/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17804646]

>make a post
>realize it's embarrassingly bad
>think to myself "I didn't write that, I didn't write that, I didn't write that, I didn't write that".
>close the tab
>turn off the computer and go to the gym
books that talk about this feeling?

[Anonymous No.17804656]

your dairy desu

[Anonymous No.17804658]

[Anonymous No.17804661]

>>17804646
You just have to reply to yourself with an insult when that happens

[Anonymous No.17804745]

>>17804646
>make a post
>know that it's based
>unironically go into the archives to reread my posts

[Anonymous No.17804756]

never deleted a post cru

[Anonymous No.17804777]

>>17804661
Def seen something like this before:

OP: [some dumb post]
Anon1: [savage takedown of OP]
Anon2: kek

Replies: 2 / Images: 1 / Posters: 1 / Page: 3

[Anonymous No.17804779]

i hate when I make a bad post and get hit with

>you can't delete a post that old

[Anonymous No.17804797]

One time I went to /tv/ and made such a horrifyingly embarrassing post that I still remember it today, 5 years later. /tv/ bros are so cool and funny, I just wanted to fit in and be accepted but it was like everyone in the room stopped at the same time to look at me and cringe. Now every time I go there I feel like, somehow, they know it's me. When I post on /lit/ my posts are natural and relaxed even if they aren't great, but when I try to post on /tv/ it always feels forced and artificial. When they don't get noticed I just feel relief, like I survived a close call and didn't fall through the thin ice.

That terrible post basically haunts me. Sometimes I'll be lying in bed or taking a shit and I'll think of how embarrassing it was.

[Anonymous No.17804846]

>>17804797
imagine typing this, embarrassing

[Anonymous No.17804866]

>>17804797
I do this but I don't even fucking post my posts.
Just the mere concept that I actually thought those thoughts is enough for me to start panicking for fear of social embarrassment.

[Anonymous No.17804872]

>>17804745
I've done this maybe 3 times over the decade or so I've been coming here. It is comfy.

[Anonymous No.17804881]

>>17804646
>get into an argument with another poster I can't win
>give up, close the thread, and turn off the computer
>come back a couple hours later to see that someone else has picked up the argument where I left off and is now winning
>everyone else in the thread is now on "my" side and is mocking the other guy
This has happened to me at least twice. I've also started arguments with myself a couple times.

[Anonymous No.17804906]

>>17804797
>I'll be lying in bed or taking a shit and I'll think of how embarrassing it was
Why does English, this dumb stupid language, use the future for such sentences? It is clear that you're not referring to events of the future, then why ‘I'll be’?

[Anonymous No.17804958]

>>17804906
Because the correct word is "would".

[Anonymous No.17804977]

>>17804906
It's an old usage, indicating habitual action. Like how Latin uses the imperfect to describe past habitual action ("he would [often/sometimes/regularly] do that, back then").

[Anonymous No.17804988]

>>17804958
"Would" implies the behavior has ceased. This implies the behavior is continuous with the present, like a present perfect does.

[Anonymous No.17805028]

>>17804977
>It's an old usage
Well, it sounds fucking awful. Teen slang at best.

Also, Latin imperfect does not correspond to that usage of ‘would’. Is this what they teach in anglos countries?

[Anonymous No.17805047]

>>17804646
>>17804797
god i wish i had all this self-awareness

[Anonymous No.17805062]

>>17804977
>>17804988
Things sound more formal in past tenses anyway.

[Anonymous No.17805096]

>make a post
>like a boss

[Anonymous No.17805106]

>>17805096
full of win

[Anonymous No.17805209]

>>17804797
I did this once on /b/ about 12 years ago when I was about 13. I lied about having listened to 4 particular albums, even though I had never listened to any of them. Getting called out, and identifying the means by which I was identified as a fraud, taught me a lot about how to lie more effectively.

It was a seminal experience for me and now I offer unsolicited advice on this board about the precise order in which one should start with the Greeks and how to most effectively learn Latin, despite having absolutely no knowledge on either of those subjects. My posts usually get a few responses praising the soundness of my advice, which confirms my suspicion that literally everyone on this board is performing - and not merely performing, but staging an elaborate kabuki show in which they do not simply play "themselves" as if they were a literate version of themselves, but rather a character designed to impress others who are playing characters whose traits they have also invented in response to the apparent interests of this board, failing to realize that they have drawn their character from other characters, and that they are not fitting in with other genuinely literate people, but fitting in with a wide group of illiterates who model their impression of literacy on the faux literacy of other illiterates aping literacy. It all just goes on and on like a fractal.

[Anonymous No.17805250]

>>17805209
That's a good insight, but it's also a normal function of any community that values excellence. It's just that such communities are rare now that saccharine inclusivity is the cultural norm.

What's weird about 4chan and especially /lit/ is that it's a community of people who have some dim race memory of elitist communities, and want to constitute an elitist community, but everyone is still a lazy fuck-up raised by a horrible culture, so the place has the form of elitism without the content. Still, the form alone is enough to provide a lot of people with materials and opportunities for self-cultivation that simply aren't available in less outwardly elitist communities, like /lit/'s analogues on reddit and so on.

I've always found it kind of beautiful that /lit/ is composed of undergraduates who instinctively hate the infantilism of modern college education and instinctively crave elitism. It proves that you can't smother excellence and hierarchy forever, they will always come back, even if people have to start over from scratch by being opinionated cunts on anime porn forums.

[Anonymous No.17805271]

>>17805209
>they are not fitting in with other genuinely literate people, but fitting in with a wide group of illiterates who model their impression of literacy on the faux literacy of other illiterates aping literacy.

good I'd rather hang out with other retards that just enjoy reading than this literate elite you speak of who would probably bash every wayward opinion I have

[Anonymous No.17805287]

Join the military