>>25611067
Haven't been on here a while. It's been almost 10 years since I used to post here religiously. For some reason I went to warosu tonight and I read the Irishman's poems and I'm crying and I don't know why. If any of the old Anons are still around, I miss you guys.

>>25607717
any news?

>>25611090
Been on 4chan since 2008, been coming to /lit/ since its inception. I still love this place.

>>25611090
butterfly gone

Once again, /lit/ is a classical board,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHXxWfSAxik

>>25611112
Favorite composers?

Mine are:

1. Bach
2. Mendelssohn
3.Vivaldi
4. Dvorak
5. Vaughan-Williams

>>25611118
Vaughn Williams? I would not have expected that considering your other choices. Nice. And for me, it's
Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Bruckner, and the fifth varies on the day you ask. Dvorak, Chopin, Bach, Scriabin. Hard to say. Anyway, no surprising choices. The best stuff rises to the top in classical.

AAAHH I'M GONNA-
I'M GONNA GHHH-
I'N GONNA GHHHHHOOOOOOOOOST
I'M GHOOOSTINGGGGG

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Either I forgot how to read cursive, or 19th century cursive is some next level shit. I'm not a zoomer and I'm white.
It rea__ like so__on_ __ucking _ando_ _etter_ from the _entenc__.

What makes foot odor unique?

Culture at its deepest level ceases to be something you venerate, it’s just the language you use to think. People who say (for example) ‘/lit/ is a classical board’ will never really be ‘refined’. They can be assumed on the spot to be barred from anything you might dignify with the name of culture. Real depth, real cultural literacy, tends to come with a shift in disposition, not just in taste.

Picasso said
>I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who 'appreciate' beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never 'appreciate,' any more than I 'like.’

>>25611126
are you american?

>>25611123
Vaughan-Williams is just beautiful. I love his simultaneously looking-foward and looking-back. So many of his pieces are sublime.

I'm also something of an Anglophile and the way his music captures the English countryside is wonderful.

Here, if you've never listened to it: his oboe concerto. A real favorite of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0TaRKQPbE

>>25611134
Yes.

Thanks for the link chatgpt

>>25611135
I love RVW too but I've never actually listened to that concerto before. Thanks, listening now.

>>25611137
yeah i heard a lot of americans can’t even read cursive.

>>25611140
I can read 20th and 21st century cursive but 19th century cursive is absurd.
I know at least one Dutchman who refused to try reading 19th century Dutch cursive, too, so it's not just an American thing.

>>25611141
post a pic?

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We're headed for a shitty cyberpunk dystopia but instead of having sickk chromed out implants and neon lights it'll be Corporate Memphis and vibecoded React slop everywhere. We'll get all the downsides and not even get any of the very small list of potential upsides. We'll eat the bugs and live in pods and corporations will become more powerful than nations and we'll also be up to our eyeballs in the gayest and lamest versions of everything imaginable.

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>>25611145
>Richmond
>Sept L(?) 11
>Griffin, GA
>__ L O Walke
>Sec[re]t[a]ry of War
>_o_er ___ more encampment __ Rome(?) GA where I get my pieces(?) _ __ drilling __ ____ in(?) to service _ _e_is _o _ea_ home it ha_ to keep(?) me in camp(?)

>>25611150
move* encampment
being so near to home. it’s hard to keep men in camp

You know you don't have a great reputation when you leave a community and one of your closest friends asks you,
>How come you never scammed me?

>>25611153
Yeah I figured out more was meant to be move after posting, but namely due to context rather than how it's written.
>being so near to home. it’s hard to keep men in camp
Thank you, but you gotta admit the "s" in "so" looks nothing like either a cursive or normal "s," and the "r," "s" and "n" in "near," "its" and "men" practically aren't written.

hell is warm

>>25611162
>Hell is truth seen too late.
---- Thomas Hobbes

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>>25611159
if it was an r rather than a v it most likely would’ve looked like this.
and thats always been the case with handwriting. the reason you’re struggling more with 19th c stuff might be the terms are more uncommon to you. took me a second to realise that m word was ‘mustered’

I have a date-ish with a 19yo girl today. Cinema. I'm over 30. I'm feeling on the fence if I should make a move or something because I don't want to give a creep vibe yet i have no idea whay she feels about me or if she actually sees me as only a friend, the physical contact with her is quite misgiving, i have no idea what it means, she randomly touches me and my legs/arms. We've been sort of friends for quite a while now, not some tinder whore. Advice?

>>25611118
Bach bach bach. Then lately rautavaara, roslavets, sorabji, messiaen (just a bit)palestrina and rameau

>>25611174
She was a toddler when you were a teenager. There is no way for you to not give creep vibes.

>>25611168
Right I forgot r's go like that in cursive. It's been years.

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>>25611179
i think they don’t even teach it in american schools now. bit of a shame. all this stuff just becomes gradually unreadable to more and more people and at some point it’s effectively lost even though it’s technically still there.

>>25611178
Fair, I have no shame anyways. Should I be touchy and test the grounds then?

>>25611221
Why should I though?

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>>25611174
Wait a few years more

High verbal IQ is weird because I can always figure out math and physics concepts when I try but they just cloak everything in a literal mountain of jargon to make it look harder than it is.

>>25611174
>check out some chick's ass while hanging out
>errr bro that could be your daughter man, bro you can't heckin' go out with literal babies she's like 18 bro you gotta deal with 30 and older exclusively man bro that's like no bro can't do that pedo shit I mean y'know bro
Should I fucking gouge my own fucking eyes out if I can't even look at teen ass anymore. Holy fucking shit that was fucking infuriating. What the fuck next, I shouldn't fucking drink water?

>>25611067
Ough ow ow my neck hurts.

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>>25611174
You're based as fuck. Treat her well, try to make her your wife so you can have kids. I'm jealous.

>>25611237
Why?

>>25611248
I know, all the socio-moral shit surrounding age makes no sense.

>>25611268
Kek, I don't like her THAT much and I just got out of a situationship with a 23yo so I know how immature and selfish young girls can be. To think about marriage is taking it too far. I'm not going to lie though, I would fuck this girl given the chance.

>>25611275
>Why?
Because it would be a non-problem if she were an adult who is capable to think for herself at least on paper. Using people for sex is not very punk rock of you, and that’s pretty much all she can offer to you at this point.

>>25611284
Many philosophically poor arguments.
>Using people for sex is not very punk rock of you
Everyone does that and anyways she would also be getting sex from me, something she might appreciate, it's an equal exchange
>that’s pretty much all she can offer to you at this point
A young girl has only pussy to offer? I'm misogynist as well but I have more faith in women, I still haven't gotten to the point where I just see them as cocksleeves. Be better bro
>if she were an adult
>19 is not adult
Fuck off nigger

seems unfair that the dodo had to die but these but age gap LARPer posts live in rude health.

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>>25611290
>Everyone does that and anyways she would also be getting sex from me, something she might appreciate, it's an equal exchange
Omg, I remember you! :D What’s up, man? Also, if that’s their same 19 yo that you were contemplating about weeks ago, you probably feel yourself that it’s not a good call.

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>>25611275
>Kek, I don't like her THAT much and I just got out of a situationship with a 23yo so I know how immature and selfish young girls can be. To think about marriage is taking it too far. I'm not going to lie though, I would fuck this girl given the chance.

You're only getting older, Anon. Do you want sons? Or daughters? You have to give a mind to that, now more than ever.

do you guys like books?

>>25611310
They are good for me like broccoli

>>25611299
You probably got the wrong person friend. It's been a while since I've fucked 19yos

>>25611308
I do think about it but finding someone I actually would want to have children with is almost impossible. I have too many horror stories around me of failed marriages and fucked up households to make me wary of settling down

>>25611295
Kek

do you guys enjoy cocks?

>>25611340
like broccoli

>>25611323
>I do think about it but finding someone I actually would want to have children with is almost impossible. I have too many horror stories around me of failed marriages and fucked up households to make me wary of settling down

You have landed a 19-year-old. A woman who is in prime position to bear you a lot of kids.

I PROMISE you that a good, healthy marriage is possible. Marriage, children, a happy life, it's still possible. Most of us are struggling to even get to where you are, with a girl who's interested in us.

You're 60% of the way there, you've got to at least think about it.

My man, children are awesome. Babies are cool. Sons and daughters are cool. Everyone should have children. I think you'd make a better father than you expect. You've got to at least think about it, if you've managed to land a woman in prime child-bearing age. I'd say do more than just think.

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I'm hyper-autistic about breaking anonymity on 4chan. I'm an autist, so of course I am, but this is the code of the site. Part of me thinks I would die if I used my real name on here. This is just 4chan etiquette; this is how we behave. I got challenged in another thread about self-promoting as a writer, what I struggled to articulate is that you just don't go non-Anon on 4chan. It simply isn't done.

I have a deep affection for this website and so I guess that has made me into a stickler for abiding by its rules, both spoken and unspoken.

>>25611349
my name’s tom

>>25611344
I haven't even fucked this girl bro. I'll keep you updated though, I kind of understand your sentiment. I do want some 3 daughters

>>25611369
I know you haven't fucked her, or even met her, but THINK about it.

Go into this with some considerations, you know? Not a plan, but concepts of a plan. Have a thought or two in mind for what might be, in the future.

You don't have to act on it or even live it out, but think about it.

I wonder if it’s a good or bad thing when you play out your girl fantasy larp on /lit/ and the schizos here get too invested lol

Local language models running on an RTX 3060 are capable of writing in any format or style at 90th percentile or higher, and with little chance of detection. Verisimilitude of long-form text is improving extremely rapidly. I envision that a majority of new federal and corporate policy is already developed by microsoft copilot and adjacent local server solutions.There really is no solution to this in academia, art, law and governance aside from a "butlerian jihad" a la Dune.

>>25611376
i was a on zoom meeting with people from hr and payroll about some new policy and the chick is sharing her screen and she shared the wrong window and it went to her copilot app showing all the emails she used it to write lmao

>>25611369
>>25611373
dude hasn't even met this chick yet and he's planning their marriage and how many kids they're gonna have. NOT going to make it, sorry.

>>25611067
Is there anything more insufferable than an aging millennial woman who's become so bitter and enraged, percieving it as a kind of rightous rage against society when in actuality its just vulgar spite, because she blames society for her own poor decisions?
Say what you will about women and feminsts as a whole, but I don't mind them myself, but this particular breed of them really gets my goat.

>>25611349
>>25611361
Yeah, I'm Brad. I share lots of things all the time. It's like Lord of the Rings; as long as the eye if sauron isnt looking at you, it doesnt really matter.

>>25611421
>Is there anything more insufferable-
niggers and jews

>>25611349
I love joining new board or creating a new account. This is my chance to larp as though I was cooler, smarter, more interesting than I am. Idk either people memorize me, or more likely I grow more comfortable enough to share some personal shit, but with time I start hating my little character as much as I hate myself irl.

>>25611421
As a bitter aging millennial woman, what advice can you give (besides GTFO, of course)?

>>25611067
Imagine writing a book and your readerbase is milllennial women who reviewbomb the goodreads page, forever pushing you into the wells of irrelavancy because you themes you cover gave them the "ick." This is a real possibility I don't think /lit/ considers.

>>25611427
See, I hate that shit. I'm a complicated guy of many talents and abilities. Going through the whole process is so daunting. I dont want to have to be investigated and scrutinized. I dont mind it in person, I'm pretty charming, but online has this like ersatz gatekeeping, and a certain type of person veiws me as their ultimate enemy. I'm just chillin', I like to write and I like to read, but at the end of the day I have no interest kowtowing to some existing order. Not only that, in the creative writing space someone like me is some sort of abberation. It's rare to find mildly talented people without a giant paper trail behind them, and those with large paper trails seek to destroy me.

At the end of the day, I like what I have here: low commitment, high upside, minimal flak, continuity only if I wish for it. We're no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I.

>>25611349
There's nothing autistic about taking precautions not to doxx yourself on a platform that is constantly raided by bad actors. Not just 4chan, the internet and the world in general are full of evil psychopaths who can't wait to use anything you give them against you, even if it's just to take someone else down a notch or simply to enjoy someone squirm. It isn't for fun that people are becoming more and more isolated when one misstep can fucking haunt you for the rest of your life and probably future generations forever. People in the best era on the internet were way more careful with their identity than they are today where every dumb ass nigger is online and the threat level has skyrocketed. It takes ONE autistic faggot who decides one day that he doesn't like you to get a hate following and death threats.

>>25611429
Stop being online, stop being taken away by the world's bigger problems and become balanced within yourself and your community.
I posted my post because on my local town social media page a shopkeeper posted CCTV of a man, possibily swarthy although it was too dark to tell, smashing up his shopfront. The top comment was a bitter millennial woman dismissing the concerns of the lowering community cohesion, and random acts of vandalism, because of muh society. As if it's okay for people to go around acting in such ways because the overall system doesn't care, even though that doesn't defend the act. A lot of people are dispossessed, doesn't mean they go around acting in violent and aggressive manners.
Upon clicking on her profile her top post was: "I apologise to my children for who their father is," and after that an extremely misandrist post blaming men for everything -- when one could infer her misandrist views are borne from her choice in men. It's just genuinely schizo behaviour, and not the mindset of a mentally sane person. I'm no saint, and have got carried away with bitterness in my life, but I always try to recitify that behaviour in those instances, not make it a way of life.
I dunno why I care so much, but I just hate this condescending attitude that I've noticed in that particular demographic.

>>25611429
don’t come to 4chan for advice.

>>25611429
Post those ripe hikki titties, fujo-sama

>>25611437
Nah man. Nobody gives a fuck. Even the autismos dont give a fuck. Especially somewhere like here it takes a great deal of intent to piss one of them off enough to be mad for more than a week. Low volume spaces? Different story.

To be doxxed one must have identity, documents, and piss off someone with enough stake in the game to either muster a following, or the resources of a professional. True people search (in america) has basically everyone on it. What can be done with that information? Not much that doesnt involve an easy way to destroy yourself. Watch those forensic shows; you can find basically anyone based on their search history. Sure they could do something incredible, but they're also getting caught promptly. The worst thing is usually just people being annoying.

>>25611442
Unironically considered that during my tits cancer scare episode

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Ah, to be posh and slender

>>25611456
It's never too late to consider that again!

>>25611460
you don’t call royalty ‘posh’.

>>25611446
>>25611438
But to add, online identity security is fairly easy, even here. The .exif data is scrubbed when you post a picture. Review whatever you're posting to make sure there is nothing identifiable. Think reflections of important things, mail sitting near by, or identifiable things like tattoos or unique parts of wherever you are. And if posting, use a pseudonym with the knowledge it can always be indexed in the archive, so only use it for topics you want to share. No drunken attentionwhoring. Finally, dont put anything online you wouldnt want on the front page of the newspaper, or more specifically, you wouldnt want to be associated with you and your family. But if you must, make sure you try your best to anonymize yourself with the previous precations.

>>25611463
that's why i type all retarded to stymie stylometric analysis lol

>>25611174
Best of luck! And go for the kiss.

>>25611174
If she touches you in the cinema reciprocate it, like hold her hand or something. Just don't come on too strong. If she gives you physical contact it is likely she finds you attractive and/or open to futher physical developments. You seem to be in a pretty good position so far.

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>>25611067
Explain to me like i am a retard, why is this World so much into humiliation ? You observe the strong mistreating the weak beginning in elementary school, a pattern that repeats throughout high school and university, continues into work environments and intensifies significantly online. Corporations routinely diminish their customers through price increases paired with declining product quality, while governments similarly undermine their citizens by extracting taxes and subsequently misallocating funds toward psychological operations, endless conflicts, corrupt practices. Nothing new under the sun and it has been like this for thousands of years, but it remains a persistent concern.
You see someone who was fucked by life and think
>let's make his/her life worse just for fun and giggle
and i am not talking about making once in a while.

>>25611479
Do people not realize they are allowed to do things after work and on weekends?

There is this place called the library. It is full of book and you can take them for free. Do with this information as you will.

>>25611479
>>25611480
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!

>>25611483
shhhh, I don't need more ugly, loser creeps scaring away all the qt women at the library

>>25611489
i guess one is enough

>>25611490
zing!

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Ah, to be hella posh and slender

>>25611494
Step 1: Kill self
Step 2: Hope to win the reincarnation lottery and come back as someone like that
Step 2a: If Step 2 fails, see Step 1

>>25611494
u'd have so many horny dudes tryna dick u down

>>25611479
The weak mistreat the strong far more than the opposite, particularly now.

A large man capable of violence is restrained by order, logic, honor, and custom. A weak man incapable of violence is constrained by none of that, and use that to their advantage to simulate violence. Our issues at the moment are that honor is seen as inefficient. Honorable to me, but not for thee. The large man must adhere because elsewise Hobbes murders him in his sleep. The weak man has no fear other than the fear of the direct, and when everything is buffered, the weak fester without unheaval.

Anyways, in ooga booga for you, small sneak man bad, big punch man different bad. Rules made for big punch man, not small sneak man. Big punch man punch other big punch man to save small man. Small sneak man no punch nobody, no save nobody.

Posted in bed with a casted leg. A month ago I had a woman who I would have sex with and cuddle, but she got bored of me pretty soon after going into hospital. Now I have no women. I have no social media so I can't message any women. What am I meant to do?

>>25611506
Lets be honest, there is no economic justification for civilization. Simply too inefficient and uneconomic.

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Is it bad to kill yourself when you have a daughter?

>>25611510
Let's be honest, our modern conception of economics is a trickle down ephemeral usury stack made possible through the occult and divination, absolutely absent of all reason, and boistered by those who lack the breadth of knowledge to say as much, which is most.

>>25611513
You gotta at least get them through college. Then you can do what you want.

A Waterstones opened up in my town and there are no fit birds working. How will I intitiate my own personal romcom narrative by falling in love with a qt bookshop worker now?

>>25611523
bro a whole foods is opening in my neighborhood before i had to walk downtown

>>25611523
Give it time. They will come.

>>25611508
>but she got bored of me pretty soon after going into hospital.
yea

You can read, write, find something interesting to learn about on your smartphone or listen to some music

man they uploaded one of those old 2manydjs mixes by soulwax from 8/30/04 really takes me back to my undergrad days reminds me of a random fall semester when the leaves are down and it's cold peak bush era iphones aren't out yet

>>25611508
>>25611530
But i just listed what you can do, not what youre meant to do. I dont know what youre meant to do, only you can know that, and/or God or whatever

>>25611534
to apple music i mean

>>25611523
waterstones is a chain high street bookshop brutha that’s not where bookish romcoms play out it’s where grandmas buy bad xmas gifts and staplers

>>25611530
Tbf I've been writing a fair amount and gotten back into journalling, but as a whole I feel far too lethargic to do any real reading. Although I've hardly much reading this year. Once I can walk again and begin exercising I think my brain fog will be lifted.

>>25611539
Stop being a downer. Plenty of qts at Barnes and Nobles.

>>25611539
fuck is a high street bookshop bro i thought the uk banned 4chan cuz it had too much free speech are u on a vpn or what

>>25611534
god damn this dudes old

>>25611543
In their defense, Waterstones is a UK thing.

>>25611544
man college sucked ass but u still get nostalgic for it anyway that's the thing about nostalgia

>>25611539
I live in a South-London urbanised shithole suburb. The nearest "real" bookshop that isn't staffed solely by the ancient proprietor would be all the way in central London.

>>25611506
When big punch man old, no big punch, or not much big punch. Need many big punch friend, no one like no punch big sneak man. When small sneak man old, small sneak man still small, still sneak. No need to change.

>>25611540
Exercise is always a necessity for me, for that reason. Its hard to have an active mind when the body is lazy.

That time I got high on heroin and meth and chanted "bix nood" to myself for a few hours and laughing each time.

>>25611562
can u fuckers talk normal i'm sick of trying to decipher ur point

>>25611563
that might be a false dichotomy. remember flaubert’s advice was to be correct and bourgeois in your life so that you can be violent and original in your works.

>>25611573
flaubert goes hard af that reminds me i gotta order a copy of flaubert in egypt i lost my copy of boucard and picochet i think it's at my mom's maybe not sure tho

remember in the 2000s when all the cool bands had those twangy guitars they should bring those back

>>25611581
Blame the public and what they like. Plenty of rock bands still making music. Interpol just released a new album, for example.

>>25611573
I will admit to having never read Flaubert, but there ay be something in what he says. I am more /fit/ than /lit/, but I have found something similar. I tend to act correct and bourgeois, so I can be violent in my training lol. Maybe my exercise is my art.

Just got this idea to test a person by telling them I just murdered someone and I have the body in my fridge until I find the opportunity to bury it, and wait and see if the cops show up. If not, I know I can trust that person.

>>25611583
if i go to the "rock" section of apple music the top "new release" is fontaines d.c. i just put their new hit single from their new album on it has a bunch of a synthesizers and drums covered in digital reverb, it's so over for guitars

>>25611589
Fair point. But I guess the counter to that would be all the older classic albums didn't start existing, and when you make and release a new album, you're still competing with them, so you have to do something new and different.

damn my medication is hitting nice this morning. wish i could share this feeling with you anons

>>25611593
does it feel like a peak goon sesh? yesterday i was on the edge of busting for hours lmao

no couth, some people.

>>25611567
It was pretty clear in the original post.

A society founded on physical prowess has built in safety features bred into their stalwarts for millenia, even through the natural process of age. A society that finds deception or negotiation virtuous has no virtue because the champions can remain powerful forever, and have no reason to give anything good back to anyone else. Even the most fearsome barbarian needs a wife and to raise his children, so he needs someone else to protect them when absent. A fearsome spy is always lying and cannot protect anyone other than themselves because their virtue is founded in deception, and deception answers every problem without compromise. So, as the internet has neutered physical prowess, we see the world we have today, faggot.

"I like the cut of your jib" will forever be the one compliment that always gets me feeling good.

>>25611599
i'm hella couth irl but on here ur supposed to let it all hang out

>>25611605
tf wants to hear that? i was about to eat

>>25611581
guitar music is soooo overdone and boring

Fug, how is it 7:14am and still completely dark outside

>>25611625
i hated guitar music in the 90s when it was everywhere but now it's not so annoying cuz u it's not every single song u hear in life

>>25611629
if it's something like sonic youth or my bloody valentine that use alternative string tunings and different effect pedals, then I can get by with that type of sound, otherwise it's just so repetitive and lame

I feel a useless wretch travelling through this world alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB7E1D_3Na4

I jokingly said to a (trans) friend of mine that I'm currently a volcel, and they said I shouldn't use that word because it has political connotations, particularly with misogynistic reactionaries.

oh shit princeton u press sale just popped off 70% off "selected books"

interpol mbv & spiritualized all got a mention in this thread so far. what’s going on with the /mu/core takeover of the wyt

I wonder what percentage of men would if they were in a position of authority abuse their power for sexual ends, like dangling job opportunities. I wonder if I would do it. You gotta wonder if you would do it. I mean of course we all say no but you never really know until you are actually in the seat. Me, I don't think I'd do it primarily because of the risk of broaching the offer and causing trauma, which is to say, if the girl initiated it, and seemed cool with it, I think I'd give in.

>>25611652
Once again, /lit/ is a classical board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n6p4zF8KMU

>>25611658
>>25611131

>>25611655
that's not how it actually works. it's when ur in a position of power, women try to seduce u thinking it will result in job opportunities etc. as soon as u get a crumb of power women start to act like ur the most interesting person they ever met, same with money, but money can be concealed more easily.

>>25611649
ok i browsed the whole shit the only thing u dudes might dig is new edition of strabo geography for $20

>>25611658
trying way too hard

>>25611667
Yes, that's how it works most of the time, with the sexual interactions being consensual, but don't act like the Harvey Weinsteins and Terry Richardsons don't exist too, with the person in the position of authority broaching or even demanding sex or risk professional or academic consequences to an unwilling, uncomfortable woman.

>>25611673
Where do you think we are? /lit/ is all about reaching for the best culture and the arts have to offer. The best books, the best poetry, the best philosophy, the best politics, the best history, often the best films, so why not the best music?

>>25611675
still trying waaaaay too hard bro

>>25611675
that is such a stupid thing to say.

>>25611652
dude, these bands are all pretty popular even outside of 4chan, it's not like they are some super obscure underground artists lol

>>25611677
>>25611678
Did you try listening to the piece? It's very good and accessible!

>>25611683
violin sucks ass, i only listen to solo piano

>>25611688
Ah, fair enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRJti9HP60

>>25611588
They could’ve been just lazy

>>25611682
what? /mu/core isn’t obscure that’s not what i meant

>>25611369
>>25611398
Just because I'm a man of my word: the date went OK, nothing extraordinary happened, a lot of physical contact but no kissing or anything. Movie dates kind of suck as dates though. And holy shit modern popular movies are some cringe shit, I'm glad I can download obscure movies and watch whatever I want on the internet. I wouldn't want to live in a period where the cinemas decide what I can watch.

Well, happy it happened but I'm still in the same level of confusion as before. Don't think I'm going to be having daughters with her any time soon

>>25611683
the point of good writing and art is it’s meant to change you, not just change what you listen to. the /lit/ is a classical board mindset is embarrassingly off the mark.
>Did you try listening to the piece
yeah in the cradle

>>25611702
Here is some dating advice. Take her to a standup comedy show. Its a bit different and informal, lots of laughs without the pressure of being the entertainer, a bit of booze, and usually more fun than a movie because you are more free to talk.

>>25611706
...so the first step is to engage with the art.

>>25611698
Whenever someone brings up music he always says something like “this isn’t obscure u know” as if you’re making out it was. He has a thing about it

>>25611682
He meant those specific 3 are off the /mu/core chart you used to see all the time like ten years ago.

>>25611707
Yeah cinemas suck for that reason, we couldn't talk at all, just sitting there for almost 3 hours side by side eating an obscene amount of popcorn. We both don't drink that much but something like that might be a good idea. We'll see, I will post here if anything happens in the future

>>25611712
on the right terms. the autistic system-building kills any real feeling for art. i’m not against classical music i’m against thou

>>25611718
:O

>>25611723
lit is a non-emoji board where do you think you are

>>25611727
oh shi--

>>25611067
Twink hole

i hate when mfs say "i'm not understanding" rather than "i don't understand" is this a regionalism or what?

/lit/ is a classical board
https://youtu.be/9vD-nHnzPwE

shakespeare is very probably humanity’s greatest man.

once again, /lit/ is a classical board, period !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aDYIvKLBT8&pp=ygUSdGhlIGZhbGwgY2xhc3NpY2Fs

>>25611814
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25441177#p25443590

oh shit hercules and love affair live rn on lot radio doing a mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPGRTmADlL4

one for the methadone-addled, surface-level heads
https://youtu.be/wn8bDunYGcY

>>25611067
I wake up feeling bold and willing to roll with life's punches then shrink back down to a pathetic little boy who's terrified of clicking apply on a job listing because he thinks he'll terribly suck at it anyway by 1 pm. I haven't been able to get over my bullshit for years and years now. I'm thinking this woe is me routine is embedded into my soul or something.

>>25611284
If she was 40 that would also be about all she could offer.

i still love england

>>25611655
When you're in a position of actual power women try to skip the line by fucking you. When you hear clips of a TV reality show guy talking about how he can host grab women's pussies that's not someone who is describing actual power.

>>25611962
>When you hear clips of a TV reality show guy talking about how he can host grab women's pussies
that was actually the current president of the united states of america

>>25611707
Good dates are not ones where you can't talk and they aren't single location affairs. Take her to a coffee place, leave the coffee place and oh gee here's this dessert shop, have a dessert, leave it and say "oh huh I wonder where this path goes" that's behind the shop that you know goes down to a park, towards the end of that you "realize" there's a show later tonight you wanted to see but probably you should get dinner first.

There's a part of her mind that reads this as her having been on six dates with you instead of one. It feels more interesting. It's rarer than the mercenary "choose place go to place go home" thing that's she's usually given.

Can't always pull that off, especially if you live in some shitty little town, but that's what a good date is.

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>>25611954
Why though?

>>25611969
that’s actually gay. that’s like what a girl thinks a good date looks like. the actual best dates are somewhere you can sit next to (not across from) her, and then you just tap her on the shoulder and make fun of other people at the bar.

I haven’t been on date for decades. I remember going out in my teens, but it was only in my thirties when it dawned on me that it was actually a date. Coincidentally, one of these outings was the time when I peed myself in public. Good thing I don’t go on dates anymore I guess!

Women, women, women on my mind. I need to get laid.

>>25611978
it’s in my bones

>>25611980
So what you do with your male friends is a good date? Instead of the things you do with women?

Looks like someone is confused about what gay means.

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>>25612000
Okay, to put it differently, why not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland? :)

>>25612003
almost. literally just find the most liberal looking guy in the room, nudge the girl and whisper, ‘that guy looks like a pedophile’. so much of getting girls is helped along by letting intrusive thoughts fly.

>Looks like someone is confused
boxing happens between two guys, is boxing gay?

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I don't really have any goals in life. Just try and not get addicted to alcohol/drugs or get fat. That's really about it and I guess also avoid taking any responsibility as much as I can. I don't know why I'm like this.

>>25612030
surely you’re joking

>>25612032
Manny Pacqiao: not gay to box
Alexis Arquello: not gay
Adrian Broner: very gay to box
Mayweather: gay, obviously
Golovkin: not gay
Roy Jones Jr: Bi

>>25612054
co-sign. not sure about AB.

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Asking once again if poisoned cat anon is here, and how his cat is doing. I'm going to assume the worst, if there's no reply again.

>>25611131
I don’t appreciate your friezes Picasso

>>25612059
I was gonna tell him to keep his goddamn cat inside but decided against being mean, which was the only time I did that yesterday.

Guy who wants to tax the rich but just for the deficit spending, wants a small and efficient government and the workers pay for their own social programs

>>25612030
Are you aware of the shared history England has with those nations? It’s not pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0czUMRMU8

angel please DON’T GooOOOO OHHH ooh ooohooohoooo I’ll MISS you WhEn you’re gooOOONE They say say say say

Angel Please Don’t GOOO Ohh

OOHoo ooh OOH ooh OOH ooh OOH ooh OOH ooh OOH ooh OOH ooh OOH ooh

I miss you when you’re goooone
They say say say
Angel please don’t goooo
Oohoo oohoo
I miss you when you’re goooone
They say say say
Angel please don’t goooo
Oohoo oohoo
I miss you when you’re goooone
They say say say
ANGel please don’t goooo
Oohoo oohoo
I miss you when you’re goooone
They say say say say
Angel please don’t goooo
I miss you when you’re goooone
They say say say
ANG

Blegh

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>>25612206
I don’t know details. I only got curious because I like England and UK too, albeit I’m not very m well versed in cultural differences between all four.

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They low key feel like kind of frenemies who’s feud merely keeps them company, at least the creature.

>>25612287
idk if i'm turning retarded but that was a bitch to read and i did not enjoy it

>>25612292
nevermind i read it it again and now it's lucid taken out of context the first line fucked me up

>>25612292
The chapter with Elizabeth’s murder was actually really good: suspense, action, victorian gothic vibes, all is there. But the rest is kinda meh, and doesn’t really feel like spooky Halloween read really.

>>25612249
All 3 of them fucking hate England. Few centuries of war and oppression there.

>>25612304
i would read it for halloweed but i don't have prime and if i order it now it will get here like november 2nd or some shit

>>25611878
Kek

>>25612316
Ffs
> Mary Shelley Frankenstein pdf
>https://archive.org/details/frankensteinormo0000shel_w2m7

I've been following a lot of fashion girls on tiktok. Would it be bad to ask if any of them would have sex with me for money?

>>25612323
>Limited Preview
awesome

>>25612316
so get prime

>>25612240
bro did u see george clanton just dropped a new mix for boiler room the other day lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj0lULol6Ac

>>25612338
they better post that shit to apple music

to sit in the air conditioning and eat a whole cream sponge on my day off

>>25612347
I just ate a sausage and some boiled eggs with spicy ketchup. Would love to go to sleep, but my hair is wet.

>>25612338
holy shit that mix of madonna ray of light with grandmaster the flash the message beat is super sick

>>25612338
lol the back of his shirt says "that wasn't a microdose" holy based

millennials amirite

an angel will cut off my head with his sword

>>25611067
I hate to admit it, because it shouldn't be that serious, because it was only for a few days, but I can't believe how upset I am over this. And I'm too stressed, dont have the time to unpack why it bothered me this much. I'm writing this with a drop in my stomach, and a lump in my throat. All I wanted was for someone to prove through a very insignificant, almost meaningless act that they care about me. That for once, I'm not the only one who has feelings or has the stronger feelings. You refused to do that very small gesture. Then, on top of that, you insulted me. If I had a smidge of respect for myself, I would have forgotten all about you the next day. But I didn't. In my mind, if you could see the misunderstanding, if you could see my point of view... You'll see that I'm not this heartless bitch that you made me out to be. That you're not a bad person, just someone who has a bad temper and a good heart. But how do I reconcile this "good heart" of yours with you never walking back the insults even though I didn't say shit to you.
And worse, I admit I fell for your persona. For some reason I do believe strongly that you are a warm person, even though with a little sober analysis, I can only find evidence to the contrary. That you're a self absorbed person who talks *at* the other party in front of him. That you're not interested in the other person, they're only an audience for you to show off. And when the audience praises the performance, it gets boring, and that's why imo you say you don't like your friends. Not because they're bad people, but if they're critical, then they're these evil turds, and if they're too approving then they have no personality, obviously dumb, your complexity evades them...

By all means, I shouldn't look back twice. But I'm lonely. So lonely that I wished so hard you were the warm person you described and I wanted your love. I even don't think if we were to ever talk again that we'll patch things up, that there will always be a rift, that it's useless, and yet I crave, miss.. the person you claimed to be, whom you very likely are not. I miss the hope, chance... that I might be finally loved by someone warm, effectionate... I miss that fantasy.

>>25612153
>and the workers pay for their own social programs
Kinda defeats the point, no?

best of 2026

best planet: earth.

best canyon: grand canyon.

best hawaiian dance: the hula.

best vampire: dracula.

best god: god.

>>25612395
>Anon likes this post

>>25612380
lol are u one of those chicks who glucks on random cocks and then wonder why the dude ghosts even tho u swallowed?

>>25612407
Shouldn't that make you sad? Someone who so desperately wants love, they'll debase themselves, only to be discarded? That an act of intimacy disgusts they other person, but torturing another person, playing hide and seek with them will make them want you?

Anyway, no. There was no sex involved. But it's sad you think love is something a person who toys with your emotions get rewarded with, but someone who's eager to please you isn't. And shouldn't incels understand this or sth?

>>25611140
Maybe now, but that used to not be the case.

>>25611178
"People" like you i want to stab to death

>>25611438
Why do you think I go for younger women?

>>25612380
I can relate. Something similar happened to me, and I often feel like I miss him a lot. Perhaps what I really miss is the feeling of believing that someone could actually see me for who I am, care about me, and want to be with me. It’s so hard to accept that the warm, caring, supportive person you saw in the beginning may never have been actually real.

>>25612380
Sorry to hear that, anon.

>>25612380
time to buy a jetski

>>25612442
https://youtu.be/XhE8PnR1UNE

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>>25612428
yeah obviously

>>25612439
Hah gay!

>>25612380
I could be that person, I’m that narcissistic

>>25612456
I’m not gay, although even if I were I’m not sure why that would be funny to you.

>>25612461
Do you ever feel shameful about it?

>>25612465
Not really, sorry

>>25612465
What makes a narcissist is their inability to feel guilt.

>>25612474
They're often self-loathing.

Good night!

>>25612478
Sure, the classic self-hating narcissist. But it doesn't manifest as guilt but rather more as self-pity and projected insecurity.

>>25612461
Would you peel an orange for me? A pomegranate?

>>25612464
sex in hole for poo is funny

>>25611067
A woman for a wife, kind, gentle and sweet.
A bowl of porridge.
A house.

i love you jesus christ

I got that song from that rap movie Hustle & Flow stuck in my head.

y'know it's hard out here for a pimp
something something money for his ship

I remember the trailer used to air on TV all the time.

>>25611148
this is why I hate normalniggers
they roll in this shit I find unbearable with joy like a bunch of nigger swine. they enabled every single step of this shit dystopia

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ugh I hate rain so much

>>25612550
I enjoy dampness.

I'm building a database.

I ride a wide variety of bus routes throughout town throughout the entire day, and whenever I come across an attractive girl/woman, I mark it down as provisional. I then make sure to ride that same route and time for the following two days (in order to cover both M-F and MWF or TThu schedules), and if I see them again, I officially add them to the database: route+time+a short description of the woman.

With this, I will have plotted myriad opportunities to run into and meet an endless amount of attractive women in the city. I will sell access to this database for $25 a month.

I'm not actually doing this but I just thought it up in the shower and thought it was creative + welcome to the modern world of analytics

>>25612534
>as I stood there alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall to the ground without your Father : then all at once I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship. Lucky is the man to whom that is possible at every moment of his life; in whose breast those two factors have not only come to an agreement but have joined hands and been wedded—a marriage which is neither a mariage de convenance nor a mésalliance but a tranquil marriage of love held in the most secret chamber of man’s heart, in the holy of holies

alone here in the open space of the world with no walls or roofs or floors around me, the sole inhabitant of a vast, white space which is swept clear of fences and homesteads and plants and trees, all gone, the world as complete erasure since even the sun itself is drawn from the sky leaving me wholly alone, fading in whatever way it is we fade from the world
animal, mineral, vegetable
father, husband, citizen
my body drawing its soul in its wake or vice versa until that total withdrawal into the vast whiteness is visible only as a brimming absence so that finally there is nothing left, body and soul all gone, and these residual pulses and rhythms which for these waning moments, abide in their own recurrent measure, nothing more than a vague strobing of the air before they too are obliterated in that self-engulfing light which closes over everything to be
cast out beyond darkness into that vast unbroken commonage of space and time, into that vast oblivion in which there are no markings or contours to steer by nor any songs to sing me home and where there is nothing else for it but to keep going, one foot in front of the other
the head down and keep going
keep going
keep going to fuck

I spend 18-20 hours a day lying in bed when i'm not working my part time job. There is stuff sitting on my dresser that I put there a year ago

>>25612619
I know that feel, because my medication dose is too sedating. If this is your life naturally, you should really get some help or on medication to solve it, anon.

I miss when Netflix had tons of arthouse films.

For how many days past its listed expiration date would you all continue to use milk?

>>25612689
Zero.

>>25612691
Sound like my mother. She might even throw it out a day or two before.

>>25612689
within 3 but smell it first

>>25612698
Whenever I see table and finger food for corporate offices and meetings, that's all I think about. Not like when they have an actual lunch, that's fine, but more like when to impress clients and investors, they'll have a whole bagel spread or desserts or croissants or sandwiches or whatever on the table and it doesn't even get touched.

You know you're getting old when, rewatching TV shows from the early-00s to early 10s, you begin to find women actresses you once viewed as too old attractive.

>>25612725
you didn't find older milfs attractive as a teen?

As an attractive NEET, I need a better answer for when women ask me, "So, what do you do?"

>>25612765
Say you're a writer and out of work to focus on your craft. Always worked for me, although I am no longer NEETing.

>>25612765
Say you're a wildland firefighter. They're all out of work for the winter and no girl knows anything about it, so you can watch a YouTube video to learn what a backburn is and that's enough.

i might go to bed it's not even late

By unhappy happenstance, the man met an Angel along the road.
"Why do you hesitate?" asked the Angel, "Your destination lies ahead."
The man, choked by emotion, could only point. See there! Leagues away, in the deep woods, another road led in twisting, swiveling fashion towards oblivion. And along that road walked a Friend.
"He goes it alone," said the Angel. "That one cannot be rescued."
The man found his voice and, weeping as a child might, clutched at the Angel's robe.
"For what reason must we walk this way? Different paces, different places. I possess foreknowledge of his doom, oh God, if only he would listen! Let me see him, I beg."
"Be reasonable, man! Your Friend cannot hear you from leagues away. You cannot slow his journey, let alone alter it. Leave him!"
The man saw that wherever his Friend went, he left behind footprints, scarlet and sticky, and his heart shattered. My Friend, my dear Friend! You have cut your foot and do not even realize it! Why must you be mutilated? Why did the powers on high put this madness in your mind, this hateful fucking wanderlust, and not mine?
"In the end, he will feel great regret," said the man, and the Angel agreed.
"At the end of all things, there is only this secret: No principle can save you from yourself."
And the man went ahead, quietly, and by unhappy happenstance arrived at his destination unharmed, in good health, and alone.

should i watch a movie or goon

>>25612833
you should go buy a rope

>>25611148
The genre we're approaching hasn't been written yet but it would be something like a Peter Sotos dystopia.

>>25612838
self-bondage is too much effort for quick sunday night goon sesh

>>25612842
I think you can find a better use for it than that.

>>25612674
I think you need to move to mubi for that now.

Do you ever get the feeling that some authors make something great despite themselves rather than because of them being the ideal man for the job, so to speak?

>>25612868
criterion channel duh

>>25612880
yeah that's why u can never trust a writer's interpretation of their own work aka death of the author, sometimes they just channel the current cultural moment into something better than they intended

In Barcelona there is a wretchfucker game we call The Two Whores. It is Russian Roulette with one player, six chambers, two bullets. Two Whores waiting to taste you. It is customary to offer the gambler a last drink, free of charge. You have to pull the trigger three times without spinning it. If by the third click you are not dead, you win.
Sometimes we offer money, or beautiful women, or beautiful girls. The depraved take the risk. We tell them there is only a twenty per-cent chance they walk away. That is 1-in-5 my friend. But better men have been wretchfucked with far worse odds, so the depraved try it anyway. Click click bang, or Click bang, or just bang (quickshot!). One whore or the other takes him. But sometimes, only sometimes, you can hear it.
>BANG CLICK CLICK
I swear on my life, I have heard it. The dead man's desire is so great that the limbs obey even after the brain has flown the coop.
Not even the twins, with one burning kiss or the other, could inspire such dedication. A man's need to win is greater than his own life, and that is the only way a gambler can triumph over Death.

>>25612885
spooky/10

>>25612885
Pretty good writingslop. I read the whole thing.

>>25612880
I find that great writers act on a level of outside-ness. As in, the things that come to them that makes their work great is very often seperate from themselves, even if their writing is a direct expression of their thoughts and feelings. The great writers who can channel this outside-ness are the ones with numerous great works to their names; whereas the ones who can't often only have one great work and a series of mediocre works.

Want this girl to text me just so I can get a pathetic and petty victory over her by ignoring her; although I am aware she will never text me nor think about texting me again.

>>25611067
I quite like the photograph you've chosen to open the thread.

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>>25612885
This irks me because you wrote something good, but it could have been great.
>wretchfucker game
Huge amount of worldbuilding in two words. Instantly gives the reader an idea of who this guy is, what his crew does for entertainment, and catches your attention.
>Two Whores waiting to taste you
>BANG CLICK CLICK
Evocative, I like it.
>We offer them money, or beautiful women, or beautiful girls.
Nastiest line in the story, hooked me when I was about to quit reading. Very good.
>that ending
Needs work.
The ultimate point of the story is that a gambler can 'defy death' by moving when he's not supposed to. Neat concept, needs foreshadowing.
I would add a line about how the '1 in 5' people didn't really 'beat death,' they just postponed it. The only true victory comes from possessing a spark of free will even after your body shuts down.
I'd also move that line about the free drink to the start of paragraph two. Flows better and also segues (segways? fuck english) into the line amount money, women, and lolis.
7/10, will be a strong 8/10 with work

>>25611647
sounds based, your trans friend

>>25611647
I scrupulously keep zoomer neologisms out of my mouth to begin with.

>>25612885
I’m envious of you in many regards

>>25612885
We should start offering such a game to fentanyl addicts in the US. Solve the drug epidemic right quick.

I should abandon the idea of physical notebooks. There's no way to organize them in a tidy way for me.

>>25613087
Sometimes I just like the feeling of writing something down by hand, as opposed to a keyboard.

>>25613087
You could try the Nabokov index cards method. Easy to organize and freely arrange those.

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Today will be a good day

>>25612938
You would be unable to resist sending a zinger back, which you would read the next day and realize has an obvious and embarrassing double meaning, and then be stuck in your current situation but worse. Just go get in your car and drive through the part of town the homeless live in and lay on your horn while you drive through slowly in the middle of the night, go back home, and call it over.

>>25613072
neologism is booomer slang

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>>25613168
Indeed!

>>25613180
"Neologism" is from 1803.

>>25613232
i don't believe in anything before the first episode of Friends aired

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I need it to be absolutely frigid in my bedroom to sleep.
Window is currently wide open and finally it's starting to cool down in here.
It's especially important that my room is cold tonight because I'll be using the electric heating pad on my swollen lymph nodes in my neck, as I drift off to sleep listening to The Butcher of Nazareth (hopefully I'll finish it tonight).

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>>25613261
Hope you slept well, dear! It rains in my area, and I’m going to head back to office soon - and also back to French prepositions hopefully. Relish yourself on the fact that it’s wet and cold somewhere whilst you get to relax in your comfy bed :3

>>25612838
shoot ropes it is!

I've got a big dick and I am not afraid to use it

>>25613289
Yeah but are you man enough to use your big dick on a REAL MAN?

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>>25613289

>>25613297
no because I'm not a FAG

>>25613289
I came to big dick and chew lymph nodes, and I'm all out of lymph nodes

New tactic: watch a bunch of movies with masculine, confident, cool male main characters in hopes of becoming more like them.

I'm just a fat fucking hijabi.

>>25613382
Nah, you are nicely rotund habibi

Guess I'll watch Hitch one time before it leaves Netflix. I used to watch this movie over and over on pay-per-view back in 5th-6th grade.

I shall start dressing nicely and probably even wear makeup. I shall stop hating myself and start at least pretend that my life is worth living.

>>25613395
41% yourself.

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair