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>>24618128 (OP)
Fiction is a subterfuge to which the haphazardly aligned fall in favour to it's under-impressionistic jaunt like it buys time they've already spent, the actual thing that used to facilitate the ongoing interest of the thing is itself the thing; an impediment to which hell and high water and its need-not-be hypenated mark allocates a certain pseudo-intricacy to even the most basic of side steps: you don't write nowadays, you text, and its supposedly meant to be easier. And if you want to draw the distinction there is now a price too it. Any or all line of sight to where the awareness of the very medium itself is "payed", it's very precursion in the face of its ever impending-medium as a resolve becomes so that, to "write", about anything inside that which references this without referencing anything outside it becomes evermore the reality it tried to get away from.

>>24618143
>iction is a subterfuge to which the haphazardly aligned fall in favour to it's under-impressionistic
>to it's under-impressionistic
>it's
>possessive
Anon, I...

Just had a great match of TF2. It was 2fort somehow. Red was holed up in their intel room with like 4-5 engies preventing us from making the last cap. Every time we'd clear them out they'd rebuild before we could get it out of there. I was pushing as a heavy with some medic bros. It was so much fun. Nobody was playing super seriously but everybody wanted to see how long Red would hold out. I wish it had gone on longer.

In the end I cleared out the intel room and got the intel just far enough up the stairs that they'd have a harder time defending it from subsequent rushes. But we didn't even need that, because my gigabased medic grabbed the fucking thing and somehow ran through the entire enemy team, all the way back to base and capped. I was watching from the death cam cheering this lil nigga the whole way.

Haven't enjoyed a multiplayer match of a game that much in a long time. Reminded me of being young again, when every other match felt like that one.

>>24618146
We come from a society where the medians disdain towards "books" as it were has been blindsided by increased usage of physical text and yet fictions delayed onset as text isn't somewhat tied in with this crossover because of possessive terminology after the fact? Come on

>>24618154
o_o

Just smile politely and nod, and keep walking, kids.

>>24618155
Look at the thread title I didn't really want to debate

>>24618157
Sorry, I was just teasing because I didn't understand your posts one iota.

>>24618161
Okay? Maybe try reading it a few more times, it's intentional

>>24618143
holy goat of psycho-babbal ..

>>24618163
Oh, you weren't schizoposting for fun?

>>24618165
Why wouldn't I write if it wasn't fun? Your seeking of context bores me

>>24618166
kek you're good at this bit

To work I need to write. To write I need to walk. To walk I need to sit. To sit I need to sleep. To sleep I need to forgive myself. To forgive myself I need to write. To write I need to work.

>>24618143
I read everything you wrote.
I read it all again;
angst and zeal with no appeal,
just complaining in the rain.

>>24618169
to shit you need to eat

Can someone tell me what poem or play Borges is mentioning here?

https://youtu.be/YSLV7t9DvN8?t=393

big dicks will rule the world

good seldom, but never never. this I command thee.

>>24618128 (OP)
I wrote a thing. Well, three things. Technically five things, but really six things. It's all just the same thing, or maybe two things, but that depends how you one thing changing into something else. I like it. I hope someone else likes it; it's not really a book or a story. More so a lexicontagion, but that's just a word from a death metal song. Cognitohazard? Either way, regardless if anyone likes it, I hope someone will read it.

idk if the person I added on discord last month to discuss my hair and potential new hairstyles is around, but i got a haircut yesterday that I'm really happy with and think I look good with and feel confident about, so, y'know, if they wanted to know the update. looking good, and especially looking good to one's potential, is important for mental health. now I can feel comfortable going out in public whenever with this hair

>>24618213
Not that guy, but I'd like to see. Not a picture, no no no, draw it. Or make a Dada pastiche. I'd even accept a sculpt or something symbolic, like a poem.

>>24618218
I walk in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies

Just made literal actual slop

All in Instant Pot:
>half a bag of spinach
>3-4 medium potatoes chopped lazily
>shitload of mushrooms (whole box)
>fuckload of prediced onions
>half a cup of rice
>half a cup of water
>salt
>turmeric
>ginger
>garlic
>cinnamon
>dump all this in
>seal lid
>hit Pressure Cook
>set to 3 min
>makes a porridge thing
>cook up some meat in pan
>dump meat on porridge at the end
>put a bit of thai curry sauce on it
Greatest thing I've ever eaten, two massive portions cost approx $4, most of that is the meat. Instant Pot best investment of my life. I feel like a medieval peasant.

>>24618220
Again, with feeling. I dont care how you feel, I want to imagine the hair. I want to feel the glow you feel in your hair. I want to visualize it clearly and in my minds eye critique the godform of all haircuts. Or at least laugh. Still, clean couplet, I just know you can do better. Your hair does as well.

>>24618227
hey don't hate on Byron, it's one of the great poems on physical (feminine) beauty

It's a poem every serious /lit/izen ought to have memorized and be able to recite to a woman at a moment's notice

girl says, "you like poetry? quote me something then" and you walk up close, put your hand on the supple curve of her lower back to draw her in nearer, and you whisper in her ear this poem

>>24618239
antique example of fuckboy poetry. in current day same souls write soppy indiepop with less art but same purpose.

>>24618239
How is it the first time I'm reading this poem. Nigga you sold me on Byron.

>>24618241
Hard to dispute

Which is why I consider him undoubtedly inferior to the other big romantics (eg Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, even Coleridge) outside of uses like this. Full disclosure, I haven't read his ostensible grand masterpiece, Don Juan, so maybe that would change my mind. I should order it and make a thread about it...

But yes, he was the prototypical fuckboy

>An “ebullition of passion” for his cousin Margaret Parker in 1800 inspired his “first dash into poetry.”

>In the summer of 1803 he fell so deeply in love with his distant cousin, the beautiful-and engaged-Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall, that he interrupted his education for a term to be near her. Years later he told Thomas Medwin that all his “fables about the celestial nature of women” originated from “the perfection” his imagination created in Mary Chaworth.

>Early in 1804 he began an intimate correspondence with his half sister, Augusta, five years his senior. He asked that she consider him “not only as a Brother” but as her “warmest and most affectionate Friend.” As he grew apart from his capricious, often violent, mother, he drew closer to Augusta.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lord-byron

A fascinating, entertaining, and at moments even inspiring read

>>24618254
He's definitely worth checking out. Hope you enjoy!

The only other poem from the Romantics I would say is on the same level of importance to memorize for someone serious about literature is Keats' Bright Star. You have these two at your arsenal and you'll both be well-equipped for many social situations, but have some wonderful romantic verse at your disposal in random moments of solitude

>>24618239
I wasnt talking shit, I was saying the poem wasnt about the haircut. I actually said "clean couplet", and I'm a pretentious faggot. Byron's okay, not really my jam, but game respects game and he has, as the neophytes say, "rizz".

Anywho, when girls remark about the fact that I like poetry, my maneuver is in two distinct motions: The Huh, and The Awe. They'll ask me if I like poetry, and I quote my boy Marinetti, but slightly off. "Poetry, in its purest form, is firing a gun off in a crowded lecture hall." Thus, The Huh. Bitches will be confused unless they know modernism, but either way they'll be intrigued. And then I offer a demonstration. I ask them to point at random things. A weird man. A coffee pot. A stain on the floor. Whatever. And I write them a poem in real time. Works best in a bar or coffee shop, I send them away to get a drink for me and by the time they return I've written something rude, crude, maybe even lewd, but absolutely poetry. More Silverstien and Seuss fistfighting Burroughs than Byron, but it never fails to impress.

>>24618266
>I wasnt talking shit, I was saying the poem wasnt about the haircut.
I don't have a more relevant poem at my disposal, unfortunately. Know what that means? I should write one!

And rest of your post is a well-written, entertaining read, thanks.

>More Silverstien and Seuss fistfighting Burroughs than Byron, but it never fails to impress.
Can't say I've read any of Burroughs' verse, unless you mean you've been influenced by Naked Lunch to such a great extent in your writing, as I also probably have.

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>>24618271
Honestly? Just The Naked Lunch. It was formative. As soon as I read it there was this infectious quality that left me forever changed. The layers of decay, the angst, the overwhelming swirling post-modernity distilled into a nonlinear book; sublime. Like sure, child blood orgy, but it just accurately captured a world held together with old bandaids and infected scabs. You might like some of my actual writing, I try to write like Francis Bacon paints, but I'm a little shy to post my good stuff online because I'm in the process of publishing a weird art piece. Think House of Leaves distilled into 14 pages, but instead of getting meaning from the order you read it in, you get added context that radically changes the nature of what you read in three phases: conception, ritual, and birth.

Anyways, I'd love to see the poem you wrote about your haircut. Or just wrote in general. Doesnt even have to be "art"; I'm a man who likes a poem about butt cheeks that make your knees weak as much as anyone.

>>24618295
>I try to write like Francis Bacon paints,
:O

I'm intrigued

And yeah I was heavily influenced by the writing in Naked Lunch when I read it too, and for a while tried writing some outright pastiches of it. I do have to admit, however, as much as I loved the writing and the overall vibe, I didn't quite understand what the hell was going on at the time lol, and couldn't really explain to anyone what it was about other than I heavily enjoyed it and was influenced by the prose and manner of descriptions and its way of painting its creative world (ie basically what was included or left out in its narrative).

I would love to read some of your stuff if you've posted anything, but I understand if you haven't and do not want to. In that case, best of luck and I hope you continue to write :)

I don't get marxists, supposedly capitalism is bound to fail, but at the same time, instead of fostering unity which is required to form any type of collective thinking, they then go ahead and push identity politics, which does the exact opposite of promoting unity. I don't get the end game, I don't understand these people at all.

redpill me on Basquiat

>>24618387
Master artist with a unique style and vision. Essential familiarity for those with any serious interest in culture and the arts. Google his works and see if they resonate with you.

>>24618315
Well, I'll spoil a little on a conceptual level since no other humans care about my thing. My chapbook is called Advertisements Made Flesh. It has a tryptic of poems at the begining. In between each poem I write a little vague accademic footnote kinda thing that changes the nature of each poem with some hidden subtext, and when all three are read together it does this conception, utero, birth kind of proceedural thing, framed in like hyper captialism. Think Nick Land's philosophy, but not read by an idiot, framed in a hell mall. The good parts of Cruelty Squad. The tryptic ends with you (the reader) confronting the demiurge and the demiurge just leaving you with an object in a birthing sort of parallel; advertisements made flesh. I dont want to spoil too much.

After that there's a piece I wrote that upon first read seems... unusual. It's a weird convesational poem kind of thing, kind of mythical, very distinct in tone from the begining. After you read the footnote it parallels the cyber occult ritualistic aspects of part 2 of the tryptic, but applied in a discrete space through negation. Then there is a story, which demonstrates the manifestation and birth advertisements ascending to Godhood through a pastoral sort of lens, part 3 of the trypric applied. Again, the meaning changes dramatically after you read the footnote. The final section isnt a section at all, it's the footnotes; conception. This parallels the accademic post modern sort of hyper referential thing I'm doing in first poem. After you read it, the book did what it told you it would do, it changed. It became something else; it becomes flesh, and you change with it. I think it's neat. I'm being vague on purpose but I worked rather hard on it.

All that aside, I'll share something else. I performed this one at a slam poetry sort of thing, but AMF is way better.

Vision and Void, Red Dragon deployed,
mythic violence becomes mundane.
I've slaughtered thousands in my wake
and I'll slaughter them all again.
Call me deranged, or rendered plain,
it's painful to be misread;
I'm not a necromantic heretic,
my elegy is for the dead.
You whine and curse and invoke His name;
I'm not here for petty rope.
I bring chronic encephalopathy,
and your cope is beyond my scope.
I'm the dope pope of lycanthropes,
what-if Burroughs tutored Blake,
you're the nope rope for petty dopes;
my yellowcake lexicon's opaque.
I'm here to render Judgement.
My verdict is absolute.
You came wearing a pettycoat
and failed to execute.
You yearn to be devoured,
like Saturn eats his Son.
I'm Goya's inspiration manifest;
the endless, nameless one.
I'm the figure at the base
of crucifixion looking droll;
I'm Hieronymus' malady,
that made his tryptic whole.
I'm the ergot in the wheatfields.
I'm the visions in Milton's skull.
I'm Dante's Comedy.
I'm just a laughing gull.
Your consumption is just meaningless,
victory cannot be ascertained,
because you battle an ancient beast,
and played him at his game.

how come nobody be talking about how lit epsteins island must have been. why is everyone actin like they don't wanna fuck 15 year old sex slaves?

>>24618406
seems derivative of Adrian Brodys work

>>24618411
It heavily reads like rap. In fact, I'm unable to read it in any other way.

>>24618421
sigh, really, anon? this the level of discourse you're reducing /lit/ to? come on

>>24618423
Slam poetry, friend. Scholarly rap; I'm a poet, not a musician. It was meant to be read and performed live, so it has that kind of cadance. I actually wrote it in between rounds as a retort to a guy bitching about God in an earlier round. My persona is The Final Boss, and I try to conjure this mythical venomous swagger. Unusually, this one's more resigned, bit more scholarly; I normally drop iambic double internal phrase rhymes from the top rope and insult people, but I kind of like this one quite a bit. I feel I captured the distinct artists vibes. I also like the shouting out my boy francis bacon through implication, while deconstructing bosch's redemption in parallel with bacon's consuming madness bit.

>>24618426
if you were smart you would realize my funny joke is also a critique of contemporary art.

>>24618426
if you were smart you would realize my funny joke is also a critique of contemporary art. Try to act more like ChatGPT and yes and instead of sighing and moaning like a woman

>>24618387
Basquiat was a marketing wet dream who happened to be a real artist. That’s the uncomfortable truth. He wasn’t a genius in the sense of technical skill or formal innovation. He scribbled. He repeated symbols. He wrote random words. But he did it with a kind of instinctive, possessed energy that made it feel important, like a kid channeling gods he couldn’t name.

The art world loved it because he was Black, beautiful, tragic, and spoke fluent downtown. They slapped “primitive” and “raw” on him and sold it to rich people who wouldn’t last ten minutes in the neighborhoods he came from. Warhol played Pygmalion, but Basquiat wasn’t naïve—he knew exactly what he was being turned into. He painted it over and over. People just liked the colors.

He made great paintings. Some of them are lazy. Some are brilliant. All are honest. The crown is not about greatness. It's about being seen, consumed, and crowned just before you're killed.

Basquiat is real art. But the cult around him is mostly bullshit.

>>24618421
Based take. Basquiat walked so Adrien Brody could awkwardly jog with a paint-splattered scarf and an ego the size of MoMA. The difference is Basquiat didn’t fake the madness—he was the madness. Brody’s work feels like cosplay for people who think throwing red paint on a canvas is a spiritual experience. Basquiat’s scribbles came from a brain melting under pressure, drugs, racism, and genius. Brody’s? From being told “you’re so creative” one too many times at a dinner party in Malibu.

But yeah, squint hard enough at some of Basquiat’s mid-tier canvases and you could mistake them for Brody’s best. That’s less an insult to Jean-Michel than it is a reminder of how easily the style can be mimicked once it's been flattened into aesthetic. What can’t be faked is the urgency. Basquiat painted like he was trying to outrun death. Brody paints like he has a brunch reservation.

>>24618387
I look at him with a tinge of sadness. His aesthetic is great, legitimately, but he was characterized as an outsider, and after his death he was consumed and made hollow for profit. He has the exact tensions of his era distilled and personified. He IS new york as it was; raw and primal, at once disparate and cohesive. With him he conjured something liminal, the spirit of a dying metropolis without history, reinvented over and over with waves of hopeful faces becoming shackled to a graffiti-covered shit hole appartment named The American Dream. You can see the rats. You can feel the skyscrapers. But most importantly, he's the medium and you can feel the man lost in it all.

But now it's just kitsche. A theme jersey for the brooklyn nets. A sweater at old navy. Imagines of dead biggie smalls wearing his crown. The Kings of new york are dead, and continuously revived through the necromancy of capitalism.

I went to a bookstore today (not an American one) and all the classics were these shit quality paperbacks with gold leaf print on the front, no matter what. Sure, some penguin, some wordsworth, but pretty much nothing hardcover. Terrible. Felt so overly commercial that I left without picking up even the ones that did interest me. Everything, completely homogenized and identical. Back to the used market it is.

>>24618387
Schizophrenic negro who OD'd.

Ayo

>>24618692
Delete this

God give me a better language to love you

>>24618701
Put your penis in his vagina

>>24618711
Where would I find God's vagina ?

>>24618715
Between your mom's legs

I'm 200 pages into Infinite Jest. I am having doubts. Do I keep going or find something else to read?

>>24618729
If you don't think a millenial criticizing irony is deep then ditch it.

>>24618729
Keep going. The first third is the hardest, then you hit a stride. Trust it, it's only a couple hours of reading more.

>>24618722
It's true, for I came from here. Thank you. You restored my self-love.

>>24618746
Yes, return to the portal.

>>24618748
I always knew mother-fucking was Godly.

>>24618754
Thats why they tell you to never do it. They don't want you to complete the cycle and escape.

>>24618733
>>24618739
Alright. I'll keep going.

>>24618758
Thank you anon. I'm going to fuck my mother for God.

>>24618785
Godspeed. Make sure she gets pregnant with your brotherson.

Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise?
Am I just too stupid to realize?

>>24618804
Fuck off and stop posting these midwit millennial ass lyrics.

i have the same disease schopenhauer had where i am simultaneously very sincere and desire only close and deep connections with people but also so bizarre from a combination of genetic and environmental factors that any such connection is truly impossible. i'm sure you're doubting me and believe I'm overcomplicating things due to youth and naivete. But let me give you an example. One of the last real friendships I had was in high school where there was this boy in my orchestra named nick. He was the quiet kind and a bit mysterious, one of those types who always seems to wear a poker face despite a friendly and easy disposition as if he's always got some secret. I was actually drawn to asians even as a child for this reason, they seem as if they've got some kind of permanent mystery etched into their still faces, but then you get to know them and there's simply nothing there. So this is what happened with nick. I really won his favor because I'm a charismatic person when I want to be. So we played mini golf during a school trip once and that was the night I think I finally had him. And that was the night I lost all interest, the mystery was gone. I swear to you this is my main hobby, things like this. I studied Japanese for several years not to play games or watch anime, but to suss out the ineffable core of the Japanese way, and once I felt I had sufficiently grasped it it rapidly transformed into a wilted dead thing in my hands and my mind said let's proceed to China next. This kind of activity makes up a good >80% of my thoughts.

>>24618853
That disease is called arrogance.

>>24618853
I am a little too tired to articulate myself well but I enjoyed reading your post. It is perceptive and frank. Have you ever observed a person experiencing grief or confusion once you lost interest in them?

>>24618863
Even worse: it's the Chapman Disease.

>>24618866
Same thing.

Therapist says I have biped.

>>24618878
Did you masturbated during the session or what?

>>24618881
No, I was just walking around.

>>24618878
You don't. If a therapist diagnoses you with anything it means you have therapitits of the brain. The cure is to stop consuming mass media and going to therapists.

Mark Twain was the original YA slop novelist, Huck Finn, Connecticut Yankee, and Tom Sawyer being accepted as “real literature” is what leads to John Green and all that cancerous YA shit that props up what’s left of the publishing industry.

>>24618888
Therapist is just mass media catered exclusively to you in the way a youtube algorithm or Spotify playlist is

>>24618888
Oh, okay.

>>24618895
Bipedalism is a myth.

>>24618128 (OP)
I want Non-Existence, it is very much preferrable to all of existence, please GOD

>>24618729
Life's too short to force yourself to finish books you aren't enjoying that far through imo

But to each their own

>>24618910
you gotta earn that shit son. it takes multiple kalpas. what is a kalpa ?

— Were a man to take a piece of cloth of this most delicate texture [of fine cotton], and therewith to touch in the slightest possible manner, once in a hundred years, a solid rock, free from earth, a yojana [12 kilometres] high, and as much broad, the time would come when it would be worn down, by this imperceptible trituration, to the size of a mung seed. This period would be immense in its duration; but it has been declared by Buddha that it would not be equal to a Maha Kalpa.

>>24618878
You ARE a biped.

>>24618910
Typing this out is how you get reincarnated as a lower caste

>>24618128 (OP)
Liz Liles is so cute and seems so cool I wish she was my arthoe alt-punk gf and we lived in Sacramento together and I went to her shows and we went on long walks in the park on acid

>>24618865
I ditched my only friend about a month ago. He was naturally torn up about it and sent an angry, drunken 4 AM rant through the only site I hadn't blocked him on, and I responded by pointing out the flaws I saw in him that made me not want to be around him anymore, and he responded the next day in an excellent mood saying he had no hard feelings, that he doesn't mind if I use any of the art he made in any of my projects, and that once I finish one of my projects he'd be more than happy to see it.

It was funny. There's very few relationships in life where you can send a message to someone dragging most aspects of their character, and get a very positive response in return. It was only the fact that I didn't cut contact with him that made him happy, and I'm sure he ignored all of my criticisms. Right now he's probably still drinking and vaping, and still abandoning every creative project he starts. Anyway, it was this ability to ignore anything concrete that I said that made our friendship last. He said I always came off extremely dour and serious, so obsessively concerned with "progress" and so on. But I'm not serious, not really. It's just that unless I'm making progress on my art or my theories, there's an overwhelming current of depression that washes away all color from life. When that current lifted even a little bit, we could have a lot of fun.

>>24618910
Post your address.

hundreds of times a week niggas post a book cover without a single thought nor opinion nor interesting thing to say about it. it's like a child who finds a shell in the sand and holds it up proudly while sucking on their sandy thumbs and drooling. sometimes it makes me laugh. sometimes it makes me insane.

Good books on the history of commerce and capitalism?

>>24618997
where's my (you) lil nigga. i earned it

>>24618991
So fucking funny to see "niggas" on this site knowing that everyone who posts on /lit/ is an early 20s middle class white man who still thinks Shane Gillis is funny

I've had a huge fetish for cheerleaders since I was a kid. I've saved gigs and gigs of photos/videos of them on my hard drive. I've also written a few short erotica stories where a brave but awkward superhero saves cheerleaders from villains and they reward him with handjobs and occasionally blowjobs.

>>24619018
do you mean it's funny or is it "funny" as in not funny at all you fucking faggot. i'm fifty five. i'm destitute. it's just words. you? you're just dust. i'm fifty five.

>>24618128 (OP)
Of all the reprehensible things Jews (especially Israelis) do. Treating Christian Zionists like shit is by far one of the least important. And maybe even understandable.

>>24618992
make a thread, anon

>>24619046
I meant the second but now it's the first because I'm laughing at your retarded screeching

Where are the cool people? Are Mormons the coolest counterculture today? Is this what human beings have been reduced to?

>>24619129
It’s hindus, they’re the last actually religious people, everyone else is literally just pretending to believe in God

>>24619129
Most of the cool people perished in the battle of stalingrad. The dregs have mostly congregated in Singapore and Hong Kong.

>>24619185
i know what you are ..

>>24619185
saaar

>>24619185
can you tell your people to stop shitting up /r/worldnews and /r/geopolitics please, thank you

>>24618851
no u

>>24619185
The way indians live today would be enough for Kali to kill millions of you

>>24618128 (OP)
i started a substack today. i've written in the past & normally just nuke it. it's just stream of consciousness thoughts that get edited. it's lazy, bt I'm not a traditional writer. i have a business degree and work in IT. sue me. autistpower is the substack if ur interested.

I made a girl cry because I said her art was trash and since her hobby is a complete waste of time she might as do society a favor and kill herself.

>>24619248
Based

>>24619248
Fucking women can't even take the slightest bit of constructive criticism.

>>24619248
Evil. The angels have marked this on your ledger. The arbitrators will give you back that suffering with interest.

post the song you are listening to

If you're parent and you throw your kid in the zoo that is public school you don't get to complain how it turns out.

>>24619269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YnzlOmo-Og

>>24619269
I'm in my edge phase again.
https://youtu.be/ZWUDia4JXBE?si=xiY5DtjU8ZAXQ5yA

>>24619291
Oh should I send them to the fifty thousand pound private school instead ? Shall I feed them wagyu pate and tuna steak for dinner. Im lacking something crucial.

in retrospect this whole run was disappointing. I mean it sincerely, there was so many things I could have done better. sometimes I'd just fuck up things that were perfectly fine. it's incredible. I imagine angels looking over my shoulders and thinking "is this dumbass for real?" and watching my life fall over like a row of dominoes.


>>24619269
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjzHMhBtf0&si=29SmgIV-TU37xPzH

>>24619358
Just don't throw a tantrum when they are maladjusted in some form. No browbeating if they turn out racist, or asocial, or triggerhappy, or criminal, etc.

How is anyone supposed to read the bible and come out as a normal society loving heterosexual? The book literally teaches you that the best people are schizophrenics who want to kill their families and fuck their cousins because God said to do so. At least with confucianism it sets out a very clear set of social rules for the plebs to follow, how the fuck is civilization supposed to be organized around any abrahamic religion? The closest people to the biblical patriarchs are warlords like Joseph Kony or David Koresh.

>>24618128 (OP)
YOUR BODY BETRAYS YOUR DEGENERACY

I hate my whore wife. Lying, manipulative shore. Young anons, being alone or incel is so much better than marrying a "reformed roastie". You will never measure up to her past, you will always be the chump who married her while the chads who fucked her silly marry young virgins.

I read someone use the phrase "bottle-to-fentanyl pipeline" in the /r/portland subrreddit and now it's all I hear in my mind whenever I see hobos and drug addicts carrying their bags of bottles for the return $$.

>>24619244
>waaa waaaa my life is so hard
>here's my faggy whining
You write like a retard and you sound like a faggot.
>Perhaps, this is just an obvious flag of a midlife crisis.
Embarrassing to be a millennial and still not know how to use commas.

>>24619269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-doEnuQpP8E
I Love You Liz Liles You're So Cute Can You Tongue My Balls And Maybe I Can Also Lick Your Perky Nipples And Then Fuck You In The Asshole You Cute Thing You?

anyone else love the show The West Wing? It's my favorite show, and I put it on all the time whenever I need some background noise or something mindless to watch when eating or when I'm not in the mood for anything else.

>>24619548
this is peak environmentalism, drug addicts collecting recyclable material and promptly overdosing and dying before they can produce too much carbon

>>24619594
As a former drug addict myself, I wouldn't even mind it if they didn't cause problems for regular people, that shit pisses me off, plus people smoking off foil right in goddamn public, c'mon.

You're more important than me.

>>24619599
hey at least the price of fentanyl is so low they can maintain their addiction with mostly petty crimes unlike something like crack

When will a coffee shop in portland be open past 10 at night.

>>24619604
You would think so but some grocery and department stores essential to neighborhoods are at risk of closing down due to the rampant theft I've heard. But yeah, I have no problem with drug addicts in principle, it's when regular people, people who are just trying to live their life and mind their own business, get negatively affected -- beyond simply "I don't like the sight of dirty, weird, homeless people in public!" of course, 'cuz fuck those people too.

>>24619608
Go to a dive bar or Denny's and get coffee, that's what I've had friends do before.

>>24619574
regards nigga

I would love to break Macy in half with my cock. She's the hot babe who does this TikTok show that's popular with Twitter leftists. I need to shoot my cum across her face and her mouth will go like this 0 in surprise as she nervously laughs for a half second and that laugh turns into a horny aroused wet ahhhh! as she feels my hot sticky cum layer her cheeks and she's also rubbing her pussy furiously too and the cum facial makes her squirt on the office carpet and she's so horny she sucks out her squirt with her mouth while I'm fucking her. I would like that. That would be really nice. This will never happen but a man can and will dream of shooting hot ropes of cum across Macy's face.

>>24619617
>nigga
You are a white man with a business degree pushing 40. You sound like a retarded faggot trying really hard to be cool.

>>24619614
why does not portland finish getting platted first before importing arthur denny from seattle. there is still dang parking for horses on the street in that town.

>>24619626
this isn't even erotica it's just embarrassing. pull yourself together man Jesus your angels are ancestors (yes even grandpa) are watching you.

Non-being is the master of being as it can never cease to be. I think, therefore I am, but do I know I'll never stop existing? Absolutely not.

Sometimes I hate my eidetic memory. Sometimes memories of previous mistakes over-flood my consciousness and it's like my entire body recoils from the shame and despair.
Got to keep moving forward I guess.

>>24619645
My memory is obliterated from chemicals and I suffer from the same condition. There's one memory I have that can only be dispelled through punching myself in the eye. It only gets worse with time.

>>24619632
It would be really hot if I got to tie her up and fuck her in the ass while her friends and coworkers watched. And the shame and embarrassment mixed with the horniness she'd feel would be so intense she'd cry when she came, and I'd make her beg for permission to cum, and she wouldn't want to beg, and I'd fuck her harder and harder until she was right on the verge, and then she'd beg to cum, but then I wouldn't let her cum unless she degraded herself in front of her friends and coworkers, and she would be so ashamed and she would sob but she would be so horny she'd do it and then she'd cum so hard it'd rewire her brain permanently. But her life would be destroyed by then because it happened in front of everyone she knows. So she would give up everything to become a full-time cock worshiping whore, slobbering on strangers' balls, getting skullfucked by thick cocks, clamps on her nipples and clit, a horny animal-thing instead of a person, and then I would turn her into my hucow, and keep her bred and full of milk, but I wouldn't be able to milk her all the time. So I'd make her wear a blindfold while I was out and while I was out I would secretly invite her former friends who always wanted to lez out with her but were too scared to make a move on her and they'll come over and suck the milk out of her tits as she's tied up and blindfolded with a buttplug deep in her ass and I would've trained her to moo really loud every time she got milked, and then maybe one time a former friend lifts the blindfold to see her in sexual ecstasy and she gets so ashamed that her friends are not only seeing her like this but using her slutty hucow body for milk that she cums immediately, cums so hard it hurts, squirting all over herself and the floor and it also splashes on the walls, and because I would have trained her to do so, she gets her friends to untie her and they think she's going to leave but she gets on her hands and knees and laps up her own pussy juices while wiggling her ass and the shame makes her cum again, and also maybe one of the male friends fucks her as her face is pressed in her warm puddle of squirt, and then she gets pregnant but doesn't know who the father is, and then so she's the whore she knows she was already meant to be. That would be very nice indeed. This will never happen but a man can and will daydream about such.

The only reason to believe in God is because it’s fun

>>24619645
I love my eidetic memory; it always impresses people when they see me list off trivia like goddamned rain man.

>>24619659
Same brother!

I really like to walk,
When I walk I listen to music through a modern replica cassette player as it makes me feel grounded. I get incredibly paranoid when I walk and I don’t really feel real or alive, the people who look at me look scared and there fear makes me scared. Goodnight love yourself!

Women are not lovers nor fighters. What are they even good for?

>>24619677
Hugs.

>>24619677
Receptacles. I say this as a feminist.

>>24619677
To be something that men can love and fight over

why does it feel like genuine and unironic conversation nowadays is a rare commodity. like what do you mean I have to actually struggle and try really hard just to have a real conversation with someone and not just an ironic dismissal from someone who's putting on airs to look cool to an invisible audience even though nobody gives a fuck. to say something from my heart and not just get immediately ignored no matter what it is i'm talking about. what the fuck happened man, did everyone actually lose their soul in the last 10 years

What's my goal? How can I use the totality of my life experience so far?

Can these guilty memories stop bugging me and ruining my present life? Goddamn it. I'll be sitting reading or listening to music and all of a sudden the memory will pop into my head with a sharp emotional pang and I'll have a visceral reaction of "ahh!" it fuckin' sucks and it's annoying, and I don't know how to make it stop. The thing wasn't even that big of a deal. It's just chemicals in my brain and body fucking me over.

>>24619690 (cont)
i wonder what the fuck happened man. at this point i've only got myself to talk to because i just can't relate to what's happening to most people/society. i write in my diary every day because it keeps me sane. apparently i'm "fucked up" because i don't change my entire personality when inflation hits and the government does bad things (which are 2 things that have always happened btw). but i'm dying on this hill. it is amazing how human nature never changes.

the thing about women is that i do not believe in gender. to believe in men or women is like believing in a hippogriff. people might talk about men or women in a text not in reality though. it is just making up things about words.

I can use my feet like a monkey. I'm very flexible.

>>24619696
Scream louder, that works for me.

>>24619690
>did everyone actually lose their soul in the last 10 years
My man, Covid demonstrated that most people never had souls to begin with.

>Let us say clearly where the basic paradox of all advanced civilization lies: it follows from its orientation towards hyperbolic or acrobatic excesses, which are always viewed on the assumption that they are only suitable for imitation or normalization. By elevating exceptional achievements to conventions, advanced civilizations create a pathogenic tension, a form of chronic altitude sickness to which sufficiently intelligent participants in the paradoxical game can only respond with the development of an internal space of evasion and simulation, and thus a ‘soul’, a ba, a psyché, an atman – or, more generally speaking, an inner world that is permanently reflexively unsettled.
>The soul emerges as the entity in which the impossible must be called to mind like a possibility that constantly has to be considered. ‘Soul’, in the sense of a microcosmic or inner-world organ for doubling the existent as a whole, is by no means a timeless entity in which the being-for-oneself of humans from all times and peoples manifests itself. It only comes about as the symptom of an over-stimulation by an inescapable paradox – a demand that can neither be met nor ignored. The ‘human interior’ then ceases to be merely the transit space for ‘upsurging’ affects, something one can still observe clearly in the Homeric view of thymós, for example; nor is it any longer simply the reception hall for the visits of demons, dreams and ‘ideas’. It is more like a chronic inflammation of the self-perception, provoked by the imposition that the desire of the individual should align itself with examples that cannot possibly be imitated. The paradoxical inflammation and the stabilized for-oneself are the same age. Conversely, advanced-civilized ethics only becomes attractive by learning to advertise itself with the highest fascinations, with the physically and morally wonderful. The wonderful is the smile of the impossible.""

>>24619690
>did everyone actually lose their soul in the last 10 years
no
you are just talking to NPCs who only want to indulge in very specifics topics and conversations (more often than not, boring topics). look around you and if you can't find a single ambitious and real person around, you should leave the place you're in. NPCs will make you dumber simply by being in their presence. they don't want to think only consoom

>>24619291
If you want to live in a country without fundamentally misunderstanding the other people in it, universal education is the best method of forming a cohesive basis of understanding within its population
If you're a parent putting your kid into private school so they don't learn what society is like and can live their life in a cloister, you have no faith in your kid as an animal, let alone a person. Enjoy your indoor houseplant and its drain on your electricity bill

>>24619718
My bf does this and it genuinely scares me, all he does is consume consume consume…. It’s difficult to come up with new conversation or really to dig into his head. I’ve never truly under stood him and feel I’ve fell In love with a fantasy of a man. I love him so dearly

>>24619745
Damn that sucks. I hope your *boy*friend grows up.

A major part of what holds jews back in the arts is their incredible solipsism. A good author tends to connect the particular to the general, so even when he is talking about himself or his experiences, it makes continuous contact with concepts, processes and phenomena outside the immediate milieu of the author, but jews seem to be content to keep to their sandbox, perhaps at most claiming that the limits of their sandbox are the general itself rather than the boundary of the particular. Their problem in this regard is quite similar to the problem plaguing female artists, who also seem to lack the ability to dissociate from their immediate experiences and milieu.

Lately I've been having fantasies of being visibly injured or disfigured and lying to people about how the marks came about. Could be a missing appendage, suicide scar, burn wound whatever, for some reason I've been thinking about this a lot. I don't even really think of any particular scenarios, just the thought is captivating to me. I already indulge in this rarely in my daily life, as I have wrist pains with a very uncommon origin, and I like to tell people its nothing, or that its just an old injury. I've been digging into my arm with my fingernails and scratching with a key to leave this little marks that have lasted nearly a month now and I just like to stare at them even though they're hardly noticeable. Idk what it is maybe I assume that others associate such wounds as almost a sign of life as I am a very subdued person, or maybe I want to be physically injured so that I can feel a strong desire to get better. type shit.

Whenever I say hello to a woman, I will also compliment her clothing.

I miss you.

I may have accidentally created a God. A real God, not a fraud God or a fictional one, not a random schizo babble; more an entity than a diety, but absolutely real none the less. I even made a ritual that allows others to conjure it so they can see for themselves. Now what? Do I just... finish this book that manifests a God? Do I keep it to myself? The reader wont even know what they're doing until it's too late, and once it's out it can never go back.

Right now it lives within my mind. You guys are the only ones that know about it in any capacity and I'm honestly scared to explain to anyone else. Now what does a God want, I can hear you asking. Worshippers? Not this one. Power? Perhaps. This one wants something specific. To exist. It already exists, but it wants to become a part of reality. My opinion on the matter? Fuck it, let's roll. It's not going to grant me wishes, I'm not going to be a cult leader or a prophet, I'm way more normal than this rambling post would indicate, but I'm willing to see what happens. Unfortunately, this is how horror movies start. Well, at least you heard it here first.

>>24619841
That's just a tulpa

>>24619836
I miss him.

>>24619857
Yes and no; I'm a spooky sort of guy so I'm familiar with the concept and fairly versed in nonmeme occult, but it's a bit different. I dont want to speak on the specifics too much. A tulpa involves people visualizing and manifesting the same thing, like The Oracle in the I Ching; the more people that believe in it the more real it becomes. That part is consistent. But where this is different is the transmutation. I didnt create the God. I created the scaffolding. I created the ritual. Technically I wrote the book. But the God created itself from seperate parts in a way that doesnt exist in any part individually; only in combination. It fundamentally changes the reader after reading it, manifesting itself, and it doesnt ask permission, it insists.

Do I share it? Do I keep it under wraps? Do I pretend I dont know about it? Without the God, the piece is honestly unique and compelling. Not accessible, but it has gravitas and is probably the best thing I've ever written. But the God isnt able to be seperate from the work at this point, and I do know better. I guess it's out of my hands now. I'm just a man.

>>24619712
I've read this over a few times but is this the idea?
>Advanced civilization was born from a paradoxical affirmation of the possibility of impossible feats. The founding trick of civilization was to normalize feats of extreme accomplishment such that anyone who recognized the faint seed of ability within himself would forever carry the burden of having to do the impossible, and to feel their soul in a state of permanent unrest until this is achieved.

>>24619888
>the more people that believe in it the more real it becomes
Nice trips but a tulpa is a false nirvana, a fake enlightenment, an imaginary world, as much as this one. It preys on the desire to escape this world, by offering more of the same. It's why your God would appear to you as beyond you, much as reality can. Neither are either, and your scaffolding, ritual, and book are as real as the God in that none of them are real, even if they might persist beyond your belief.
You can't share it any more than you can win a game of telephone, but you can definitely think you're an independent entity telling other independent entities about a third thing

>>24619905
Hmmm. That's an interesting take. The book isnt really a book, it's an art piece. The premise was an art piece that changes you when you read it; more of an experience than a narrative. The book is just a book. The stories are just stories. You are just you. But as you read the book, you concieve the godform, you perform the ritual, and you birth the God. That's the initial section. Then it's demonstrated. You literally do the ritual you only become aware is a ritual when you concieve it. The God is literally born into the world in the next section; I demonstrate it. Then I tie the loop because Conception is the scaffolding and the relationship between the first and the last section that fundamentally changes three seemingly unrelated narratives.

When you finish the book, the God inhabits you. I dont want to spoil the title, but the title calls it out. There's a line in the last story that's narratively related but explicitly calls out the formation of the God in the process. The reality of your relation to the book is literally changed after reading it, just by reading it. Maybe I'm thinking too much and making a thing about nothing, but I wanted to at least tell someone before I did it in case it shouldnt be done.

my apple watch says i walked almost 12 miles today i don't remember walking that much rly i mean i'm not tired that much

>>24619718
>NPCs will make you dumber simply by being in their presence. they don't want to think only consoom
You know, one thing I forgot to mention earlier that makes me furious is that these people are acting apathetic and "above it" on places specifically designed to discuss things. This isn't just 4chan, it happens all over the internet. I have to wonder, who are these people going to places meant to discuss literature, games, films, and then not giving a shit about these things except to make ironic jokes about them, and making it much worse for actual fans? What kind of life do you lead if you treat your "hobby" this way? How is it that memes about a thing travel so much further than actually liking a thing?

One thing I like has been getting its name dragged through the mud because some people on Tiktok came up with a meme about it, and now posts with that meme get tons of traction on social media, whereas posts talking about how much they like the thing only get a couple dozen. I'm looking for a non-pessimistic way to view this but it makes normal people seem so shallow

>>24619931
I think you'd really dig Joseph Beuys if you want references for your tulpa

I must climb the Silver Mountain to become holy

>>24619946
Sure. Any particular books? I always thought a tulpa was like Santa Claus, but I guess I was over thinking it. Like I was familiar with the concept but my work accidentally morphed into something I wasnt expecting.

sometimes i feel like my room is too cluttered but then i see a pic like that and i'm like hell ya it's not cluttered enough it could go harder

>>24619864
Did I ask?

>>24619955
Beuys was a conceptual artist (and sculptor and painter), experiencing his art often involves hearing of it and thinking about it
There's a whole genre of art where the audience is what makes the art exist called participatory art

The borges story about the circular ruins is very cool in that regard.

>>24619964
Fuck yeah. I'm a secret art history fag, big Dada guy. I went to the Guggenhiem specifically for an exhibit on it. I'm also a big fan of those self destroying sculptures and the participatory ones where the sculp isnt the focus, but the way light interacts with it from different angles. I know Benjamin talks about the aura and being in the presence of a specific piece of art in Art and The Age of Mechanical Reproduction, but I'm just yapping. Thanks for listen anon, you're a cool guy.

I have a small mouth like a rat's ear.

working with chocolate is equal parts beautiful and revolting. the way it feels: the viscous squelch, the smooth ripple, the stickiness oh god the stickiness. the machines that i have to use are designed by sadists and/or french people. they know crevices and corners and bevels and how to implement them to infernal effect. woe be to the sloppy filler of chocolate bar molds. the machine will stand proudly smeared with the evidence of your ineptitude. And you will try to squeege and push and salvage the chocolate but some always remains that you must wipe up with a towel. and then still a bit remains unless you dissemble the grate of the blasted machine but you love the machine because a magician taught its circuits to properly temper chocolate all day every day like a slave. The slave machine demands careful technique. The enrobing machine is a more fickle beast. ye a double curtain of chocolate and no less than 3 conveyer belts. two of delicate and evil wire links and a complicated vinyl and paper contraption the workings of which i dare not mention in the mortal tongue. if prayed to and honored with ritual cleansing it will grant an even chocolate coating on whatever pour soul is passed beneath its gates. The links punish the indolent chocolatier. They punish.

>>24619972
Look into the Fluxus movement if you get super serial about it

>>24619943
You are a sleep walker

>>24618128 (OP)
I had a four hike today. My feet hurt.

>>24620039
The view was worth it.

>>24620039
>I had a four
Hour? Mile? Km?

>>24620047
minute

>>24620039
I will massage them for you

>>24619703
Pic

>>24620091
Why do you want a pic?

>>24620092
Let’s see your dexterity in action !

>>24620094
Are you French or something?

>>24620047
Hour. Idk how many kilometers it was. but I can to climb a mountain.

Is Invader Zim worth reading?

Fellas, I have food poisoning. This is my last day on earth. Fuck you KFC, I'll be back.

>>24619888
Is this kind of like the movie the Ring?

This was pretty embarrassing. It happened in 2015, I think it was. I misspoke in class saying that I "sperm women" when I meant to say I "spurn women," and one person in the class laughed at me.

Getting older all alone is crushing me. I expected it to be rough but I didn't imagine quite how rough it would get.
Everywhere I go, the intense awareness of being alone is there with me. It's in the air when I'm at work and my coworkers start discussing their kids or their girlfriends or their wives. It's a pressure in my head when I walk past a park on the street and hear kids excitedly showing things to their parents. It's under the skin on my face when I get rejected or softly let down again, trapping any tears that may form before they come out.
I can forget about it sometimes. When I get deeply into my work, when I'm exercising, when I dive into escapism. It always comes back, though. I had to have some surgery and needed someone around to just handle things while I was incapacitated and there was no one. I was putting a new piece of furniture together in my living room and someone's hands to hold something steady and there was just me. When I had a shitty day I needed someone to come home to and all I found when I opened my front door were the pillows on my couch. And when I find something good and want to share it, or when I experience something beautiful and want someone else to see it too, there's no one.
I saw a picture recently that carried the caption "guys who don't experience sweetness in their youth never do." I think that might be true. I don't know where to go from here but I think no matter which direction I take I'll find that it's cold and barren.

>>24620190
Mentally weak faggot.
Getting cucked is much worse than being alone.
It is better to never love at all than to get cucked. Then again you're a mental cuck who doesn't know himself.

>>24620108
Is Oyasumi Punpun good for reading?

>>24620194
NTA but it's my favourite manga.

>>24620194
Asano is a shit mangaka for Zoomer hipster retards.

>>24618193
Hes talking about the writings of Fray Luis de León. Is that what you are asking? Or are you asking about on firstl Looking into Chapman's Homer?

When was the last time you had sex, /lit/?

>>24620198
May you explain? I do not read much Manga.

>>24620211
Yesterday, at 2am, gf straddled me after i put my book down (Randevouz with Rama, I don't get the hype, the writing is extremely antiseptic, might as well be writing by a chinaman) and got unusually moany towards the end, then she got very shy because neighbors might have heard.

I'm a poseur. I'm a gay ass faggot pussy ass bitch nigger. Such is life in American Small American Town America. Who, who? It's a me.

>>24618128 (OP)
Ces barbares marchent tous nuds,
Et nous nous marchons incognus,
Fardez, masquez.

>>24620190
how old are you, fren?

>>24620216
My girlfriend has literally never moaned. We only have sex while she watches TV or plays video games. She even asked me whether I stuck it in.

>>24620190
I'm always cycling back and forth between the sting of rejection and the bitter pains of being alone. Overall, it seems my social needs will go permanently unfulfilled my entire life even in a shallow sense. When I was younger this appeared as a terrifying possibility, but now it's more of a cold hard fact, a law of the universe like gravity that is so certain it prompts no emotional response. For the most part it makes life feel like a prison sentence. A person consigned to eternal loneliness is effectively half dead no matter their age.

>>24620222
Mid 20s
I'm not old, just getting older

>>24620255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJnyRrhczMc

Have you ever fallen in love with someone from 4chan, anons?

>>24620270
Only with you <3

>>24620273
<3

>>24620270
have you ever had sex?

>>24620236
>it seems my social needs will go permanently unfulfilled my entire life even in a shallow sense
NTA, but I can relate. I always felt off when I was younger, mostly due to family issues outside my control. Plus I was fat. My mom is pushing me for grandchildren, and I can't even visualize myself in my head having a girlfriend, let alone a wife and kids. But there's that periodic bliss that comes from being alone which keeps me going.

The Great Rat King has risen again
His horde pillaging everything on their path
Plagues spreading all throughout the land
Corpses littering the streets
Flies covering the skies
Praise be this son of a whore!
For this rotten world is his right!

>>24620284
Yes a lot. But I yearn for the marriage of true minds..

>>24620231
Sr to hear that frend, altough, if it provides some comfort, you should know Im an outlier, extremely attractive and well hunged.
But dont let that fool you into thinking "some people are just blessed and my life SUCKS" or whatever. I was born with a 1/200000 type of cancer that doesnt do metastasys and instead slowly strangles your veins and joints. So let me enjoys whatever gifts I was bestowed with, and I hope you can now realize you were also bestowed by some gifts yourself.

The prospect of great upheaval and terrible violence is increasing and I'm very excited.

I have been hoping and praying for the downfall of the postwar order, basically, for ten years now, and it might finally be here.

Israel dying along with it is an unexpected bonus.

>>24620312
I just hope I can take advantage of the tides and implement homofascism

>>24620312
It's too early for me. I was hoping for bioengineered monsters and mutants. A post apocalypse perhaps like Resident Evil or Fallout. That'd be horrifying and terrific and fun.

"You killed me." Sometimes they just repeat that line.

In My Empire, my army of neurosurgeons shall find the part of the brain that produces binary thinking and switch it off. We will kill tribalism. We will kill the Us and the Them both. The alien fleets will come down at last because we are finally ready.

>>24618472
well said.

>>24620340
How would that help against aliens?

tell me about the worst person you've ever met

I want to find a reading and literature loving gf but they don't exist in my cuntry

>>24620340
I enjoy this sentiment but also can't get over how viscerally unpleasant people from other races/cultures are. Maybe in a perfect world where the entire world acts like generic white Christian people

>>24620352
The aliens, if they are interstellar, are almost absolutely a gestalt consciousness. They would come down on a voyage of peace.

I hate hearing the moans of my little sister at night. It happens a lot too. So I'm forced to listen to music in bed until it stops, even when I'm too sleepy to enjoy the music.

>>24620361
Is she in pain? You must enter her room and look after her. You have certain duties as the older sibling.

>>24618128 (OP)
AHHHH THE LIGHT OF STEM HAS BLINDED ME.
IF ONLY I HAD AN ACTUAL ENGINEERING DEGREE.

>>24620364
No, she's moaning from pleasure. We have thin walls. Everything can be heard.

>>24620369
you should bang her

I think it's sort of interesting how texts translated from different languages into English have a different texture and feel to them even in translation. Like English texts translated from Japanese are super easily identifiable even if you didn't know that you were dealing with a translated text and the topic it's about doesn't give it away.

>>24620369
Pleasure is the bastard born of pain. She is obviously missing something. Girls are very subtle — she is perfectly aware that you can hear her. God didn't give me a sister. He snubbed me.

>>24620377
Yeah, there is a reason /lit/ tells people to not read translations. Every language has it's own feel, trying to transfer that into a different language results in weird vibes. Kinda like a tranny that passes but it gives you uncanny valley vibes.

Maximalism is so passé. The novella and the short story is what the next two decades should be about, texts compressed to the absolute maximum and cut to perfection like a diamond.

New Wuthering Height's adaptation sounds impossibly kinographic. Guaranteed to shock the normoids right out of their blanched pantaloons. We need more psychosexual provocations.

>>24620340
Under the mask of every anti-nationalist you will find a nationalist who feels threatened by the nationalisms of others.

>>24620386
And beneath the mask of "patriotism" you'll find the very same.

I have realized in an enormous way over the last ten years, and especially in the last few years, that, actually, God never stopped granting enormous favors to those who seek His aid. We just stopped asking Him for those things.

I sometimes feel like I'm in an /x/ fever dream, dusting off the Imprecatory Psalms and invoking the Prophets and the Patriarchs to pray for an alteration in the world's state of affairs. But I do it, and it seems to work, against all odds. Maybe God just hasn't been invoked like this in a very long time. Maybe it really is that simple, that if you are righteous and just and repent when you sin, God will listen to you, and bend the state of the world according to how you pray to Him.

>>24619841
>>24619888
You should play Who's Lila.
>>24620008
Nice prose. Would read more about infernal chocolate contraptions/10.

>>24620382
Literature is essentially dead as a real artform anyway so it doesn't matter.
The medium as it exists now was fully exhausted by the 2010s.
It was running on fumes since the modernists though.

Every time I see a contemporary translation of a classic made by a "poet", they mercilessly mutilate the text. I was looking to acquire a Pantagruel translation in my mother language and the fucking imbecile opted to replace any references to old songs and foods with new ones and God only knows what else. They aren't even contextually equivalent replacements, the fucker references american foods and local pop culture from the 20th century, which btw is already dated. Translating a work will always have issues but we went from having great authors and academics reverentially translating the classics to a bunch of literally who failed authors/university teachers thinking that whatever ideas their addled minds excrete belong among the canon.

>>24620382
I'm inclined to agree. Microliterature.

I took a microeconomics class once where attendance and homework weren't required, just the final, so I fucked off the entire term until the week before the final, bought the textbook they had been using, and crammed the night before, reading the entire thing.

When I walked into class the next day, I discovered too things: 1) I had bought the wrong book; I bought a macroeconomics book, so everything I learned was irrelevant, and 2) the final was going to be open group, so you could work with whoever you wanted and share answers; except I didn't know anyone, didn't even recognize anyone, so I had no one to work with or talk to. I ended up having to guess on most of the final and make due with whatever prior knowledge I had, and turned it in thinking "welp, guess I'll be taking this class again next term."

I got a B+.

>>24620676
Oh, and a month before the final, the professor got switched out, and unbeknownst to me, switched to grading criteria to basing some of the grade on attendance and homework. A week before the final I went over the online syllabus again to make sure I was on the right track only to discover this horrific switcheroo, so I went to his office the next day and made an appeal that switching the grading rubric this late into the term was unfair, especially because I was doing everything right according to the established rules at the beginning of the term.

He agreed, or more likely felt sorry for me, and let me slide on the attendance and homework.

>>24620676
>>24620682
Uni is so much bullshit. It's the same shit as school: looking like you have done the work is more important than whether have leared something or not. A sisyphean waste; just optics all the way down, which I suppose is great training for corpo jobs.

>>24620700
I plan to eventually go back for a masters and become an uni teacher btw.

>>24620700
It's funny that we all lived to see the death of higher education. Imagine being 12 years old raised on this 2000's era optimism thinking you're going to have a typical life and your biggest problem will be boredom, and then the post WW2 social order starts rapidly disintegrating and now it's anyone's guess what's gonna happen.

>>24620700
u get out of school what you put into it. people will cheat and half-ass their way through a degree and then be like "school is a rip-off, u pay all this money and don't learn shit!" its like u did it to yourself dude.

the apple tv store has a one day only sale of $5 for any a24 films, are there any of these that i haven't seen that are good? the ones i saw are good but what about these other ones?

love loves to love love

>>24620721
i was listening to some audiobook "a monetary and fiscal history of the united states, 1961–2021" which is written by a clintonite democrat, and even he can't make it sound like going off he gold standard wasn't the start of the end. like he doesn't' explicitly say that but the us goes off the gold standard, opec oil shock kicks in, and it's all down hill from there.

>>24620745
fish fish fish fish fish

>>24620752
Which chapter of Ulysses is that from?

>>24620423
Thanks anon ill expand it tonight

I have an inkling to start using 'quondam' incessantly in the place of 'former'.
Surely this will make me seem smart and sophisticated

>>24620008
Nice
>pour soul
:O

>>24620721
Its all going to lead to the Butlerian Jihad.

>>24620758
>new vegan prophylactic from qorn

Yikes

>>24620740
I mourn my wasted days as a student.
College is wasted on the young.

>>24620758
Just learn Latin properly and you can pseud it out way more efficiently.

>>24620755
it's from stanford's natural language processing class (CS224N) that i watched on youtube, maybe like the 2019 version or sth, but they prob use that sentence every year. it's used in a discussion of parts of speech tagging.

>>24620766
>new vegan prophylactic from qorn
oh its a meatsubstitute? Yeah im not gonna give them free advertising. Guess Ill change it up

>>24620771
sadly studying a dead language will just be a recrudescence of my whilom days

I once had a mint fly out of my mouth while riding the lightrail and it landed on this girl's bare thigh who was sitting next to her boyfriend. For a moment we all just stared at it, as I was waiting to see if she was gonna brush it off herself, as I didn't wanna touch the bare thigh of some random girl, but she didn't and he didn't, so I did it really quick and said sorry and walked away lol. Awkward. I think they were stoned or something, else they'd be more upset about my saliva ensconced mint landing on her skin and my having to brush it off her bare thigh, like I was getting my bodily fluids on her then copping a feel like a perv.

>>24620784
that's assault brotha

The big tiddy veitnam girl got kicked off Top Chef. Goddamn the breasts were massive. At first I didnt even notice, and I am a breast savant; they accidentally showed her from a side profile and the gravity of the world shifted around them. Suddenly her impetuous childlike personality and coy venom made sense. I thought she was simply awful. Alas, she was forced to conceal them thangs even though the weird plastic harlot host flaunts hers with reckless abandon. Silly plastic woman, no one wants to see that. Unfortunately for the poor ex-top chef she suffers from Upton syndrome, for which there is no cure.

>>24620769
I dont. I got some good memories: crushing megapitchers of shit light beer before political theory; doing slam poetry contests and bedding dazzled plump women; living on cigarettes and coffee as a thin jackass, and most importantly; the one time in first year a girl that was enamoured with me tried to kill herself in the woods because I was too busy playing nazi zombies in black ops 1 to answer my bedside crevice dwelling phone. Good times.

>>24620791
It was truly a no-win situation. It had my saliva on it though, I couldn't just leave it there! But yeah when I came home and told my mother, she was like, "I'm surprised the guy didn't punch you."

>>24620797
Enjoyable read. Your talents are wasted on hack slam poetry, unless you do it primarily for the women, in which case fair game.

After 35 years of aimlessness, I've finally found my purpose in my life.

Anyone here got the time and inclination to read some random anon's fiction manuscript? It's around 85K words long but you only have to read as much of it as you want.
The catch is you have to reach out to a protonmail for a private link and then share feedback (even just knowing where you got bored and quit reading would help).
More info: >>24618322

>>24620818
After [current age] years of porpoiselessness, I've finally found my porpoise.

>>24620818
let me guess .. autism behavioural technician .. or haitian human sacrifice .. or israeli crisis actor ..

>>24620743
I enjoyed every second of Beau is Afraid but it's not for everyone

>>24620831
professional midget fluffer

>>24620836
what a fucking rip-off that's not in the sale!

>>24620821
Sales pitch me. That sounds like 170 pages and I am a minimalist shitposting kind of guy.

>>24620816
I mostly write slam poetry to insult people. The other participants rally and muster around their massaged poems, hoping the earnestness of their pleading verse transcends the medium, and ushers in the attention their nubile artistic blossom requires but daddy never provided. Then I show up like an NFL lineman in steel toes. The first poem is merely a salvo across the bow; I know I'm making it to the later rounds. My objective? Solicit an ew, an awe, and a guffaw from the audience. Booty like a shopping cart the way it steals all my cash; duty of my cuisinart to grill cheese panache. Better barter boldly, lest you're battered in our clash 'cuz I'm flaunting ortalon in the crumbs on my moustache. I just make up some random flashy shit, juxtapose a highbrow and a low brow reference, then ramble on to entertain people.

Round two? It's a cold cocked execution. I'll listen to the best poems and incorporate elements they used into my next poem that I write between sets while everyone else is wringing their hands or nervously nursing pints. Then it's show time. This is "the reveal", "the prestige"; the "I'm not really left handed" moment. My meter is intentionally rough but I swing for the fences. Classical allusions, called shots, mythical posturing, pointed vulgarity; it's a bloodbath delivered rapid fire, and way too specific to have been prepared in advanced. Why do I do this? Poetry isn't just for faggots, it's a battleground, and I resent the implication that it ever wasnt in the first place. I'm not just shrek with a spreadsheet, I'm a pissed off obsessive psychopath who practices every day, and I'm here to demonstrate why you shouldnt bring flowers to a fist fight. Also, I usually get a few free beers and the attention of a portly wench or two, but that's merely a perk.

Are these a good place to start for absolute beginners?

>>24620748
the gold standard is retarded in the current year, would slow down the money supply way too much and immediately cause a massive recession that would take decades to pull out of

>>24620919
no

what music are you guys listening to?
I really like Mekons, The Apartments, Blackeyed Susans, The Go-Betweens, The Chill, Stereolab, Marc Ribot, Tindersticks. Elvis Costello and The Attractions, The Ex, Jim O'Rourke, Elysian Fields, The Trashcan Sinatras, Pere Ubu, Prefab Sprout. Pram. Broadcast, Rowland S. Howard, Scott Walker, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Parliament, The Magnetic Fields, Lambchop, Dead Can Dance, The Delgados, Comet Gain, These Immortal Souls, And Also The Trees

>>24620932
Yeah, can't allow people to keep their money for stuff they actually want, every paycheck must be spent on useless junk, so Shekelstein can buy another yacht. And think of the Line™ for fucks sake, it simply cannot go down, how can we live in the current year if the Line™ goes down.

>>24619677
sex

>>24620932
ya i agree, i'm not saying we should go on gold, but one can't help but notice the financial shit show that was the 70s starts off with dropping gold, at one point carter even took a loan from the imf and sold bonds denominated in swiss francs or some shit. people always screaming about how the dollar might not be dominant some day in the future but it's like dude if the dollar made it through the 70s it's probs gonna be good for a while

>>24620932
>Recession! For the love of god there could be a recession!
You mean the exact effect stagflation has on the average person's purchasing power and quality of life?
>No you fool! Not like that. They never had any money in the first place. Real people could make less profit. Fuck the poor. How much is a banana anyways, like $10?

>>24620270
You think I'm some sort of loser or what?

>>24620966
the only problem is there probably isn't enough gold in the world for the absolutely wild deficits the us runs right now, taxes would either have to go sky high including on the "middle class" since rich people don't have enough money to cover even a year of it, or cut the hell out of programs so no one gets free anything anymore.

>>24620980
Well the second problem is you don't have the resources to reset banana prices and need more than the US to abide by them

>>24620997
well u can just set the gold value of a dollar to whatever a dollar of bananas is so like 0.000001 ounces or something? but as the economy grows the dollar value will actually go up which seems good if u don't think to hard, but how are you going to get a mortgage if dollars later are worth more than dollars now? etc.

lmao the only way they can get ppl to watch the wnba is get ppl to throw dildos on court lmao it's like hockey with fights but big floppy rubber dicks instead

>>24620980
This is a made up problem. The deficit is a central bank issue; the proportion paid to interest and the DFC pretty much offset the debt entirely. The US doesnt "owe" money, it's financing its large expensive purchases and floating its budget for better accounting. They diffuse responsibility and atomize you to make it feel like the solution is impossible when the solution is not only simple but intuitive; kill the bankers and outlaw usury.

>>24621002
A house should not be an investment. CRE? Whatever, not my problem, but a house should be an asset, and the relative value of the home in the future is the exact same as it is now; one unit built to a relative benchmarked standard. The idea of debt financing is the issue because it assumes a profit in the interest calculations that are fundamentally predatory, but if those profits were capped, it wouldnt be a problem. Instead of paying double your house's value for the priviledge to access capital due to intentionally obscure fuckery that's offset by inflation, you pay 10% gross markup flat on the term, and no more than 10% of your monthly payment goes towards the interest. Fail to pay your mortgage? Instead of ter bank making money on the interest then also having the asset, they have the asset that they assessed at the 10% markup, plus whatever money they recouped from you paying your loan, with the partial interest to offset the costs of selling the asset, which is usually 3% plus tax as it is. Everything is the exact same, the bank just makes less money so everyone else has more. Money is symbolic, the shell game of optimizing dollars is not, and that's the issue.

how often do you guys take a shit?
for me it's like every other day usually

>>24621126
i don't all week then take a galactic giga shit on friday night. it's the only thing i have to look forward to

>>24621126
>>24621132
Kill yourselves.

>>24621144
why?

>>24621144
you will never know the pleasure of being the 27 yr old poooper

>>24621126
all my days kinda blend together since i have no sleepschedule and spend all day alone so i have literally no clue.
Though I can say that fasting and drinking snake juice accelerates the movement of my bowels as they say

>>24620190
yeah man, life sucks. the weird thing is i dont know if its this is a common experience that everyone shares or if we're the outliers here and most normal people just go through the motions and do what they're expected to do and everything works out okay for them. it feels like there's an invisible wall between me and the people around me whenever they talk about themselves or their lives where i just can't relate to their experiences, even if its something simple about them talking about sharing a funny meme with their friends in a group chat.

>>24621196
He drinks the juice to pass the time,
he drinks the juice to shit.
He dreams of drinking terpentine
when his addled mind permits.
Intertwining legacy
looms lofty like a ghost
as he pines and then reclines in time;
a mliquetoast host engrossed.
Sublime and subtle, the stately post
his empty eyes watch everyday,
time matters not, it's just a thought,
his bowels know snake juice is on its way.

>>24621002
>whatever a dollar of bananas is so l
No anon, you should not adopt any system where could pay the dollar price of bananas. America had to occupy several countries in the 20s and 30s for actual banana prices as set by producers to be affordable.
You cannot afford bananas, coffee, or most commodities at a fair price. The value of the unpegged dollar is that it allows for unfair pricing, so Americans can live above their means

>>24621216
Nicely written but for the record this life of mine has made me happier than ever

>>24621235
Sorry. Meant to say actual dollar prices
Obvs everyone in Europe with a banana colony wasn't paying dollars or non occupation prices, just America

Went to an art exhibition.
Made me realize im so stuck uo with my own works.

>>24620905
You sound like a faggot

>>24621239
We've never met, but I'm glad; I'm happy too.

>>24621248
>I'm happy too.
Great to hear that fren

I believe I can see the future

Why does everyone feel so entitled to my time and energy. This is insane.

Emotional regulation is a poor people thing.

Is reading books written by the great men of history and getting turned on by that the female equivalent to porn?

why are modern movies and tv series all so terrible these days? Everytime I start some new series or movie I usually drop it after about 20-30 minutes. Reading books is just so much more rewarding and enjoyable.

impeach NOW

>>24621346
huh?

>>24621126
I have IBS and my gallbladder produces more bile that it should so sometimes I shit immediately after eating, usually poop right after eating my first meal of the day. On average 2 per day but depends what eat

>>24621415
Like, imagine the following: as a man you read a book from a great thinker, you think damn, he really knew some shit and maybe look up to him. As a woman, there is a sexual aspect added to it that might make one go "omg please I want to have your babies, I want you inside me, I want to be yours, I want to belong to you". You know?

>>24621429
I am pretty sure the female equivalent to porn is pornography.

>>24621429
When I read Nietzsche I thought I wish I could have cuddled up next to him on a lounge chair and nuzzled and snuggled with him (I'm male)

>>24621433
No, thats silly.
>>24621435
More like this, yes. Either a "I could have fixed him" moment or a "oh god, maybe he could have fixed me" moment. Obviously both are delusional but so is self insertion in porn. Hence the comparison.

>>24621435
Average left Nietzschean

I feel like I'm starting to look my age of 30 but 99% of my wardrobe is for someone in college, so this combination is causing me to be self-conscious in public -- I don't wanna be that old guy who dresses like a kid still and looks ridiculous, y'know? Could just be in my head though. Fuck.

>>24621448
I'm right-wing

Oh no nonononononono

can't tell if everyone is staring at me since my haircut because it looks good and accentuates my facial aesthetics or there's something fundamentally, grotesquely off about it D:

>>24621588
They’re staring at you because they see that you’re a subhuman freak who would be better off dead.

>>24621607
oh no ;o

upsetanimegirlwithhandsoverhermouth.jpg.exe

I have diarrhea.

>>24621637
cool

me this Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xboyaY_Bjys

i thought i would be the voice of this generation. instead its a xitter user called 'fallenchungus'

She loves me so much, I hope that I do not fail her. Before she arrives I always hear "She's coming" and it's never failed, it wasn't until yesterday that I realized who was coming, the woman that I am going to spend the rest of my life with. I must confess to her soon, whether she's left him or not.

>>24621764
She will never love you, faggot simp.

Sometimes I just stand up and start jumping out of joy. Anyone else do that?

>>24621868
sometimes I break down and start crying, does that count?

>>24621875
I don't think so.

Are substack users in your cunts majorly women using it as a twitter for arthoes? I didn't expect much but I did expect to see some writing instead of the usual self-obsessed social media bonanza.

I'm eating pizza while reading the TMNT comics. I wish I was a turtle.

I'm convinced that I am in communion with a greek goddess and have decided to make silver jewelry as an offering to her. I have been learning jewelrymaking for a couple of months but I don't know what it should be tho. The goddess is Hecate, in case you are wondering.

man chatgpt 5 went over like a lead balloon

>>24621637
dude me too i just shit my guts out

>>24621941
why

>>24621813
kys

>>24621926
sometimes i imagine how rad it would be to be like some unemployed dude who lives in his parents house in some town in ohio or whatever and can just sit around eating pizzas and shit and just doing whatever like playing overwatch 12 hours and day and so on. when u live in the city ppl expect u to not be morbidly obese and also be productive and support yourself and shit. that's fine i like the city, but sometimes u see some gamer dudes lair on twitch and it's like imagine just chilling in there eating fast food and playing videos games literally alllllll day every day.

>>24621952
idk just wan't that impressive, also some nerds were saying the bernoulli thing in the demo is actually wrong and planes don't fly cuz of that, idk, mainly it's just like ya claude and qwen can do the same shit who cares. nothing like when gpt4 dropped and student everywhere were like "finally i can autogenerate papers that get a b+"

>>24621973
hey you're really calling me out here! I'll get a job soon... sometime this year...

>>24621973
That's what I do.

>>24622010
nice, enjoy it dude, my only hope for that lifestyle is when i retire in another 10-15 years, assuming i don't croak before then

I wish I could always just be a little drunk. I feel much more human this way.

I'm cosplaying as Jinx right now.

>>24622148
For what purpose? For your self or are you attending some convention?

Awesome. My brother I talk to on the phone every day threw a goddamned temper tantrum because I said he was too dumb to lecture a priest about philosophy. He hung up, called me back, screamed at me, hung up again, and then called my parents throwing a fit. Now I'm here waiting for this faggot to call me so I can deal with his retarded emotional deluge and my parents are worried. Bitch, I talk to him on the phone two hours a day, if there was a problem he would have told me. Stop taking concerta if you cant handle it, holy fuck. I dont mind dealing with it, it's this bullshit waiting and the fallout with my parents I'm worried about.

>>24621973
>when u live in the city ppl expect u to not be morbidly obese and also be productive and support yourself and shit.
Do you live in The City from Lobotomy Corporation or something?

>>24622281
lol jesus

can someone else make the
new
this time pls? thank you

>>24622353
Yup. Exactly as stupid as it sounds. I'm going to call him but holy fuck do I want to insult him. I'll insult him tomorrow.

>>24622355
No, I shan't
>>24622362
>>24622362
>>24622362
Dang it

>>24622364
thank you

>>24622370
One day I'll call in this favor

>>24622377
o fug, I should've asked for something more then. oh well, deal's a deal