/lit/ - Literature

>>16642419
literature is gay
that's why the teen girls are here

>>16642419
>Preppy clothing, coffee mugs, whiskey etc.
hows this bad you dumb nigger?

Dark Acadamia and Harry Potter are gay

>>16642419
Nah, its just youtubers in general being scum. Anybody building their identity on books is using it as a fashion accessoiry (or is deeply religious). The classics are simply the best books, dont let wannabes and chumps put yiu off reading them

>>16642434
>Anybody building their identity on books is using it as a fashion accessoiry
Don't pretend that people on this board don't do this

>>16642419
This has nothing to do with books. Every vlogging youtuber has the same exact props in their room, regardless if they talk about books or review sex toys. I swear there's probably a 'How to be a basic bitch youtuber' guide floating somewhere.

>>16642419
Most of the old farts on booktube aren’t pseudish at all. You guys are giving too much attention to the young eye-candy type.

>>16642429
when not used as a signaling mechanism, nothing.

>>16642419
>Dark Academia
>How to
>What it is
"We" humans can't stop thinking about everything religiously.
Fuck that's pathetic and disgusting

>>16642419
>gay nerdy zoom zoom builds identity off what he reads!
>the c00m /lit/ z00m z00m

>>16642444
Serious question, are you a homosexual?

https://www.litpublication.com/stories/those-drinks-after-graduation
Hows my bro's writing

>>16642459
No, why?

>>16642419
I wouldn't call it "pseudish," but I do agree the presentation of the whole thing is pretty off-putting. For me, it's just so obviously a curated image, and curation implies some kind of selection process, which itself just screams falsity. I'm personally pretty sensitive to inauthenticity, and when I catch a whiff of it I run for the hills. It feels like I've caught someone in a lie when I can grok a sense of how hard they're working at what's essentially a deception. I really don't like catching people in lies, it's just not a pleasant sensation.

>>16642419
I have seen a few critiques of one of his books somewhere. Apparently he is a shit writer. Also, I can't help but cringe each time he rambles about how education should be, when he claims to be a polymath, a "flâneur" (thats the cringiest of all) and when he says that we should see education as it was seen during the Renaissance while he is only a first or second year student that makes challenges on instagram with his gay black and photos because "reading classics is off-putting". Fuck him.

>>16642474
>complains about curating an image
>uses grok

>>16642419
Generally, the more affectations and stylishness someone puts in to come off as literary, the more of a poser they are. I live like a slob and write golden. Every good writer I've ever met lives like a slob.

>>16642485
Grok is a really goofy word for a beautifully succinct meaning.

>>16642419
>Not massively overweight
>Hair combed
>Clean clothes
Quiet pretending
At least you got the pseud part right

>>16642419
As best I can judge it seems his channel is about fashion and not literature.

he's written a book and made his contribution to literature, done more than everyone in this thread

>>16642823
No.

>>16642438
I just come here to laugh at memes and find new books to read

wow quentin really let himself go

>>16642823
>self-published
>self-published his own stories on his own website acting like its a literary journal
Yeah, this dude is up his own ass. He's not even published. If his novel was so damn good, why did he self-publish?

>>16642419
This closeted homosexual unironically touts Dark Academia and partakes in Dark Academia.

>>16642419
I don't think that's cringe. It's just zoomer shit

he's peddling an idea, an aesthetic for money. he's a salesman.

>>16642419
He's 17 or some shit, he's very snobbish. He made literature his identity.

what the fuck is dark academia
why can't people just sit down and read books without being huge faggots about it

>>16643265
It's like satanism but 2020. There's a point then it gets drowned out by flamboyant faggots

>>16643265
>what the fuck is dark academia
seriously. not watching 8 minutes of that f***** to find out

>>16642419
>The only decent one was that bong manlet.
who?

>>16642419
>Literature bro
>bro implying human
>posts asian

>>16643582
Quentin from The Book Club, author of Baby Alex, sucker of homeless men's dicks.

>>16643584
Not only asian, but one of those Asian leeches who illegally immigrated to Australia. Australia is basically a chink country now.

>>16643586
That guy is his friend from school, not a homeless man lol you can see photos of them together.

>>16643589
There's nothing more /lit/ than illegal immigration, asides from legal immigration, faggot

>>16642419
He literally talks about these issues in his videos.

>>16642419
A chinese bugman speaking English just seems wrong for some reason. It's like some linguistic uncanny valley.

These are just the sort of faggots who make Youtube channels to talk about philosophy.

>>16643601
Literally anything is more /lit/ than illegal immigration, you filthy immigrant.

This girl feels like such an annoying poser but I can't stop watching her videos because she's pretty and cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwMq9UVDnU

>>16642419
Cf also

>>16643603
t. R.C. Waldun

The only reason you call yoursel R.C. is because you know you would be ignored if you tried to publish under your disgusting chink name

>>16643624
I can't stand this shit. Booktube and especially Authortube are shitty and annoying as fuck.

>>16643637
I honestly can't tell if this guy is a decent reviewer or not. I clicked on his Pessoa video and had to close it after ten seconds because it felt so inauthentic. But then I watched his review of Nada after I read it in French and I didn't find him off putting.

>>16643673
He's hit-and-miss. His Beckett video is disappointing. He was obviously filtered but he was trying to save face.

>>16643673
He’s cringe but enthusiastic at least. Also I think /lit/ caught him lifting ‘favourite quotes’ and shit from Goodreads lmao

>>16643673
Watch this video if you want to feel genuine disgust generated by this insufferable pseud

https://youtu.be/6FuBbJ-1PGc
>I FUCKING KNOW FRANCH
>D-DO YOU FAGS KNOW THAT I DON'T SMOKE CIGARETTES UNLESS THOSE ARE OFFERED BY A SCANDINAVIAN TWINK WHO IS A """NOISE""" MUSICIAN
>YES I KNOW FRANCH
>DO YOU FAGS KNOW THAT I DO EDGY DRUGS SUCH AS ECSTASY
>CHECK MY RANDUM ABSURD LE FRENCH DE ACTING VOICE XDDDDD

>>16642474
> I'm personally pretty sensitive to inauthenticity, and when I catch a whiff of it I run for the hills

if you smell my drift

>>16643637
>>16643673
Dude is legit stupid and just copies reviews from goodreads and NYRB then adds needlessly long pauses to sound authentic while “ruminating”. He’s a moronic grifter with no originality

>>16642419

What you are experiencing is simply the commodification of subculture in a somewhat developed state (this process has been going on for let's just say at least 100 some odd years i.e. the post World War era)
In the modern day subcultures (or whatever you're pleased to call them this is really just a stand in word for your convenience of understanding) get chewed up and spit out about as fast as a piece of gum but ask yourself what this process really is
It's a process of reducing something "real" (as real as you can imagine) down into pure language it's an optimization process geared toward pushing it in and out of mass consciousness as seamlessly as possible
Yes what is "dark academia"? Is it a subculture? Is it a movement? or a fashion statement? or an artistic style? or a trend? It's all of these things and none of them and it doesn't matter
Above all else it's a neat package mobile easy to love easy to hate easy to ignore all at your leisure

>>16643419
You can say faggot on this website.

>>16643818
Is there more detail on him lifting stuff from Goodreads? I only heard secondhand

>>16644293
I wouldn't be surprised if it was an anon who would type up what Cliff says in a video and then post it to Goodreads. Most 4chan users aren't that intelligent.

>>16644559
Cliff, you can stop posting, you plagiarizing faggot

>>16644559
Nah it's why he's always staring off into the distance, looking at goodreads on his second monitor

This is literally how I dress. This is literally me.

>>16643637
>>16643673
He's competent enough for me to believe that he actually enjoys reading good literature but my main issue with him and the guy in the OP is that they definitely seem obsessed with the image that they are living a "literary" "lifestyle." I hate the term "lifestyle" because it's really just a sugarcoated term for one's mode of conspicuous consumption but that is exactly what they display: the coffee, the fashion, the set dressing, it's all just products

>>16642419
>is this how we come off?
/lit/ comes off worse, honestly.

https://youtu.be/P299S2FarOk
>this nerdy faggot getting absolutely mogged

>>16642474
>grok

Kill yourself stemcel

>>16643637
Cliff is absolutely based.

>>16643935
Shut it tw*t. He wanted to be respectful.

>>16644931
This is the only grok I need.
http://manpages.org/grok

>>16644897
Yeah pretty much. Sargent preens too much

>>16644940
He's cringe and his films are gay

>>16642485
So much this.
OP is a faggot.

>>16643637
Cliff is alright I guess but he hardly says anything of substance about the books anyway.

>>16643614
Based.

>>16643935
Not on my Christian board

>>16643624
I gave it a try and don’t care for it

>>16642419
Better to be pretentious pseud than to be a midwit pleb like this faggot https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSWjrhpuLEI

>>16645184
why would you make a video if you look like that

>>16644956
He's acknowledged his previously cringe stuff and deleted them. At least he's self aware. He's trying to improve anon, I've talked to him. He's a genuinely nice guy.

>>16644931
>stemcel
I don't even have a degree. I just read it in a Heinlein novel when I was a kid and have been saying it ever since. You know, because there's no other word in the English language which says what grok does specifically. I wander into these little pop culture circle jerk association games every once in a while, but trust me when I say that whatever image you have of "people who say grok," it's not me.

>>16642419
>Preppy clothing, coffee mugs, whiskey etc
all it took was a shitpost to realise that I have no personality or any sort of independent taste

>>16645299
Shut the fuck up, faggot

>>16645138
>>16644940
>>16643673
>>16643695


embarrassing that /lit/ is trying to get this brainlet a pass, not surprising though.

>>16645299
Naw he still cringe
Don't care whether he's a cool dude either

>>16645200
lack of self-awareness. common among young men, especially the incel types. that's why they are filled with delusions.

I refuse to believe that "dark academia" is a thing.
Fucking bring goth back already.

>>16645406
>Don't care whether he's a cool dude either

he's not, see >>16643742
so fucking embarrasing

>>16645303
>Fell for the I have express it in one word meme.
ngmi

>>16645431
Yep
Dude's in love with himself, how anyone can watch that eye-rolling shit is beyond me

>>16642469
Cause i am

>>16643742

Yea with a huge american accent lmfao

>>16642419
Image comes first. Someone who truly is invested in studying literature doesn't have to look a certain way. People like in OP's pic, typically liked the aesthetic and then built their style, hobbies, and interests around that particular look. It's reverse engineering a style rather than forming your own.
It's style over substance, plain and simple. It typically is a great indicator of a pseud.

>>16645381
You seem angry.

>>16644924
They did a collab video though. Waldun has some video about him and Cliff's top ten books

wtf this guy is based. makes good content and has good taste.

it's not just the focus on style that bugs me about yt but generally this stupid abundance of non-content. They'll just say anything to fill the video with buzzwords and meaningless, long-stretching phrases that ultimately lead to nothing but a stupid conclusion that either everyone already knows or could've been explained in 2 minutes. But noooo they have to talk for ages about literally nothing.

>>16642419
I don't know anything about this guy whatsoever but my impression of this video is he's very politely telling these thotties we can see through the shit.

>>16645473
Me too

>>16645923
Shut up chinkgger we know its you go back to jerking off over being a "polymath" when the topics you're reading on are just literature and philosophy

>>16645923
His taste is far from good.

>>16643419
no you can't, c**t.

Imagine pounding this twink's tight asian asshole

>>16642419
I mean this kid's channel is fine, nothing wrong with it, and it's hurting noone, but it's just pretentious showboating. Read your fucking books and reflect on your life, write, and then produce something. Videos about you reacting to other people's books are not a good use of your life, though. Neither is this comment. Goodbye.

I can't stand this faggot, yet I can't stop watching his videos. Everything about him seems fake and curated. His accent makes me want to punch him and he genuinely thinks he is a genius artist. Also anytime he actually talks about the books he's read, you can see how shitty his taste is and how shallow he is.

>>16646667
based

>>16645521
dance little sheep, dance

>>16642419
there's a self selection bias
most lit guys aren't faggy enough to make youtube vlogs

>>16643624
This video irrationally pisses me off. It started and I was really into the music, and then that obnoxious cunt started talking and I couldn't pay attention to what she was saying and I just wanted her to shut the fuck up so I could listen to the music. Does anyone know the name of the song so I can go listen to it?

>>16642823
I've written six books, the second of which is set to come out next month. Kid's not on my level and reeks of faggotry, just like you.

>>16642419
the way you make lit, or any hobby seem cool, is not talking about it unless someone presses you to talk about it
is there a guitar at a party
dont pick it up
someone brings you the guitar, play it, show off a little, people will think its cool, but not too far, and know when to put the guitar down anon
its like this for books
except for women that are sexually interested, sometimes they get off to autistic guys are go off really passionately on random bs

>>16642434
>(or is deeply religious)
is this a bad thing?

>>16647645
i think i recognize the recording, i believe it is pogorelich, i know for sure its sonata no 2 chopin, but the interpreter m i g h t be ivo pogorelich
i think its the third movement, which is the most popular, but the other 3 movements (ik sonata with 4 movements chopin wth) are really good
ive listened to it at least a hundred times its a good song

>>16647645
>anyone know the name of the song?
Funeral March, by Chopin. I agree that the video was very jarring. To go from something as pleasant as Chopin to a grating booktuber voice should be a crime

>>16647859
>>16647878
the funeral march is movement 3 of sonata no 2 i already answered our guy

>>16647901
I apologize for not refreshing the thread in the few minutes that you answered, friend

>>16647910
fellow outdoor pepe enthusiast, a rare breed, come, brother, compatriot, you are forgiven

>>16647920
that's not pepe, you swine

>>16647920
That’s apu apustaja noob

>>16647920
Thanks, I didn't have that one yet

>>16647930
Have some more? Those are amazing

>>16647930
this one kinda counts but i dont have anymore after so if you homies want to turn this into a rare pepe thread lets go
>>16647927
>>16647929
>that minute
same shit n e way
>>16647961
i gotta get around to torrenting ps one of these days and just make a bunch of these and trade em for cool pepes
we should make a pepe trading bazaar
you guys ever trade pokemon cards in elementary school
shit was the shit

>>16647961
>>16647967
Not Pokemon, but Yugioh was what all the cool kids were trading at my elementary school

>>16647987
holy based
lets keep the pepes rolling theme: naturpepe
never forget how i made my first two friends, trading pokemon cards on the bus, first grade, good fucking memories my guy

>>16647995
My favorite trading memories were from Tennis camp every summer. We'd all bring our binders to trade while eating tendies at the cafe next to the pool

>>16648021
i think cards came from egypt right? wonder how those suckers got to japan
i remember i conned my buddy out of his ditto cause i told him it was a junk card
still regret it to this day, he never really trusted me after that, we were only 8 at most, im always careful around kids now, because it really only takes a single person, a single occurance, to ruin a kids childhood
and that shits fucked up

>>16647987
>>16647995
>>16648021
Yes, please. Those peepos embracing nature are heartwarming.

Books with a bloomer vibe about getting in touch with nature?

>>16648065
obvs walden
emersons on nature is pretty based, and by the north east transcendentalists really
also for whatever reason i get really fuzzy vibes reading platonic dialogues, i know some people think theyre these dense huge philosophic documents of great import but socrates is just such a chill guy, he just wants everyone to be happy and live a good life, hes so innocuous to how impactful he will be, hes content to live his life lifting weights and wrestling, he doesnt care about the future
also somehow divine comedy gives me the sae vibes
and lotr, though i read those in elementary school so i dont really know how good they are now

>>16648048
Reminds me of my friend who stole my runescape gold back in 5th grade

>>16648065
Maybe Walden? Transcendentalism is kinda bloomer

>>16648100
yoooo bro who painted this and go you have more shit like this
the detail is insane, but yet it still retains the subjectivity of the paint that makes art great, the absurdity of scenary is comforted by the realism of the tones, the nature, the ease and elegance with which the painter achieves his art
i need to know who painted this masterpiece
also druidpepe?

>>16648116
The painting is called Edge Dancer by Michael Whelan. Unfortunately I don't have anymore like it

>>16643742
Oh god all of that in the first fucking minute. I think he’s okay most of the time but holy cringe.

>>16642909
I come here so I don't have to read. I copy paste smart sounding posts to my ig for street cred

>>16643589
And don't you forget it Angloid scum. You and your Jewish buddies had your fun for a few centuries, but now it's time to take your rightful place at the feet of the Han Chinese.

>>16648701
t. firestarter of indeterminate race

At least you guys have stopped simping over goodreads YA trash reading paperbackdreams girl.

>>16645521
cute shep

>>16642909
based

What about my guy, leaf by leaf?

https://youtu.be/DhZoK32YNRs