/lit/ - Literature

you were here OP

>>19458570
I agree with this Anon. OP the illustrations seem beautiful. I'm sorry for everything that's happened to you. It's cruel that such a wonderful story seems to have had such bad luck. I'd be happy to volunteer my services as well; I have a decent social media presence and I'd be happy to promote it once it's out in the world. OP you have to take a chance. You've been let down by the publishing industry, but we all support you. You need to do something. You and your wife's book is too good to go unseen.

34 years old, been on 4chan since 2008. Been on /lit/ since the board was created.

By the way, it's a little worse than it was at the beginning but it's not THAT much worse. I actually think the creation of /sffg/ has hurt the board. You guys may not like sci-fi and fantasty novels but back in the day individual novels and series and concepts in sci-fi and fantasy used to get their own separate threads. This helped increase the amount of threads on the board that were actually about books. Ghettoizing sci-fi and fantasy books is what opened the void which was filled by "books for this feel" and "books about" threads. You don't have to like sci-fi and fantasy but you can at least acknowledge that they helped crowd out blatantly off-topic threads.

Also, I eagerly await our next meme thinker. It was Guenon for a while but he seems to be tapering off. We'll find a new one soon enough. The most fun I ever had with a /lit/ meme thinker was Milbank. That was right at the start of really serious Christian posting, and Milbank got spammed a ton. He was very interesting at least.

One more thing: /lit/ has always been one of the most Christian boards on 4chan. There were threads pretty early on asking about the Bible and about Catholic or Orthodox books. /lit/ has consistently had a lot of people interested in religion in general, and Christianity specifically. Maybe the tone and the nature of those threads has changed as more Zoomers have come onto the board, but the threads as such have been here a while.

Oh, one extra thing, I guess: I miss Moot. FUCK I miss Moot.

Post the last book you read along with a reaction image that describes your feelings about it.

>Dante's Paradiso

Did we fail him, bros? Have we failed in defending the Canon in his absence?

>>18771789
Thank you friend. I'm determined to be great. I want to make great art, art that's true and good and beautiful.

I guess I'm just at a loss as to what self-publishing website is best. I've heard various things about Royal Road, Wattpad, Vella, and a couple of other places. If I do self-publish, I want to put the book in the place where I can get the most eyes on it.

Two weeks ago I was at a bar and I had a wonderful interaction with a woman a few years younger than me. We initially hoped to get some late-night food, but the places she wanted to go were closed. She lives in another state, and she had to fly home the next morning.

A week ago, I texted her, and she texted me back and seemed very happy to hear from me, and she mentioned that she wanted to come back to my city as soon as she could.

Today, I texted her again, and she again responded and said she was happy to see me. She mentioned that she had been doing a lot of traveling, so that's why she was not always available. But she again mentioned that she was eager to get back to my city. Also, I mentioned that we might consider doing a video call or a video chat, and she seemed open to the idea, even saying that I should get a hold of her next week.

Do I dare hope this is something that might actually go somewhere? I feel like the fact that she has been willing to keep texting me for weeks now is a good sign. But I've been burned before.

>>18083436
I think one thing to keep in mind is that there are fetishes and there are fetishes. This is something I have encountered in my own journey in coming to terms with sexuality and what I find arousing.

There are some fetishes where it's pretty clear they're just ephemeral. They don't matter. You feel an erotic urge for them for just a moment, or a few hours, or a few days, and then they vanish. Perhaps they'll reappear at some point in the future, perhaps not. But they don't linger in your mind when you consider the opposite sex.

But then there are other fetishes that are different precisely because they DO linger. There are things that become a fundamental part of what you find attractive about members of the opposite sex. Things that are essentially disqualifying if the girl/boy does not possess them. Things you NEED to find another human arousing.

I think the latter probably have a relationship with our sense of aesthetics, and the former do not. The former seem like the product of boredom and novelty, more than anything else.

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.

>>14788096
feels bad