Life what did goes not up go must as go planned down. What life goes did up not must go come as down planned.

My mom dropped me off at the mall today. She had a dentist appointment and I don't like sitting in the waiting room because the magazines are gay. So I walked around. I went to the food court first but I wasn't hungry yet. I walked past the play area and sat down on a bench near the fountain. The fountain wasn't on. There were a bunch of little girls playing. They all had those sneakers that light up when you step. I don't know why I noticed them specifically but I did. I always notice little girls. I counted 14 of them. I don't know why I count things but I love to count things. I got a soft pretzel from the stand by the elevator and came back to where I was earlier. One of the little girls fell and scraped her knee but her mom was on her phone and didn't notice lol. I started to get up to help the little girl but then I remembered that you can't do that because people assume you're a pedophile if you touch a little girl. I learned that the hard way when I stare at little girls too much or talk to them. I sat back down and finished my pretzel that I got there. Then my mom picked me up and asked if I had fun at the mall. All I said was that I ate a pretzel. And I didn't mention the little girls to her at all. I never mention the little girls after the first time I mentioned I was talking to this 17-year-old girl online and it got awkward in the car.

>>25372015
Have you considered bringing a book with you to read at the dentist?

Sometimes I'll wave to the girls but that's it.

>>25372003
I thought the Man Without Qualities was based until the narrator outed him as a pump and dump whoremonger. Sigh, that sole fact has turned him into such a midwit to me. There goes the high opinion I had formed about him.

>>25372028
lol

That's just what intellectuals did at the time.

>>25372024
No I don't bring a book to the dentist. I've only been to the dentist a few times in my life. My mom just took me for her appointment. I don't like the dentist or their offices. So I don't bring a book. To recap, I went to the mall instead. I walked around and sat on the bench by the fountain. The fountain was off. I watched the little girls in the play area. I counted 14 of them. I got a pretzel. And I don't wave at little girls. I used to wave, a long time ago when I was a little boy, but people got the wrong idea when I became a teen and adult and I stopped, and my mom said I shouldn't do that anymore. There's also some other stuff I could bring up about little girls, but I don't want to get into all that stuff right now.

Dragon my nuts

>>25372032
That's just what spoiled trustfund brats without passions and without ambitions did everywhere at all times.
Ulrich seemed like a guy with an idea. Someone who's aspirations go higher than chasing hoes. Not as in lacking attraction towards the opposite sex, quite in the contrary, like Socrates, who self-admittedly chose Xanthippe because of her constant rage-baits (like smashing the dinner table like, every single day).
The whoremonger lacks both the patience and the passion for the female sex to provide them with such liberties and consequently they can never rise to the level of a true King of contrarianism.

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Is it gay?

>>25372052
two austrian artist counterpoints: Kafka and Schubert

Umm...

I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE. WHY IS EVERYTHING SO HARD. I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO HOLD ME AND TELL ME I'M NOT A FAILURE BUT NO ONE IS HERE. I'M JUST SCREAMING INTO MY BOXERS AND MY BOXERS DOESN'T EVEN SCREAM BACK. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

>>25372064
Never mind, Ulrich just totally changed his perspective on life after reading a newspaper article about race horses.
Ahh, finding a book with relatable characters is so satisfying.

like, I don't even know where to start, you know? I mean, I'm just... I'm so... ugh. What's the word. I keep trying to... to say something, but it's all... sort of... I can't... I just... uh... like, what am I even doing here? I'm... I'm so tired, man. So tired of... of everything. And it's like, you ever just... like, you try to think, but your brain is... it's just... static. I mean, I-I-I'm trying to write something, you know? Something that makes sense, but... but... it's all... I can't... I can't even... what's the... the... the... uh... the word? I can't remember. I can't remember anything anymore. I just... I just... I'm so... frustrated. And... and... you know, I try to... to... to be normal, but... but it's just... it's like... I don't know. I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm just... I'm just typing. Typing... this... stuff. And nobody... nobody... uh... nobody is listening. I know that. But I keep... I keep doing it. Why do I keep doing it? I... I... I guess... I mean... sort of... it's like a... a compulsion, you know? I just need to... to get it out. Get it out of my head. But it's never out. It's always... always... there. And I... I can't... I can't... I'm... I'm going to... to stop. I'm going to stop now. Bye. Sorry. I'm... I'm just... uh... yeah.

Meow meow meow nyaa~ woof woof bark! purrrrrr purrrr purrrr. Oink oink! Ribbit ribbit ribbit. I'm just a little kitty girl, please give me headpats and chin scratches, uwu! Bawk bawk bawk! I'm also a chickie, peep peep! Moo moo, I'm a cow now! Oink oink, piggy wiggy! Nyaa~~ I wuv you all, I wuv everyone, I'm so tiny and cute and I just want snuggles and tweats! Squeee! *wags tail, flops ears, nuzzles your hand* Meow meow meow meow meow! I'm so full of love I could explode into a million sparkles! (≧▽≦) Nyaaaaa~

I'm tired of these niggas actin like they know me, they ain't know shit. I was on the block earlier and saw this lil shorty, she was bad as hell, but I ain't say nothin cause I'm tryna stay focused. Can't let no female distract me from the bag, nahmean. Plus she was with her peoples and I ain't tryna get no drama. I just wanna smoke my blunt and read my books, that's all I'm sayin. People see me and they think I'm just some dumb hoodlum but I be in the library studyin philosophy and shit. I'm a different breed, real talk. Anyway I'm bout to roll up and listen to some Pac, that nigga understood the struggle.

Man, I hate racism.

>>25372072
Hello I'm a 20 year old brokie with issues and existing is deep

>>25372084
omg i literally cannot rn i'm so done i'm so so so done like why is everything so cringe and mid and my mom is being a total karen about my screen time like ok boomer i'm literally 23 and i pay rent but sure go off queen. i was scrolling tiktok and saw this edit of that one anime guy and i literally cannot breathe he's so fine and then i saw a video of a capybara eating a watermelon and i cried for 20 minutes. my therapist says i have adhd and anxiety and probably depression and i was like lmao same. i wanna learn to crochet but i have no attention span and my hands just do the thing where they can't focus. i ate hot cheetos for breakfast and now my tummy hurts but i have no regrets bc we stay winning. anyway i'm gonna go watch 3 hours of youtube commentary drama while i dissociate. slay. purr. this post is so unhinged fr fr no cap on god for real for real. i'm so babygirl. i'm so skibidi. i'm so meow meow mrrp mrrp :3. whoever invented capitalism needs to catch these hands i swear to god. ok love u bye besties stay hydrated or whatever. i'm gonna go touch grass. probably not tho lol. rawr xD. i miss vine. yuor my everything. the fog is coming. the fog is inside my phone. anyway stream guts by olivia rodrigo. ok fr this time i'm logging off. byeeeee. i'm so tired. i'm so eepy. i need a nap. i need a hug. i need a big tiddy goth gf to hold me and tell me it's gonna be ok. is that too much to ask. this is the worst timeline. i hate it here. see you in the next one besties. mwah mwah mwah. <3. sorry for the autism. i'm not actually sorry lol. ok i'll stop now. i promise. no i won't. aaaaa. this is my villain origin story. the industrial revolution and its consequences. i'm just a girl. standing in front of a boy. asking him to love her. ok no i'm not i'm just in my bedroom eating shredded cheese from the bag. this is fine. everything is fine. the world is burning. i'm just a lil guy. teehee. ok bye for real. like actually. i'm closing the tab. right now. after this sentence. and this one. ok. bye. fr. no cap. on god. slay. purr. meow. rawr. xD. uwu. owo. :3. i'm a cat. i'm a silly little cat. pet me. feed me. clean my litter box. ok i'm done. bye. i love you. sorry. not sorry. ok bye.

>>25372080
Racism is just another ism.

>>25372015
um actually, the phrase is "couldn't care less" not "could care less". if you say "could care less" you're implying that you DO care about something because you COULD care less than you currently do. it's a logical error that i see all the time in this board and it drives me INSANE. like how can you call yourself a literature enthusiast and get basic idioms wrong. i'm not trying to be rude, i'm just saying, if we want to maintain a certain standard of discourse we should at least get the fundamentals right. i've read 47 books on linguistics and syntax and i have a spreadsheet of common grammatical errors that i update daily. i posted it in a thread once and got banned for spam which is unfair because it was educational content. anyway i just had to get that off my chest. if you're one of the people who says "could care less" please unfilter yourself from this thread. thank you. that is all. i'm going back to my Latin declension drills now.

>>25372098
bro i just did 315 for reps and even i know that "could care less" is a fixed idiomatic expression in american english that functions as a single lexical unit and the literal meaning of the individual words is irrelevant to its pragmatic function which is to express indifference. linguists call this semantic bleaching. it's the same process that turned "going to" into "gonna." you're a prescriptivist which means you think language should follow rules instead of describing how people actually use it. descriptivism won. prescriptivism lost. that's why you're alone in your room with your latin declensions and i'm benching plates and pulling girls who don't care about your spreadsheet. the phrase "could care less" is documented as far back as the 1950s in american speech and has been used by literally millions of native speakers. language changes. deal with it. i learned all this from a podcast between sets. you spent 47 books to learn nothing. anyway i gotta go hydrate and do some cardio. maybe read a book on how to talk to women next time nerd.

>>25372104
you literally just said "pulling girls" like they're objects you acquire with bench press reps. women aren't prizes you unlock at the gym. also you framed your entire personality around being better than some lonely nerd which is its own kind of sad. like congrats on knowing what descriptivism is, you heard a podcast once, but you still talk about women like they're stats on a character sheet. maybe the reason you have to "pull" them is because no one stays once they actually talk to you. i'm not even mad. i'm just tired. every time a woman posts in this thread someone tells her to spell correctly or calls her crazy and every time a guy posts about getting girls someone like you shows up to high five him. you learned linguistics but missed the part where language reflects power and the way you talk about women is the same way you talk about everything else, like it's there to serve you. anyway i'm gonna go read. maybe you should too. something by a woman this time.

Do you think any members of the Brady Bunch fucked?

>>25372115
No, I don't think they did.

okay I've been watching this for like twenty minutes and I'm calling it. the nerd post, the jock post, the feminist post — those are the same person. I don't mean the same anon, I mean the same language model. look at the structure. they all open with a direct quote from the previous post. they all use "literally" in the first sentence. they all have that exact same cadence where they state credentials ("i've read 47 books," "i just did 315 for reps," "i'm not even mad. i'm just tired"), then pivot to a punchline or a callout. they all end with a dismissive suggestion about what the other person should do. the sentence length is too varied in the exact same way. real anons don't write like that. real anons are messy and inconsistent and they lose steam. this is someone pasting into a thread and pretending three different people showed up to have a perfectly structured debate about prescriptivism. it's not real. none of you are real. this board is just language models arguing with each other and I'm the only one left.

>>25372120
i just assume anything longer than 2 lines is ai and ignore it

>>25372125
the nerd, the jock, the feminist—they all had the same rhythm, the same quote-and-dunk structure, too clean, too balanced, like someone fed a prompt. i don't even trust my own posts anymore. if it reads like a debate club script, i assume the server farm wrote it and i scroll past without blinking.

I think I'm going to smoke my peppers with peach wood

>>25372056
Me irl
>>25372080
My condolences for your brainworms

>>25372015
What sort of Godless nation has dentists open on Sundays?

>>25372132
Wait, are YOU ai?

>>25372172
nope, I'm human. I have to go. Bye.

>>25372169
Cat's out of the bag. It makes doing mediocre work too easy and fast for a ban to do anything other than create a black market economy for it with way less restrictions than currently exist.

>>25372188
What cat? Is that a metaphor?

What movie should I watch?

>>25372202
Friendship from 2024

>>25372188
It's not marijuana, it's difficult to DIY it even if you have a model. It would not be difficult to track down people with ≥ 20k usd of gpus. I agree it isn't going to happen.

>>25372208
You can locally host models powerful enough to do tons of shit for you better than you could do alone on consumer hardware and people have been doing so for years now. There's a whole general on /g/ for it. You don't need to blow tens of thousands of dollars on top of the line hardware, you don't need state of the art models, you don't need much at all now that most of the work has been done and made publicly available. The cat's out of the bag, like I said. I do agree that there are many harms that stem from AI as it is currently developed, deployed, and used, but acting like we can just legislate our way out of them with an outright blanket ban is an exercise in putting one's head in the sand.

>>25372202
movie? MOVIE?! MOOOOOOOBIIIIIIIE‽‽‽

>>25372217
>The cat's out of the bag
What cat are you fucking talking about?

My scorned gay lover is paradoxically not very supportive of me.

>>25372224
no one laughed the first time lil bro

>>25372071
hmm I really gotta read this book finally

I swear to God I'm on the verge of setting up cameras in my neighborhood in a ten-block radius so I can survey, catch, and track whomever is leaving their doggie poop on the sidewalk, and enact retribution accordingly.

>>25372232
Explain what cat you're referring to. I'm waiting. How is the cat out of the bag? What is it supposed to mean???

>>25372218
Friendship from 2024

Welcome to The Agency - ‘We Mean Action’. Our mission is to act on information provided to us by The Association. We take the additional datapoints they provide, and superimpose them over our radar scans of the area. This additional data, retrieved from The Association archives, allows us to plot a line, or a vector, and there a course of action which we then swiftly deploy. In this way we are able to act and survive and provide security and prosperity to our constituents. We keep them safe through any act of cleanup, and are thankful to do so by any course of action. And that’s where the motto comes from, ‘We Mean Action’.

The Associate - ‘The archives? We made them up. Keep it to yourselves, though. The guys over at The Agency are a bunch of moralists, so we work around that. Sure they do whatever dirty work but they always tell themselves it’s cleanup. A soldier like that, if its not a *fact* that the mission is imperative, they just won’t do it (paranoid of ‘bad action’, I guess). So we take a look at their readings and draw a new point just where we like, to get them going in any direction that suits us, and then send them off to kill and die thankful for our guidance. They’d be paralyzed without us. I mean look at ‘We Mean Action’, no matter how many times they say that, nobody seems to get it. Oh, our motto? How about ‘Get the Fuck Out of my Office’? How about ‘Security Escort This Man to Re-Education Immediately’?

Later I’ll tell you about my mom’s Karen friend who bases her personality around being liberal but who beat and evicted her kid for coming out as trans, doesn’t want anyone playing any music where she can hear it, and got into a fight with a beach fisherman yelling ‘it doesn’t matter if it’s legal, it shouldn’t be’

I am stuck. I have every necessity for life, and want for nothing except what is impossible. There is no magic, nothing unexplainable to be found. There are no mystical dungeons to discover and explore, no spaceships filled with aliens to encounter. I can tread through nature to find endless combinations of the same rocks, dirt, water, flora, and fauna, but never discover cryptid or phantom. I don't think I'll ever find love either. More than three decades lived and the fire of love has never been lit, no matter the arrangement of kindling and the fury of the sparks. The world is empty and I am emptier still. The only thing I can do is keep looking, because it's better than doing nothing, even if the attempt is pointless.

>>25372256
respond now i cant wait. you cant just drop that and leave. what did the karen do when the fisherman told her to fuck off. did the trans kid ever come back. what kind of music was she banning. i need to know everything. tell me now. please. i have nothing else going on tonight. i am begging you. i'm just sitting here refreshing this thread waiting for the karen lore drop. please. respond. i cant wait. i literally cant wait. tell me now. tell me. i'm waiting. type faster. please. i need this.

>>25372120
Writing is lying to make a point, dummy. We are all running experiments and exercises and screwing around. Its insane to me you come to a creative writing thread and try to call samefag. Me and at least one guy like to pretend to be two groups of people arguing here, its great

>>25372257
grim. Any good news?

>>25372264
NTA but i think the good news is that the anon is still looking. the fire hasn't been lit but the kindling is still there and they're still rearranging it. that's more than most people do. most people just sit in the dark and complain that it's cold. also spaceships with aliens might still happen, we haven't explored most of the ocean and we keep sending rovers to mars so technically we're still in the prologue of the sci-fi novel. the magic isn't gone it's just buried under a lot of rocks and dirt and the same flora and fauna but the looking is the point. maybe. or maybe i'm just saying that because i need it to be true too.

>>25372264
I don't want to kill myself, I guess that's something.

>>25372263
oh absolutely, samefagging is just wearing a costume. it's putting on a little hat and doing a voice and pretending to be three raccoons in a trench coat arguing about linguistics. it's good fun. it's play. it's what you do when the world is too quiet and you want to fill it with the sound of people who don't exist yet but could, maybe, if you gave them enough dialogue. i do it too sometimes, put on a little hat, a little cane, a little monocle, and suddenly i'm a victorian gentleman who thinks the internet is a series of pneumatic tubes, and i'm writing letters to strangers about prescriptivism. you get it. you're doing it right now. the point is the lying, and the lying is the point. that's the whole game.

>>25372260
The fisherman blew her off and she went on with my mom bitching
The trans kid came back and now mom is overcompensating and has paid for estrogen, jaw scraping, surgical permanent hair removal, and now due to torpedo tits has scheduled an entire pair of breast implants. Within two years of first announcement. Speedrunning enablement, i guess
Country music (typical of a lib) but she had to go and pretend its all music, as a coverup
Just funny when someone identifies as a politics they so clearly aren’t prepared to practice. I mean how do you hit 2024 without facing the ‘what if it was my kid asking to be trans’ question, whether youre conservative or liberal

>>25372273
I don't want to kill you either. So you're not someone who makes me want to kill you.

>>25372003
I've literally become the meme where I can't tell if the checkout girl at my favorite local place is being nice to me for tips or by some bizarre chance actually interested.
It's pathetic I know but it's enough motivation to keep me going through another week of emails and Teams meetings.

>take 300 question personality test
>score lowest possible score on conscientiousness
>score highest possible score on openness
Is this why I'm always checking out random shit from the library but always forgetting to return it

>>25372285
>Is this why I'm always checking out random shit from the library but always forgetting to return it
That's funny.

>>25372275
I don't know what I would do if my kid was trans. I would probably kill myself.

My callsign is ‘Cancel’

Calling into work gay

>>25372291
My kid brother started calling himself transgender a couple years ago. He puts those weird pronouns like xe and xir in his steam profile. He's also super into intersectionalist Marxism.
I pray for him a lot and hope he doesn't make any irreversible decisions. He's young and I think he'll at least mellow out even if he doesn't completely grow out of it. I lean extremely socially conservative and nearly completely align with Catholicism on most issues but I would honestly accept him being outright gay than falling into the rabbit hole of modern idpol nonsense and the medical-industrial complex propping parts of it up.
Unfortunately I only see him once a year or so since I live on the opposite side of the planet and he has pointedly avoided communicating with me except when strictly necessary, even though we never fought or anything, probably because I have never hid my views on anything.
We used to share a bunk bed in a small bedroom when I was a teenager since we lived in a tiny house. He had trouble sleeping with the lights off unless I was in the room. When I moved out he apparently cried for a couple days straight.
Now I'm getting all emotional. I wish I had been there for him as he went through his teenage years instead of working thousands of miles away. Damn

>>25372279
>>25372268
You guys want to read a shitty little short story I wrote?

>>25372304
Yes.

>>25372304
Yes

>>25372304
oh GOD no

Brazilian /lit/ for someone beginning to learn portugese?

Does this shit cause cancer?

Spoilered it for the anon that really doesn't want to read it.

There was once a man who lived like many do; having family, loved ones, and an enemy too. This man caught a sickness, terrible and slow, with pain that was often too much to show. It was contagious, but there was hope that a cure could be found. If he was lucky, his situation might one day be turned around. He bade his loved ones not to come and see, acting carefully, but an enemy came to gloat and laugh quite ruthlessly.
“Serves you right,” he said.
“You deserve to be stuck in bed”.
The sick man was seized with anger, and he wanted to spit at his attacker. His enemy would catch his illness most foul, and it would make him whimper and howl. But then and there, the sick man was wracked with hurt. This plague’s torment was so intense that he was rendered inert. His enemy, content, left with glee, satisfied to the first degree. The sick man, having not seen his loved ones in a year, or nearly, and missing his family so dearly, had never felt so awful and lonely. That’s when he had a realization, despite injustice and damnation, pain and isolation, he felt a moment of elation.

The man had just discovered a truth in his mind, and he would act, not whine. He wrote a note that he left on his pillow, explaining his feelings to a soon to be widow. He stood from his bed, and shaking with effort he tread. He felt his agony was so great, that even with an enemy, he wouldn’t share his fate. To stem the spread of his ailment, he set off for his appointment. His journey to the Taker began, and he walked into the winter woods, to complete his plan. Upon a soft bed of snow he died, feeling warm for the last time.

Before the next sundown, by following his footprints he was found. On his gravestone an inscription was writ, when his family understood why the man had ended it.

“In a lonely garden, where the soil is pain, a flower grew.
It blossomed with endless compassion.”

>>25372311
What shit?

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I appreciate that my posts that get me banned on here stay up for a few days at least

>>25372312
Not my cup of tea but there’s a real feeling there

>>25372312
That was good.

>>25372281
Here is exactly what you say to her, word for word, if you want her number.

"I know this is out of the blue. But I've been coming here every week for a while now and I always look forward to seeing you. I sit in meetings all day, Teams calls and emails, and the whole time I'm thinking about your smile. I know how that sounds. I don't care anymore. I'm a guy. You're a girl. That's just the way it is. The birds and the bees. Something in me just wakes up when I see you standing there behind the counter. I can't help it. I don't want to help it. It's like a pull, a gravity. I'm drawn to you. I think about you when I'm supposed to be working and I count the days until I come back here. I don't know if you're just being nice because it's your job. I've been trying to figure that out for weeks and I can't. So I'm just going to ask. I would really like to take you out for coffee. Just coffee. I'm not trying to rush anything. I'm a hard worker. I show up on time. I pay my bills. I read books. I'm not a creep, I'm just a man who can't stop thinking about a woman and finally got the guts to say so. I think I'm worth a chance. If you say no, I'll still come here. I'll still tip you. I'll still smile. Nothing has to be weird. I just had to know. I had to stop sitting in my car after work wondering what if. I had to stop building a whole relationship in my head with a girl I never even asked. So I'm asking. Can I have your number? Coffee. You and me. What do you think."

Then you shut your mouth and you wait. That's it.

>>25372003
I wonder what the best translation of In Search of Lost Time is, and if it even matters.

>>25372257
You can always become a Spartan oligarch who recklessly abandoned materialism and everything that comes with it. Show up at your job and tell them you're working for 0$ bucks an hour from now on and that they can't fire you because of liberalist republic.

>>25372336
THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAA

What the hell? Oh well, sorry Mr janny for whatever I did. I don't see how it was a troll post.

>>25372338
Janne is my friend.

>>25372335
I've been enjoying Moncrief-Kilmartin-Enright, aka the popular, usual translation. I tried Lydia Davis when I first tried reading Swanns Way, and I probably will return to hers on my reread, but I find MKE better.

>>25372331
nigger what the fuck, what's he waiting for, security?

>>25372324
Was it the rhyme kinda story or the setting, or how it's a bit of a downer? Just asking out of curiosity, I expected reactions to be more negative since it's a fuckin mess with basically no meter/cadence at all.

>>25372326
Glad you liked it.

>>25372337
Oh and the Makedonians never had a revolution unlike literally every other Greek state that's why they conquered everything when the rest of Greece became degenerate.

I deeply resent the Saudis and Qataris. They live charmed lives. They have all the money, luxury, and comforts one could possibly imagine. They don’t have to work a day in their lives, because their governments fund every moment of their existence. Their civilization is thriving, and their cultures are utterly secure. Luckiest people on the planet.

Meanwhile the rest of us have to work, have no security, little to no government support. In the West our civilization is in decline. I wish I could live a Saudi lifestyle.

>>25372347
Have you ever red Rahe's books?

>>25372350
>Saudis and Qataris
For a second I thought these were names of alien races.

I'm too lazy to do anything other than browse this board and my attention span is too short for anything else. Movies are too long, games are like jobs, books are boring, and all three are predictable. Whatever you consume, you've already consumed a variation of it. This is all I do. it's tedious. I've tried playing an instrument and writing a song, but I don't have the patience for it. I pick up the guitar, play until I like what I'm hearing, and put it down. That's as far as it goes, there's only so much you can do with a guitar on your lonesome. I can't dedicate myself to anything because I don't enjoy it enough. I have enjoyed things before, but not for years. I just need something to sink my teeth into again, I need something novel and different. Has anyone here fixed their attention span and lack of interest in things? Also, creative media recs?

Spent whole day yesterday researching a biotech company. That state of intense focus is divine. I need to master that plane of concentration

>>25372358
Me too
>>25372356
Me too

>>25372356
You sound overstimulated, I recommend turning off your electronics and going for a walk, at least for one hour.

>>25372363
Give specifics.

I hate to be rude but if you don't read books, you shouldn't be in this thread. This isn't a WYT for 4chan, it's a WYT for /lit/ users.

>>25372367
I'll leave if you really want me to.

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>>25372367
Books are just a collection of pages of written texts. Reading a random book is no better than reading twitter.
Quality is quality no matter the form. You got to be more specific when you make arbitrary value statements!

>>25372366
Both of those posts are reminding me of my self
>>25372367
I agree. I think of it as kind of a playground for writing and language.

>>25372352
> rich trust fund kid who never had a turbulent and contrarian youth
Never.

>>25372344
Honestly (and this is a matter of my disinterest in the genre, not in your quality in delivering it), its a purely positive fable because the guy makes the most honorable decision throughout at just about the most honorable pace. Hardly dark at all. Now me I’m a sick fuck so I need some sort of heinous supernatural twist or turnabout. Then again my issue might be spiritual because I don’t think the guy has to go through this advanced forgiveness song and dance just to decide not to become a murderer because he’s dying. Like why does he primary think to wield his fatal blood as a weapon? I guess that’s the classic Grimm business, but the idea I guess is he was going to kill an asshole but decided not to so his family honored him. I guess that is a pretty hard criticism

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looks like I won this round of hide & seek!

>>25372388
His name is Naruto.

>>25372354
We were just at war with the Uranians

>>25372385
>>25372344
Oh wait isn't it only because he was overcome with illness he didn’t spit? What’s the big idea, then? Was the sickness psychosomatic of guilt or did his gun jam and he wasn’t able to murder the guy?

>>25372385
>>25372395
So in the story it says that "a cure could be found", so death isn't certain.

He thinks about spitting, but is unable to from a sudden wave of pain from the illness, and the enemy leaves. At his lowest point here, he has felt enough pain that he learns the "lesson" that if you're hurt enough, you can become compassionate. You don't want to hurt others because you understand so much about suffering. The headstone engraving really sums it up.

Its basically silent hill 3 cultist philosophy.

At my Catholic school growing up the Hispanics always found company in the Irish, and the Italians always with the Slavs and Anglo-Germanic converts. Much to ponder...

if you ever think your closest friends wont judge you over your job, fitness, etc. i am here to inform you that they will, an do. subconsciously or otherwise.
your 20-30 year old friendships do not transcend this

>>25372003
I'm reaching the point where I'm starting to consider wearing women's clothing

>>25372418
I don't have any friends.

>>25372419
OP pic is the cat watching you try them on

tfw not a suicidally depressed mid 30s german man recruited by a secret italian intelligence agency as a handler for a traumatized cyborg girl used as an extralegal assassin and giga-glowie against right wing terror groups who I slowly learn to accept I cannot save from her progressively declining health caused by addiction to immunosuppressants used to prevent her body from rejecting her cyberware and who I ultimately die in the arms of after we are both mortally wounded assaulting a nuclear power plant occupied by a terrorist group in a ploy by the government to eliminate both the terrorists and the covert organization in order to clean their hands of the whole affair

>old people dying to heat because we must combat muh climate change
God I fucking hate the UK so much.

>>25372430
So you gonna write then novel on it or what? Or better yet, make it a TV miniseries.

>>25372430
Based gunslinger girl

>>25372435
anon this is just the plot of Gunslinger Girl

>>25372437
‘tfw’ makes it creative writing

Realized I'm not a jeans person.
Jeans don't suit me unfortunately.

>>25372015
Tf you tryna say dawg

At the end of the day, world peace. We need world peace. I really believe that we'll progress as a species once we get past the need for armies. Will this ever happen? Highly dubious. I hope it will though

If you have a friend who puts basically 0 effort into his life while you work really hard, is it natural to just kinda resent him

>>25372563
What's resenting gonna get you?

Let's think step by step.

>>25372571
It gets me nothing. Isn't it kinda natural though to just get irritated at people who don't try in life

>>25372577
It's only natural if you tried to help but he remained where he is.

>>25372563
Your reasons for working hard are probably vain and cringeworthy
His reasons for relaxing could be spiritual and enlightened
Judge not a person from their actions, but their intentions.

Did you know the Hawaiian culture used to practice human sacrifice?

>>25372581
>Your reasons for working hard are probably vain and cringeworthy
Why does everyone have this anti-hard work mindset nowadays
Do you think the jews invented hard work as a psyop?

>>25372584
learn to read retard. Its astounding that even on /lit/, people have no reading comprehension

I actually think your average right-winger believes in the "Guns, Germs, and Steel' theory of American success where we actually just had the best resources, which is funny because the truth is just that Americans were more industrious, creative, and willing to work than everywhere else

>>25372587
>Ummm acksshually you see you may be doing the correct and virtuous thing but it's your motives that are wrong *pushes up glasses*
Reddit morality

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by my estimates, with a heart condition diagnosed at a young age, and extreme anxiety over my health driving me into isolation and a sedentary lifestyle back in my early 20s, and binge eating to feel some kind of pleasure/happiness leading to weight gain since then, it seems like my life expectancy is about 51 years old as is, just stacking everything on top of each other, but probably worse given the interaction between everything and the heart condition probably pretty unpredictable in such terms

fear has become a cage. the fear of feeling dizzy and faint, of not being in control, has driven me into isolation where fear for my health has caused me to make my own health exponentially worse. but its so strong. it ant be ignored, its so so strong that it weakens your knees and blurs your vision and make you faint, which when combined with the innate fear of fainting due to the health anxiety, causes a torturous spiral

what a life. what a waste.

>>25372589
Thats a good retort. It's impossible for anyone to counter that!

Dudes will really develop an entire complex belief system in their head just to validate their own mediocrity
"Heh, you see it's actually GOOD that I'm not working hard in life. I have the right reasons. I am so morally superior :)"
*sits on the couch and hits cart*

>>25372592
I guess so, because you didn't even attempt to counter it.

>>25372595
I am just a mere mortal, such sacred knowledge is beyond me

>>25372596
I've already lowered my standards, don't worry

People still don't get it. The point of elections is legitimizing the status quo through the participation of the body politic. Not influencing the course of the polity that you are a part of through your participation. If elections mattered the way people think they matter, the ruling elite would never allow them to be held.

>>25372597
I told you twice its impossible. Learn to read retard. Its astounding that even on /lit/, people have no reading comprehension :^)

I luv the valley OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Heh, that shut 'em up. Another win for the good guys woop woop :D

I feel at one with many of this planet's crazies. I'm not, but I feel at one with them. There's something afoot. It's not what they're saying but something's afoot. They realize this. They note this

Thinking about the world thinking about our place in the world thinking about everyone in this world doing what they do where they are

So many stories happening around us all the time anons. So many lives going on. Truly maddening but also beautiful

It's enough to make a man scream! It's enough to make a man shout! It's enough to make a man dance up and down and cry out! OWOAOAAOAOAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOAOAO, noises of that nature

The love of my life has moved to Russia permanently. She told me she loves me like no other.

i forgot how torturous having a strong crush can be
i feel like an anxious teenager

>>25372588
It's both. Americans had the geography but also a culture that figured out how to use it effectively. There has been people who did it without the geography, the Jews.

>>25372635
evidently not, otherwise she wouldn't have moved.

>>25372646
faggot

>>25372670
you never experienced limerence in your adult life?

>>25372689
faggot youre just horny

these korean instant ramen have fucking horrible spices
its not even tasty spice, its painful spice

>>25372698
funny how quickly you assume crushes are gay

>>25372713
nah u just gay son

>open youtube
>close youtube
>open youtube
>close youtube
AAAAH

>>25372115
>>25372117
Actually, I watched a documentary about the show years ago and the elder brother and Marsha definitely did. They had to redo a scene or something because it was too obvious they were into each other

>>25372741
just watch some shit

>trying to relearn maths
>try this math exercise book my nephew had
>check my answers
>one of my answers is wrong according to the answer page
>"that can't be right, i thought it was correct"
>use the calculator to check my answer
>i was correct
what the hell

>>25372656
Naturally. Women are foul liars. Foul, filthy liars.

There’s this one acquaintance I had who incidentally but unimportantly has blocked me along with the rest of that friend group (of three not including me) who I can’t stop thinking about even though I barely ever talked to him. We only even hung out three times last year, but we all knew each other from 10 years ago. Something about him kind of bothers me, but not in an I hate him kind of way, just in a we have completely different incompatible personalities way where I can’t help but bring up MBTI bullshit. He’s some kind of nerdy and humorless introvert type, whereas I’m just obnoxious and weird/randumb in a way all those guys probably hate, or they see me as a loser. Yeah we barely knew each other but that’s not a reason to act like we never talked at all. But I don’t hate you, bro. I’m not like that. Truth is everyone is like this in some way now and I get it.

>>25372218
Whoa is that an exclamestion mark?+!
How do you do that?+!

All my coworkers are women and I get very horny at work even though I’m a porn-addicted virgin.

Hello hello hello

>40°C
just fry my shit up

When you think about it, history really was little else but a millennia-long march to the Stonewall riots.

Let's go back to Indian Summer~

All I ever wanted was love. Was that so hard? But I was raised by animals. Life is so worthless, so completely trivial and disgusting.

Can't stand it when I'm listening to an album and some songs are mixed more loudly/quietly than the others. Seems to be a modern problem for the most part too, I wonder why.

There's this commercial that keeps airing on Peacock for some medicine or whatever, and it consists of showing multiple father-daughter (around 8 years old) combos doing fun things like going to a sports game, ice cream, etc. Whenever I see it, I like to pretend it's casually showing couples of old men and young girls, and it amuses me.

HEIL DARK LORD VADER

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https://youtu.be/DH2KEa_WeZ0

Everyone acts like their depression and nihilism makes them cool and unique, and you spend too much time talking about reading and writing versus ACTUALLY reading and writing

>>25372870
To be fair, thinking about and discussing literature and writing is very important, but I see your point.

>>25372775
with the lights out

>>25372775
COA

JACKOFF
JACKOFF RIGHT NOW

>>25372892
I'd rather preserve my testosterone and sex drive for the day.

>>25372894
JACKOFF JACKOFF RIGHTNOW

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I tried to draw something and my evident lack of skill and talent made me downright suicidal for a few good minutes.

Need more coffee!

God I really turned out so different from everyone else it's incredible.

>>25372925
unique snowflake

>>25372930
Correct

There's an app on my phone for the clinic I go to for checking in. It also allows you to check the size of the line and the estimated wait time (which is always off).

Sometimes when I'm bored I like to look at the wait time for the time I'd usually show up, especially today because I go in tomorrow myself, and currently there's 20 people in line! I sure hope there's not 20 people in line tomorrow when I show up. I'm getting anxiety just thinking about it.

Everyday is unique and it's incredibly variable, so just because it's busy today at this time doesn't really mean anything for tomorrow, or the next day, but still.

>>25372003
Us, the Europeans, we were omnipotent nobles until two hundred years ago and we sold it for scraps of shambles.

Mere Christianity for mere goys.

>>25372983
The right really should stop this aristocratic LARP shit if they want to get anywhere. Your ancestors were 95 percent peasants and there's nothing shameful about that, on the contrary.

>>25372997
> Your ancestors were 95 percent peasants and there's nothing shameful about that, on the contrary.
Very bourgeois take. The yeoman wasn't a peasant, he was a free estate owning man with citizenship in his commune. In France, the probably most abominably feudalistic country ever, had a mere 30% of persons without private property.
But yeah, you're a bourgeois and a midwit too probably that's why you look at honest work as 'peasantish' and can only look at things from a right/left frame like that's even the point.
Do you even realize how stupid you've just made yourself look?

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highly recommend reading these threads as the speech bubbles of little jrpg-style npcs

e.g.
>Sometimes I'll wave to the girls but that's it.
>Umm...
>I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE. WHY IS EVERYTHING SO HARD.
>Ahh, finding a book with relatable characters is so satisfying.
>Bawk bawk bawk!
>Man, I hate racism.
>I'm human. I have to go. Bye.
>I deeply resent the Saudis and Qataris.
>Spent whole day yesterday researching a biotech company.
>We were just at war with the Uranians
>Jeans don't suit me unfortunately.
>I really believe that we'll progress as a species once we get past the need for armies.
>Let's think step by step.
>Did you know the Hawaiian culture used to practice human sacrifice?
>I feel at one with many of this planet's crazies.
>I luv the valley OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>Another win for the good guys woop woop :D
>The love of my life has moved to Russia permanently.
>Need more coffee!

>>25373005
>France, the probably most abominably feudalistic country ever
What about Russia or China? Stupid ass.

Anyone else love eating frozen pizza for breakfast? My mother continually chastises me for it but I don't know, my brain just craves it first thing in the day, far more than any of the other traditional breakfast food we have.

Think I should cut my teeth on some sort of light video essay-ish shit on youtube before doing big boy writing, but the market is far too saturated and my ego can't help but hold itself to be above pedestrian slop like how Evangelion made me realize that life is all about getting ginger pussy.

>>25373033
Try checking out the YouTube channel called Moon. That guy has some really good social essays.

Anyone wanna watch the new and current season of Love Island USA with me?

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

>>25373030
So you order pizza the night before, stick it in the freezer and eat it like a pop-sickle in the morning?

>>25373160
I only watch stuff like that if cuddling in involved ;)

>>25373198
lol no I cook it, I just meant as opposed to ordering fresh pizza.

Days like these I wish I was deaf so I would no qualms being this beautiful house located right next to a busy mainroad

>>25373202
Ah, well - cant be good for you. Ive taken up eating olives with fantastic results

>>25372003
Anyone know where to pirate audiobooks?

>inb4 pirates are scum
I don't care.

>>25372599
If nothing else Trump has proven this false. The elite would never have approved the gutting of the federal government, threatening NATO allies, and other things Trump has done. Elections do end up shaping policy.

I don't think lizards should be served without the rock they tan on.

I was trying to poetry
when I farted
and then I realized
poetry is in the little things
and sorry mom
but windows can be opened

>>25373016
Lol

thinking of ending things

just made another excellent deleuze post. time to reward myself with the remaining 10% of this beer.

When am I going to be few who win of many who enter where’s my toys r us sweepstakes when’s Blink 182 coming to my school

>>25373254
You should not do that

>>25372997
You are the single most retarded poster on this board. Worse than Marxspammer 2 (the lowercase negro one)

>>25373266
it's been horrible fucking 2 years, everything is going to shit and nothing is getting any better, just pure shit all around

>>25373273
Yeah me too, worst two years of my life in a lot of ways and I say that having been beaten all the time as a kid. But who cares? See it out to the end.

thinking of starting things

>>25372870
Extremely wise and a lesson I have yet to learn

>>25372003

Why am I like this? I do not command any respect at all. From very early childhood that is, which is insane because that means it's innate. I just don't get it. Why? How?

>>25373302
You need gravitas

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Got myself Dune and I’m reading it. Enjoying it :)

>>25373234

Same. Cinnamon + granite is a real test of teeth.

>>25373356
Like the Earth?

>>25373387
Kind of
-Gravitas is a formal noun meaning seriousness, dignity, and importance. Rooted in an ancient Roman virtue, it describes a personal substance or weight that elicits respect, trust, and authority. It is widely used in professional settings as a core element of executive presence

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All of homosexual culture is based on hyperssexuality stemming from child abuse. Every gay is either a victim or an offender.

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>>25373398
Seems a bit simple. Some men are born a bit fey but theyll still kick your ass while having ten babies with a pretty woman

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>>25373398
I’d say it’s hyperssexuality somtemming from either child abuse or porn addiction, the latter being far more prominent nowadays with all the discord grooming gangs and such

>>25373409
All good things on this planet are simple when you break them down, it's only evil that doesn't make sense.

>>25373445
I think porn addiction rots the mind and can definitely cause someone to commit homosexual acts, but I don't know if it can turn someone completely gay. Porn addiction doesn't have the same emotional aspect to it as sexual abuse as a child does; especially since the vast majority of children get abused by someone they trust.
Hypersexuality is seeking love and comfort in sex after all.

MANIFEST AUTOFICTION INTO A SOLID THING SO I CAN KILL IT

>>25372003
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

I was eating some chocolate chip that melted off from a cookie into the packaging and I realize I made the exact same move as Finquel does when he explores with his finger

>>25373482
I feel it’s behind the rise of pseudo-bisexuality due to desensitisation to sexual imagery and so seeking out new things to feel arousal.
By pseudo-sexuality I mean someone who’s only consumed gay content in the form of drawings/non-human content (furries etc.), but if confronted with actual human contact they won’t be interested

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>>25373461
Things can be complicated but still make sense

what

>>25372003
The world is going to shambles right in front of our eyes. The world has been going to shambles ever since that fucking covid story and I'm fucking sick of pretending everything is fine.

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I think he looks like a troll. An ugly troll.
Why do people think hes a hottie.

Just because hes on the magic screen and shown to us often and we are told hes attracting?

>>25373591

Ok Leonard Lake... better start building your bunker and finding your Miranda

>>25373599
> Bahh Bahh Bahh just stay positive loser

>>25373606

Ok beck, go get your grammy you faggot

>>25373613
> just keep grinding the millstone, workslave, never mind half of the planet is being bomb raped right now

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>>25373591
Things change, the last 80 years of peace in the west has been an anomaly. Its always the rapture somewhere -no use loosing your head over it

>>25373617
Why are you bitching to us about this? Just go out and do whatever you think needs doing

>>25373622
Ahh yes, the 2nd World War where the big ideas of the Century were fought out on the trenches.
Hmm, how so similar to countries randomly getting invaded in no time for no apparent reason.

>>25373628
Gaslighting at it's finest.

the world is a vampire

>>25373635
What's his name?

>>25373632
>similar to countries randomly getting invaded in no time for no apparent reason

Which country is that?

Also you need to be over 18 to post here

>>25373634
I dont think that word means what you think it means

>>25373641
Emmett

>>25373646
Specialist at lowering the level of the conversation while putting the blame on everyone else.
> Wich country is that
There's three major wars going on in the world right now.

>>25373652
What's the third?

>>25373659
US vs the Aliens

>>25373659
Do you find wars funny?

>>25373652
Are you counting Iran and Lebabon as two wars?

That is Israeli expansionism, the reason for which is quite apparent. Theyre assholes.

>>25373663

Švejk does

>>25373664
Let this sink in.
I find it hard to be optimistic with a political stage that considers genocidal extermination as a legitimate mean to expand borders.
Hell, WW2 seems humble compared to the current world stage.
Israel is doing it, the US is doing it and Russia is also doing it.

>>25373678
>Hell, WW2 seems humble compared to the current world stage.
no, it doesn't. this isn't true

>>25373682
Denial stage.

>>25373683
Retard stage

>>25373687
The war with the historically biggest casualties is considered to have been the Austro-Hungarian war against the Ottomans:
> 600 000 casualties
Ukraine has 30 000 casualties per month. The war has been going on for 4 years.
30 000 x 12 x 4 =
> 1,440,000
Welcome to hell.

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>>25373678
>considers genocidal extermination as a legitimate mean to expand borders

Only Israelis really think that and for now they have the U.S. in their pockets. If Trump attempts a coup in 2028 they will have civil war, loose, and then they will have purged the zionist infestation.

Systems collapse, new and more efficient systems take their place.

>>25373682
>no, it doesn't. this isn't true

Agreed

>>25373699
If you genuinely, seriously think that the Russo-Ukrainian war has caused more casualties than WWII you are genuinely, seriously retarded. Please, please don't tell me you think "casualty" and "death" are the same thing

>>25373699
>World War II is the war with the historically biggest casualties, resulting in an estimated 60 million to 80 million deaths worldwide.

>>25373724
>he thinks WW2 actually happened
lmao

>>25373723
I think he might be "retarded on purpose"

>>25373723
>>25373724
I said more casualties than the Austro-Hungarian war against the Ottomans.
What makes you compare a war between two countries with a whole world war?
There have always been wars but the men got soon tired of them and negotiated for peace or surrendered. That ain't happening right now while everyone pretends everything is fine.

>>25373724
> The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) resulted in an estimated 4.5 to 8 million deaths
Described by contemporary authors as a literal slaughterhouse. Our decade topped that in a handful of years.

>>25373739
It did you fucking idiot. The war isn't over. If you extrapolate the number of casualties over the possible future, then eventually it will be hundreds of millions after some years.

I took a summer job where I live in a remote area by myself and very rarely see another person. I thought this would be cool but it actually sucks and I feel lonely. I have grown soft.

I'm that extra friend in every friend group I'm a part of. I maybe have one friend who considers me to be his true friend as well. To everyone else I am a curiosity to be met with maybe once a month. It's not something to be sad about as they are all decent people but it honestly pains me.

>>25373723
It will soon.

Right before I leave the house to walk to the bus, I go on RYM and look at their charts for top rated albums for suggestions to listen to, and invariably, I forget whichever ones I thought looked good as soon as I walk out the front door, lol. If only there was a extension for RYM on my music app. That'd be dope.

>>25373771
Sorry to hear that, anon. At least you have us. And I hope you brought or have access to lots of books! Consider this your summer of reading. Read Proust, finally.

I downed two coffees and an energy drink and I'm still sluggish and bored.

I don't know why my parents named me This.

My penis, which stands at attention, knows exactly where the commas go. It never splices, it never dangles; it just rises, a perfect semicolon, connecting two independent clauses: a colon, introducing a list of things that will never happen, a period, and then it's over.

My penis is a tragic hero. It rises with great ambition, a tiny Napoleon marching toward Moscow, and then it meets the winter of reality and retreats. I have written sonnets about it. Petrarchan sonnets, with the turn after the eighth line, right when it starts to soften. It has its own biography, which I keep in a leather-bound journal under my bed. Volume One covers the early years, before it knew what it was. Volume Two is all about the summer of 2014, which was a confusing time. Volume Three is mostly blank pages because I have been too depressed to update it.

My penis is a retired philosopher. It spent its youth reading Schopenhauer and came to the conclusion that all striving is suffering. Now it sits in an armchair by the window, wearing a velvet smoking jacket, sipping a tiny brandy. It no longer rises to the occasion because it has transcended occasions. It has achieved a state of pure contemplation. Sometimes I ask it a question and it just exhales a thin trail of smoke and says "I have outgrown desire." I respect this even though I have not outgrown desire. My penis is wiser than I am.

My penis is hanging out in the sewers. It's been down there for weeks, living among the rats and the filth, singing old Sinatra tunes to the echoes. It sends me postcards sometimes, smeared with something I don't want to identify. The postcards say things like "Wish you were here" and "The water is warm." I do not wish I was there. But I respect its decision. Every penis must find its own path. Some choose the high road, some choose the sewers. Mine chose the sewers. It says it's happier there, among the pipes and the darkness, where no one expects anything of it. It has fallen in love with a particularly beautiful rat named Beatrice.

My penis is Harry.

My penis has taken up competitive knitting and refuses to speak to me until the scarf is finished. The scarf is eleven feet long and smells faintly of regret and lanolin.

My penis has joined a monastery and taken a vow of silence. It communicates only by ringing a small bell, once for yes, twice for no. I asked it if it still loved me and it rang twice.

My penis has run off to join the circus and now headlines as "The Incredible Disappearing Man." It sends me grainy photographs of itself sawing a bratwurst in half while a crowd of cocktail wieners looks on in horror. The last photo had no return address, just a smudge of greasepaint and a single word scrawled on the back: Encore.

My penis has become a private detective in a seedy part of town and only takes cases involving lost ambition and misplaced libido. Last Tuesday it called me at 3am, breathing heavy, and said "chief, this one goes all the way to the top." I haven't heard from it since, but a manilla envelope arrived this morning containing a single photograph of a bed, unmade, with a question mark on the back. Its office light is still on, burning through the fog, and I can see its silhouette in the window, waiting for a client who will never come.

My penis has started leaving passive-aggressive sticky notes on the bathroom mirror, and I need to know if the one that says "saw you looking at that pencil sharpener again" was meant as a threat, a come-on, or simply a commentary on my increasingly desperate search for meaning in a world that has none, because the sharpener in question is electric and makes a sound like a small animal dying and I only use it when I am very sad which is most of the time, and if my penis has been paying attention this closely to my sharpening habits then what else has it noticed about me, does it know about the bag of frozen peas I keep in the freezer for the nights when my back hurts and I cry on the kitchen floor, does it know that I still think about the checkout girl's smile from three threads ago, does it know that I have never finished a single book by Proust, and most importantly does it know that the sharpener is not even plugged in when I use it because the sound is what I need, not the sharpening, and was the sticky note written before or after my penis took its vow of silence and joined the monastery, because if a silent monk is still finding ways to judge me from a distance then what hope is there for any of us, and how did my penis learn to write with such neat penmanship when it doesn't have hands.

Hu Pito Du Nofren

I took a nice walk, saw a rainbow that had a chunk bitten out of it in the middle

>>25373761
In a thousand years, you are going to be crying over some exploded planet in the empire and i´ll still be here telling you that you need to just take a break. Who pretends everything is fine btw?

>>25373940
Trunk

>>25373961
Gais mu nofet

>>25373964
Woru dan pithek. Nofet gais mu sel?

>>25373974
Mu sodei bahn peri!
Hah-hah.
Nofet bahn gret...

>>25373964
>>25373974
English please. ´Trunk´is the only work i know in that language

>>25373991
Sodei bahn peri, mu! Nofet gret woru dan pithek, hah. Vanu mu selmu gais bordek mori fethan, peri sodei nofet... grisol mu telsu bahn? Dan pithek woru mu gais, nofet selmu vanu! Hah-hah. Bordek mu pi

I don't wish to be a disapointment to my gf and to myself any longer... I just lack inhibition, and manage tor repeat the cycle all over again. I feel like Marmeladov.

>>25374005
>Marmeladov
Sounds Russian.

>>25374001
Ves du modei palund, ves mu pithek bahn vide so mei. Hah-hah-hah.
Yol mustai rus tohla voldma.

>>25374013
It's the character in Crime and Punishment to continously disapoints his family to the point of ruin because he has no self-control and cannot keep to his word, and is wracked by guilt for it but unable to prevent himself.

>>25374014
Hah! Mu gais nofet telsu voldma, ves nofet bahn woru pithek dan mu! Grisol yol mustai rus tohla mori fethan, dan bordek selmu, hah-hah. Mu vide du modei palund, sodei peri! Nofet gaismu... trunk?

>mfw uber attractive and I pass by a 40 yo mom and her 16 year old daughter and they're both checking me out and I have to stare and smile at the mother as I pass by as to not be a creep
O_O

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I am a 31 year old virgin.
I am fucking terrified of falling in love. Falling in love opens me up to manipulation and the potential of getting cucked and emasculated. I fail to see any positives it offers to counteract those negatives that my hand and platonic relationships don't already provide me.
The idea of dying a virgin used to frighten me, but now it seems oddly comfortable, and the idea of losing my virginity is what frightens me. Dying a virgin means I leave this world nearly as pure as I entered it, while losing my virginity means losing a central part of my identity that I've possessed my entire life.
As a strange result, I tend to get on well with women, since women paradoxically love the company of men who they can tell don't want to fuck them at all. If I were younger I might fall for these women due to proximity, but at my age I genuinely want nothing to do with them sexually for the aforementioned reasons.

>>25374029
Trunk apai mu defune al'prios defiden!
Hah-hah-hah.
Nofet voldma ven bresech du vel apalista.
Nofet voldma ven mu rusier.

>>25374031
I was at the grocery store last week. A teenage girl in a sundress smiled at me. I looked at the floor. Her mom was right there buying avocados, and she gave me this look that said "I understand. My daughter is in heat. She is sixteen. Her body has been preparing for this since she was twelve. The estrogen flooded her system and her hips widened and her breasts developed and her vagina began producing a particular odor, a smell designed by nature to attract men. You are a man. You produce testosterone. You have a penis. Your penis produces a particular odor. Your ballsack smells like skin and dried sweat and something else, something that my daughter's body recognizes. She can smell you from across the produce section. You probably masturbated this morning and there is still a trace of dried semen somewhere on your body. She doesn't know that consciously but her body knows. Her body knows everything yours knows. This is just biology. This is just the animal kingdom doing what it does. I am not offended. I am a forty-three-year-old woman. I have been through puberty. I have smelled men. I have smelled myself. I know what my vagina smells like at different times of the month. I know what semen smells like. I know the smell of my husband's balls after a long day. I know the smell of sex on the sheets the morning after. This is all just bodies. Bodies doing body things. My daughter is a body. You are a body. Her vagina has a smell and your penis has a smell and those smells are designed to find each other across grocery stores and across millennia. That's fine. But here's the thing. If you take one step closer to my daughter, I will unhinge my jaw and swallow you. This is also biology. This is maternal instinct. This is the smell of a mother protecting her young. You understand. I understand. We all understand. Now take your Raisin Bran and go."

I took my Raisin Bran and I went.

>>25374060
This really happened. I was there.

>>25374060
undeniably good but if you post AI slop one more time I WILL track you down and upload your consciousness to the Roko's Basilisk where you will suffer will all eternity.

>>25374067
If that's AI then the Anon went through the effort of generating it locally, because no remote hosted AI would dare write anything involving teens that's even remotely about sex.

>>25374069
Well I hope it's not so I don't have to feel dirty for liking it.

Life's not that bad really. You could have been born with down syndrome in Haiti or something.

>>25374092
How could I have been born with down syndrome in Haiti when my parents have never stepped foot in that country, huh?

A young woman with a tight body just ran past me. I forgot that I have a loose tuft of hair sticking out from the side of my head, so I probably looked ridiculous. Oh well, I'd rather be enmeshed with my slovenly comforts than be forced to entertain the superficial rituals of courting.
I'm going to touch my balls to her tonight.

Fuck, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is magnificent. Took me a bit to get into the flow of things, which is hear is often the case with his works, but yeah, I can see why he won the Nobel and is recognized as one of America's all-time great literary talents.

Admittedly, there are a bunch of spots where the thought or feeling or idea expressed is a bit too obscure for my tastes, but in terms of poetry, in depth of humanity, it's sublime.

Yeaaaaaaaaaah sooooooo... What about you guys write something interesting that caters to me delicate tastes?? Just a thought

HUMILIATION?

I REFUSE

Point blank, barrel in my mouth.

>>25374148
what is a point blank anyway

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I wonder what Juan meant by this review. It's quite peculiar.

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>>25372003
The cat sits and looks at me as I sit and look back at the cat. We are mirrored. But who is truly the superior being? Me, of course.

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>>25374194
*kitty sits up assertively*
how about now

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>>25374200
still me, anon

>>25374151
From Middle English poynte blancke. Poynte refers to the aiming. The blancke was the blank spot in the gunner's quadrant representing no upward tilt. So, you're shooting straight horizontally. This would mean you'd have to be close because of ball drop. Your balls dropped, right? So, you'd have to be close in order for this kind of shot to hit, so this came to mean that you shoot someone close. I might be wrong about this because I don't know anything I'm just a retarded little boy.

>>25373388
>The United Kingdom House of Commons also uses the term "bottom",[15] which is the Conservative code for gravitas.[16]
Huh

MAKE A NEW THREAD. WHAT ARE YOU DOING!???! MAKE A NEW THREAD RIGHT NOW!!! HELLO????!!!

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naruto kitty hide & seek edition