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Hello anons. This painting is called "The Lantern Bearers" by Maxfield Parrish. Please enjoy.

Makes me want to throw up.

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I would like to write about growing up profoundly ugly, but at the same time I know it will only appeal to A: melodramatic teens, or B: the very small minority of actually ugly people.

*opens wide*

Just so that the post doesn't die in the previous thread >>25484651

>>25484677
>tfw good-looking but uglified myself in middle school and early high school with an awful hair style so I know what it feels to be on both sides
That's the sacrifice needed to become a great artist today, living the entire spectrum of experience.

>>25484681
Just repost it in its entirety, anon.

>>25484677
Build a decent narrative around it or at least explore ugliness in an original way. The problem you presented will only exist if you offer nothing other than relatability.

>>25484683
Alright, then. Didn't want to feel spammy.

Hi, anons. A few weeks ago I had a very productive discussion with a few other posters in this thread that led to the idea of creating a kind of book club general. I had promised to get it started, but I had some other things to take care of so I ghosted for a while.

For those who didn't follow the discussion, the idea was to create a general where we can discover and discuss books outside of the same old stuff that is regurgitated on /lit/ and other online literary spaces. Anons will give their suggestions, we'll make a draw to narrow them down if they're plenty, and then we'll vote which one we start with. That's just the initial format, I don't mind it if we organically move into some other method. Overall, the basic rules would be:
>no doorstoppers
>books should be fairly accessible (possible to find online, written in English or with available translations, stuff like that)
And more importantly
>no classics, no school syllabus, no books that you'd find on /lit/ and Reddit charts, no meme books, and no topics that are already covered by generals on the board (such as sci-fi)
You get the idea.

I'll be trip and namefagging for the first few threads just to make sure things run smoothly, but I expect the general to start running on its own if it gains traction. Before I make the starting thread, I'd like to know if anyone has any last minute suggestions for the general.

And a name would be good too.

You are trying to get lit. I am trying to get /lit/. We are (not) the same.

>>25484681
It's a neat idea but every book I can think of that'd be fun to talk about is some sort of classic or hard to find online. Maybe I'm just pretentious.

I do want to find some friends to talk about books and writing with but I can't stand the kind of people who tend to populate discord servers related to literature and I'm not normal or patient enough to go to an irl bookclub.

>>25484687
>>25484681
You should just make a separate thread for this. To be blunt, this is where people come to escape talking about books. Hell, some people here don't even read (which I don't understand, why are they on /lit/, but w/e)!

Book clubs have been tried many, many times before. I wish you luck on success.

>>25484688
i've been lit and i've been /lit/, sometimes simultaneously

Doing autistic shit again. Doing it for John Wilkins.

"And now I'm screaming in a stranger's palm
But I just can't quite place the feeling
A swirling serpent was the floor
An odd man's God, it was the ceiling."

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>friend's daughter is getting married
>know their family for twelve years
>not invited to wedding
>coworker and wife were invited
>wife says that it's going to be a small wedding, they lacked the space to invite everybody
>wife gets back home, 150 people showed up, even a few homeless bums that used to work for friend
I've been listening to L'Amour Toujours on repeat for the last half hour trying to think about what the fuck just happened.

>>25484705
I bet you made an advance on the daughter, huh.

>>25484709
She tried to fuck me a few years ago while I was engaged. I declined.
That's the only explanation I can come up with.

>>25484717
100%

>>25484717
High daddy energy

Next step, abuse twitter person

>>25484694
I'm only posting it here because the original discussion started in this general, but I'll be moving it to its proper thread soon.
>Book clubs have been tried many, many times before. I wish you luck on success.
Thank you.

>>25484667
I think if someone breaks into your loneliness to demand something they aren't entitled to one should be allowed to attack them.

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Thus end my two years of being a crypto chud; my two years of being friends with progressive lefitsts, going to uni parties, enduring talks about how awesome abortions are, visiting an atrociously bad LGBT theater play, seeing a grown man have a breakdown because someone said the nigger-word, meeting no girls other than tattooed, pierced, all black wearing alt-chicks with a body count in the high double digits, seeing adults be scared of singing along with rap songs like they're fundamentalists fearing God's wrath for taking the Lord's name in vein; it's all over now.
My conclusion: leftists are insane, infantile, and insufferable. Anyone says "but they have the heart in the right place!" is an absolute fool, whom I can guarantee has never spent a prolonged amount of time with people like that. They don't actually love brown people— they just hate Whites. None of them know even a single precious person of color— despite worshiping them. The struggle of the poor? They couldn't care about less either; for two years I've never seen them once complain about the government cutting benefits for families, or how bad the inflation had gotten. They're some of the most hateful people I've ever met, with the most un-diverse set of political opinions I've ever seen. Anyone who's not a "good person™" is the enemy and deserves to be treated like a traitor to the human race. They're all clones of each other, and they're all fully detached from reality, which I attribute to them being completely ignorant about history. They ALL subscribe to the ideology of communism, without knowing a single thing about it— the average latinx neo-nazi knows has a deeper understanding of his ideology than these people.
I don't regret my time spent among these reality removed, pseudo-communist fools —I do wish the best to all of them except for one—but this has been enough. Chud out.

>>25484887
the funny thing about the Marxists I know at university is that very few of them have actually read or understood Marx (and if they're pretending to stupid then they deserve to be treated as such).

They are literally just rich spoiled kids roleplaying as leftists, appointing themselves as leaders and experts, and hypocritically projecting their own faults on to everyone else. a bunch of reprehensible faggots if ever I saw one.

*be*

>>25484887
>>25484898
Both correct. There are obvious parallels to what you see with the online right, but I think it goes further than muh both sides bad. More like a general incapacity for modern man to really believe in something. Like how religion now is essentially a LARP for the vast majority of people and you would be hard-pressed to find someone who convincingly *believes* this stuff the way you read about the historical accounts of people who live and die by their faith. Now we have little, concentrated cycles of faith that gurgle up from the bowels of the VC class and manifest as the likes of mass AI obsession, withering away within a matter of years once the promised revolution of life (and the economy) doesn’t come to fruition. Maybe we replaced faith with FOMO? I don’t know, just “thinking out loud,” so to speak. I’m certainly no Christcuck who wants to map all the social faultlines in the world back to some bible verses but this sense I have that belief in general is so ephemeral, nebulous, feels related somehow in a way that I’m failing to articulate.

>>25484667
This one and Le petit soldat are the only Godard movies I liked so far. Tried a couple of his later ones, and they sucked.

>>25484916
>There are obvious parallels to what you see with the online right

true. the right wing is also fucked but in its own way. the leadership is 80% grifters, 15% schizos and retards, and 5% levelheaded people who actually practice what they preach.

Why am I allergic to sincerity?

>>25485073
Scared of it or something. Why am I allergic to ragweed?

>>25484667
Hungover again. Another bender. Another day of acting like a scumbag and humilating myself. When will I put an end to this?

>>25485076
Disgusted by it. It's just... this mawkish overbearing empathy vamperisim that makes me want to vomit. Maybe it's not the sincerity, but the merchants who trade in it that I loathe.

But ragweed can get fucked. That shit makes me want to die as well. I'll pray for you and your leaking face.

Just took a shit in a small town Tim Hortons. Goddamn, it was so nice. Just old white people having breakfast and barely awake teens doing their best to sling coffees, as god intended. Dont loose faith, metropolitian faggots need not apply.

>>25484916
>like how religion now is essentially a LARP for the vast majority of people
I feel like you're looking at 20yo zoomers with crusader profile pictures and are projecting this onto the real world.

>>25485093
A white part of Canada? Sounds like you found Narnia

>>25485093
canadafag lol

>>25484922
I enjoyed Masculin Féminin and Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle

>>25485140
Most of Canada is still white by geography. Except if you go to any vaguely city-ish area, which isnt necessarily a city, but often the nexus between vast fucking empty wilderness and civilization. Small towns and the like are more or less untouched, especially with the on going purge.

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for anyone reading d+g, here's a neat schema to bear in mind from ian buchanan:
~ abstract machines, or diagrams, belong to the plane of organisation
~ bodies without organs belong to the plane of immanence
~ assemblages, by effectuating the diagrams from the first plane, draw the BwOs on the second

>>25485191
this shit is gonna seem so goofy in like 200 years

>>25485195
More like 20 lol
It's gonna be like theosophy is now, assuming anyone human is still alive by then

Sometimes I think I've born for failure. Never achieved anything, never had a girlfriend, my friends went away, life kept me behind plus I am unemployed. It feels like destiny is denying me the life of an average male. It is all more difficult when I've born in a third world country and in its poorest region, all sucks. I wish things could change, but the daily humiliation crushes any will.

>>25485197
Get a job and you'll see how quickly your fortune will change

>>25485198
Then he can be depressed AND a wageslave.

>>25485198
NTA but getting a job made my mental health worse. All the negative thoughts and emotions I feel are still present while being more powerful than before, albeit focused on external targets rather than myself. I no longer have as much time for the things that truly bring me happiness in life, trading that free time for money-earning drudgery. Aside from my financial situation, everything in my life is worse off than when I was NEET. The only other improvement might be that I learned I actually dislike a lot of other people more than I hate myself

Pretzels are fucking excellent.

Killing a loved one to protect the species is the ultimate actualization of man

>>25485242
I'd rather kill the species (which mostly consists of niggers and south asians)

>>25485254
But me also :( You can't kill me :(.

the master and the slave have merged into a single, exhausted body

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>>25485263
Depends, are you african or indian?

>>25485275
Western European.

>>25485276
What color is your skin? This is important.

>>25485282
Tanned, at the moment. I've spent a lot of time outside recently; walking my dog, mostly.

>>25485283
I see. Only white people can take care of dogs, so you're in the clear.

I'm African and Indian

>>25485292
:)

I need to pee

*opens wide*

My pee is is foamy

>>25485303
u need to jack off, that's ur body unloading expired unused sperm

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>>25485305
But what about my semen retention?

>>25485309
>all that semen retained
>picrel is dangerous predator
Yeah, it's clearly working anon. Keep going.

>>25485309
>fell for nofap
lol that lowers ur t over time

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

>>25484667
godard’s editing and narrative ideas get all the splash but he also had a way of capturing intimate scenes that, thanks to a rarer kind of genius, succeed in pretending that they are taken from real life. like the bedroom scene in breathless.

>>25485357
godard sucks man the only movie of his i legit enjoyed was la chinoise the rest are "ok" like maybe there were ground breaking when they came out but they just seem like mid noir to me.

>>25485362
he’s like the first one you find so you sort of get over him. but then you come back around and yeah i still like him. better than truffaut and 10x better than any left bank french director. ‘mid noir’ sounds like (and i hate this expression) you didn’t get it.

An Ancient Aztez Deathdog Whistle

>>25485369
>u didn't get it
i guess not. breathless is supposed to be this groundbreaking thing, and maybe it has some significance in the history of film techniques or something, but as a narrative it's just a mid noir, sorry.

FromSoft started out as a company writing software for the automated feeding of pigs and have never stopped since

laroux doesn't have enough money to get big ass mole/wart thing on her cheek removed? ur a pop star, not being grotesque is like part of ur job.

>>25485380
fromsoft stuff is like a bad nes game from 1985 but with unreal engine graphics

>>25485377
yeah i guess not. i don’t really care if something is groundbreaking, what the left bank were doing was far more experimental, but obviously it came almost twenty years after film noir and from across an ocean, godard loved bogie etc but it was just impossible for a director like him to make actual noir. it’s something else. it’s like calling the stuff that came out of tokyo in the 90s ‘mid gangster films’.

>>25485384
ok since u apparently "get it", what's so great about breathless? he attached a camera to a car so they could be filmed while driving? just seems like a technological gimmick to me.

omg i love reading and watching bond market doomerism rn but as we all know nothing ever happens

>>25485388
orson welles said a film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

since we on film or whatever, i'm watching a skatevideo that's filmed in 4k 60fps, it looks so crisp and clear, yet, they used a fucking fish eye so even tho the resolution is so clean it still doesn't give u the feeling of actually being there because everything is distorted, not to mention he's filming close to the sidewalk. ok, i get in a skatevideo u wanna see the guy's board primarily, but when it looks so fucking real, you want to just be able to see it like you were standing there, not like you are an ant on the sidewalk. causing a lot of weird dissonance, i don't like it.

there should be a /lit/ board for people under 36

>>25485404
yeah then most of the genre shit and wannabe writers would be contained and regular /lit/ can go back to being good

I'm so conceited. I'm genuinely starting to believe every time a girt sneezes around me in public, it's an attempt to get me to say "bless you" so she can turn and say "thank you" with a smile in hopes of starting some kind of conversation with me, ending with me asking for her number, and ultimately concluding with me and her naked in bed.

i’m realising we go off memory more than we actually think. think that’s why people (correctly) assume young people are savvier, they’re less likely to do it. people form an opinion and plant a flag. then just hold the line until they die. auden had a line
>Holders of one position, wrong for years

>>25485409
have sex guy

>>25485412
I do. I'm saying, in my mind, they all want me, at all times.

>>25485411
As I read from some self-help guy (okay, I got it from a TV shows that was quoting some self-help/pop psychology guy), the best approach is to have "strong opinions, weakly held".

>>25485411
the flip side of that is young people don't know any different than the current sloppy hell world so they think it's fine and correct. also young people fall for stuff old people already saw like the ai bubble. we all lived through dotcom and gfc bubble/crash and know what comes next. when your whole adult life is like five years, you're not going to make well informed decisions.

>>25485409
I've noticed myself doing this more often as I've started getting into shape whereas before I had simply accepted that it wasn't ever happening

>>25485419
years famously wrote
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity

>>25485424
no one cares that ur in shape except gay guys and even then half of them are into fat nasty bears and shit

>>25485424
it’s honestly a real problem for guys (and probably girls) who go from being kinda ugly to alright. if you’re goodlooking during school you come out ok but people who have glowups in their twenties end up going insane.

>>25485429
yeats*

>>25485437
when i think back to high school (i only attended one year) i remember catching this latina chick looking at me and she would look away fast like she got caught but then regain composure and look back, and in study hall she would ask to use my walkman and for some reason i let her use it i have no idea why i did that i don't think i ever had a real conversation with her, lol, i wonder if she wanted some blue eyed nerdy tall scrawny bwc, damn i could have been smashing a cute latina, lmao i was so dumb, but puerto rican women were always so loud and rude and quite frankly mean, i just couldn't imagine one actually liking anything but thugs.

My prefrontal cortex feels like it's burnt, and it's making my sinus cavity feel as if it's filled with some type of bitter chemical.
I don't like it.

>>25485448
ugh u just made me aware of the 4chan brainrot feeling in the front of my head

>>25485446
walkman

>>25485397
perhaps he meant the audience?

>>25485455
hell ya man the bright yellow sony ones those were like the ipod of the 90s

>>25485456
cinematography by: audience

>>25485457
any advice for not ending up posting on 4chan in my 40s?

man i was listening to that steve jobs in exile book and they talked about how sony invented the 3.5 inch floppy and also the cd-rom? also they invented the walkman, how did sony go from such an innovative company creating amazing consumer products, to some shit that basically is only known for a shitty overpriced gaming console? where did they go wrong? is it just the overall decline of japan? the run from walkman to cd-rom was when japan was peaking economically.

>>25485463
too late dude you're here forever

>>25485382
Yeah, because they're literally industrial engineers who shifted into gaming. The Souls series is so vacant like that because it was made in the approach of an industrial engineering module. They look at gamers as though they are clients and they assume everyone knows how to operate a machine so they just put the guy with a sword in the castle because that's what video games are. Boilerplate product design, which honestly comes with a consummate respect, its like 'here is the video game module you requested, sir, to your specifications' and they do try to be dignified throughout the whole product

>>25485388
>ok since u apparently "get it", what's so great about breathless?

it's pretty much
>tfw chad criminal living in the peak of paris
if you don't get that, you just won't get it

>>25485459
Execute Audience - You

>>25485467
i’m barely here as it is

>>25485464
There's nothing left to invent.

I misspelled 'Executive' and now I've gone and liquidated the gallery...

>>25485476
ya that's what i said in like 2007 when i would browse memes in /b/ occasionally

I am actually creatively crawling and bugging, like I gotta fucking make something. This one idea is fucking sick I've got it started real nice. Do people actually sell books? I have a lot of other ways to deliver a story too

>>25485473
so it's scarface for snobs?

>>25485484
i found 4chan age 14 though and pretty much skipped /b/. only /mu/, then /tv/ and then /lit/.
now i think about it this site probably won’t exist when i’m forty.

>>25485498
most of those boards were added after 2010, originally 4chan was just anime shit and /b/ basically.

>>25485503
yeah it was 2016ish (unrelated to trump influx, i’m uk).

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>>25485498
>>25485476
>he doesnt know
Think about where you are. Who posts here? How obscure is the location? How often do you check in?

You are here forever, or you were never here at all. Take a break if you must, you dont have a choice in the matter.

>>25485523
That looks like some good ass spaghetti

I think mostly about if there is a God and a chance of immortality or is there no God and is this life all we got?

I've been thinking about this for 20 years

>>25485528
Hell yeah, even the dog is demonic about it. What dog wants spaghetti?

>>25485523
ruh roh. took a two year break my first two years of uni & whenever i start seeing someone new i usually never post (esp not this thread)

>>25485534
There is a God, life is all you've got, and there is immortality, but it involves the end of categorical sorting with no salvation required, so I suggest not worrying about it.

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I'm thinking about the time my friend in the past sent me this Steely Dan album, at the time i checked it out but i dont think i liked it and forgot about it. I just checked it again and these are the lyrics it starts off with.
Yes, I smoked weed at the time. I didnt smoke that much, maybe once a week. I had no idea he felt this way. Or am i reading too much into it? Cause back in the day i would just send to friends a song that i liked a lot at the moment, but now i know people send songs with hidden or not-so-hidden literal meanings to a person they send it to, which can be seen in the lyrics. The actual song is about a girlfriend, we were two male friends. no homo i guess? I didn't know it bothered him that much that i smoke weed. Didn't know he was thinking of ending the friendship because of it, even back then.
Anyway, he got super into catholicism, it ended up being the only thing that he would talk about basically. Then he found a catholic girl, but she broke up with him. That's when he really started showing signs of distancing from me, even though at the time i stopped smoking weed and even drinking. He started missing calls, he even missed some of the meetings for hangout without even informing me beforehand. He started drinking.
I dont know, it seems to me that for the last year or so he was very passive aggressive to me, always showing how he doesn't care about me, always acting uppity or like he's better than me. I guess i flipped out once or twice, i remember i called him glownigger once. But he called me weird before that. I reacted, i never bully if i haven't been provoked.
The truly bizzare thing, the thing that made him ghost me was when he called me on the phone asking to hang out with him and another guy, both hardcore catholics, but that other guy is a whole different story i will probably write about here once. Guy is an ex dealer, ex fuckboy turned catholic. He's the alpha male of the group. I started disliking him so anyway i declined the invitation. And that's it, because of that he ghosted me. It's crazy that those social dynamics that manosphere talks about truly exist, because if you're in a friend group there is an alpha and basically everything has to be subordinated to him. And if you reject the alpha immediately the whole group rejects you. Like they are cattle without a brain of their own.

I figured out how it all works now and I want to be in the screen writing it and getting paid a ton of money and earning the status of success and the sense of fulfillment for a life long coming and earning the life of acting like they act on my absolute favorite most personal works that remind me of myself with the addition of being fulfilled and successful and being the loved by me on the screen while being the person in it

>>25485539
Yup. Skipping the planned banter, your case is already terminal. You may be able to find the regulars around these sorts of places elsewhere, but never in this form. Anonymity (or at least implied anonymity) is valuable, which is why the narrative around here is necessarily that we're a bunch of craven undesirables. Paradoxically, some people use that as a filter, and there are a wide variety of uniquely intelligent people who post here.

>>25485555
hard disagree. there’s one or two clever people here (including me).

>>25485553
Oh yeah people take different paths, that's the kind of behavior you can expect from someone who is transforming into a catholic and is drawing lines. It doesn't mean you're a disgusting weedhead, but it does mean he's practicing (like a student practices) the new set of rules this so-austere-it-needs-no-magic organization asks of its members. So yeah now he gets to wander around coping with chronic sober irritation and cope with it by telling everyone (again) he used to know a bunch of losers who weren't Catholic who 'wasted their life' no matter what you do because he hasn't kept in touch and prefers to imagine it that way (but the point of telling the story is that he is a cool guy who has and is capable of running with drug users)

>>25485555
>>25485567
This board is one of the highest IQ places on the Internet but also we're completely retarded

>>25485567
Depends on the subject. You might need to know something specific, and often this is the only place you can ask.

>>25485572
Also this. So fucking retarded.

>>25485555
Get a grip you hopeless dyke, I'm fucking trying to conceive over here

>>25485569
im not a fucking drug user, i smoked weed socially once a week and stopped 5 years ago. i dont even fucking drink, haven't been drunk in 7 years. I stopped smoking before falling out. And I am a catholic, i believe in God. If anything he's the one who drinks but that's not even the point, you missed the point of my post completely. The point is that i guess we drifted a bit apart, even though i feel like we could still have friendship but he, for reasons unknown to me, decided to end the friendship. and now i'm sad

>>25485555
>>25485579
Am schizophrenic or are you. Wtf are you talking about.

>>25485580
Mad too. And lame as fuck. Ibwould describe you as milk toast. Go get an egg, some bourbon, and a bit of vanilla in your life.

>>25485581
Obviously one guy is making knuckle children, losing his wood, and the other (me) is a platitudinous faggot.

>>25485580
I'm dead on the money, he was converting Catholic and going scorched Earth on his previous life because that's what it means to be resurrected, and he's going to keep it that way the rest of his life because he rudely chose to identify you as something that needs to be cut out, and he thought he would be cute by sending you an omen about that in the form of a music made out of heavy drugs that he will still listen to for fun because he's an asshole

>>25485579
the kant/jung-posters here are vastly overrated (esp the jung ones).

>>25485581
'Terminal case', all this doomsaying, I'm literally trying to have a child in this part of my life what are you so dreary about you're blocking my shine

The asymmetry between men and women on YouTube is brutal. Guy makes hundreds of articulate videos about Japan barely getting a thousand views after years. Attractive young woman uploads her first video on particle physics and immediately gets 20k.

>>25485593
Me too? I'm not being dreary, I was being sarcastic, or maybe snide. Clearly I like it a lot and am happy to be here.

>>25485595
Would you rather go to class, or see a talking dog?

how do i get this buck off my lawn

>>25485600
breaking

>>25485589
yes, but you dont know the magnitude of his catholicism. it's all he reads, its all he talks about, he makes the sign of cross when he drives by a church. He crosses before driving. He's hardcore into it. I also believe in God, but i have a sort of intuitive, mystic approach to my belief. I tried hard to fit in with the whole group and him with my studying of the religion but at some point it was doing me more harm than good and i felt like i was forcing it. I guess that's unacceptable to him

I misgendered someone in front of a full university class and now my life is over.

The ads on this board are unbearable but I do like the new one of the woman bouncing her butt close up against the camera

>>25485610
hi i’m imbred

>>25485617
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

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I was watching on them hardcore gangbangs you see? They made the girl suck their cocks, rim all their asses, yknow the usual as one would expect. What I didnt see coming was that one of guys would then tonguekiss the girl, and lick her face all weirdly. Gave me a proper ick, and I havent felt inclined to watch porn since.
Good for me I guess

>>25485608
i can't wait to retire so i never have to interact with anyone ever again

I wrote. frame story about ai datacenters with 80 frames called "stack overflow" where's my Pulitzer

>>25485624
At the moment I just want to leave earth behind me and float in the darkness of space forever.

>>25485608
i once did this to a trans girl’s face all night. she said her name was cynthia and the trans thought never entered my head and i was like ‘ok what’s your real name’. i don’t know what i thought, i was drunk & doing coke. but in retrospect she (they?) was sort of cute and i heard her tell our mutual friend that she likes me.

>>25485637
The problem is not the misgendering itself, I know the person well and they do not give a shit, but like at least twenty other people also heard it and that is what makes it bad.

>>25485646
This anon guy is kind of an asshole. I heard him misgender someone or something we should ruin his life. Let's pause our lives and dedicate lots of resources towards this now.

>>25485646
how did that even happen? you shouted it out in a lecture?

>>25485605
What a prick, and you know he's being told to act that way, and he buys in? What an asshole. Yeah definitely the exact type of person who talks hyperbolic shit about people he cut off for no reason.

>>25485650
They will do this to me.

>>25485651
>misgendering someone by shouting in the middle of a lecture
No, it was after the lecture but the way it happened was very retarded and not something I want to talk about.

>>25485654
dickhead

I wonder if women truly know the extent of the power of displaying her legs. Like, when they put on shorts before going out, is it as simple as "oh that looks good" or is it a deeper understanding, that it not only looks good but will draw the eyes, blood, and desire of every man she comes across? I can see wanting that power over one person, say, the person you're going on a date with or dating, but over everyone? Surely ignorance is the only explanation for such licentious behavior.

>>25485673
They do but almost always subconsciously, almost like the way you "know" just how to flex the muscles in your arm to precisely touch the tip of your nose.

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>>25484667
>at the gas station buying zyns and a white monster
>cashier's laughing with other customers at the counter
>don't hear most of what she says other than "the machine is down"
>she talks to another customer, don't hear most of it other than "yeah I wanted to let you know before you -- you know?"
>talks to another customer, can't hear the content but the third customer's tone is clearly disappointed and a little frustrated
>see a fourth customer pull out fistfuls of dollar bills to buy lottery tickets while shaking her head
>oh I guess the debit card reader isn't working and they're only taking cash
>finish picking my snacks and walk up to the cashier
>hi, are you guys taking debit cards right now?
>"...uh... yeah? why wouldn't we be?"
>oh, sorry, I thought I heard you say that the machine was down or something
>"that's why you shouldn't be listening to other people's conversations HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
>...
>...
>we're in public? you weren't really being qui-
>"HAHAHAHAHAHA don't be listening to other people's conversations HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
What the fuck? Am I in the wrong here?

>>25485687
lol wtf

kafkaesque

Please start using this word I came up with: “sadfortunately”. It’s like unfortunately, but extra sadly.

>>25485687
I see they got the brain surgeons on the shift. You were checkmated before you even stepped into the store, sadfortunately. It's a new word I came up with by myself.

>>25485700
Using it for the title of my book of poems, thanks.

>>25485700
>>25485711
It's extremely sadfortunate that literally the same day after I invent a new word (sadfortunate) two different people try to steal the credit for it.

>>25485719
You’re welcome, my dude. I have came up with a lot of original combo words, but you can take that one, I just really want that one in particular to spread.

>>25485722
Imagine your claim to legacy being mashing two words together, how funlarious, and then recoiling and at your obvious reddit heritage makes it even more ridicuoumours.

>>25485724
>>25485740
If you’re not a bot post the state you live in. You won’t because you’re not a real person.

>>25485749
I live in the state of Martburg

>>25485749
New Mexidianopolis, Dumbfuckistan.

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>>25484682
Uglyness is more than just hair. A misshapen skull, sunken eyes, skewed jaw etc, in other words, having an objectively unaesthetic face. There is something unnatural about it, almost like an unintentional affront to the divine.

>>25484684
>The problem you presented will only exist if you offer nothing other than relatability.
That's just it though, is there a way to write with any originality on the topic of uglyness? Every author who's made the attempt in the past have always focused on the moral implications of uglyness. Is there any other angle to enter the subject from?

I see the alphabet people are putting anti-fun antagonists into these threads just to mess with me again.

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>>25485767
>mfw this post

just got my ass kicked at the dollar store

>>25485769
You can’t be who I think you are.

>>25485774
Quick! Capture the feeling. Write a haiku.

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>>25485782
I am whatever you say I am. If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

>>25485796
I didn’t think you would know the lyrics to any Eminem songs off the top of your head desu

>>25485784
it’s already gone

>>25485804
Aw man. Well I hope it wasn't life altering or anything. Just one of those days.

It’s funny bro because I literally said funny + hilarious the other day. There is some real twin spirit shit going on here.

always refreshing seeing someone post here that doesn’t know the tb h -> desu filter.

>>25485816
Some posts are Tbh posts. Others are tb h posts. Others are typing out desu which gets filtered to desu posts. Finally there is actually just typing out desu posts

>>25485824
no one is typing desu

>>25485826
Hi I am no one and this is true I am typing desu.

>>25485826
I have done all four of those things several times.

I also forgot there are tbqh posts. I probably do that more than the other ones. tbqh.

>>25485826
I do sometimes desu

there are people typing out desu on the literature board?

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>>25485847

>>25485850
great.

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>>25484667
Don't forget to have fun and try to be happy anons, despite the World burning.

>>25485826
i type desu, ṭbh

>>25485868
I have a criminal record now!
I have a criminal record now (no jail time at least, “victim” thinks they won even though it’s a criminal case so State v. Me)

>>25485826
I like desune personally

>>25485873
what did you do

>>25485868
This

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I try too hard.
I try too hard!

>>25485774
oh?

>>25485876
What I’m doing here now is what I did except it just happened to be a no-no. So sad and embarrassing but oh well.

>>25484671
What if you are vehemently opposed to the idea of "collectiveness"

>>25485876
He stalked and harassed his therapist for years.

>>25485882
Sucks to be (You), dweeb. We're all one (1) whether you approve or not *sniffs hair*.

I had to look up craqueture to make sure I was using it right but turns out it’s actually craquelure with an “L” and not a “T”.

Would you call stuff along these lines stupidity, ignorance, pseudery, pretentiousness, or just trying too hard?

>>25485884
Oh no, my heart sank

>>25485881
the vagueness makes me think it’s something pretty bad

>>25485811
Twin typeshit. Similar thing happens with cute and funny people just keep coming up with this combination for some reason.

>>25485868
disagree with the conclusion and want to point out he used capital-W world which should be revealing

>>25485884
If that’s the full story why did she oppose diversion because she was mad I blocked her boyfriend?

>>25485906
>multitudes
ugh

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>>25485882
you yourself are a collective, we each contain multitudes of lamp-bearing clowns

Also I am not treating that like any sort of minor victory or gotcha, the whole thing is sad humiliating and pathetic and would have went in a different direction in another life.

>>25485912
myriad multitudinous multiplicities

Eins zwei drei or however it goes it goes it goes

>tfw you read 70-140 pages into a novel and then put it aside for a few months
Question is, when you return to it, do you continue from where you left off or start from the beginning?

>>25485904
So you admit that you stalked and harassed your therapist.

>>25485934
I haven’t finished a book this entire year and only one or two last year. I have a job now anyways.

>>25485921
i just realised i confused woolf’s love letter (myriads, millions) with that whitman poem (i contain multitudes), and unfairly implicitly accused you of VW, but then you replied with myriads so

>>25485938
...then why are you here on /lit/?
>>>/r9k/
>>>/v/
>>>/cm/

>>25485938
>anyways

>>25485937
How does it work though when I made it clear that’s not the full story? Serious question. Also I was borderline psychotic at the start of it all, I don’t see how treating people like characters in a movie with their own roles and not real people isn’t borderline psychotic. But anyways, back to how it wasn’t ever the full story.

>>25485943
I don’t know honestly, my tryhard days are over, now it’s truly time for me to end my life.

>>25485941
thank you for your feedback. going forward i'll endeavour to avoid any words previously used by virginia woolf.

>>25485946
Tell me the full story, then.

Heading to the library to read (and fill out some paperwork). Feel free to say hello! Don't sit with me though.

>>25485955
Prude.

>>25485954
It was all pretty embarrassing but ultimately not completely one-sided. That’s all I’ll say. Really though it all just feels like it happened in my head.

>>25485951
it’s a very (very) well known quote and is used exactly in that context and we are on the literature board but yeah no my bad

He's doing the American Psycho bit.

Heading to the library to read (and fill out some paperwork). Feel free to say hello! Don't sit on my face though.

>>25484667
books
ook
bs

I dont need life advice from a tranny, thanks.

Reset button cool cool warp speed rainbow beam zig zag wow wow

>>25485967
Figured it out

Heading to the library to say hello (and sit). Read to feel free! Don't fill out some paperwork with me though.

twink death should almost count as proof that the world was made by the demiurge on its own
why must cute guys fade?

>>25485960
>I loved a girl and she called the cops on me four times but only because 1) she would lose her job if she started dating me (she was my social worker) and 2) she has a boyfriend. We would definitely be together if it wasn't for those two things. I'm her type and she's mine and we got along very well and it really fucking hurts how we can't be together. I will never be so infatuated with anyone again. Just in case there's a genius here who thinks he knows better for hearing that this type of thing is common in therapy, well I'm smart enough to know when I genuinely like somebody and when we have a lot in common so fuck you, buddy, you don't know what you're talking about.

>I said I was gonna kill myself and they threw me into the mental hospital and then I had to go to these group sessions. Most people just drop that shit apparently but I kept going and of course I just had to end up falling in love with the therapist.

>I really wish I could have just been normal somebody please help me I was dropped on my head or something therapy doesn't help I'm in love with my therapist but that will never go anywhere plus I'm only seeing her for another couple of weeks I'm 26 year old NEET somebody please help me God please help me

>I fell in love with the social worker/therapist again even though I'm a pathetic male in a position involving a social worker/therapist.

> I still have to go into court over the most pathetic paragraph texts ever that I haven’t read again since I sent them 8 months ago…RO violations. Yes I’m stupid and thought they wouldn’t report it. The cops didn’t arrest me the first time though!… I have no priors so it’s just a diversionary program and also the charges will be dropped.


bro…

>>25485968
>he doesn't know pride cometh before the fall
See you next trip.

To me, that was cathartic.

You might go ERMM CHUD, but that's just how my mind processes information

>>25485995
What was cathartic?

Its basically a story about a gothic victorian man and woman in the style of beauty in the beast who have been together a long terrible time and have never loved eachother, and she is screaming at him attacking him with sick deeply-life destroying shit she did to him (like Michael's wife in Godfather II) and he fucking snaps and takes on a still human bestial form and brutality and attempts to kill her, but she's no victim so she takes on an almost panther-like aggression and tries to kill him, and both have them have completely severed whatever the opposite sex could have meant to them and basically take on a two-person animal long tribal war for territory within the house because they're both too tough and smart to be killed by the other. Every sense of the house devolves into animal madness as they do, drapes and doorways tatter to rainforest jungle leaves as southern american predator cats and birds of prey spawn in the rainforest of her hunting ground her domain. Desk frieze and buttress turned to dark crag of the lion's cave lair, he plotting alone paranoid in might form absolutely seething, whole environments compete. The whole mansion is now the host to uncounted and competing intoxicating miasmas, fungus, and molds. No memories of some beautiful wedding, no time we ever loved eachother, no desiring eachother behind closed doors, no crying in arms, no hands in laps, no mother, no children. Father is there, the dark consultant and master to him

Blondebeard always used a hard ‘Arrr’

^^^ (Indirect response to a couple of posts up) ^^^

Just so you know, I’m not reading any of that, because I’ll cringe at it for several different reasons, including but obviously not exclusively due to the fact that I hate the way I write which is why I’ll never be any kind of decent writer.

>>25486015
You should because it's healthy

>>25485687
lol

>>25484667
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Murder and rape are horrific moral violations and serious crimes. Don't murder and don't rape. THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

I am leaving.

>>25486022
Good
>>25486020
Woman detected

One time I posted a lyric that I wrote and everyone shat on it but the problem was it doesn’t make much sense outside of the context of the entire verse and therefore doesn’t sound as cool.

>>25486025
laughing is a womanly thing? what

>>25486026
“Snap back to reality. Oh, there goes gravity” slaps outside of the context of the verse, maybe your thing actually wasn’t that good.

Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus

Hello! Heading to the library, though? To read? To fill out some paperwork, say? Don't! Sit with me and
feel free...

I've got my sleeping cap on
>>25484671
Wonderful

>>25486088
Nice, I've got my nightcap too

Without work? To the library! (To sit reading some free paper, and to fill head.) Don't say hello, though, feel me?

>>25485687
fully on the side of the cashier here
were you on something at the time? this is like how i read public situations when im coming down off cocaine.

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Went on three dates with different women this weekend. Got laid on two. When the catharsis fades I feel nothing. I'm doomed to this shallow existence and will never find love.

>>25486100
that's why i stay gooning, actually have sex is gay

I passed my SCUBA course today. I am now a certified SSI diver.

>>25486104
congrats anon

another day another dollar at my stupid fucking stupid dead end scuba training job guys.

I still think you're not listening

>>25486113
You're literally living a porn game plot. Surrounded by natural beauty and hot babes that look at you as a source of authority at a time when they're vulnerable in the environment. The fact that you're crying right now is INFURIATING. Very good ragebait. Fuck you. Do better.

>>25486121
Ever think that I just dont want a gf? And a ton of people shitposting me regarding that is infuriating?
Sex means nothing to me.
Id rather eat food, I'd rather take a course of investing. Id rather watch TV and read. Id rather walk my dogs. Just about anything is more meaningful than that.

>>25486121
i work with this guy and each morning before we can start training the rubes we have to toss back into the ocean all the waifish amnesiac girls with mysterious atlantean powers who've washed up ashore, and i'm sick of it i tell you

I almost messaged you last night but I forced myself not to do it
Nothing is okay

>>25486128
barf
>course of investing
Just put money into index fund. You can "diversify" by buying a silver or gold coin here or there. God I hate you so much, ironically, but still.
>>25486129
Man... it's just not fair.

>>25486128
holy fucking based

>>25486137
I have an investor who shit me out a poorfag spread that has only ever made money but I want better

>>25485955
>>25485964
>>25485975
>>25486058
>>25486097
what's happening here

>>25486149
There's only one direction options leads to. You gon' learn that sooner or later. Good luck with your pursuit of meaning and so forth. When it happens don't neck. It's just money.

>>25486099
>fully on the side of the cashier here
:( damn
>were you on something at the time?
sleep deprivation, I guess? I can't conceptualize the cashier's reaction other than thinking that they thought they were having a private conversation that I intruded on, but it's weird to me that the cashier would have an expectation of privacy when talking loudly to a customer in a public setting, you know?

guy in the writing general is talking about how his mother kept asking to see his writing so eventually he sent her the splatterpunk ultragore horror story he was working on and now she hasn't spoken to him in months

>>25486155
It's essentially just freedom to me

Eat my shit lol

Ah, you refer to my swarthy strategos, Pocolocolus. He is, you understand, not quite right in the head.

you can have complete freedom or you can have complete justice. you can't have both

a completely free world will be an astonishingly unjust world

a completely just world will be an astonishingly unfree world

you have to either choose between the two OR accept some kind of compromise situation

>>25486193
Why are you encouraging fascism

>>25486208
He can't win on the merits of his policy and for some reason he thinks he has a divine right to rule because muh Evola or something.

>>25486208
believe it or not, I'm a leftist talking to other leftists, who somehow still don't realize this. my vote is the unsexy and boring "some kind of compromise type situation between freedom and justice"

>>25486193
actually i'm evisaging a completely free as well as completely just society right now. and it functions perfectly. all thanks to the institution housed in a large blue dome far out in the forest. for the institution monitors the whole situation. they wear robes and monitor the whole thing. and when anything unjust threatens to befall they arrive borne by a silver floating craft and with holographic diagrams and astonishing perspicuity explain why the just course is the best. and so compelling is their demonstration that every would-be malefactor immediately desists and repents and it doesn't even feel like they were pressured, it feels like they were merely aided in discovering the light of their own inborn reason. and they smoke weed at the institution, when they're not working of course, they have a swimming pool there and big metallic sculptures. really it's very cool, you have to see it with your own eyes.

SHOCK, SHOCK, SHOCK, SHOCK MY DOG I CAN'T STOP

>>25486222
You're asking for moderation. Write it so it doesn't imply more control always creates more justice, that's not a leftist principle at all

>>25486105
Thanks :^)

>>25485687
>at the gas station buying zyns and a white monster
>white monster
Stopped reading right there. Stupid algorithm-brained retard zoomer.

>>25486121
Silly animal.

>>25486153
It's called creativity, anon

>>25486266
Ew a pseud. Stinky.

>finish reading novel
>discover there's several pages of notes at the end explaining the multitude of literary allusions, untranslated Latin, and obscure maritime terms
would have been nice to know! I did go back and look at a few that caught my eye, particularly allusions from other great writers and poems (eg Wordsworth, Shakespeare, TS Eliot).

Anyway, I finished Steinbeck's The Winter of our Discontent. Loved it! Highly recommended to all anons here, particularly Americans. I checked out a Library of America book that contains three DeLillo novels: The Names, White Noise, and Libra. I've tried reading White Noise before and put it down about halfway through. Maybe my opinions will be different now. Any fans of the other two novels, The Names and Libra? They also had Zero K but I decided to go with this earlier selection instead.

How silly is it I've been reading through Proust's Swann's Way at a pace of 20 pages per month, lol. I should just hunker down, or at minimum, like I've been considering, making it my bedtime book, and read like 10 pages each night before I fall asleep.

>>25486277
Skill issue. I read it in three days.

>>25486280
It has nothing to do with skill or whatever. I've just made it my go-to book to read whenever I take the bus to the dentist or doctor, which happens about once a month, lol. I like it because it fits in my jacket pocket. I should read it more seriously though.

>>25486282
If you were really appreciating it you wouldn’t be able to put it down.

Just read up on Nietzsche, I think he's extremely stupid.

>>25486287
I do love it but I also enjoy the other novels I read at the same time.

>>25486193
I have always encouraged some sort of fascism by benevolent leaders

>>25486193
Why choose freedom over justice? In a perfectly just world, you should be free to pursue just things, and you should have no reason to pursue unjust things.

>>25486193
Hence the need to balance the demands of society. To what degree, that is the purpose of politics. And now you understand how the world works.

>>25486310
Ah yes, perfect. We're good at that.

Once again I find myself contemplating becoming an alcoholic. Problem is I don't live alone and am a homebody so I would get caught immediately.

I used to go to this bar
back when I didn’t have a car
'Cause it was close to my apartment
so that was just as far as I went
There’s nothing special about the place, nothing too hard to recreate
Just pour some old beer on the carpet
and make it close to my apartment

Honor killings.

>>25486193
What if I don’t have to compromise at all?

>>25486232
you misunderstand me, I'm not concerned with hewing to leftist principles -- I'm saying that if you want a world that is always just in every instance, the only way to do that is to severely restrict what can and cannot be done and keep everyone in line with the constant threat of overwhelming brutal violence
>write it so it doesn't imply more control always creates more justice
this is not implied by what I said

He's basically trying to communicate he's retarded.

>>25486363
Who?

>>25486342
what if the world is already completely just but ur values are unjust so u don't see it?

until scientists figure out a way to allow all 8 billion people to live in malibu, there can't be a just world. somebody has to live in detriot, and it won't be me.

>>25486375
The dumb fuck champagne socialist commie.

Your ideas are stupid, your conditions are unacceptable, I fundamentally find you repulsive. I will not partake in your dinner. I will not compromise.

You don’t tell me how to process information, or what is morally acceptable or permissible, or how I should feel about things.

And when push ever came to shove, I would opt to simply kill you if the option were feasible. If you had a hostage, I would simply shoot through them. Good day, sir.

>he reddit spaced that cringe shit

>>25486390
meds. now.

>>25486390
>tryna sound hardcore while reddit spacing
heh

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>humans use the same economic currency as wild animals

>>25486405
>>25486405
>>25486405

I think that it's over.