/lit/ - Literature

>>8470021

In the same way that /lit/ likes to jack off our their pomo abstract bullshit, Reddit likes to jack off over their infantile YA bullshit.
Just leave 'em alone, and let 'em enjoy what they enjoy. To be honest, there's more of a market for that anyway; they've got a higher chance of success.

You literally gain nothing from making this thread. It's pointless negativity. You might as well whine about the friend zone.

I really do not understand why people go to reddit with preconceived opinions and expect any different.

Just don't go to reddit if you like 4chan. The two have widely different cultures.

>>8470021
Yeah right, ugh, why do stupid people exist?

>>8470026
>nothing less than superb

>How are these people I share the world with?

>>8470044
>>8470057
These are the people that sit beside you on the way to work, that vote in your elections, who will shape the course of human culture forever and ever.

>>8470077
Yes.

>>8470077
>These are the people that sit beside you on the way to work, that vote in your elections, who will shape the course of human culture forever and ever.

This is nothing less than superb! I like the rhyme-rhythm in forever and ever, it really makes you think.

You're just like them faggot. This thread is a testament of your mediocrity

>>8470089
>This thread is a testament of your mediocrity

How?

>>8470109
You went to reddit to look for a post that you felt was inferior to your intelligence. You posted here to boost your self esteem.

It's those who have to say they are not mediocre who truly are, kiddo.

>>8470109
not this guy
>>8470118

But to add to his, also your language is cringeworthy as fuck, could come right out one of the threads you capped. Your smug arrogance is betrayed by the angstyness of your own whining.

Pretty funny, OP. Post more.

>>8470118
Why do you see that as my intention? Bad writing should be shamed, just like fat people.

>>8470021
shit's depressing. i wish everyone was as smart as me.

>>8470132
Yeah, but I'm not talking about stigmas or the like here. /lit/ is known for being highbrow. You're not being highbrow, you're just doing a terrible job at being mean for the sake of it. So clearly from that I take that as your intention - there's no other real excuse.

Don't go to a website with preconceived opinions and expect to find something different. And for the love of God, stop posting it like it's new.

>>8470124
Holy btfo........... i want more...... pm me if you get this published

This place isn't much better

>>8470026
I actually somewhat liked the second opening line.
Am i a pleb now?

>>8470026
>That whole post
I don't even know how to feel about this but anger is at the forefront.

>>8470089
YOU'RE ALL JUST THE SAME

I FUCKING HATE YOU ALL

I'M GONNA GO LISTEN TO DEATH GRIPS AND CUT MYSELF

>>8470086
>Yes
wow, I kind of like yr style bro

>>8470021
>>8470026
Gregarious narcissists

>>8470077
Shut up anon. It's depressing enough ignoring their existence without you pointing it out.

>>8470021
>>8470026
I hope this is that sock puppet thing I hear so much about.

>>8470118
this post is a testament to your mediocrity

>>8470264
I like it in that I can imagine it as a Garth Merenghi type satire. The first one I think has given my soul cancer, like it make John Green look good.

>>8470026

>sounds great and feels great

How can I learn to have sex with language like these guys?

>>8470132
>/lit/
>highbrow

>>8470338
I meant >>8470142

>>8470026
lol just lol

Holy. . . .I want more

>>8470089
The person I sit in one bench in elementary school is predicted to get Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sooner or later. I wish I was like him.

>>8470021
It's reddit senpai. Don't act surprised.

You should spend more time liking the things you like rather than not liking the things you don't like.

Reddit is better then us.

>>8470399
reddit users are either abusing amphetamine or narcissistic cunts to write that much in response to a shitpost

>>8470399
That's what autism looks like

>>8470021
12 year old fanfic writers

>>8470389
Why?

>>8470072
It's grammatically sound, ESL-kun.

>>8470399
>List seemingly trying to state the top 100 books of all time
>Doesn't include basically any of the top authors of all time
>Reddit defends it
wut

>>8470431
It should be "who" not "how" dipshit.

>>8470431
technically it drops the word "whom" and ends with a preposition
both of which are acceptable in vernacular english

>>8470389
The best way to judge a person's character is by the things he hates

>>8470442
it should be "how" op is questioning how humanity got to this state

>>8470410
or they transcended your little bourgeois brain.

>>8470447
If that's the question it for sure should be who. How would be like "How are you?".

>>8470458
he's questioning how these people exist
he understands that they exist but wants to know why
is english your first language

>>8470418

Pure unbridled autism.

https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/51012j/100_books_worth_reading_before_anything_else/

>>8470458
>>8470464
He is asking how it is possible that these people exist. An exaggerated figure of speech.

>>8470467
Wow they managed to make a list that's even worse than /lit/s...that's a real accomplishment.

To be fair, most of the books on /lit/s list are masterpieces, the order is just a meme.

I'm not really sure what's going on with this list

>>8470464
>he's questioning how these people exist
Bro, if you have such special access to the OP's mind you must be OP. Either stop second guessing his intentions or stop pretending to be another person.

>he understands that they exist but wants to know why
It needs to at least have at least an extra verb. So "How are you in existence" instead of "How are you". Without a lot of set up I can't see "How are you" parseable in that sense at all.

I'm also being charitable here since neither is a why question, merely a kind of philosophical reading of the question.

>is english your first language
Gotta love the sense of beta uncertainty here. Maybe reflect on that being a relevant question for you and how that undermines your bullshitting.

>>8470433
They...got Proust and Emily Bronte on there, at least. Someone tried.

>>8470523
I wonder how much it matches eith TV reading lists like Rory Gilmore's... Proust was like the go to "I am a well read character" author for a long time.

>>8470508
You will see how retarded you are if you just put a "the" in front of "people"

>>8470508
>Either stop second guessing his intentions or stop pretending to be another person
its incredibly obvious what he means
you just seem to be having a hard time parsing the sentence
>It needs to at least have at least an extra verb
the extra modifiers should hint that he's not inquiring about the state of "these people" but that he's inquiring as to how their existence happened.
Also note that literally everyone else itt understood his sentence with little difficulty
>Gotta love the sense of beta uncertainty here
gotta love the need to psychoanalyze a discussion of grammar. It was a legitimate question, as unusual constructions can be difficult to understand if you're not a native speaker

>>8470508
Op here. It was sort of an abstract question. Just an expression of frustration, or isolation.

when it comes to art
reddit is an enormous hugbox
r/art is a great big pile of shit

>>8470508
He's questioning whether the beings he shares the world with are people.

>>8470550
>how are these people I share the world with
should be
>how are these the people I share the world with

>>8470564
no

>>8470399
1. /lit/ only ironically likes DFW
2. DFW only ironically liked pulp

>>8470593
technically both work

>>8470550
>the extra modifiers should hint
They don't.

>gotta love the need to psychoanalyze
Holy shit do you like to overreach.

>>8470604
>they don't
they do to me
>you love to overreach
you tried to psychoanalyze me over a dispute about grammar ffs

>>8470604
nice funpost sweatie, looks like you 'got btfo', as the youths around here say.

>>8470596
no they don't.

>>8470596
No.

Since you're obvs new here, are you such a pseud that you just assumed you were smart somehow and donned a trip, or is the tripfagging something else now?

>>8470612
ive been posting here for about a year
the trip is from /s4s/ and i generally only use it when im crossposting from there
>>8470610
how not?

>>8470607
>you tried to psychoanalyze me
You would like it to be "psychoanalysis" but it's pure commentary. Going through a whole load of bullshit just to end with questioning who has authority is a beta post. No cigar penors around here.

>>8470617
>a whole load of bullshit
more like two short sentences
>question who has authority
or asking a legitimate question?

>>8470021
>>8470026
If you're wondering why they are praising something as great when to us it may not seem great at all is probably due to the attachments that come with using a site such as reddit.

On an imageboard, you do not have people worrying about their posts being downvoted--you can post retarded shit, such as this thread, and not have to worry about the people who disagree with you shutting you down by downvoting your comments or submissions into being hidden from others. When you have that voting system, a user is far more likely, when giving criticism, to coddle people. This is because they want to project an identity of themselves that seems nice and friendly--karma points factor into that too.

Whereas here, most people say whatever they feel like saying as they are not grounded by karma points or post history. An environment such as this one produces material that is more blunt and jaded--even to the point where someone could come off as being an asshole sometimes, as this environment attracts that release of unrestricted (not really, but you know what I mean) speech. It is a relief when you can say whatever is on your mind without having those attachments, so it's easy to come off as a dick when you're just trying to blow off some steam, or if you have had a shitty day, to take that out on some other faceless entity. One can even make pointless repetitive threads that they find mildly humorous to distract themselves as a form of escapism. That's why we come across countless stupid threads such as:

>What did he mean by this
>Is he, dare I say it, our guy?
>What went wrong
>etc

They serve their purpose though

>>8470021
All that comes from me browsing reddit anymore is disappointment. It's like being a dilettante is considered perfection over there. I just don't get it.

>inb4 projection

>>8470615
>ive been posting here for about a year
Your first post on s4s appears to have been from a week ago and assking for furry porn ("MORE. WABBIT. BOOBERS."). Your first post here is in this John Green thread >>8433733
One day after s4s

>>8470615
I just think in that context, it makes a lot more sense to use "the people" where just "people" would lead to a different meaning

>how are these people i share the world with?

In this sentence, he's comparing "these" (those in the reddit image) and "people".

It doesn't come naturally to me that he's comparing "these" to "people i share the world with".

If he instead said
>how are these the people I share the world with
it comes much easier to me that he's comparing "these" and "the people I share the world with.

The way it's written, it seems like he's incredulous that "these" (those in the reddit post) are people at all!

This is clearly not what he meant.

>>8470649
to clarify, without the article "the" before "people", it naturally reads as
>how are these people [adjective phrase]?

and then you read on and realize that "I share the world with" isn't an adjective phrase at all.

This is probably a much more concise way to explain it than my previous post.

>>8470644
i started using this trip like a week ago
but ive been here a lot longer
nice investigative journalism though
there actually was a different FOXE on /s4s/ and i just took his trip
>>8470649
but is it technically grammatically incorrect or just somewhat awkward when looked at?

>>8470651
I would say that it's not grammatically incorrect, but terrible english, and doesn't convey the intended meaning very well.

>>8470467
>Holt, John. Teach Your Own.
>How and why to home-school.

>You may notice, reading this list, that this is a bit of a theme — literary books, that are famous for their technique, style and so on bore me.

what the fuck? How is this not a parody?

>>8470604
>>8470607
Both of you seem to have deep sense of insecurity that you project onto each other. Have you ever considered, that maybe one of you needs to overreach, and one of you needs to psychoanalyze others over grammar--Or maybe both of you are arguing over such petty bullshit that only morons would get involved in with.

Jesus, I'm so much better than both of you.

>>8470253
right lmfao

>>8470651
You have very clearly been here for no time at all babby.

>but is it technically grammatically incorrect or just somewhat awkward when looked at?
Why don't you know already?

Was it the tumblr image thay brought you over btw? If I see an increase in furries I can only assume.

>>8470657
Now this is actual psychoanalysing.

>>8470442
Read a book for once, stupid shitskin.

>>8470253
Id say its even worse but people here are self aware and honest even in their idiocy so its bearable even, dare i say it, entertaining.

>>8470669
What's going on with you broheim?

>>8470659
>you very clearly have been here for no time at all babby
i have been here for about a year, its not like i can prove it
infinite jest, ulysses and gravity's rainbow are the meme trilogy
there is also a meme about attributing various authors' quotes to John green to see if anyone can spot the real john green quotes
>why don't you know already
i mean its definitely not incorrect and whether it is difficult to parse has been the topic of discussion for like 50% of this thread
>was it the tumblr image that brought you
???

>>8470508
Jesus fucking christ, can you really be this up your own ass? Get a fucking grip.

>>8470508
One doesn't need to read OP's mind to know what he means because it's very clear just from reading what he posted.

>>8470677
theres another meme that nabakov called mccarthy corncobby so now he's the cornfather

>>8470677
>???
So why are you here and why are you tripping? What's the process at work here?

>>8470689
ive explained this twice already
im crossposting on /s4s/ and im too lazy to turn off the trip

>>8470692
But why the trip all of a sudden?

>>8470612
>>8470610
>>8470604
Could you be less of a samefag? You are the only retard that didn't understand what OP said, and the only one arrogant enough to think he was smarter for it.

>>8470695
because i want people to notice when i say something stupid

>>8470695
its a meme from /s4s/

>>8470698
hey you arent me im turning on the secure trip again

>>8470699
The word "foxe" is a meme from s4s, but using it as a name isn't.

>>8470697
???

only one of those is me.

I understood what he said, but it took me a minute.

>>8470615
>>8470644
HAHAHAHAH BLOWN THE FUCK OUT. This is too good to be true. Can he ever recover?

>>8470704
its just how it progressed

>>8470698
Is this the night of 1000 FOXES?

friendly reminder that only this tripcode >>8470710 is me
>>8470713 is an imposter

>>8470710
>progress
Pure ideology.

>>8470715
>an imposter
a poster* damn autocorrect :^)

>>8470717
stop being me its not nice

>>8470715

>>8470723
Life is a big guy
A big guy for you, and you are not me

>>8470726
thanks for the (you) friend

>>8470695
people have been needlessly name fagging since day one kiddo

>>8470741
People have been doing all sorts of shit from irl day one. Half of the discussion on this board is driven by questioning that in some way.

>>8470651
kek you don't even know what a trip is, you hopeless newfag.

>>8470748
>being autistic about trip/name
fine im using a trip now and i was using a name then

>>8470758
You're trippin all the same.

>>8470783
>>8470758
FYI, I don't use a trip and these fags are imposters.

please filter them accordingly.

>>8470835
why don't you like having a double? I really like the surreal, proto-kafka feel of it. It represents external alienation to namefagging's internal alienation

>>8470853
sorry, I had you filtered, what did you say?

>>8470860
Я cкaзaл "why don't you like having a double?"

>>8470868
>typing anything that isn't glorious english

that's an easy SUPAFILTER™

fuck off, eastfag

>>8470883
Ah, dije "why don't you like having a double?"

In that case don't be so mean to R E I, you live on the same continent.

>>8470897
>assuming i know anything that wasn't explained to me on /s4s/

alright, i didn't wanna do this, but it's time for the SUPADUPAFILTA™

fucking foreigners

>>8470910
I forgot to mention, /s4s/ is where my name came from. it came from /s4s/, it's a meme on there.

my name is a meme from /s4s/

>>8470910
If you are a PURE ARYAN GIRL (I think this is negotiable somewhat) you can probably get in on his mexican neet bux.

It's not like our critique threads have been much better recently.

>>8470943
Holy..........I want more........

post a FOXE signal if you get published. I like your style. I want to read more.

>>8470021
>dangling a participle
How are these people with whom I share the world?

>>8471002
Grammar is a meme

Why is reddit's layout so fucking confusing? I hate how the comment section is in tree-view, it's often hard to see exactly what post they're replying to.

>>8470835
>>8470853
>both of you impersonating me
This wouldn't be such a disruption if you weren't making a big deal out of my name.

>>8470021
The whistle of a fly splits the air like Moses' mother split the bulrushes to deposit her sleeping progeny into a river, not in a manner dissimilar to the way a FedEx employee might deposit a package to the mercy of my doorstep, the delivery being at mercy due to dark nature of my cul de sac's inhabitants.

By dark, I mean to say that I live in a neighborhood of negros.

But anyways, the fly. It whistled and buzzed like an old man who had nowhere to be, but was perfectly pleased with chatting your ear hard enough to make you wish you were freezing to death on the outer rings of Jupiter. At that moment, the phone rang, screaming out from the kitchen and surprising the fly into a somersault so graceful and swift, I was sure it would've earned a straight ten at the Olympics.

Be that as it may, I had no qualms about killing Olympian level athletes, or really any kind of athletes at all. I had made my mind up. I made my solemn vow:

"The fly must die."

It was too late to turn back now. I had made an oath with the universe, my departed words sealing themselves to the oxygen. I knew what had to be done. I would not shirk my duty.

What do you guys think? Its the opening for a novel I'm writing. Its a slice of life story about an average dude and his friend, Frank the fly. Its also about my own depression and schizophrenia, somehow.

Please upboat and share.

>>8470021
>>8470026

>>8465408

>>8470853
Ok now that's just insulting
Why are you stalking me

>>8470021

The only good parts of reddit are hailcorporate and latestagecapitalism.

Nothing like it anywhere else. They love *slurp* on the latter.

>>8471018
It's to keep out the stupid Facebook types, silly Anon :^)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4zu0kq/its_good_that_reddits_layout_is_a_bit_archaic/?st=isodwisa&sh=48caade8

>>8471033
Fuckin' masterpiece.

Unless you weren't operating on the 20 levels of irony that I thought you were operating on, in which case it was shit.

thanks for ruining a potentially entertaining thread over grammar you god damn spergs
never change /lit/

>>8471104

I've been meaning to ask for a long time, is there conservative, sort of borderline nazi, version of r/latestagecapitalism?

I want a website that documents cultural decline, the creep of Islam, progressivist excess, "degeneracy" etc. In a funny way r/latestagecapitalism kind of works, but it's far from ideal. Sometimes I need a break from the hard intellectual labor of sniggering along with Steve Sailer and just want to look at pictures of cucks.

>CRASH!
>"Oh yeaahh!!"

check n m8, plebbit

>>8471445
common filth sort of used to be this until he went off the deep end from too much exposure to gross shit

>>8471421
>Unless you weren't operating on the 20 levels of irony
The structure is similar to Paul Clifford's, of course it's 20 layers of irony.

>>8471454

Thank you, friend.

>trying to revive the white race.webm

kek

>>8470399
i want a link to this list, anybody got it?

>>8470452
We will never know which.

>>8470446

>mfw meeting someone who doesn't really hate anything

https://www.reddit.com/user/epicurean_phallus

>>8470552
1/8 poem desu

>>8470608
>sweatie

>>8470631
We know.

>>8470835
Those people are the worst.

>>8471018
You need to collapse the sub trees you've already read.

>>8471104
programmingcirclejerk is nice

>>8471445

I don't know. If I want that I'll just head over and see what the retards on /pol/ say.

>>8470399
He's absolutely right, and absolutely autistic.

He'd fit in, I think.

>>8470021
Behold!

The one true law of good writing: be grammatically correct, always! =)

They fucking love Elements of Style. Probably because King jacks off to it every night, and every day, too.

what is elision, for 1 shitpost

Rember this


http://imgur.com/gallery/ngExKHr

the comment on Reddit where just as bad most where PC identity politics Where are the womyn.

>>8471777
The great-dragons are green in my opinion ;^)

And Roald Dahl is a bad writer for being so grammatically incorrect with shit like his Friendly Big Giant.

>>8471803
>It hurts me that Brave New World isn't up there with 1984. Those two go hand in hand like biscuits and gravy

>>8471813
>talking shit about roald Dahl
Stop right there faggot

>>8471803
the leading intellectuals of imgur on Ulysses:

>a good book if you love English and hate yourself. I made it five pages in.
>Lost power for two weeks during Hurricane Sandy, read it, loved it; but sitting in the dark would have been more pleasant
>Beat me. Might have hit 3, but I still don't know how anyone wrote that piece of crap, let alone read it more than once.

>>8471866
>I know I'm smart so if I don't understand something instantly I know it's bullshit
>I'm also terrible at math and science, but those I pass because of you question their authority you are a retard

These people abound

>>8471589
>https://www.reddit.com/user/epicurean_phallus
Is he, dare I say it, our guy?

>>8470631
yeah no shit buddy

>>8471625

Oh, I see. Didn't even realize you could do that, I feel stupid. Still, it doesn't feel as intuitive as the system on 4chan, where I can simply hover over the post number and see what they're replying to.

It's also weird that comments are in order of upvotes (even if you sort by old, people still reply to the most upvoted comments anyway). It's weird because on 4chan I'm used to just reading all the posts.

>>8472244
I generally prefer 4chan's interface too, but when people start long bickerings like the grammar boys above it can be nice to just hide it.

>>8472220
>https://www.reddit.com/user/epicurean_phallus

He sounds like a big guy.

>>8470142
>being mean for the sake of it

If I can't engage in funny, harmless mockery of people being stupid on fucking 4chan of all places, then where am I supposed to do it?

>>8471421
Thanks.

>>8471456
Glad someone noticed.

>>8471777
Is this serious? I honestly can't tell.

Nice trips

>>8471445
probably r/theredpill
but bump for interest

>>8470443
Ending with a preposition is acceptable in any context in English.

That's because you are going to shitty subreddits, it's only your fault you don't know any patrician ones (they obviously won't have 'WRITING' or BOOKS in the title). You are just showing your incompetence, son.

>it's a /lit/ pretends they aren't reddit even as they share posts and stories from all the time they spent on reddit
The cognitive dissonance in this thread is incredible. It's a bunch of teenagers and early-20-somethings who recently got fed up with reddit and now think they're cooler than the rest of their reddit friends for posting on 4chan. In fact I see no significant differences between example reddit posts and what I see on /lit/ on average, but I imagine through the haze of cognitive dissonance you've convinced yourselves that the /lit/ version of these posts are "ironic".

>>8473161
It's technically grammatically incorrect isn't it?

>>8471104
>latestagecapitalism
I got banned from there for saying there was literally nothing wrong with accelerationism.

In seriousness, the only decent parts of Reddit are the subs that start with "bad[X]".

Imgur's top books

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B190YWTZr4Ysc2tJLWJsN2lSNm8/view

>>8471445
r/antipozi
r/publichealthwatch

they're "quarantined" so you need a verified email to read

>>8470077
what's your favorite nine inch nails record

>>8470631
fag fag retard

>>8473224
No. Was your last English education in high school?

>>8473808
>Was your last English education in high school?
You don't use education like that. I guess you could say did your English education end in high school, but I would tend towards English lesson.

>>8470026
no FUCKING way

>>8470026
what can we do about this? like how do I get my children not to grow up to be like this?

>>8473419
this, I'm equally curious, I haven't listened to NIN though

>>8474009
>how do I get my children not to grow up to be like this?

Raise them.

>>8470595
/lit/ does everything ironically. There's a deep fear of commitment and sincerity, because it opens a window for ridicule (which is idiotic, given anon). It's not that irony and sarcams are passé, it's that anons let them get so intertwined with their true tastes that they don't know what they like anymore, nor have true opinions. Everything's a meme, everything's shit and everything's godtier; ironically, of course.

>>8474009
This is an antinatalist board, friend.

>>8474021
"christian" board*
fixed

>>8474021
>>8474029
Why not both?

And anti natalism would be a solution. Otherwise just raise them the best you can and hope for the best.

>People that browse reddit for content
How are these people I share the world with?

>>8474300
Are you just now realizing /lit/ is like 90% redditors? A lot of them are disaffected redditors, but they're redditors all the same, with the same shitty mentality as the rest of that ilk.

>>8474316
I don't understand how people here have the gall to bitch about Reddit, but then go post there.

I've been on 4chan since 2008 and I've never posted on Reddit once. If you hate it so much, why go there?

>>8474318

I don't understand this pride in /lit/. I've browsed here for about a decade now and reddit for about 8 and really there is no discernible difference between the two. And if you think there is you're delusional. I'd like to read people's thoughts on literature, writing, and reading and I'd really rather skip the ego driven dick measuring shit post contest. Is that really so much to ask?

Jesus christ, and I worry obsessively about the quality of my prose. Do these clowns even realize how far from passable their work is?

>>8474484
>Browsed the board for longer than it has existed

You are the jew with the golden star.
did you stop to think even a second before posting? realising that literally nobody cares?

>>8474575

hmm, I started on 4chan about a decade ago, and 8 years sounds about right? was there some premutation of lit, like how pol has been four diff versions?

>>8470021
I like a few boards on reddit. /r/askphilosophy and /r/truefilm often have decent discussion. /r/changemyview is usually cancer, but it can be useful to get a basic understanding of a perspective you don't understand.

>>8474581
>I've browsed here for about a decade now <
also 4 diff versions of pol? as stated earlier, you are the jew with the golden star.

Reddit sucks but I don't see the point of making a thread about it. If everyone (4chan posters) agrees on this there should be no discussion. The only reason this thread would get any replies is if /lit/ was infested with redditors. Wait a darn moment here...

>>8474612
:^)

>>8474575

I didn't write that post for you. It was mostly for myself. There's only so much puerile word vomit and dank (shit) memes you can sift through before you start to go insane. Really I think if you read this board for long enough you start tilting downwards into some sort of intellectual degeneration. It's really not healthy. The same can be said for most of reddit. Maybe that explains the absolutely terrible shit-tier quality of the vast majority of posts and threads here. We've locked ourselves in an echo chamber and we've smeared such a monstrous amount of shit on the walls that we can't seem to find the door anymore.

>>8474484
It's not about /lit/, it's about all of 4chan. Every board hates Reddit but they're also full of people who actively post on Reddit. It's horribly disingenuous.

>>8474484
>>8474645
if you defend reddit you are a part of the problem

>>8474638
pompous neo-modernist cumguzzler is what you are, jew. You are not part of intellectuals, you are a sub-intellectual. How wrong can ones frame of mind be to actually believe anything that you write, an hero or lurk niggerslut.

>>8474648
>>8474654

>triggered

>>8474009
I also think Malissa is cute

what's funny is /lit/ trying to write is just as cringey and lacks the same amount of self-awareness that Reddit does

>>8474660
i have no idea who that is, I just posted a picture of a girl with a gun.

>>8474676
>>8474660
The picture of a girl with a gun you posted is a picture of Malissa, the the picture I posted is also of Malissa

>>8470021
TAR used to publish weird tentacle porn poems. So I mean.

>>8474750
That reminds me, isn't it about time again for /lit/ to make a half-assed attempt at starting a literary journal?

>>8474751
I try to do that personally every few years and eat a bag of cocks trying to do so.
I get 14 submissions from 2 guys that are both terrible over the span of 6 months and give up.

>>8474750
TAR had some legit good shit mixed in, though. I wish I had submitted while it was alive.

>>8470021
Probably lack of dubs, unlike me

>>8474753
Is it all science fiction and fantasy, or is there some literary fiction thrown in?

>>8474751
Those last guys who exploited a bunch of writers here might have ruined the chances of a new /lit/ mag

>>8470057
Redditor here. I agree with this sentiment.
Reddit is the discussion that happens in the classroom. 4chan is the discussion that happens between classes in the hallways.

What makes Reddit greater than 4chan? On Reddit you can downvote all the shit so it never gets seen. On 4chan, all the shit floats on the surface.

Worst of all, user aren't tied to usernames either so they have no reputation to uphold; no way of checking their contribution against their post history so that you can judge their intellect from the things they've posted.

There's a good reason why anytime 4chan is mentioned in the news, it's not because something good came from it.

>>8470021
Fuck off, Cameron, you Millenial faggot

>>8474760

Try to do lit-fic and non-fic, mostly get pulpy romance and some edgelord's ultra violence power fantasies about rape and etc.

I posted on /lit/ a few years ago about it and mostly just got told to fuck off, which was about what I expected. Some really talented Russian dude sent me a sweet short story that I still have saved somewhere though.

>>8474754
I was published twice in TAR ages ago, once to /lit/ acclaim, once to their ire.

Idk if /lit/ is really a good litmus test for anything.

>>8470021
I would like to bet 100 dollars that kid read a John Green novel and decided to become a famous writer by imitating his prose.

>>8474771

Lol you love being a good little e-citizen don't you? You dorks basically censor yourselves.

>>8474755
nice

>>8474767
Fuck, I remember this. What were they called again? I sent them a story and never heard back, then some Anon came on claiming to be them, only he actually wasn't.

>>8474064
>Why not both?
because they're not compatible

don't @ me back with some stupid nonconformist shit

>>8474771
>On 4chan, all the shit floats on the surface.
>OP pic

shit floats to the surface in your circlejerk factory, dumbass. that's the whole point of this thread. and all the memes in your pic originated here, just like all the memes on reddit originated here, so what's really hood?

>>8474661
Sometimes, but we don't get unanimously praised for it at least.

>>8474847
>because they're not compatible

Yes they are

>>8470021

why not "CRASH! She is not pregnant!"?

what would reddit have to say of such opener?

>>8474016
>Raise them.

Damn...

>>8471445
>the creep of Islam

Islam will save us all from degeneracy.

>>8470077

...nah

>>8475083
Every good thing is Christian, sorry to say. Judaism is #2. Islam doesn't even break the top 10.

>>8474847
All the early christians were anti natalist you idiot. That's part of why celibacy gets put forward as a solution so much.

The fucking shakers died out because they were so antinatalist ffs.

To everyone else, when did that tumblr thing happen? We seem to have been swamped by actual retards in the last month or two.

>>8475083
islam IS the degeneracy we need saving from.

>>8470077
Most people don't even read. Fewer people even write. These people are Reddit are not the enemy.

>>8470021
here's the link if anyone wants to read this pleb's horseshit:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1leM9cjIkaxEBTWIv4OC1C5PyaWcrTpmA3Lrpo3fvMwo/edit

>>8470021

OP, how shit is your writing that you need to tear apart some 15 year old posting on the internet.
It's garbage and you know it's garbage, but they've probably written more than you have.

>>8470021
I bet OPs writing is even worse than this Reddit trash tho. lmao really makes you think...

>>8470021
if you go on reddit could you at least have the decency not to post about it here? no one cares except other redditors. ideally you would fuck off back to where you came from, but we all know thats not going to happen.

>>8476167
>written more
Why would this be honorable?
My word count in shitposting exceeds the entirety of any library, does that mean I'm worthy of praise?

>>8474771

>>8476289
By virtue of actually working towards improving oneself.
It's not a sign of literary merit, but one of effort. While you sit there shitposting and whining about how bad everyone else is your "novel" sits 3,000 words in and untouched for months.

It doesn't take a genius to see that not writing is a shit way to improve one's writing.

>>8476355
>patterson
>king
>wallace
writing a shit ton sure made them better, huh? straight upward trajectory.

>>8476431

Writing a lot alone does not equate to improvement.

Writing nothing at all equates to no improvement.

The cumulative IQ of this board has dropped drastically in the last few months. I know summerfags are a meme, but school is back in session, children.

le bump xD

>>8476438
i am more educated than you

>>8476631

That's a bold statement on an anonymous image board with no consequences or means of providing legitimate evidence. I am terrified of your towering intellect.
Go back to school.

>>8476658
I literally can't express how much better my life has been since I attended Oxford. I went to a state school and gradually became the stereotypical moody, withdrawn sensitive type who both despises the quality of his immediate culture and feels a weird pride for having been raised in a sort of anti-intellectual and brutal environment. I was all set to take my Russell Group humanities BA and spend my life working as an anonymous, insecure wageslave forever thankful of being offered a job and forever too insecure to pursue my creative ambitions. The chip on my shoulder had become something of a wedge, and I felt too out of place regardless of my environment, too resentful and bitter to even attempt to make it in the artistic world. Then I finally applied for Oxford and got in to study an English MA, with reassurance that should I work hard enough a career in academia or within one of Oxford's affiliated companies would be almost guaranteed. I turned up as apprehensive as usual, and the first few days were spent regretting my decision and desperately feigning a cultured personality. But then I realized that the people there were just interesting and that the snobbery and exclusivity I had anticipated was just a myth borne out of my working class upbringing. I've since graduated, having spend the year dining in grand halls with groups of interesting people, dating several girls (one of whom, a petite Russian whose family traces back to the aristocracy, is now my fiancee). I work four days a week at a publishing company and earn £38k a year. I regularly meet up with friends from my college and visit Oxford for nights out and for meetings with my professors. The Martin Eden-esque novel I have been writing for two years has been selected for publication at a major British publishing house and, honestly, I could not have imagined a few years ago how great life could be. I come on /lit/ and see how pathetic you all are and just shake my head and chuckle. If I saw you guys on the street I would of course throw you a penny or discuss Bukowski or whatever "realist" writers you enjoy, but ultimately I would be able to tell within ten seconds if you're an Oxbridge grad and would dismiss you as a potential source of good company if you are not. I never thought I'd know what it was like to be objectively better than somebody else, for the value of my existence to be superior to the value of a stranger's, but now I do and I've never been happier. People are awed by power and prestige. All I need to do is mention the university I attended (if only for a year) and they immediately begin to hunch and look at their feet because they know they are in the presence of greatness.

>>8470026
I WOULD READ THE FUCK OUT OF THIS BOOK

>>8472234
The sad thing is i'll bet at least 90% of people here do not >_>

>>8470021
Reads like the opening to a book targeted to 9-12 year olds and it is a children's book then that line is not bad. Could possibly fit for a young teen book but that's stretching it.

>>8470026
Ow, the edge

>>8470026
Laxnut, your opening sentence is nothing bar the manifestation of the ideal beauty. I just don't know how God himself didn't think of it as an opening line for the bible! Listen I'm a real hardass with my criticism; I already used capslock critiquing Hazel'sNut's opening line, but trust me I orgasimed thrice while reading it. It made me think good, feel good, and get over my abortion.
The prose is on par with Stephen King's, dare I say, and it really just gets the reader hella hooked! The buildup is already there, and it's FABULOUS! You should definitely finish this and publish it. I'm happy to critique more, and I'm nothing but objective. I'll personally edit it if you allow me. You know you can just come to my apartment, I'm currently living alone so there's an empty room. I guess I can take you in as my personal little boipuspus fucktoy haha! Pls send more.

>>8476831
It is grammatically incorrect, right? Can that statement even follow a semi colon?

>>8476289

>My word count in shitposting exceeds the entirety of any library, does that mean I'm worthy of praise?

Yes.

>>8476844
>It is grammatically incorrect, right?
Yes.

Both sides of the semi-colon have to be complete sentences. An emdash would be best here.

>>8474755
wew

>>8476844
It should be followed by a complete sentence. Semicolon because the sentence gave an example supporting previous sentence, so they're related. Not sure if it's the best punctuation to use here though. Personally I found the extra 'the' I accidentally added much more annoying. All I wanted was to mock that person, and now I'm annoyed by my own writing. Fuck that bitch.

>>8472253
You can hide it in 4chan as well, you can even set it to automatically hide all replies to a hidden post, which essentially accomplishes the same thing as hiding a post tree on reddit.

>>8470021
I believe 4chan is as bad as reddit. Just in a different way.
Actually way worse, I mean look at /pol/

>>8474839
I can't remember the name either.

>>8475449
>The fucking shakers died out because they were so antinatalist ffs.

Sounds like /lit/'s kind of denomination

This thread is still going wtf

>>8477066
>t. Reddit

>>8477066
Have an upvote my good sir, how dare discussion that would be censored on reddit exist!

>>8477206
I don't even have a reddit account..

>>8477066
>I believe 4chan is as bad as reddit. Just in a different way.
4chan is definitely better.
>Actually way worse, I mean look at /pol/
Even /pol/ is better than its reddit counterparts.
>>8477215
I do. I use it all the time.

>>8476672
I would probably adore anything you actually went out and wrote

>>8471445
Disregard previous posts:
http://nobodytm.com/archive/index.html

>>8476672
Sorry you feel that way.

>>8474581
Jesus Christ, I just realized I've been here for 7 years

>>8475091
>Every good thing is Christian

Ahahahahahahahaha

>>8476143
Nah, Islam is actually strict against degeneracy, unlike pussified Christianity

>>8470044
>You might as well whine about the friend zone.
Hay guise... I think I might have been friend zoned by my wife. She's more into yoga than me. hahah. Is this a problme? image not related

>>8474021

No, it's not.

>>8477936
I'm so hard

>>8477936
Also, sauce?

>>8473192
fuck you i found /b/ when i was twelve years old from a cracked.com thread in 2008, which later gave me autism

>>8474019
but that's the entirety of 4chan culture and internet culture in general

who needs to be serious, we're all faceless anons

>>8470026
>>8470021
the bad thing about reddit is that you can be 99% sure the posters are sincere. at least with 4chan you can dismiss anything that gets your goat as a shitpost, whether or not it actually is.

>>8474019
>>8478620
no. the amount of pointless arguing on the internet disproves this. left, right, christian, atheist, &c