/lit/ - Literature

I don't celebrate Christmas so I don't give a fuck.

>>4401791
edgy

I'm an agnostic socialist. I'm sorry.

Those first three posts should be the Christmas card. I think they encapsulate the board rather well.

>>4401793
I feel bad for people who actually feel bad at Christmas for not getting a "Merry xmas" greeting or whatever shit they do in their country.
I do commemorate the birth of my Lord and Savior Jesus of Nazareth tho.

Fuck off. Cross board raids are again the rules.

>>4401818
>again the rules
>/lit/

>>4401820
Yes cunt and you can fuck off back to /pol/

>>4401799

I included the 4th, too.

>>4401865
kill yourself

>>4401787

Remember last year, when we actually had fun making a year-end /lit/ Christmas card?

What the fuck happened over the past year?

I know >>4401865 is joking, but seriously -- this board's culture has tanked. What gives?

>>4401884
Somebody has to start take initiative, why don't you?

>>4401884
Fuck you young adult reader cunts. The threads for adult scholars are still good

>>4401887
To be honest, I don't even know where to start.

Did /lit/ produce anything memorable over the past year?

was this used in other years or something
I can take the text off

>>4401895
>tfw a ban-happy janitor stifled humor and playfulness

gosh, who would have thunk it?

>>4401901
Cunts like you tried to /pol/ the shot out of threads without reading anything. We can barely have a fascist text threads without you cunts fucking up.

>>4401902
>tried to /pol/ the shot out of threads

Try typing that again. I have no clue what you're talking about.

>>4401884
We have been overrun by antisocial /pol/ tards all day, they have drained all Christmas spirit.

>>>/pol/

not even joking

>>4401899

Seriously? We're reduced to recycling a previous year's card? Are you saying that NOTHING of note or merit has happened on /lit/ in 2013?

/lit/ is just a salient of /pol/, except the leftwing part which is just a tumblr/facebook rump on 4chan by accident

you can tell by how angry leftists get when people dont uncritically upvote their support for mass-murdering dictators who totally championed workers' rights

>>4401908
Yeah pretty much, abunch of enlightened fedora wearers keep coming over to have "intelligent" debates about karl marx and hitler

Even /fit/ is beating us at this :(

>>4401915
Read the bible to understand every allusion in western canon and
gb2 >>>/pol/

>>4401908
>We have been overrun by antisocial /pol/ tards all day

Hey, come here a second. I have a secret I want to tell you:

Did you ever consider that your paranoia over being "raided by /pol/" has directly led to a culture where playful attempts at humor are immediately punished?

>>4401932

Agreed.

The problem is that /lit/ is far too self-aware to promote an ideal like Christmas knowing that so few of its frequenters have understood the allusions to Christmas provided in The Bible. If more of us had read and critically dissected the text then we'd be able to offer you a more sure message on this yule-tide holiday. As it stands we are way, way too self-aware to go around promoting such things.

A SJW janitor that deletes threads that don't fit their agenda and the left-leaning reactionary crybabies that whine at anything that doesn't conform to their ideology isn't what's killing this board at all. It's /pol/ I swear.

>>4401923
Fuck you cunt. Cross-board invasion is /pol/-tier shit.

>>4401915
You don't read do you?

>>4401941

>Did you ever consider that your paranoia over being "raided by /pol/" has directly led to a culture where playful attempts at humor are immediately punished?

I'd like to think most people on here don't take such things seriously. If a user is using phrases like /pol/, fedora or edgy then they aren't worth being taken seriously.

Or at least that's how I see it.

>>4401906
Try upping your reading comprehension cuntshit. I bet your mother wished she flushed.

>>4401946
Do you even read books you seem to only be interested in politics on a literature board. This is even worse than atheist videos on YouTube.

>>>/pol/

>>4401909
I just don't remember if this was used in a card before or not; I can check the archive
the trolly of trickery was from this year tho

>>4401941
Reported for not posting HAIL MARX to prove you're one of Us and not one of Them

Fuck Them!! DOWN WITH THEM!!! /LIT/ UBER ALLES, /POL/MENSCHEN UNTER /LIT/, /LIT/ SIEGT ON ALLEN FRONTEN, KOMÖDIE IST VERBOTEN, PARANOIA IST FRIEDEN, KONFORMITAT IST STARKE, REDEFREIHEIT IST SKLAVEREI, SLAVOJ HEIL! SLAVOJ HEIL! SLAVOJ HEIL!

>>4401946
You are, in fact, what's killing this board, if anything is doing so.

>>4401959
I've seen plenty of threads about books get deleted because the discussion about the content didn't go completely liberal.

>>4401941
It's 4chan, it's no fun allowed. I think you are looking for 9gag or reddit or something.

>>4401969
Board seems fine to me. The shitposters are the ones arguing about racial statistics in threads about whether Ernst Junger approved of fascism, and protip: it takes two to tango. There are shitty Facebook liberals and shitty /b/-tier /pol/fags on either side.

Talk about books and no one gets hurt. Even if it's Mein Kampf.

Here you go, guys.

I think it fits 2013 /lit/ well.

>>4401962
Does anyone have a link from the archive to that thread, btw?

>>4401972
This is a myth I've seen thread get deleted when they devolved to holocaust denial, one line generalizations and charts and diagrams like its /pol/

>>4401962
Nope. Pretty sure that was last year, bro.

>>4401984
It's anecdotal, but it doesn't make it false. Like the other anon said it takes two to tango. There are just as many whiny liberals as their are retarded conservatives. If you have a sibling, you know that you never let them know that something bothers you or they will do it even more. It's shitposting on both sides because people get so bent out of shape over some anonymous person on the internet and feel they have to stick up for "their side" and it does nothing but pollute the board to the point where even a slightest attempt at humor gets misconstrued as something it isn't. /lit/ isn't as "no fun allowed" as /co/ yet, but it's getting there.

>>4401962
also this i guess

>>4401969
more than anything the board is killing itself but that's ok

>>4401982
http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S3514492

>>4401992
it was February, but I'm not sure how much happened after that

>>4401884
>What the fuck happened over the past year?
/pol/

>>4401972
We're not a hot bed of academic intelligentsia plotting cultural marxism bud, were just some guys talking about books.

A picture is a useless christmas present and no one gives a shit about the sentiment

>>4401787
Here you go, OP.

>>4402003
I never said that. The fact remains that it does happen though.

>>4401976
>Board seems fine to me.
Until you realize this board used to produce a number of amusing and memorable threads.

I'm not a /pol/ fag, but I agree with those who say that /lit/'s creativity is being strangled by a minority of shrill, humorless people who see a /pol/ boogeyman behind every ribald post.

>>4401865
>>4402006

hipster edition

>>4401963
>>4401946
>>4401941

You are a cancer killing our culture, you said thinly veiled happening Spengler threads and rightwing /lit/ threads were innocent now you got your chart and you still keep posting /pol/ shit all over the board. We said it a long time ago that you would do this, you are fucking parasites, termites infesting our board you're like reverse Midas' everything you touch turns to shit and gets instantly derailed, you are truly bronze souls.
Your dim vision and stunted thought are vile and disgusting, you are filth, filthy hypocrites guilty of all the same charges you blame on the world.
I won't stand for it. I hate you, merry Christmas.

>>4402001
Yeah, man, it must be /pol/.

Can't be the fact that we have a janitor who routinely deletes humorous threads that offend her fragile sensibilities. I guarantee the only reason this thread hasn't been deleted yet is because she's likely offline.

>>4402022
this is what I was talking about. Reactionary whiners who are screaming at the phantasm of the big bad /pol/ boogeyman

>>4402022
So /pol/ is a perfidious enemy that is lurking behind every corner, is responsible for all the real ills of the board, and has vaguely tainted and ruined everything that used to be good about GermI mean /lit/?

How can we stamp this evil out? You're right, man, it's shot through our whole culture. A total overhaul is necessary. Maybe we could just keep censoring anything that remotely looks like it (even seemingly benign "right wing" people are really part of the /pol/ cabal), and limit it to certain spaces. /pol/ is a fine space for them, right? We could call it a.. quarantine. It'd be like a fun camp for them, and we'd have BerlinI mean /lit/ back to the way it was..

>>4402026

>She
Remember to ask xir what xir pronouns are before you offend someone, shitlord.

can we take /ic/ to the dance this year? I know /mu/ is the traditional date, but I've grown tired of them.

>>4402031
It's facetious that you don't admit to the /lit/ SJW boogeyman on /pol/ having anything to do with /pol/ grunts obnoxious behavior shitting all over our board.

i made one

>>4401962
Alight guys I got it

>>4402032
Pretty much, they should keep their retarded red pills to /pol/ and come here only if they have opened a book before, not because this is where the "intelligent" are.

>>4402022

Can you please explain why this wasn't an issue before the new janitor arrived? I'm genuinely curious.

>>4402032
Why are you so eager to be surrounded by rednecks? This is a literature board and we need to start acting like it again.

>>4402044

Best one so far.

>>4402048
It wasn't, /pol/sant.

>>4402049
Honestly, I'd much rather be surrounded by literate rednecks than literate hypersensitive SJW-types. The former camp is much more fun.

>>4402040
that's a nice Santa Marx

>>4402044
and a very nice font

>>4401899
>>4401909
also yes this was used in a previous year unfortunately
the thread of people naked with books was also this year if someone wants to make a collage of naked people with books I guess

>>4402048
There wasn't any of those politically motivated "intelligent rightwing" threads before those conceited poor schizophrenics started coming to join the party.

>>4402049
>>4402045
Enjoy your bourgeois circlejerk, marginal-thought-hater. Ironically it's the right wingers who are willing to "slum" and tolerate ideas that don't originate from their safe, warm, familiar little womb. Lord knows we need more Nobel Prize circlejerk threads from leftists who can't fathom why Sartre rejected one.

Of course discussion of books is a qualification for posting on /lit/. If you're earnestly discussing books, you're welcome.

>>4402055
>tfw you aren't shooting guns, drinking beer, and discussing Wittgenstein in the deep woods of Kentucky

hold me /lit/ ;_;

>>4402049
He's fighting a political struggle he's not honest they are not e/lit/es they are parasite demagogues and I'm on to them.

>>4402044
I like this one, it's festive. The people on the rails look like carolers.

>>4402064
Yeah, I totally agree. It gets my vote.

>>4402058
Why should you tolerate the stupid? You just want to toy with them because they are gullible.

>>4402058
>Ironically it's the right wingers who are willing to "slum" and tolerate ideas that don't originate from their safe, warm, familiar little womb.
lol, fucking please. Just go already.

What is this thread about again?

>>4402055
You have interesting choices in your hypothetical scenario, I guess. However, what we're discussing is board quality, which is the foundation of a board and from what we can see, rednecks from /pol/ don't add any redeeming qualities to /lit/.

Stop pretending /pol/ comes for insight and understanding. They come to irritate and destroy what they perceive as their political foes.

>>4402077
Christmas cards

>>4402077
/pol/ trying to justify their constant off-topic threads and posts and generally trying to turn /lit/ into their secret /pol/ club again.

>>4402081
>>4402082
It's gotta be one or the other, guys.
Decide which it is and take the other to a different thread.

>>4402044
Upvote :^)

>>4402077
KURISUMASU :DDDD

>>4402009
Most of your posts are like this, aren't they? No /lit/ content.

>>4402077
It's about /pol/ high jacking this thread to prove that /pol/ doesn't high jack threads and its really the jews/ cultural marxist janitors

>>4402040
Eat an axe

Why won't this mod deliver us ;_;

>>>/co/57286733

>>4402092
>high jacking
fucking leave you illiterate moron.

>>4402102
Yeah I got all aroused seeing the mark of the ban on the /pol/ shitlord trying to be "funny"

>>4401909
>>4402056
We have a new Pynchon Novel, I'd say that's pretty significant.

>>4402123


>shitlord

call him a fag, fag.

that said, fuck weeaboos too.

>>4402141
Fag just doesn't hit them the same way. You wouldn't have given me any attention if I wrote fag.

>>4402139
it doesn't seem like people made much out of it, though. same thing with Taipei.

um i made a collage out of naked-people-with-books-thread if anyone is actually compiling these and using them in a card
idk if it's some sort of breach of trust or 'netiquette' to use them but i can post them as soon as someone is making a card if someone is making an actual card or something

>>4401787

>>4402170


squeaky wheels get the kick.

>>4402209
It's been a while since I've heard that glorious phrase, exactly that though.

merry xmas /lit/ - and be gentle when opening your presents!

>>4402319
LOL!

>>4402319
Is this real?!

>>4402571

u wish

>>4401787

>>4401787
>>4401865

I say this is our card

Dear /lit/,
Happy Holidays.
Love, /ic/

>>4402703
d-did you make a special one with reading people art just for us?

thanks /ic/

>>4402123
Don't criticize the use of shitlord here guys. I made that mistake before.

What is the matter, /lit/? Afraid to show some Christmas spirit?

Come on! Have some Christmas dinner! Hans saved a seat for you!

>>4403227
t-thanks

someone make a card

i'll post some /lit/ greatest moments

>>4403337

>>4402703
Oh sucks, you guys :3

>>4403342

>>4403346
we should include a picture of our janitor in any greeting card

>>4403349

>>4403337
Why have you stayed here so long if you feel alienated? This is a serious question; I can't imagine you don't have anything better to do. Or if you think there's something valuable in the community, why are you so averse to it?

>>4402058
>If you're earnestly discussing books, you're welcome.
Actually, a lot of people complain about the philosophy threads, and when they don't like a topic they'll say stuff like "it's not /lit/ just because it's written on a book".

>>4403353
I've been here since day one.

Janitors and mods don't even read.

Protip: This wasn't an off-topic post and mods don't read their Deleuze.

>>4403361

>>4403365

>>4403361
I don't care. You're not talking to the mods, you're talking to me. You aren't shitting up their board, you're shitting up mine. Do you really not see that? There just isn't any point other than misguided spite, and it's clearly only made things worse.

>>4403361
>>4403337
>>4403226
I post all kinds of stupid shit and the janitor doesn't ban me, but he deletes my posts from time to time. Very weird stuff.

>>4403386
You seriously don't read, eh?

Deleuze's work is used by the IDF to fight Palestinians.

Read a fucking book and stop crying everytime someone makes a joke and you don't get the reference because you don't read books.

>>4403386
http://secondparadise.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/why-the-idf-reads-deleuze/

Forgot link.

>>4401998
i used to get boners from dictionary words as a kid
never fapped till high school though

>>4403391
That didn't have anything to do with what I'm saying, it's the general attitude of hatred toward the mods or whatever which even now is directed toward the community. If you don't like the mods and you take it out on the community, why have you been here so long?

>>4403406
> why do you complain about mods who don't read books and assume everything is off-topic when it's not
> why are you on 4chan if you're complaining about mods
> people never complain about mods on 4chan

Who are you? I don't know what you're crying about.

>>4403413
Calling the mods fags isn't the same thing as attributing an ideology toward them and thinking that they've taken over the board. It hasn't done anything for the board no matter who you are. I'm not why you're so angry about this.

Maybe I'm being excessive but I'm really tired of seeing people take screenshots of banned comments/threads and shitting on the community as a result. It doesn't have anything to do with "us" as a community.

>>4403436
I'm not that guy and I never said I was being banned because "muh leftism" or some ideology.

I'm not angry and I don't think SRS took over the mods, I just think they don't read and it's kinda funny.

It's not a big deal that I get banned every now and then. It's a dumb site for losers and probably a good thing I take some time off.

>>4403349
kinda qt in a bjorky way

>>4403454
yea I mean I'm referring to a lot of people here. People have been really touchy lately about what they think are /pol/ raids or whatever but it's dumb to have to go back and forth about whether /lit/ is more liberal or conservative when nobody's even talking about books. And dumb stuff about racial IQ (i.e. the 200-comment long threads w/ people shitting statistics back and forth) that's probably just epic trolling or something. I don't think the mods read either.

>>4403471
would rather fuck ozma

>>4403454
way to go for being here, you fucking loser

pls respond

>>4403472
I agree with you on that, m8

>>4403349
Is that our janitor? I would.

>>4403473
i don't get this reference

>>4403349

She looks like Naboo from the Mighty Boosh.

>>4403487
>>4403494
Butterfly's female? I've heard /pol/ call her/him a tranny at times, and I know he/she is rather left-wing...
Can someone fill me in on this?

>>4403506

>Butterfly's female?

Yes he is

>>4403531
>implying /pol/ actually reads any of the books we give them in their 'recommendation threads'.

The friggin plebs just like bugging us.

>>4403542
>mfw I've read more books than you and I'm a nazi

>>4403506
>I've heard /pol/

>>4403555
What? /pol/ raids this board every god damn day.

>>4403531
>/po/

>>4403542
Your books will make beautiful cranes for the new year celebration, thank you.

>>4403563
Yeah, you're right. Still, you should know to disregard everything they say.

Too late for christmas, better make a happy new year card

>>4401884
>this board's culture has tanked.
>culture
Ha.

>>4403578
>doesn't know what culture is

Here is a tip /lit/

/pol/ never really leaves /pol/ generally they have no idea what is going on at any other board, the few who are on other boards are mostly there out of pure cross interest.

There are some SJW who want to destroy /pol/ and they are dragging that shit over all the boards in an effort to discredit /pol/ in any way possible to get it deleted. Posts are baited up on other boards and then linked across on /pol/ to try and draw people into posting off board. Threads are posted on pol saying boards are going to raid them, then the reverse posted on the other board.

That is what is going down, you are just an easy target as /lit/ has high decorum and a low post rate but really its many other boards as well.

There are no threads on /pol/ all "lets go onto other boards" and any such threads get shouted down instantly. /pol/ turns over like /b/ now they are all fighting to stay on front page, not going off board. Its only when the bait is too good for the dumbest of the dumb to resist that it works.

Its stupid really even if /pol/ isn't a containment board it sure does the job. Getting it deleted would just unleash /b/ amounts of crazy posters over all the boards but /pol/ is like a paranoid cut snake they cant get a foothold on opinion there even with the most deceptive tactics they can dream of. /pol/ just gets even more paranoid thats why they are trying to drum up a backlash.

Whats with these fascists the SJW bandwagon femistazis and crazy ultra right new age nazis should all shack up they are perfect for each other. Either that or fight to the death somewhere other than two of the boards I prefer the most.

/rant

>>4403613
>There are some SJW who want to destroy /pol/
I don't get why people believe this any more than that /pol/ gets together and raids boards, though.

I agree that there aren't really raids, but there are a lot of people who buy into the whole "SJW taking over 4chan" narrative and I don't get it. It's like saying Obama is trying to take over Rodeo Fest

>>4403621
Yeah it's just normalfag and dilettante femanon accretion. Comics & cartoons became hip faux nerd things on Reddit and tumblr, so /co/ got eaten by feminist dykes, and naturally the new sandy pussy gestalt then "elected" a moderator/janitor that reflects their hodgepodge of ideology. /r9k/ is a highly social board, so it becomes femanons attention whoring, and then facebooker femanons balking at misogyny. Boards like /lit/ and /tg/ have the whole decorum thing (as above) going for them, ~mature nerds~, so they fall prey to the SomethingAwful trap where they think ALL misogyny is juvenile, and not a fundamentally rational response to chicks ruining male spaces.

Any board that gets eaten is just being invaded and bred out by normalfags. It's not a concerted invasion, if only because it doesn't have to be.

>>4403613
>There are some SJW who want to destroy /pol/
Is everything a false flag operation to you?

>>4403633
>ALL misogyny is juvenile
don't know about the SA thing, but misogyny is juvenile. misogyny is not telling retarded women to fuck off. you're acting like the feminists who try to push the notion that any bad thing happening to a female is misogyny.

>>4403642
I mean it in the most colloquial possible sense. But I even support a basic level of actual misogyny, irrational or poorly reasoned or whatever, if only because it forces people to conceal their gender. There are plenty of chicks on /v/ and they're not socialising and being obnoxiously loud casuals like they do on /soc/, because the misogyny on the board forces them to be men (i.e. people).

I'd prefer if this could be done via self-restraint on the part of men or self-respect on the part of women but lol.

>>4401998
Iran man got his book.

>>4403633
It'd be nice to have a discussion on feminism that didn't lead to men's right's and such in three posts

>talking about shitting up the board
>no one has mentioned the philosopherfags yet
It was those complete assholes who turned /lit/ from a board about the books into a board about "who is your favorite q3 philosopher this week /lit/?" and "what's your favorite strain of intellectual aids, analytical or continental?"
Not coincidentally it also lessened the quality of the few remaining book threads and that's when they didn't descend into political circlejerks.

>>4403673
we'd have to kick the smart chicks out

>>4403673
There are hundreds of places on and off the internet where that happens on a daily basis.

>>4403633
I seriously hope you don't think nerd "culture" is anything worth defending. "facebooker," "SomethingAwful," all that's missing is "rebbit." You can do better than this.

>>4401899

Anyone got this without the 'Merry Christmas from /lit/'?

>>4404282

We must return to the books themselves.

>>4403675
/lit/ = humanities, deal w it

>>4404376
Yes, and contemporary philosophy is not greatly useful for completing the humanities project as it isn't a slave to a proletarian party.