/lit/ - Literature

>>18838357
I was big into it when I was younger. Now I'm just a full time wagie that writes books on his free time. My excitement comes from watching the stock market or youtube so I'm kinda a "shadow" of the fun I used to be.
Opposites attract though. Someone fun and bubbly that doesn't mind the dark is really strongly yet oddly appealing.
Bonus points if they tolerate weeb energy because I lived on a Japanese military base as a kid and I grew up with it.
Slight tangent it's kinda funny how being in Japanese culture was always either really cool or really cringe. When I came back to America I had to get speech therapy for L and R because I couldn't say them right but when Pokemon came out, Japanese was really cool, but online people use it in really dorky ways.
Like. I wanna see a Sumo match or see Kyoto shrines or maybe go to a festival. We don't get that though most of the time. Big wasted opportunity in my eyes.

>>18409936
Well I still work a full time job and work the stock market on top of doing my writing. Am I well off compared to my peers? Yes. Is my writing a money pit sometimes? Also yes.
I hate to say it but you know how famous people or presidents write books and then announce it on air and then their fans buy a copy and probably don't read it? It's very viable.
I'm doing it hard mode though. I'm hiding in the shadows writing my books and hoping for the best.
It would be cool one day to get popular and be able to write full time though.

>>18325285
Some people will say that the differences are based off music but for someone that lived it that was never the case.
Emo for us was short for emotional because you'd focus on the pain and suffering of life and the fact you're forced to live it.
Gothic people are a lot more logical (don't look at me like that) about the whole thing and kind of celebrate the shadows as we dance around in them.
Goths are the ones that want to go to pretty ballroom dances and masquerades, wander around graveyards at night, write books about the afterlife. Can be a bit sanguine too. I'm still kinda sad we lost the right to the word black. We can't say our souls are black because that means something entirely different now.
Alas.