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Anonymously post spicy journal entries for others voyeuristic enjoyment.

I started in April last year. The blue book is full the black book is around 2/3 full.
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>>25254688
>post your journal entry thread
>doesn't post his journal entry
Faggot.
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>>25254690
I'm waiting for others to post first so I'm not the only one being cringe. DW I have all kinds of yarns in these books
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>>25254694
>still hasn't posted his journal entry
Faggot.
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>>25254699
>still hasn't posted his journal entry
You say that like there's only one passage of these books that would be interesting for someone to anonymously read.
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>>25254707
>still hasn't posted his journal entry
Faggot.
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>>25254726
Ok have half a page for now
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Obviously bonus points for drugs, sex and violence.
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Psychotic rants also welcomed
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Wholesomeness also encouraged.
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>I played vidya, got stoned, jacked off, then passed out for a while. Then I did it again.
No one wants to read that. Seriously, why bother.
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>>25254920
Good point and fair enough Anon. Even seeing someone with depression achieve a goal list can be wholesome tho. And femanons diary could be interesting to read.
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I don’t date or serialize the entries. I just carry a notebook and record whatever verbal hallucinations occur.
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Here’s another dateless, unserialized excerpt.
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>>25254838
Did you drink the cola?

>>25254831
You left?
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>>25254831
Did you see her?
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>>25255005
I'm pretty sure I ghosted that day then next time I saw her said I'm not keen to hang out any more. Our plan was to walk to the supermarket and get dessert so I said that I'm not keen on any dating like shenanigans at this point in my life. Purposely made it weird to get away from her.

We did hang out a handful of times after that but never for dessert.
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>Journaling
Extremely gay and narcissistic. Kill yourself.
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>>25255132
Journaling is great for many things. Committing things to memory you would otherwise forget. It makes you feel less alone to write out your days. Like you've voiced your thoughts and feelings without actually sharing anything with anyone. Makes things seem more real when life is stressful or chaotic. Helps keep you out of that headspace where you feel completely numb and nothing feels real. When you have to say something out loud to be able to process it.
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>>25255178
Extremely gay and narcissistic. Kill yourself.
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My handwriting is fucked I know.
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>>25254688
Never forget that this Capitalist system sees more use for us as slaves and targets than humans
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>>25255264
Don’t lose faith.
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>>25254956
Did you forget to make the to-do list?
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>>25255264
YOU HAVE NO LIMITATIONS
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>>25255277
It's on that same page under the paragraph with everything but gym crossed off are u blind
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>>25255274
I try keep all my stupid shit to 4chan and sometimes FB, I've never had Instagram or TicToc or anything like that.

But yes you are correct. The world isn't exactly safe anymore.
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So it turns out /lit/ is just a bunch of women with men's handwriting. Nice to know.
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>>25254956
>>25255670
Women don’t introspect. Clearly, these journals are men’s journals written in men’s handwriting.

One of the journals even mentions the experience of spending the night in the bed of a stranger they met on a sodomite dating app. That’s not a woman’s activity.
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Entry from a few months ago
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>>25255845
>decent pen
>serious looking handwriting
>"Man, the shit-"
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>>25255862
Don't forget
>bitching about his pen for a whole page
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>>25255878
I do it very often too
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I've tried to keep a journal multiple times but I just don't have anything to put down.
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>>25256168
Your posting follows the same pattern.
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>>25255274
Nobody sees any use for you.
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>>25256168
Yeah neither do these other queers
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why does this board seem to hate journaling so much? how does someone writing in their notebook personally affect you in any way?
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>>25256297
It's gay. Homosexuality is a moral, spiritual, and public health and safety hazard.
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Today —it’s whatever
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>>25256339
>Homosexuality is a moral, spiritual, and public health and safety hazard.
Stay mad
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>>25254688
I've been doing this since I was a teen and was hooked with esotericism. I have whole boxes filled with these little notebooks were I wrote every lucid dream and ASC experiences I had. I won't post them because they're like too personal though.
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>>25257069
>I won't post them because they're like too personal though.
This sounds interesting, surely you have something you can share with us? Nobody will know who you are except like the CIA or the NSA or whoever and they probably know everything about you anyways.
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My entry so far today
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No proper journal, but I will write notes on a given book I'm reading from time to time.
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>>25257181
I like how neat this is.
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>>25257069
>they're like too personal though
This is an anonymous message board.
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Nothing to say to journal. what are you meant to say to it.
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>>25254740
are you a lefty
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>>25257181
This is cool, looks like a good memory exercise.

>>25257215
Lefty like left handed or politically? I'm a centrist. I'm a two-spirit male split straight down the middle. Half of me is leftist, half is rightist. The result being right leaning centrist.
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>>25257234
i just meant left-handed guess you're not
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>>25257240
Just write about your day like what time you woke, any dreams you had, what you did and ate, any future plans and if you want to talk about how you're feeling. It's easy once you start.
>>25257208
I thought you were asking about politics. I'm right handed.
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Started using a knockoff of these one page per day journals last year. Would keep track of all the food I've eaten and added a section to keep track of daily tasks. Have migrated over to a digital journal (using jrnl) since the start of this year.
It was a little difficult to find what to write about at first, but as the exercise of daily writing got routine, it got easier.
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>>25257208
This is some Se7en-type shit.
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>>25255878
>bitching about his pen for a whole page
Maybe it's because I keep a journal but who doesn't get excited when they get a new pen?
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More pen related bitching
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>>25258487
>>25258521
kek'd
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>>25258521
>pen ran out
>found another pen
>pen ran out
>tragic comedy of my life
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>>25258597
Yup pretty much.
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>>25254956
>wednesday
>went to the corner store
>made shitty pasta
>watched a movie
the life of an unemployed brit bong.
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>>25255845
>>25256612
learn how to orient your pictures, faggot
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>>25258660
Not my fault that this nepalese crocheting forum likes to play retarded with exif data.
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>>25255132
Came here to say this.

Fuck off OP.
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>>25258763
>>25255238
>>25255132

Tell us more of how much of a retarded idiot you are. Any person in history that still echoes today has kept a journal. It's european tradition. Maybe thats why you browns have such deep aversion to it.

Journaling is a gift you make for your future self. The more you write the bigger the reflection and the bigger the gift.
Since turd-worlders have cringe time-preference you would'nt know the benefits of any of that.
Keep making mudpies and eating literal shit, thats more your speed. No point in lashing out at other peoples superior executive function.
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>>25258817
I type mine sometimes.
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>>25259276
You use a typewriter? That is pretty cool I like it.
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>>25256297
>why does this board seem to hate journaling so much?
It involves writing.
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>>25259276
>than
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>>25258763
NPC is jealous that he has no internal monologue.
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>>25260136
>>25256297
>why does this board seem to hate journaling so much?
I guess to write a journal you have to be able to form an original thought. Which most people seem to have lost the capacity to do since taking the vax.
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Another exciting day in the eventful life of Anon.
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Since the thread is still alive this is my entry so far today. It's just gone 00:15

1/2
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2/2
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>>25262676
>>25263282
do you get any genuine benefits from journaling? seems cringe to read previous entries that all make you sound like an angsty, teenage girl.
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>>25260761
>you have to be able to form an original thought
>most people seem to have lost the capacity to do since taking the vax
very original thought indeed
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>>25260761
The value in journaling is that they are your thoughts and feelings.
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>>25264127
>>25264163
>do you get any genuine benefits from journaling?
See >>25255178 I feel like I gave it a good explanation. And yes, I feel like it helps in many ways.
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>>25264157
kek
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>>25255264
it's not that bad i've seen worse
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>>25263282
so you're a broke junkie faggot. scintillating read.
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>>25264127
are you such a shallow person that everything you do, think, and say has to be specifically tailored to appease a crowd? The point of journaling is that it is your unfiltered thoughts and feelings on paper without tidying them up to look prim and pretty for uneducated third world people in an online anime forum. Of course, introspection is most likely something that you and your kin hardly ever think about or are even aware of its existence so it is understandable that you have a hard time understanding raw, unedited emotion is often times awkward or even illogical.
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>>25258817
I agree but lado also how do I have sex with this statue
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>>25264127
It helps a lot to clarify things and get things out of my system.
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>>25258817
god I need to impregnate that statue
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>>25264127
you don't have to read the previous entries. I never do
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>>25256843
I have no reason to be upset. You will not have children, and any children you raise as gay will not have children either.
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Here's a good 'un
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>>25254694
>so I'm not the only one being cringe
>on an anonymous board
The absolute state of zoom zooms
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Do you ever read your entries back? I use a fancy editor on my computer so I have no shortage of ways to organize. Even if I were to switch to physical notebooks I'd probably keep an index. Otherwise you have an opaque brick in your hands. Might as well scream into the void.
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>>25254688
reading everyones entries made me pick up journaling again after 2 years
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When I started writing I used a moleskine so now I feel obliged to keep going with them. I think I've filled about 5 of those small diary ones so far.
>>25264127
I just use it as a kind of writing therapy. I rarely read them back, maybe once a year I'll look at a few old entries.
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>>25265482
Imagine being inspired by the crap posted ITT
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>>25265372
Get a proper fucking notebook
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>>25256843
>"Falling in love" with a tranny you just met on a hookup app
Stay deeply disturbed by your childhood sexual trauma.
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Been thinking on starting an audio journal after I found a cheap old voice recorder in a drawer when I was cleaning my house a few days ago, I just don't want to look retarded and eccentric if I'm recording an entry in public.
Recording an entry makes me feel like the guy from twin peaks though
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>>25265819
I understand the charm but your phone can easily serve the same purpose without you looking like a dork
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>>25265482
Okay, have fun.
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>>25254994
Sorry but writing one line across both pages is serial killer behavior.
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>>25265478
i've got a way of outputting any random entry to read back, but only started writing daily on digital just at the start of this year so haven't felt the need to read back just yet
been meaning to digitize the old writings I have that go back just a couple years but haven't gotten to that yet
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>>25256297
4chan is the site of the contrarian. Therefore what ever OP posts the rest of the responses will be negative.
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>>25264127
It has similar benefits to meditation and is like having a therapist who just listens.
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>>25265692
>Stay deeply disturbed by your childhood sexual trauma.
That's a whole other story.
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>>25268144
No it's the first chapter
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>>25259276
>YOUR not worthy of me
>YOUR
>Y
>O
>U
>R
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>>25264766
>The point of journaling is that it is your unfiltered thoughts and feelings on paper without tidying them up to look prim and pretty for uneducated third world people in an online anime forum.
I don't need a journal to say that you're an autistic faggot. Cry about it in your diary.
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>>25264970
Like what?
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>>25265534
>I rarely read them back, maybe once a year I'll look at a few old entries.
And do you find reading old entries useful?
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>>25268047
How so?
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>>25269952
Useful isn't really the word I'd use. It's nostalgic and often fun to see how whatever I was writing about at the time feels trivial months or years later, and interesting to see what I was thinking about most in that period.
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>>25269955
Mindful meditation is a way to get rid of the “noisel in your life and become less reactive. Journaling helps to put things out of your head and onto a different medium. Doing this helps with retention of important information and getting rid of random thought. Much like telling someone a situation gets it off your chest. Most of my journaling at least is pointless but helps me clarify what’s important and become less reactive.
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>>25254688
>blue book
see what you did there op
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>>25270252
>>25270559
Aren't you worried someone will find your journal, take pictures, and try to cancel you?
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>>25265478
>Do you ever read your entries back?
sometimes. I think it will be more fun to reread them in 30 years, when retired and bored.
But even now I'm shocked at little details or things I did only a few years ago and forgot about.
You could easily write a script to bring up entries at random, but usually I either check the time I watched a film and look at the entries from around that day or just click around randomly

>>25271291
yes, which is why I sync with icloud with e2e encryption, (backdoor? who knows). Unlocking my phone or computer gives access though

I'm still not sure how useful the play by play entries are. Writing everyday the walk you took or dinner you made it's a bit of a waste of time and space. But it's a good way to keep the habit, right now I just write when I have some idea or vent about a subjet and it always evolves into various connection with things happening at the time
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>>25272374
>read my current entries 30 years later
>write new, retrospective entries
>read them 20 years later if I still have a functioning brain
>write my last thoughts
Thanks for today's dose of existential dread anon.
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>>25271291
Genuinely nobody gives a shit about what you write in your little gay diary. If someone in your household is enough of a cunt to go through your things and read your journals, you probably should have gotten rid of that person a long time ago
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>>25272435
What else is there to do?
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>>25272443
It happened to me and they brought it up again ten years later just to make fun of me. I haven't kept a journal since
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>>25272551
Personally I don't give a shit. I left a girl from my building alone in my room for a while and when I came back I found her reading one of mine. When I have too many I'm debating whether to burn or bury them with some witchy magic or maybe leave them anonymously on a shelf in a second hand bookstore.
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>>25272551
What did this person bring up?
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>>25254688
I'm gonna start journaling. I barely remember anything from the past 8-10 years.
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>>25273952
Smart move, anon.
It's a way of saving your life from oblivion.
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>>25268043
>4chan is the site of the contrarian
Fuck you, no it isn't.
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>>25254688

I wrote this March of this year.

In regards to romance, I have dumped M. This is the first time I have dumped someone. It’s quite pathetic to beg. I am heartbroken with the way she begged. She hugged me while naked on the bed and asked me with teary eyes if she could wait until my uber to work got here. I saw and heard every part of her broken heart and yet I couldn't care. K was quite right. I shouldn’t be experimenting. I felt like I was more than cruelly honest. The words I kept saying were I am sorry, I am being cruel to you. I am a horrible person. Please leave me.

She begged me to stay. All we do is have sex and watch a movie sometimes. I said, I was happy with that. You said it was my decision, she said. I can’t keep doing this to you, I said.

I don't know why I can't like her. After D left me, I had a huge gap in me, a want to be touched and loved. I thought M could fill it. The night before the morning I broke up with M. I was fucking M raw. She looked into my eyes and asked me if she could see me saturaday night. I went limp. I wanted to dump her right there and then. I don't think my body has ever rejected a woman like that. I decided against it. As I fingered her, I thought it will be better to dump her in the morning.

She's a nice girl. Homely looking and liked me a lot. But really I liked the idea of sex. I didn't hate the sex with M mostly. I liked that she liked to be tied up and would suck my cock the moment I said so. I didn't like cuddling with her after sex. I couldn't fall asleep with her and she'd move around a lot. I’d wake up to her, lacking sleep and moody, but she would be sitting beside me like a puppy, waiting. She would usually take my hand and put it on her pussy. It was always wet.

She'd let me fuck her without a condom and cum on her face as she said thank you daddy while she begged me to hit her. I suppose that is pretty tame or have I been brainwashed into thinking that it is normal? Though, I fucking hated how she had her eyes wide open everytime we kissed. It’s weird. And she only wanted to be fucked while she could see my face. I wish she was lying when she told me I was her first. First for everything apparently.


I don't have anyone to have sex with anymore and I can’t stop masturbating. I could have been nicer but I didn't because of what was convenient. I am a coward. I want to do drugs and not be sober. Being sober sucks, man. I know all I need to do is meditate. Is it really just that? It is. I am a monkey. The kettle blows and my head throbs. I will drink tea and will be a better person after. No. I don’t even feel like being a better person. I just want to be a better writer. What have I become? Why is my ego so inflated and feel the need to impose in this world? All artists are narcissists and the good artists are relentless narcissists. I am a lazy narcissist with little talent and discipline. When will I change? Probably not today. I will play chess, lose and feel like shit.
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I recieved my first journal about twenty five years ago. I no longer have it. I wish I did.
My earliest extant diaristic writings started as a devotional journal as a teenager getting influenced into joining a Christian youth group (YL). I barely kept up with it and found the whole devotional writing tiresome and frustrating. I simply didn't have anything new or insightful to say. Eventually, I rededicated my journal to what it should have been, a holistic diary. That was in March 2013. I still have every notebook I've filled since then.
I don't know why I still journal, frankly I still don't think I'm insightful or creative. As an adult my day-to-day life is stable, so there isn't much to report most of the time. I skip days.
About this time last year I decided to organize, consolidate, and hand-copy every diaristic scrap of writing I had. I ran out of interest about halfway. Maybe I'll get back to that someday.
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>>25274604
Replying to myself.

In the spirit of this thread, I'll type out a poem I wrote in June 2013. It's embarrassing and cringey.

Strolling round,
up and down
here, there
from place to place
All I see are
Plastic people, plastic cups, and empty seats.
would you fill them?
Don't be shy
I know what it's like
to go to parties
and never meet someone nice
would you change that?
We don't have to stay
all I'm saying
you don't know me
I don't know you
So where do we meet?

All around me plastic people, plastic cups and empty seats
I speak the truth
You don't want lies
No one is more plastic than me.
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im virgin neet, aint got much to write
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>>25276388
Just write whatever anon. You're not the only one that's both those things here.
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>>25276388
Starting a journal might motivate you to change that.
I deliberately set out to rescue my life from obscurity, by seeking noteworthy experiences to write about.
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>>25276388
I started off with an exercise journal mainly to keep track of my sets cos I superset everything. Going back to the gym today after taking 6 weeks off wish me luck.
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>>25278619
On behalf of the literate world, I offer my humble thanks for your contribution to the western canon.
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>>25254831
Mine's digital so, and not really a journal, but rather a repository of political, sociological, historical and psychological shower thoughts in either essay or aphoristic form.
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>>25278634
Your thoughts look interesting I will read in full this evening. Going to the gym shortly then gonna shower and clean my room.
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>>25278645
Thanks, I was expecting more of a negative response but I can post more if you'd like.
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>>25278651
Go for it. I didn't read much so far and I may still lose interest but I'll have a look later on
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>>25264127
I've been keeping a digital diary for almost seven years now. I've written about 3,500 pages. I can't bring myself to read any of my past entries because of how fucking cringey and stupid and poorly written they are. I feel like I should just delete the whole thing. But Inman never destroyed his so I guess I can't destroy mine
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I got my list done
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>>25254688
What are some works of philosophy that double as diaries? I know Marcus Aurelius, Tolstoy, Montaigne, C.S. Lewis had books of daily observations as confessions, who else?
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>>25278745
I'm also thinking of publishing my old diary from 2001-2003 as a young man (I was aged 19-21 when I wrote it).

Copypasted from a forum:

>Its pretty cringy but mostly contains my daily social interactions, observations, fruitlessly chasing pussy, and has references to music i was into at the time (mostly 80s hardcore punk, noise rock and speed metal)

>Its like My Twisted World except it predates it by at least 15 years. Thinking of making it into a standalone digital book.

I'll post the front and back if anyone is interested.
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>>25278905
How do you determine what a "page" is if it's digital? You could make the text really small or big to change the page count.
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>>25279716
>mostly contains my daily social interactions, observations, fruitlessly chasing pussy
Interested, post some passages
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>>25280650
bro really thought he cooked
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>>25278619
>10 pushups
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>>25280834
>10 pushups
What about it? I do sets of 10 while keeping good form cos it's better for hypertrophy. I can do more but I like doing sets of 10.

Anything clever to say about the 30kg OHP? That is without bar weight.
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>>25280650
Ok I checked the word count
1,340,758 words
But thats only about 191,537 words per year since I've started. Arthur Crew Inman had over 17 million words, I think
But yeah it's all just horrific garbage that I can't stand reading/ reliving
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>>25258763
He's not going to fuck you
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>>25280828
Give me some time. The writing quality is horrible BTW. Just a heads up. I got hand cramps often.
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>>25280828
Here's part of my March 3 2003 entry. I was in in school suspension for sexual harassment.
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>>25280924
Just noticed two of the pages merged upside down. Here's page 2
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>>25280924
And page 3. This is just an excerpt. I think i wrote ten pages that day.
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>>25279660
the notes from underground dude
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I've been doing a digital journal since last November, and it's genuinely helped me get out of some horrible mental loops
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I must write with a pencil because I fuck up too much to not erase but thick slimy pens look so good.
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>>25281147
I exclusively use these and have since my first year of University many years ago. They are disposable fountain pens. I only buy the black ones, but they just glide across the page with no pressure, its all about angle. I would sooner kill myself before using a biro.
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>>25281365
>disposable fountain pens
no...
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>>25281365
> I would sooner kill myself before using a biro.
The aviation industry hailed the invention of the biro better than sliced bread. In low pressure environments the ink in a fountain pen runs everywhere.
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>>25281365
I exclusively use mechanical pencils they are epic.
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>>25280845
I feel the same way about mine, and I'm not sure why. My older entries are poorly written, sure, but there's more to it. When I think about my life from a time I have entries from, I feel like myself in my memories, but when I read the actual entries from the time, I'm a completely different person. It's jarring, but I think that's also one of the benefits. If I hadn't written these things down, I would have had a wrong impression of my past self.
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>>25254688
iPhones Notes App is the modern journal. Yes or no?
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>>25282716
If you use an iphone you're about 14 years behind modernity.
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>>25282776
haha cool but like phone notes i mean
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>>25282782
no
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Some days are just boring
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>>25282815
worst k I have ever seen write it again but better
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>>25282834
okay what do i need to fucking scrapbook with the fucking coloring paper and wavy scissors to keep notes i mean what exactly is going on here when you say 'journaling'
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>>25282716
Data mining thread, awesome. I use notes for my dream journal and bibliomancy.
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>>25282841
First of all, your use of the same expletive twice within the same sentence is uncouth and betrays low intelligence.
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>>25282834
Day just got twice as good
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>>25282896
better
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I went with a binder so that I could use the notebook for various subjects without dedicating sections to them in advance or running out of room. I like being able to move stuff around if I need to or just to rearrange. I don't really journal day to day events since it would be boring, but I journal my dreams and take notes on books, games, and other life things. Learning and getting better at writing cursive was also a goal when starting it. I know it's a struggle to read.
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>>25280924
>>25280928
>>25280932
I'm surprised no one said anything about this
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>>25280924
>I was in in school suspension for sexual harassment.
And atrocious handwriting.
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>>25282851
I speak in first draft and you haven't answered my original question, only attacked me for public journaling, You level with me, is taking notes on your phone journaling yes or no?
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>>25283036
maybe
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>>25283065
Would it help if I cut out some doilies?
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>>25283069
I'm afraid I don't know what that is.
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>>25283010
Oh well, i wasn't writing for you. Your mom likes it though.
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>>25283297
Yes you were, you just don’t know it yet because you won’t complete the prequel quest
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>When I get out of here, I think I'm gonna get laid.
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>>25282842
>I use notes for my dream journal and bibliomancy.
I write poetry in notes so I can edit them but all my diaries and other logs are on paper notebooks. Feels more real and I don't feel like sharing my entire life with Google.
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>>25283387
I'm too embarrassed to write about sex in my dreams. Especially because it's usually incest.
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>>25283581
Anything more extended I use pen and paper but dumping it into the phone by my bed keeps me from forgetting. I have kids so usually don’t have time to write by hand.
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>>25262676
>Forever War

Based
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>>25282929
I have basically done the same. That way I can toss the lists and keep the more interesting tidbits.
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>>25254688
I use journaling as an excuse to buy fancy notebooks and pens
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>>25285937
For (You)
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>>25285937
>I use journaling as an excuse to buy fancy notebooks and pens
That's half the fun. I'm gonna have to get one of these at some point.
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I liked the idea of keeping a diary because sometimes I really need to express myself without ranting to random friends at 4 am like a schyzo.
I managed for a month but then it usually feels like I'm writing not so much for myself but for other people to eventually read.
How much do you write per day?
I don't have access to a nice diary yet so I might just do it on my phone for now.
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>>25286125
>I really need to express myself without ranting to random friends at 4 am like a schyzo.
Yup journaling is great for this. You can organise your thoughts and get things off your chest without sharing anything with anyone. Which is great.

>How much do you write per day?
I write as much or little as I feel like. Sometimes less than half a page and of my recent entries my longest is 6.5 pages. I also sometimes go a week between entries. I find it's a good memory exercise to piece together and write down what I did over the course of the week just been. Just do what feels right.

>I might just do it on my phone for now.
Begone normie.
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I used to journal a lot 3 to 4 years back. Had stacks of notebooks filled, the amazon basics ones were handy.
Nowadays, I just take notes and write down random thoughts on my field note size notebooks.
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>>25286197
I just stole your notes on stretching. Some of those look good and aren't in my repertoire.
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thread has inspired me to begin journaling today, picrel.
my handwriting is atrocious, and always has been. how might i go about relearning handwriting from scratch, perhaps i should employ those handwriting workbooks for grade schoolers?
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>>25286210
Go for it. 3 sets for 30 seconds.
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>>25286197
think we saw the same youtube video
been doing these along with a few more daily for the past few weeks
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>>25286217
It's from 'Movement by David'. How's the stretching been working out for you?
I started last week and I can feel my nerves being pulled.
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>>25286211
Someone could just cut the strap with scissors or a knife.
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>>25286211
Did you take your little sister's note book or something?
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>>25286223
Always been pretty flexible without doing routine stretching but it's been going pretty well actually.
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>>25286225
the purpose is therefore verifying, rather than maintaining integrity and confidentiality from a strictly CIA perspective.
>>25286231
i couldnt come up with a witty answer to this post.
sorry
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>>25286190
I guess I could gather some plain sheet of paper for now and stitch them together when I get the occasion. Have you tried typing on a phone rather than writing? Would you think there is a difference between the two?
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>>25286464
>Have you tried typing on a phone rather than writing? Would you think there is a difference between the two?
Absolutely. Writing in a notebook is completely different to spilling your soul to Google or whatever 3rd party apps you signed your life away to when you accepted their terms and conditions. Writing a journal is a way to connect with yourself and your life and doing so on a phone completely ruins that IMO. Why would you write about your dreams on a device you've never seen in your dreams?
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I'm a Luciferian warlock so feel very strongly about this. If you want to make your journaling part of your screen time go right ahead but the pagan witch in me reviles in disgust at this proposition.

Like I said begone normie.
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>>25254726
>>25254699
>>25254690
and it turns out he actually is a fag lol
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>>25286493
i have seen (& used) my phone in my dreams
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>>25286519
Then by all means write your journal on your phone using slop tier apps. Don't forget to take your boosters also ;)
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>>25265819
Also where do you plan to get the tapes for this
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>>25286559
It looks like they still make them
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>>25286542
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>>25286559
Not applicable.
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>>25286613
>Don't you get sick of yourself?
Nope.
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>>25281365
Jesus christ have some self respect. If you are going to plastic disposable shit at least use something good. Or better yet, get a real pen for grown ups like a sarasa grand
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>>25283298
>Journey To Fuck Anon's Mom: Before The Fucking
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>>25286211
>how might i go about relearning handwriting from scratch
I printed out a cursive reference sheet and put it in the back of my notebook. I still write like shit but it has improved if I look back on the first page I wrote.
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It would be cool to combine this concept of a lockable book >>25286211 but as a binder like >>25282929. So when it gets full you can remove the pages and put them in a regular binder in a strongbox or whatever and reuse the same lockbook. Saves having a whole bunch of locked books that don't stack and >>25286211 book looks like it would get full quickly.
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why are you locking up your thoughts though
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>>25287776
Is this bait? For most people, sharing your innermost thoughts and feelings with anyone that happens to pick up your notebook would be embarrassing to say the least.
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>>25287776
>why are you locking up your thoughts though
Personally I don't really give a shit. If someone is interested in me I would let them read but I'm a solitary person with my own living space. If I was young in school or college or whatever I would definitely want a lock on my journal. It's likely your peers would read it and give you shit about what's in it given any opportunity.

Where's all the journaling phone apps that have no network access features and encrypt your writing with a password every time you quit? Operators are encouraged to keep a journal and I imagine in a situation like that having a secure means to do so on your phone would be the best way to do it.

If the files were encrypted with no kind of cloud or backdoor access I would consider journaling on my phone.
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>>25287776
for the same reason I lock my sissy clitty, to keep it safe :3
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>>25287896
don't say gay stuff like that it makes you seem gay
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>>25287896
Slut
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>>25254688
I know a lot of you journal for self discovery and improvement and so you can reflect on your future.

But does anybody journal their masturbation sessions or their fantasies? You k ow like what thoughts or visuals sent you over the edge. Something to read in the future and reflect on how much you’ve devolved. I’m looking for someone who captures their shadow self and all its depravity.
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>>25288024
No, nobody does that. You are the one person to want to see that and even you have evidently not done it so why would anyone else. That is some serial killer shit.
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>>25288047
Well thanks for making me feel special.
Reading is a very voyeristic activity. I see nothing wrong in my question.
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>>25288024
>does anybody journal their masturbation sessions or their fantasies?
I do this from time to time. My first entry I ever made in April last year was of this nature. Part of the reason I started writing is that my life gets insane from time to time and I was living in a permanent state of 'did that really just happen' and my brain was dropping memories to stay functional with the crazy shit I was up to. Keeping a journal really helps in this regard.
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2/2 of that entry
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>>25286211
>how might i go about relearning handwriting from scratch, perhaps i should employ those handwriting workbooks for grade schoolers?
I know fuck all about learning to write but my writing got better simply by practice. Take your time when you're writing and don't rush and consciously take the effort to make it legible and it should naturally improve. Just don't rush when you're writing.
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>>25288081
>>25288067
How can you do things like this?
Did you read the Decadents and decide to follow in their footsteps without first reading Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly and his warning that "the Decadent life will either lead to the foot of the Cross, or the suicide's grave"?
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>>25288067
sorry but there’s no way you actually read, right? you just came to this board to post your journal?
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>>25288207
>How can you do things like this?
I'm already fallen. Figured I may as well make myself useful in hell. My last hookup with a guy was in January. I'm not even gay but I'm technically trans so idk I guess I wanted to learn more about the logistics of being a straight girl instead of a lesbian.
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>>25288214
>there’s no way you actually read, right? you just came to this board to post your journal?
This is my current book. This thread has been my first time on this board tho I'm new here. Before this book I was reading my way through the Doom novels but my tablet died and I lost them I was so sad.
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>>25288024
It is not a habit to write about what I masturbated to all the time, only on more memorable sessions.
But since my routine has been to write something down everyday, for the past year and a half I have been keeping track of how many times I've masturbated.
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>>25288223
No clue what this means
No clue what you are or what ... y'know what I don't even care
Do you have XX or XY chromosomes?
And don't be so flippant about Hell
I'm agnostic but even i know that Hell isn't what you tranny reddit hazbin hotel fags make it out to be
If hell is real (which i doubt but whatever), it won't be the "le epic gay trans BLM paradise" you retards think it will be
It won't be like hazbin hotel or your other faggy cartoons
It'll be endless torture, like getting your skin peeled off 100 times per day, and but you live 1000000000 years
It won't be quirky reddit fun
Repent you dumb fag
Demons have tricked you
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>>25288252
>If hell is real (which i doubt but whatever), it won't be the "le epic gay trans BLM paradise" you retards think it will be
I'm not actually a leftist you assume too much. How braindead do you have to be to think all homosexuals or people on the trans spectrum are all leftists?

>Demons have tricked you
Is that before or after they fucked me senseless? It appears someone has taken a liking to me at least for now. Apart from the bugs and the MK-ULTRA style torture sessions I'm actually very well looked after.
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>>25288272
>How braindead do you have to be to think all homosexuals or people on the trans spectrum are all leftists?
Ah yes it seems I've forgotten about the black gay trans nazi white nationalists. How silly of me.

As for the rest of your reply I have literally no clue what you're talking about.
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>>25288276
>Ah yes it seems I've forgotten about the black gay trans nazi white nationalists
I'm not a neo nazi either but on this subject clearly you've never heard about Hermann Goring's extra curricular activities?

>As for the rest of your reply I have literally no clue what you're talking about.
Then why are you passing advice on things you know nothing about. Retard.

Just another Christcuck regurgitating book passages and concepts he has no understanding of.
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>>25288291
>Just another Christcuck
I'm agnostic
But here's the difference between you and me:
People unsure about religion are always given a second chance after death
They're met well by angels of the correct religion (whatever that may be) and are given an opportunity to correct their ways.
....
Fags like yourself, on the other hand, are always immediately sent to Hell
And that's a good thing.
Have fun in hell.
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>>25288301
>Have fun in hell
by the sounds of things he will >>25288067
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>>25288301
>People unsure about religion are always given a second chance after death
NTA but there’s an old expression about having your cake and eating it.
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>>25288301
I naturally assumed you were Christian cos you said homosexuals (which I am actually not) without exception go to hell. Where is this belief from? If you are agnostic you're hardly going to be an authority on the subject. Where did you get that from?
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>>25288272
You're not "on the trans spectrum" dude, you're just a lesbian fetishist. Women no doubt tense up whenever you enter the room.
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>>25288320
I'm not going to argue this with you but I'm legitimately two people sharing a body.

Fundamentally I am dominantly male tho so I just identify as normal cis male.
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More unspecified shinannagins.
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This files under wholesome and also pen related.
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>>25288428
I see you got the orientation right the second time. What did you and said girl get upto did you smash?
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>>25288431
no we played scrabble.
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>>25288434
That's kinda cool I like it. How'd it go who had the best vocabulary?
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>>25288374
As the original OP who asked about masturbation - thanks for sharing. There’s something intimate about reading journal entries. I can tell you’re a beautiful person.

I’ve always felt our bodies are conduits for something else whether souls, demons, extra terrestrials, avatars from distant worlds, different dna strands who knows. Your feelings of f being a man and a woman seem completely normal to me.

I sometimes think people who don’t have some type of schizoid split aren’t even real. For me I dont like to fuck - or top as gays say. I only point this out to show that it’s pretty normal to not feel completely male or female (at least to me).

People telling you to go to hell are just primitive souls separated from God.
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>>25288437
that was a joke
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>>25288440
>I can tell you’re a beautiful person.
Right back at you. I can tell you've got some wisdom going on there too. Having the ability to self reflect subconsciously as separate people can sometimes provide some deep insights. Other times you mentally trip over your own feet like a retard.

Sounds like you might be two-spirit same as me.
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>>25288447
Probably to some extent. I really like being male especially standing up to pee kek..I think both males and females are beautiful but I think I’m just partially schizoid. I just feel no desire to dominate other side either physically or emotionally. When I compete I just let others win and when I have sex I just want the other to come…I don’t even care if I finish. But at the same time I can be super cold and detached.
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>>25288467
>I just feel no desire to dominate other side either physically or emotionally.
>when I have sex I just want the other to come
I can relate to this but with cute t-girls I love playing male. If in part to 100% give them the female role and try make them feel spoiled in that. Which is essentially a continuation of wanting to please the other person. While feeling alpha as fuck in the process. Something about walking around in public with a dolled up gf(male) staring down people that disapprove just makes my balls grow.

I don't care much for conventional fucking either but I take great joy in restraining people, edging them, pleasure sadism, things like that. I conventionally fuck women but have never fucked a guy except with like toys and fingers and stuff like that. Impact play I pretty much only do with guys. Hitting women doesn't really do it for me.
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>>25288467
>I don’t even care if I finish
Same here also. I learned I have some kind of vampirism. I hardly ever finish when I'm with guys and I absorb their life force energy when they cum. Combined with not dumping my own my eyes feel like they're glowing for a good hour or two after I give someone head.

You're probably the same I imagine.
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>>25288428
I like it.
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>vampirism
Too much of an opportunity was lost to not post this
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>>25288428
Pretty based. How old were you when you wrote this? made me emotional.
Share more anon?
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>>25288573
I’m surprised you can even read it. I was 18.
this is the entry from my birthday.
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>>25288623
People with disgusting handwriting should be killed immediately
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>>25288648
you’d have to kill every doctor.
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>>25288506
Yea not cumming keeps your libidio levels high too. It kind of goes in line with literature because I experience a lot of joy living vicariously through others so I feel some hurt bit when someone else comes and it makes me feel great to do that for people. Also charges my empathy. I feel nothing but love towards prostitutes. Think how the world looks down on them but there’s something really magical and special about them.
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>>25288648
If you think this is disgusting you haven’t got any taste in handwriting. The Queen of England wrote like picrel. It’s free flowing and has some nice touches.
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>I feel nothing but love towards prostitutes. Think how the world looks down on them but there’s something really magical and special about them.
For me on the left, prostitution is a sacred thing and is one of my higher callings. I was hired by an employee of the high court one time. I feel bad for America that it is illegal. IMO that is wrong that it is and it's completely ridiculous with the widespread use of porn. So if you take a video camera with you when picking up a hooker is that legal?

On empathy, you remind me a lot of myself how I used to be. I've become steadily colder since then.
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>>25288428
Went home with a girl last night. We got to hers like 7am, her mum was up and seemed so(?) happy and nice, she was smiling, going for her morning swim in the ocean. I’ve never really met other people’s parents, I remember wishing my mum was like that too.

Upstairs, in her room, she told me in a furtive but sad way, ‘she’s started drinking already.’
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>>25288795
That was really nice. Keep it up anon
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Is it true a lot of Americans can’t even read cursive?
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>>25288428
>Upstairs, in her room, she told me in a furtive but sad way, ‘she’s started drinking already.’
That line is pretty kino, especially for a high schooler.
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>>25289206
If you can read print you can sus out cursive if you have to, grandmas have loved repeating the line about the young'ns not being taught cursive since I was in elementary (getting taught cursive). They just stop teaching it after the initial introduction to it in schools because it's pretty much useless to go in depth about.
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>>25289531

that’s kind of the point isn’t it. there’s a whole generation of people who interact with handwriting the way i interact with czech - like, i can probably figure out what the sign says if i’m stood in front of it long enough but i wouldn’t exactly call that literacy.
>you can sus out cursive if you have to
bleak!
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opinions? Started earlier this year

I am somewhere between a scrapbook and a journal, some pages are mostly text, some art collage, I usually put any cinema ticket or decent pic that I have taken

i'm a guy btw
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>>25289565
How is it bleak? People just tend to write in print instead.
>>25289711
Cute if female, putrid otherwise.
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>>25289716
>People just tend to write in print
not in the rest of the world
>How is it bleak?
because it’s the slow erosion of being able to access anything that wasn’t made in the last twenty years, isn’t it? like your grandma’s letters, parish records, a diary from the war, whatever. all this stuff just becomes gradually unreadable to more and more people and at some point it’s effectively lost even though it’s technically still there.
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>>25254688
I used to keep a dream journal, but I was frustrated with trying to keep up with it(I would remember more of my dream when I was away from my journal/doing something else). For sometime I would write a daily entry rip the page out and cut it into very small pieces. I liked the ritual and knowing that my secrets were released then quickly destroyed. I don't like archiving my life/past mistakes so over the past few years I have gone out of my way to erase many traces of the past 15ish years of my life.
>>25289711
>french
dropped
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>>25289735
>writes a full paragraph confirming he’s a bona fide retard then follows it up with
>french
>dropped
real yank hours
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>>25289726
Well that's why I said in my first post, it's not hard to read cursive if you can read print you just might have to squint your eyes and think for a second if you're not used to it. It's not equivalent to losing a national language or something.
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>>25289746
squint and decode is something you do with a genuinely archaic script, not what your commonwealth friend writes on a birthday card. the fact that it’s been reframed as an acceptable baseline is probably the tell.
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>>25289764
the west has fallen
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>>25289766
for any americans in chat he said:
t h e w e s t h a s f a l l e n
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>>25289764
>>25289746
>>25289726
>>25289531
Write with the intent to create something that will be pleasant to read instead of feeling like each letter you write is a waste of your time and needs to be scribbled as quickly as possible or there will be lasting damage to your ego.
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It took me 20 minutes to solve the captcha
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>>25289711
Very endearing anon
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>>25286629
Is this voice recorder any good?
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>>25289531
Cursive was always a stupid idea anyway. The whole point was to write information faster by not lifting your pen for each character. This speed increase came at the cost of legibility.

But there is no situation in which writing something faster is more beneficial than being able to read it. That's why we write: to read and recall.
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>>25290135
you should have a look at some writers notebooks & personal diaries sometime if you want to see every artist in history disagree with this sentiment.
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>>25290185
Oddly it wasn’t a problem for two thousand years.
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>>25290185
>this technology that humans developed organically over millennia and used to produce basically all of our literature, philosophy, science and religious texts is actually stupid
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>>25290190
Illegible handwriting has been a problem since the invention of writing, dumbass. There are many things that can't be read simply because of the poor penmanship. Look at a census return from 100 years ago and see for yourself.
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>>25290192
>>this technology
Cursive isn't technology.
>that humans developed organically over millennia
ad antiquitam fallacy
>and used to produce basically all of our literature, philosophy, science and religious texts is actually stupid
cursive didn't produce anything, it was used to record what was already produced. And this is bullshit anyway, the earliest extant manuscripts of the New Testament and Plato's Republic, for example, are not in cursive.
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>>25290205
i guess i’ll rebut point-by-point as well:
a) writing systems are a technology.
b) ad antiquitam is misapplied here - i didn’t say it’s old therefore it’s goodi said it developed organically over millennia in response to real human needs.
c) by this logic the printing press produced nothing also.
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>>25290195
If they wrote the 1900 census in print handwriting they still wouldn’t be finished today.
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>>25290218
>a) writing systems are a technology.
You know what, I'm mature enough to admit when I'm wrong. There is a broader sense of the word technology that fits cursive.
>b) ad antiquitam is misapplied here - i didn’t say it’s old therefore it’s goodi said it developed organically over millennia in response to real human needs.
Perhaps I misunderstood you. That statement of fact is either irrelevabt to the argument or meant to support the conclusion: cursive is not stupid because it's been so popular for so long.
>c) by this logic the printing press produced nothing also.
Correct. How many works have a printing press credited as the author?

I stand by what I said. A writing system that prioritizes speed over legibility is a bad writing system and a stupid idea.
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>>25290247
>Perhaps I misunderstood you
odd - i typed it out in block letters.
b) point is a false dichotomy. it’s obviously evidence of utility, not an appeal to tradition. its an empirical claim.
c) other things that authored nothing: the pen, the hand. the point you’re working very hard not to see is that a tool is judged by what it permits its user to do. cursive lets you write quickly - without any stopping and starting (flow is important) - and fluently. also something worth noting about the relationship between loose fast handwriting and thinking.
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>>25290276
>cursive lets you write quickly - without any stopping and starting (flow is important) - and fluently. also something worth noting about the relationship between loose fast handwriting and thinking.
When in the 21st century would you ever need to pen out pages quickly? Journaling can be very grounding for me. I write about what I can see and hear and taste and smell so naturally it's nice to take your time.

Semi-cursive is the Omega writing style.
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>>25290300
you just described exactly what cursive is for. the point of a joined, loose hand is that it gets out of the way between you and the thought. the hand keeps moving. the physical act of writing is part of cognition: slow it down, break it up, make it neat, and you’ve interrupted the process.

>naturally it's nice to take your time.
lifestyle preference.
>Semi-cursive is the Omega writing style.
also… just cursive.
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>>25290312
I naturally pause a lot in my writing anyway to find poetic correctness so taking slightly longer to properly write the letter doesn't bother me. I like taking the extra time to write in proper text interlaced and joined with cursive letters.
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>>25290323
& is that your rebuttal? your own personal preference?
of course the thing about poetic correctness is it’s intuitive. a pause will hurt not help. write first edit later. but that’s none of my business.
>proper text interlaced and joined with cursive letters.
great - so you write in cursive (didn’t anyone ever tell you that’s a stupid idea?)
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>>25290330
>the thing about poetic correctness is it's intuitive
>so you write in cursive
My style of writing is known as semi-cursive. Switches between print and cursive seemingly at random. I read something somewhere that this indicates that a person is very strongly led by their intuition.
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>>25290341
i read something somewhere that it’s a semi-stupid idea.
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>>25290347
Kek
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>>25288428
I like this “and”.
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>>25290169
there's a captcha in your journal?
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>>25290276
>it’s obviously evidence of utility
Lol no it isn't. Jews have been cutting off part of their dicks for millenia. Are you going to tell me there's utility there?
> the point you’re working very hard not to see is that a tool is judged by what it permits its user to do.
The point of writing is to read and recall.
>cursive lets you write quickly - without any stopping and starting (flow is important) - and fluently.
As I've said multiple times. Cursive trades legibility for speed. You're not introducing a new idea.
>something worth noting about the relationship between loose fast handwriting and thinking.
...and?

I remain unconvinced. A writing system that values speed over legibility is a bad system. Cursive is a stupid idea.

Also, the semi-cursive guy is a different individual.
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>>25290657
>Are you going to tell me there's utility there?
it's a form of social utility. it causes permanent psychological damage that makes the individual more acclimated to functioning within their psychotic and neurotic culture.

Think before you post, dumbass.
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>>25290692
>makes the individual more acclimated to functioning within their psychotic and neurotic culture.
Except it doesn't because it's done on 8 day old babies who neither understand nor remember "acclimating" to the culture. No one goes looks around at Yom Kippur and thinks to themself "boy I'm sure glad my mutilated dick looks like everyone else's mutilated dicks." I know because I've asked. Regardless, the utility of genital mutilation isn't relevant to the discussion of cursive.

Here, I'll dumb it down so that even a redditor can understand:
>CMV: A writing system that values speed over legibility is a bad writing system.
>cursive values speed above legibility.
>therefore cursive is a bad writing system.
>what would change my view: demonstrate a situation, hypothetical or otherwise, where speed is more valuable than legibility and recall.
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>>25290657
sort of trying to move away from the autismo line by line greentext replies but alright. RE circumcision (not a clean analogy but i’ll humour you): a religious utility.
>The point of writing is to read and recall.
an appealing definition to a filing clerk, but it rather neglects the minor business of human thought. i think i mentioned - handwriting is part of thinking itself. thought doesn’t only exist as a finished artefact. that’s why uninterrupted motion matters so much.
>Cursive trades legibility
tools have trade offs. race cars trade comfort for speed.
>>25290730
>where speed is more valuable than legibility and recall.
following a lecture
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don't write much now
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Why not post your web journal anonymously on one of those web book deals? Seems like you would be winning two fold, both by drawing in and capturing the voyeur enjoyer reading base and because the whole thing rewards you for writing MORE and you would be adding an entry (a chapter) a day with minimum actual writing or plotfagging because it was just your day jotted down? Just a fleeting thought anyhow, I could be wrong
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i mentioned that my handwriting has always been poor. here is a recent example with an event that has been on my mind.
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>>25291908
Interesting. Starts like wtf is this stalker doing and ends with just asking her for her number. Bonus points for legible handwriting.

Did you end up catching up with her? You didn't cut off her head and put it in your fridge did you?
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>>25291943
thank you anon. well i texted her that evening asking if we could get to know oneanother over lunch. unfortnately shes moving overseas in a week so guess it was not meant to be.
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>>25291995
At least you got her number if she'd clocked you as a freak she would have given you a fake one.

Last time I went to ask a girl for her number was in the lobby of my building. I sat for a few minutes near her on my phone they was like 'hey', was gonna ask her a question about the free WiFi to start a convo but she had headphones on and didn't respond. I went back to my phone for another minute then got up and left feeling like a tit.
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>>25292012
*Then was like 'hey'
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>>25291908
I know the location where this occurred. How did it go with Arielle?
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My pen just ran out again dammit
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>>25290330
>Write first edit later
>In a journal
You were saying something about semi-stupid? Who dafuq revises and edits a journal?
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>>25292838
Anne Frank did before she and her family were ratted out.
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>>25292838
I think he was just giving general writing advice (don’t kill inspiration by overthinking) because you brought up “poetic correctness”.
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>>25289746
I was born in the late 90s. I cant write cursive at all. I can't read it at all. My print was so bad I was pulled out of class for remedial handwriting lessons. It's still bad to this day.
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>>25292981
That's sad, gramps.
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>>25292891
Hm. Suspicious.



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