&amp Magazine Issue Eighteen

[Anonymous No.22343469]

or, Tramp Stampazine, an Aural Treatise of Everything as a Matter of Taste (in fact), AKA GeorgeTown and Z-Michael: Pleb Virgins vs Patrician Chads (Chads to the Right, Virgins to the Left)

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>Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll
>Unclickable Advertisements
>Two Hundred Dots Per Inch
>Works of Great Import
>Nine Eleven Reenactments
>Sharp Contrasts
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[Anonymous No.22343523]

IT'S OUT

[Anonymous No.22343529]

Looking nice, as always. It seems there's more namefags in this one than ever—not something I’m against, but the table of contents does hit different. That said, quite a few pieces I’m gonna check out.—

[Anonymous No.22343600]

>>22343469
I like the cloudy pastel theme of this one a lot.

[Anonymous No.22343681]

I will review tomorrow love you guys

[Anonymous No.22343690]

>my story didn't make it in

[Anonymous No.22343694]

>>22343690
It must've been absolute dogshit. what was it about?

[Anonymous No.22343698]

>>22343694
It definitely wasn't my strongest work, but I hoped it'd at least get some exposure and then feedback. It was about a girl and two men who walk through the woods and die one by one.

[Anonymous No.22343728]

>>22343698
Nice idea - keep trying (I'm sure it wasn't dogshit btw only memeing)

[Anonymous No.22343737]

>>22343728
I'm just bummed because the editor said it was going in, and I was looking forward to it... only to find it evidently wasn't going in at all. It probably just fell through the cracks, but that probably signifies its overall lack of impact, in and of itself.

[Anonymous No.22343751]

>>22343690
Same. I might as well submit elsewhere, I can take a hint.

[Anonymous No.22343761]

>>22343737
I'll read it and give feedback if you like. Wanna pastebin it?

[Anonymous No.22343768]

>>22343737
Are you K.K? I liked your story a lot—we couldn’t fit it into this one, but we’ll use it for 019.

[Anonymous No.22343773]

stopped reading

[Anonymous No.22343776]

>>22343773
>t. didn't get the joke

[Anonymous No.22343784]

>>22343768
Yeah, that's me. Just want to clarify that I'm not trying to talk shit or get the hate boners tented before their scheduled rising. Appreciate the reply and the work you guys put into this. I'll wait patiently for 19, and get to reading the remainder of 18. Thanks, fren.

[Anonymous No.22343795]

>>22343469
I see my story made it in, am i the first Australian published in &Amp?

[Anonymous No.22343829]

>>22343795
No, Jack Norman did it first and did it better.

Also, a PSA: It looks like the PDF that was uploaded to the site is broken for some reason; a bunch of the graphics aren’t showing up. For example, pic related is what >>22343773 was supposed to look like. Maybe hold off on reading it for a bit, because you’ll really be missing out—I’ll get KRH to fix it ASAP but it might be a few hours.

[Anonymous No.22343833]

>>22343829
Oops, forgot to add picrel.

[Anonymous No.22343839]

>>22343469
>Letter to the editor from Brenda Sellers
Kek looking forward to reading tonight

[Anonymous No.22343851]

>>22343829
I just think the PDF isn't the compressed version. It's taking forever to load, and popping in assets individually.

[Anonymous No.22343901]

>>22343469
Page after page of utterly horrendous poetry followed by ten pages of your buttbuddy Woolston's dogshit prose.
I'm glad my work isn't in here. Fuck being associated with this amateurish turd.

[Anonymous No.22343911]

>>22343851
Get a better computer/cell, penuryfag

[Anonymous No.22343936]

>>22343901
&amp has always been a mixed bag in terms of quality. The magazine is only as good as the submissions it gets. I agree that Woolston’s prose is dogshit, although I enjoyed the poetry. The play at the end is a stand-out too.

[Anonymous No.22343941]

>>22343936
You could be right but I'm certainly not in the mood to read it. In fact, I shan't be reading this rag ever again.

[Anonymous No.22343943]

>>22343901
I agree with the sentiment here about Woolston and Always Remember Fremantle. It's just quite a boring, lifeless piece of writing. Plus it's full of telling, not showing.

[Anonymous No.22343950]

>>22343943
He's too busy in his circle jerk of doxxers to actually improve. Not that he even can because talent doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous No.22343955]

do not download it, its virus program hogging your computer and using it to mine crypto

[Anonymous No.22343966]

>>22343950
I don't know anything about the doxxing stuff. But I'd go as far as to say it's one of the worst things I've read in &amp for a while.

[Anonymous No.22344075]

>rushed out in a shoddy state to beat the Gardner mag dropping on Monday
Sad!

[Anonymous No.22344111]

>>22343943
>Plus it's full of telling, not showing.
It's an older bait sir, but it's still delicious.

[Anonymous No.22344145]

>>22343469
This has to be the weakest issue yet. I refuse to believe otherwise.

[Anonymous No.22344157]

>>22343698

It sounds like a dumb just-so story that didn't mean anything. Try fanfiction.net

[Anonymous No.22344165]

A shitrag made for buddies to whack each other off and LARP as professionals.
Nothing you write will ever land in a real publication and you know it.

[Anonymous No.22344184]

I am shocked that my classified is in this issue considering I just sent it a few hours ago.

[Anonymous No.22344233]

>>22344145
Yeah, 018 definitely isn’t my favourite— there are a few gems, but you do have to slog through a lot of schlock to get through this issue. C’est la vie. We do what we can with what we’re given.

[Anonymous No.22344241]

>>22344233
Might it be better to go back to a 2-3 month cycle instead? Monthly issues are clearly taking their toll on the overall quality.

[Anonymous No.22344249]

>>22344241
I'm willing to bet good quality entries were discarded in order to give 1/4 of the issue over to his asslicker friend.
Time won't fix the editor being a talentless fag.

[Anonymous No.22344311]

>>22344241
Maybe, although for its first year &amp had monthly releases. The editor wants to take a break for September anyway, and we’ve discussed switching to bimonthly releases after that. But who’s to say?

>>22344249
&amp has historically had the approach of basically publishing everything that’s sent in, good or bad. No one’s work was prioritized because of their connection to the editor. No good-quality entries were discarded, although our approach to putting submissions is is a bit disorganized, so sometimes things slip through the cracks and end up being missed, or get saved for future issues due to space constraints and timing. Whatever submissions didn’t end up in 018 will be used for 019.

[Anonymous No.22344359]

>>22344111
I have no idea what you mean. That story is replete with telling, not showing.

[Anonymous No.22344368]

>>22343851
You may be right; I opened the pdf on my desktop and everything looks fine. But I’ve been able to read all the past issues on my phone without any problems, so there still seems to be some issue there.

[Anonymous No.22344375]

>>22344311
how about just don't release until you get good entries instead of publishing trash
if you think this quality is up to scratch I don't know what to tell you

[Anonymous No.22344410]

For all of the 'I am a published author' LARPing Woolston does on here I was expecting more. Much more. I hate to be the one to tell you this but it's just not competent writing. I suggest finding a different mode of expression. You don't have to be a writer out of some misplaced sense of identity.

[Anonymous No.22344449]

>>22344410
but he got published. more than any of us can say

[Anonymous No.22344454]

>>22344449
(vanity published)

[Anonymous No.22344455]

>>22344410
I hate to say it, but I agree. I was shocked by how bad the story was. His prose was rife with grammatical errors and his syntax was incredibly stilted. The dialogue was wooden, the characters were flat, and he included a ton of uninteresting and pointless detail. The whole thing was trite, sentimental, boring, and generic.

The story also just felt overly long: he included tons of details about the character’s upbringing and his parents’ history that were irrelevant to the plot. All the stuff about his father’s church service in the beginning could’ve been brought in later to delve into the idea of religious guilt or hang-ups about having sex and flesh out the character’s psyche, but he did nothing with it. I’d give the story a 2/10, and that’s generous. But no amount of constructive criticism will help him; he’ll just dismiss anyone who dislikes his work as a “crab” or a “hater” who doesn’t comprehend his genius. Woolston needs to dedicate the time he spends shilling to actually reading and writing, or he’ll never improve.

[Anonymous No.22344456]

>>22344410
NO FUCKING WAY is Woolston published. There's just no fucking way. Link to his book?

[Anonymous No.22344463]

>>22344455
I'm a strong believer that effort really doesn't do much but polish what you already have. I've seen people struggle for 10 years and not get anywhere. You really need talent for this sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.22344465]

>>22344456
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Free-Man-Other-Stories/dp/1925536882

[Anonymous No.22344478]

wow frank really turned out for our thread.
anyway the digital pdf should work on mobile now and i'm updating the physical as we speak. thanks for your patience.

[Anonymous No.22344484]

>>22344465
Looking at the sample, he's writing in first person. I wonder if him switching to third person limited is where it all went wrong. The &amp piece is just horrible writing

[Anonymous No.22344489]

>>22344484
Classic signs of a solipsist who can't get over his own neurosis. To write under that handicap you have to be jewish.

[Anonymous No.22344504]

Wow this issue looks great! Can't wait to read!

[Anonymous No.22344526]

>>22344478
Who is frank?

[Anonymous No.22344530]

Can't wait for scoreanon to go to town.

[Anonymous No.22344535]

>>22344526
local supervillain
https://columbiachronicle.com/da2d3194-908a-11e3-9bc4-001a4bcf6878

[Anonymous No.22344539]

>>22344535
oooooooooooooooh THAT Frank

[Anonymous No.22344557]

>>22343469
WTF is that video?

[Anonymous No.22344562]

>>22344535
holy shit that picture is actually bad ass

[Anonymous No.22344582]

>>22344535
was this a text-exchange interview or over the phone?
the [brackets] throughout his responses, they had to add words so he didn't sound like a total retard.
and that creepyass photo. priceless

[Anonymous No.22344610]

>>22344582
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this face looming over you.

[Anonymous No.22344629]

>>22344557
Welcome to DREAMWAVE

[Anonymous No.22344633]

If anything good came from this dogwater issue it’s that the American Psycho anon can finally stop being the butt of our jokes.

[Anonymous No.22344638]

>>22344633
The role of dunce has officially been bequeathed to Woolston.

[Anonymous No.22344663]

>>22343469
>mag is out for 7 hours, not nearly enough time to be well read by any anon here
>whole thread is astroturfed by Frank who is still malding
Business as usual

[Anonymous No.22344682]

>>22344663
Please. Ten seconds is enough to tell how apalling its content is. You don't deserve special dispensation just because it's released here. That's the thing about you phonies, you want to LARP as pros then expect to be treated with kidgloves. Any professional book wouldn't be given more than one to five minutes before a reader made up his mind.

[Anonymous No.22344683]

>>22344663
>7 hours
>not enough time to read a magazine
Woolston pls.

[Anonymous No.22344689]

>>22344682
it's hilarious to imagine gardner writing this post

[Anonymous No.22344697]

>>22344663
>anyone who doesn’t like my objectively poor story is Gardner
What a pathetic attempt at cope. Just take the criticism and move on instead of being a mouth breathing retard as if it’s some sort of rebuttal.

[Anonymous No.22344698]

Wasn't there a theme for &amp standard's first issue? What kind of story should I submit?

[Anonymous No.22344700]

>>22344682
He seethes yet

[Anonymous No.22344710]

>>22344698
It was Mysteries but I realized mysteries are such a specific trope and style focused subgenre that any meaningful attempts by this community would end up painting outside the lines anyway.
The new theme shall be ‘lit fic’.

[Anonymous No.22344758]

>>22344663
>not nearly enough time to be well read
To be well read is a characteristic of a person, not a book. If this is your level of sentence construction I'm not surprised the magazine came out the way it did.

[Anonymous No.22344772]

>>22344758
>ESL doesn't know conversational English
Now we're getting interesting

[Anonymous No.22344774]

>>22343469
Last 2 stories are kino.

[Anonymous No.22344779]

>>22344772
A book is not 'well read', it is thoroughly read. In conversational English you do not say 'a book is well read'. And you're going to call me ESL?

[Anonymous No.22344794]

>>22344779
Yes I am. Wanna keep passing your pants over the vaguerality of English language or do you want to talk about some of the stories that have been posted?

[Anonymous No.22344802]

>>22344794
>vaguerality
Quite incombobliously so.

[Anonymous No.22344811]

Only took him three posts to play the “English is subjective” card.

[Anonymous No.22344816]

>>22343839
Sad news: Brenda Sellers privated her Twitter. :( There was so much unhinged content on there that the article from 017 barely even scratched the surface.

[Anonymous No.22344824]

>>22344816
Maybe if you put as much effort into writing as you did petty doxxing you might actually come out with something that doesn't sound like a middle schooler wrote it.

[Anonymous No.22344830]

>>22344633
It was all just a dream.

[Anonymous No.22344845]

>>22344830
off by 3

[Anonymous No.22344857]

>>22344845
Nice 5.

[Anonymous No.22344863]

>>22344816
&amp is a force for good

[Anonymous No.22344875]

>>22344375
What part of "good or bad" do you not understand?
&amp needs garbage too, the juxtaposition is important.

[Anonymous No.22344884]

>>22344530
It'll probably take me till tomorrow afternoon or best case extremely late tonight, heads up

[Anonymous No.22344893]

dubless thread confirms it was a failure

[Anonymous No.22344912]

>>22344811
>>22344700
>>22344633
>>22344455
>>22344311
>>22344233
>>22344111
>>22343966
>>22343955
>>22343911
>>22343833
>>22343600
Checked

[Anonymous No.22344920]

Schizo Cantos good as always

[Anonymous No.22344945]

>>22344455
>>22343943
>>22343901
I actually liked that piece. It's very straightforward, almost journalistic. A bit clumsy, but that added to the charm for me

[Anonymous No.22344946]

lol, letter from Brenda
I sense a Sellers/Gardner dream team

[Anonymous No.22344951]

>>22344946
The /lit/ Axis of Evil is already underway, Sellers, Gardner, Krake, Ari

[Anonymous No.22344964]

>>22344945
I'm also a Woolston fan.

[Anonymous No.22344981]

ima wait for the actual scores to come in. this is just a haters hype thread so far.

[Anonymous No.22344988]

>>22344945
It's like "lofi" prose. It doesn't actually serve the story very well, but it creates this kind of mood that encapsulates how I imagine life in rural Australia actually is: totally devoid of culture but full of charm.

[Anonymous No.22344995]

>>22344988
>It's like "lofi" prose.
please kill yourself at the earliest opportunity

[Anonymous No.22345012]

>>22344816
>Is Coming Fast
yeah, in her ugly fat old as fuck mouth

[Anonymous No.22345037]

>>22344988
>"lofi" prose
This is the most pseud thing I have seen on /lit/ Congratulations.

[Anonymous No.22345057]

>>22344988
I feel like &amp had been avoiding that Woolston piece for a few issues

[Anonymous No.22345058]

You got filtered by Lewis he’s the best writer on 4chan and this isn’t a meme. How about you read real literature instead of pretending to know what you’re talking about. He works three jobs to get by stop being a pain in the arse and learn to respect the craft. Dumb online trolls hating on people trying to get by and harassing their family. Fuck you man. Fuck you fuck you you little shits.

[Anonymous No.22345078]

>>22344946
in the end—it ALL goes to Russell.

[Anonymous No.22345083]

>>22345058
>Hmm... whenever people pretend to be me -er- I mean F. Gardner, throwing a huge hissy fit on /lit/, everyone falls for it and starts throwing all my -his- pathetic failures back in my face. Maybe I can use the same trick on Woolston...
Yet another act of transparent plagiarism from the world's least cunning grifter

[Anonymous No.22345086]

>>22345058
Why should I care if he works 3 jobs or if he's trying to get by?

[Anonymous No.22345091]

>>22345086
that's his excuse for having zero skill despite writing for years

[Anonymous No.22345142]

>>22345083
I’m not f Gardner but I respect the lad. He’s a far better man than any of you will ever be and has written many successful books that have inspired my own writing.

>>22345086
>>22345091
You lads are spoiled you don’t know what I had to go through. You don’t know me you little shits. Stay away from my fucking family or this will get ugly I shit you not. Fucking scum of the earth you lot are.

[Anonymous No.22345148]

>>22345142
i dont care but your writing sucks

[Anonymous No.22345150]

>>22343469
Poems were a solid opener, Henry Montchamp. Prologue was my favorite, followed by the one about Raskolnikov. Nice tempo and topics.

The Listening Post is an interesting thought experiment. I'm not studied in Buddhist literature but I had a good time over lunch thinking about perception and how it affects my own life.

In general I didn't like the Schizo Cantos because I don't like free verse poetry. I can tell they were written competently. I just can't make sense of them.

Same for Gemini. I can tell it was written well, but I couldn't find a story to hold on to. Pretty design, though. My favorite background in the magazine.

Fremantle had an actual story but the formatting was all over the place. Apostrophes instead of quotation marks, or the reverse, and ending quotes with periods but continuing on with a sentence tag are just inexcusable lazy formatting mistakes. I don't know if this is a Lewis or Editor thing but tighten that shit up. Not a bad story, anyways. A sobering tale of youthful expectations and mistakes captured well.

Waffle!... I'm not sure what to say about it. Maybe it works better as a screenplay.

Have@It was cruel and I liked the style. Poor fucker. He's got nothing to look forward to, does he?

Fucking Faggot got me to laugh with the BBC comment. We've all been this guy, just watching shit burn for fun. Cool addition.

Good Samarithan: now that was a fucking story! Long but damn it was good. Love that Leo is the only one who forgives his brother, despite everyone else being Christian.

The 9-11 story was real inventive. I like the suspense added toward the end with the timeline. If it had been a paragraph of events happening it wouldn't have been as good. Liked it, very nice.

The Tent was great. I could easily see this one act play being done at a community theater on a very small budget. Just need a good sound system and the right lighting coordination! Nice job Daniel. I hope to read another sometime.

And lastly, the Classifieds were fucking funny. They always are. The baby shoes and homeless guy ones got me lol'ing.

Not a bad issue of &amp at all. Loved the design and the color patterns. Please fix in story formatting next time. Good job.

[Anonymous No.22345160]

>>22345148
I know damn well I’m a good fucking writer and I don’t need you arseing me up and down about it. Fuck you and I mean it you little shit.

[Anonymous No.22345166]

>>22345160
You don't have the skill to discern good writing to begin with because your head has been inflated by the farts you suck in your litlte dickrubbing gang of gays. A good writer. What a sick joke!

[Anonymous No.22345173]

>>22345166
You will never write anything you will never be praised I have a loyal fan base and people who love me. It’s not your cup of tea. Alright lad cry me a fukin River. Fuck you you little shit. Fuck you fuck you fuck you to high hell.

[Anonymous No.22345178]

Oink! Oink! Oink!

[Anonymous No.22345181]

>>22345173
I gained more fans in a week than you did your entire 3-5 years of LARP. You're wasting your life and should take up watercolors or fruity loops or something. Sorry but talent is something you gotta be born with.

[Anonymous No.22345190]

>>22345181
You’re a nobody lad and shut your fucking pie hole. Nobody cares about you nobody loves you. The sad state of the online incel shitting on another man’s hard work. Stupid entitled zoomer go cry me a River and close the computer pea brain. Fuck ya and have a good night.

[Anonymous No.22345203]

>>22345178
Don’t think I forgot about you ain’t nothing wrong with a little chub and love of the grub. Stupid skeleton zoomer coming at a real man. I’ll beat ya ass I know you ain’t saying none of this to my face. Not a word. Now step off it .

[Anonymous No.22345207]

>>22345190
NTA, but you've been at this for years and haven't breached the triple digits in sales. You were jacking yourself off last month because you noticed that a local library bought 2 copies of your book. I'm sorry to say this Woolston, but you're not gonna make it. You've failed. You're going to die of some dysgenic complication within the next few years and the only thing your family will remember you by is the credit card debt that they've inherited.

[Anonymous No.22345212]

>>22345150
Based reviewanon

[Anonymous No.22345223]

WE’RE SO FUCKING BACK

[Anonymous No.22345228]

>>22345150
BASED
no I don’t copyedit submissions, all of woolston’s errors were his own

[Anonymous No.22345232]

i've waited all god damn day to call this gay.

[Anonymous No.22345235]

&amp for &ife

[Anonymous No.22345271]

>>22345232
Obsessed.

[Anonymous No.22345285]

>>22345058
>>22345142
>>22345173
>>22345181
>>22345190
As I know this board is filled with redditors who believe everything they read in these threads let me make it clear that this is not Lewis and just some anon posting like him kek.

[Anonymous No.22345294]

>>22345150
Waffle! started life as a script for an animated short. That it was hurriedly converted to a short story is it's most evident flaw.

[Anonymous No.22345324]

>>22345294
It was so visual and whacky it had to be. Finish the short. I think it works better in that format.

[Anonymous No.22345382]

>>22345324
TY.
---
Time. Time and energy are my closest friends, and my deadliest enemies. The desire to accomplish many things conflicts with both my ability, and available energy. There can be no peace within this maelstrom of my art.

[Anonymous No.22345450]

>>22345207
Been waiting all day to tell you to kiss my arse and suck my dingus. My wife loves me my family loves me and my fans and friends love me. I know where my writing stands and if you don’t like it then kiss my smelly arsehole. Maybe if you went outside and stopped being a skinny fat incel you’d have sex too. Got it!

[Anonymous No.22345458]

>>22345285
You shut your pie hole mate I can fend for myself . I don’t need know pr lackey you ain’t holding me back. Had me some pints and am feeling good. Weeeee now you kiss my arse too and tell me what it tastes like. Wanker. Fucking bogan

[Anonymous No.22345480]

My arse needs a pounding’ my wife ain’t hitting’ that g spot mate. Going to have me a bloody ripper and hit the gentleman’s club. Aye.

[Anonymous No.22345497]

Need a dildo in my brown eye Mate I’m bloody blind.

[Anonymous No.22345498]

Wife going to get cross I had another naughty like this. Too drunk for this shit.

[Anonymous No.22345499]

these threads thoroughly convince me to never ever consider submitting to this and becoming a part of this autistic bullshit.

[Anonymous No.22345502]

>>22345499
You shut your pie hole Nate I’m fucking drunk and partying don’t ruin the fun

[Anonymous No.22345507]

>>22345499
kek the sheer unbridled autism is the very spirit of &amp it's what makes it so good

[Anonymous No.22345509]

Drunk as shit fuck it not even 17 yet

[Anonymous No.22345512]

I’m drunk put me on the iceberg I’m dr No remember me I’m a good writer fuck you pansies

[Anonymous No.22345515]

I’m not Lewis just a fellow Aussie I’m sorry sorry sorry sorry I’m drunk my life is falling apart my wife left me because I keep fucking men come on

[Anonymous No.22345518]

Help me get sober please I don’t want to be drunk every day please I’m scared please please please please it’s not even 16 and I’m blind

[Anonymous No.22345519]

>>22345507
i guess. i just find it really off putting and obnoxious in a non-entertaining way

[Anonymous No.22345525]

I need help

[Anonymous No.22345531]

I’m bloody vomiting they kicked me to the curb mate I’m drunk as shit please help me I’m going to a bench goodnight Lewis is good don’t be mean I love him and I love f Gardner

[Anonymous No.22345533]

Goodnight everyone I love y’all I love amp i love Hartley I love Lewis and f Gardner I don’t know any else of y’all I want Lewis to help me and have a drink with me soon he’s a nice guy a real bloke goodnight everyone

[Anonymous No.22345536]

Please help me Lewis I’m your biggest fan

[Anonymous No.22345537]

>>22345533
oh c'mon just 1 more drink

[Anonymous No.22345539]

I’m fucking drunk lads help me I just need to sleep I miss my wife

[Anonymous No.22345540]

>>22345537
Who are you mate my wife left me and I’m just drinking I got thrown out if you help me up I’ll try another bar but I’m sleepy what’s your name lad. Can ya help me

[Anonymous No.22345544]

I miss my wife I drank away my marriage I need to hit the gentleman’s club, I need a root

[Anonymous No.22345545]

Everyone we love you you thought I was Lewis I was so honoured oh Mates

[Anonymous No.22345546]

My fucking wife left me she saw a video of me being pegged. My fucking wife saw that she saw that fucking video then I told her it was usually men and she fumes. I thought cheating was only with women. I love my wife.

[Anonymous No.22345549]

My wife is gone there’s nothing like coming home to that small little arse ahh whyyyyyy why is it done why why why my marriage is done

[Anonymous No.22345551]

Lewis I need advice someone get him my wife left me I’m sleepy

[Anonymous No.22345553]

Just out of curiousity, what's the highest number of downloads you guys have gotten for an issue?
Cheers and Keep doing the good work

[Anonymous No.22345560]

My wife

[Anonymous No.22345563]

Oh Debby I love you Debby come back I won’t do it anymore I’m starting to sober up I’ll go to the gentleman’s club have some drinks a root then I’ll come win you back baby I love you Debby I love you I do

[Anonymous No.22345564]

Lewis help me please

[Anonymous No.22345568]

Where am I I’m on my couch I think was I asleep help me in scerevbunbfhnbghfgjh ghnuhhhgh gbgtghhh bhufbkjj

[Anonymous No.22345569]

Fucking had one more shot on a couch oh yeah I’m fucking good yeah yeah yeah

[Anonymous No.22345572]

Fuvkhfhkj ghjmhtv. Hhh Jim goin Lewis hhgyj Guinness hhh. Yan un Uhrgewichts

[Anonymous No.22345574]

Sobdrinkn don’t forget the pepper mint l Eid I’m drunk Lewis my wife my wife I miss her Lewis Lewis Lewis ein her back for me I’m sleepy

[Anonymous No.22345578]

What the fuck

[Anonymous No.22345596]

Wallet gone

[Anonymous No.22345604]

I refuse to believe the Listening Post is by the same Pom who wrote that Zoomer shit last issue. It reads like a completely different human being. Is Pom like a writing troupe

[Anonymous No.22345620]

>>22345604
Yah I said the same. Vast difference in style. I loved Robot Wars though.

[Anonymous No.22345651]

>>22345620
I hated it, but liked this one. Robot Wars seems to have been the most polarising piece in &amp for a while, I've never seen such resounding praise for a piece I thought was terrible.

[Anonymous No.22345671]

It strikes me that this fag rag doesn't know what it wants to be. Visually designed as rebellious, its pieces are instead safe, stale, boilerplate, and middling--betraying the fact the edtior wants to be 'a weaal editor' and so only accepts crud.
Tell me--if I wanted to write mainstream works, why on earth would I submit to this and not a real magazine? At least with a real magazine I would get a real writing credit out of it.
So you've made a magazine for pussies, basically.
You're arrogant too, which is a problem. Editors can either be arrogant or a pussy but they can't be both.
You turned your nose up at my submission and made a disgusting remark about it, then two days later I hosted it myself and got ten times the views your rag will ever get. Actually, it's probably more than that, but I'll be generous to you. If you'd known my view count you would have been licking the arches of my feet from here to Timbuktu, that is for certain. You won't know now, not ever, because I don't need any clout chasers pretending they like my work to get an 'in'. So you see, it was you who failed the test, not me.
Good luck with your soiled diaper of a magazine. It doesn't deserve to take up space on my bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.22345686]

>>22345671
>You turned your nose up at my submission and made a disgusting remark about it, then two days later I hosted it myself and got ten times the views your rag will ever get
Can I read it? Link me

[Anonymous No.22345818]

>Seven Poems, Montchamp
I confess that I am ill-equipped to judge this. The construction seems suitable, the flow is quite good, the language is tickling, but emotion is at the core of poetry and guilt is the one thing I am constitutionally unable to make myself feel.
Personal Quandary/10, probably an 8 if I were capable of connecting with it.

>Anonymous Haiku
I laughed. Dark Ken-core. Ken-punk? Enhanced by the background significantly.
5/10

>The Listening Post
Informative, light and pleasant, posessed of genuine understanding and empathy. Reads a little like an excerpt from a Religious Studies thesis that the advisor enjoyed reading but still thoroughly redmarked because it had too much personality.
7/10

>Shizo Cantos
I think a few unintentional line breaks might have gotten introduced in formatting no.50 and 99, but I actually rather like the effect they had on 50. I do also always love the inventive ways you guys use the symbols in layout.

>Gemini
Cheesy in a poignant way. Cliche in an honest way. The sort of window I like to peek through from time to time because I can appreciate the world on the other side of it, even if I don't want to live there.
7/10

>You'll Always Remember Fremantle
>and Hobart is completely pointless
fuckin lol
A strange sort of Australian blandness. I somehow read all the way through before realizing it was going on a little long. I kept wanting a war to start so Smithy could get blown up and Jones could get grown up. Needed another editing pass.
A really quite solid 6/10

>Untitled Poem
Cheesy and cliche in the ways Gemini wasn't. Flow's got some hitches and those rhymes will NOT pull bitches.
3/10

>Waffle!
Amateurish in a barely endearing way. Reads like a highschool sophomore's attempt to imitate Douglas Adams. Tenses all OVER the damn place, basic errors abound, please read your own stuff before submitting it. You gain a point because I laughed at 'Oh, it's a giant flying toaster.'
3/10

>Have@It
Brutal like a homemade hatchet.
8/10

>Fucking Faggot
Witty, nice and crude, with a little nugget of real thought to chew on.
7/10

>Good Samarithan
Chillingly honest, vibrating with understanding of the human mind and how children understand and process the world. Double barrels of early 2010s buckshot straight to the face.
9/10

>THE ANNUAL SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH COMMEMORATIVE MEMORIAL REENACTMENT AND CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
Offbeat, funky fresh, comedic both in its frankness and tragedy. Has a sheen like Napoleon Dynamite and The Royal Tenenbaums melted into one ingot.
I thought the prose was a little bumpy until switching my mental narrator from my default to your cadence and tone from the &amp Reviews video. After that it flowed effortlessly—such is the undeniable presence of your voice in this piece.
8/10

>The Tent
A splendidly depressing little romp. I'd go see a performance. Could maybe use some tightening up, but still a good show, chap.
7/10

Good work and good cheer! Long live &amp!

[Anonymous No.22345830]

>>22345671
>>22345686
Me too can I read it? No joke I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.22345841]

>>22345651
Personally, I think Robot Wars appears like, and in some ways is, the typical burgerpunk &amp trash that people think &amp is meant to be, so you might be right not to like it. But I felt it had a lot of personality and authenticity and was able to use its poor impressions to its advantage. I gave it a technical 6/10 but that doesn't account for style and oomph.

[Anonymous No.22345853]

>>22345671
>because I don't need any clout chasers pretending they like my work to get an 'in'.
Good call, but they’re going to hate you even more now. Both Unreal and &amp adored F.Gardner before he blew them off. They both begged Gardner to contribute to their rags. They grovelled at his fucking feet. They promised to rebrand around him. He turned them down and now they are obsessed with him. I suppose nothing breaks a man like being rejected while in such a pathetic state.

[Anonymous No.22345855]

>>22345853
That makes complete sense. I've seen that class of rodent before.

[Anonymous No.22345979]

I don't know who Lewis Woolston is or care about the drama but his piece in this issue was everything I hate about contemporary fiction minus anything at all acting in mitigation thereof. The sparse, clumsy prose of Woolston would be me forgivable if it had anything interesting to say. This, somehow, isn't the case. I kept waiting for the piece to open up in some way, to start breathing. Finally, finding neither, I quit all hope of either and simply looked for a pulse. Reading Woolston is like waking up after a long night of drinking and finding yourself in bed with a dirty, smelly Australian who keeps trying to tell you—in dull, monotonous tone that never rises above a soft, nasal whisper or diverts from its rhythm—things you don't care about. You just wish he'd shut the fuck up and let you go back to sleep, or that he would at least brush his fucking teeth.

[Anonymous No.22346041]

>>22345223
It's over.

[Anonymous No.22346063]

>>22345979
Now this is kino.

[Anonymous No.22346171]

>>22345818
Based review anon. I quite liked this &amp edition. The interior was sick, we had a mix of 4chan memes with genuine good literature, and I could read it in about 2 hours. What more could you ask from a magazine?

[Anonymous No.22346178]

>>22346171
>What more could you ask from a magazine?
Content written by people other than the editor's faggy little discord clique.

[Anonymous No.22346180]

>>22346178
Nigga, no one is stopping you from submitting.

[Anonymous No.22346191]

>>22346178
submit faggot. literally you could write an article about why &amp is shit and they would run it.

[Anonymous No.22346197]

>>22346191
>they would run it.
The discord trannies would wear it as a badge of honor then try to backtrace my email and dox me. Like they did with that other girl.

[Anonymous No.22346220]

>>22346180
The submission gnomes are hiding my submissions.

[Anonymous No.22346251]

>>22346191
The move towards more recognizable names is probably the worst thing that has happened to &amp. The energy of issues 8-10 and 16-18 are totally different. I know this is an issue with the whole of /lit/ but it really drags down the whole anonymous author thing when I recognize half the names and know that I'm not going to enjoy their piece just based on that.

[Anonymous No.22346254]

>>22346251
TSMT
I barely come back to this shithole anymore because of it. Gardner really birthed a monster.

[Anonymous No.22346361]

Can someone post a link to the &amp Discord?

[Anonymous No.22346478]

>>22346251
>based
Based? Based on what?

[Anonymous No.22346492]

>>22346361
Nice try, Brenda Sellers. Russell can't help you this time.

[Anonymous No.22346496]

Brenda is a beautiful angel. Slay.

[Anonymous No.22346570]

>>22346361
https://discord.gg/hrqvUdVYXA

[Anonymous No.22346573]

>>22346254
It's so amazing to me that so many anons have seen what Gardner has done and decided that they could copy him that easily. Too bad, too late, Gardner was here first and everyone knows that, and everyone who comes afterwards has just made themselves look like an ungrateful little shit because they always want to dunk on 4chan's most famous author. I guess they think it's cool or contrarian or whatever? It's hilarious to me, really, and sad, how pathetic you guys are. You let Gardner blaze a trail and create a brand and then you all swooped in like seagulls and tried to kick him out, despite the fact that no one ever reads your shit and no one ever will. I'm not surprised that Gardner has had to resort to some "underhanded" tactics, you guys will literally never rest until you've taken every single one of his readers away and if that doesn't work you're going to fucking ruin the whole goddamned thing for everyone. People want to read Horror's Call, and what's crazy is that Gardner was there encouraging and inspiring all of you when you were trying to get started and everyone is just pissed because he wouldn't give them advertising space, which was his idea so he doesn't have to share it with anyone. If you want to advertise on 4chan then maybe you should have taken the fucking deal when Gardner wanted to trade shoutouts but you all pathetic ungrateful little shits. You have to pay dues in this industry and you didn't want to, this is the most disrespectful pathetic shit anyone has ever seen.

[Anonymous No.22346580]

>>22345818
Surprised that you liked Good Samarithan so much. It was the low point of the issue for me.

[Anonymous No.22346583]

>>22346573
G. Farmer has second to market advantage.

[Anonymous No.22346635]

>>22343529
>Seven Poems
Quite quite good, especially in some its imagery and word-magic; I particularly liked "Unjustification" (tho the "barracks" line's meter seems off, and, ironically, like so much English verse, this one is quite devoid of feminine rhymes, unlike, say, "Tony Suprano"), "Untitled" (Auster), I and II (I might say adamant instead of diamondoid, though I guess, besides alliteration, that awkward oi has a charm).

>The Listening Post
At first I was not quite sure what genre this was; as, by the second section, it more clearly turns into essay, I found it overall not very captivating, but it's still sort of interesting in form and opening.

>Schizo Cantos
In word and image the "schizo"-mystical does not here surpass that of Seven Poems imo, but good ntl.

>Fremantle
Props to monsieur Woolston for being a (twice!) publisher author, but if this 'un is anything to go by it's (I say concurring with others itt) rather a disappointment. It's just rather boring and lends well to skimming, if not abandoning outright; the bit with the prostitute had my attention, the rest did not. I did read another piece by Woolston, the one about the Professor (?) in Tooky's (?): there, like here, the writing is not "the point", and I surely glided over quite a few sentences, but there the bulk of the story took up much more of my interest... Also (this one here): rather punctuationally incompetent.

>FFuucckkiinngg FFaaggggoott
Jon Rafman at his desk

>The Tent
Captivating. Bravo.

Also, is anyone getting sissification vibes from the visuals?? (*submit* *pink inverted triangle* *tight asses in pink* *all those glistening multicolor-drooling lips*...)

[Anonymous No.22346670]

Just finished the mag. This magazine needs to have a lower limit to the quality of stuff it will publish. Some of these pieces are so badly written they're impossible to read. It's mind-boggling that an editor would slog through Good samaritain and think it was good to go - there's just nothing right with it. Obviously same for Woolston, which is unspeakably bad.

The Listening Post was written coherently and felt polished, if a little dense, same with the 9-11 story and the play. Gemini scrapes through if its just an exercise in purple prose. But everything else is so shit it's aggravating. I feel like I've been robbed of my time.

[Anonymous No.22346711]

>>22346580
Don't worry it was the low point of the issue for me, too.

[Anonymous No.22346738]

>>22346711
It was riddled with too many cheap, lazy metaphors.

[Anonymous No.22346754]

>>22346573
There's actually some logic to this even though schizo

[Anonymous No.22346812]

>>22346635
>Also, is anyone getting sissification vibes from the visuals??
You're just imagining things.

[Anonymous No.22346826]

>>22346812
Obscenely cool ad.

[Anonymous No.22346827]

Hartley really outdid himself with the design for this issue. Pure unadulterated kino.

[Anonymous No.22346873]

>>22346635
>is anyone else getting sissification vibes from the visuals?

No, because I’m not a pornsick degenerate. You’re on the sissy hypno coomer to full-blown tranny pipeline. Enjoy dilating your future axe wound.

[Anonymous No.22346888]

>>22346873
And yet you know all the terminology: curious...

[Anonymous No.22346903]

>>22346888
I DABBLE

[Anonymous No.22346929]

I'm not surprised Hartley is this well versed in sissy culture. He's a crack addict who spent multiple years in prison, right? Sissy hypno has likely been a tried and true tool in his occupational advancement.

[Anonymous No.22346943]

>>22346929
it's called street cred, you silly faggot.

[Anonymous No.22346965]

>>22346812
huffed poppers and bought the physical

[Anonymous No.22346968]

>>22346812
If you were smart you wouldn't include the word W**lston which automatically triggers a subliminal disgust response

[Anonymous No.22346984]

>>22346968
Based. Woolswine is vile.

[Anonymous No.22346990]

>>22346984
THATS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?
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[Anonymous No.22346993]

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.22347000]

Oh, mercy!

[Anonymous No.22347016]

>Remembering the Dead

[Anonymous No.22347018]

>>22346968
>>22346984
>>22346990
>>22346993
>>22347000
If you aren't Gardner, you could stand to take a moment to reflect on Gardner's experience with 4chan shilling and ask if "pretending to be other people who agree with me" is really the most effective method to get your point across.

[Anonymous No.22347023]

>>22347018
sorry that everyone thinks youre a pig

[Anonymous No.22347028]

>>22347018
>>>22346984
That doesn't even sound like Gardner. I don't know how that's pretending to be him. Maybe I'm missing some essential information here.

[Anonymous No.22347031]

>>22347028
i guess gardner is also the other 20 people in this thread who hate the shilling trannies too

[Anonymous No.22347051]

Best of &amp when?

[Anonymous No.22347056]

>>22347051
2 more weeks

[Anonymous No.22347060]

But I'm not Gardner, Gardner being Frank Gardner, the author of the Call of Horror series of books, he thought. 'I'm not Gardner,' he explained to the anon, who had unjustly accused him of being Gardner for some reason that he didn't know. Reason, he thought wryly, that was the basis for rational thought. And insanity was its opposite, just like how Peace was the opposite of War in Tolstoy's classic. Maybe the anon had given into insanity and that was why he had asked that question. He looks into anon's green eyes and wonders if it's possible for an anon to cry, or if this is just also part of the dream.

[Anonymous No.22347068]

>>22347060
I write like this.

[Anonymous No.22347087]

>>22347060
This is really good

[Anonymous No.22347095]

>>22347016
KEK

[Anonymous No.22347149]

>>22346965
Twinks are the backbone of &amp.

[Anonymous No.22347230]

Seven Poems was the highlight of the issue for me. Especially the Untitled (serpent) one. Good stuff.

[Anonymous No.22347280]

Waking up from the dream he realized something was off about the room. It looked like a kid's room. His son was there. It was his room. The boy looked at him and asked 'Daddy, why are you crying?" He didn't know why he was crying, perhaps they weren't tears at all. "I don't know why I'm crying," he told the boy. "Perhaps they aren't tears at all."
They leave the creepy room behind and descent into the maze of their large house's hallways, sort of like the maze which Daedalus builds for his boss and gets trapped in with his son after building it. That's what it felt like right now, with his son, in the maze of his house.
"It feels like we're trapped in the maze," he told his son.
"Yes daddy," said the boy.
It felt almost like the thought experiment in Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter where Daedelus' maze is reimagined as a game in which you pass through a series of rooms each with a different set of rules to get out, and the rules refer to other rooms, which interlinks all the rooms together. "This is like Hofstadter," said the Boy to his father as they reached the third room which was green like his son's eyes. Inside the room was the boy's grandmother, and maggots were spilling out of her mouth and eyes.
"Ew!" cried the boy and ran to take cover behind his father at the shocking sight.
"It's just our imagination," the father explained to his boy, but the grandmother and her maggots seemed so real that it frightened him deeply. "This must be a clue to opening one of the other rooms," he explained to the Boy, "that is how the game works in Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. The Boy gazed at him from his green eyes. He'd never heard of that book before.

[Anonymous No.22347325]

>>22347280
The fuck is this?

[Anonymous No.22347331]

3.5/10.
Half inoffensive and forgettable and half putrid refuse that I’m unsure of why you even published. Are you attempting to spite me? Is this personal?

[Anonymous No.22347334]

>>22347331
>not a new IP
It’s the same troll that’s been seething since the issue released

[Anonymous No.22347336]

>>22347334
he's not me and I'm not Gardner either

[Anonymous No.22347341]

Btw, is the Horcea Belea video 'it'? I mean, I was first under the impression it was a trailer for a longer video, but now I think it might be the finished work...

[Anonymous No.22347342]

>>22347334
My previous post was proclaiming my excitement for the issue. You’ve spoiled it twice over now.

[Anonymous No.22347343]

>>22347341
it felt like a reddit meme from 2011

[Anonymous No.22347346]

>You're all samefag therefore the magazine is le success!
That's the level of damage control I'd expect from the pisspot of an editor. Time to pack it in methinks.

[Anonymous No.22347365]

>>22347334
>>22347342
To expand upon my position, I’m lending my voice to fourth, fifth or sixth the popular opinion of this thread: monthly issues are clearly not cutting it. Take some time off. Three months, four if needed.

[Anonymous No.22347371]

How about ten?
How about twenty?
How about stop entirely

[Anonymous No.22347382]

I bet you're kicking yourself for not taking my material now ain't ya buddy?
You had gold and let it slip through your hands, put up this total bland boilerplate kellogs cornflakes crap instead and you didn't even have the decency to add some milk.
Well it's too late now, you shoulda recognized genius when you had the chance fucko.

[Anonymous No.22347386]

>>22347382
Shithead won.

[Anonymous No.22347391]

Filtered by Lewis

[Anonymous No.22347397]

>>22347391
>Filtered by Lewis

Translation: Unreal Tranny coming to defend Woolston because he’s currently crying to his Discord buddies about anons mocking him in this thread and shitting on his writing

[Anonymous No.22347400]

>>22347397
KWAB spot on

[Anonymous No.22347440]

>>22347397
And you don’t have the balls to say anything in there so keep lurking like the useless faggot you are

[Anonymous No.22347441]

>>22347397
That's not happening though

[Anonymous No.22347453]

>>22347441
It literally is though

[Anonymous No.22347458]

>>22347453
Awwww the 'professional author' piggie wiggie went waa waa waa all the way home when his dogwater didn't get lapped up by the masses who were meant to adore him. Sad!

[Anonymous No.22347464]

>>22347453
Kiss my arse and say something to me then fucking troll

[Anonymous No.22347468]

>>22347453
I had literally no clue who Woolston was before this issue. The story is bad. His writing is bad.
I mean this in the least personal way possible Lewis: I never want to see something you’ve authored again.

[Anonymous No.22347470]

>>22347453
>hates discord trannies
>relentlessly posts discord screenshots
>never realises by doing so he is contributing to the seamless process of integrating the board and the server
Cringe anon. By all means hate and meme but you do a disservice to yourself and your own vision.

[Anonymous No.22347472]

That’s right bloke coming after my fucking family, I’ll beat your ass kid. Better fess up.

[Anonymous No.22347477]

Right that's it ive had a Guiness you arses and I wont take this belittlization lying down. My wife loves me my kids love me and my dog fucks me. What more qualifications do I need as a writer? You think a library would buy two whole copies of my oover for no reason?

[Anonymous No.22347485]

>>22347477
>my dog fucks me
Krake, no! You're supposed to fuck the dog! It's on the iceberg, for God's sakes man!

[Anonymous No.22347491]

Ima beat yer arse kid my arse is sore from last arvo anyway. Lewis is my hero. So what if I love my dog it’s man’s best friend mate.

[Anonymous No.22347492]

Lame
love &amp, 'ate these threads, simple as

[Anonymous No.22347494]

>>22347477
Libraries don’t buy his shit, he literally sends it to them for free and begs them to put it on the shelves

[Anonymous No.22347499]

>>22347494
Right that's lies, I'm putting down this Fosters now to tell you where you can shove that screenshot. And you can go to hell. The reading public love my work just as my dog loves penetrating my arse. And I won't hear otherwise.

[Anonymous No.22347503]

>>22347494
Say it to my face kid I’m gonna beat your arse. Coming after my family. Fuck you you little shit

[Anonymous No.22347516]

>>22347494
That’s what I thought bitch you’re my bitch you’re my bitch keep kissing my arse on the side you’re not shit

[Anonymous No.22347517]

>>22347494
I'm gonna fuck your dog's arse for sharing that one you little fuck.

[Anonymous No.22347525]

>Woolston LARPer is now a resident poster

[Anonymous No.22347533]

>>22347525
Who you calling a larper you sick fuck. You sick fuck. I’m the real deal. Now kiss my arse and tell you’re doggo to step outside

[Anonymous No.22347542]

Little shits trying to bring a man down now kiss my arse

[Anonymous No.22347545]

Me arse is sore after the good ramming Fido gave me earliers so I put a cold one on there. But now you can kiss it.

[Anonymous No.22347556]

I reckon if me and my pet Woofston made a baby together it'd come out a doghog. What do you reckon?

[Anonymous No.22347592]

I hope this is what every &amp thread is from here on out.

[Anonymous No.22347597]

>>22347592
Why do you want this shit to continue? I miss the &amp threads last year when we actually had good discussion

[Anonymous No.22347609]

>>22347597
Yeah like the discussions that led to Powerpunk and other story prompts? Much more interesting than crit threads.

[Anonymous No.22347608]

Why’d ye deleted my posts mods. Kiss my arse too

[Anonymous No.22347657]

>>22347597
This is at the very least entertaining. I'm so tired of these threads where a select few suck themselves off while a different select few attempt to put an end to the selfsuck. It's tiresome. I blame the sorry state of this issue on your obsession with being a card carrying member of former group.

[Anonymous No.22347680]

>>22344241
No deadlines, just publish when you have enough material.
Woolston's was my favorite, but I skipped the play.

[Anonymous No.22347697]

>>22345553
Also interested.

[Anonymous No.22347702]

>>22347525
Multiple people here are thinking about Woolston all day every day.... He's won hasn't he?

[Anonymous No.22347715]

>>22347657
Almost all of the comments I’ve made in this thread have been critical, but whatever you say.

[Anonymous No.22347716]

>>22347702
He's my favorite besides nesmer.

[Anonymous No.22347738]

>>22347657

[Anonymous No.22347751]

>>22347738
They hated Ari because he told the truth.

[Anonymous No.22347792]

>>22347738
worst part about andersen/ J./ ari shitting up the threads is its always the same cum /poopy fart/ ass kiss / butthole suck blah blah middle schooler tier insults on repeat

[Anonymous No.22347822]

>>22346197
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............

[Anonymous No.22347877]

>>22347792
Exactly. It’s all so juvenile and pathetic. And at this point it’s like no one connected to &amp can say or do anything that they’ll be satisfied with.

>Anons sincerely praise other anons’ work in a substantiative and specific manner
>You’re just ass-kissing!
>Anons collaborate on a creative project
>This is all just a circlejerk!
>Anons are critical of other anons’ writing
>You’re just trying to stop the selfsuck!
>&amp releases monthly issues
>The quality is shit!
>&amp goes on hiatus
>The magazine is inconsistent and lazy!

Like, give it a fucking rest. If you feel like people are hugboxing then come in and post some harsh, specific critiques to provide a constructive reality check. If you disliked the issue then say what you disliked about it and provide specific, useful criticism instead of just throwing out vague insults. If you think the submissions for this issue were shitty then submit something good yourself for the next one. If you dislike the namefagging then submit something anonymously. Seething and bitching endlessly does nothing and helps no one.
All it does is lower the quality of the discourse even further and create drama.

[Anonymous No.22347897]

>>22347877
>someone not retarded in a &amp thread

Finally.

[Anonymous No.22347927]

>>22347792
>>22347877
Sure, I'm the one who has a toxic relationship with criticism when every comment that isn't blind praise is assigned the name, address and face of someone you know from Discord. The only name you listed who I even recognize is Ari, and most of that is from your clique doxing him and constantly ragging on him for his slow effort with the best of &amp.
Take a second and look at yourselves. You released a stinker of an issue and not only do you feel the need to deflect with this much force but your method of deflection is well past hysterical.

[Anonymous No.22347955]

>>22347877
cut is literally ari tho, hes been tripfagging about the bestof under that name in the iceberg thread

[Anonymous No.22347963]

>>22347955
fuck i meant ‘cur’ and that was a response to >>22347927

[Anonymous No.22347985]

>>22347927
I am not a part of the amp team at all I have no idea what you are talking about

[Anonymous No.22347988]

wagmi

[Anonymous No.22347999]

>>22347955
>>22347963
I'm aware. I'm also well aware of the fact that the person you are accusing of being Ari is not Ari, because that person was me and I am no Ari.
The disgust toward the recent circlejerks is not an unpopular opinion. The inclusion of these awful Woolston stories and the obvious asspatting seems to have been the straw that broke the camels back on this. Personally, I've sat silently with this opinion for the last few issues now, hoping that these stumblings were just some unfair pattern recognition on my part, but now I see, you are in the wrong here. Ari/Cur is correct. Typesetting is nothing to gawk at, and by everything that is holy, neither is any aspect of Woolston.

[Anonymous No.22348015]

My Zoodle spin-off piece didn’t make it. The new editors didn’t even reply back. These fucking kids.

[Anonymous No.22348022]

>>22348015
Join the club.
Next issue for sure.

[Anonymous No.22348037]

>>22348022
At least that means they have a lot of content. I think in the first year editorAnon really struggled to get content.

[Anonymous No.22348063]

>>22347999
Virtually every comment about Woolston’s story in this thread (including my own) has been negative, and deservedly so. &amp publishes anything, even if it’s shit. I’ve read every issue, some more than once, and &amp has published a *lot* of horrendous shit over the years, much of it just as bad or even worse than Woolston. Why should Woolston’s shitty story alone be rejected just because he’s a known namefag/shill?

Even the anons who’ve praised the issue in this thread still have been critical of some of the submissions that were included; it hasn’t just been hugboxing with no criticism to balance it out. If you disliked the issue, that’s fine; I myself felt that it was a fairly weak issue overall, and have expressed that opinion in this thread more than once. That doesn’t mean that other anons who came away with a different opinion are automatically ass-patting. Taste in literature is to some extent individual (though of course not entirely subjective) and certain pieces will no doubt be polarizing. People are allowed to enjoy &amp and praise the stories, or appreciate the design and formatting. If you want to criticize then criticize to your heart’s content, but explain what you disliked specifically instead of just vaguely bitching. Don’t dismiss everyone who disagrees with your criticism as part of a circlejerk—as long as they can back them up, their opinions are just as valid as your own.

[Anonymous No.22348074]

>>22347999
Checked. Woolston was appealing to the Lamp team constantly and after snubbing his submissions for over two issues we finally caved and printed his story. Was it good? Probably not, but it’s official, printed in 200 DPI on glossy ISO A4. The next time a subpar piece of literature finds a home in the pages of this unflinching publication, I’ll be sure to hang myself and the noose I swung in on.

[Anonymous No.22348097]

>>22348063
I'm not referring to every lukewarm review of Woolston's story as an example of contortionist selfsuck. If you found it to be a 5/10 for whatever reason, and you have the ability to verbalize that reasoning, then go for it. I don't care. You're allowed to be wrong. What I take issue with are these transparent posts that debase every negative review with an image of Ari's portrait while shouting to the sky such vagaries as SOVL or "lofi prose".

[Anonymous No.22348149]

>>22348097
Yeah, the “lofi prose” comment was cringe-inducing, I agree with you there. But my point still stands that the vast majority of feedback on Woolston’s story has been negative or lukewarm. It’s not as though this thread has been full of people raving about his prose. I’ve always welcomed criticism, provided that it’s substantiative, and have provided plenty of harsh critiques myself in past threads. My issue isn’t with people giving negative reviews, it’s with people complaining about the quality of these threads and dismissing the whole thing as a circlejerk based on the actions of a few isolated posters, while reducing the quality of the discussion even further by constantly bitching.

[Anonymous No.22348195]

>>22348149
>based on the actions of a few isolated posters
If these "few isolated posters" were uninvolved third parties then I'd agree with you wholeheartedly.

[Anonymous No.22348242]

So what have we learned today?
>there's a reason Woolston had to go through a vanity press
>one month cycle of release is not sustainable
>sissy hypno
Anything else or does that cover it?

[Anonymous No.22348257]

>>22347792
>andersen
What did he write?

[Anonymous No.22348286]

>>22348257
Equine smut.

[Anonymous No.22348293]

Lewis is a handsome lad tryna' feed his family no need to slander the man's looks or his work. He is a good writer and a handsome family man. I loved his story, in fact I wrote it. Now kiss my arse. Sorry I just had to drop one in it's actually me this time.

[Anonymous No.22348323]

>>22343469
this one sucked especially bad. i've been waiting all day for the site to come back up just so i can tell you how bad this issue was

[Anonymous No.22348327]

>>22348257
Who cares? Must we steer this thread towards more interpersonal Unreal drama? Will posting his story and then his face make you feel better about Woolston's poor reviews? Should we dredge up J's workplace drama? His old Myspace account perhaps? Maybe you could drum up an excuse to post those embarrassing photos of Ari, you know, those ones where he vacationed at Niagara Falls? So funny!

>>22348293
>no need to slander the man's looks
I don't think your story was very good but I do think it's unfair that people are going after your looks like that. You look like an average aussie boomer. No shame in it.

[Anonymous No.22348335]

>>22348195
They literally are. There is a weird schizo brainwashing going on here where the whole project is both an Unrealx&amp shillfest and it is Discord unreal trannies who shit up these threads. When in fact is /x/ tier anons convinced of insane theories about various namefags who will post endlessly in these threads about all sorts of shit. which is it? it can't be both. Also wtf? Why are the editors selling ANYONE down the river, posting in this thread about how they reluctantly chose to publish Woolston. Just publish stories and allow readers their commentary, you don't betray you contributors to the masses because one thread gets a bit memey. Outrageous.

[Anonymous No.22348369]

>>22348335
>the whole project is both an Unrealx&amp shillfest and it is Discord unreal trannies who shit up these threads.
My understanding, having witnessed these past few issues first hand, is that Unreal and anti-Unreals are two extremes. Unreal gives hyperbolic praise towards everything that is posted and anti-Unreals give hyperbolic negative reviews to everything that is posted. When they come to a head, both devolve into doxing one another and dramafagging.

[Anonymous No.22348388]

>>22348323
What about my 9/11 story? Tell me I’m good

[Anonymous No.22348403]

hell yeah dude

[Anonymous No.22348418]

Alright we're hearing you loud and clear, we will no longer be aiming for monthly releases. From now on, &amp will be a weekly magazine. Submit early and often for a chance to be in next week's "Lofi Prose" edition.

[Anonymous No.22348429]

>>22348418
Will Woolston be writing and editing the entire thing?

[Anonymous No.22348484]

>>22348388
it was one of the more tolerable one but that's the most i can say for it

[Anonymous No.22348498]

>>22348484
I’ll take it.
Sometimes if I don’t submit something myself, the issue is forlorn

[Anonymous No.22348511]

>>22348335
I’m damned either way. I might as well tell you to suck a dick.

[Anonymous No.22348553]

>>22348511
The beauty of &amp comes from its amazing highs and hilarious lows. I love &amp for that. You needn't be troubled by or reactive to backlash, they're all a bunch of fags, we all are.

[Anonymous No.22348582]

>>22348327
>Should we dredge up J's workplace drama
who

[Anonymous No.22348655]

>>22348553
exactly. Its a distillation of the site. a preponderance of shit with the occasional gem. loud, unfocused, with an overflated sense of self importance. I love it.

[Anonymous No.22348657]

>>22348327
Which one is Rian Ankerholz, a Kansas lawyer at Ankerholz and Smith?

[Anonymous No.22348659]

>>22348511
>>22348655
And so much so that it should apply to issues as well. So what if 018 isn't great. I think it's hilarious that a whole issue could tank. There is another suberb issue yet to come.

[Anonymous No.22348664]

16.5 hours until &map drops. Who's hype?

[Anonymous No.22348666]

>>22348659
Personally waiting for &amp standard.

[Anonymous No.22348673]

>>22348666
Isn't that the erotica one?

[Anonymous No.22348677]

There’s nothing wrong with the issue, just the thread.

[Anonymous No.22348686]

>>22348677
True in MANY ways

[Anonymous No.22348697]

New thread:
>>22348694

[Anonymous No.22348705]

>>22348677
This.

[Anonymous No.22348734]

DB

[Anonymous No.22348739]

DB2

[Anonymous No.22348744]

DB3

[Anonymous No.22348749]

DB4

[Anonymous No.22348752]

[Anonymous No.22348753]

[Anonymous No.22348876]

Now that all the trolls have migrated to the new thread we can discuss &amp 018 in peace.

[Anonymous No.22349213]

You know what I love the most is all these guys pretending to be unbiased, then they go to the jannies to get their dissenters banned.
Eat shit Woolston, you crybaby faggot. Years doing this and not only can't you write for shit, you can't even take criticism either. Your writing sucks and that's the end of it. Find another hobby, like drinking slop from a trough, and stop oinking up every /lit/ thread into your own personal sty. I'm going to turn you into a fucking hotdog.

[Anonymous No.22349316]

I don't think anyone in their right mind should be complaining about ppl only focussing on "typesetting" in these threads when you see what a shitshow this thread has been.