/lit/ - Literature

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It's like the bearded clacking peckers to their keyboards think the dance is only fun when seen or spoken of.

Mottled shitpost: the generation.

>>3367389
sorry you're jealous of our genius.

No author in the past two decades can claim the same innovation that we have in our works with Future Literary Geniuses. We have saved literature from stagnation.

>>3367399

When will the children get that shitting in a jar is no longer interesting? That playing at the loose end of an old and tired tradition is like emulating Shakespeare?

You lost your tread somewhere between the first kiss and the final blow. Demonstrating an ability to disengage your sputum from the social apparatus fails to take the rosy from your cheeks. We all acknowledged art was dead some time ago. It's what you do with that knowledge that counts, and more than ever.

>>3367414
art isn't dead. we are the sole beacons carrying the flame

>>3367426

You don't even have the humor necessary to trick the right kind of people into reading the work.

>>3367435
I'm not sure where you get the idea this is a trick, or involves tricking anyone in any way.

We're trying to make art. Can you claim the same?

>>3367443

Whether or not you see it as a trick hardly matters.

I can claim the same, or choose not to.

>>3367443
>We're trying to make art.
You can't TRY to make art.
That's the same as formula fiction, only a different audience.

>>3367451
see, all I see are cowardly attempts to besmirch a genuinely innovative artistic movement because you simply are too stylistically conservative.

all your objections are presented in the most vacuuous and vague manner possible. You have made no actual, concrete, supportable arguments that would indicate a legitimate cause for your indignation. It seems you are simply stabbing at nothing.

>>3367435
seriously. You guys aren't as inventive as you pretend to be, and you're not ironically uninventive, that's bullshit, and loudly express your trivial work. Don't you have any shame, acceptance, or seriousness? I'm not criticizing your style/genre because I do enjoy alt-lit. You just write bad alt-lit, and you should work to improve it before declaring it genius all over the internet.

>>3367462
and you suppose that genre fiction and formula fiction is anything other than art?

even if we reject the duchampian perspective of what encompasses art (we dont), if a work sets out to convey a certian narrative or idea in a certain way, and it does that, it is art. I don't see where you get off attempting to define art.

also, we are accepting submissions.

WHAT IS AIR?
HE FORGOT AND GASPED AND DIED.
ON HIS TOMBSTONE THE INSCRIPTION READ: WHAT IS AIR?
AND EVERYONE HAD FORGOTTEN THE LESSONS THEY LEARNED AND GASPED AND DIED.
NOW YOU TOO, READER OF THIS POST, HAVE NOT TAKEN THESE LESSONS TO HEART, AND FORGOTTEN WHAT IS AIR NOW GASP AND DIE. AND THEN YOU DIED, AS WE ALL DID ON THAT DAY, WHICH WE NOW LOOK BACK UPON IN GLEE, FOR THAT IS WHEN WERE DEAD RATHER THAN ALIVE.

>>3367472
We should apologize for testing the boundaries of a pre-established movement?

Hm, that's a pretty anti-intellectual attitude

>>3367472
>mfw you don't recognize an obvious troll

I wish they would stop.

>>3367484
posted.

So how far into the future is it that you be geniuses, cine you aren't present literary geniuses?

>>3367488
so any new idea automatically has to be false, absurd, or an empty provocation? that's awfully dismissive.

Still reporting this shit thread.

>>3367478
And you're setting out to be a pedantic tryhard. If you aren't accepting of people's valid criticism of your craft you aren't going to make it anywhere. All art has imperfections or occasional imbalances, if you can't recognize your flaws this thing you do isn't going to get anywhere or every be taken with serious enjoyment.

Well, at least you are having fun with it, if nothing and nobody else.

>>3367493
we view the future as encompassing the present; how else would you describe our existence other than "futuristic"

similarly, we found it fun to re-appropriate the term. We're pretty much in our future, in regard to our talent, though that is not to suggest we have reached our ceiling of potential.

>>3367507
of course we're not perfect. we're simply the most innovative. innovation requires trial and error, and we believe error to be critical to our art.

>>3367469

How else might one stab when there's nothing for the stabbing?

>>3367509
sorry to hear that. We just hoped to get some feedback, and engage in discussion with what we believe is art worthy of consideration.

>>3367513
our point exactly. Thank you for finally realizing that our work holds up.


We are not just one person; we are a collective movement, so all these posts referring to us as a singular entity are misguided in their perception of our work

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>>3367377

This are some of the most conventional and non-innovative posts I have ever seen.

>>3367530
we personally believe in a return to simplicity, and then playing with its norms.

sorry you failed to recognize that.

>>3367530
This.
OP "talks" like the person one would meet at a house party telling you about the conformist and non-conformative dichotomy, standing up to the man, creating an art revolution, only to get in your pants.

God I hate these people

>>3367536

>we personally believe in hedging and damage control

Can you believe it thought my post was spam?
The nerve. Pic related.

>>3367543
Say gurl~~~~ How U doin?

>>3367585
i be doin fine cuz u so fine.

I can't tell if you're serious about this or pulling my leg.

But if you are, we can probably send you loads of stuff like this we've mothballed over the years because it was unpublishable. Seriously, just take it

>>3367604
>implying TAR is any different from this thread

>>3367611
tar isn't half as obnoxious

>>3367604
hit us up. We're open minded. Submit forms are on the page.

>>3367572
mind if we post this?

>>3367585
yo gurl i be doin sweeeelll yo

>>3367543
sorry you don't like having engaging conversations?

>>3367544
yes

>>3367611
unfortunately, we find TAR a bit too conventional and restrictive for our tastes, in spite of their open-submission format. we just provide a different kind of art. We think they're doing some awesome stuff though!

It's a shame you guys aren't as open minded when it comes to our efforts as the tumblr alt-lit community; as you can see, weve had some substantial success

>>3367611
If we were, we'd have published the content instead of offering you it. Take it or leave it

>>3367614
Yeah sure. We used to receive joke submissions from who I'm assuming was Tao Lin all the time

>>3367614
>mind if we post this?
Seeing as how you do so anyway without asking, you might as well.

I was trying to see if you had any limits and reverse this on you, but it seems I've failed.

>>3367620
Read as: Even TAR doesn't accept our works and all of us send them multiple entries every month.

How about a tldr

>>3367626
You created 146 accounts to follow yourselves with? That's just sad, or I guess they could be all spam bots.

>>3367634
we regularly recieve likes and reblogs, and we have enough submissions that we are able to reject some based on quality.

and the vast majority of these are real tumblrs that follow us.

>>3367642
>reject some based on quality.
I can't even imagine what the quality of what you reject must be like going by what you accept.

>>3367414
great post

no homo

HEY GUYS I ABUSE BENZOS TOO AND DRINK KOMBUCHA AM I GENIUS NOW?

>>3367646
here's a few.

>>3367646
english major go home

>>3367651
we do like the "sinceretist movement" idea, though we hesitate to give our movement a particular title, to avoid pidgeonholing it

Kafka, Lerner, Kerouac and Wantling are rolling over in their fucking graves.

>>3367654
I'm not even an English major.

>>3367655
That's already a thing, but with a (slightly) less stupid-sounding name.

>>3367657
That scenario sounds like an excellent subject to write about. Make sure it has copious amount of scat and necrophilia.

>>3367657
oh, you think kerouac is a good writer?

that's adorable.

hope 10th grade is going well!

>>3367659
>I am a genius hardcore /lit/ writer!
>I only read highbrow shit!
>Feed me shit!
>Only the best shit!

I have no idea what is going on in this thread, nor do I have any inclination to understand. But goddamn that tumblr has shitty writing. Are you kids trying to be ironic again?

>>3367683
I have no idea what you are talking about.
I'm not a writer and I only read genre fiction.

>>3367686
It's post-irony. Get with the times, old man.

>>3367693
>movement

>>3367690
and yet you criticize our movement?
you clearly have no base to do so, if you don't trade in our field.

>>3367686
That's a shame; if you think you can do better, you're welcome to submit.

>>3367693
it doesn't take a chef to realize the meal is shit
>movement
>my sides

>>3367693
Wantling didn't write The Awakening so a bunch of little self-righteous hipster shits with pill addictions and mommy issues could spew their mental diarrhea onto an equally shitty website for all to see.

Go evaluate your life, child.

>>3367693
>our field
Indeed, your field.
Since you are livestock and your field is littered with the shit you call art.

I've already reported this thread one time.
Could some other anons please help with this effort and possibly get this joker banned.

>>3367705
you know nothing of any of our lives. For all you know, we are 40 year old teachers or government workers who are frustrated by the confines of our capitalist society

you undermine your own points when you generalize in this way. we know nothing of your life, and you know nothing of ours.

>>3367716
again, we don't see what's reportworthy in posing content for discussion. it is the denizens of the board who have reacted with such vitriol; we are here asking for submissions, and hoping to provoke discussion about new literature. Isn't that what this board is for?

If everyone deletes their posts and only the OP posts remains, then this thread will not only be art, but look like the ramblings of a crazed madman.

>>3367737
we would actually quite enjoy this and we would post the end result on our blog.

>>3367723
>by the confines of our capitalist society

The post-postmodern horseshit you all subscribe to is a direct result of capitalism. You ignorant, hypocritical fuck.

Go write a poem about how much capitalism sucks on your Macbook Pro while drinking a 5 dollar bottle of Kombucha and eating a 10 dollar vegan cookie that tastes like wood chippings dipped in liquid shit, you fucking dolt.

>>3367733
Advertising.

>>3367749
we are not selling a product, and make no money from our site or our work. We are not making any promises about our work. We were excited about the follow endorsement we recieved from alt-lit-press, one of the most innovative content aggregators in recent literary memory.

we then shared our work with the board. How is this different from threads where you post work and ask for critiques? we hoped to generate a discussion, and we did.

>>3367744
>capitalism ain't all bad
>you're a consumer too!
What an insight you have. Please remember us simple folk when you are recognised as the most insightful person in the world.

sorry but if nobody but yourselves are calling you geniuses, then you're probably not geniuses. At least laughing at you and those horrible poems on your tumblr is entertaining.

>>3367744
I can't speak for all members of our collective, but I'm writing this from a 2007 dell laptop. I ate peanut butter for lunch, as i have every day this month.

>>3367761
I'm not saying capitalism is good or bad. I'm saying that our tripfag friend here claiming that capitalism is bad while at the same time supporting something that comes directly from it (postmodernism and post-postmodernism) is fucking hypocritical and stupid.

And no, it's not ironic.