/lit/ - Literature

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As someone who keeps an eye out for these kinds of things, not just on /lit/ but also the other hobby boards ive spent time in over the years, many of the collaborative attempts on this board, and attempts at a forming a creative movement here, fail from the core; that is, not due (or just due) to the lack of attention they get, but because from the very beginning they miss the point.

Just because all contributers happen to have met on 4chan doesn't necessarily imbue the project with the natural right to claim that it is a freeborn child of 4chan, or part of some '/lit/scene'. There is the image board on the left and the collection of works on the right. How does what happen on the left have any influence on the collective right?

Like, who got all these people together from 4chan and decided the creative and /lit/ thing to do was to recreate weird tales? I know people here like lovecraft - i do too - but is that what really distinguishes this place from other reading/literature communities? If ive misunderstood how that project came about, why tie it to this board then? Say what you want about this pit of rot, it has a tense, male outlier energy with a very particular frame of reference due to its place on the internet. Again, im not trying to shit on people having fun by writing, but what im saying is just what comes to mind when i see people insist on a certain work's qualification as a /lit/ cultural work. Renaissance painters weren't renaissance painters because they happened to be alive in italy in the 15-16th century. There is a common string of thought and practice underlying all their work that seperates them from what comes before and after. Join any of these discord servers and there are these '/lit/ writers' who if you look at their work (some of it even published!) its about their life in dakota or something and growing up.

The Moby Dick /lit/ edition is exactly what the ideas should be like. You can recognise its from here page 1. &amp had the right energy. Behead all satans and mike ma and all the other shit that actually get mentioned here naturalistically, whether you like the work or not, are clearly texts that have a connection to this site in character. I like Minimag, but its mentioned in the OP because the guy who runs it browses here? More like Instamag.