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10686550 No.10686550 [Reply] [Original]

What's the worst author photo?

>> No.10687008
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You probably saw this portrait and thought "he looks pretty normal" but...

>> No.10687012
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>>10687008
oh no

>> No.10687016

>>10687008
>>10687012
Not bad photos. Just a diminutive person

>> No.10687017
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>>10687012
oh dear

>> No.10687021
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>>10687008
hes actually one sxc man!

>> No.10687024
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>>10687017
hmmm

>> No.10687035

>>10687021
Wow, Kant looks like THAT?

>> No.10687043

>>10687035
No, that is Jacobi. Kant is the one that looks like a hobgoblin

>> No.10687055

>>10687043
Nah dude, when I google Kant this picture comes up labelled as Kant

>> No.10687065

>>10687055
kek

>> No.10687128

>>10687012
God, I want to bully him so bad

>> No.10687197
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More often than not authors seem to be photographed exactly as represents them, intentional or no. There's also that pretty ridiculous one of Wilde with his hat and cloak but really there is none better

>> No.10688586
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I like to think this was actually a candid photo, that Waugh really wanted a photo of him holding a giant novelty telephone and looking shocked to grace his books, but his publisher disagreed and used this one against his wishes.

>> No.10688590

>>10686550
Fucking Shel made bedtime so comforting and terrifying at the same time

>> No.10688596
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wow what a beautiful lady
hey, miss!

>> No.10688599
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>>10688596

>> No.10688621
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All photos with Satre in them are fucking bad

>> No.10688647
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>>10687021
please, look at the penguin

>> No.10688658
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>> No.10688671

>>10688658
nod bad I like Ayn like my mother's friend

>> No.10688673
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not sure what this hairstyle is called

>> No.10688677

>>10688673
the endingmyexistencebyalcoholismbeforeim50 special

>> No.10688678

>>10688673
They would call it a red sea because of the miraculous parting

>> No.10688681

>>10686550
Is that al-Baghdadi?

>> No.10688690
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10688690

>>10688673
is that basil brush

>> No.10688707

>>10688673
He was aesthetic in a pretty boy way for a while? Why did he purposefully just himself like this?

>> No.10688737
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>>10688599

>> No.10688743

>>10688673
He looks luciferian.

>> No.10688749

>>10688737
Lol

>> No.10688753

>>10688586
>tfw you'll never hold evelyn waugh's divine hands

>> No.10688758

>>10687008
dude's got a MASSIVE dome

>> No.10688761

>>10688673
the Chad midpart

>> No.10690044
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>> No.10690053

>>10688673
The Batman

>> No.10690060

>>10690044
No wonder he grew the giant mustache

>> No.10690067
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>>10687008
>>10687012
>>10687017
>>10687024
ayy lmao

>> No.10690077

>>10688673
Dilettante Valley.

>> No.10690083
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>> No.10690092

>>10690083
I don't know, he looks pretty good for a dead guy.

>> No.10690098

>>10690083
I just want to bring him back to life so I can fuck his girlfriend

>> No.10690100

>>10688673
Count Dracula who only feeds from your arse veins.

>> No.10690107

>>10690044
Why does he look so devilish?

>> No.10690110
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>>10686550

>> No.10690111

>>10690107
Autism

>> No.10690114

>>10690107
Asperger's.

>> No.10690115
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>> No.10690121
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>>10690115
What IQ is this? Ascended?

>> No.10690130

>>10690115
>10690107
its over 9000

>> No.10690151

>>10690121
>maxheadefault

thats messed up, man.

>> No.10690192

>>10690083
Looks like the guy from how I met your motehr....

>> No.10690210

>>10690192
I know right, the resemblence is uncanny

>> No.10690265

>had a short story published in a small anthology
>they asked for a photograph so I took one with my webcam
>depressed and overate in the months leading to it
>turned up at the launch event
>people took tons of photograph
>heard one girl saying "god I hope that's not his tinder photo"
>left immediately and walked 7 miles home

>> No.10690351

>>10688621
He's a cool fella though

>> No.10690359

>>10690192
Holy shit was just thinking this

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>> No.10690868

>>10690643
Hey, sport. Do you mind deleting this? I'm kinda tired of seeing it. Get back to me as soon as you can. Chiao!

>> No.10690879

>>10687021
Not him

>> No.10690911
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>>10688621
bruh

>> No.10690918
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>> No.10690931

>>10690918
How do you get your hair to be that shitty?

>> No.10691367

>>10690044
he looks like he only has two settings
>maximum bant
>maximum autismo

>> No.10691390
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>>10687008
BIG CRANIUM

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>>10690192

>> No.10691416

>>10690151
I feel like shit for lol'ing at that

>> No.10691417

>>10690868
[Welcome to the internet.]

>> No.10691422

>>10690911
Wtf is wrong with his teeth

>> No.10691463

>>10688621
one eye on the tiddies, one eye on the Nothingness

>> No.10691491

>>10691390
PHENOTYPE

>> No.10691584

>>10690192
Mote her? I hardly know'er HATCHA CHA

>> No.10691615

>>10691422
oh god I wish I hadn't looked

>> No.10691841

>>10690083
John Green is that you?

>> No.10692009

>>10691422
>Being French is one heluva drug.

>> No.10692140

>>10690931
That's what happens when people who are balding let their hair grow out.

>> No.10692832

>>10690643
yeah well its the only one we got so you better appreciate it.

>> No.10692858

>>10690083
This isn't really DFW, it's Jason Seagal playing DFW in "End of the Tour"

>> No.10692870

>>10692858
No, it's dfw. I'm looking at an author photo of him now in my copy of Brief Interviews and it's that same pic.

>> No.10693037

>>10690192
dunno if its ironic or not...

>> No.10693963

>>10687012
didn't he invent peanut butter?

>> No.10693990

>>10687008
WHY DID THE ARTIST CHOOSE TO PAINT IT FROM THE ANGLE
WHAT THE FUCK WAS HE THINKING
OHHHHHH MY FUCKING GOD THIS HAS BOTHERED ME FOR YEARS

>> No.10693997

>>10691584
>>10690083
>>10690192
Jesus christ this board is blessed with the funniest posts

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>> No.10694274

>>10692832
for some reason this made me laugh more than anything else in this thread