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9283367 No.9283367 [Reply] [Original]

How many of you are living the /lit/ lifestyle?

Bonus points for pics of empty booze bottles and mattresses on the floor.

>> No.9283372

You described the NEET lifestyle, not the /lit/ lifestyle.

>> No.9283380

Well....I'm about 50 grand in defaulted student loan debt, have only been out of rehab about 10 months, haven't even been able to find a job at a gas station or grocery store, have literally less than a dollar to my name at the moment, and am totally supported by my domineering mother.

I just got informed that one of my stories will be published this summer....so...I guess this is all pretty /lit/

>> No.9283399

>>9283380
Congrats on the publish, guy!

>> No.9283424

>>9283367
Replace the booze with coffee/tea and you've got yourself a /lit/ champion

>> No.9283431

>>9283367
If the /lit/ lifestyle is working at panera bread as a dishwasher while spending all your other free time reading, then sure
>>9283380
sounds like you've been chewed up and spit out by the system and are still hanging on, good on ya

>> No.9283466

I drink all day with my parents' money and occasionally write short fiction that no one else will ever read.

>> No.9283478

>>9283431
>sounds like you've been chewed up and spit out by the system and are still hanging on, good on ya

Yeah, shit went kinda hilariously, ridiculously bad for me. More than anything I'd like to write my autobiography, just to tell people how fucked up things were.

Not that it's that much better now, just got an unpaid published cred is all. But it's a start.

>> No.9283483
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>>9283431
is all of your food premade and just zapped in the microwave to serve?

>>9283478
dissenting opinion, you're probably just a bad person

>> No.9283485

>>9283431
>working at panera bread as a dishwasher while spending all your other free time reading, then sure
Once your basic monetary needs are fulfilled, time > money. Godspeed, man.

>> No.9283486

>>9283483
>dissenting opinion, you're probably just a bad person

Oh yeah, I totally am. All my writing is about bad, but at least likable people.

>> No.9283488

I live in a small port town that serves as the only departure point (other than flying) from the island I live on in the North Atlantic. I like riding the ferry (25 dollars for a walk-on 8 hour round trip) reading Hart Crane with a nice view of the sea, and for breaks I'll get out on the deck and sit with the sea air to clear my head

>> No.9283494

>>9283478
I mean, congrats on getting your story published I guess, but nobody wants to read about your self-pity party, especially when your rock bottom is letting mommy pay for everything

>> No.9283498

>>9283478
I would shy away from things autobiographical in a literal way. Infuse your experiences in characters and events from a modified angle, allegorical or whatever. For some reason I've noticed that a lot of beginning writers want to start with stuff that is very self-referential, only a hairs breadth away from being a straight up autobiography.

>> No.9283499

>>9283488
this is pretty fucking /lit/ dude, would stare wistfully out to sea while smoking a cigarette with

>> No.9283501

>>9283494
What makes you think that's what I write about...?

>> No.9283503

>>9283501
>wants to write an autobiography to 'tell his story'
>you just described your life in an earlier post

>> No.9283505

>>9283498

The story I got published is basically 10% me bitching about my current situation, in a 90% fictional story

>> No.9283506
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9283506

Its not much, but it is mine

>> No.9283507
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>>9283506
I can actually smell it

>> No.9283508

>>9283505
I'd imagine a lot of writers do something along the same lines in their work

>> No.9283509

>>9283483
>tripfag calling anyone a bad person

>> No.9283512

>>9283367
Do you work at a thornton's? I'm pretty sure you're in the same city as me, gaskun. Tryna track you down.

>> No.9283531

>>9283512

I thought he wiped old lady's asses and then dj'd at empty bars

>> No.9283549

>>9283486
i prefer reading about people who are good but unlikable, but i'd still read your stuff :P

>>9283499
>/lit/ as an adjective
>/lit/ as an adulatory adjective

>> No.9283554

I sleep on the floor no mattress already, even though I have a bed. It's so much more comfy

>> No.9283589

>>9283554
>IM JES LIEK DOSTOVSKY

>> No.9283598

>>9283549
I'd venture we're all aware that talking about having a "/lit/ lifestyle" is more or less silly, its called having fun

>> No.9283599

I am almost completely supported by my rich parents. As such, I only work the barest minimum of part-time jobs, with some freelance writing, editing, and proofreading on the side. I go to graduate school where I am currently getting an MA in English Literature. I want to be the great writer of this age, and tower over all others from this period in history. So far I've had three short stories published, but have been paid for none of them, and none were in noteworthy publications.

I'm going to get there because fuck you, I won't be stopped.

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9283607

>>9283554
but which direction do you point your head while you sleep?

>> No.9283608

>>9283598
you don't think i'm funny, equals-sama? :/

>> No.9283615
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9283615

>>9283599
that's the spirit

>> No.9283696

>>9283367

i live out of a van, smoke dope and drink vodka

did the whole army thing for 4 years and that was a heck of a hoot, afterwards i just didn't give a fuck about civilian life in general and just do whatever i want without pursuits of material wealth, vanity, or otherwise ambitions to some sort of social recognition or validation in society

haven't cashed in education benefits, academic achievement wasn't really a goalpost for me and i much prefer some sort of ensemblance of freedom than a metaphorical noose hanging above my head that is trademarks by a corporate sponsored bank in the form of a loan

eventually i will retreat to the coast, purchase land, park my van on that land and build my own cabin with green energy supplements which will take some time but anything is better than living on the grid and being told i owe someone something when i dont owe them shit

>> No.9283727

>>9283696
*semblance, btw

You need to earn money to buy land, so you're gonna have to spend some time on the grid like the rest of us "civs"

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>>9283512
I'm still in lex but I'm the branch manager for a pharmaceutical distribution company now.

#opiatekun

Post a temp email.

>> No.9283734

>>9283608
leave faggot

>> No.9283747

>>9283733
well I guess SOMEBODY has to deliver children their military-industrial-mind-control medication. How else are we gonna make the little twerps sit still in school when spanking and rulers have been outlawed since the 80s?

>> No.9283752

i have a corporate consultant job, that i write about 2-3 emails for a week, work from home or from my squash club and read/write all day. the sheer hilarity of them not having figured it out yet is decently /lit/ - it's been a couple years of this

>> No.9283766

>>9283488
comfy

>> No.9283778

>>9283734
make me :^)

>> No.9283810

>>9283380
Cheers, Anon! Hope things turn around for you.

>> No.9283920

>>9283733

hook it up with methlyamine bro i got an operation out of my van

its legit i even got a tumblr

>> No.9284454

>>9283506
Nice jpegpasta.

>> No.9284463

I just drank a bunch of cough syrup and beer and now I'm writing a book about a dude who kills himself

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>>9283506
>The fucking vomit on the bin

>> No.9284724

>>9283367
Literally what is the appeal of NOT having a mattress on the floor?

>extra furniture costs extra money
>extra stuff to deal with if you ever move
>can't collapse down on your bed at the end of the day

I know floor mattresses have that bachelor vibe about them, but I just can't see the appeal of "proper" beds.

>> No.9284735

>>9284724
when you sleep you sweat, so it pools in the bottom of the mattress. if you leave it on the ground there's a higher rate of it molding

>> No.9284739

>>9284735
I lift up my mattress every week or two when I put fresh sheets on it. Literally never seen mold in years of sleeping like this. You're probably right in theory but I've just never experienced or even heard about this.

>> No.9284745

>>9283367
>mattress on the floor

is it considered /lit/ to die of mild poisoning?

>> No.9284748

>>9284724

Because duct taping your partners wrists to the carpet is a hassle.

>> No.9284757

>>9284748
>participating in romantic relationships
>having sex

this is time you could spend reading

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9284763

What about mine? sorry for shitty quality, shitty phone.
Hope you can see the thread in the computer.

I think you don't wanna see the bathroom.

>> No.9285010

>>9283380
>I just got informed that one of my stories will be published this summer...

Where did you send it to?

>> No.9285014

>>9285010
my wordpress blog

>> No.9285024

>>9284763

I guess my room isn't that clean either and we could all spend a bit of time keeping tidy in between reading great literature.

>> No.9285027

>tfw I actually clean my flat

oh well at least I'm sure I read more than most of this board since that's literally all I do apart from working

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9285056

maybe

>> No.9285060

Don't you all feel fucking disgusting, what the fuck is wrong with you?

>> No.9285061

>>9284745
>die of mild poisoning
Is it really mild if you die from it?

>> No.9285062

>>9284521

>vomit

>> No.9285065

>>9285056
>oranges untouched

wild delusions of health

>> No.9285066

>teenagers neglecting their rooms

sums up /lit/ pretty much

>> No.9285069

>>9283367
my bed's half-broken and i use books to stack up the broken half to make it even plus i've been drinking wine on and off for the past year or so.
i don't read though.

>> No.9285070

>>9284763

Nigga, what did you do to the finish on your laptop?

>> No.9285071

xD

>> No.9285307

>>9285070
The shiny black parts are where the friction scraped through the layer of cheesy poofs

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9285341

>>9283506
>crichton

>> No.9285459

>>9284763
The worst thing about this picture is the colour of your walls.

>> No.9285507
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9285507

Rate my room, lads.

>> No.9285543

>>9283506
>this chair

>> No.9286271

>>9285056
Is the Russian Standard worth it?

>> No.9286275

I am a 36 year old with a PhD in Philosophy. I am $450k in debt and currently working two minimum wage jobs in order to stay alive. I work alongside 18 year olds and whenever they ask about my background I just tell them I've been in prison for a long time, which is less embarrassing than admitting the truth. I am probably the most well-informed Husserl scholar on the North American continent, perhaps in the world. My 1,500 page biography of his life has been rejected several dozen times. No college will take me on since they don't think Husserl is relevant, and that other applicants are therefore pushed to the head of the line. I have had 6 Husserl-related papers published in different journals and philosophical quarterlies, but have earned no money or recognition for having done so. I just moved to Abbeville, Louisiana since there is a job opening at the university in Lafayette and I decided to go all out in order to get it. But I've just found out that my application was rejected and now I'm stuck working at a Wendy's three shifts a week and a Barnes & Noble the rest of the time. I have no wife, no children, and at this point no friends I'm willing to talk to due to the shameful nature of my existence.

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>>9285507
Why do you have bricks in your bedroom?

>> No.9286288

>>9285507
eww man... smoking inside your room is subhuman

>> No.9286291

>>9285507
This is such a British bedroom.

Reeks of cider and rollies and girls named "Charlie"

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9286300

pretty comfy in my bed. i'm glad i left the times with the emtpy bottles and matresses on the floor behind me

>> No.9286311

>>9285507
clean your fan

>> No.9286324

>>9286300
L O N D O N

>> No.9286334

>>9286324
what makes you think i'm not a guy? or are you gay? or female?

>so many possibilities

>> No.9286337

>>9285027

>since that's literally all I do apart from working

He posted on /lit/, which he as browsing for the third consecutive hour.

>> No.9286343

what does your room smell like, /lit/?

>> No.9286349

>>9286334

You're a woman or a fag, literally everyone can tell that from your picture.

>> No.9286366

>>9286349
or i just have a gf, y'know

>> No.9286401

>>9286343
a continuous, decade-long fart

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>>9286282
Back before it was that clean they were part of my impromptu desk.

>> No.9288228

>>9286275
I'll chat with you my friend, do you have any way to stay in touch?

>> No.9288265

>>9285010

If it was published already, I'd just tell you, but it ain't, so I'm not going to jinx it.

>> No.9288276

>>9283367
I live the pleb lifestyle because I loathe artsy fags

>> No.9288286

>>9283367
>parents are somewhat rich, they pay for all of my expenses
>live in a comfy 2 room apartments that is now disgusting, since I can't care after it (my hygiene is pretty bad too)
>spend my entire time reading, writing poetry, playing the piano, composing music and shitposting half a hour a day here on /lit/
>leave my house once or twice a week, usually to buy food
>if I want to walk and think I'll do it late at night, when I'll be sure that I won't meet anyone
>narcissist enough to think that I'm a actual genius and that I can make the grratest art of this century
>also bipolar and actually autistic

>still manage to be a great conversationalist
>have always been the funniest guy in the group
>old people truly loves me, especially professors I've met and talked to in university

This is a sincere account of my personality and lifestyle so far.
Is this /lit/ enough?

>> No.9288329

Well, I've got the mattress on the floor. But it's only because my dog has arthritis and I don't want him jumping up and down that high. The lower bed is easier for him, old fellow.

>prescription medication addiction
>no job because wild uncontrolled epilepsy, going to see about vagus nerve stiumlation though, fingers crossed
>don't smoke
>drink minimally, alcohol lowers seizure threshold
>exercise daily, sometimes twice daily
>disability benefit
>vacuum clean house every second day
>pay rent every week
>can write all day every day if i want. once did for exactly three months and wrote nearly 500k which was an interesting experiment
>currently working on two different writing projects but slowly because i want precision not word diarrhoea

>> No.9289648

>>9288286
Very /lit/

>>9288329
Very autistic in a non-/lit/ way

>> No.9289706

>>9283466
Sad
No, seriously :(
Good luck to you

>> No.9289779

>>9286275
Best of luck

>> No.9290435

>be 18 senior in high school
>Parents kick me out bc I'm a degenerate
>Live with Grandma in South Chicago
>Over two years become EMT, get my shit together, transfer out of community college to u of I
>Be 21 and high AF off Molly get a call from my sister my degenerate father is in the hospital after drunk driving into another car. Mom was in it too
>Begrudgingly go home and wish the fucker would just die already but he doesn't
>Bomb finals, over winter break go home to attempt to deal with shit, spring semester I'm a raging mess
>Don't bother re enrolling
>Spend the next year working again attempting to pay medical bills, house payments, legal fees bc the asshole killed someone
>Eventually he comes home a crippled mess but with a monthly 120 pill prescription of Vicodin and Xanax
>One day I go on a bender and miss work until I'm fired
>Decide to give community college another go but realize everyone there is really dumb AF but I bond with professor that's getting his master's at University of Chicago
>Breeze past a semester but next year I overestimate my potential and sign up for way more than I can handle so I go back hard on the Xanax and drop out again
>Dad finally is deemed in good enough condition to go to prison
>I begin to see all my friends graduate college and move on in life while I'm stuck getting fucked and fucking up
>Try and kill myself but I fuck that up too and end up having to go through all that
>Guess I come out better; quit drugs but drink essentially every night

I'm now 26 and have been working at a liquor store for two years. I don't really participate in life anymore. I've written a book that has nothing to do with any of the above. It's about simpler times. It's complete yet i can't bring myself to submit it.

>> No.9290481

>>9284763
I have the same pc bro

>> No.9290538
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9290538

Good for relaxing and losing myself in the book I'm reading

>> No.9290658

I sleep on a mattress on floor of my parent's room. I have no job or prospects, and curently in $50k in debt. But, i read everyday, and shitpost on 4chan.

I dont't know, you tell me.

>> No.9290696

>>9285056
>russki standart

good taste for a trainwreck of a human being

>> No.9290705

I work a job I hate with a degree in English and philosophy that gives me no time or energy to do little reading and no writing :(

>> No.9290709

>go to Columbia
>spend time on beautiful movie set campus
>have about 40 pages of Core Curriculum reading every day
>get rewarded with As in classes to just read what I'd love to read anyways
>surrounded by intellectual people all the time
>meet non-pretentious individuals in clubs and greek life
>spend time in New York City
>still get to spend my parents' money on food, travel, and alcohol
>majoring in philosophy and get internships in finance every summer
feels good man

>> No.9290723

>>9285060
this

>> No.9290733

>>9288329
Poor dog :(

>> No.9290772

>>9286275
holy shit that is truly lit
Be proud of your tragedy, anon. not many people can control their deaths like that

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9290874

>>9286275
This is patrician as fuck

>> No.9290891

WHERE

IS

GAS-KUN?!

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>>9286275
>Newfags don´t recognize this stale pasta
>Newfags will claim "I was only pretending to be ignorant"
Lurk moar fagets

>> No.9290899

>People not recognizing the philosophy pasta

>> No.9290911
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9290911

>Live off a trust fund
>Alternate between a difficult STEM degree at a top 10 with lots of programming and reading books
>No social life apart from occasionally meeting old school friends
>Live in an incredibly minimalistic flat with basically a bed and a desk
>Trying to write a story about a student who befriends a ghost without knowing it but without making the twist too similar to fight club

>> No.9290928

>>9286275
Wanna play vidya

>> No.9290997
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9290997

>>9286275
This is definitely the most /lit/ post here, if true

>> No.9291038

>>9286275
You're a moron if you got that much in debt, and fuck you. It's your fault for being a big fat loser piece of crap shit. You're too blame for all the mistakes that you've made in your life from beginning to end, like forever. A PhD in philosophy and 500,000 in debt? And you're incapable of finding a job pertaining to the degree you accomplished? You're own fault for being so bad at life; however the school could help find you a job, or something with that. Additionally, Barnes and Noble -- a shitty place for shitty people like you and you're family. I'm guessing that your family is shitty based on you what you said. Faggot bitch ass nigga, go whip yourself into shape. You die and we all die some time. We all die and you die some day. So, male the most out of your shit.

>> No.9291041

>>9286275
zesty pastae

>> No.9291045

>>9291038
Haha you moron its a pasta you are replying to, how can you be so dumb that you get angry and reply angrily trying to argue with a pasta?

>> No.9291053

>>9291045
I'm not angry. I'm not mad. I'm posting the truth. I don't care if it's pasta or spaghetti or whatever, he needs help, so I spit truth in his face.

>> No.9291064

>>9283506
>THREE (3) size ordered jars of marmite
>nytol

HOLY

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9291073

>>9291038
>free will

>> No.9291077

>>9284521
That's shit, bucko.

>> No.9291085

>>9291073
I have free will, but I'm not sure if you do, zombie fag bitch shit eater.

>> No.9291099

>>9291085
You are my new favourite poster, anon-kun. Please tell me of your adventures and what you do in your day to day life

>> No.9291126

>>9291053
You're spitting truth into the fan my dude

>> No.9291276

>>9290709
Going to college in New York would be cool but it seems like it would be maddening being surrounded by all those liberals and millennials all the time.

Also I read about the core curriculum and it didn't seem very interesting. Can you go into more of what the classes actually cover?

>> No.9291895

>>9283512
Ayy wya

>> No.9291921
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9291921

is it lit

>> No.9291977

i don't drink but i do sleep on a mattress on the floor. i'm a bottom of the barrel wageslave at the moment and it blows but i'm starting a course soon that will be the first step towards the career i want (which is never going to earn me buckets of money either but it's fine i just want to be able to support myself).

whatever self-entitled rich kids tell you, modesty, minimalism, and hard work are very /lit/.

>> No.9292057

>>9291921
Not really, looks too dim.

>> No.9292092

>>9284724
you should at least get one of those cheap ass iron frames that take it a couple inches off the ground

>> No.9292114

>>9284724
lack of ventilation. you just need a tiny bit of lift from the floor for airflow.

>> No.9292132

>>9283506
perfect

>> No.9292640

>>9290891
Sup?

>> No.9292651

>>9290891
Yes?

>> No.9292654

>>9292651

you still a virgin?

>> No.9292658

>>9292654
Married... so no.

>> No.9292661

>>9292658
tell the truth, pls.

>> No.9292664

>>9292661
Negative. Lost virginity in the 90's

>> No.9292671

>>9292664
You're not fooling anyone.

>> No.9292703

>>9290928
I only play Pharaoh (1999)

>> No.9292886

>on public dole
>don't even have a mattress, just sleep on the floor straight up
>don't talk to anyone
>get pissed on wine alone all the time
>have a ton of books around me
>don't even read
How /lit/ am I?

>> No.9293019

>>9292886
Stop jacking it to anime. It's making you weird and sad.

>> No.9293060

>>9283506
you made my night, anon
vomit on the trash can
christ

>> No.9293069

>>9292886
Get a mattress dude.

>> No.9293105

>>9293060
You're creepy.

>> No.9293145

>>9286282

For throwing at armored cars and riot police after a soccer game

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9293169

>>9288329
anyway, OP wanted pictures, so this is us

>> No.9293172

>>9283483
Oh man I wish I could sniff her asshole right that moment

>> No.9293181

>>9285065
kek

>> No.9293194

>>9290435
Submit it, what do you have to lose? Your pride? You should have lost that entirely by now. If not, keep drinking.

>> No.9293627

Running away to Minneapolis on Monday with $500 in my pocket and my car to do nothing but work shitty jobs and write.

I will probably end up arrested for sleeping in my car after the third day but you know.

>> No.9293794

>>9293169
nice doggos :3

>> No.9293818

>>9293169
Neat doges

>> No.9294133

>>9283367
I've published several books in Korea but am currently unemployed and living in a one-room shack on the outskirts of town. Sometimes I go to the local Starbucks for free WiFi but bring my own instant coffee and sneak it into a mug of hot water to save money. The groans of the old grandfather next door reverberate through the walls day and night and I suspect that he will croak at any moment. Does that count?

>> No.9294149

>>9283498
>For some reason I've noticed that a lot of beginning writers want to start with stuff that is very self-referential, only a hairs breadth away from being a straight up autobiography.
The myopic narcissism of youth.

>> No.9295167
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>anything but a sleeping bag on the floor and an old laptop on top of a cardboard box, full of pdfs.

you might also be allowed a single knife, dull blade, to eat your raw vegs and fruits once a day, twice max.

>> No.9295195

What is even a “literary” lifestyle?

>> No.9295208

>>9295195
just go.

>> No.9295216

>>9295208
Why?

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I should clean

>> No.9295572

>High School Senior
>Got into one of the two colleges I applied to. I'm not sure how, it was a longshot.
>Very bad social anxiety
>Divorced parents. Over bearing mother, hippie father.
>Aspire to be like my brother, musician living in Paris.
>Constantly told I'm a good writer by English teacher who I've stopped listening to
>Smoke a lot of pot, have a lot of panic attacks, and write a dozen bad poems a day
>Virgin of course
>Infatuated with Phillip Roth, Flaubert, Ginsberg
>Not sure what I want to do with my life

Lit!

>> No.9295584

>live in a van
>bartend part time
>write and work on /biz/ness during free time
>either walk or ride my bike everywhere
>only eat what food I can steal from work

Only suffering is not having a good wi-fi connection. 4chinz is blocked most places, banned the rest, and all the proxies are b&. Great for productivity but I miss being able to post more than once a week. Otherwise it's pretty comfy. Coffee shops are my living room and tea is my "rent". I also refill the tea like 3 times, so I get 3 cups of poor man's tea for the price of one.

>> No.9295611

>>9295584
I used to read books and write too.
BUT NOW I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER
I'm sorry.
That does sound like a very nice life (I love the tea line). How did you end up in that situation if you don't mind me asking?

>> No.9295680

>>9295611

One day I got tired of paying rent and didn't feel like getting a second job or working more hours. So I bought a minivan and ended my lease, threw my shikibuton in the back, purged all my belongings into a shopping cart in a walmart parking lot, and shoved my clothes in a duffel bag. Winter was very fun. Negative three american was my record.

>> No.9295701

I resell books on markets. Half a Sunday on the job and a lot of time in between is spent in second hand shops and book stores. I can get almost everything for pennies or from another antiquarian.

Sometimes I work in the opera, or in a bar. I can read, write, go to sleep when I want and I can still leave town because I don't have a store.

My youngest colleague is twice as old. Most people are getting to old to continue doing this. I'm talking about people who have been reading for decades, willing to share knowledge and probably parting with their collection in the near future.

Money is tight now, but I have the feeling that is about to change.

>> No.9297162

>work 60 hours a week hanging drywall
>saving up to travel this summer
>hiked the pct last summer
>renting a moldy room for 200 month
>no friend, no drugs only sources of entertainment are lifting weights and reading

>> No.9297184

Is the only distinction between the NEET and lit life whether or not you're getting laid?

>> No.9297188

>>9297162
This is pretty much my life, except I'm practicing my Spanish in order to move to Latin America and get a job teaching English.

>> No.9297206

>>9297188
I'm fluent in both languages. learn me about what you're trying to do?

>> No.9297218

>>9283615
should I watch Gurren Lagann again?
>it's still the anime that impacted me the most along with eva

>> No.9297225

>>9283696
t. homeless vet with PTSD
get help anon, the trailer park boys lifestyle is sick but I don't want to see you become a criminal just to survive

>> No.9297249

>>9297206
My Spanish is pretty good grammatically, but in order to build my vocabulary I just spend most of my time reading Spanish literature, writing down unfamiliar words, and memorizing them using flashcards. I'm aware of the certification I need in order to teach Spanish in the States, but I have no idea how to even apply for a job as an English teacher somewhere like Costa Rica or Puerto Rico. If you have a similar interest in Spanish and have any tips, i'd appreciate it.

I know getting work as a freelance translator is difficult and doesn't pay well, but I think I would be easier to break into that field then use my experience there to apply for teaching.

>> No.9297295

Is paying for prostitutes /lit/?

>> No.9297303

>>9297295
Only if they're ladyboys

>> No.9297722

Why are so many men leading such shitty lives nowadays? It seems like the only people under 30 who have their shit together are women

>> No.9297761
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9297761

> Liberal arts College
> Russian/Philo/Lit courses
> My room is a disaster, clothes everywhere and stray alcohol bottles strewn about
> My only decoration is a dusty map of Hannover that I found in a dumpster and pinned to my bulletin board
> I wear black jackets, smoke often, and brood frequently
> I bring girls to my dorm laundry room because my room is too much of a mess
> No circadian rhythm, constant vyvanse

Pic related, a sample. Ahhh, I love being scum

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9297808

>floor mattress
>wine bottles

do i win

>> No.9297899

>>9297808
I can tell you threw all your books onto the floor just for this picture, and for that, here's a (You)

>> No.9297908

>>9297899
thnx bby

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Had to smudge my reflection lads
It's 6 AM and I can't sleep, have uni in 3 and a half hours

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>>9297953
Sometimes staying up is worth it actually

>> No.9298009

>>9297953
Is that a dorm, or just a tiny ass apartment?

>> No.9298013

>>9298009
It's a tiny ass apartment

>> No.9298021

>>9283367
I've got the floor mattress, but just quit drinking a few months ago. Am I gonna make it /lit/?

I don't have sheets, I sleep in a sleeping bag on top of the mattress. Does that make up for no liquor bottles?

>> No.9298162

Is reading poetry you've written to an escort you've hired /lit/?

>> No.9298184

>>9298162
No, why?

>> No.9298297

>>9298162
That's amazing, forget it having anything to do with /lit/

please tell me you didn't touch her at all and just hired her to listen to your poems

>> No.9298332

Currently smoking my third cigarette after not smoking for three years sitting in a new apartment that me and my girlfriend just signed the lease on this week. she hasn't moved in, I'm sitting in front of a unread copy of Dubliner's and the complete works of Plato that I'm only 90 pages in despite buying it a year ago. I had planned on reading more instead I wrote a list of grievances to her about why I think I'm a cuckold. I just moved so yeah a get the bonus points for the mattress being on the floor.

>> No.9298359

>>9298332
>smoking after 3 years
>that much of a slow reader
>a literal cuck
>mattress on the floor
You're a complete mess, lad

>> No.9298363

>>9298359
At least he has a girlfriend. Puts him above 90% of lit right there

>> No.9298368

>>9298363
I have 2 and still fucking tinder pussy on the side, so what. No excuse for being
>a fucking cuck

>> No.9298404

Living in slavland, distracting myself from psych studies with women and drinking with friends. Not /lit/ imo, just your average millenial scrub.

>> No.9298697

>>9290435
Why's everyone from Chicago so fucking depressed? Jesus.

For what it's worth, anon, I'd definitely read whatever you put out. Sounds like a hell of a rough ride.

>> No.9300451

>>9291895
Wya?

>> No.9300453

>>9283367
do I have to pick up smoking to be /lit/?

I don't think my mom would allow me

>> No.9300517
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9300517

>went to rehab or opiate addiction
>live alone
>taking two classes
>spend most of my time at home smoking cigarettes, cooking steak, drinking a bottle of wine a night, reading and watching movies, writing my novel about the world's most famous artist who's basically based off me
>fuck girls of tinder most weekends, never see them again
>went to Tokyo for springbreak, got arrested twice, police were very polite
>graduate soon, have zero plans but a very wide safety net
>dream of death and invincibility

>> No.9300592

>>9300517
Based /lit/izen

>> No.9300637

>>9283549
Shut the FUCK up emoticon using tripfag

>> No.9300674

>>9283494
You'd be surprised. People are suckers for that kind of shit.

>> No.9300692

>>9300517

I'm trying not to imagine a scrawny guy scrounging around his room and placing everything on the ground so he can get a perfect /lit/ shot of it but it's too hard.

>> No.9300775

>>9295584
>/biz/
You might as well just flush your money straight down the toilet if you take any of their advice.

>> No.9300803

>>9300692
I am scrawny, but that's legitimately how my room is cluttered, glad to see it comes off as staged, means my degeneracy is at least aesthetic

>> No.9300942

>recovering from three years of on-off opiate use
>dropped out of degree in obscure middle eastern languages two years in
>got a job in new zealand for a month tutoring a child through (((connections)))
>angsty manlet jewish autist
>write poems
>only woman I have slept with that wasn't a sex worker or my first time only likes me for my poems
>currently desperately trying to woo this same woman, a beautiful 18yo schoolgirl, with my poems
>smoking/drinking habits are finally causing gum disease
>live in my mother's basement with only a laptop, a sofa to sleep on and 500 books for company
>banking on getting into Oxford University to study lit/philosophy
>working on a manuscript about the alt-right to submit to an obscure leftist publishing house

>> No.9301177

>>9297953
Where the fuck are your books

>> No.9301200

>>9301177
I keep them in the attic so their covers don't get faded. I also like to read up there because it's cozier and quieter.

>> No.9301402

>>9301200

>I keep them in the attic so their covers don't get faded

Sorry what

>> No.9301653

>>9297295
only if the only thing you spill with her is your spaghetti

>> No.9301706

>>9301177
They're by the window, I'm a pseud

>> No.9302119

>>9300942
My nigga

>> No.9302125

Seems the trend is towards opiate addiction

Brb gettin some fent

>> No.9302152

>>9302125
Fuck Fentanyl. I know too many people who have overdosed from that scag.

>> No.9302165

>>9300451
Danville/Versailles/Lex

>> No.9302169

>>9283367
Why would someone have more than one mattress in a room?

>> No.9302205

>>9302165
I grew up in Versailles.

>> No.9302207

>>9302165
But live in lex. Landowne

>> No.9302296

>>9283752
How does one get a job like this? I have a degree in journalism/media shit and I'd be satisfied with a cushy office/work-from-home type jobs. Are you able to support yourself this way?

>> No.9302397

>>9302296
How's your professional history and network?

>> No.9302670
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9302670

i am desu

>> No.9302682

>>9283506
Truly the american dream

>> No.9303046

>>9302205
Damn, where around?

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>> No.9303087

>Going to school for anthropology in a major city
>Living off parents' money
>Former atheist in the midst of a quasi-religious awakening
>Borderline alcoholic
>Friend group of young artistic people to go to bars and engage in various recreational drugs with
I think I'm pretty /lit/

>> No.9303513

>>9286343
coffee and dust.

>> No.9303545

>>9286343
Dog and lavender.

>> No.9303594

>>9303046
442 duell and stone gate

>> No.9304370

>>9298162
links related tbqh

Thread 01: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28427858/
Thread 02: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28473632/
Thread 03: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28563840/
Thread 04: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28588279/
Thread 05: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28634920/
Thread 06: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28681400/
Thread 07: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28745482/
Thread 08: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28798775/
Thread 09: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28821140/
Thread 10: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28912265/
Thread 11: https://desustorage.org/r9k/thread/29032733/

>> No.9304381

>>9286343
Pomegranate (a candle) and cherry blossom (a room spray).

>> No.9304427

>>9283367
>married to high school sweetheart, now in late 20s
>two cats
>own and live in a house on a bit of land, close to a big city but not too close
>no drugs or smoking, little alcohol, very few vices in general
>free time is spent on relaxing activities like gardening, woodworking, and reading
>house is filled with books and other collections
>did a grad degree in literature
>job is easy, monotonous, and from-home
>engage in academia mostly for fun

I think it's a pretty /lit/ life, but not in the same type as OP.

>> No.9305609

>>9304427
Quite /lit/

>> No.9305614

>>9304370
links long dead mate

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>>9283367
>>9283512
>>9283733
>>9291895
>>9302165
>>9302207
>>9303046
kentucky-cuck here
away for college, but i live near the UK campus during the summer. hoping to spend all summer on amphetamines reading 8 hours a day without a job tbqh

>> No.9305723

>>9305633
UK logo should be bigger

>> No.9306008

>>9302670
On the one hand, I admire your minimalism, on the other, I loathe the look of everything you own. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and presume you just don't care whether or not material possessions are aesthetic, rather than bemoan your complete and utter lack of taste. Either way, I can't help but take you for an unimaginative, plodding fool, and that, I think, rules out any pretensions to literary greatness. So, yes, I guess you are indeed living the "/lit/" lifestyle. Congrats, friend.

>> No.9306042

>>9303087
LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

>> No.9306054

KY meetup when?

>> No.9306072

>>9284735
>>9284739

>Mold

This is like one of my meme books.

>> No.9306082

>>9303068
how are people like this even real

>> No.9306284

>>9303068
>shit everywhere
>two monitors
>gaming mouse
>memetuber
>but a single book in sight in a /lit/ thread
>"make murrca great again"

How about you make yourself great first and stop hiding behind the "failures" of your country ?

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Not that hard to police your empties guys

>> No.9306816

I wish you faggots would fuck off with this insufferable shit

>> No.9306896

>>9285056
get a trash can m8.

>> No.9306910

>>9306377
>bols

nice

>> No.9306932

I live in a semi-favela in Brazil and I never lived wretchedly like this.

>> No.9307005

Working as a carpenter and writing a novel in addition to commissioned furry literotica. Feels good man.

>> No.9307025

>>9306932
acting like you're a degenerate mess is a middle class white people hobby.

people can live in slums and still do so in an orderly and dignified way. these larpers just seek it out.

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>Dropped out of my masters program due to depression
>Stopped caring about women, don't want children, little reason to live at all really
>Probable alcoholic
>trying to get a job in either Germany or Japan teaching english for something to do
Feels bad man

>> No.9307221

>>9307197
this is what post-modernism does

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>>9283367
>on the floor
Seriously, who the fuck does this?

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>>9283367

>How many of you are living the /lit/ lifestyle?

This is a meme and only pseuds buy into the romance of some "/lit/ lifestyle". I'm just a jobless fuckup who can't exist properly in the real world and I happen to read a lot in the hopes that it will somehow absolve my current shittiness as a man later on down the line. That is the "/lit/ lifestyle".

>> No.9307424

>>9307411
>who can't exist properly in the real world
Join the fucking club pal.

>> No.9308527

>>9283367
I live alone, if that's what you mean.

>> No.9308648

>>9283506
>reverse image search
>best guess: neckbeard lair
KEK GOOD SHIT GOOGLE

>> No.9308859

I lost my job due to a new ceo taking over a high profile company and closing some global sites. I had been self publishing on amazon as a sideline but made nothing. Using the redundancy money i spent a year trying to write seriously whilst my health went downhill due to a chronic condition. My wife gave birth, finding out she had developed a small brain tumour. Everything collapsed.

I got frequently drunk in the evenings working on a new book to blot it out. I fired a manuscript to a few places in my depression. Out of nowhere i get a phone call. I'm offered a multiple book contract by one of the big publishing houses.

First is going to print soon. It doesn't feel real at all. If i become a success I'll be in a position to support us all. If not i can say i achieved the one thing i wanted to do with my life.

>> No.9308901

>>9290709
normies get out

[.]

>> No.9308910

>>9306054
Give me a temp email and I'll contact you. We can compare the covers of our copies of Gravitys Rainbow

>> No.9308917

>>9300517
>you can see the floor
disgusting

>> No.9309312

Wagecuck here.

I'd love to keep reading more, but spending time in traffic really fucking sucks the donkey dick out of my soul.

By any chance, is there something like bookzzz for audiobooks? I think listening to books in the car would greatly maximize my time and make my travel time feel a lot less draining.

>> No.9309357

>>9283367

I've got you niggers beat, I don't even have a mattress. I use the cushions from a couch pushed together to make a mattress.

>> No.9309398

>>9283367
I work 42 hours a week walking 13 miles and lifting everyday at a warehouse, i work at weird hours so if i don't wake up at 3 am then i have literally no time to myself. I cant wake up cause im so sore. I want to fucking die. I have 0 time for reading.