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Ugliest authors thread. Pic related.

>> No.7050277
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7050277

Check 'em

>> No.7050278
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George Eliot

>> No.7050279
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>> No.7050281

>>7050264
Young Virginia Woolf was a qt though. Would've licked her feet.

>> No.7050282
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>> No.7050283

>>7050277
Checked

>> No.7050288

>>7050281
Her face looks like a foot.

>> No.7050290

>>7050288
Even better

>> No.7050301

Why do you even make these kind of threads? It's ridiculous, please go away.

>> No.7050311
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Hilary Mantel

>> No.7050319
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he was one ugly motherfucker

>> No.7050321
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Skeletor

>> No.7050332

>>7050301
People need something to comfort themselves

>> No.7050335

I laughed

>> No.7050344
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dis nigga

>> No.7050349
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Virginia Woolf

>> No.7050350

>>7050344
making me nauseous

>> No.7050353

isn' i funn how an female auhors who had acual (and in some cases, phenomenal) alen generall were eiher average or below (or repulsive?)

o add o he lis, Alexander Pope was a mega manle (somehing like 4 foo 6 inches iirc, had consan healh issues, faciall kinda average, hunchback, rans-sandnigger because of ha dumb urban)

>> No.7050354

rancid.

>> No.7050372

posting people over the age of like 40 especially before there was sunscreen and makeup is a bit unfair...like .0000001 people from 80+ years ago look attractive in their photos by modern standards

>> No.7050381

Vollman and Barth are pretty ugly

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>>7050281
this

>> No.7050401
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>> No.7050406

>>7050372
maybe girls, men age like wine

>> No.7050433

>>7050406
Keep telling yourself that m8.
I'm sure you'll get all the bitches once you're a 50 year old wrinkly fuck.

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>>7050406
This

>>7050433
Yes, thats generally how it goes

>> No.7050455

>>7050441
No it isn't. The only guys who look good at 50 are guys who looked good in the first place.
Cheap wine after 60 years is still cheap wine.

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>>7050406
sure they...

>> No.7050463
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>>7050406
...do lad

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>>7050455
look at this baby face, not fully matured

>> No.7050471
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>>7050467
now look at this fully aged face, a late but full blossom

>> No.7050479

>>7050471
Do you seriously think that the average 20 something woman is physically attracted to Gandalf?
They want to fuck hot ripped dudes their age, not Magneto.

>> No.7050480

>>7050471

he kinda jus grew a beard bu w/e dude

>> No.7050490

>>7050353
What did you just say to me bitch !

>> No.7050491
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>>7050479
this sourceless graph pulled out of nowhere says otherwise lad

>> No.7050496

>>7050467
>>7050471
these are from professional photo shoots with makeup

>> No.7050497

>>7050479
>Do you seriously think that the average 20 something woman is physically attracted to Gandalf?

yes

>> No.7050500

>>7050491
No it doesn't, are you illterate?
The graph says that women are attracted to men their age, while men are always the most attracted to college-aged women.
So 20 something year old women do want to fucking 20 something year old men.

>> No.7050501

>>7050491
even if you ignore all the obvious social reasons for the women's chart, the chart shows that they like younger men once they reach 32

>> No.7050504
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>>7050497
uh

>> No.7050505

>>7050500
yeah, it wasn't the point about 20 yo wanting older but rather that men just generally age better than women

>> No.7050507

>>7050505
Or maybe men are just more shallow?

>> No.7050512

>>7050505
that chart doesn't prove that though...

>> No.7050521

>>7050512
The oldest woman on their is 24, doesn't that imply that its the peak age of when they are their most beautiful? It also shows how men are always found attractive and their beauty doesn't stagnate

>> No.7050535

>>7050521
I'm sure it's because of "true innate beauty and nature" and not at all influenced by society and how men want to be perceived...
-truman capote aging .gif
-hemingway aging .gif
and these are people who started out good looking...don't get your hopes up wrt your future m8

>> No.7050541

>>7050535
-hst aging .gif

>> No.7050546

>>7050535
why does it matter what the cause is? its still the case regardless.

And yeah, its not every situation but it generally seems to work like that. How many female authors can you say looked better at 40 than 20?

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>>7050541
he turned into the Dalai lama

>> No.7050558
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>no mention of Lovecraft

>> No.7050733

>>7050321
the grinch

>> No.7050769
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>>7050321

>> No.7050782

>>7050401
..wait, Rimbaud was Pinecone?

>> No.7050788

>>7050471
McKellen is still charming as fuck tho, also, isn't he like 80 something?

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>> No.7050810

>>7050788
76

>you will never see his and Patrick Stewarts live adaption of Waiting for Godot

>> No.7050819
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>>7050769
Thanks for reminding me to pray for his death

Also, you should've posted his younger pictures, at least now he has the excuse of being old

>>7050810
w-w-wait...is this a thing that exists?

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>>7050558
>Lovecraft
>ugly

>> No.7051013

>>7051000
He looked like an Easter Island statue. Of course he's ugly. Even his mother knew he was ugly and hid him away from the outside as a youth lest they see his face.

>> No.7051316

>>7051000
he's ugly as fuck

>> No.7051323

>>7050399
it only looks good because she's in profile

>> No.7051562

>>7050463
Old Ezra Pound looked cool as fuck. I imagine this is what Michael Gira will look like in a couple of decades or so.

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>>7050819
Yup

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>>7050350
underrated post

>> No.7052426

>>7050264
I actually have an enormous fur fetish and I will fuck almost any human being wearing a nice fur stole or coat. It's not a furry or bestiality thing, I like fluffy articles of clothing.

Like, I'd hit that, man. Hard. I have a problem.

>> No.7052552

>>7050507
more like men tend to infantilize their partners

>> No.7052559

>>7050372
who actually wears sunscreen on a daily basic

>> No.7053004

>>7052559
I wear at least 30spf if going outside. Do you want to be ugly and cancer ridden or youthful and cute?

>> No.7053012

>tfw you think Virginia Woolf was kinda qt

Horsefaced girls just do it for me idk why

>> No.7053021

>>7052426
go yiff somewhere else you fucking degenerate

>> No.7053422

She looks like a stereotypical northern man.

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>>7053422
>>7050264

>> No.7053434

stupid, shallow thread

>>>/PerezHilton/

>> No.7053450

>>7053434
I get most literary references but I don't know what that means.