge contains detailed (fictional) encounters between H.P. Lovecraft and teenage boys throughout his lifetime, in a supposed diary he left behind. I do not want to spoil too much, but it is a very interesting read, I would recommend it on the storytelling alone.

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 09:24:49 No.4000954 Report

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>>3997109
For a Lost Soldier, by Rudi van Dantzig

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Anonymous Wed 03 Dec 2025 21:32:15 No.4002904 Report

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I kinda had a thing for Raskolnikov while reading Crime and Punishment and coming across this fanart

I was also kinda into Ambrosio from The Monk at the beginning

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Anonymous Wed 03 Dec 2025 21:33:47 No.4002907 Report

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>>3997109
I had a thing for Raskolnikov while reading Crime and Punishment and coming across this fanart

I was also kinda into Ambrosio from The Monk at the beginning of the book

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Anonymous Thu 04 Dec 2025 04:02:25 No.4002954 Report

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Anyone read Brideshead Revisited?

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 10:25:18 No.4004420 Report

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I discovered The Good Thief the other day. I'm a little over a hundred pages in and it's very good so far.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 12:35:45 No.4004682 Report

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>>3997210
I haven't actually read the books, but this Elric of Melnibone guy has some great art (and legs)

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 12:36:55 No.4004683 Report

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>>4004682

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 12:38:30 No.4004685 Report

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>>4004683

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 12:39:32 No.4004687 Report

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>>4004685

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 01:03:17 No.4004761 Report

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>>4004687
I like this one cause it looks like he's cumming

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 11:48:22 No.4004856 Report

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>>4004683
(Whoops I accidentally deleted my original post)
Anyone know of more characters similar to Elric of Melnibone? (I've already read the Silmarillion)

>>4004761
Hnnng I know...

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 20:47:03 No.4004946 Report

Quoted By: >>4005223

>>4004761
Kind of lore accurate
>>4004856
I know Geralt of Rivia is directly inspired, but he's not attractive in the same way (at least, I don't think he's hot).
I don't remember any sources for this, but I'm pretty sure he inspired a bunch of anime and manga characters as well.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 21:06:48 No.4004948 Report

Quoted By: >>4004949

Dennis Cooper writes almost exclusively about the Cute Male! Some grate and beautiful boys in his oeuvre ;) Fair warning though that most of it is pretty extremely Sadean, so its probably not for everyone.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 21:33:55 No.4004949 Report

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>>4004948
Sadean?

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 21:55:02 No.4004953 Report

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Sorry, i dont know how to respond directly since i dont use 4chan very often! But what i mean is that his writing tends to depict graphic/transgressive sexuality, similar to the Marquis de Sade. :)

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 05:51:58 No.4005018 Report

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>>4004953
Ooh thanks. In hindsight I could have googled that haha

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 01:58:13 No.4005120 Report

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They're making a Magic Treehouse animated series...

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 12:05:14 No.4005223 Report

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>>4004946
>I know Geralt of Rivia is directly inspired, but he's not attractive in the same way (at least, I don't think he's hot).

A bit too rugged for what I'm looking for alas.

>I don't remember any sources for this, but I'm pretty sure he inspired a bunch of anime and manga characters as well.

Yoshikata Amano made some lovely art of him. I think I read somewhere he was an inspiration for Griffith.

It's interesting. One year ago I didn't know this character existed, but now I see his influence everywhere! The aforementioned characters, the Targaryens, Messmer the Impaler...

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 11:37:24 No.4006195 Report

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>>4004420
So I finished reading this one, and it was excellent!

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 16:55:33 No.4006219 Report

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>>4000626

Lol this is crazy. I know EXACTLY which rl shos image this drawing is based on. And it's pretty awesome I'm telling you.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 21:25:20 No.4006261 Report

Quoted By: >>4006461 >>4008527 >>4041758

Obligatory.
This mightve been what >>3997181 was referring to.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 00:19:50 No.4006461 Report

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>>4006261
Thanks for sharing that, it seems I have a lot of reading ahead of me.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 20:25:04 No.4006722 Report

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>>4006219
Mind sharing your knowledge with the class?

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2025 03:17:54 No.4006748 Report

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>>4000736
A lot of them have homoerotic components although they are not the main focus of the works. You can find this sort of element in his major works like Demian, Siddhartha and Steppenswolf, even though it's not explicitly stated as homoerotic desire. But it's really good literature nonetheless so good to read anyway.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Dec 2025 07:24:22 No.4008207 Report

Quoted By: >>4008236 >>4008238

I am not a /lit/fag by any measure. Most of what I read is fanfiction, and when I do pick up a book it's usually popular sci-fi and fantasy, or danmei/fujo-adjacent MLM romance. But I've been curious about Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy for a while now and was wondering if anyone could vouch for it. Is it an accessible read for a casual reader? Is it best to start with Fire from Heaven, or just jump right in to The Persian Boy?

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Anonymous Mon 29 Dec 2025 10:59:47 No.4008236 Report

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>>4008207
I'll read them and hen get back to you, give me a couple weeks.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Dec 2025 11:19:33 No.4008238 Report

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>>4008207
I enjoyed Fire from Heaven more, but that may be because I seriously disliked Bagoas. He's a boring protagonist and his limited outsider POV ruins the interesting Macedonian court dynamics. The book also IMO doesn't have any characters as compelling as Hephaestion, Olympias, and Phillip in Fire. It's also not a love story, despite the popular impression - Bagoas is a simping, obsessive slave to Alexander, while Alexander is mostly just being polite and enjoying being taking care of. There's not much depth to their relationship.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Dec 2025 11:23:17 No.4008239 Report

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>>4008238
*being taken care of

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Anonymous Tue 30 Dec 2025 07:12:19 No.4008527 Report

Quoted By: >>4008537

>>4008236
Godspeed anon.

>>4008238
Thanks, that is informative. With my limited knowledge of ancient Greek history, Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion does seem more interesting to me, but I always see The Persian Boy brought up more in recommendations and more explicitly described as a love story.

Do you have any thoughts on The Last of the Wine? I noticed that it's listed in >>4006261 while the Alexander trilogy is not.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Dec 2025 09:45:05 No.4008537 Report

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>>4008527
Never read The Last of the Wine, so I can't comment. As for The Persian Boy, although I like it less, I can see why it's recommended more often than Fire. It's first person, a classically structured coming of age story, has a dramatic POV, Alexander is amazing and larger than life thanks to the biased POV, and the events and setting are still very interesting because it's Alexander's goddamn conquest of Persia. It's a good book overall, though the love story claim will forever puzzle me. Bagoas basically spends most of the book seething over Hephaestion (the person Alexander always goes to whenever he has to deal with serious emotions and whose death finally breaks him), and his relationship to Alexander is that of a grateful slave who has traded a bad master for a good one. He's a huge Alexander simp, sure, but Alexander never really reciprocates.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 00:40:58 No.4015029 Report

Quoted By: >>4015053 >>4015062

Fantasy book from the 80s about a gay emo twink.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 00:45:43 No.4015030 Report

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Imagine being the captain of the ship that saves the boys in Lord of the flies...
Lots of correction required with those degenerated brats.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 01:08:35 No.4015033 Report

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>>4015030
"We're saved! So long as we don't meet Captain Pedophile!"

"Hello" says Captain Pedophile. >.<

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 02:30:46 No.4015053 Report

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>>4015029
i read this series way, way back. it was pretty solidly good, and i remember it ages later and am glad i can. i feel i remember bad things kept happening to the two guys/couple, though, in a doomed narrative kind of way, that made you just want to reach in and give them a hug or something. i read it as a little kid and thought it was really dark, but now i’m not sure how much of that was just my inexperience. very glad i read it regardless. i might reread it sometime. (if i remember right, the characters really made you love them both deeply, which doesn’t happen too often.)

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Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 02:37:54 No.4015058 Report

Quoted By: >>4015059

>>4015053
I went in blind and it hit me like a train lol.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 02:51:00 No.4015059 Report

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>>4015058
oh wow, haha, you’re bringing it back. pretty sure i also felt like i’d been run over and still found myself floating to classes slightly dazed a week after i’d finished.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 03:33:13 No.4015062 Report

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>>4015059
>>4015029
here are the japanese translations’ covers, by the way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Jan 2026 04:32:11 No.4015071 Report

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>>4015062
These are really cool, and they actually get Van's age right.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Feb 2026 22:23:14 No.4021045 Report

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Bumping this thread because it’s cool sorry for having nothing to say

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Anonymous Mon 23 Feb 2026 02:30:38 No.4021091 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5PYz_PV8Jc

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Anonymous Sat 14 Mar 2026 21:33:15 No.4025459 Report

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I'm writing something in which two male characters have a relationship that is deliberately hard to classify. Too intimate for normal coworkers or friends, but too procedural and tied to their work for lovers or family, can look like abuse of power or high trust depending on who you ask. Not meant to be yaoibait but not really meant not to be either.
Any reccs for literature I could read and study or draw on? I'm kinda just writing it right now with little thought put into how to make this land right for the audience. I liked Brideshead Revisited and it had something kind of similar but I'm wondering if there's more like that out there.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Mar 2026 05:47:02 No.4027703 Report

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cute drawing of rimbaud

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Anonymous Fri 03 Apr 2026 11:39:23 No.4030016 Report

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I just finished this. The plot is kinda thin, and the writing is simple, but there's plenty of nice romance scenes with the two boys.
Normally I'd be discussed from reading a book with a cover like that, or by a female auther (the initials abbreviated is a dead giveaway that the author is a cunt with a chip on her shoulder) but I was pleasantly surprised. It's a fun, light story. Would recommend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Apr 2026 11:40:24 No.4030017 Report

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>>4030016
*Dissuaded, not discussed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 May 2026 12:45:11 No.4039859 Report

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>>4006722
I'm still waiting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 May 2026 06:09:20 No.4041758 Report

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>>4006261
>My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
That was such a shitty autobiography lol.

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