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>>24879571>The Flesh Eaters>William Baziotes>1952>Like the Surrealists he admired and his fellow Abstract Expressionists, Baziotes was fascinated by the power of myth. Here, his title and imagery suggest the story of the Cyclops, the one-eyed giant who devoured Odysseus’s sailors in Homer’s epic poem. In this ambitious work, Baziotes applied layer upon layer of oil paint and rubbed it into the canvas to create a shimmering, opalescent surface that evokes an underwater world inhabited by undulating biomorphic forms. Characteristically, the artist combined menacing forms with luminous colors to create a paradoxical work that is both repulsive and compelling.
Despite how cringe Gen Z and the younger lot are, I appreciate them for being more enterprising than the older generation. Though it does seem like its because they are backed into a wall and have to fight against the tides of a collapsing society. Millennials have probably got things worse, not so much due to their own accord but because Boomers have beaten down into submission. Hence you see them somewhat bitter, but if not more than anything, incredibly apathetic. Boomers are just bitter.
>>24879571Why is this website under constant attack everyday?
>>24879596Shut the FUCK up collectivist niggercattle
>>24879602By whom and how?
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>>24879612co sign
I overthink everything. It's hard to imagine that most people don't think about things as much as I do. It's not because I'm smart, it's some kind of malfunction. It immobilizes me when I try to communicate outside imageboards. It paralyzes me when I try to write. Other people seem so thoughtless and effortless in their actions. Not stupid, just natural. They don't give the impression of having spent an hour drafting and redrafting a 6 word message because something feels off about all the possible ways of doing so. Sometimes I think I should relax and do what comes naturally. It never works. Either nothing comes, or what comes is unpleasant and needs to be suppressed, or something interesting comes along and it's just too enjoyable to overthink about it. Right now I'm supposed to be writing, or reading something that might help me right, or doing something remotely useful, and here I am, blogging. Half asking for help, half just setting out the problem. It needs to stop.
i was at a party last night and i was sitting next to this girl most the night and she was like drawing on my arm with a biro like giving me tattoos. and when i woke up today i realised she wrote ‘i love you’ on me and i was too busy talking about federico fellini to take any notice.
>>24879707>she wrote ‘i love you’ on me and i was too busy talking about federico fellini to take any notice.You have convinced me you might actually like Fellini's films, apt character writing
>>24879707Thanks for indirectly reminding me how badly I need a gf at 8 am, anon
>>24879701You're afraid of misunderstandings and I suggest listening to The Animals until you chill out and realise it happenshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwN0X8YnWo
>>24879701You’re not alone, and it’s just gotten worse the more I’ve avoided people. If it makes you feel any better, I’ll say that things really can get so bad that something even seems off with the word “gotten” just because it sounds weird to say or type. Language really is “use it or lose it”, so I don’t think either of us should feel too bad or dumb.
The proliferation of AI generated music is astounding. For background musicslop its second to none. Kinda scary that in a few years all my entertainment could be AI generated.
I sincerely enjoy an opportunity that we have here to communicate in the outside of any identity or form. It really feels like a no man's land in a good way. A bit sad that the common temperature is to the negative side, people taking the moment to vent off their hostility and all. And yet, l remain a firm believer that in those 'despised places' the true treasures are to be discovered.
Imagine hearing in 2012 that Red Dead Redemption is coming to iOS, I just got a notification saying that it is.
>>24879571>>24879575Can’t believe I’m just learning about this dude. This guy is like Joan Miró but better.
so many so-called "intellectuals" think bringing up repetitive "genealogies" of ideas is somehow a serious way of engaging in the field of such ideas
I love you. I miss you. I need you
>>24879849This is harassment.H A R A S S M E N T !
There is no political crisis if you think about it. Its not political. There is just a lot of hostility. The human race is very hostile and prone to hatred and violence for no reason really. If you take a side it can seem like its political. But if you dont take one you can see the truth. The human is a very hostile creature
>>24879701Second point is easy but insidious; "being productive" 100% of the time is impossible. More than that, giving yourself vague goals like "relax—" you can't. Gotta pick something imperfect and stick with it. The apothegm I've sort of landed on is that you always inspect urges and immediately act on wants, meaning intellectual wants. Scrolling is an urge to escape, while reading/writing is a want to accomplish or experience. The perfect activity for exactly your current mindset rarely exists. Plus you're guaranteed to sometimes just laze around. Like half of the time.I text like a catatonic autist, with my responses being either "Yes." or "Ok." 99% of the time.
I dunno about you guys but this year has been pretty difficult for me. very strange and troubling times this year.
Ugh I can’t take it anymore, my life is OVAL.
Why are there foids on this board
I dont' like Swans (the band).
>>24880046I am also not a big fan. I really don't like how most of their later albums are very very long
The collapse of America will go down in history as the most preventable downfall in history.
>>24879701The words you're looking for are like medicine without side effects. They can't be misunderstood because they don't matter in the first place. When you take a pill it's not for the side effects but in spite of them.
Im gonna need ur funniest yet obscure cat meme pics
Time to go cause myself severe pain by doing burpees in the park after I edged for motivation
>>24879615What i mean under constant attack is that I always see shills derailing the board by posting inane bullshit and the topic always changes depending on whether or not there's something to troll. But you can notice it feels like it's always the same person following the same posting style, and does it 24 hours a day, every single thread is covered, all the spammers on this site never sleep. On faster boards like /v/ every thread, organic and inorganic, is like this now. It’s on literally every board. 4chan is being raided 24/7 365 round the clock.
>>24879571Nice, that's my favorite color scheme : purple, green, black.
My farts are coming out like a machine gun.
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I'm farting like several at a time in bursts. I've never done this before.
My farts are stinkier than they used to be
>>24880292What do your farts smell like?
Dig your butt
>>24880250never occurred to me that people on /v/ also post here.do they just stay in the tolkien/grrm threads or are they the people arguing about hitler and socrates.
>>24880304I had a habit of digging in my butt but usually through my boxers (I did occasionally use my fingers directly if I was desperate), but I haven't had an itchy butthole in awhile. Maybe it was the toilet paper I used before.
Would you have gone to bed with me I didn't do your book?
seems like it’s always around this time that you generally get a burst of scatological posts in this thread. unrelated but i checked the time in india and it’s late night.
there isa housein new orleans
>>24880306Yes to all except Socrates. I'm more of a Gene Ray guy
>>24880264>>24879750Glad you anons like it.
>>24880325No, going to bed with you is contingent on you doing my book.
>>24880346who?and no wonder this board is so awful. i always assumed everyone who takes an interest in literature must come from /mu/ or /tv/. humanities-type people.
>>24880355i don’t like it.
>>24880388Then kill yourself.
>>24880406i’m alright thanks.it looks almost like an AI abstract art. i can see the influences so clearly, and nothing but the influences, if you know what i mean.the miro/cocteau linework. the colours are a close look at what bonnard puts in his skies. it’s not the sort of piece you can look at for a long time.
I'm gonna marry a prostitute
>>24879750>like Joan Miró but betternot possible>>24880432it's a nice wallpaper for the thread but it does seem a little half-baked
>>24880477Storytime, pls tell us more.
> A Slavic chief named Christianos, who had been raiding imperial territory, was captured in a.d. 763 and brought to Constantinople. He had his arms and legs amputated on a pier, after which he was vivisected from his genitals to the chest in the presence of doctors, for medical-research purposes (Theophanes the Confessor, Chronographia, p. 436).
Feeling both extremely tired and severely overcaffeinated is a bizarre and uncomfortable disposition.
>>24880250They are predominant on /his/ which is why that board is so low quality
>>24880717i'm way too familiar with this feeling. if you've ever seen a thin plastic bag getting tossed about by the breeze, it feels like that.
>>24879571Crohn's disease ads on Spotify and my roommate's talking TV (he's hard of hearing) are pissing me off
>>24880097its not going to fall. it might experience a hiccup and things might be going south but it will pick back up
>>24880751lmao. i hope the Fates observe the comedic rule of three and tempt your neighbour into learning a new instrument.
>>24880747https://youtu.be/Qssvnjj5Moo?si=UEpm88bD4XwD_jW2
>Sergios the eunuch was beaten up by a mime. His skull had been fractured and in pieces. You could not make out any of his facial features, it was all one big swelling. The doctors at the hospital of Euboulos cared for him for seven days, but finally gave up and told his friends to prepare his funeral. That night Sergios saw a vision of an old man instructing him to receive surgery. The next day Sergios kept gesturing with his hand toward his face, hoping to get his friends to realize he wanted surgery. They thought he had finally gone crazy, so they restrained his right arm. But he continued doing the same with his left hand, making cutting gestures to indicate “surgery.” His friends finally understood his mime performance and called the doctor. The doctor was reluctant to perform the operation, unless the patient himself placed the scalpel into his hand to indicate his consent. The operation went well and produced prodigious amounts of smelly pus and other liquids that flowed out of both sides of his face. But after wearing bandages and ointments for many weeks afterwards, Sergios survived and recovered (Life of Saint Loukas the Stylite 23– 24).
>>24880707>for medical-research purposesi know this isn't the point of your quote, but it made me sad that even 20 years ago this would surely have been translated as 'for the purposes of medical research', the way more natural english phrasing>>24880790interesting
>>24880299I don‘t know how to describe it but it happens particularly after big gym sessions which makes me think my innards are somehow activating more deeply by core exertion, hope this helps.
Money and sex: the goals of the common manAmbition to power or worldwide recognition: the goals of greater menPeace: the goal of the greatestand THEREFORE we can conclude that im the greatest! :^)
>>24880931i value peace more than you. i will fight to the death to prove so.
>>24880761He already plays guitar. Poorly.
>>24880938Back off youngin, you dont want none. For the sake of peace, I fight dirtier than a tablecloth after children's birthday party
>>24879571I THINK that that’s a cool painting
I often find that it's less that people are not willing to be compassionate towards others, but rather that the potential object of compassion makes such a relationship practically impossible through their insistence on an adversarial framework of relations. Benevolence can only ever be reciprocal.
>>24880990>Benevolence can only ever be reciprocal.I can agree with the first bit, but this struck me as too all encompassing Taking to it's extreme you're essentially saying that unconditional love doesn't exist. Which, to those lucky enough to have experienced it know, is false
Socrates deserved everything coming to him
Anaximander was correct about everything
>>24881037the fact that the device exist to assist carrying the baby weight must mean this occured a few times
>>24881045Also, that specific woman (Dorothea, circa 15th century) gave birth to 9 fetuses (nonuplets) before getting pregnant with that 11.
>>24881054I mean gave birth to 9 babies; they were fetuses in before giving birth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAQrIGpovH8
I am incensed.Went to the library to read and saw this boomer I see most weekdays sitting in one of the longue chairs with shorts and his disgusting bare leg slumped over the arm of the chair, where he always sits. Whatever, I've gotten over that. Only this time he was on the phone making dentist appointments in his full, booming voice. Come the fuck on man, have some decency. I know your life is almost over and you no doubt come there to leer at young girls -- hey I get it -- but mind your surroundings, fucko.
I'm putting avobenzone, homosalate, octisalate, phenol, and octocrylene on my lips.
If you're a guy and a csa victim, you're pretty much done, especially when it comes women. It's taken me years of therapy/meds just to develop the mental strength to get out of bed without wanting to kill myself. At least I have a decent amount of savings and cute fictional couples.
>>24881106Community-supported agriculture?
Should I read the Divine Comedy in english, portuguese or spanish?
I have come to the conclusion that I am driven by shame. I strive to progress my career, investments, acquire knowledge, stay fit - all due to shame. I am afraid of losing what I have and falling down the social ladder which is holding me back from truly enjoying it. I have set myself many arbitrary goals - get your dream job, get promoted, get a house, girlfriend, ect. All of them were supposed to be the thing that makes me happy and it doesn't really work. I bet I could win the lottery and it wouldn't fill the void after long. I have gone through phases of being intensely religious when things have gone badly (first real adult love relationship breaking apart) but to my shame and discredit I have drifted away from him with time. Now I feel too hypocritical and impure to try to speak to him (premarital sex, pornography, not going to church).
>>24881109Child sexual abuse
>>24879571Staying by your parents or moving out - what is the better choice in the long term? I wanted to move out because I can't stand my parents and they hate me, but then I thought maybe I can help them, make up for all the trouble I made them by cleaning up the house and cooking a meal every once in a while rather than just leave like a persona non grata.
>>24881152I'm still with my folks but we have a great relationship, so I can't speak for your situation. You don't have any friends you can roommate with? That'd be next best.
>>24881156Nope.
1,2,3 - read4,5,6 - write7,8,9 - watch 0 - keep shitposting
>>24881121Italian
>>24881192Not an option. Answer my question
>>24881200Tuscan
>>24881121English
I wish to never sleepI wish I could stay awake forever.
I solved quantum gravity but actually and it turns out God is just math. Feels a bit... anti-climactic.
I don't hate my mother but I hate my motherIt sounds impossible but it's true
>>24881127If it makes you feel any better there's no God.
>>24881224Unrelatable.
>>24881224relatable
Okay so when do I get a gf from being le well read?
>>24879571A three dish meal made with ghee fish and eelI bleed Vishnu’s wheel
>>24881240you were supposed to become an academic
>>24881240At my house.
>>24881240Have you tried drugs?
>>24881247You sharing you gf bro?
>>24881121Latin
>>24881224bold move posting the most reddit webcomic (and it has some tough competition) here.
>be me, not gay>overly horny lonely 20 something dude with a porn addiction>slowly start to chase progressively more intense stimulation, especially anything that feels immoral or degenerate>start whacking it to traps>start whacking it to twinks>end up watching full on gay porn >get tempted to try it out IRL>slowly amass a collection of sex toys, crossdressing outfits, and eventually, a fucking machine>plapping my brains out yesterday while restrained to my bed>squirm around a little and hit a funny angle>feel a sensation that seems strangely familiar>...>buried childhood memory unlocks>remember feeling the same EXACT feeling sometime when I was 5 or 6 years old>remember a bunch of other weird incongruent memories from my early childhood that I had never really thought deeply about until that point>strange comments made by my parents when talking about that time in my life>weird photos I found on relative's cameras at family reunions>having super low self esteem and strong guilty/shameful feelings when I was 6 through 8 but not knowing why>turn everything off and put it all away and sit in the shower with the lights off for an hour wondering if I was legitimately sexually abused as a kid but don't remember it anymore >wake up today and post it on 4 channel dot org
>>24881257Like Rohypnol?
>>24881286heavy
>>24879571A year, embattled by skin fungus. The state prevents you from buying actual fungicides otc without being a woman. Prescription oral route fungicides are blanket denied as a first prescription to deter junkies, which makes no fucking sense at all. I don't yet understand why, but there is a concerted effort by the state to keep you perpetually infected with skin fungus once you get it. I had to resort to unironic criminal element to source fluconazole of all drugs.First time poster, long time lurker.
For the longest time I thought my girlfriend was from Maine, and I only recently realized she meant Maine in France. I honestly didn’t even know France had a region called that, so when she kept mentioning things that didn’t make sense for New England, it finally clicked and I felt pretty stupid for not catching it sooner.
>>24881286hmmmmmakes you think, doesnt it...
>>24881200Spanish, make sure is a direct translation from Italian to Spanish, instead of a translation of the English translation
>>24881242I love eel so much bro, I see why lots of them are near extinction
>>24881223my mom just came up to visit and i was about to post the same thing, like i like her and we get along and she's generally good, but man she's so fucking annoying sometimes. she's gonna be in the city all weekend, but tonight was enough. we caught up. i don't really want to go over there tomorrow and eat a bunch of fattening food and try not to argue over something dumb all evening.
>>24881218did u ever read beggars in spain by nancy kress it's about ppl who got genetically engineered to never sleep but idk what the plot problem is that makes it a story but supposedly it's good at least by sci-fi standards
my T cell count has been decimated
>>24881257Opioids yeah, nothing cool or chic like ket or DMT though
>>24881451aids or chemo?
Death is the twin of Sleep, they say:For I shall rise renewed,Free from the cramps of yesterday,Clear-eyed and supple-thewed.But though this bland analogyHelp other folk to faceDecrepitude, senility,Madness, disease, disgrace,I do not like Death's greedy looks:Give me his twin instead-Sleep never auctions off my books,My boots, my shirts, my bed.
>>24881457Thats a nice one. Im adding it to my memorized poems.
>>24881464what else you got up there
>>24881457>Inhale deep like the words of my breath>I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death>I lay puzzled as I backtrack to earlier times>Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
tell me why i shouldn't blaze some trees right now
>>24881489you should go buy some fent and OD on that instead
>>24881489#GenocideWeedHeads2025
So today I drove my sister to her friend’s house, and before we left she ate a cheese string and a bag of those Haribo gummy bears, which was a bad idea because those things always make her gassy. About 10 minutes into the drive, it started. A little pfft sound. I glanced over and she was glued to her phone. I liked that she felt comfortable enough to do that around me. Like 30 seconds later, a longer one came out, and she shifted in her seat. Then a tight, high-pitched squeak as she coughed. I was biting my cheek to keep from smiling too much. A few seconds later, a bubbly one came out and the smell hit me. It was that sour, kinda cheesy smell that definitely came from the snacks she just had. It was her smell, and it filled the air. Another soft one, then one with a wet sound right after. She groaned, and the sound was kind of cute. I rolled my window down, but not all the way, because I didn't mind it that much. But it didn't stop. Another squeaker. She was squirming in the passenger seat. Another wet-sounding one came out and I noticed she stopped moving. I wondered what that one felt like for her. Then one started quiet and got louder. We hit a bump and a final jittery one slipped out (the 9th one). She didn't say a word the entire time. When we got there, she unbuckled and bolted inside without looking back. She must have known what those gummy bears would do.
>>24881473life’s a bitch and then you die
>>24881457Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures be,Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,Rest of their bones, and souls deliverie.Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,And better than thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
damn someone coming to pick me up to go to a club but i've been chilling at home farting all night better put on some cologne
At times it feels like the entire world is trying to gaslight me into believing its more retarded than it actually is
I just need to force myself to accept that you’ll never speak to me again. But it hurts so much.
I jerked off with elbow grease.
>>24881554text me, i'll text u back
You lied to my face. And I believed you.
The same mistakeThe same heartbreakThe same old acheThe same mistake
>>24881585r u high af rn? i ate like a quarter of a edible cuz i might drink later but last time i was hella blazed i was like i get why that chic does that it's like u can almost imagine ur talkin to the person for real lmao
Why does the world feel so fucking slow? 1995 to 2010 was so much more dynamic technologically and culturally than 2010 to 2025. Is this what it felt like to live in the middle ages, for entire decades to pass without anything happening aside from war, plague and famine?
You aren't lonelier than me - you're with friends at the library.You aren't lonelier than me - I cleave to God in the face of all thingsYou aren't lonelier than me - I live a lie that's not from the lipsYou aren't lonelier than me - I've only been outdone by the wandering 'schiz'You can't win - I've tasted the price - Of the eternal 'begin.'
>>24881612idk anon i feel like AI has been a cornerstone of this last decade
I love youThis truth I can't denyI hate thisThe way you make me cry
>>24881625chatbots are shit compared to shit like cars, airplanes, radio, skyscrapers, etc.
>>24881628Yeah isn’t AI just 90% marketing? It’s updated a fair bit and has memory (to a degree) but otherwise it’s just cleverbot isn’t it (remember that?). Cleverbot was a fun gimmick for 13 year olds but no one thought twice about it, there were no conversations like ‘oh wow this is the future, this might end humanity’. It’s just a novelty.
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Strange to think that there was once a time when movies were actually major events in mainstream consciousness and like, had actual influence on pop culture and had cults form around them and shit.
>>24881678They still are, you've just fallen out of touch (probably for the best)
>>24881685You think so? Zoomers mostly watch TV shows if they do watch motion picture media of any kind, in my experience. But even those are kinda circling the drain, the last big thing was GoT and that ended on one hell of a wet fart.
>>24881694>Zoomers mostly watch TV showsZoomers mostly watch YouTube/TikTok/Instagram reels/etc>the last big thing was GoTSeverance is the current big thing You are indeed out of touch
>>24880279I had this one in mind actually
I want to submit several short stories but every fucking literary journal is either not taking submissions or the turnaround time is many monthsFuck thatI have a lot I want to publish :(
>>24881723I haven't watched TV in over a decade.
>>24881045Its utility was accidentally discovered while hula hooping. In that age that was a popular activity among pregnant women.
https://youtu.be/TBLToWBPEgk?si=xu8BkGKcKs0bkgjC
Cameron has Never Been LovedA Poem by AnonTo the Rotund CreatureWho beganCornering aloneWhat a manBut me?Forced to seeA friend'sBrandnew girlfriendWhat a sad trend!I conceededAnd witnessedA dreadful visageUgly hoe of umbrageResentful critterCutting scars quitterBlond bombshells basherEnvious, happiness snatcherTramp, travested with twitter titterAt his housewarmingIncreasingly slurringPerpetually hirsuteDressed like a prostitutePathetic girlfriendAt your hoe's endStocky, pale and roundLike CostanzaMy cup hit the groundAs you stumble mid stanzaconfused and deludedDanger hair includedShambling away Runing my day!As we clean up your messUnder duressYou whimsical, rotund cryptiddrunkenly luridThrowing up on his floor As I run for the doorYou slurred some moreAnd made your movePressing your curveAgainst meBleh!
In the modern world it seems like peace comes at the expense of truth. You can have truth, or you can have peace, but you can't have both.
I have 10 ChatGPT accounts each using deep research right now.
I'm getting error code 400 trying to login to my accounts now.
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Fɘn! tzz-ɡrr Plip? skrrt~ bōb!Ch!v | mmm!
Ka-zii plo-rrrVuu-sha tri-kluMe-zii fraa-looShrr-ka vree-tah
is he right?
>>24881567No, what the fuck? If you were actually the person in question then you could text me yourself.
>>24881868This.
I couldn't Netlfix and chill, I like movies too much. She'd try to make advances on me and I'd have to turn her down. Like, bitch, leave me alone, I'm tryna watch Jaws.
How to seriously overcome porn and watching beautiful women on youtube, porn sites, live streams, image boards, almost everywhere on the internet? How do I stop endorsing the female form so much that I can stop watching? I don't want to need to resist, I want to not have the urge and need in the first place. But sexy females are just too good to not do it even after so many years.
>>24881947You need something to occupy your time. Porn addiction etc. are generally an escapist activity that gets triggered by discomfiting thoughts and feelings you don't really know how to handle normally.
What is the best tv series you have seen this year, /lit/?
When I read about con men in history, they feel more sympathetic and authentic than the con men I see on the news.
Generally speaking, my actions in public tend to follow a certain script; for instance: I smile at women, frown at women, nod at children, and shake my head at the elderly. Never do I touch a stranger's pet but will try to attract strays for pets (max. 1 minute). No small talk, not even if I'm approached. Don't look into people's eyes but only their general direction. If handshake is ever required make it as weak as possible in order to discourage future handshakes. Always accept whatever someone offers, like tea or coffee, no matter what (I've had someone make coffee for me at night and that disrupted my sleep later that night, but that's no matter). Those are some of the general scripts I follow at least.
>>24881958u first ;)
>>24881958The Chair Company. Currently airing, probably going to be in my top 5 or top 10 all time TV shows.
>>24881947I remember a trick one of the desert fathers used to do was to utilize the sin of pride to counter the sin of lust and vice versa. As an example>you really think these measly whores can tempt me? Puh-please
>>24881958None. I watch OVA kino like Ginga Eiyū Densetsu
Should I read Gaddis' JR or The Recognitions first?
>>24881960That's the romanticism of the distance of history. Plus they were generally better dressed.
>>24881999well for me it was probably The White Lotus and fourth season of The Bear. I don't watch that many series, I prefer movies
>>24881960Real life con men are far more fascinating than any fictional ones
Think of where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends.
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>>24879571All I want is to be a moderately popular furry sfw artistNot even really popular, just relatively popular in a niche.But which niche it is changes almost monthly, and that tells me I will never be contented
>>24882126This probably makes me sound like a philistine, but I admittedly have a much easier time memorizing lines of poetry when they've been quoted in a show than I do just reading it in their normal context.
>>24882128Fret not dear friend, having a visual to aid your recollection helps most people.Even with my amazing memory, the only line I remember from reading is "Je leur ai montré le chemin de la glorie. Ils n'en ont pas voulu" but thats only because its apt for my daily struggles.Reading is like collecting nectar to make your own sweet honey, to me at least
>>24879571is it against university policy for phd supervisors to invite their phd students over to their house?my phd supervisor did it multiple times and offered wine, but he called me handsome on one occasion
>>24882154>my phd supervisor did it multiple times and offered wine, but he called me handsome on one occasion
>>24881286....wew lad. Kill that fucker.
>>24881450Many thanks anon. I will read it.
>>24882154Not a PhD student yet, but my supervisor invited me to his place once. I met his wife, his child, then we had lunch and a couple beers. He's a nice fellow
>>24882154Pretty sure it only becomes a situation if they actually do something untoward. So, no, that in itself is nothing.
>>24882170I put in a complaint anyway. I want this fucker fired.
>>24882180???Did he caress your thigh? Dryhump your backside? Why so bitter, petty, and vindictive?
>>24882186Do you want to listen to this guy talk theory gibberish every day of your life?
>>24882191>in 1919.I > no space between the dot and II HATE ACADEMIA AND THEIR LACK OF STANDARDS. OMG FUCK YOU FOR BRINGING BACK AWFUL MEMORIES
>>24882191Now you're doxxing!? You need to do some self-reflection, anon. Anyway, while I generally believe that kind of critical theory is an affront to art and literature, that distaste is secondary to the kindship I feel for scholars, lovers of the literary word. and intellectual cultural analysts, and as such, I reserve judgment without having read his work.
>>24882209It's not doxxing. I could give out his home address, and that is doxxing.
>>24882230Well, this is still rather inappropriate. In any case, I hope whatever you do and whatever happens works out for the best.
>>24881765I like it. Did you you ever write one about a haunted gardening service?
Why do people lie and pretend to know things? It would be so much easier if everyone stopped pretending.>inb4 some tardo pretends to know why
>>24882315because from a young age, when you’re caught in awkward situations, you’re taught to ‘act like you know.’ and it’s solid advice.
>>24882324Is "you" in the room with you right now?
>>24882326He's speaking in second person.
Authenticity is a meaningless concept.
>>24882341It’s essential in order to be any kind of artist, maybe even just to be a real person, to hold on to, and clarify to your own best satisfaction, what your instincts and perceptions tell you. i.e. recover your authenticity.
i smoked weed last night and i'm still high wow i didn't even smoke that much now i know what that anon that said dispensary weed is too lethal was saying
also the downtown of my city is kind of sleazy after 12. it's like all bourgeois tech and finance families during the day eating at restaurants and shit, but late idk i was this like this kinda sleazy
>>24879571I wish I never learned anything about politics. I think this all the time, usually between learning even more about politics.The only sensible way to engage with politics is to pick a team and play the game, actually reading theories from all over the place and coming to your own reasoned conclusions is counter intuitively moronic because it means instead of going "yeah man, fuck those guys" when someone shares something, you might actually wind up having opinions about politics, and nobody wants that. This is a team sport, nobody wants you to come to the field and go "huh, maybe the other guys deserve to win today". (No, not even moderates. Their other guys are *you*.)I don't say these things in conversation obviously. I'm not an idiot. But I know I think them, and that damns me. Having thought, it becomes a lie to say the correct thing: fuck those guys. I'm not your friend anymore, friend, I'm Havel's fucking Greengrocer. I know that when someone on either side is spouting some self-satisfied cliche that I know more about the issue in question than they do, that I'm oh so clever and have thought about it all oh so hard, but what the fuck does that bring me? Nothing. It just makes the problem worse. The more time goes on, the more cliches you learn and pick up on, the more areas it's impossible to just nod and accept it. Think, think, think. Shut the fuck up!! Why am I like this, why can't I just be normal and say: "yeah man, fuck those guys".The only silver lining of the whole thing is that if either side's dangerous extremists take power, I'm confident I've got enough evidence to denounce myself as a sympathizer with the enemy so they drag me out of bed one morning and put me up against the wall. It will be the only thing they do that I can unequivocally endorse as the correct policy.
>>24882392As a constitutionalist, I like my views to be compatible with the constitution. I don't like people who are against the constitution.
i had to listen to a broadcast radio station last night and holy shit the ads they play late at night at least are fucking terrible it's wild to me that people pay money to run those ads and that they get any return like it was literally ads for podcasts like how many viewers do they really get
>>24879571Crazy how much damage the Internet has done, not only to the capable, ambitioned guys, but also to the worst scum of society. The archetype of the violent, super taff extrovert fucker guy, for instance, seems to have completely disappeared from our lives. Within two decades, absolutely everyone has become a complacent normie afraid of speaking up, for the good as for the bad.
>>24882252Thanks. Two years latter and I still think about the events that inspired it.>one about a haunted gardening serviceNo, but that sounds interesting. I did write another one called "The Bimbo From Bumble". It's probably in the archives.
>>24882510Truly incredible.
>>24882386The downtown of my city is sleazy at fucking midday. Always full of hobos, thieves, crackheads and guys selling contraband and bootleg products. It has been like this since the fucking 80's and progressively gotten worse.The only people happy with the state of this shithole are contractors since they can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they keep paying the mayor up like a good little slut.Feeling unsafe while walking around is one of this country's greatest problems and not a single politician in at least fifty years has ever presented a concrete plan for dealing with it. Left wing ones ignore the problem and right wing ones talk a big game but don't do shit besides some performatic massacre in the slums every couple years to farm the gigabrainlet electorate and appease them. During the last one they managed to murder 100+ people, not a single one of them having criminal charges or previous arrests. Meanwhile, half our governement is taking money from kingpins and landowners who live and rule like middle ages nobility. Fuck.
I dreamt I was in a hurry for something and a femoid grabbed me to slow me down. I grabbed her hair and yanked it and started smacking her, and she started crying and I said "I bet you're about to cum you stupid slut". This was so visceral and natural. Came from the depths of my manhood. Yes, I am convinced this is how we're actually supposed to treat women. And deep down women want this too.
Guys can you recommend me more Kafkaesque books? My favorite author is kafka.
>>24882620read Invitation to a beheading by Nabokov, it's my least favorite Nabokov but it's kinda similar to Kafka in some ways
>>24882510I am curious what would happened if people simply reduced their internet usage by 50%.
>>24882622I'll check that out.
Its crazy how my second cousin i saw at a funeral months ago for the first time made me fall in love with her. Shes the only woman I would ever consider marrying
>>24882639How effeminate.
I need you.
>>24882606i was super high and like these women would walk by literally dressed like pornstars or something i'm like are these sex workers like if i talk to one of these girls is she straight up pay to win? i wasn't horny but i was just like dude i think these are prostitutes. also there's just tons of douchebag straight clubber dudes listening to like bluetooth speakers of shitty rap. i was like this is legitimately awful. "going out" is a fucking farce.
>>24882756But I need to poo
>>24882756https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v20ftD2_nmM
>>24881224enjoy hell
>>24872513being higher than midwit leads to loneliness, no?
>>24882843>these women would walk by literally dressed like pornstars or somethingOh, my city has these too. They are just regular women. Years ago I used to catch a bus that went through a street full of prostitutes and they wore more clothes than the average woman I see going out at night nowadays.
There's no good or evil. Do whatever you want.
fuck shit up and start a riot
What do you call it when people take widespread opposition to their idea as proving them right?
I'm going to a pronoun party tonight.
>>24883206galileo gambit
I must be annoying my friend because whenever I text him about whatever anxiety is plaguing me that day, he responds with something completely unrelated.
I miss you even more this time of year
>>24882620Hamsut early books
>>24882620>>24883350*hamsun
'meretricious' is a strange word
Just ordered Soranus' Gynecology on Amazon.
Years ago, when I was still in college, there was this intercity bus ride I took every Thursday or Friday from my college town to my hometown. I don't exactly remember whether I was the one to sit down next to this girl or if she was the one to sit next to me on the crowded bus, but knowing my fortune with the ladies, it must have been the first. I fell asleep about twenty minutes after the bus began to drive and when I woke up an hour and some change later, it turned out that she fell asleep too and we ended up leaning against each other in our sleep, head to head and shoulder to shoulder. I savored the feeling for a moment then settled back into my chair so that when she woke up too, she didn't have any idea what happened while we were both dozing off. I don't even remember what she looked like but I remember thinking she was kind of cute.
>>24883375thought this was a joke first. a book about gynecology by someone called sore anus.
https://youtu.be/vfGAleaUa2o?si=ZirfxVO7Dk0ESAgk
Next level paranoia is when it isn't directly painful or awkward experiences that you fear happening, but pleasant and happy ones because whatever you enjoy or grow attached to is a thing with enormous potential to be painful to you. Like even if I got into a relationship with someone, I'd constantly be paranoid that she's fucking other dudes or that other dudes are trying to fuck her, that she's not being genuine with me and is just manipulating me or temporarily settling for me, etc. I'd be too preoccupied with not losing this precious thing to enjoy it for what it is in the moment without my neurotic side going into overdrive.
Operation Dinner Out is a go
>>24883504Next level paranoia is when you walk through a lonely forest path at night. > Ehh, why would you even do thatBecause it helps not getting wet dreams whilst on nofap
>>24883504yeah i have that all the time. i hate it.
>>24883504think that’s just jealousy.
>>24879571It is the year 2040. All world problems have been solved by the creation of bacterial cultures which efficiently convert inedible plant matter such as wood to human edible food.
It's quite pathetic when blacks try to fit in European countries because you can tell deep down, they know they're not supposed to be there
say a prayeryou should be the one to say it
>>24883569they’ve been in europe longer than yanks have been in america.
>>24883576Back then the foreigners that were in Europe were good people who worked hard for it, assimilated and were by all accounts as European as anyone else, and I would say the same is true for their kids now. I'm talking about the hordes that have been flooded in within the last decade with no prior ancestry in the area
>>24883569No such thing as blacks.
Deepseek said I was autistic.
>>24883589then you should reread your initial post. sounds like your issue isn’t with black people trying to fit in in europe, rather with the ones who don’t try to fit in.
You means Moors, Ethiopians, Sudanese, Egyptians or what?
>>24883600lol are you getting bullied by an AI?
>>24883569Why do mutts think Europeans complain about immigroids being brown? Were pissed about all migrants, brown AND white.
>>24883615Yes because I kept asking it about social cues I had trouble understanding, and in the thinking part it mentioned that I probably have autism.
>>24883605>rather with the ones who don’t try to fit in.The problem is that's 99% of them though, should've been a bit clearer though>>24883610Broadly sub-Saharan Africans in my experience but I'm sure there's others I'm not aware of >>24883617I don't think amerimutts deserve to immigrate there either, but you really should be mainly worried about the non-whites considering they're the ones killing people and raping your women. Claiming the problem isn't a racial thing makes you look cucked.
>>24883629> I don't think amerimutts deserve to immigrate there eitherI'm talking about Italians, Spanyards, Gayreeks, Germcucks, Britfags, straggling hordes of EEWT (Eastern European White Trash), coming to our countries and shitting up the culture. They make 90% of the immigrants. The rapefugees are what homeless people are to mutts. Yes, they're violent, they sell crack, they smell and they suck, but it's not like you can't avoid them. The immishits in the contrary becomes your work colleage and you have to put up with his nationality and his broken accent.
>>24883629>should've been a bit clearer thougha bit clearer? i think you said the opposite of what you ostensibly meant. why don’t you monoglot immigrants learn english before posting on lit, eh?
>>24883642sick of these fucking europeans in europe.
>>24883652You sound like a whiny faggot
>>24883654They make the great majority of the immigrants.
>>24883673breaking: there are more europeans in europe
>>24883667i won’t say what you sound like.
>>24883678How many of those Europeans are European?
>>24883684no true scotsman
>>24883678So you are in favour of immigrants. Interesting.
>>24883690I'm in favor of certain immigrants, like from exoplanets like the Venus fly trap that landed in Florida.
>>24883697Well in Europe if you're against immigrants you're against ALL immigrants. Even if they came from the neighbouring village. They're all trash.
>>24883690i mean most are okay with white ones who have to work to get in and are willing to assimilate as opposed to sub 90 iq third-world biomass. pretending not to understand this is quite sad.
>>24883702They don't know the language (less they came from a germanophone country), they are usually white trash, they don't care about the culture and the history of the country, even if they assimilate.
>>24883706it sounds like you live in a majority-white area and have never had to deal with mass amounts of migrants being flooded into your neighborhood, dumping trash and vandalizing the streets, and harassing every woman they spot. i'm sure other euros are annoying but it really pales in comparison.
>>24883690i was just making fun of you. EU borders are so permeable, they’re generally called expats. though actually i vaguely am in favour (or in any case i’m not fighting-mad against it). i came to this board from /mu/ not pol
>>24883714What about Africans in Greenland?
>Yet another round of immigrant discussion The powers that be are going to push for a growing population no matter what. If native couples can’t keep up with demand they’ll import people. Your best bet as a European nationalist is to pull a Haredim, bunker down and have 8 kids, and try to rinse and repeat with the future generations.
Go make a >>>/pol/ thread and discuss this there holy fuck
>>24883716what about africans in greenland?
>>24883719They're writing books about it.
>>24883712I grew up in a 90% immigrant neighbourhood. Most of those immigrants were European and Christian however. Those who weren't were hapa mutts and mulattoes, or Indians. The thing is they consider themselves as belonging to the same social class. If you're against immigrants you're against all of them.
>>24883723Fair enough I'm against all of them then lol. Can we agree that certain groups will absolutely take priority over others when the time comes though?
>>24883723i’d take a kenyan or an aussie immigrant over a yank any day of the week.
>>24883722haven’t read them
Hey there.
>>24883729H=ey
>>24883729kill yourself
I'm drunk on rangoon.
>>24883725I don't think that time will ever come. Northern has reached the same state as decaying Greece and decaying Rome. Religion counts for nothing, courtesy counts for nothing, literature and art is non-existent, we have abolished our history, the cities REEK of immigrants from all places, and the young girls walk naked around the stadium, I meant colosseum, I meant IG. Either Eastern Europe or the Americas will continue the cause of the white race. Eastern Europe, because they are still homogenous, Americas, because there's in fact more white people there numerically than in Europe itself. Pockets of whites will forever remain in Western Europe, but they will not be able to change the social building.
>>24883743weren’t you just complaining about white europeans? make your mind up mate.
>>24883747They're other species of whites.
>>24883752you can’t define your categories without contradicting yourself, maybe the categories aren’t real. mood swings.
>>24883768> nationalities aren't real
>>24883775>dog breeds are nationalities
>>24883775are nationalities different species to you?
>>24883782> I equal human nationalities and the countries that stem from them with vulgar cog breeds
>>24883789People clearly look different in different countries.
>>24883789Greece had four different languages you know. Then they mixed and imported mutts and mixed with them and started tolerating gays and freeing their slaves and being liberal. Then they became a non-nation for 1000+ years. Hmmm...
>>24883796Greece has only existed since 11 June 1975. 1000 years haven't passed since then.
>>24883792different families also look different.
>>24883797How many years have passed between 200 BC and 1975?
>>24883800Actually, I look exactly like my sister.
>>24883796everything fell to pieces in greece after alexander cut the gordian knot. it was his defiance of ancient custom that brought ruin on the greek civilisation.
>>248838082174 years
>>24883809anglais ?… i said ‘different’ families.
>>24883810Ahh, yes, the Macedonians, despised by the Southern Greeks for being barbarish and still sticking to the ancient pantheon, are at fault for Greece becoming the degenerate hellhole Southern Greece had already become wayy before Macedonia.
>>24883814I misread what you wrote because I skimmed it.
>>24883817it had been prophesied that whoever could undo the knot, would be lord of asia. alexander fiddled about for hours, but couldn't untie it. the real point about that knot was that it spelt out a holy name in knot-language. the british druids used to exchange messages in knot-language ... but alexander was no druid and couldn't be bothered to study their mysteries. so he took his dagger and cut the knot right across. after his victories in the east, he soon came home and drank himself to death. and the power vacuum he created destabilised the civilisation.
>>24883828it’s alright it was a wall of text to be fair.
Woman doctor said I'm gay.
>>24883831Druids were degenerates, like all priestly upper classes (save for the brahmins). Tying up a knot and laughing at the guys trying to untie them is effeminate and degenerate. Alexander is the true hero in this story. He is the muscular Aryan who came to show it to the hostile, unmannered bastards. He is, in some respect, the heroic Flash Gordon of his days.
>>24883839 something i’ve noticed about these people - they might have read more than the avg 4chan poster, but they're still not.... is refined the right word? the relationship to the material still feels surface-level, performative, even adolescent. like you swapped out marvel for the canon, but are still ranking things like a /v/ edgelord.real depth, real cultural literacy, tends to come with a shift in disposition, not just in taste. it brings a kind of humility, an openness, a patience with complexity. a slowing down. if that hasn’t happened, then swapping marvel for homer is just a change in aesthetic, not depth.
>>24883853Refined was the wrong word. Refinement is degenerate. It is the thing degenerates have swapped for growth. Instead of growing new faculties they 'refine' their old ones.Literacy is degenerate. Aesthetic is degenerate. If you want a lead example in life, read the comics of Flash Gordon. Or the Nibelungen or the Illiad. The literacy is not there to be analyzed or anything, it is there to inspire you and make you follow their example, wether it is the Hero of the Olympiad, the Knight of the Nibelungs or Flash Gordon.
>>24883860blind emulation is self-defeating. you shouldn’t swallow anything whole without chewing it and digesting it. let’s take your example of the iliad; homer satirises his heroes, treats achilles with irony, makes agamemnon, high king of greece, a weak, greedy busybody who almost always does the wrong thing.
>>24883879He portrays them as people.
>>24883882he’s merciless towards them. in fact he makes achilles the villain of the piece. only hector comes out looking alright.
>>24883894That's an interesting Interpretation you take from the poem. You really read through all that?
I’m writing a fantasy novel in which all 8B humans are transported to a medieval fantasy world with a pop. of 400 quadrillion; pop. dist. into 50T villages, 8K inh. each (400 quadrillion total), 5T towns, 40K inh. incl. villages (200 quadrillion total), 500B cities, 200K inh. incl. towns (100 quadrillion total), 30B major keeps/strongholds/cits, 1.2M inh. incl. city pop. (36 quadrillion total); 10B sovereign ents incl. kingdoms, marches, confed., high-empires, largest ent. 4 quadrillion inh. across 200M prov., each prov. 16.7K wds, 240K inh. each (4 quadrillion total largest), each wd 200 agr. cl., 1.2K inh. each (240K/wd), each agr. cl. 3 sq km arable, 8.625K tons grain/yr w/o mag., 15.435K tons/yr w/ fert. ench., growth accel. spells -50% cycle, 2 harvests/season, weather harm. prevents 0 drought/flood/frost/storm; roads/agr. cl. 16 km: 8 km village paths, 6 km minor inter-wd, 2 km mag. maint.; wds conn. by 3.2K km reg. (1.6K trade, 1.2K patrol, 400 messenger), 1.067K km royal (800 cerem., 267 battlemage); prov. contains 3.2K granaries (1.6K central, 1.6K sat.), 1K mag. forges (600 std, 400 arc.), 8 schools (4 prim., 2 sec., 1 high, 1 mag. acad.), 53 hospitals (28 gen., 15 spec., 10 mag. heal.), 80 mag. shrines (50 minor, 30 major), 5 battlemage garr./wd (3 std, 2 elite); mil./prov.: 200K knights (120K cav., 80K inf.), 400K battlemages (250K std, 150K elite), 1.5M aux. (1M inf., 300K arch., 200K log. support); transport/prov.: 4.5M draft animals (2.7M oxen, 1.5M horses, 0.3M donkeys), 350K mag. caravan beasts; for each 200M prov., each 16.7K wds contains 200 agr. cl., each 3 sq km arable, 1.2K inh., 8.625K tons grain/yr w/o mag., 15.435K tons/yr w/ fert. ench., 16 km roads/agr. cl. (8 km village, 6 km minor inter-wd, 2 km mag. maint.), wds conn. by 3.2K km reg. + 1.067K km royal subdiv. as above; prov. infra.: 3.2K granaries (1.6K central, 1.6K sat.), 1K mag. forges (600 std, 400 arc.), 8 schools (4 prim., 2 sec., 1 high, 1 mag. acad.), 53 hospitals (28 gen., 15 spec., 10 mag. heal.), 80 mag. shrines (50 minor, 30 major), 5 battlemage garr./wd (3 std, 2 elite), 200K knights (120K cav., 80K inf.), 400K battlemages (250K std, 150K elite), 1.5M aux. (1M inf., 300K arch., 200K log.), 4.5M draft animals (2.7M oxen, 1.5M horses, 0.3M donkeys), 350K mag. caravan beasts; total 400 quadrillion pop. over 6.75 quadrillion sq km total, 1.3 quadrillion sq km arable, 612 primary cont., 20M subcont., 350M langs, 47B dialect continua, 8.2M mag. trad., 50B temples (4K/prov., 53/wd), 3.2 quadrillion km roads (1.07 quadrillion royal, 1.6 quadrillion reg., 384T village paths), 6.66 trillion hospitals, 2 quadrillion beds, 400B schools, 1 trillion univ., granary capacity 12K tons, messenger paths 4 days/400 km, mag. recharge every 50 km along battlemage routes, citadel walls 12 m high, 6 m moats, 27 watchtowers/wd.
>>24883937sounds shit
>>24883952That's the point.
Thinking about this....Most of the things mentioned apply to me. I barely socialize, i have 2 friends, im not even sure they are solid friends.I laugh too loud, i always wear the same clothes, its been half a decade i've talked to a woman other than cashiers, bartenders, doctors etc. I listen to ambient music mostly, not sure if thats sad but i listen to classical and jazz alot and i guess thats not sad. I tilt my head towards the ground when walking.But I dont think i really gave up. Sure, I gave up on women, socializing, keeping up with the peers but I still care about lots of things, i just dont see what I, by myself can do about it.
>>24883952Any questions?
The world’s built on people doing what needs doing while everyone else pretends they’re meant for grander things.Someone’s gotta scrub the spilled dreams off the tile. Might as well be you. Most folks don’t realize the floor tells more truth than the people standing on it.There’s no sermon in that, no pity, no applause.Just the plain mechanics of a life being lived: work, a bar, a mop, and another night closing itself down.
>>24883984Honest opinion, the world would be better off if there was no garbagemen and bartenders.
>>24883984Stop projecting.
>>24883984The real heroes are getting by in the gutter and seldom roll over to gaze at the stars.
>>24883984Fuck out of here with your LLMslop
I'm thinking about chickens in diapers.
>>24883998Well spotted, I didn’t even think twice but obviously it is>bar, a mop, and another night closing itself down.
Is having sex with an adolescent chimp more morally wrong than having sex with an adult chimp?
>>24884014>Is having sex with an adolescent chimp more morally wrong than having sex with an adult chimp?Yes. The greater the difficulty the more morally right it is
>>24884041That makes sense.
New >>24884449>>24884449