KAitE

[Anonymous No.6083187]

Okay, Anonymous. The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra Presents: Kolsti's Adventure in the Everglades: a Novella is officially in phase two. We've already got most of the main content down, now we're polishing, re-arranging, and overhauling.

Here's where you come in.

Right now, the story lacks meaningful ties to Tundra I and II. Sure, there's shitposting and maymays, but that's not the point. We need more Dakota Fanning, Supremacist Mice, Tao Lin. The works. Tundra I contributors, now's your time to shine.

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HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO PHASE TWO OF KAitE
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OPTION 1
1. Go to the Google Doc
2. Make new chapters. Wherever, whenever, just make sure to put in a page break and give it a header.
3. Fill said chapters with continuations, sidestories, character studies, or whatever from the first and second books.

OPTION 2
1. Go to the Google Doc
2. Scour the document for typos, grammatical errors, etc. and fix them. DO NOT change content outright.

Good luck out there. As of now, publication is set for Feb. 14th, but that can be pushed back if there's enough interest.

[Anonymous No.6083210]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.6083297]

>>6083187
go to bed kolsti

[Anonymous No.6083310]

>>6083297
Kolsti's too busy being an activist to shitpost :(

[Anonymous No.6083312]

>>6083297

[Anonymous No.6083319]

What should the blurb on the back be this time?

[Anonymous No.6083330]

Damn it I forgot to link the document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTLL9KXFZpTMWYwJJn3TElSN59XBzq0GCj2smpaFJ_w/edit#

[Anonymous No.6083332]

>>6083330

lel

[Anonymous No.6083339]

>>6083310
Oh shit
https://twitter.com/ktotheolsti

[Anonymous No.6083367]

BABAMP

[Anonymous No.6083405]

>>6083330

It's not finished? It's over 100 pages.

[Anonymous No.6083407]

>>6083405
See >>6083187

[Anonymous No.6083422]

>>6083339
This fucker is a high schooler? Why the hell are we writing about him?

[aagve No.6083436]

>>6083422

it's just him shit posting promoting himself

[Anonymous No.6083445]

>>6083422

Because he's kind of an embodiment, an actual reincarnation of /lit/ shitposters. Needlessly edgy, massive faggot and constantly revving up havoc without much insidious intent.

[Anonymous No.6083449]

>>6083187

What is on the back cover?

[Anonymous No.6083461]

>>6083449
I already have some quotes queued up, going to wait on creating a summary until later

[Anonymous No.6083462]

If you guys put this much effort into your own writing you might be published authors by now.

[Anonymous No.6083478]

>>6083462

so true

[Anonymous No.6083654]

the acronym is deliberate isn't it

[Anonymous No.6083698]

>>6083654

you're so clever anon

[Anonymous No.6083723]

>>6083698
it's not my wit that came up with the Fucking Brilliant play on words

[Anonymous No.6083737]

>>6083187
This cover is horrifyingly awful. This isn't a lotiat book. just make a new cover.

[Anonymous No.6083783]

>>6083737
This. Why not make it its own entity? Then we won't have to worry about allusions to the rest.

[Anonymous No.6083828]

>>6083737
>>6083783

Not OP, but in defense I'd say without allusion to the Tundras this work is fatally inconsistent, shitposting with maymays and copypastas allover. Maybe OP thought they could make a conclusion instead of just ripping off ideas from the series.

[Anonymous No.6083832]

>>6083783
Because TLoTiaT is /lit/'s collective nom-de-guerre, as much as it is a series of books written by /lit/ as a collective.

[Anonymous No.6083843]

>>6083832

>collective nom-de-guerre

Not necessarily, just an hour ago there was another spinoff with Joyce and Pinecone.

[Anonymous No.6083850]

stop making this shit no one thinks its funny

[Anonymous No.6083878]

>>6083843
OK, yeah, I guess that's fair.
But there's still a distinctive "TLoTiaT way of doing things", which this work seems to embody.

[Anonymous No.6083925]

if your beginning a new chapter at least make a better hardcover

[Anonymous No.6083930]

This isn't clever, artistic, or interesting.

[Anonymous No.6083992]

I hated that cover, so I remade it in a NYRB style.

[Anonymous No.6084016]

>>6083992
seconded

[Anonymous No.6084023]

>>6083992
based

[Anonymous No.6084033]

>>6083992
I'd buy that for the cover alone. Good job.

[Anonymous No.6084036]

>>6083405
100 pages is nothing

[Anonymous No.6084042]

>>6083992
it doesnt have a spine?

[Anonymous No.6084048]

>>6083992
Needs a spine.

also, why is it a black guy crying?

[Anonymous No.6084052]

>>6083992
Make a spine, anon. Also move the period to before the second quotation mark, so it goes "socially anxious attention whore."

8/10

[Anonymous No.6084056]

>>6084048
Because he's on /pol/

[Anonymous No.6084068]

>>6084056
You've got it wrong though, pol is crying because black people exist.

[Anonymous No.6084081]

>>6084016
>>6084023
>>6084033
>>6084036
>>6084042
>>6084048
>>6084052

Thanks anon. I've never done a book cover before, so I have no fucking clue what I'm doing. Feel free to suggest other publishers for me to blatantly rip off.

Updated with spine attached. I dislike it, but it would probably look fine in print.

[Anonymous No.6084082]

>>6084068
The immigrants didn't destroy white cultures, the cuck whites who let them "integrate" into white cultures did.

[Anonymous No.6084091]

>>6084081
You fixed the first punctuation problem, but it's still there in the last sentence of the description.

[Anonymous No.6084104]

>>6084081

Surely only my opinion but: make it Wordsworth-esque. Y'know, image covers two thirds the front cover from the bottom with a broad Title in Times Roman. Instead of having the title overshadow the portrait.

Also, maybe anything but that fucking Kolsti copypasta on the back.

[Anonymous No.6084105]

>>6084091


jesus christ I'm a pleb. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.6084112]

>>6084105
Beautiful. Now we just need a conclusion to the book after Chapter Ch-ch-chia

[Anonymous No.6084115]

>>6084082
You know that cuckolding has nothing to do with race, right? It's just about your wife sleeping around and it is seen as more humiliating if ti is a black guy fucking a white woman.

[Anonymous No.6084124]

>>6084104

Can you find an example of what you are talking about? All the Wordsworth Classics I have look like shit. As for that copypasta, I had no clue what to put on the back. Leaving it blank seemed wrong aesthetically.

[Anonymous No.6084128]

>>6083992
Much better, this will be the official cover unless something amazing pops up

Just one more thing, could you re-factor it according to the dimensions of this cover? For instance, the text on the left at current would overlap onto the spine.

Specifically the requirements are:

PDF, JPG, GIF, or PNG (no shit)
Spine width: 78.162 Postscript points wide (2.757 cm) (326 px)
Spine begins 429 Postscript points (15.132 cm) (1788 px) from the left.
Total cover width: 936.162 X 613 Postscript points (33.022 cm X 21.623 cm) (3901px X 2554px)
If using an image, its resolution should be set to 300dpi

[Anonymous No.6084134]

>>6084081
Summary on the back needs touching up but I like the design and quotes a lot.

[Anonymous No.6084145]

>>6084124

Of course leaving it blank is a horrendous suggestion. I thought perhaps we could leave it for the summary or for a temporal end.

pic also related

[Anonymous No.6084149]

>>6084105
change it to native american

[Anonymous No.6084158]

>>6084105
Make it increasingly self referential, not increasing.

[Anonymous No.6084175]

>>6084115
>words can't ever develop new meanings based on context
learn some pragmatics nigga

[Anonymous No.6084190]

>>6084134
Agreed, any suggestions?

>>6084145
Working on something now

>>6084149
fuck I need to learn to proof. Thanks man, fixed.

>>6084158
Done

>>6084128
Done and uploaded. I had just copied the dimensions of the OP.

[Anonymous No.6084215]

>>6084190
>6084190

Absolutely love everything, but maybe you can replace a landscape (like pic related) with the lamenting black dude if you're going by >>6084145 's advice, I mean after all we're in the evergreens.

[Anonymous No.6084232]

did we even improve Miami in the first place

[Anonymous No.6084239]

>>6084232
We don't talk about Miami 'round these parts
post your copies of miami

[Anonymous No.6084244]

>>6084232

filth. i liked the first book tho

[Anonymous No.6084248]

>>6084145
I ain't got shit for this. I don't really dig the aesthetic. Best I've got is attached.

[Anonymous No.6084252]

>>6084239
so

Tokio Drift when

[Anonymous No.6084256]

>>6084215
I'll fuck around with it. The black dude is an early Cezanne painting.

[Anonymous No.6084282]

>>6084190
change it to "plot solely progresses through"

[Anonymous No.6084289]

the cover should have the legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra as an acronym at least

[Anonymous No.6084291]

>>6084190
the last sentence should be "Also dicks."

for more self-subversive patriarchal fallocentric writing yknow

[Anonymous No.6084298]

>>6084282
done. Also, still accepting suggestions for the back text. Mine was basically the meme equivalent of lorem ipsum.

[Anonymous No.6084331]

>>6084289
Second

[Anonymous No.6084350]

>>6084289
>>6084331
I have no idea how to word it, how does this look?

[Anonymous No.6084354]

>>6084350
Why not just stick with "TLoTiaT Presents"?

[Anonymous No.6084363]

>>6084354
Idk, something about that seemed cheesy. Attached though.

[Anonymous No.6084370]

>>6084363
I can dig it

[Anonymous No.6084384]

>>6084363

maybe "In Fulfillment of The Tundra's Legacy"

[Anonymous No.6084407]

>>6084384
Nah.

[Anonymous No.6084455]

>>6084384
nah, i don't dig that. I'll think of something.

[Anonymous No.6084479]

>>6084384
>>6084455
Maybe do it how the real NYRB writes AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL at the top of the back of some of their editions?

Write something like A TLoTiaT ORIGINAL?

[Anonymous No.6084494]

>>6084479
excellent idea! thank you.

[Anonymous No.6084500]

>>6084479

Consolidating, but we'll have to move that one line in praise over the quick summary, guessing that's fine since we're still in preliminary.

[Anonymous No.6084503]

>>6084479
>>6084494
>>6084500

lel, forget what I said. Could you try spelling it out and not put it in acronym? It looks awkward.

[Anonymous No.6084508]

>>6084494
I like it, would be funnier if the description on the back took the contents of the book more seriously

[Anonymous No.6084521]

I think it would be funny if we took the summary in a high-brow, Barthelme direction. It would fit the cover. Something like

'Written exclusively by anonymous edits, this epic crowd-sourced vaporwave post-New-Sincerity masterpiece follows Kolsti Nguyen in his travels through the Everglades.

Kolsti serves as the reader's guide through this Late Capitalist landscape. He clears a path through mazes of dead narratives, wades through bogs of nihilism and anomie. He experiences residual feelings of purposelessness in the wake of postmodern deconstruction and irony, which left us nothing. Now in his journey, with no hint of recess, he learns that the swamp grows in size every day. He asks himself, will he ever find a [way out]? Does it matter? Is it best to settle down, to call the swamp home? He contemplates a new civilization, one which pretends Derrida and Barthes don't exist. Is such a place, in the Age of Information, anymore possible?

[Anonymous No.6084522]

>>6084494
"progresses" on the back cover is missing an r

Now get back to writing, negroes

[Anonymous No.6084524]

>>6084503
done!

[Anonymous No.6084528]

>>6084522
fixed on all future updates. Thank you. I forgot Illustrator has a spellchecker because I'm an idiot.

[Anonymous No.6084537]

>>6084508

Hello, primary editor for KAitE. What serendipity, only shortly before had I known my accomplice created a thread in discussion of the book. I haven't coordinated my schedule for this project so I'm accomplishing what I can as I extend my day's hours. Will work some description if needed, for now I'm too occupied with making the damn thing cohere.

[Anonymous No.6084540]

>>6084521
Not subtle enough, needs to be presented as "2deep4u"

[Anonymous No.6084544]

We definitely need to change the summary on the back

[Anonymous No.6084548]

>>6084524

Doing God's work, son. Nester (responsible for this thread and hosting project) will surely throw her "design" from the mezzanine when she sees this.

[Anonymous No.6084552]

>>6084521
>>6084540
I like it because it has absolutely nothing to do with the story inside. But it needs work

[Anonymous No.6084564]

>>6083992
>tfw made it on to the cover

might have to buy it if this the final version now

[Anonymous No.6084569]

>>6084564
DAD?

[Anonymous No.6084576]

>>6084569

CHRONIC SHITPOSTER?

[Anonymous No.6084578]

>>6084576
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

[Anonymous No.6084587]

>>6084578
nopsry

[Anonymous No.6084590]

Hi, editor here. Suggestions, anyone?

[Anonymous No.6084595]

>>6084590
Write another chapter with Allen and Dubs

[Anonymous No.6084600]

>>6084548
Grouse here (monitoring thread from work lel).

Absolutely, the new design is infinitely better than mine (literally just a color swap from Miami). Is now official cover. Keep up the good work guys, I'll check up on the Google Doc when I get home.

[Anonymous No.6084619]

>>6084600

silly grouse, get back to work!

[Anonymous No.6085425]

>all those new adjectives

[Anonymous No.6086567]

bump

[Anonymous No.6087144]

>>6083187
>Tundra I and II
Shit. There are two of them? I just downloaded the first one and I'm reading it in my spare time. You motherfuckers: it's ~300 pages long! Do you expect me to read the second part too?

[Anonymous No.6087236]

I really, really don't like that Kolsti is in the title of this. Don't put that faggot in the title.

[Anonymous No.6087257]

Give it up you guys. one was enough.

[Anonymous No.6087280]

>>6087257
so long as one person keeps making money off of these shitty self-published books these threads will never stop

[Anonymous No.6087287]

>>6087236
Can't approve this more. Kolsti is shit and you all must feel ashamed he wrote a COMPLETE chapter about god-knows-who-doctor-caught-in-fatal-accident.

[Anonymous No.6087290]

Could someone explain to me the practice of putting 'A Novel' after the title? I mean, what the fuck else is this book gonna be confused for?

[Anonymous No.6087299]

>>6087290
Editor: too late now. Our original plot was with suggesting "A Novella" and were determined our opus be over 200 pages just to mindfuck the audience.

we all went "meh" and let slide that option.

[Anonymous No.6087302]

>>6087287
>>6087280
>>6087257
I love this MASSIVE butthurt. Back to reddit your cucks.

[Anonymous No.6088172]

>>6087302
>implying otherwise

[Anonymous No.6088174]

>>6083187
WHATA BOUT THE QUAGGA PROJECT YOU FUCKERS

[Anonymous No.6088292]

>>6088174
>on 4chin
>concern about an extinct species.

W're also concerned about people of color, too.

[Anonymous No.6088495]

So because some teenage attention seeker sprays his name all over the place, /lit/ will play along and write some piece of shit about him?

[Anonymous No.6088505]

>>6088495
See >>6083445

he even made a chapter. editors are conspiring to get rid of it (i heard)

[Anonymous No.6088536]

This thing is actually getting worse from all the editing.

[Anonymous No.6088549]

>>6088536

What about you actually tell us what you want and don't want to see, instead of just stating what's unfortunately obvious to us?

[Anonymous No.6088559]

>>6084590
Keep contributions over for another week. I want to write a chapter.

There is literally no reason not to allow submission for a bit longer, and if you believe otherwise you've completely misunderstood the point of TLoTiaT

[Anonymous No.6088575]

>>6088549
i want editors and the idea of editors to absolutely fuck off. I want Kolsti and you other tumblrites and actually every histrionic cunt attached to this fucking mimicry to stop fucking appropriating /lit/ culture for le notes and upvotes on your garbage fucking segment of the internet. fuck. off.

[Anonymous No.6088741]

>>6088536
>>6088575
This guy is being a drama queen but I left in the early stages, came back, and the Kolsti story did get worse

[Anonymous No.6088759]

>>6088741
that's not one guy lmao.

ecelebs and their followers fucking ruin everything they touch. the point of this shit is that there isn't an author, that it's fucking anonymous, and making it about this kolsti autist to the extent that his name is in ThE FucKinG TiTle is absolutely fucking moronic in this respect and in every respect.

FUCK. OFF

[Anonymous No.6088771]

>>6088759
It's not one guy? Then the second idiot answered a question he wasn't even asked. Kolsti is a part of /lit/ culture now. He might be ephemeral, but so is our taste and every other pop culture reference in the fucking thing

[Anonymous No.6088793]

>>6088575
>>6088741

Editor here, working independently on deleting tumblr maymays, Lulu TV intermissions, all those ridiculous cuts, shitposts and everything that's absolute shit-tier. Also thinking of deleting Kolsti's chapter, but need Nester's concordance to act according to that.

It'll take a while. Also, I'd like a critique of the beginning page (since it's an ideal example of my prose.)

[Anonymous No.6088899]

>>6088793
Well, anyone?

[Anonymous No.6088941]

>>6088793
>single editor cutting everything
Who died and made you king?

[Anonymous No.6088954]

>>6088941

/lit/

[Anonymous No.6088958]

>>6088793
>lulu tv intermissions

Those are good faggot, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.6088981]

>>6088958

I agree with you there, but five of them is just too much. (Well, four and one in non-oppressive taco-speak.) I'll make it up somehow.

[Anonymous No.6089013]

>>6088174
seriously, the Quagga Project is going to become HL3 at this rate

[Anonymous No.6089045]

>>6088793
The writing is fine, if you want to write in that style go for it, just add more to the story. We had some good character development going on, and we should continue that

[Anonymous No.6089049]

>>6088793
Don't delete a single thing, you fucking shitlord. It's not yours to delete, so let the shitposting stay. Actually there should be no editor at all save for maybe having the formatting consistent, and even then that's probably too much. Look at Tundra I, even if it's shit it's still way better than this sanitized piece of reddit-tier crap.

[Anonymous No.6089087]

>>6089049

>forgetting Tundra I began as a closed project.
>actual timeline and not incoherent vibes and feels and not excremental leftovers.

I'm only deleting what takes away from the user's experience. If you miss shitposting and so want to embrace your faggotry I suggest you go subscribe to one of those reddit-writing symposiums.

[Anonymous No.6089096]

>>6088793
Don't fucking dare delete the lulu tv or Kolsti's chapter. Those are the best parts.

[Anonymous No.6089113]

>>6089087
>>6089087
But I'm a user and I like the shitposting because that's what I expect from a book made in a somalian cartoon imageboard.

>forgetting Tundra I began as a closed project.
what's the point of bringing that up now? It's not closed anymore, is it? No more than this book

[Anonymous No.6089145]

>>6088793
>deleting the best parts
>highlighting muh prose
>implying you're not just as big an attention-whore as kolsti

yes, I'm mad

[Anonymous No.6089158]

>>6088941
>>6088958
>>6089045
>>6089049
>>6089096
>>6089113

I suggest all of you (samefagging or not) exercise your rights in making this collaborative work compatible to your tastes, then. I inquired for suggestions twice now, instead your incitement is found put in terms of nonconstructive judgment. It's your prerogative and you fail to exercise it and spoil for yourselves. We've made this progress-report for the collective to advance the art, all I see here is whining. Here's your chance, /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6089166]

>>6088793
DON'T DELETE THE SHITPOSTING YOU FAGGOT

This is a prime example of Reddit culture invading 4chan

[Anonymous No.6089168]

>>6089158
Grouse here. You went too far, m8, I'm revoking your editorship. Feel free to keep contributing, but don't forget rule fucking 1: don't delete or change anything not vital to the success of the book. Personal tastes are out of the question.

[Anonymous No.6089177]

>>6089168

based

[Anonymous No.6089189]

>>6089168

[Anonymous No.6089280]

with or without editors this thing still reads like shit

[Anonymous No.6089281]

>>6089168
B A S E D G R O U S E
A
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G
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S
E

[Anonymous No.6089339]

>>6089168
Good. Deleting Kolsti's chapter and fucking with the best intermissions makes no sense. Kolsti's chapter is untouchable other than the footnotes.

[Anonymous No.6089889]

>>6089168
based.

Did anyone come up with a better idea for the back cover blurb?

[Anonymous No.6091719]

bumpo

[Anonymous No.6091776]

>>6089889
Maybe do the Yeezus copy pasta but replace it with things about Tundra and /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6091787]

can we just remove all the shit that isn't kolsti

seriously, kolsti is the only good writer, just have him do another chapter and ship it

[Anonymous No.6091803]

>>6091787
He's already writing a novel of his own. Yes his part is good but it works best as an overview of an introduction.

[Anonymous No.6091862]

>>6091787
That would be 20 pages max.

[Anonymous No.6091883]

What page is Kolsti on?

[Anonymous No.6092243]

>>6091787
It is a little weird that Kolsti's part is significantly better than everything else.

[Anonymous No.6092686]

>>6084521
how is that remotely Barthelme diction?

[Anonymous No.6093927]

>>6084524
I only buy these to be able lean over every now and then and read the spines on my shelf and have a chuckle. The cover is great but add the legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra to the spin and front cover even if its just small.

[Anonymous No.6094713]

>>6093927
I can't make it fit without looking ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.6094781]

>>6091787
Where is the Kolsti, I want to read him

[Anonymous No.6094799]

>>6094713
Isn't the whole point to be ridiculous? Ok, I see how it might be hard on the spine (though here is a suggestion) but at least put it on the front

[Anonymous No.6095787]

LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TO PUBLISHING

114 PAGES AND COUNTING

[Anonymous No.6096121]

>>6094781
It's toward the beginning, idk what page it's on because I'm on mobile but it has a bunch of parentheses.

[Anonymous No.6096386]

Can we just somehow finance a whole book of Kolsti? That one chapter stretched over a novel would be gr8.

[Anonymous No.6096881]

>>6096386
>finance

[Anonymous No.6096913]

>>6096386
Kolsti sucks, man

[Anonymous No.6096931]

i sincerely hope that this fails.

sage

[Anonymous No.6097216]

>>6094799
>progesses

[Anonymous No.6098541]

>>6096881
>>6097216
samefag

[Anonymous No.6098567]

>>6094799
Anon who made that cover here, I don't really like the look of that, but it's up to everyone else.

[Anonymous No.6098729]

>>6098567

You made it. If you honestly think you can outperform yourself, go at it now without hampering.

I'd really like a more subtle, flowing or soft outlay, this one just screams at you from every angle and isn't all too aesthetically appeasing. Go for minimalism, Anon, but don't leave out too much detail.

[Anonymous No.6098838]

>>6083187

>thinks lightning ever strikes twice

this won't be good

[Anonymous No.6098870]

>>6098838
Lightning strikes a lot.

[Anonymous No.6098874]

>>6098838
lel

[Anonymous No.6098882]

>>6098838
>good things only happen once

[Anonymous No.6098884]

>>6083187
Here, boys. Contribute.

[Anonymous No.6098886]

>>6098884
Going for quads? massive faggot.

>>6098888

[Anonymous No.6098890]

>>6098888

[Anonymous No.6099026]

>>6098729
I kinda of like something like this, basically a knock-off of Autobiography of Red.

[Anonymous No.6099084]

>>6099026
But instead of that painting lets do Kolsti at the swamp

[Anonymous No.6099090]

>>6099084
is there a link, or do I actually have to get off my lazy ass and illustrate something?

[Anonymous No.6099097]

>>6099090
I'm on mobile but there's a picture floating around somewhere of Kolsti on a swamp with a lizard and Harold Bloom.

[Anonymous No.6099319]

>>6099026
I don't care what it looks like as long as it has "The legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra presents" on it.

[Anonymous No.6099384]

>>6099026

>>6098729 guy here. Font fades with background, unmistakable contrast in cover picture and background. White is hideous, or somewhat contrived, when aiming for subtlety. I'm no critic but I'm confident when I say your previous artistry is much finer than this to a large magnitude.

Also, >>6099319 knows what's up. Don't put pictures of Kolsti up, the work may be filth but that's no excuse to be lazy about perfecting your work.

[Anonymous No.6099468]

>>6099384
Oh, that wasn't supposed to be white. It's supposed to be like the attached cover, very slight red. I'm still fucking with it.

[Anonymous No.6099601]

>>6099468

Fuck with it good, man. Hammer, heave and repeat cycle until you have it hosed. Gather some muster and really squeeze through that bitch, however the formidable fuck you want it, just remember doing it not-so-nicely.

[Anonymous No.6099834]

>>6099601
bvmp