/lit/ - Literature

Not related to your post... Is that Butterfly?

>>16863336

>>16863359
no, this is she:

>>16863391
Heh.

>>16863391

>>16863391
She cute

>>16863391
Wtf I hate butterfly now

>>16863391
It's a he

>>16863533
Butterfly isn't a tranny, just lesbian.

>>16863537
Tranny

>>16863391
that's a man

>>16863336
Someone please disregard the tripfaggotry and post the ever escalating footnotes meme

>>16863336
OP, this pic does stir some interest in me towards Kierkegaard. Good job

>>16863336
think you mean this. one of my favourites

>>16863634
almost believable until the end

>>16863336
I also want to request that guy that managed a shagg on Tinder by pretending to read Dostoevsky.

>>16863533
>>16863537
I'm not a troll, but it's getting less common to find some oldfag who tell this story, but apparently a person (male) very, very similar to Butters was a usual visitor of /LGBT/ many years ago, before the 2010's, in the early days of 4chan. And this person posted some pics that looked like where taken in the same place as the one I posted and the others that exist about her, and in the back they used to be piles of books and mentioned that he liked reading.

Supposedly under this idea she transitioned before the normalization of trans rights. Dunno if true, but I've seen it many times in a non-trolling space. Could be other person, and I fully support her, I'm a trans girl myself. But I don't hide it.

I really like her, she's smart.

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>>16863698
Sometimes I forget this places is flooded with autistic weirdos. Don’t know how, but I forget. I’m going back to new grounds

>>16863701
wow ... what vapid "people"

>>16863391
She looks like an ugly Björk

>>16863634
Thank you so much anon. I’m glad you could see through my misrememberings

>>16863739
>Sometimes I forget this places is flooded with autistic weirdos. Don’t know how, but I forget. I’m going back to new grounds
Do you say it for me, the others, butters, all the whole bunch of weirdos?

>>16863747
Bjork is a coalburner

>>16863760
t. Ricardo Lopez

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>>16863747
No, Björk is the ugly butters.

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>>16863744

No joke, I got a date on Bumble because of the Brothers K. Girl had Russian lit in her bio and thought that I looked like Dmitri.

>>16863336
God I want to smell her juicy rancid farts so bad

>>16863336
Some post the work about blacks that one anon was doing.

>>16863784
Unironically based. Citations and modern paradigm of structuring argumentation for atomic dismantling at any later date has destroyed intelligent discourse and only rewards those who commit to no position and wheedle and Jew at argumentation they've never directly interfaced with.

>>16863798
gotta catch 'em all

>>16863391
Cute ngl

>>16863787
Chad. I talked for a bit to girl that mentioned Russian lit in her bio. Shouldn’t have told her I empathized most with Ivan Fyodorovitch

>>16863773
Based, fuck /his/

>>16863787
I believe it. I just got off the phone with my girlfriend and she was lamenting not having finished Brothers K. I practically heard her pussy get wet when I mentioned she should just read C&P first as I had when I was younger.
Dostoevsky has power over women. Quite likely Tolstoy too.

>>16863773
>supports Black Lives Matter
honestly: why

>>16863787
we're like barack obama when he was getting that college pussy off foucault, sum ethereal bisexuals

>>16863828
Accelerate the destruction of the US of course

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>>16863818
My default question with Russian lit girls is "Does Tolstoy understand women?" Talking about Anna Karenina gives you a great jumping off point for most conversations and you get a good perspective on someone's life philosophy/views on romance.

>>16863698
/lgbt/ is a relatively new board, from the wave of boards added in 2013. You will never be a woman. Dilate.

>>16863773
America could only be seen as the "primary aggressor" in the Cold War from a Marxist perspective. America's policy of cultural imperialism through economics is only possibly interpretable as violence against a third party (i.e. the USSR) if you believe in class struggle.
This is cryptocommery.

>>16863842
As to be expected of those high IQ scores. Very good.

>>16863773
The /lit/ section is literally just a self insert. 1/10 bad meme

But still screw /his/

>>16863843
Yeah that'd be a good pick-up line if I gave enough of a shit about what women think or experience to bother reading (or pretending to have read) Anna Karenina.

>>16863871
I disagree :)

>>16863835
No pussy was obtained. We talked for hours about the future of Christianity and the state of human rights in China. Very spiritual/philosophical date, but it was kind of a boner killer. Probably could have leveraged the conversation towards that direction, but I would have hated myself afterwards for abusing Dosto.

>>16863336
She wants to be unchaste and incontinent? Doesn’t sound too sexy.

>>16863739
Don't come back.

>>16863828
honestly: to get laid

also, if you are sufficiently intelligent, you can hold and express unorthodox opinions without setting off red flags in other people, e.g. saying "Yeah I support BLM" and using it as a launching pad for talking about things you're actually interested in

>>16863883
you're so cool bro

>>16863887
Expand on that

>>16863934
Not really, I just don't see random womens' opinions as a good reason to read a book, or devote energy to falsifying my having read that book.

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>>16863947
Anna Karenina has lessons for us all.

I'm pretty much only friends with men, but you should care about the opinions of the women you date. Otherwise you're in for either dishonesty or heartbreak. Specific views aren't terribly important and can change, but she needs to have a broad life philosophy that aligns with yours. Anna Karenina is a good test.

>>16863896
Well she sounds like she's actually smart; I hope you're still in touch with her anon. Good on you for not wooing her with your tastes, a part of you would've died on the inside if you had.

>>16863991
I've resigned myself to accepting I'll need to steadily reprogram any woman I'm engaged in a long-term relationship with, but thank you for the unsolicited life advice.

>>16863807
Based

>>16863896
Based. I respect you, anon

>>16863784
Cheers old boy, but I'm sure there's a longer version.

>>16863784
By you posting that, and then using various image searches and a 4chan archive I've found the full one.
With sources

>>16863789
it would be funnier if instead he said 'but doctor... don't you realize, I am Pagliacci the clown' imo

>>16863784
I really want to use the "this was revealed to me in a dream" line in my phd proposal

>>16865639
If your teacher was a Jungian they'd probably take it.

>>16865639
I can't wait until I've published enough material that I can publish an entire paper only citing my own work.

>>16863698
/lgbt/ was not around then and butterfly isn't smart.

>>16863773
cringe

>>16863773

>Catholicism founded on reason and objectivity

Lmao, the cope.

>>16863698
can't wait for people on here to say they used to know shit in 2020 in the early days of 4chan

>>16863991

Is it comfy? I wanna read something comfy this winter

>>16863773
Is the west falling to make way for an upcoming, superior era of civilization?

>>16865584
dude that's fuckin genius holy shit

edit: a word

>>16865681
gold

>>16863896
whats your opinion on online dating? somehow i feel likes theres just so much selection bias on online dating that even venturing it sounds like a suicide.

>>16863918
Hold on a moment.
Are you telling me I can reveal as much of my powerlevel as I want by screening it with radical opinions in the other direction?
Like, if I say I like BLM I can follow it up by talking about how Linkola was right and we should depopulate the planet and all live in rural villages?

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>>16866712
Different anon but it fucking sucks, however there's almost zero alternative in the modern era. Approaching random people is frowned upon unless you're a 9 or a 10 and odds are you aren't. Every place where you might meet people is closed.

>>16866712
I don’t get girls desu. I met a girl on tinder before quarantine. She was actually cool but quarantine. We chatted from time to time. A couple of months ago she began streaming. Not knowing this one day I told her “hey let’s play L4D” and she was down.
We played a bit, she said something about some random guy and called him a “simp”. As I heard that word I felt off. I wasn’t feeling it and my voice went from “hey how’s it going” to “ah sure, I guess”.
Still, I tried to keep contact with her. I have a tendency to ghost girls in general, but still had those faint memories from April when we had an actually cool conversation about reading and stuff.
She left me on seen or answered me after hours. After two times. I got the clue, I stopped speaking to her.
I messaged her a little later as a genuine commentary on a post she made about current issues. She answered I said thanks and that was it.
I downloaded tinder again a couple of weeks ago. Deleted it on the spot, it made me sick. Was kind of bored so I downloaded it again today. Went in and the first thing I see is a super like from her. I send her a message as a “what’s up?” She sends me a “wow” I send a “how’s it going” and then nothing.
I don’t t understand girls. Am I stupid?
I honestly think she fucked up while swiping, I don’t want to be a simp. Or any kind of guy that would walk through broken glass for a slight chance of affection or some shit. But I don’t get this, and it puts me thru a lot of stress.
I really needed to write this down. I fucking hate most social interactions, they’re so impractical.

>>16863789
haven't seen this before, but it's funny

>>16865584
don't know if you're joking or not but that's the original punchline

>>16867271
>I messaged her a little later as a genuine commentary on a post she made about current issues

have some self-respect anon.

>>16867271
>Tinder
Have some self respect.
>I fucking hate most social interactions
None of what you described was a social interaction, I hope you see this.

just wanna say this is a mostly racist board, we think blacks are intellectually inferior and do not, as a group, support BLM

>>16863800
Medieval literature was almost entirely made of citations, we just started caring about where they come from.

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>>16866213
/his/ niggers go back

>>16864013
We text occasionally about current events, but I wouldn't describe her as a friend.
>>16866142
AK is not really comfy. I recommend GK Chesterton's father brown stories for that.
>>16866712
Online dating is pretty much a waste of time. You will almost never find a girl who is both interesting and ready for a long term emotional relationship. There is an incentive for people on dating apps to boil down their personality to the lowest common denominator which I absolutely hate. I have considerably more luck when hanging out at bars, but in this time of Covid I understand the need for online dating.

I made it my policy to find at least one good date before I deleted Tinder and Bumble. For Bumble this is slightly easier. My strategy was basically to make a very niche bio:

"Two truths and a lie, I took tea with the royal family of Yugoslavia, I accidentally joined a Leninist cult, and I lived through a Latin American military Coup. Hit me up if you want to talk about Gnostic secret societies." 5' 11.5" This was accompanied by a close up, a gym pic, a picture of me with friends, a picture hiking, and a piece of religious art/gospel quote I like. Note, the picture of you with friends is important to women.

Response rate was somewhat low, but the quality of the people I matched with was considerably higher. The bio was designed to weed out anti-theists and people who care if you're 6'. The matches tended to be considerably more interesting people then you would get with a more generic bio, and they tended to be more interested in me. The bio provided a great opener and could lead into one of four good stories I have regardless of how they responded. Afterwards the important thing is to respond relatively quickly to keep the convo flowing and keep the conversation interesting. Always try to set up a date as soon as you have a good rapport going. I was a fan of drinking establishments for date locations, but coffee shops should also work if you're under 21.

>>16867296
Always good to see that one. The pic is really fitting too.

>>16867569
my bio used to say "Looking to start a book club" and I actually got a lot of book sluts to swipe right on me. most of them only read Harry Potter and Rupi Koor poems but whatever at least they have a passing interest in reading and I can slowly get them into real literature. I'm on a dating hiatus right now because I'm unemployed but I'm definitely gonna try to bag a /lit/ gf once I have money again.

>>16863991
broad life philosophy? that’s a spook. romance needn’t be spooky

>>16866818
Absolutely. It's called being an independent thinker. People can sense it and retain some curiosity while listening.

>>16863789
Now that's some funny Foucault shit.

>>16863773
cringe

>>16867148
Milk truk

>>16863773
>supports Black Lives Matter
???????????????????????????????????????

>>16865584
hahahaha dude you should write comedies

>>16863336
I actually wrote this copypasta and several others

>be freshman in college, first week of first semester
>only book i've ever read outside of high school was Infinite Jest, I never read any real literature. I was not aware it was regarded as such a meme book in the literary world. I genuinely thought it was the #1 greatest book ever written, and I only read like 3 books, 4 if you count that i read IJ twice.
>i would talk about it at parties with girls.
>i would bring it up in my english lit class, question why it isn't on the syllabus, i'd call out, interrupt the class. i'd go to office hours and try to bring it up to my instructor in front of the other graduate research assistants and they all just looked at me like i was insane
>no matter what the topic was in any essay, i'd connect it to IJ somehow, mainly because I viewed literature as 99% Infinite Jest and 1% people making poor attempts to create something as good (meanwhile having zero points of comparison to IJ)
>my breaking point was when i attended a seminar from some famous lit professor. he said something along the lines of Infinite Jest being good, and everyone laughed, and he smiled, as if he was sarcastic and I was really confused.
>i straight up interrupted him and asked "um why was that funny?"
>i saw a few of the grad research assistants from office hours stifling their laughter, i felt something was up
>speaker says "well it's a good book but the people who rave about it only do so because they've never read much else, like upper class white kids."
>fuming i say "that's not true at all"
>speaker says "if you rave about it, have you even read Pretentious Angst by Ernest Milton?"
>i blindly respond "of course i have, it's a classic"
>the entire room bursts into booming laughter
>i look around completely dumbfounded
>after 30 seconds of loud laughter which felt like an eternity, i'm beat red, speaker says "if you're still confused, that's neither a real book nor author, case in point."
>i storm out, switch majors the next day
>4 years later, senior year, at a bar talking to a qt3.14, she says she's an english major, i'm a marketing major, i bust her balls for not having any job security (100% taking out years of my STEM roommate busting MY balls about job security)
>her friend arrives, also an english major
>"oh i remember you, you're the Infinite Jest guy!"
>she tells her friend the story about the seminar and what i'd do in freshman lit class
>qt3.14 says "and now you're a marketing major, lecturing me about job security and commercialism. you've literally become the very thing Wallace criticizes in Infinite Jest", and they both laugh
>i storm out
>creates 2 year existential crisis i've yet to recover from

>>16868220
On a scale of 1 to 100, how close to reality are those two stories?

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