/lit/ - Literature

first for zyzz

>>18860942
based and /fit/pilled

After experience, I have come to the conclusion that FWB’s are hedonistic pits in which any self-respecting person will either avoid entirely or, if they do end up in such a relationship, will put more emotional effort in than the other

>>18860954
>Everyone must think and function like me

>>18860967
>Hedonism is fine when I do it

>>18860937
Do you remember the episode where Goku was outmatched by a guy during a fight because he wasnt fast enough? Turns out the ankle and wrist weights he was wearing weighed 10000lbs each so when he took them off halfway through the fight he was moving at lightspeed and managed to win the fight.
Thats the only episode I ever saw I think about it once or twice a year.

Lmao I'm sharing this thread with actual sandnigger loving rats, you are a shame to white civilisation and I want nothing more than to shoot you in the face

>>18860974
Yes :) Cheers

>>18860976
>Do you remember the episode where Goku was outmatched by a guy during a fight because he wasnt fast enough?
There are at least 3 of these episodes and probably more. Sorry anon

>>18860983
does you shave or wax your ubssy?

>>18860976
That’s against Tien in the original Dragon Ball, I believe. He starts running around the ring and jumping really high?
It’s a very good part of the series because there was a time gap and you didn’t know what Goku was capable of, and Tien was a guy who beat him at the last tournament and it was a humbling moment for Tien; being glad to have turned good and befriended the frankly unstoppable force that is Goku.

No matter how much literature I read, no matter how much I avoid anime and video games and entertainment as the domain of plebs and children, nothing will induce me to turn my back on Dragon Ball. The GOAT.

>>18860976
>Turns out the ankle and wrist weights he was wearing weighed 10000lbs each so when he took them off halfway through the fight he was moving at lightspeed and managed to win the fight.
Yep, that was a Dragon Ball episode all right

>>18861002
>Uhhhhh you don't like islam??! What aRe yOu LgBt???
Hahaha the absolute state of 4chan

>>18860976
>>18860991
>>18861009
>>18861022
God, those were the days. Goku vs Tien were such Kino battles, I wish Toriyama did more with him.

https://youtu.be/3xxOOP2d6Nc
https://youtu.be/mSESY390M04

>>18861009
Yeah that sounds right. It's an old memory but I do recollect some kind of hyperbolic time chamber being involved.

What’s the best way to get strong without setting foot in a gym?

>>18861067
work a physical job on a work site will toughen you up.

>>18861050
I watched a Dragon Ball Z episode in my adulthood once and I cursed myself for wasting my time watching this garbage. DBZ is literal garbage. I can't believe there are people who unironically like it.

>>18861067
Work landscaping or construction. Get paid to get fit and sunlight is good for you. That's what I did. 105 to 160 in a year

I wish I had a time machine so I could move to Japan 10 years ago.

>>18861112
Would you say working in landscaping has some SOUL? What would you say to an anon who loves nature?

>>18860937
Bejita

>>18861157
You'd still be white though.
I would wish I had a time machine if it could allow me to change the apocalypse we're headed into, but I don't think there was ever a time where people would listen.

>>18861202
>you'd still be the most dominant and high ranking race in the world
truly horrific

>>18861096
You're on some shit. DBZ is awesome in many ways, I recently rewatched all the way up to buu and really enjoyed it.

so many stupid little posts. people have so many stupid little thoughts in their stupid little heads.

>>18861205
I guess I'm assuming your intentions. You'd never fit in to the society. If you just want a trip where you bang asian chicks, then yeah, it would be great. If your standards aren't too high you can still go to thailand or other SE asia.

>>18861215
I enjoyed it as a child but it's the most mind-numbing dreck imaginable as an adult, as is all anime. I will never understand the appeal of watching static images of people opening and closing their mouths, saying stupid shit, and then looping the same 0.5 second of fast punching over and over for 10 minutes until the episode is over. Just read the manga, it's still garbage and a waste of paper but at least you can skim it and get the same content in a fraction of the time
anime is so braindead I can't even believe it

>>18861229
That wasn’t me but I’d be happy being the white gaijin. I’m white. I don’t want to change who I am, just where I live.

>>18861067
YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT

>>18861220
-but you don't, right? get your head outta your ass son, you're on 4chan.

>>18861257
it's 4channel moron. you literally don't even know where you are and you're trying to talk down to me.

>>18861239
I respect aspects of Japanese culture but would never want to live their. What makes you want to live in a foreign country? I could see giving up and living a cheap retirement somewhere, but Japan is expensive.

>>18860937
A NEW BEAUTY HAS APPEARED IN OUR WORLD
THE BEAUTY OF SPEED!
VVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

>>18861262
I didn't even know it was possible for someone to have an ass inside their ass, let alone shove their heads through both.

>>18861266

>>18861263
I was there for a year a few years back. I don’t know. I just love the place and really felt at home there.

>>18861263
If you really dont like crime your options are basically Japan, Singapore, or...that may be it actually

>>18861236
I would rather not watch anime right now either, would rather read. But sometimes it's just fun and exciting, the art can evoke emotions. Truly I would rather do something else these days though, same with video games most of the time. Still think it has a certain enjoyable charm to it. No need to always take everything so seriously all the time.

>>18861278
Past the nostalgic kick, it's just garbage. Nostalgia is a terrible emotion.

I want to reinstall RDR2 but I found the postgame kinda boring desu. The combat's really good but everyone's like "Howdy neighbour! I hope you have a lovely day! I can't wait to see my wife and kids!" so I feel like an absolute psychopath hogtieing them and dropping them in water or giving them to crocodiles.

Had the same issue with TLOU2 desu. The combat was really good but Buff Bagwell was such a shit character.

>>18860937

At this job I started two months ago, I've already masturbated in the bathroom seven times. Twice last Friday. Before the second time that Friday, I felt compelled to try to sniff this one hot early-30s chick's chair. It didn't smell like anything, so I tried sniffing one of the armpits of a cardigan she had on the back of her chair. Didn't smell like anything either. I later noticed this gilf chick had a couple pairs of shoes under her desk, so I tried to sniff one. Just smelled like leather. Frustrated by this unfruitful attempt at perversion, yet aroused by adrenaline, I went to the bathroom to beat off to /gif/.

for the first time in 8 months ive been able to spend a lot of time away from this site. its actually been really nice and i hope you can all do the same someday

>>18860937
I don't want to reach adulthood without being a man God help my zoomer soul

>>18860937
I think most of the Talibans' ideas are retarded, but I'm happy they won and hope they stay in power for longer

>>18861420
Are you a Chuck Palahniuk character

>>18861516
Well, you're shit out of luck. Most avenues to becoming a man are absent or illegal in modern developed countries, and even materialist and economic milestones are becoming less possible for the average man to attain.
t. frustrated millennial

>>18861541
I'm more of a Sneed guy myself

>>18861420
The worst thing about this is that you masturbate to fucking /gif/.

/lit/'s demographics
https://www.strawpoll.me/45573462/
Please, vote the poll. Don't troll.

>>18861420
Fucking KEK, do some therapy. Can't you fucking control yourself while you are working? You have to keep things separated, anon. Work and everything else.

>>18861560
god damnit anon

Will I be able to hang on. Will it be the psych ward or suicide. Do I have the strength to make it through the agony. When will I get to see the sun. My mistakes pay dividends, covid you screwed me. Soul-crushing loneliness or back with my abusive folks. What was my choice. Fool.

The universe puts out his cigarette on you, writhing in white, somebody's begging to turn off the light.

I saved all my money like a good kid and lost it all over 20K. Hitting bottom again, feels like I never left. I'd miss the sound of the rain, that's why I'd never do it.

Suffering is sacred, hallelujah. Persevere. I should have been dead a long time ago, let's see how much further I can go.

>>18861589
Half of /lit/ are women?

>>18861675
female doesn't mean anything these days

>>18861679
And what does male mean?

I love huge tits

I want a twink bf but I also think homosexuality is cringe and immoral.

>>18861687
male. nobody wants to be a male except males

>>18861722
Nobody actually lives like picrel, right?

>>18861730
Meant for >>18861696

>>18861687
Everything.

>>18861687
Nothing.

Wondering if I should stop writing to focus on some other projects for a while, like a few years. I’m not even certain those projects are what I really want to do. I think you need to be careful what you spend your time on.

>>18861461
I just don’t know how to kick this place. The only thing thag feels like it would do the trick is to just give up the internet forever.

>>18861730
Are you implying that some anons aren't people?

>>18860937
cummmmmm

>>18861696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5nTb-NRFU

>>18861730
I do. Minus the virgin catamite tending my garden. Is that somehow abnormal?

>>18861541
I guess. If I get COVID again and crash my car, will I time travel?

>>18861583
I'm mildly afraid to check out actual porn sites on my phone, as if someone might be checking me somehow.

>>18861596
My work is so light that I spent all day today reading One Piece. When I've beaten off, it was basically an intersection between being bored out of my skull, having too much empty time, and accidentally seeing something sexy online. I don't get boners while I'm at my desk or anything, but if I decide I might whack it then I can easily jostle my joint for a few seconds and work up a woody in no time at all, then bust in under a minute. It's somewhat efficient that webms on /gif/ tend to be the same length, so if I focus u only have to watch a handful before I find something good to end on.

>>18860937
I hate these character’s designs

>>18861913
Do some therapy, anon. FFS, are you waiting to be called by the HR department and get fired?

Can't go to sleep without cooming

>>18861670
I feel you anon. Just tonight I thought I reached the end of my rope.

>>18862104
Leave your room a bit, make some effort to be outside. And seek help, at least look for a number.

>>18862086

F I L T E R E D

WEW BUTTERS GIVES AWAY THE GAME FOREVER

There is nothing that has continually induced more contempt for myself than failed romances. In some ways it's revitalizing to see your own impotence in the face of constant (but ultimately trivial) misfortune. I've written better songs after getting cheated on or ghosted than after a new person is introduced into my life. The songs aren't always even about the event but the contempt drives forth and makes me work ceaselessly. I'm not sure if it's true for all artists but there must be at the inception of the artist, a hint of the impotent, stunned child who blocks out the erratic people whom he can't help but be governed by. The stars chose my parents and my romantic partners and myself. Amor fati I suppose

>>18862127
LWA >>>>>>>> DBZ

>>18862273

>she's unaware of the historiographic influence of the mcarthurian reconquista by way of toriyama

I wish I would disappear completely

>>18862323
Inevitable. No need to rush off just yet though.

>>18860937
You really just have to give life a chance man, take a step towards the future you want, and let life do the rest.

I’ve decided I’m going to spend some time living out of my truck this autumn, possibly in the winter and spring too. I’m looking forward to it.

>>18862402
Truth be told though, I would rather just have a cabin to stay in. Driving from campsite to campsite for a week or two at a time will be fine I guess, but I think I might’ve rather just have a fixed place. The timing makes it hard though.

I get a good kick out of the myriad ways in which western cultural imperialism swarms over the corpse of Afghanistan like vultures. The conventional (neocon) right viewed Afghanistan as some project for promoting values of liberty and freedom (and oil and minerals and corporate profits and such). The liberals viewed it-mainly it seems--as benefiting feminist causes and the condition of Afghani women .Meanwhile these fattened western commentators sit in their comfortable perches and sip wine and discuss these distant, shattered wretches as if they were ideological props.
Do you know what your average Afghani woman cares about? Feeding their starving children. :) You know what? The whole reason the Taliban exists is because of those starving children :) . If the US put as much money into armament as they did into feeding starving Afghani kids, the Taliban would have been defeated without out a shot. I
Ignorant scum, the whole lot.

>>18862455
>Do you know what your average Afghani woman cares about?
Don't care, not my problem. And who cares what women think anyway?

>>18862455
>. If the US put as much money into armament as they did into feeding starving Afghani kids, t
I got this backwards, but you know what I meant. Effective rhetoric supersedes such grammatical mistakes.

look at my lawyer dawg i'm finna go to jail

just fapped to traps, got post nut clarity, and listened to butterfly by weezer because my subconscious immediately started playing it in my head as I regret every one of my life choices

Girl

>>18860937
i have a date this friday with a girl i met at work. trying to calm my nerves with white wine. i haven't been on a date in like 5 years. but she a cute

I am just on edge like crazy lately. I can’t even sleep.

>>18860937
My mind, life and potential is wasted on working for filthy lucre. I should be paid to think.

>>18862808
Same

The Fall of Afghanistan is what it is; the Taliban was going to win the moment the USA decided it no longer wanted to be there. But what pisses me off is the way we left, screwing over the people who fought for us, who helped us. Every last person in Afghanistan who helped the American army needs to be on a plane headed for the States. It was awful seeing those poor bastards falling off the planes. Same with the refugee crisis which is going to happen. Those people are our responsibility. I don't want them to go to Europe where all they will do is increase the simmering tensions. They need to be vetted, and then they need to be brought to America. Where the hell is our honor bros? We are abandoning our comrades.

>>18862880
*glowing intensifies*

How slow pace can a story be, before the readers thinks I’m just adding filler, or doing nothing with the story?

Trying to write a psychological capepunk story, and I feel like the earlier chapters or arcs, have to be incredibly slow pace to build up to the climax to the story. With pic related being related to the story.

>>18862345

>>18862273

>>18864096
>>18864104
is that butterfly? damn she's hot. would kiss tummy.

>a disgusting looking tranny
as expected

I plan on going to work abroad for at least a year as soon as possible. Before I do that, I want to quit my current job and spend some time traveling in another part of the world, camping in the wilderness, or living in a cabin. I would love to do all 3 but I know I can’t. I dont even know if I can do 1 of them since I don’t know if I have set aside enough money.

>What's new, anon ?
>Nothing new under the sun

>>18860937
>stop taking women seriously
>relationships improve exponentially

blacks are right on this one

>>18864276
Donno what was posted, but I am not a tranny

>>18861050
>I wish Toriyama did more with him
Same here. Tien is the single most disrespected character in all of Dragon Ball and it pisses me off to no end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42HNvl0e26I

>>18864639
This is my favorite scene in the whole show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sudMQSMD9Hg

Tien killing himself just to slow Cell down, knowing he can't really damage him and Cell's going to murder him the instant he runs out of steam. The voice actor did a great job too.

The new Eva movie was so fucking beautiful. Literally brought a tear to my eye. Waited a decade+ for that shit. It was so good. I'll never make people feel like that. That emotional closure. That post partum depression of an entertainment. Watching the documentary and seeing Anno's writing process was also pretty crazy. Hire an entire staff just to redo everything yourself. Now there is a man with vision.

>>18860937
What is on my mind? Sigh, I do not know.

>>18864651
Me and my stupid friends in middle school would shout TRIBEAM HAAAA at each other when we wanted someone to stop in their tracks. Like an autistic redlight-greenlight.

>>18862607
my whole life has been so dumb. i do partially blame my parents. i mean when i was a child they could have offered some or even any guidance. i basically raised myself despite living in a home with both parents. so on paper i get no sympathy, but my dad worked nights and my mom skipped town to do grad school right when i got to high school. don't get me wrong i've done decades of stupid stuff, but i feel like a little help in that critical period of like 13-18 would have made a world of difference in my life trajectory.

>>18864778
Don't worry, anon. That means that they trust you to do the right thing and that they knew you would figure things out. You seem to be on the right track, keep it up. Make them proud.

>>18864386
> have no relationships
> don’t know any women to talk to anyway

>>18864833
Treat them like anons, not even joking. Dunno how anons aren't smashing bookworm pussy. It is definitely not that hard, considering that you read and just talk about things as with any person.

>>18864851
I just don’t meet anyone. I used to have friends sort of, but I never had much success with friends or girls because I think they find me disinteresting and not particularly attractive. Im older now anyway just don’t even get chances to meet people.

>>18864874
How older? Just find people, anon. Talk to young people, they can be fun too if you know how to lead a conversation. And maybe seek therapy, you seem to have self-stem issues.

wow the angel olsen version of safety dance goes hard af

>>18860937
Some anon mentioned you can get high off of morning glory seeds, and I drunk purchased everything I need to make morning glory moonshine. This is the first time ever doing something like this, but I decided that since I'm looking for a new apartment, I'll make it, and crack it open for me and my friends when we're done moving me in. I'm just really excited about it.

I feel like I’m trapped in my life and suicide is the only way out. On paper, I’m doing well and I should be happy. But I’m just so profoundly miserable.

>>18864890
I’m 28. I don’t even know how I’d go about meeting people anymore. I work remotely and I just moved in with my mom (temporarily). She lives in a pretty rural town pretty far out from any major city. I didn’t grow up here so I obviously don’t know anyone.

>>18864890
And as for therapy, I think not having self esteem when there’s no reason to is probably an indication of sanity if anything. I don’t see why you’d feel good about yourself for no reason. When I consider it like that, therapy to force self esteem sounds a lot more like brainwashing than therapy.

>>18864982
Just go out, I'm sure there is a bar, church, whatever. Most people do those things in order to not go crazy.
>>18864991
Not really, you just said that you can't have a decent talk with someone younger than you because of yourself. If it was the opposite of it, I think it would be somewhat understandable.

>>18864890
>seek therapy
Whenever people say this, I really have to wonder what people think therapy is. It's not a silver bullet that's gonna magically solve your problems. In fact, the weakness and incapacity of therapists is stunning. They can't reach into your head and surgically alter your personality to "fix" your problems.
It's honestly pretty hard for me to see how one session every two weeks with a late thirties woman with masters degree in psychology could possibly change anything about a person's life.
The only reason lots of people have success with therapists is because they're bad at introspection and delude themselves into thinking that everything they're doing is right and justified.
I went to a therapist once when I was younger for social anxiety. Took the first 30 minutes to convince the woman that I wasn't engaging in "negative self talk" and then she spent the rest of the session giving me a bunch of cheesy "grounding techniques" because she figured I was having "panic attacks" or some shit.
Easy $100 for the clinic I guess.

>>18865021
Dude, you are 28 and you are insecure to talk to people who are younger than you. Not feeling like lecturing you or anything, but when I was your age (5 years ago), I used to walk around with shit clothes and whatever and talk to whoever the fuck I felt like talking. What I'm saying is that you should allow yourself to be annoying. It is ok to be fucking annoying sometimes. Just don't overdo it, but allow yourself to start talking to people. Young people are easier because they are usually not as busy as older people. Talk to them, some of them are reasonably smart and you will enjoy your time, not even joking. Had decent conversations with people who were 18 years old or something.

>>18865002
No. I didn’t say I can’t have a decent talk. I can socialize just fine and come off totally normal. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t think people are particularly interested in being my friend or girlfriend. I don’t think I’m attractive and I guess most guys think I’m kinda boring or something. It’s not like I’ve never had friends. I’ve even had a girlfriend. But they were kind of coincidental I think. None of them ever seemed to really like or care about me so I feel like why should I invest in socializing if that’s the case?

>>18865041
>Dude, you are 28 and you are insecure to talk to people who are younger than you
You’re not responding to the right person but to be clear, I never said that and it’s not true. I said I just never meet anyone.

>>18865021
therapists only work for women, so if you're not depressed
they're basically paid friends who are bound by privacy and whom you can rant and gossip with safely before going back to your successful life

>>18864975
they are psychedelics. I don't know shit about making moonshine, but it is not recommended to mix these substances with alcohol.
they contain LSA, a cousin of LSD. look it up.

>>18865096
>who are bound by privacy
lol tell that to 509(b) of the texas rules of evidence

>>18864975
I remember reading most people now treat them in some way to avoid them being used as drugs so I hope you bought them from one of those stores that specializes in stuff like this.

The best time in my life was when I was unemployed.
I want kids and a wife but I know that makes it impossible to just quit your job and have 100% free time.
I'll choose a family (if I'm so lucky) but god damn I'd be lying if I said it was an easy choice.

>>18865223
NEET anons who keep complaining about it, don't know what is waiting for them.

>>18865223
I can sympathize with your position. I’ve decided that I’m willing to forego wife, children, and personal security for freedom even though for the time being I do work a typical wagie job and I do feel trapped in it. The entrapment is really the money. I don’t really see many alternatives and while I’ve reconciled not being secure, you still need something to live. I’ve got a truck that I’m going to try to convert into a small camper this fall and I’m going to live in it to minimize expenses. My state has a vast wilderness so I’ll probably spend some time there. What I actually wanted to do was leave my country, but then again, you run into the money problem and the visa problem, the latter of which usually requires conventional employment.

>>18865236
You mean people who complain about being NEET?
Yeah, honestly the first time I was unemployed was not fun, made me feel useless.
But this last time I had a place of my own and I filled the day with reading/ learning to play an instrument. Going for walks wherever and being completely free. I had no issue of feeling useless.

>>18865246
Good luck anon, I've never been one to dream about traveling with a camper but I can see the appeal. With my work it's probably incredibly easy to just quit and start up again whenever I want (trade job/practical work).

Going full NEET never spoke to me but working for 7 months and taking the other 5 off is what I'd like. But for me the decision comes down to how you're going to be when you get older. It's all fun and games doing this in your twenties or maybe even thirties. But I think loneliness strikes harder when you're nearing 50 and childless.

>>18865273
>Good luck anon, I've never been one to dream about traveling with a camper but I can see the appeal.
It’s not even really a camper. It’s just an old Jeep, paid off so no payments. I planned on converting the trunk into something sleepable and was going to bring a tent and overhead cover. I figure that will give me enough living space moving from place to place. Long term, if I could get a cabin somewhere, that would be good. I’m up in the mountains with family right now kind of biding my time but thanks for the sentiment.

I thought about the seasonal thing like you’re talking about. I just don’t know how to go about it. I tried something like that in the past and it ended badly so I never tried again. I’m a typical spreadsheet jockey right now and I hate it so much. What would be ideal for me, I think, is to be able to work flexibly by making money off writing, or something else creative. But like I said, I also want to leave my country. I just want so many conflicting things. That makes it hard. This is my plan C I guess. I don’t really care about what happens when I’m older. Mentally, I’ve made peace with what I said about security, never retiring, etc. I’d rather feel free and die in 10 years than feel enslaved and live another 100 years. It’s just about figuring the money thing out and mustering up the courage to take the steps for me now.

>>18865159
>>18865179
thanks, but I'm following specific instructions per erowid. I'm not actually making moonshine, I'm filtering moonshine through the ground up and prepared seeds, and I'm not making it very strong.

>>18865161
I didn't mean in legally strict terms but in the sense that you can talk shit about whoever you want and they won't spill it to your acquaintances like a friend or family member might do. It's a way of compartmentalizing the negatives of social relationships and only cultivating the positives, which is unhealthy IMO

>>18865305
>I’d rather feel free and die in 10 years than feel enslaved and live another 100 years
I've felt like this and still do, as you could tell from my first post. But I do think freedom is one of many important things in life. For me the thing that speaks to me the most now is the love and the special bond you can have with your own child. You'd be leaving behind many things in pursuit of freedom.
Maybe you're right, many people end up miserable being attached to many strings but I feel like a well balanced life is the way to go. Good luck though, even if you do end up going the extreme freedom route, it doesn't mean there's no way of going back. So perhaps I'm hyping up the risks too much.

>>18865340
I agree. It’s just something I’ve reconciled in myself. Perhaps it’s been easier for me to come to this point. I grew up rural in the mountains but in a broken home. Over the years it just became clearer that normal family life didn’t seem in the cards for me and I wasn’t all that exposed to it anyway.

>>18864639
>>18864651
Humans got so fucked over it ain’t even funny. Which is a damn shame since early on in Z they were on par with Goku with their training with Kami.

>>18865402
Funny, I come from a pretty broken family as well and it's one of the biggest motivation for me. I want to be the father I never had, or at least haven't had much of.

>>18865432
Wel I guess that’s the natural alternative. We were only going to go one of two ways I suppose.

I’m just replying to reply at this point but now thay I’m thinking about it, I’m not really being honest. Yes, I have these plans to live in the car. That’s more an exercise in wilderness therapy and disconnecting, minimizing societal ties. Yeah, I do want to camp, live in a cabin. There’s something romantic and therapeutic about that. But all I really want is freedom. Freedom from a job, freedom from a schedule, freedom to move around from place to place. That’s what I really want second or third most of all I think. First and second aren’t really relevant to talk about here. But I don’t really know how to achieve that I guess. I wish I was a writer or an artist or something, but I’m not and I don’t have a ton of confidence that I can be one.

>>18860937
Literature:
>Ahab’s harpoon, the one forged at Perth’s fire, remained firmly lashed in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boat’s bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel barb there now came a levelled flame of pale, forked fire. As the silent harpoon burned there like a serpent’s tongue, Starbuck grasped Ahab by the arm- “God, God is against thee, old man; forbear! ‘t is an ill voyage! ill begun, ill continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this.”
>Overhearing Starbuck, the panic-stricken crew instantly ran to the braces- though not a sail was left aloft. For the moment all the aghast mate’s thoughts seemed theirs; they raised a half mutinous cry. But dashing the rattling lightning links to the deck, and snatching the burning harpoon, Ahab waved it like a torch among them; swearing to transfix with it the first sailor that but cast loose a rope’s end. Petrified by his aspect, and still more shrinking from the fiery dart that he held, the men fell back in dismay, and Ahab again spoke:-
>“All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye may know to what tune this heart beats: look ye here; thus I blow out the last fear!” And with one blast of his breath he extinguished the flame.
Anime:
>ONEE-CHAN!
>BIG BOOBIES BOUNCING! GUY TRIPS AND FALLS INTO GAL'S TITS CREATING AWKWARD MOMENT LOL
>LOLOLOL THE FUNNY SHOUNEN MC EATS A MILLION CALORIES IN ONE SITTING!
Anime and literature are not the same. They don't even exist in the same universe. Aren't you a little ashamed to be a grown-ass adult ridiculing people for having fewer than 300 titles logged in Myanimelist? Literature is the ultimate art form. Anime is for braindead, immature KHV coomers. Know the difference.

My girlfriend asked for romance or supernatural books
Short of telling her to read baby shit like twilight, what can I say?
I've already suggested pride and prejudice but it's good to have ammunition.

I've known this one girl from since we were kids and we are great friends. Since puberty, she has been very into sex, but I thought our relationship was asexual..
But for the past several months, she has been trying to change that. I'm not into her bros, she acts a lot like a guy and is muscular from the sports she does. I've been dodging her and acting it as being a symptom of my "autism", but this can't last. Both her hints and my dodges are getting too obvious at this rate.
What do I do? We can't get into conflict, that would destroy a larger relationship in our whole group of friends.
I'd almost play the gay card, but she's known my former girlfriends and I'm planning to yet acquire some future ones she'll know about.

>>18865714
get a gf, quick

>>18865749
I've actually been flirting with this one girl lately, and the mentioned friend already told she doesn't like her (the one I flirt with).
I might go for it, but stuff will get fckin toxic, not looking forward to the future months.

>>18865767
Just bite the bullet and let her peg you

>>18865627
I don’t think anyone is making this case for anime being literature. Anime is, without a shadow of doubt, not literature. Manga is also not literature but it is a bit different than anime if you ask me. Manga isn’t incapable of dealing with mature ideas, touching on philosophy. Anime isn’t either actually but it’s probably less capable than manga just by nature. So if what we’re talking about here is something like art or depth, it’s hard to make a case that an anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion or a manga like Oyasumi Pun Pun doesn’t fit the bill more than plenty of fantasy fiction out there. And similarly, you could argue that the form of the modern novel pales in comparison as an art to written poetry by extension of the same logic.

>>18865767
No shit she doesn't like the girl you're flirting with lol. She'll get over it

>>18865801
I think there should be threshold to be considered when accepting a medium in one's definition of culture. Off the top of my head Nausicaa is a fantastic comic, and I'd say it has cultural worth, and similarly another historical manga called Ikkyū (pic rel) also has worth as a piece of literature. But exceptions only confirm the rule, comics and manga are in the vast majority of cases just illustrated penny dreadfuls.

>>18865857
In my opinion, neither anime nor manga are literature by definition. But in reality, none of this matters. There’s a tremendous degree to where all of this is subjective and where it’s not objective, we can pretty much conclude it’s all just entertainment media. We’re walking into a totally nonsensical paradigm that literally does not matter the moment we start talking about what is and isn’t literature. Nowadays, books filled with pictures that are made in Japan would be called “light novels” and they’re commonly seen as for young people. But in the Middle Ages, serious “literature” was filled with images. None of these distinctions actually matter in the grand scheme of things. And in fact, that’s kind of the irony of it. By trying to draw these distinctions, we continually eliminate the notion of distinctions as distinctions.

>>18865798
>>18865814
On a more general note, I'm struggling with being less sexual than other people. I'm obviously not gonna mutilate myself, but having a worse face would suite me good. My tiny dick is counterproductive, since it doesn't repell the horny chicks until sex.
I'm tired of dating hot chicks for a short while until they get bored and dump me. No sex ever sounds better than what's happening the past years, but I'd have to not arouse chicks externally.

>>18865894
Personally I just think of things as either culture or entertainment. And it's not that difficult to understand which is which if you have taste. This makes a lot of people seethe because quality is very difficult to discriminate for using labels or other clearly defined terms. You cannot score the worth of a poetry based on labels. I don't know how to explain this in better terms but there's this need to make these declarations objective like an Olympic performance is supposed to be objective, although there are critics who give arbitrary scores because they know better.

is it just me or is "a defense of Abortion " a really bad analogy?

>>18865964
But that’s line between culture and entertainment can be very unclear. We’re Sophocles’ or Shakespeare’s plays culture or mere entertainment? Probably both.

I really want to write a novel but I’m like mentally paralyzed about it. I feel like I have no ideas and don’t even know where to start.

What's On Your Mind

For the first time I want to express that I am thankful this place exists. I have despised it many times but I now understand that it's kept me afloat time and time again. There are very good people here. I wish everyone else were nicer and less cynical but I suppose I am not that different myself. I think this is a good place overall, despite the raids and other malignant influence.

It really depresses me that the boundary that separates me from dating a girl is both thread-width and impenetrable. That is, the imperfections I must fix in order to worthy of actual love are as slight as they are close to unchangeable. For instance, if someone is missing a front tooth, or if they have a crossed eye, the defect may not be materially large (a tooth is only a few cubic centimeters of material, and a crossed eye may only be a few degrees off), but the effect of that defect will be. Anything short of perfection will not suffice: current won't pass through a wire even if the cut is minuscule: there's no room for error.

>>18865629
poe or lovecraft, probably
also how'd u get a gf? r u chad?

>>18865629
Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire if she hasn't read it already.

>mfw reading capitalist realism only because the books kinda trendy atm and I want to belong to cool people so I'm living out the same developments the book itself is critizing

>>18866108
It's OK.

For my 3rd year at college, I decided to do something new and socialized with people right after moving into my dorm. Since yesterday I've socialized with people more than at any time since my first year of high school, and I am really amazed how easily I've integrated, I can chat with anyone, even girls, and they give me eye contact and laugh at my jokes. Basically you're treated like anyone else. For someone who has spent the last 7 years pretty much not at all leaving his room with no friends irl, it's crazy. If they knew how I really lived before, they would be shocked, just spending all day on 4chan and jerking off. It's really neat. But at the same time, I wonder how much of it is due to my appearance. I was able to improve my looks a lot, and part of me feels like that's why they accept me, because I pass the minimum standards of appearance and dress and suddenly you can just hang out and chill with the social crowds. It's a crazy thing to imagine some people are locked out of it entirely because they don't meet that standard.

>>18866196
how did you change your appearance?

What should you do if you’re looking for something you think only a military life can give you, but you have questions regarding whether your military is deprived of it? Should you join anyway?

>>18866387
Priests speak of gods, but poets sing of heroes. My advice to anyone and everyone who aspires to heroism, real heroism, is a bitter but cathartic piece of piece of advice: if you can’t be the hero, create the hero.

It's so tiring not letting yourself go insane. I dread and long for the relief I imagine comes with just letting yourself go and becoming an unhinged retard. I had to stop myself earlier in the middle of the motion to beat an old man, my body actually moved faster than my brain and I came very close to actually hitting some geriatric moron for trying to make small talk with me.
Self control and its loss terrifies me. I hate people so much, including myself.

>>18866387
>>18866435
I don't think a hero of the modern age is someone who agrees to die for ZOG for some filthy lucre. Working on yourself, making a living, trying to rise in a social hierarchy, taming a wife, raising children well - these all seem like more heroic pursuits.

thoughts on penguin classics? their editions are usually the cheapest but I've heard mixed things

>>18860937
I have taken some opium about an hour ago. I feel lovely and very social. The taken girl I had an affair with messaged me at 2 am asking about coffee today. I also feel a desire to do some weightlifting in my gym despite the tranquility that has befallen my body. I will go blast SOAD and Die Antwoord and go life some weights. Thank you for reading my diary.

>>18866583
>take opium alone and go lift
certainly a unique thing to do

>>18866234
I mean that in a shallow sense. I didn't get plastic surgery or lose a ton of weight, but I cut my hair short, started coming it back instead of parted, got rid of a bunch of oversized clothing from my wardrobe, and did a little grooming. The fundamentals are the same. I think honestly most people here could succeed in mingling with normal normalfags at uni since most of you are very self-aware, and the issue is usually having too little self-awareness so you do dumb shit. However, I still think looks matter a lot with these girls. Like there was this one girl earlier who kept laughing pretty hard at stuff I said, and I just kept wondering if she would have the same reaction with the old me. That sort of thing, you know. It's hard to test these ideas though and find out how true they are.

>>18866547
I agree, that heroism is scarcely to be found in the modern Western militaries, especially if you’re American it seems. But I don’t agree that the hero is anything other than warlike or sacrificial. We moderns like to distort the hero, but the fact is the hero inhabits the aspects of reality which deals in matters of life or death. Death is fundamental to the hero and specifically, death as a warrior, a conqueror, or a martyr, and is not merely any admired person.

No one is actually "compatibilist", that's a term philosophy majors made up to get grant money.

>>18866666

everything changes
but I feel like I unchangingly fail to vibe with this

>>18866657
I guess what I mean to say is you should live honorably and then maybe you will have the chance to die as a hero. Let's say the west gets progressively more tyrannical to the point they're hunting whites down. If you died fighting to protect your family, you'd be a hero. If you die in some sandbox protecting israeli interests, you're not a hero - just wasting your life.
It is sad that there's no honorable place for the warrior class to serve today. Just try to stay sane and ride the tiger and pray to God you have the opportunity to prove yourself.

>>18866766
What does it mean to live honorably? Did achilles, arguably the greatest hero in all of Western mythology, live honorably when he threw his temper tantrum and sat out the war? I don’t know about your specific politics but I do see your point. I just think that there’s a degree to which these ideas have become vague and subjective to the point where a word appears to mean anything based on consensus, whether right or wrong. Hero is one. Honor is another.

I plan on quitting my job with no back up plan. I have $10k cash. Do you think that’s enough money to buy enough time to figure things out or do I need more?

>>18866447
I feel where you’re coming from 100%, it’s not easy

>>18866843
That's plenty if you're in a dirt poor country

>>18866576
they're fine and look nice. penguin may be trash evil moden publishing company but at least they have some sense of aesthetics on the classics line
same goes for oxford world's classics
one day I will have my own, better, cheaper, equally aesthetic paperback classics line because they're mostly in the public domain anyway and you anons will benefit from it

>>18866887
I’m in America but I have no rent and minimal food expense. I have a car but it’s totally paid off.

I can't motivate myself to do anything but reading shit fictions on royalroad and working my slavejob, right now.
It's like I'm stuck in a loop. I've got two friends too occupied to hang out and care about my problems and my family hates me for being negative all the time. Deep inside, I feel I have that right since I've just got dumped by my girlfriend of 5 years. Not that anybody knows since I haven't told them, not that anyone would care to know outside of the realm of their perverse curiosity in my personal circles.
She said that we will achieve great things together and now that she's gone I just want to be dead. It feels like I have no future. Like my story ended with an 'and now [blank].', and now what? All I know is that I've lost my best friend and girlfriend, the one person I've ever loved with all of my heart and now I'm truly alone.

to have the world happen to you
know the world that happened
to become aware of
realize
becoming real by the experience of what is
for you

>>18866965
Same dude. It’s depression. I know what I want but I’m too tired and lacking in confidence to do anything about it. I feel pathetic.

>Finish waging for the day
>Log onto 4chan
>Start making mean comments and being mean and bullying zoomer twinks
Ahh. The pleasures of this site are inestimable!

>>18866965
Those sorts of slow burn doom-loops can be insidious. In a way they can be worse than a spectacular downward spiral. You don't see what is slowly chipping away and being taken from you, the loss of mental agility, love of life, aspirations for the future. It freezes you into a shrinking funnel of possibilities and solidified habits. The best I can recommend is that you get up and consciously try to do something different. Do everything you can to increase the probability of pleasant surprise. Shake it up a bit.

>>18866997
Based

My gf thinks I passed her some sort of STD because she been feeling some "weird" things on her body. But we've been together for like 10 months and I never cheated on her and I don't feel or noticed anything wrong with me. She says sometimes it can happen only in the female body and not be active on male body, because of biologic differences... But I don't know. I am being cucked?

>>18866583
>>18866603
I’ve finished lifting and my body feels spent but my mind is still in a euphoric state. I no longer feel the urge to go jerk off after talking to the side ho. Now I will enjoy a meal of Kefir and dried steak and (hopefully) collapse into waking opium dreams. Thank you for reading the follow up to my diary.

My brother is 29 and never even left home. I worry about him.

My friend's a massive bookworm and she got me back into reading. It's childish but I've been secretly competing with her on Goodreads to read the most books this year lol. It's silly but it motivates me to read more and I'm enjoying it.

>>18866997
One of the reasons I bully people here is so they don't turn into a fucking loser like myself. It's also just fun.

>>18866843
It's enough to get by but you better start practicing your "explain the gap in your resume" answer. Employers absolutely hate it when someone just decides not to work for a while. Also make sure you find some kind of routine or some kind of drive, its very easy to fall into the trap of becoming very lazy when you have no urgent need to act.

>>18866064
Good ideas, thank you friend.

>>18866059
>also how'd u get a gf? r u chad?
Found her in a third world shithole on holiday
English girls are fuck ugly so I had to travel for one.

>>18867377
>racemixing
disgusting

>>18867382
I'm Eastern European by birth
She is Spanish by heritage.
Close enough

>>18867384
>third world shithole
>spain
._.

>>18867386
I met her in a second world shithole to be accurate. She was studying in Russia

>>18866059

Joke's on you. They don't give a shit about any of that. All they want is someone who makes themselves extremely convenient to use and, if the convenience lessens, discard.

>>18867355
I don’t care even a little bit what employers like or don’t. I’m quitting because I’m not interested in a career anymore, not because I want a better job.

>>18866547
I just don’t really know what else to do at this point. It feels like that’s the only place I can find something even remotely resembling what I’m after but then again, I don’t know. I’m so fucking confused. I should’ve sorted this shit out when I was younger.

I really should focus on my drawing/painting or my writing, rather than this haphazard less-than-focused attempt at doing both.

>>18867436
Check out the military enlistment general on /k/ if you haven't already, you'll get better advice than here.

this has been my best year by far

>>18867473
I’ve lurked. It seems like a shit show and the posters don’t seem too smart. I don’t know how helpful it will be.

I think I've lost my ability to be excited for most things. I ordered the new Tao Lin and received it on release day, but I've barely read it. Eva 3.0+1.0 has been available on Prime for days, but I have no immediate drive to finish my fifth rewatch of the series that I began in 2015, let alone continue to rewatching EoE, 1.11, 2.22, or my personal favorite 3.33. I can't bring myself to finish replaying The World Ends With You, or watch its anime, and I'm torn between buying the sequel game on PS4 or Switch. I stopped following the new Shaman King before Tao was introduced, despite the manga being one of my favorite shounenshits. All that keeps me alive right now is my Dragon Ball Super Blu-rays. I don't even feel like I deserve to shitpost on /lit/ because the only "new" book I've read this year was Treasure Island, and the other dozen novels were things I re-read because I was too lazy to try something new. Treasure Island I only read because I could get away with reading Project Gutenberg ebooks at work where I have to be sneakier to read Gintama and One Piece. Too much of my life this year is just shounenshit, with the rest of my existence being dedicated to porn, suicidal ideation, and MADtv streamed on HBO Max™.
In other news, I found out I like tequila a bit, and rum is okay too, even though it just tastes like Dr Pepper to me.

>>18864639
>not Yamcha
My dude is so disrespected that anon even forgot about him.
>the joke in DBS spanning several episodes of Yamcha expecting Goku to hire him for the ToP
Easily the most fucked up thing I've ever seen in anime. Like, actually mean-spirited.

>>18864778
>i basically raised myself despite living in a home with both parents.
My father tried, and failed, to cheat on my mother, and when I was briefly angry at him I realized I think this way as well. My parents paid for food and shit, but I don't believe either of them really did anything substantial to teach me how to live in the world. I mean, my mom taught me how to read, but my kindergarten teacher taught the illiterate kids how to read anyway, so my mom's efforts were kind of unnecessary. I don't think my father ever had any real use for me other than being the family breadwinner. I was never a very athletic kid, and always preferred to play Mega Man Battle Network on GBA all day, but I retroactively think he should have made an effort to force my brother and I to play catch, or try out for sports or something. I don't think either parent ever bothered getting to know us, even just playing along with whatever nonsense we may have said as kids, except that my parents both know the names Goku and Gohan, so they at least remember when I was autistic about DBZ in 2003. At this point, I don't think it's a good use of my time to write a "note" for them, should I decide to become an hero sooner rather than later.

>>18864976
You wanna meet up and have gay anal sex before killing ourselves? We can take turns topping.

>>18860937
Nothing too big, but today i made what i consider to be a good step forward. It has been a long time since i last experienced such an euphoria and all that is because of me, my efforts, my trust in myself. it just feels good to be alive right now.

>>18865223
I was furloughed for a year due to COVID, before being finally fired and starting a new job. I don't know if it's because I got too used to a NEET life, or if my NEETdom made me nostalgic for uni, or if white collar wagecuckery is actually the worst shit of all time, but all I think about when driving to work is jumping off the parking garage or crashing off the bridge. It goes away when I get a few hours into the workday, but holy shit I can't stand this job. I just want to go back to cooking like I used to do before I got my degree. Or kill myself, whichever. Like you, I've dreamt of having a family, but I feel like it's no longer feasible for me, or I'd have to change my life heavily to even start walking toward that path. Maybe I should go to church?

>>18865714
>and is muscular from the sports she does
My sister has a weeb friend who works out, has noticable biceps, and the sexiest armpits I've ever seen in person. You've reminded me I should try to flirt with this chick next time I see her.

>>18867712
>My dude is so disrespected that anon even forgot about him.
He fares better in the manga version of Super.

>>18867764
>or I'd have to change my life heavily to even start walking toward that path
Maybe a drastic change is what you need. If you can loosen your ego's fearful grip on you, you may be surprised at how capable you are and your ability to adapt to new things.

>>18867778
Here's him defeating the convicts. Yamcha does get his moments of glory.

>>18867784
>>18867778
I'm only 11 volumes in, so it's good to see he gets some use. The Yamcha isekai spinoff if hilarious by the way, if you haven't read it.

>>18867780
I'm nearly 30, so I may already be among the group who cannot learn new tricks. Like another anon earlier, I have no idea how the fuck to meet people, and haven't since college. It's my fault for not making long-term friends ever in my life. When I worked at restaurants and things, everyone was either way younger than me, way older than me, or about my age but trailer trash. Now that I work as a law clerk, everyone is simply way older than me. I don't know where the other mid-to-late-twenties people might exist.

I have the desire to write erotic literature

>>18867829
Fucking easy mate, best thing is there's always a market for it.

>>18867858
The trouble is that I feel awkward writing sex scenes. I can do the buildup/plot and the ending, but the sex itself is still something I am learning to write

>>18867800
>trailer trash
unfortunate you lost out on a lot of socialization because of anti-white brainwashing. If it's any consolation, you're not alone in your situation.

>>18867861
How hard is it to write sex scenes? I did it a few times. And that was in second person.

>>18867861
You can do your research, but truthfully I don't think it matters. People aren't consuming erotic literature for the outstanding prose or narrative. They're reading to get off.

>>18867872
Not associating with wiggers is anti-white brainwashing?

>>18867874
Second person? Why?

>>18867876
Fair enough, but I want it to be good. I'm not selling them, just posting them online.

>>18867881
Say what you will, but I'd hang out with a lower/middle class white over some WASP every day of the week.

>>18867891
>Second person?
I feel like I should, at least on a rudimentary level, know how to write in it.
>Why?
In the off chance I get to write a game that's in second person, that and I don't like limiting myself.

I don’t want to kill myself for lack of meaning in the world or anything like that. Yeah, that sucks but mostly, I just hate myself. Even if the world were a better, more meaningful place, I’d still probably be just as disappointing of a meat suit as I’ve always been. I should really distance myself from my family first like I planned though.

>>18867067
She could just have a UTI

>>18867987
You're not a meatsuit. Let's get that out of the way. You're a living, breathing piece of consciousness among others living in symbiosis with all of creation. You don't feel it now, but the divine exists in you as it does in everything else. Just consider the fact that you exist and that anything exists at all, against all odds. You may be in pain now but this will pass in time. The wounds will close and you will find new things to give you hope and joy and good people with whom this life can be shared.

>>18867891
Wiggers are an entirely lower form than lower/middle class whites.

I scream into the void, but don't even hear an echo
I don't know what I seek
Perhaps it is an end to screaming
An end to fear
An end to desire
An end to the terror
Yet, for all my attempts to end it, the terror persists
The unheard terror
The unseen terror
The unknown terror

dun dun dun dun dun
inspector faggot

>>18860937
Worried about money, stuck in a dead-end job making 10 bucks an hour. Want to marry my GF, but not enough money to live anywhere - God knows how anyone buys a house these days, unless it's in North Dakota or Detroit or some other wasteland. Can't watch the news any more, knowing that absolute psychopaths are running the show. It's funny that we finally backed out of Afghanistan, after nearly 20 years accomplishing sweet fuck all. At least a Taliban guy can get married, live in a nice little brick house, maybe raise some goats. I found a new vodka brand, Laird's, which is cheap and doesn't taste like total garbage. Co-worker keeps trying to get me into metal music, which I don't really like, but he's genuinely enthusiastic so it's hard to get mad. Reading some Pinsky poems, after I came across one on Garrison Keillor's little show he does every day. (Sad to see that guy get "cancelled," even if he did behave like a creep towards his interns, he was a huge part of my childhood and getting interested in books.) Pinsky is cool, I like his poem "Shirt," which ends up being about the Triangle factory fire, but not in an obnoxious way. My internet poisoned brain thinks drinking is "reddit," which probably saves me from being an alcoholic, so I guess that's good. Can't wait to see where we invade next... and my little brother's gone and joined the military now, bless his sweet empty head, so he'll probably get caught in the middle. (Maybe he made the smart move; if he's lucky, he'll never see combat and make a sweet pension, and at worst, he'll step on an IED somewhere and not have to worry about anything anymore.) I get paid Friday. Maybe something good will happen soon.

I started with the greeks and now I can't stop reading them.
They're so fucking good.

Se

im high

A lot of people are more real than you are.

>>18868383
Why?

>>18868404
What is real? There are people whos views are more influenced by the hyperreality of the internet and media than I. Does that make them less real?

>>18868450
i dont know. its a habit

I've started an outline for a book. I don't want to make any money from it or get famous. I just have a passion for writing and I hope I don't end up writing complete trash.

>>18860937
Modern work culture is fucking gay, how does anyone have time to do fucking anything? i need to blow my load into a big titty fat assed woman

if I got my gf pregnant we would probably have to infanticide it

>>18868467
Stop smoking.

>>18868484
Hire a hooker.

>>18868564
No

>>18868577
Then don't bitch about your situation.

>>18868577
Are people truly that ashamed about hiring hookers?

>>18868515
i will. someday i will...

>>18868615
Not with that attitude.

>>18868615
Never understood this attitude.

I've had two dreams where there was a nuke alert. One when I was in Bhutan and now where I was in Indonesia.

>>18868644
Why Bhutan and Indonesia?

>>18864639
Tien getting shafted is just something I will never let go. He has so much potential. Just give him the Kaio-ken

>>18868654
Never going to happened. Even though the rest of the human characters besides Krillin went to train with King Kai, they never learn it.

>>18868646
>Bhutan
Maybe I miss it? Went there as a kid with my dad when he got transferred there.

>Indonesia
Last place I went on a trip before covid hit. Plus, I saw a qt there.

>>18868681
The only nation I visit was Mexico and I never have dreams of it,

You know, no matter how I see it, I can’t wrap my head around people trying to politicize apolitical series, either in novels, tv shows, or games.

>>18861009
I enjoyed reading this, thank you

>>18867861
>>18867829
I'll teach you how to write some good sex scenes, bend over.

>>18868701
D:

>>18868691
>people trying to politicize apolitical series, either in novels, tv shows, or games.
Just another bid in trying to politized everything nowadays.

>>18868691
When you are at war, you'll use anything which can be used as a weapon.

>>18868723
What war?

>>18868723
Anon, that’s the thing he’s complaining about.

I have a real fear that nobody outside of a handful of autists genuinely enjoys things any more.

My friend once described me to his wife by saying, "Anon doesn't do anything ironically," and that is largely true. I don't like doing things ironically. I don't like participating in things ironically. I don't like engaging in things ironically. I want to have real, genuine experiences. I want to feel real happiness, and real joy, and real love, and also real sadness, real grief, real ruin, and real anger, real rage, real hatred.

Yet I can't help but feel that this isn't all that common these days. It feels like younger people don't have depth of emotion, or at least a lot of them don't. Like there's always this veneer of irony or cynicism that prevents deep feeling. I think this fuels some of the reaction to effortposting on 4chan. And it fuels the reaction to genuine effort in the real world, too. People put it down, people deride it, people denigrate and shame all acts of genuine feeling because they don't feel genuinely themselves.

This terrifies me. I can't imagine spending every waking moment putting on a veneer and only effecting false feelings. Yet is that what so many people are really like now?

>>18868727
Depends on who's doing the politicizing and what their perception is.
leftists:
>we must eradicate meanness and racism so we can have a totally egalitarian world.
fascists:
>we are being genocided through a number of factors including psyops from jewish run media, governments, and NGOs
boomer conservatives:
>We must seek to keep the status quo and fight [china, libtards, commies, etc.]
libertarians:
>We must seek absolute freedom from tyrannical states
Is there a group of people who are somewhat political that don't think there are forms of covert warfare ongoing right now?

>>18868745
>Is there a group of people who are somewhat political that don't think there are forms of covert warfare ongoing right now?
NPCs

>>18868745
>Is there a group of people who are somewhat political that don't think there are forms of covert warfare ongoing right now?
People living their lives?

>>18868745
>that don't think there are forms of covert warfare ongoing right now?
You'd have to be a fool to think so. We are living at the sunset of civilization, and whoever wins before climate change destroys everything will be the final winner, the one who won history. Everyone knows it, consciously or not, and everyone wants to win.

>>18868765
We ain’t going to die die to climate change.

>>18868765
Climate change is going to be handled in 20 years thanks to new technology.

>>18860937
I am delusional. Sometimes I fantasy of becoming a jungian analyst and studying in zurich. The problem is I am a neet. You need a lot of money for that kind of stuff. I also didn't study psychology in college. Neither got a masters. And therefore money comes into mind. I wish I was born 20 years earlier. I don't feel like the chosen one, like I lost many opportunities, including the woman I loved and now I am sick, in the wrong side of the world narrative, like if my choices were mistaken, even if what I decided came from my heart, through innocence. I don't know.

>>18868775
Not to mentioned the increasing in using green technology.

>>18868765
People have been spouting this shit for 4 decades now.

>>18868780
Have you thought about going to therapy or taking meds?

Ive hoarded lots of information over the years and never did anything with it. No one knows that i know things.
Even stupid shit like memeculture.

>>18868808
I need a job for going into therapy. Not happening any time soon. At this rate I will trascend humanity.

>>18868815
Why didn't you ever use the information? Seems idiotic to never use it.

>>18868819
I always have the feeling i still dont know enough and should be quiet.

>>18868823
But you will never know enough since things are constantly changing and we learn new things.

>>18868741
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3113.htm#article1

>>18868827
Its a confidence thing i guess.

This should be taught in every high school

>>18868815
I share your pain as the "X year old info addict."
So many unused lists of inane stuff like best books, TV shows, games or manga of various genres to consoom, notes and analyses on media I've consumed, practical things like the best places for me to move to, almost fully fleshed-out business plans, skills to learn with resources on how to, personal things like lists of my fears and traumas, best and worst memories, relationship, family and work problems I've had. Why don't we ever DO anything or use this shit? I would never show it to anyone.

>>18868832
No, its hot garbage.

>>18868832
Besides, I don't think people actually read this.

>>18868831
Then why bother gathering information in the first place.

>>18868883
Not that anon, but I dunno it's just kind of become a compulsive habit when I get a good idea or come across "useful" info. It feels good to have the info stored and ready to use. I'm an information hoarder I guess.

>>18868895
But, I mean, if you're never going to use it, what's the point?

>>18868899
Why do people collect anything? Probably some genetic impulse to store food for the winter gone haywire.

>>18868904
Sounds like excuses to me.

>>18868904
>Why do people collect anything?
For a variety of reasons they can explain.

>>18868915
>>18868921
I'm scared of failure, so don't try. The writing of lists is something that feels productive and useful, and could potentially be in the future, but doesn't require me to actually risk or do anything. I never feel ready to take action and usually only do things when forced by circumstance or if condition have become unbearable.

>>18868934
>I'm scared of failure
Yeah, and so is everyone but they still do something.

>>18868937
how do they do it?

>>18868947
By taking chances?

>>18860942
>zyzz
Who?

>>18861067
Going for walks.

>>18861067
There’s several YouTube videos about this. It ain’t hard to look up.

>>18868949
I'm risk-averse and expression-averse irl because of childhood trauma I haven't fully processed.

>>18868974
It's called therapy, anon, go to one.

I-BE Area is fucking gold

>>18868665
Fuck you, a man can dream.

>>18869008
I’m just saying is to give up. Tien last revenant moment was with Semi-perfect cell.

>>18869013
And it was a hell of a moment since it was badass.

>>18868741
>Yet is that what so many people are really like now?
Always has been throughout Human history.

>>18861189
Did he win with his fight against Granolah? Or did he Job like always.

>>18869041
Lost like always.

>>18869042
Fucking hell Toriyama. Let him have one victory.

You are always on my mind

>>18864639
Why can't Super be like this

New thread
>>18869054

at least i can say niggers and kikes without police coming to my door. even if i dont mean it. thats more freedom that other places. and im not really hurting anyone am i.

FICTION IS FOR HOMOSEXUALS AND KEKS