/lit/ - Literature

Bro's, I'm in a bad way. The creative writing course I've been taking has sapped the life from me. She hates everything I write and says it's too clever. I think it's fine, but she's the audience, not me. The audience is all women who don't like a challenge, don't want any value, and don't want anything beyond time-wasting trash. I'm tired, bros; I need a hug.
>Asked a woman in my class if she would ever read Keats
>She asked if it was a man
>Yes
>Then no
The more I learn about the world the worse it gets
>You should try xyz, it's really good!
>It's going to be too difficult to read, so I'll pass
They pick poems out of the reader purely based on the sex of the poet. It's unreal; we pass up Shakespeare, Keats, Chaucer, Homer, Yates, Larkin and Pope for Yeh, Plath, Stevie Smith and fucking Lombe (We unironically did a 30-minute reading of Do You Hear Us Now?)

I don't want to be blackpilled bros... Please spare me some courage, I'm in desperate need

>Infection at the tips of the fingers
>Kind of hurts to type
Kill me

Female literature is pretty much the ultimate blackpill. The sheer volume of Criminal blackmail fantasies that they consume is just too much for one man to bare

do you ever wonder why authors don't follow up their epilogue with slice of life chapters or entire books? it often seems like a waste to leave a well built world behind to be forever forgotten.
so after the hero wins, why not have a more elaborate 'happily ever after'? it doesn't even have to be about the MC, just the consequences of their actions is enough. be it the next generation or whatever. i know i always crave one deeply after finishing something. am i alone in this?
of course it'll overstay its welcome eventually, but still.

do you ever watch youtube tutorials that explain books to you?
is this a bad practice?

>>14547374
>ask my parents for a copy for christmas
>they get me a shitty study version does actually have any Kant in it

>write something
>it sucks
help

I've become a Murakami protagonist in real life. what to do?

>can't decide which book to read
>end up browsing this shitty board for the rest of the day

My passion has always been for ancient history and philosophy. Ever since this last American election, I realized how ignorant I am about political things and modern history, and I've tried to get into it, only to end up with a huge backlog. Beyond that, while I've gained knowledge, I can't say I'm into any of it in particular, but at the same time I hate feeling stupid and out of the loop, and I'm paranoid about missing a piece of information that might radically shift my life, while also worrying about finding it out too late. Nothing scares me more than waking up at 50 or something realizing that all I've spent my time doing and chasing after was a lie.
I feel it's cowardly to just crawl into your comfort zone and spend all your time there.... but the only reading I'm progressing with what I'm doing now is because I hope there'll be some payoff at the far-off end of the line in a decade from now, where I'll either get what I needed from it or at least have significant grounds to dismiss it other than 'lol this is boring'.
But I don't know. I'm sad. And I don't know what to do.

Took me 4 hours to go to sleep last night because I started freaking out about me ding relatively soon (in the scope of the universe).

I'mm sorry is this sentence gramatically correct?

> The cat-like Sumxu was described in early 1700s as a curiosity, and in 1796 when a droop-eared cat brought back from China.

i can't make any sense out of it.

>>10072025
Of course I fall in that category too regarding age since thanks to the internet it's so easily available

The only thing that really surprises me is people who lack the willpower to stop watching for even a few days but I guess they're in too deep

Regarding myself I still watch it once per week and to get out ut of my system and that's what bothers me. Hopefully once in the future I'll have the strength to call it quits but it's usually just connected with how busy you are really or how much time do you have on your hands

In keeping with the religious theme on-going in the thread: Buddhist texts are completely devoid of literary value, they contain some of the worst purple prose I've ever seen and contain stupidly long lists of names that would make the bible blush.

Hey /fitlit/
I used to be in pretty decent shape, but as an undergrad I became scrawny and malnourished to the point that I think I gave myself a permanent injury that I'm just getting under control. My body is absolutely fucked to the point that curling some old 25 lb dumbells is a struggle. It's pretty scary to see how shitty my body is now. Is it possible for me to get back in shape primarily or entirely with bodyweight exercise? I wouldn't mind going to the gym in the future, but not while I'm in Somalian mode.

>>9439714
I don't know how a single thread attracted so many newfie's, If they haven't heard of Ccru they've been browsing entire days, or If they think Land is unusual among continental philosophy they've read literally none.

>>9309005

>I feel like I'm too happy to be successful.

iktf op

>tfw satisfied with a mediocre life and have no incentive to change for the better

>These threads will never go back to how they were before r/fantasy raided the fuck out of it

I will get to the point fairly quickly, so have a bit of patience.

I have always been an attractive boy and needless to say, a decent ammount smarter than the average folk (though it took me a long time to realise just how much).
I had my first actual experience with a girl by the time i got into puberty, at the age of 16. from then on, it was smooth sailing. I will keep it short by saying that, human interactions wasn't/isn't a foreign concept.
5 years ago, i started having feelings for my Cousin, first cousin. At first i thought it wasn't anything serious, she is yet another shallow girl that i find extremely attractive, ''it's simple excitement'' i said to myself, ''it will go away in a week, a month...''
We kept talking, keeping in touch, me sleeping at her place, watching movies, cuddling, she falling asleep on my chest. The usual generic stuff a ''couple'' does. Generic but, it was the first time that i actually Felt it. It was unique, it really was.
2 years ago, i cut off all communication with her, everything. You don't understand, everything. We live far away so it wasn't hard. Of course, i did not tell her the reason why i did that because, i don't know, i am afraid of my feelings, afraid it would turn into full blown love.
I am 23 now.

Father died in september last year. He was only 48

We came into contact again. Because of said circumstances, she didn't even mention it.
turns out i still have these feelings for her, i think it's genuine Love. Actual Love. How rare is that?
So yeah, last month, i crashed at her place. We were holding hands for hours, not saying anything yet saying so much at the same time. I semi-jokingly asked her if i could massage her feet. She smiled, didn't say anything. I, fearless yet unsure, proceeded to remove her socks, she didn't resist. I just started massaging them, i am very good at it, always been. Being a male, i did the expected and slowly went up, caressing her pale, soft, cloud like legs. Skipped the dangerous parts of her body and went straight to her cute, baby-like belly. Looked up, she had her eyes closed. I made my move down there. She slapped me so fucking hard guys, so fucking hard i never recovered. She was so pissed off, i was so confused, embarrassed, wanting to hide. Basically i fucked up. We didn't talk for the rest of the night and i left quietly at noon the next day.
Do i tell her how i feel? She obviously doesn't feel that way judging from her reaction.
She is also 23, i am 2 weeks older.
please help.