/lit/ - Literature

>>3367744
I can't speak for all members of our collective, but I'm writing this from a 2007 dell laptop. I ate peanut butter for lunch, as i have every day this month.

>>3367749
we are not selling a product, and make no money from our site or our work. We are not making any promises about our work. We were excited about the follow endorsement we recieved from alt-lit-press, one of the most innovative content aggregators in recent literary memory.

we then shared our work with the board. How is this different from threads where you post work and ask for critiques? we hoped to generate a discussion, and we did.

>>3367737
we would actually quite enjoy this and we would post the end result on our blog.

>>3367716
again, we don't see what's reportworthy in posing content for discussion. it is the denizens of the board who have reacted with such vitriol; we are here asking for submissions, and hoping to provoke discussion about new literature. Isn't that what this board is for?

>>3367705
you know nothing of any of our lives. For all you know, we are 40 year old teachers or government workers who are frustrated by the confines of our capitalist society

you undermine your own points when you generalize in this way. we know nothing of your life, and you know nothing of ours.

>>3367686
That's a shame; if you think you can do better, you're welcome to submit.

>>3367690
and yet you criticize our movement?
you clearly have no base to do so, if you don't trade in our field.

When the war ended there was a bang and a flash and a muffled roar. We ate some turkey, we ate some pig, we ate ourselves, and we wished for it to start again. There was no end in sight. There was no sight for sore eyes. We were dead. We are your creation. KONY 2012

>>3367657
oh, you think kerouac is a good writer?

that's adorable.

hope 10th grade is going well!

>>3367651
we do like the "sinceretist movement" idea, though we hesitate to give our movement a particular title, to avoid pidgeonholing it

>>3367646
here's a few.

>>3367634
we regularly recieve likes and reblogs, and we have enough submissions that we are able to reject some based on quality.

and the vast majority of these are real tumblrs that follow us.

It's a shame you guys aren't as open minded when it comes to our efforts as the tumblr alt-lit community; as you can see, weve had some substantial success

>>3367611
unfortunately, we find TAR a bit too conventional and restrictive for our tastes, in spite of their open-submission format. we just provide a different kind of art. We think they're doing some awesome stuff though!

>>3367604
hit us up. We're open minded. Submit forms are on the page.

>>3367572
mind if we post this?

>>3367585
yo gurl i be doin sweeeelll yo

>>3367543
sorry you don't like having engaging conversations?

>>3367544
yes

>>3367530
we personally believe in a return to simplicity, and then playing with its norms.

sorry you failed to recognize that.

>>3367513
our point exactly. Thank you for finally realizing that our work holds up.


We are not just one person; we are a collective movement, so all these posts referring to us as a singular entity are misguided in their perception of our work

>>3367509
sorry to hear that. We just hoped to get some feedback, and engage in discussion with what we believe is art worthy of consideration.

>>3367507
of course we're not perfect. we're simply the most innovative. innovation requires trial and error, and we believe error to be critical to our art.

>>3367493
we view the future as encompassing the present; how else would you describe our existence other than "futuristic"

similarly, we found it fun to re-appropriate the term. We're pretty much in our future, in regard to our talent, though that is not to suggest we have reached our ceiling of potential.

>>3367488
so any new idea automatically has to be false, absurd, or an empty provocation? that's awfully dismissive.

>>3367484
posted.

>>3367472
We should apologize for testing the boundaries of a pre-established movement?

Hm, that's a pretty anti-intellectual attitude

>>3367462
and you suppose that genre fiction and formula fiction is anything other than art?

even if we reject the duchampian perspective of what encompasses art (we dont), if a work sets out to convey a certian narrative or idea in a certain way, and it does that, it is art. I don't see where you get off attempting to define art.

also, we are accepting submissions.