/lit/ - Literature

>>16182702
larping

>>16182702
This image hurted to read

- got fucked in the ass last weekend at a fray party

>>16182702
Let me guess, they are all insufferable leftist cunts?

>trends
you have to go back

>>16182709
>hurted
Here's some book recs :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRkibFRSJ3g

>>16182736

>>16182702
for me, its brooke

>>16182702
What the fuck is Dark Academia?
>>16182778
Based

>scorpio and intj to the core
If only you knew how bad things really were. I like this trend in theory but like most trends, it's pretty devoid of meaning. Like ironic coffee drinkers who just like sitting in a coffee shop to look like an intellectual.

>>16182799
It's basically vintage british professor aesthetic but 100x diluted of actual intellectual capacity. Hence the harry potter reference with its gothic castle and institution of learning but devoid of actual substance at heart.

>>16182799
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_academia
A very gay and shallow "aesthetic" that cropped up in the late 2010s, much like cottage core.

>>16182778
Yeah, Brooke is the only correct choice.

>>16182841
>grandmacore
I found my true calling in life.

>>16182847
Why?

>>16182863
more laid back, less neurotic, probably better in bed. intelligent without pretense

>Dark academia is an aesthetic centered on higher education, writing, the arts, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture, as well as romantic longing and death. Like cottagecore, goblincore, and grandmacore, it gained popularity on the online platforms TikTok and Tumblr.
Not even an AI could dream of this fucking cringe scenario.

>>16182736
>>16182702
>an old aesthetic is commodified to satisfy the ego of women and delude them into thinking they're intelligent even though they've merely adopted a fashion style
Not sure who to hate more, the capitalist class or the female gender. Both are so cringe. Both won't just let the world be authentic. It's all about money and image. The Spectacle moves on, devours all, and leaves no room for a sincere existence. However, for this trend in particular, I blame Harry Potter. This is basically just an extension of the Hogwarts universe into our world. I guarantee all these girls fancy themselves Hermiones.

>>16182966
FLIPENDO!

>>16182966
>authentic
Get a load of this retard

>>16182966
All the women in the video read more than /lit/izens, guaranteed. They recommend books that /lit/ hasn't even heard of, aside from the classics recs.

They're better than us and we just hate them because we're ugly.

>>16182778
>tfw no Brooke gf

>>16182702
Faggotry, apparently

>>16182863
>better with money
>less neurotic
>vintage tastes indicate she'd lean towards vintage books
>keeps her away from the fag shit that sylvia likes
>buttons imply a basic knowledge of sewing
>intp

>>16182881
Coffee 24/7 is a major neurotic sign

>>16183000
/lit/ is retarded, I agree. I miss the old /lit/. That said, the reason we haven't heard of most of those books is because they're mostly pop fiction and/or YA. Not serious readers. And just showing their books off doesn't mean they've read them either. It's about their image. This happens in /lit/ too of course, I mean stack threads.

>>16182966
>blah blah muh spectacle bla bla Marxist drivel about authenticity


I support dark academia zoomers

>>16183071
>Catcher in the rye
>Donna tart

They rec the same books we do. Go to bed, old man

>>16182799
>>16182841
>>16182921
>>16182966
it's based almost entirely off the secret history which has its main characters basically LARPing as WASP aristocrats students from 1912 in the 1980s

>>16182881
>>16183026
>less neurotic
How so? Coffee drinker and bullet journal usage heavily implies otherwise.

I actually thrift all my clothes too but I'm positive I spend more on them than most people would spend on clothes in a year. I'm just not sure how well these profiles fit.

>>16183071
>Not serious readers
>it's about their image
This is true everywhere and it really bums me out. I don't think it's bad to read variety or even "low brow" books like YA fiction but it's sad when people only stick to their one thing.

>>16183127
If you read those books, you're a pleb. Catcher in the Rye is entry-level and not serious literature. Donna Tart is pop fiction.
>>16183116
Personally I think they're good for prurient reasons, but apart from that, I don't take them seriously. I would simply take a dark academia gf and force her to read better books and to spend less money on clothes, and more on wine and tobacco. I would turn her into a Bohemian and apostate of the dark academia fad. And I would fill her with my semen as a nightly philter. Also I would teach her French so she can be justifiably pretentious and not just a Hermione cosplayer.

Dark academia is cringe but is there anything wrong with pursuing an academic aesthetic? Trying to find a style and academic seems the most fitting

>>16182702
fag

>>16183188
What's the point in dating someone if you're just going to change everything about her? What do you consider acceptable reading material?

tl. someone who speaks french, reads more than the majority of /lit/, and is a wine enthusiast with access to a personal vineyard.

>>16183213
I don't understand the desire to appear academic unless you innately want to dress that way to begin with. I wear a lot of blazer jackets because I like them and it's convenient for my lifestyle in business, it'd be weird for someone to emulate that if it doesn't come naturally you know?

>>16183262
is this post satire

>>16183284
Yes. Now post your taste anon, I want to see what kind of people I'm talking to.

>>16183182
>coffee drinker
Female equivalent of cigarette smoker imo
>bullet journal
organized neuroticism is better than unorganized neuroticism
>spend more on clothes thrifting
That's because cheaper prices lead to quantity buying. Stop buying quantity and you'll be better off financially
In any case, I'll take a brooke over someone who loves to debate (translates into arguments without reason) and someone that exclusively reads fags

>>16183262
>What's the point in dating someone if you're just going to change everything about her?
This is a good point, but the only good thing about dark academia girls is that you could probably influence them to read better stuff pretty easily. Just a nudge in the right direction. They're fertile ground for development. And they seem highly impressionable and simultaneously capable of maybe accessing higher dimensions of culture.
>What do you consider acceptable reading material?
Depends. I like the English romantics like Shelley, Byron, Keats, etc. And the French decadents like Baudelaire and Mallarmé. Probably make them read the modernists too, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Yeats, etc.
>tl. someone who speaks french, reads more than the majority of /lit/, and is a wine enthusiast with access to a personal vineyard.
Based. Love to see it.

Fuck this aesthetic is hot

>>16183313
>romantic poets and the decadents
Lol, you have the taste of one of these girls

>>16183313
>fertile ground for development
It seems odd to operate backwards from a shallow interest in intellectualism. A fertile mind would have interest in the works that appeals to you rather than some fixation on the notion.

>english romantics and french decadents
These are all fairly mainstream authors, you shouldn't have trouble finding someone with similar taste. I'm a huge fan of the romantics too. What do you think of the german romantics and proto-romantics?

>love to see it
I don't mind showing you stuff I've made but I don't want to post it here. /lit/ wine and book club one day.

>>16183188
Im really starting to like you schierke anon I know this board is garbage but please stay here or at least post late at night when theres less people

>>16182778
>>16182847
>>16183003
>only listens to Vinyl
Really annoying girl. Vivian is better.

>>16182736
I do enjoy this aesthetic but a lot of this feels shallow and obviously more of a social phase than an actual lifestyle. Dressing up to take pictures with books in a graveyard is pitiful.

>>16183685
Ever gotten head while listening to some Doris Day? Fuck, I can break out my gramophone if she wants.

>>16182702
>I have to commercialise and gimmick everything
I hate modernity

Books wise it’s just gothic and campus novels.
But their interest in the Greeks is commendable

>>16182736
peanus weanus :(

>>16183406
You're stupid if you think girls are reading the English romantic poets, or French decadents. Maybe girls in grad school, but your average female reader? No way. And if they did read them, I think most of them would be disillusioned. Check out Gautier for example, he thought women had no serious purpose on earth except to inspire art and be used for pleasure.
>These are all fairly mainstream authors, you shouldn't have trouble finding someone with similar taste.
Really? Because I've never met anyone whose actually read them irl. Even in classes I've had where we read some sonnets from guys like Shelley, literally no one was doing the reading except me and one other guy. Maybe you're fortunate enough to live in a nicer place. But yeah, they're fairly well-known, even though scarcely read. That doesn't detract from their genius though.
>I don't mind showing you stuff I've made but I don't want to post it here. /lit/ wine and book club one day.
Would be great.
>A fertile mind would have interest in the works that appeals to you
You might be right, but oh well, if I could nudge someone into reading YA/pop fiction to more serious literature, I would be happy.
>>16183579
Will do, anon.

>>16183000
Cringe, cope, and objectively incorrect.

>>16183213
Why would you wear anything besides tracksuits and sports clothes?

>>16183000
The woman near the end with that bookshelf, yes, but the rest of them are questionable.

>>16184003
nah, bitches love rimbaud. The decadents are the next step after camus

>>16182921
>Dark academia is an aesthetic centered on higher education, writing, the arts, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture, as well as romantic longing and death.
Sounds based STFU

>>16183000
>we
>we
>we
You are known for what you are, whore.

>>16183071
>I miss the old /lit/
>anime poster
drown yourself

>>16184003
>average female reader
Weren't you talking about Dark Academia aesthetic arthoe types, though? The average reader reads fuck all too.

>>16182732
Rightist, actually

>>16182702
Vivian, if we can fuck after every debate we have turns into a vicious argument.

>>16182966
stop obsessing over animy girls and twitter thots, and start interacting with actual women anon, seriously.

>>16182966
Blame 4chan and anime for making such a sad excuse of a "man"

>>16184401
>nah, bitches love rimbaud. The decadents
Rimbaud is good, but he wasn't apart of the decadent movement; he came afterwards. The symbolist movement in France was distinct. The fact that you say this shows to me that you've never read either the decadents or the symbolists. Embarrassing.
>>16184452
I post anime sometimes, yes. Problem, R*ddit?
>>16184492
>and start interacting with actual women anon
There is a girl that I like and we text sometimes, but recently she moved to another city. She'll be back in a few months. Personally I don't obsess over any women except her. And even then I'll only shoot her a text like once every on to two weeks.
>>16184516
Depends on what you make it, anon. As cringe as 4channel is I've got a lot of good book recs here, and I even got inspired to get in shape by /fit/.

>>16184003
Man, you aren't hot shit for reading Keats and Shelley, get over yourself. That's like standard shit for bookish girls.

>>16182702
What the fuck are these categories, I dont fit a single one, not even close to.

Take your bullshit down, life is a celebration man.

avatar fag sage

>>16184680
You sound mad, anon. And I doubt you've read either Keats or Shelley, or perhaps you'd refrain from lashing out like this. Maybe go back to reading Ride the Tiger and Ted K's manifesto, you easily triggered and socially maladroit loser.

>>16184692
They are girl categories

>>16184756
I'm not mad, and the only thing that "triggers" me is seeing some asshole like you get all high and mighty about the romantics as if they aren't some of the most widely read English poets

>>16182966
this is a good post

>>16185065
No it's not

>>16183000
Yeah, you're right. We're all very impressed with the 2000+ YA fiction novels they've posted on their goodreads.

>>16185068
cry about it anime-hating nigger

>>16182702
alcoholism

>>16183188
If you're so concerned about the spectacle and authenticity why do you avatarfag and also make this cringe post where you present a clearly simulated version of yourself.

>>16185093
"Authenticity" is completely meaningless, especially when applied to "the world." All experience is sincere experience.

>>16185068
Yes it is. The poster is a faggot but the post does reveal the core of every midwit 20~ year old roastie.

>>16185116
>"Authenticity" is completely meaningless, especially when applied to "the world." All experience is insincere experience.
ftfy

>>16185131
Doesn't matter either way. You can't be anybody but yourself.

>>16185008
Anon, what's your point? They're not obscure enough for you? I would contest that they're widely read in the first place, because people don't fucking read. If people have read these poets, they were likely forced to do so in a class, not of their own volition. And they're good poets, and difficult as well. They're worth a read. Almost no one on /lit/ seems to have read them. There is nothing wrong with enjoying the classics of English literature and thinking other people should read them too. But go ahead, go read obscure NYRB translations that literally no one cares about, you hipster of the soul.
>>16185110
What are you talking about? I like to post images because this is a fucking IMAGE BOARD. Go back to fucking R*ddit if you don't like images.

>>16185154
My point is that you are completely insufferable. Let art-hoe chicks do their thing, it hurts no one and some of them are legit. You're basically just screeching about "muh secret club." Women read books more frequently than men, and sometimes they read good shit. My gf has read much more poetry than I have, including your precious decadents, symbolists, and romantics. Quit being such a pretentious little shit, and stop looking for reasons to hate women. That kind of prejudice is the mark of an ugly soul.

>>16182702
haha yes imagine how cringe it'd be to pretend to be interested in the greeks, philosophy, roman architecture, classical music and history! hahaha what a bunch or pathetic larping LOSERS

>>16185204
>it hurts no one and some of them are legit
No, not a single one.
>My gf has read much more poetry than I have
Your gf reads the menus at boba shops and that's it.

>>16185204
>My point is that you are completely insufferable.
Anon, do you think I care? You sound very mad. I just mentioned some writers I like, and think are good and worth a read, and are a step-up from YA/pop fiction, and you've gone an autistic rant.
>no, you can't like those writers and think they're good!! they're too popular!!
The insufferable one is you.

>>16182921
Why are classic Greek and gothic architecture lumped together like they're at all similar, wtf?

>>16185204
>My gf has read much more poetry than I have, including your precious decadents, symbolists, and romantics.
Also, post your gf's French poetry stack. If it's in translation, that's just embarrassing. Doesn't even count. Reading poetry in translation is stupid. But somehow I doubt she has a French poetry stack, because I don't think she exists.

Sylvia is built for BBC

>>16184003
>You're stupid if you think girls are reading the English romantic poets, or French decadents
>>16185154
>If people have read these poets, they were likely forced to do so in a class, not of their own volition
You've been speaking with one who reads these authors far from academic pursuits. I'm well educated sure, but that has nothing to do with my literary interests. Maybe you haven't been able to explore much of the world yet. Interesting people are out there and your interests aren't so strange that you won't be able to meet them. I'm the wine anon who asked you in the first place, I wasn't trying to put a target on your back so I feel a little guilty now.

As my favorite count says, "a weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons."

>>16182702
>pic
holy hell, women really do ruin everything, from MBTI to literature

Fuck it. Roll for Dark academy GF.

>>16185763
did you make this?

>>16185763
roll

>>16185763
roll

>>16185763
those could all be outfits on the same person desu
>inb4 you're supposed to read the description
those could all be hobbies of the same person depending on what her boyfriend was into

can someone please explain to me why this is "dark"
>>16185763
roll

>>16185763
rolling

>>16185763
Roll

>>16186084
I'm pretty sure the whole aesthetic jumped out of The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Frankly, I don't fucking about the specifics, as long as there are more chicks wearing tweed and turtlenecks with shorter hair.

>>16186074
Score.

>>16186100
I got a shit roll

>>16182702
Where's the ENTJ? I need an extroverted version of myself to action my plans.

>>16185763
Roll.

>>16185267
>>no, you can't like those writers and think they're good!! they're too popular!!
Not at all what I said or implied

You know, most of these girls are open or closeted lesbians. Be wary when dating them. Obviously not all of them are lesbians, but a vast majority are.

>>16185204
Based.

>>16185763

>>16185763
rolling for kate

>>16186318
Kate, hell yeah. Cautious, constrained mewing.

>>16186342
It's just that I vibe with her tastes in literature.

>>16186371
Oh, yeah, Lovecraft is cool. Check out William H. Hodgson and Robert W. Chambers, if you haven't already. The House on the Borderland and The King in Yellow.

>>16186394
The House on the Borderland is definitely up there in my backlog, possibly for halloween. And one of the compilation of cthulhu mythos stories I have actually features The Yellow Sign by Chambers. I plan on getting The King in Yellow in the future tho.

>>16185763
Rolling AHHHH

>>16183698
It's a positive. Yeah, some people fake it, but like anything a fair few will commit and actually find a new interest in fashion, literature, and other hobbies that might fall within this aesthetic.

>>16183698
faggot

>>16186751
Based.

>>16186713
>a fair few will commit and actually find a new interest in fashion, literature, and other hobbies that might fall within this aesthetic.
I hope you don't actually believe this.

>>16185116

you sound like a whore

>>16186776
For some reason I believe you have little experience with women, but will respond to this assuring me that you either have a lot of sex or don't care to speak with them.

women disgust me. everything they do is for attention

obviously men are the same way but so many of us are truly deprived of attention that our inner drives become confused and we pursue academic affairs autistically without clear ends. and therein lies greatness

Hm.

>>16182966
what's more cringe is you believe you are alone in seeing this performative dance.

>>16182966
You don't understand what the Spectacle is.

>>16185763
roll for dubs. I am monogamously unfaithful.

>>16186857
damn, all three of these bitches are boring.

>>16186847
posts like this would have a lot more weight if you in turn actually did explain what the spectacle is.

>>16182736

Harry Potter and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

>>16184479
Not Sylvia, she only reads LGBTQXYZ authors

If you actually believe that any hot early 20s girl who posts 'dark academia' pictures is seriously into literature or academia at any level beyond the absolute surface youre clueless

pic is what actual girls into academia look like. i just searched harvard philosophy grad students list. they are the female equivalent of... well... us

>>16186939
Well yes, they're laymen who are only now getting interested in it. They can't retroactively get into Harvard for philosophy.

>>16186960

more like theyre thots who want attention and get it from SIMP RETARDS like you

sylvia
>ftw

>>16186961
Gatekeeping your favourite shit is low IQ. I'm just happy it's catching on, since it means more people being interested in the topic. I don't fucking care about posers, they die out, but it's sure to bring more people into the sphere of literature.

usually if you see a chick dressing in "trad" clothes like that at college it just means her parents were religious wackos like jehovas witness or some shit, people who overdress that aren't homosexual are usually religious nuts

>>16186964
damn dude i just got fired, that is NOT safe for work

>>16186974
hot

>>16182702
do people like this actually exist?

>>16186968
if you want to look like someone who reads literature wouldn't it be a lot easier to just read literature in public than redo all wardrobe to that of a 1950s secretary?

I'm 23 years old and I'm already too old for this fucking shit.

>>16186998
Yes, but this is also hot so I see no drawbacks in having more chicks dress like this lmao

>>16184452
anime posting has always been ubiquitous across the site homo. whatever you think the best era of /lit/ is, there was some guy posting anime.

>>16185763
rawlin

>>16182702
3 women, 3 strikes, 3 dead women. It's amazing how much better men are than women.

>>16187016
have sex

>>16185763
If I get Kate I'm blowing my brains out

>>16187019
I do, with men.

>>16182736
This should be a wake-up call for many.

>>16186968
"It" is not catching on. A superficial veneer of it is, however.

>>16187019
I will, with all 3 of them, before and after.

yet I thought this was a literature forum...

>>16183000
Lets see how they write

>>16185763
Let me guess, affair with 1, 5 and marry 7

im a demi god and can only see the attraction to syivas clothes, the rest are shitheads.

showabitofclass

>>16186776
I've heard of men getting fit originally because they wanted women (i.e. they were merely concerned with looking a certain way and perhaps even acting a certain way whilst looking a certain way) but then they ended up genuinely gaining a new hobby and disregarding women entirely in the end.

>>16185763
roll roll roll

>>16182702
Pure fucking vanity you should all neck yourselves :^)

>>16186939
I think shes pretty cute anon, then again, I've got a thing for plain janes

>>16185763
Most of these are not the kinds or names given to the current crop of 18-22 year old middle class white girls

>>16187023
Damn. So close

>>16185763
Virginal hands produced this image.

>>16187001
Only if you believe it.

>>16185763
The fact people will criticize that video then roll for this shit is pretty funny

>>16187692
Want them hoes

>>16185763
rolll

>>16187692
VUH-JI-NAR

>>16185763

>>16182702
All the women I know that dress like this are lesbians.

>>16182836
I wonder how cafes became to be associated with intellectualism. Junkies try to pull same shit with drugs, and everybody sees through that bullshit.

>>16185763
User was _______ for this post

>>16187994
The popularization of philosophy as a public pursuit in the west coincided with the mass consumption of coffee. Particularly during the enlightenment, the French Revolution, and in the English public houses where political philosophy was debated.

Women are extremely superficial, big surprise.

>>16183000
Nice trips but did you not notice how many of them call Austen Victorian?

>>16182702
absolutely no idea what you guys are crying about, art hoes are the best

>>16187994
they were places where the "public" (in reality they were almost always burgeois) used to meet to discuss ideas during the enlightenment. also pretty much every important french and italian intellectual from that period wrote positively about coffee because of his intellect enhancing capabilities.
>>16188089
There was no "popularization" of philosophy, it was strictly an activity for the people who had the econimic means to study it. Also speaking of masses before the advent of mass media is inaccurate.

>>16183262
>access to a personal vineyard.
What kind of grapes?

>>16188145
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Debating_Societies

>>16188117
almost nobody on this board reads, and almost nobody that discusses philosophy here has ever read any. surely you aren't all women are you?

>>16188183
/lit/ is a bigger clamfest than the cosplay board

>>16182966
>he thinks the aesthetic they commodified wasn't also a spectacle in its original run all those years ago
you're almost there, anon

>>16185122
his greentext was good but he is a fool for thinking that those clothes were authentic and not a spectacle pushed by the fashion industry all those years ago

>>16182921
>goblincore
?

>>16188269
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMKOx6fumc

>>16182702
>ctrl+f "yellow trousers"
>0 results
wtf?

>>16185763
Rolling

>>16182702
Just dress 1800s style you fucktard!

>>16182841
>In an overview of the dark academia literary genre, Zoe Robertson wrote, "Most of the representation present in these books focuses on the tragic suffering or death of said characters, which must make us consider what we want from representation."
Holy shit.

>>16182702
cringe

Is this a sort of socially acceptable, female version of wignat? I mean, their entire aesthetic is inescapably eurocentric. Which makes me even more surprised since it appears in such a diverse melting-pot of cultures that is tik-tok. They are basically the feminine version of "retrxn to tradition europa", pagan larpers.

>>16182702
Brooke, I guess. Loving to debate is the sign of a confrontational person, and Sylvia sounds like an absolutely miserable person.

>>16185763
rolling for Kate

>>16187025
Based

>>16185763
didnt even look at the chart, lets see what I get

>>16185763
rolling

>>16188141
I just want my faux-intellectual tweed wearing gf

>>16182966
There has never been a "golden age".
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.