/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17798838]

>tfw you suddenly realize that you're too old for this board

[Anonymous No.17798846]

why? there's nothing useful to learn here it's like a gentlemen's club

[Anonymous No.17798850]

>>17798838
What lvl oldfag are you?

[Anonymous No.17798858]

>>17798838
i too realized this. it was the thinker thread wasnt it?

do young people even have awareness of their self? i wonder that. it was not until 26 years i acquired individuality

[Anonymous No.17798869]

>>17798846
>it's like a gentlemen's club
mfw

[Anonymous No.17798878]

>>17798838
I'm 27. I'm currently in a /lit/ bender for a week or two, then I won't touch it for another year. I hope to break the cycle.

[Anonymous No.17798900]

>>17798878
Same boat here. I spent 2 years off 4chan but since I’ve been stuck at home cause of virus I’ve naturally returned. I mostly hate it, but hopefully starting another job soon and I’ll be away again

[Anonymous No.17798901]

>>17798878
im 24. similar
4chan is where you fall when you feel like you're failing, or when you're first getting into internet culture. that's why it's such a shit stom.

just go get out there anon. I know it's easier said than done, but just log off and try your hand at whatever you're into. You'll get it <3

[Anonymous No.17798910]

>>17798900
same. abolish liberal governments for forcing us back to this shit hole

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYqWRDiE No.17798915]

I AM NOT «TOO OLD FOR THIS BOARD», BUT, RATHER, THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD'S USERBASE HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ZOOMER MORONS.

[Anonymous No.17798923]

>>17798838
I remember 23.

[Anonymous No.17798928]

>>17798915
Yeah but you’re a tripfag so infinitely worse then any brainlet zoomer

[Anonymous No.17798929]

What do you guys think it's the borderline age for this board? I'm 21

[Anonymous No.17798931]

>>17798838
That place looks comfy.

[Anonymous No.17798934]

>>17798929
I think 30 is pushing it.

[Anonymous No.17798946]

>>17798858
What happened in there anon? I don't want to spend the time to go through the replies.

[Anonymous No.17798947]

>>17798934
I sincerely hope I'm not here past age 24 at least.

[Anonymous No.17798948]

im 28

[Anonymous No.17798949]

>>17798929
If I’m still here when I’m 30 chances are that my suicide will be in the post

[Anonymous No.17798995]

>>17798929
12

[Anonymous No.17799013]

24 been here since 12. Not the worst thing ever, really, but I should take a break.

[Anonymous No.17799025]

What the hell are you guys talking about?
Out of all the arts literature isn't the one, which you get too old for.
I rather talk to a /lit/ard, who's older than me and I'm sure, if this board was frequented more by 40+ guys, the quality of this board would rise significantly.
Also out of all the 4chan boards, this one is probably visited by the most normal people (on a 4chan level).

[Anonymous No.17799045]

Okay, where else would you go? We all need to use social media to some extent, otherwise you'd socially isolate yourself. Reddit? I'm pretty sure that's where Moot goes now

[Anonymous No.17799053]

>>17799045
BUUUUUUURRN.

[Anonymous No.17799065]

>>17799045
This is pretty much the only reason why I’m here. I have no other social media (deleted all of them 2yrs ago) but this is the place where I’ve actually found good literature I otherwise wouldn’t have read, and had conversations that I couldn’t have with my friends because none of them really read. For better or worse, I feel normal and accepted here, and I think the anonymous aspect goes a long way in that respect

[Anonymous No.17799120]

>>17798838
I think the moment you repeatedly spam f5 for (you)s is the point you should quit

[Anonymous No.17799134]

I'm 35. I can't relate to you kids, but I have nowhere else to go. I've been here since 2005.

[Anonymous No.17799160]

>>17799053
pewdiepie and the eel. god what a classic gamer moment.

[Anonymous No.17799166]

>>17799134
based
>>17799045
I have instagram as a messenger to keep up with people. 4chan boards are just parasocial and you need real social connections to develop not to die, even if they're just online at this point; people you can talk to 1-1 because we can't post personal threads on here because muh literature board.

[Anonymous No.17799172]

29 here, only board i visit. Got a job, got a gf etc normie shit. I just think this is the best place for finding new shit to read.

[Anonymous No.17799195]

>>17798915
>>17798928
wojakbrains are intolerable

[Anonymous No.17799472]

I'm not finding this website fun anymore.

[Anonymous No.17799613]

>zoomers, leave my board

[Anonymous No.17799639]

>>17798838
I have now reached a point where my worldview has become too idiosyncratic and esoteric for anything I say to make sense to anyone in fleeting conversation. At least that is the impression I get here, since most of the time when I try to contribute to a discussion I either get no replies or one or two replies calling me a retard. I actually don't browse lit much anymore because of it.

[Anonymous No.17799649]

>>17799639
(You) :^)

[Anonymous No.17799653]

>>17799639
time to write a philosophy book and explain your current position

[Anonymous No.17799671]

>>17798838
It's a medium to convey thoughts, ideas. There's no age limit for that.

[Anonymous No.17799677]

You sound like this one fool I knew who thought he was too old for nightclubs at 24.

[Anonymous No.17799695]

>>17799677
There's a reason why most nightclubs have an age limit of 24. If you're caught over that age by the nightclub police, it's automatic jail time, and they're not gentle with over-24 nightclub perverts in jail

[Anonymous No.17799715]

>>17798838
I have this realization every day and yet here I am, every day

[Anonymous No.17799768]

>>17798947
I'm 32. I don't think I'll ever stop coming here, even if I become more of a normie.

[Anonymous No.17799770]

>>17799065
In the same boat.

[Anonymous No.17799799]

I am nearly 30. I’ve spent 15 years of my life on 4chan. Zoomers aren’t going to come here. We are all going to grow old together on this god forsaken website.

[Anonymous No.17799808]

> there are no decent literature discussion forums on the internet for people aged over 25.

[Anonymous No.17799812]

>>17798838
Sometimes I feel pic related but it's worse because I naturally don't know if I'm surrounded by children or not. I sometimes wonder if all the erudite people who I've had discussions with here about various things have all moved on without me realizing it. It's a disquieting thought.

[Anonymous No.17799813]

>>17798947
i started coming to 4chan at 14, i'm 29 now. it wasn't just 4chan back then, i just grew up on forums and blogs and shit. but then reddit ate up 90% of forums and blogs little by little died or at least they weren't as well managed anymore.

the internet went becoming more centralized. the only real thread between that time and now is 4chan. it's fine, it's a part of me, i'm going to be here forever.

[Anonymous No.17799820]

>>17799812
I also wonder about all the anons I've spoken to here who have roped. There would have to be a lot, considering all the misery that gets posted here.

[Anonymous No.17799824]

>>17798838
Same, I'm 21 now so it's harder to relate to a lot of the kids here.

[Anonymous No.17799828]

>>17799813
I was raised in the Misc bodybuilding forums back in like 2009

[Anonymous No.17799830]

>>17799820
>he never watched an anon attempt to kill themselves live on webcam
missed out on a quintessential early 4chan experience desu

[Anonymous No.17799833]

>>17799813
also discord ate up irc. irc still has the same old gen x ppl on it as always, but less and less young people join it so the average age on a place like efnet is probably like 40.

[Anonymous No.17799838]

>>17799828
lol same

[Anonymous No.17799842]

>>17799812
>I sometimes wonder if all the erudite people who I've had discussions with here about various things have all moved on without me realizing it.
Don't kid yourself, conversations on this board don't amount to anything but surface-level water cooler chats, and no one who qualifies as erudite would deign come here, for these types have better things to do.

[Anonymous No.17799864]

>>17799842
There are some very smart people who come out of the woodwork occasionally, granted things used to be much better. The quality of discussion has dropped dramatically over the years.

[Anonymous No.17799872]

>>17799864
>The quality of discussion has dropped dramatically over the years
Or maybe it has always stayed the same, but it is you has matured?

[Anonymous No.17799877]

>>17799828
for me it was music forums like terminal boredom and modding communities like civfanatics. those two still chug along like moribund animals, you can tell how most people either stopped going on forums all together or they migrated to r*ddit.

>>17799833
holy shit i had totally forgotten about the existence of irc. i think it was through irc that i found out about 4chan in the first place.

[Anonymous No.17799880]

>>17799872
Maybe a bit of both. Rummage through the archives and you'll see what I mean.

[Anonymous No.17799900]

>>17799813
>it's fine, it's a part of me, i'm going to be here forever.
same

[Anonymous No.17799910]

anyone remember that anon who used to write his posts in verse and call everyone monsieur? I miss him.

[Anonymous No.17799923]

>>17799910
Yes, the infamous monsieurposter.

[Anonymous No.17799926]

>>17798947
17 here - sincerely hope Im not here tomorrow desu

[Anonymous No.17799931]

>>17798947
oh boy

[Anonymous No.17800003]

>>17798838
I barely went on 4chan at all for most of my life and only occasionally for the past couple years. Been here a lot lately but only because Covid made it so I have nothing better to do and no one to talk to so I come here to argue and be insulted and insult others really just so I can have a form of human interaction even if negative.

[Anonymous No.17800009]

>>17798838
>writing a chapter
>trying to live by the maxim show, don't tell
>have loads of clues and details about various things happening, but also completely torn about whether my readers will even notice, or put those details together
>considering just explaining shit just so I can be sure they won't miss what I want them to know

Fuck bros what do I do.

[Anonymous No.17800012]

I remember when 'feels bad man' was a fresh and hilarious meme back in highschool.

[Anonymous No.17800049]

32 y/o here

Yeah i'd say people under 24 for the most part are not worth communicating with . it's pretty easy, being actually well read, educated, and intelligent, to spot young, retarded pseuds anyway.

[Anonymous No.17800065]

>>17800049
Wow... You must be smart. Is that why you are on 4chan?

[Anonymous No.17800096]

>>17798838
That should be about when you realize you've read everything this place talks about.

[Anonymous No.17800107]

>>17798838
21 here, only reason I even get on here is because of my job(restaurant host) I have. I get a lot of free time to get on my phone, so I come here. Once I quit this job in 2 months I hope to leave this place for good. Don't hate this place though, I've laughed the hardest from the shit posted here over the years. I came here on the 2016 wave.

[Anonymous No.17800127]

>>17799799
Born in 2001 here, I've started frequenting 4chan these past few months and /lit/ is the one I use the most. I like it, I'm starting to get into reading again and can talk with many people here who have experience in this. I don't think it's as bad as you make it seem as long as you don't open every thread made here daily and read every autistic post.
I wanna make it clear that I'm not some kind of election poster. I'm not going anywhere near /pol/ or /b/ and all the nsfw boards cause I know that's how you start becoming autistic beyond saving. Also nice digits

[Anonymous No.17800176]

>>17800065
Yes

[Anonymous No.17800177]

>>17799833
>>17799877
I'm a sucker for "vintage"/old websites 2000s/early 2010s forums. Can you give me some examples of famous IRC web clients please? I wanna try some out

[Anonymous No.17800188]

>>17800065
I'm trans btw

[Anonymous No.17800196]

>>17799864
You're better off having literature discussions on Twitter.

[Anonymous No.17800454]

I've written five books and am 75ish pages out of planned 300 into my first romance novel and yeah...it feels lonely.
I grew up on 4chan too and pop out of the shadows occasionally but yeah. I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling like this.

[Anonymous No.17800549]

>>17800127
Same. 20 years old and I only ever browse /lit/ and /out/.

[Anonymous No.17800566]

>>17798838
no

[Anonymous No.17800656]

30 here, on 4chan since 2009

Finding I use Urbit more and more instead but it's still not really a replacement

[Anonymous No.17800665]

>>17800454
Have you been published?

[Anonymous No.17800684]

>>17800665
Self published on Amazon but got stuck in an advertisement quagmire. Outside of buying a giant billboard I'm not even sure what to do. (Which would require an artist btw.)
It's nice to be able to order book copies and give them to like, the library and stuff but I'm still working a full time job.

[Anonymous No.17800714]

>>17798934
I'm 34. What's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.17800715]

I need a wife and kid, i'm getting too old for this....

[Anonymous No.17800833]

this board is the best thing we have
>go on Twitter, get harassed by grifters and cultists
>go on an old school forum, too cliquish and goofy
>abandon the internet entirely, lose the essence of your character
when you really want to leave, you won’t say goodbye

[Anonymous No.17801143]

>>17798929
Depends on the board, really. Despite shitposters, I'd say there's not an age that's too old for /lit/. There's no other place on the internet devoted to discussing literature that isn't plagued with either YA and fantasy novels or shitty woke novels written by minorities just so white people can virtue signal and circle jerk

[Anonymous No.17801144]

>>17798838
Ik that feel

[Anonymous No.17801177]

>>17798838
I'm 38 and though the repetition gets a bit old there are still good threads from time to time

[Anonymous No.17801255]

>>17798838
Oh look a thread designed to attract people who take themselves too seriously while being the most worth of mockery.

[Anonymous No.17801267]

>>17798838
Nigga, I am twice as old as you are.

[Anonymous No.17802145]

Yeah this place is newfag central

[Anonymous No.17802189]

>>17801143
Replace YA and fantasy with puerile philosophy takes and new age mysticism. This board is as terrible as any forum on the internet.

[Anonymous No.17802202]

>>17802189
It's just terrible to different types of person. If you are more horripilated by puerile philosophy, you're are welcome to try reddit/twitter. If you prefer puerile philosophy to YA/fantasy, /lit/ is pretty much the only place for you.

[Anonymous No.17802218]

>>17798878
>>17798900
Third, 27. Meme books change with the seasons, Butterfly stays the same.

[Anonymous No.17802223]

[Anonymous No.17802430]

One of you oldfags has to have the 1st ed. Dante's Inferno copypasta
GIVE
please.

[Anonymous No.17802688]

>>17799842
there are academic experts and professors of the humanities on here. these types have lunch breaks and mandatory zoom meetings, ergo screen time to effortpost here.

[Anonymous No.17802712]

The age you were when you started posting on 4chan is the age you remain for the rest of your 4chan life.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.17802724]

>>17802218
You guys go on about the same books though.
I read what I want as much as what gets recommended. That does stay the same.

[Anonymous No.17802727]

I'm 34. Not only am I 34, I have a Bachelor of Arts in Great Texts, and by the end of this year I will have a Master of Arts in English Literature.

But I like 4chan because it keeps me on my toes. I am terrified of slowing down, of my brain becoming less plastic, less adaptable. This is very pointed for me because I am a writer and a poet. I spent all of 2020 writing a great work of literature, the beginning of a story which I hope to publish. I hate the idea that time and age will slow me down. I think this site helps keep my mind young and alert, and flexible. This is one of the reasons I keep coming here.

That, and maybe I can help the younger Anons. Between my undergrad degree, my MA, and the reading I've done in my free time, I've read a fuckton of books. I've read quite a lot. I want to help Anons younger than me, I want to steer them towards good books. This board helped me when I was much younger; it helped me discover Borges, and Gene Wolfe, and Chesterton, and so many other great writers. I want to pay it back now, and help younger Anons learn great books in turn. I think I can do that. I want to help the teenage and twentysomething Anons. I don't believe in hording knowledge, rather I want to share what I've read with everyone.

[Anonymous No.17802738]

>>17802727
blessed post

[Anonymous No.17802753]

>>17799639
retard

[Anonymous No.17802762]

>>17800049
>Yeah i'd say people under 24 for the most part are not worth communicating with .
bump the age up to 28 and I agree with you.

[Anonymous No.17803482]

>>17800684
Do libraries accept self published books?

[Anonymous No.17803495]

>>17802727
retard

[Anonymous No.17803496]

>>17798838
pro tip
try /tv/

[Anonymous No.17803507]

>>17802727
Thank you anon, you're cause is very honorable. When I was just underage I came on here very lonely and with only a very slight interest in reading from childhood that I hoped to continue. I was blessed with many great recs on this board that made me very happy in a dark time and expanded my taste from there. As I get older I see that this board has not much left to offer me but I still come here to post recs and help other anons out. It's the small efforts that make this board a little fuller. For every 5 shitposts, they'll be one user helping another out. Not for notoriety, reddt karma, or some other shit, purely anonymously out of the kindness of their heart.

[Anonymous No.17803512]

>>17798838
Im 30 and it does feel to old. You should probably quit when you hit 25, after that you just have too much experience and wisdom to have any connection to this board anymore. Although with the arrival of zoomers things got even worse than they were. One of the reasons I stick around now is to see through zoomers what the future generation will look like and im legitimately scared to see that the elites have managed to produce an entire mentally devastated generation incapable of any kind of attention span or original thought, which forms relations to the real world strictly on a consumerist connection to hot-takes and identities. Its scary really.

[Anonymous No.17804320]

>>17798947
This, 22 right now and finally beginning to enjoy my own reading and work and people in my life than coming here first learning about philosophy and literature as a kid

[Anonymous No.17804335]

>>17800065
Holy shit humanity btfo

[Anonymous No.17804831]

>>17798838
I've been on 4chan for 11 years and this board for 8. We've long since passed the point where it has anything to teach me. I only come here for the Londonfrog threads now

[GODCOCK No.17805259]

This a board for children.
I'd bet my internal organs the average age is around 17.
Filtering out the predictable baby talk, one's left with no more than 20-30 threads, and even they are of highly variable 'quality'.
People are trash, and they prefer to blindly sugarcoat their shit.
It's so suboptimal.

[Anonymous No.17806925]

>>17798838
27. I'm done with this "humour" and the constant and obvious quest of everyone here for forging an identity by subverting whatever is popular at the moment or making a "hot take". Everytime I see I wojak I feel like kiling myself.
I've gotten some good recommendations from here, and I've seen interesting discussions once in a blue moon. But I'm afraid it's no longer enough. This palce, and all places resembling it, are cursed. I just can't stay here anymore.
Do you know, by any chance, some confy place far away from here?

[Anonymous No.17806939]

>>17806925
lainchan

[Anonymous No.17807828]

>>17803482
I'm writing from America, but when COVID hit they shut down the libraries here, but I gave them my book series (which was at the time about 1,500 pages trim size is 8.50 by 11.00) and they told me they had a backlog since they had no staff to review it, and if I gave it to them it'd be probably after COVID and things get to normal before they made a decision.
So to answer your question I'm in judging limbo and can't confirm or deny, but libraries have been fighting Amazon to get them to be more open so we'll see how it goes. I've probably got a few more months to wait, plus on Amazon there's an option for libraries/schools to buy the books cheaper so that wouldn't exist if they didn't buy them.

[Anonymous No.17807866]

>>17798901
>4chan is where you fall when you feel like you're failing
This. I have only started browsing after years of a break because I am desperately craving the cynicism of this place again.

[Anonymous No.17808363]

>>17800833
>lose essence of character without internet
uhh, sure...

[Anonymous No.17808418]

>>17806925
why do you need a replacement? you’ll get to the same point. the final solution is to embrace true solitude, disconnect. have no need for the digital noise of other people. with that being said, it’s ridiculously difficult

[Anonymous No.17809307]

>>17806925
the comfy thing is being comfortable in your own skin, reading at your own pleasure, conversing briefly with non-literary friends about what book you're reading and why you like it, and overall having a relaxed and curious nature towards life.

[Anonymous No.17809314]

I turn 27 in two months

[Anonymous No.17809652]

>People here thinking anything below age 40 is old

[Anonymous No.17811035]

>tfw you're constanly confronted with how little you know