/lit/ - Literature

What should he be doing? Biting his lower lip and waving?

>need to take passport photo
>spend a few minutes practicing a Stanley Kubrik chin-down-eyes-up glare in the mirror
>go to post office, unleash glare
>sir could you lift your chin up and look directly at the camera
>o-okay
>photo comes, look like sleepy retard

>>4445794

how 'bout just a regular old photo?

If I am ever published I have already vowed to have my picture of me be surprised, halfway through eating an extremely saucy chicken wing.

>picture of a fantasy writer has him with a dwarven beard

>>4445781
>picture of writer is tiny, he is smoking a cigarrette and looking away from the camera

>picture of an author contains a female

absolutely disgusting

>tfw hating photos in my youth because they seemed like desperate attempts at hanging on to being in a world of becoming and giving way to the ego instead of memory

I will never become famous out of fear that someone will find my high school photos one day, those hilariously bad photos of me being silly against social trends. Yep, I'm sure that's the only thing holding me back.

>>4445801
>muh normativity

and what, i beg of you, is "just a regular old photo"?

>>4445781
It's better to conform to an accepted standard than stick out like some kind of autist freak.

>>4445800
Brings to mind the story of my Grandad who, as a young man, worked alongside Julius Nyerere in a school in Dar es Salaam. They were eating lunch together, in what I can only describe as a 'mess hall', and the future President had engaged my grandfather in conversation. My grandfather, a proud man at the best of times, was becoming increasingly irate at the man whom had taken to eating his chicken wing by dipping it in a bowl of soup. He would dip the wing into the soup, and then gesture wildly as he spoke to my grandfather, so that the juices of the soup yet clinging to the chicken would fly into the face of the unwitting recipient. Such an act irked my grandfather to the point of no return and thus he leaped from his seat to leave the chicken flinging man without word.

To this day, to the man that the rest of his nation calls 'Mwalimu' (Meaning teacher), the first President of a united Tanzania, a man that the majoirty of the populace respect and even in some cases reveres, my grandfather holds a grudge against him for a harmless act 40years in the passing.

Or so he claims. It's mostly probably fabricated. He has also claimed to met Richard Branson, Prince Charles, Naomi Campbell, Kennedy, oh and played a top flight match for West Ham united in goal when all three of the goalkeepers were taken ill.

>>4445849
Maybe he wants a candid photo

>>4445849

don't start this trite

its just rather grating when someone sits in any kind of pose that tries to convey a paper-thin image of themselves as a 'thinker'

>>4445849
Like, a picture of his face, no posing

>>4445850

you don't have to be an autist to not want a picture of yourself in a douchy pose on the back of your book

If I ever get published I'll try to look as delinquent as my face allows me to.

writers should try to look cool

>>4445915
Shit, what a douchebag.
I want to pour thinner on his wine.

>>4445806
>there are multiple letters before the fantasy writer's last name

lemony snicket is the only one who did it right

>>4445940
But that's because he had a secret identity he needed to protect

>>4445850
This is a popular opinion on 4chan. I'm pretty sure it comes from that part of the userbase who got mocked a lot in highschool or some shit and now they actually believe it was their fault.

>>4445940
le pseudosecret identity. epik

>picture of writer has him on a throne with an enormous dog at his feet

>>4445822

I'd like to respond to this one because it highlights one of my own fears. it is probably one of the things I feel most bad about, not only because the pictures are shameful and outs me as a shallow person but also because it's at an embarrassing level of self-indulgence. I even feel a prick of shame when seeing those photo collage montages in documentaries when they're detailing the early life of someone famous, thinking "if this was me they'd put that awful photo there and everything would be ruined"
with that said I had trouble taking china miéville seriously after seeing him

>>4445873
>muh trite
>its just rather grating when someone sits in any kind of pose that tries to convey a paper-thin image of themselves as a 'thinker'

maybe they are just sitting and you're projecting the 'thinker' part of it because you're a retard who watches too much television (and thus have an autistic dictionary of explicit image connotations which must not be violated!).

>>4445957
Nice projection.

>>4445822
all of my pics show me being as beta as a young Kafka, do i'm not too worried

>>4445792
Hahah.

>b-bro fist

Derrida hated this.

....

>>4445822
The only photos of me in existence past the age of 10 are high school yearbook photos (I skipped almost all the club photos so the only ones present are the portraits they provided for everybody) and a few personal photos taken by my mother (me swimming or looking at a pond). In that respect I guess I've avoided the endemic of photos like "me with my hand wrapped around a girl at a party" or "me making a funny face with my friend on Photobooth."

>>4446053

>>4445861
That's a great story, though.

You should write a collection of his tall tales. If they're all that entertaining no one will care if they're true.

>>4446055
>mfw my only photo is one of a 5yr old me wearing a squirrel costume I used for a play on kindergarten during halloween

>>4446081
The thought had crossed my mind.

>>4445915
Rest in hell, BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

I genuinely want some one on /lit/ to do successfully as a writer so he could be the least casual of all writers,
but I doubt it will happen, nor will we realise they are from /lit/
>mfw

>>4446100
>this entire post
>lesmuganimeface.png

10/10

Bravo. Good showing Ser.

This is how you pose for a camera.

>>4446013

>>4446178
>Psychological projection was conceptualized by Sigmund Freud in the 1900s as a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously rejects his or her own unacceptable attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world.[1] For example, a person who is rude may accuse other people of being rude

Fits like a glove.

>>4446178
You keep using that image.
...
...
please stop it would be nice

>>4446019
being beta iz better than eng omega rly

>>4446110
nice reading comp bro; he said he wants someone from /lit/ to have a successful writing career.

>>4446187
>Psychological projection was conceptualized by Sigmund Freud

Would anyone read my book if my picture on the back is me looking extremely disgruntled in an oversized puffy winter coat, making it so I can no longer lower my arms.

>>4446231
nice straw man
nice ad hominem
nice slippery slope

It's been about seven years since anybody has taken a photo of me besides for one party three years ago where I'm off my face and look worse than usual. I should try and get some taken of me looking normal about now just in case I ever have the urge to remember my early twenties.

>>4446251
Nice Freud.

>>4445792

...Dude, it's a passport photo, what do you expect?

>>4445821

If I get published, it's gonna be a duckface selfie in the bathroom. Hashtag yollow.

>>4446261

Nice cock- I mean, counter-argument!

>>4446251

>>4446335
>freudian slip

>>4446337
nice strawman

>>4446351
Oh you.

>>4446351

>>4446337
>mspaint comic fallacy

>>4446369
That's just a ghillie suit, butterfly. Get your facts straight.

>>4446377

>>4446384
Feel better.

>>4446351

Thanks, man!

>>4446337
The only funny thing about this is that it's a huge strawman argument

>>4446400
>>4446351
no its not

>>4446013
>>4446187

"projection" is the single most odious Psychology-meme to ever enter the public consciousness. All it means is, "fuck you for describing me, i'm going to go ahead and baselessly claim that you're talking about yourself"

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3022472/always-be-squinching-and-other-tricks-from-a-portrait-photographer-for-taking-flattering-pic#10

>>4445781

>writer of book has in it contemplative prose

>>4447509
Any examples of authors with funny/not-black-and-white-contemplation profile pictures? There must be some.

>>4447647
I think this would look great on the backside of his books. I really like pictures of people doing things and being absorbed in them.

>>4445915
writers are cool

right?

>>4446008

>implying image connotations are exclusive to retards who watch way to much television

>>4445915

>2012

>not thinking this photo is great

>black and white photos past the 60's

wowww so literary so literary would u like a cigarette with that

>>4446337
Hahaha, I can't fucking stop laughing at his face, thank you, whoever created this.

Joan Didion is still fucking hot.

pic unrelated

> Authors who look good from one angle and hideous from another one
Virginia Woolf, Calvino an Vargas Llosa hit it.

>>4447842
I fucking hate this with all my heart. Shit.

>>4447850
Someone make this photo black and white

>>4446436
Yes it is. Shall we continue in this style of argument?

>>4447850
this can't be real

>>4448297
excuse me? what's the issue? have you never read camus?

>>4447850
>Filename
lel.

I have a feeling that Hitchens was engaging in volatile parody when he posed for that picture.