/lit/ - Literature

>>18269879
>it's wrong because I say it's wrong, said three different ways
Perhaps you would also like to add some logic to your replies?

>>15261883
This, But Unironically.

>>15096287
You need to write one.

>>14490062
This. Russian Realism seems to portray women with such warmth and candidness. I think it's a by-product of the orthodox christian religion. I had lost faith in women until I read The Idiot and some of Tolstoy's short stories. My current plan is moving to a small town in Siberia and marrying a virgin cutie now.

>>12828877

>>12683520

>Despite the anonymous posting of messages, other posters easily identify particular individuals based on his or her idiosyncrasies. One such poster is the 'London Pepe poster' who often retells his daily outgoings and in particular his misanthropy. The identification of the author of a post is more prevalent than it first appears to be, for example when I tried to start a positive discussion I was instantly targeted. In particular the comments quickly came to the idea that I was a 'newfag', the critical term used to ostracise the newer posters. The posts contain many other homophobic slurs but in particular the word 'fag' is used, and often appended to other words to mark a specific user, such as 'aussiefag' to label an Australian.

>A person's post will get deleted if it goes without a response, or 'bump' as only a limited number of posts are allowed. Therefore the environment of discussion in general is one of toxicity, as to ensure his or her threads survival, he or she needs to create a provocative post. These posts spark disagreement between the anonymous users such that the thread or topic of discussion remains at the top of the board. Additionally the author of the more controversial posts will be given '(you)s' which is a form of currency or token of respect. Therefore posts may be insincere or particularly sexist, homophobic or racist to agitate or 'bait' a response from others. Of course the other posters are also aware of this social dynamic and as such may respond to other posts as being bait posts and come to disregard them. Therefore there is a particular skill in creating a thread that receives many replies and thus come to inflate the ego of the anonymous poster.

>This breeds a social dynamic of the veteran poster compared with the aforementioned 'newfag'. Bear in mind not everything can be posted, in particular pornographic content and offtopic discussion will be deleted by the forum moderators or 'janitors' as they are called. These janitors are also called 'jannies' which is a reference to the transphobic slur 'trannie'. Not all posters exhibit signs of transphobia as some express their love of 'traps', a slang term for a transsexual. /lit/ in particular may receive many posts about liking these 'traps' and finding books to help identify their feeling. As posters may often use the phrase 'any books for this feel', using /lit/ as a form of therapy and their hateful comments as a form of catharsis. /lit/ is not representative of the entire website, as pornographic content is allowed on other boards such as the more prevalent /r9k/. To conclude, the board holds a space for those social pariahs who like to discuss well known literature and within it are hidden rules that one can not decipher on first glance.