/lit/ - Literature

I've been coming to this site about since I was 20. I'm 34 now.

I think this site keeps me sharp and on my toes. I can relate to many of my fellow Millennials/Boomers, I can get along with them, but I sometimes feel a bit shocked at how disconnected, out of touch, and susceptible to, frankly, social engineering they are. They love fucking Marvel movies, for God's sake, even /co/, the comic book board, knows those are trash. This site has acted as a kind of counter-conditioning for most of my adult life and it also helps me discern what's true and what's false.

/lit/, particularly, has been immensely valuable to me. I have been coming to this board since its beginnings. It helped me discover Borges, Gene Wolfe, Pessoa, Spenser, so many genuinely great writers that my American public school and university education would not have exposed me to. It has helped motivate me to become a good writer and a good poet. It exposed me to the earliest days of dissident and unpopular political thought, on both the left and the right, and it is still good for picking up things on the forefront of politics and culture.

I even got my very first short story published in a /lit/ magazine. I've now had multiple short stories and multiple poems published. I am working on a substantial work which I hope /lit/ likes, a work which I have been planning almost as long as I have been coming to 4chan.

I don't know about anyone else, but this site, for me, has immense value. I will cherish it always, and if it ever goes away I'll miss it greatly.

Other main boards are /a/, /co/, /o/, and /sp/, by the way.

My hot take is that there is actually nothing wrong with fanfiction, and some of them are actually rather good and worth reading. Sure, there's a lot of shitty fanfics, but there's a lot of shitty original fiction, too.