Lovecraft is slop

You want my thoughts? MY thoughts? my THOUGHTS? Who are you to want MY THOUGHTS?

>>25620616
people who use neologisms are single celled parasites in the gut of a fat retarded beached whale

I refuse to read books by American authors

>>25620610
No joke, a lot of times I'll be in bed browsing my phone and next thing I know I'm waking up and pulled up is the search bar with gibberish or copy+pasted whatever I was reading or a giant repeat of letters in a text to someone.

>>25620634
Oh look, another blown the fuck out lovecraft shitswiller!

>>25620644
i've read just one of his short stories, what are you screeching about?

>>25620634
>uhmmmm I hallucinate u r a barnacle XD
Meanwhile all I have to do is look at you

Smooth and smart or lame and cuck to write my name and number on an index card and hand it to a girl on the bus?

>>25620654
Then shut the fuck up??? The word "slop" isn't a neologism, retard. It's a word that has existed for at least 500 years.

>>25620652
I hope you're be seeing her again on the regular.

>>25620657
turn your monitor on

>>25620652
>the old Sopranos distraction
Yeah I knew a guy who did this once, its real easy to distract yourself from medical help by thinking of yourself as some sort of sexual operator. Anyways, about your condition?

I hope this years black friday deals will be favorable towards my new venture of trying out bookbinding

>>25620662
not as a braindead internet coverall suffix, cunthole

>>25620677
You're mad as fuck, lol. Calm down, bitch boy.

Well, that’s what happens when you keep fleeing to smaller and smaller environments for unwillingness to pay reality its dues (in this case tolerate female cringe), you become a tiny thin-skinned hermaphroditic little amphibian, and then you get caught and have to pay anyways. That’s how the Axolotl was born from a God, and what has happened to you. ‘Stay out of my puddle!’

>>25620681
you type very gay and passive aggressive

>>25620694
Hmm, nice.

>>25620695
>yeah well.... you type weird!
This is you firing on all cylinders, huh? Pathetic.

>>25620709
>yeah well... you sound mad!
This is you firing on all cylinders, huh? Pathetic.

You guys heard the news? another geezer just died. And everybody is doing that "empathy" schtick for virtual validation.
Not me. Idc

>>25620734
Damn that sucks. Not me though, I'm gonna live forever.

spasibo!

>>25620734
I don't watch English-speaking/Anglo media so I don't really care much, but I have condolences for his family.

>>25620724
>Resorts to parroting
I'm disappointed in (You)

You know what? You know what?
I think we can all use a little mental break from all this 'off our meds and cynically attacking reality indiscriminately from all directions' thing.
I want everyone here to write at least one single post coming from a personal perspective of comfort or joy or appreciation, that involves a personal experience and possibly one example of a personal sense.
Here, I'll start

I love the way olive oil and garlic heats up in a hot pan. Before you even add anything else, it fills the room with a smell of comfort and savoriness that turns the entire cooking experience into a matter of foreplay and mood-creating for the whole house. Right now I'm imagining placing a butterflied chicken breast, in there. Probably wouldn't need much more than salt and pepper, on all that.

>>25620603
Women with big noses are super hot and I will die on this hill.

>>25620734
There's like a million old geezers dying every day, you're gonna have to be more specific.

>>25620734
>>25620766
looked it up, it's Patrick Stewart. expect hella reddit virtue signaling today

>>25620749
>i further my point that slop has become an internet neologism suffix
>you come back with non sequitur about being mad
you're not equipped for dialogue progression, so we'll leave it there

>>25620603
Omg! I’m still on my watch till anon loses vigilance so that I can sneak in Gryffincorg Edition, but this OP is perfect!

>>25620777
You started the dumbest argument in human history, not me. I don't feel the need to go balls-to-the-wall with this.

>>25620774
I know him but I don't care. And I've watched X-Men and Star Trek.

>>25620782
no need for balls to the wall. Basic counterargument will do.

damn these US Army commercials are effective. i just signed up!

>>25620788
Unmmmm... I'd really rather prefer it if you just blew your brains out now and never (You)'d me ever again, k? Thnx

>>25620755
I like it when it drizzles. I think it feels like a bunch of little kisses on my face.
The apple tree in our driveway is tiny and the apples it grows are also tiny, but they're so sweet and crunchy. When I look out the window and see the little apple tree and all the little apples, I think "what a wonderful thing, that I have such tasty apples so close by".
And when I wake up, and my cat is laying next to me, and all stretched out and comfortable, I think, "I'm so happy that he feels safe next to me".

>>25620790
MATT BOMER FROM WHITE COLLAR?

>>25620794
That's wonderful!

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>>25620803
wtf you hacked my shit

I hate that I'm attracted to Jewish girls so much

>>25620793
you sound mad. Telling people to kill themselves even over the internet is a bad, bad thing. Hopefully you can fix yourself.

>>25620810
Jewish girls only look good when they're some giga mutt descendant from Europeans who converted 500 years ago, actual Israelis are absolutely hideous.

>>25620808
I unironically think he looks creepy. He looks like if a robot designed a handsome guy to infiltrate humanity. Uncanny.

>>25620817
Flash photography will do that

>>25620787
>I know him but I don't care.
Nobody besides close family really cares. But that doesnt stop people from acting like it

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>>25620817
I guess I can understand that. I'd still murder you and your pets to look like him though. No offense.

>>25620823
>at doesnt stop people from acting like it
Eh, I'm sure there's some guy who grew up with the X-Men movies and watched them with his dead family member or something, who's genuinely sad now.

>>25620824
None taken.

>>25620823
Watching the people you used to watch as a kid die from old age is a crippling reminder that we're getting older.

>>25620834
For me personally, it's seeing hot actresses who are of legal age but were born later than me.

>>25620840
lol me too

>born. 2002
O_O

>>25620841
I've jerked off to Dafne Keen's nudes, and that woman was born in 2005; I still remember what I got for my birthday that year, shit's crazy.

fuck it, I'm chickening out, I'll ask her out next week
>inb4 she finds a bf on halloween

Heavy weight closes my dry eyes, they fight to open again, they are all I can feel on my face, they must be black. It’s too early, grab a tea to multiply the coffees effective affects. Maybe I’ve been staring at screens too long, maybe I didn’t sleep long enough, or maybe too long, it’s been too long. Too long. Long is relative. Wrongs are relative. It’s wrong to long for a relative. The theory of relativity.

>>25620616
This poster suck elephant dick

I want to go to the library to read but it's about to start raining. damn

>>25620856
grim

Why do nerds get so BTFO when I say Lovecraft is shitty?

>>25620877
>Little bitch nigga can't walk in the rain
Why? You made of salt and milk chocolate or something? Pussy bitch ass wimp afraid of a lil' wa-wa?

I want everyone who thinks an argument on 4chan is a big, deal serious big boy srs business ordeal killed.

>>25620878
I lost the ability. The anxiety I feel in my nerves as I try to work up the courage to say something, anything, to a woman, is overpowering.

>>25620877
I like walking in the rain

>>25620603
Indifferent to the genius of a place, the Arian-German is likewise indifferent to nationalities, harboring neither love nor hatred for them—save insofar as the environments from which they emerge relate to his own person. At first glance, he views all strangers—even those of his own people—in much the same light; and, setting aside the superiority he arrogates to himself, as well as a certain partiality toward his own kin, he remains largely free of innate prejudices against those he encounters, no matter how distant the lands from which they may have come. Thus, should they demonstrate genuine merit, he will not hesitate to acknowledge its value.

So did Gobineau win and what was his endgame?

>the Arian-German
>Arian
Stopped reading right there.

I have a new policy proposal, it's called reverse reparations. Sometimes suggested my leftist and black academics is the idea white people in the United States should compensate blacks for the atrocity of slavery. I say, hogwash! For it was white people who not only ended slavery, but died fighting to end it. Instead, black Americans should compensate white Americans for the freedoms and benefits of civil society they now enjoy.

>>25620658
Very Poirot move. Here is my card, mademoiselle.

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>>25620755
>>25620794
This is so nice, Anon!

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>>25620794
>And when I wake up, and my cat is laying next to me, and all stretched out and comfortable, I think, "I'm so happy that he feels safe next to me".
yes

It’s kind of a pinging submarine echolocation sound that rings back into me across distant inland ocean shores, doc, it’s driving me crazy

>>25620935
Interestingly enough it was only the Saxon-black societies that actually achieved real social revolutions, rather than the mere abolishment of the colonial order or the complete return towards African barbary. But it's the truth, South Africa didn't just abolish apartheid, it went through a real social revolution, and the same can be said about the American South. Gobineau would have found the explanation in the Anglo-Saxon variety of the white is more actually Aryan and thus still capable of social renewal compared to the crippled continentards of the white race.

>>25620945
Pay up, mister! What is your pleasant sensory perception!?

Anyone else here giving out candy for Halloween? I'll be reading a book right next to my front door for a few hours on Saturday evening.

>>25620958
No, I'm not American

>>25620958
No I'm actually going to Gods of Chaos Haloween in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom to nuke the building with DJ Smokey so meet me there and we'll make your eardrums bleed

>>25620965
>we'll make your eardrums bleed
n-no th-thank you!

>>25620958
Yes, I actually decorated outside this time.

I will have no children

>>25620953
Ugh, I don’t have many of these to be honest. Maybe to craft something as I watch something else. It doesn’t kick in every time, and feels the best of course when I start something new. However, it’s difficult to describe, it feels like completely switching off from reality. My hands are busy, and my mind is busy, nothing that’s to do with real life problems can reach me there. It feels very relaxing.

>>25620603
Any other anons garbage at their job, how do you cope?

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>>25620958
I wish I could wear costume and go trick or treating.

Working in a grocery store you observe and interact with the best and the worst of people in a relatively inconsequential setting. It can be pretty educational and character building if you're antisocial and sensitive to the actions of others. I don't recommend it for more than a year though.

>>25620635
Fourth post is the best post.

>>25621035
Retail is the worst, most spiritually dead, soul-sucking fucking work on earth. Get out while you still can.

I miss you.

>>25621045
I'm going to kill you.

>>25621040
I'm already ambitionless. I left school at 17 to window clean due to religious influence, commuting at 3 in the morning for a few years. Went from good looking to fat. I fucked up going into graphic design just before the event horizon of ai. My best friend was not. I am retarded and I am still pretty convinced an angel will cut off my head with a sword at armageddon for jerking off and squandering time that could be spent preaching.

>>25621063
>Despairing of salvation
Stop that. Right now. His grace is SUFFICIENT FOR YOU.

>>25620958
Yup, every year. I live in Germany, so not a lot of kids come by, but I grew up in America. Not giving out candy just doesn't feel right.

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>>25621089 >>25621095 >>25621711

>>25620603
Sometimes when I come home I don't even bother to turn the lights on.

>>25621081
it's a doggy dog world, ray

>>25621081
I dont even bother going home.

I think my paranoia is making me a bad person.

Mom emailed me saying it was something urgent and to contact her ASAP.
When I did I got no response for only a single day.
From that time I went from worried to resentful thinking she was playing some sort of mind games and being manipulative.

When she finally got back to me she explained she was panicked over a scam call saying it was me (it wasn't) and begging her for money. Thus I feel like a total asshole for suspecting her when she did nothing wrong, and was just double checking that I was actually alright and not injured like the scammer said I was.

I hate that I default to expecting the worst from people, even my mom.
I also hate scammers so much. Dickheads need to leave my mom alone and keep my name out of their fucking mouth.

>>25621109
call me crazy radical but I think it's a symptom of self hatred and depression

>>25621115
Possible.

>>25621049
His exactly do you plan to do that?

>>25621146
:^)

>>25621148
Fuck I meant ‘how’ :(

>>25621156
Just log off dude, aint no way you're ever going to recuperate all that Aura you just lost

I wish I grew up with a real mother or father. My grandmother has severe depression and likes to read, and I may be forced to stay with her as I have nowhere to go. I am 27 now, and the last time I saw her was at 7, so it has been a long time. Just the thought of having someone I can behave normally towards, who I have not been forced to create a persona to entertain, gives me a certain level of excitement. It spirals until I think deranged things like hugging or lying in bed with my grandmother and being able to enjoy human company. But I doubt it. I am probably clinically insane. She would think I am ridiculous. I will be a mask.

>>25621168
>27
>lying in bed with my grandma
nigga what. Get a job.

Meeting you changed me.

lads, I might need some help

>>25621205
There is always help at Hogwarts to whoever whom should may need it or something like that

>>25621203
I highly fucking doubt that

>>25621199
But gramgrams...

>>25621210
thanks, that helped me

I’m not looking for thrills anymore. I’m looking for basic comfort that’s how bad it is.

>>25621230
that's just the way of things. you can't go back

>>25621230
You'll soon be priced out of basic comfort. It's all by design of course.

>>25621241
why?

>>25621247
We're going into a techno fuedalism kind of future.

>>25621251
the peasantry of old did have basic comforts.

>>25621264
No they didn't. Unless you consider "huddling in a shit-lined hut with my farm animals in the same room to avoid freezing death during winter" a "basic comfort" you fucking fool.

>>25621214
Why?

>>25621310
Because you're a narcissistic thieving whore at heart.

>>25621322
You clearly have me confused with someone else. Seek help.

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>>25621294
That's just the modern caricature of the medieval peasant, though. Did your study of the subject not extend beyond watching Monty Python?

>>25621362
Dumb tranny

>>25621371
no you

There are so many things that I want to talk to you about.

>>25621391
well, I'm here. So, talk.

>>25621391
Shut up, faggot. Fuck off already. Your AIDS infected boyfriend is never coming back ever. Get over it, tranny.

I'm getting into Arthurian legends. is The Once and Future King a place to start?

>>25621391
Is it true that you engage in masturbation with the male poo organ? That is disgusting.

>>25621396
How do I know it’s you?

>>25621513
Do you not trust me?

>>25620603
28, applying for master's. Will be 29 when I start, 30 when I finish. I finished my undergrad 2 years ago (started late - running theme). Was at a top 5 uni, got a First (UK - highest grade); rejected from Oxford. Have sulked for the past 2 years, now applying to lesser unis. I am so pathetic.

>>25621400
Horrible post.

>>25620977
based

>>25621592
Assuming it’s actually you, then no, not really.

>>25621640
>assuming
Well, it is me. Please just talk to me; you said you had a lot on your mind?

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Watching a movie that deals with suicide sure is a vibe when those chronic suicidal ideations be lurking

>>25621644
If it’s really you then tell me something that only you would know.

Are there meant to be rules about who you can pray for? About the circumstances of praying for people? About who can pray for others? Do the prayers of a degenerate sinner reach God? I'm a giant pervert but I still believe in God, so I pray for others. Recently it was for a hentai artist who got diagnosed with leukemia. I wouldn't even know who he was if I wasn't a huge degenerate. What kind of situation is this...

>>25621688
No, you can pray for literally anyone

>>25620603
No.
>>25621081
Hey, i did that once - along time agoo

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My reading list for my novel Becoming Aquatic which I begin on October 31st:

Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes - Andy Lamb
Pacific Seaweeds by Louis Druehl
The Salish Sea: Jewel of the Pacific Northwest - Audrey DeLella Benedict
Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound - David B. Williams
The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess
Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher - Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck
Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World - Craig Foster
Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization - Eileen Crist
Poetics of Relation - Glissant, Edouard
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects - Joanna Macy
The Myth of Human Supremacy - Derrick Jensen
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered - Bill Devall and George Sessions
World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal - Joanna Macy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson
The Spell of the Sensuous - David Abram
Nature and Madness - Paul Shepard
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David Wengrow
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard

>>25621035
I worked at Toys R Us one Christmas season. Dated a few of the girls. Good times.

I just crossed paths twice with my ex situationship after she left me out of the blue. It's been like a month or so and I knew the moment was going to come. We didnt exchange any words. It did of course make a small emotional impact and I felt a bit hurt but at the same time I'm glad to be over it. I don't know, she treated me very badly and I wouldn't want to go back with her but at the same time there's a small part of me that wishes she would reach out and mend things. I don't think she cares at all though and she has probably mostly forgotten about my existence. Anyways, I'm just processing this feeling and I will use this thread as emotional toilet paper. I just really want to stop being a little bitch when it comes to emotional stuff

>>25621761
As in you read those for inspiration and incorporation, or those are required reading before anyone reads your novel?

>>25621796
Inspiration and incorporation.

>>25621802
I appreciate the dedication but don't let it become an excuse to procrastinate!

>>25621805
This isn't my first rodeo, I have completed several large creative projects, giving them the utmost dedication. The novel will be written.

>>25621814
In which case, best of luck! I look forward to your novel.

I ate an expired Snickers bar and now I don't feel so good.

Feeling like jumping off the window

>>25621829
Do it so long as you aim indoors lol

>>25621829
and into the pool because it's a beautiful summers day and my friends are down below grilling burgers and there's hot babes in the pool too cheering me on.

One time in middle school, as we were all writing in each other's yearbooks at the end of the year, there was one particular really cool and nice guy whom I wrote in his,
>One of the greatest guys I ever met.
And I was entirely sincere. When he saw it, he said to me,
>Really? That's it? I bet you wrote that in tons of people's.
But I didn't ;_; it was supposed to be the highest praise I could offer

>>25621872
one guy drew a flying winged pig in mine

>>25621872
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

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>>25620634
Neology is not for everyone.

Within the next two years, I'm most likely gonna lose one of my front-10 teeth. When that happens, I will consider killing myself. Yes, I know getting a tooth implant is an option, and I will certainly try and borrow some money to do it, but nevertheless.

Some of my friends are fucking retards

>>25621944
are the retards able to consent?

>>25621944
What's wrong with that?

me: European intellectual academic
searching for: room to rent, preferably single mother with young daughter

-HH

I'm gonna tickle your ass
with my tongue

I haven’t seen insomniac Anon posting in a while. Are you feeling better or just struggle silently now?

That sensory perception thing made me realize that I don’t really enjoy being alive. All I like about it is when I happened to successfully distract myself from life.

>>25621944
A retard in motion is better than a genius at rest.

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Gonna start studying 5-7 hours a day.

i only buy german beer and french wine. i cant drink american pisswater unless it comes from some hipster in portland or seattle. coors and miller taste like literal piss and salt water to me. german beer tastes like real beer and no off flavors, no preservatives. what are those guys doing that these americans aren't?

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How the fuck do you describe a college town (massive land with multiple buildings pertaining to or facilitating a college and its subjects) without calling it a college town? My mind takes me to browsing around terms for factories or industrial zones for something snappy and I'm coming up short.
>pic related

>>25622019
Diploma (mill) town.
I mean, how short does it have to be? Are there more requirements?

>>25622034
Basically I'm trying to convey that this place is 100% owned by the college and everything is a part of that institution. An equivalent to the whole 'prison planet' shtick sci-fi has going for it. I was hoping there would be either a term or a few components of language to accurately convey the idea without just bluntly writing it out.

>>25622011
The German beer purity law of 1516?

>>25622019
You could mention that the town becomes crowded during terms and deserted on students’ breaks. Professorly looking people around the town too, like many of them.

Watched Hana Bi after listening to the soundtrack for a decade. The art scenes are very pure and beautiful. Takeshi Kitano is amazing and refreshing. I need to create

I'm nothing more than a fat fucking Jew.

>>25622068
you said that already, annoying

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>>25622068
Nope, you are cute chubby Jew

I’m having some coffee, now it’s ‘small’ (allegedly espresso) with one spoon of sugar because apparently I’m not that cool and A S S T H E T I C to have it back.

archimedean

It's so fucking cold.

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>>25622103 >>25622176

>>25622096
Go under the blankie!

>>25622101
I gave my scarf to a homeless man once
I think he wanted money instead

>>25622103
Homeless guy here, I jacked off into it a few times then lost it while skinny dipping in the fountain for a free bath. Shame because it felt good on my callus nutsack.

>>25622103
Scarf made of money will do. But you'll have to set it on fire for him.

Gonna start jerking off 5-7 hours a day.

>>25622112
-2 hours a day? How do you anti-jack or unjack it to add an additional 2 hours of not jacking off to your day?

What's with all the lesbians. Is it because halloween?

‘Running down a dream’ by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers except it’s about yuppies trying to hit people’s aspirations with their car

>>25622121
You got my attention. What’s up with them?

>>25621681
Like your name?

>>25622144
their hair is up, their pants are low, they look like they're gonna make a move

>>25622101
I came to the gym instead. I WILL defeat the world and cum inside its still warm cadaver

>>25622036
Campus colony?

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>>25622174
Aren’t they always like that?

You know, once you establish that from now on you and your friends talk in lovey-dovey free manner, it’s probably worth sticking with ツ

What does /lit/ think about Crowley? I’m going to start reading him today finally,

>>25622271
scam artist

>>25622274
So a jeet in white skin?

>>25622271
>Born to religious fundamentalists
>Mother calls him the Beast and hates him
>Father dies of cancer
>Inherits 1/3 of his father's wealth at 11
>Fucks around having sex at Cambridge and drops out
>Ends up making a religion about sex and the occult
I think it's a tale as old as time.

>>25622285
a jew

>>25622009
good luck

I've got a fat fucking cock

>>25622366
mine's bent

Remember those "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" commercials? Good times. Just got reminded because they're using the same actors for Ozempic ads now on Prime.

When did this board die? There is no worthwhile discussion currently happening in any thread. Nobody seems to know anything.

I've never been into poetry, where do I start?

>>25622409
with a random book of poetry that you don't care about, and see if it sparks anything, however rudimentary; and then with a history of poetry; and then with whatever took your fancy from that history

>>25622390
It has literally deserted over two last threads. Anon denies that, but something has happened. Maybe everyone is in a crunch working on their Halloween costumes?

>>25622419
Over last two threads? Do you mean days? Weeks? Months? Years?

If I pee up my lovers butt, is it really a pee?

>>25622420
Previously people would spam up /wyt/ in a day or so, but previous was going for a few days.

Eventually they will realize that I am a fraud and will kick me out.

>>25622419
>>25622428
Please answer me honestly, where are you from, what general area of the world? Or are you a bot? I'm starting to go mad over here, so many posts I see are borderline nonsensical. Am I talking to robots? Am I feeding someone's pet AI project? Sorry if this is rude.

For years I’ve found porn pictures to be intensely powerful whenever the woman is staring directly at the viewer; I feel that kind of image really tricks the brain into thinking what it’s seeing is really happening in real time even though it’s a still image. Eye contact is just that powerful.

You guys realize that a huge two night celebration of Halloween starts tonight? You should be checking all your neighbor bars/other community spots to know what they have planned for Halloween as well as the best parties and events and happening going on in driving distance. If you live in an area of +500k there is a big neighborhood party that was organized within a few miles of you

>>25622433
Literally who cares

>>25622413
I mostly want to learn how to write poetry, I guess I'd pick up things from reading poetry. The /lit/ wiki seems down so I'll have to start with the most well known ones like T.S Eliot o algo.

The poetry I would like to write would be addressed to family, I think it would be nice to write something for their birthday. I've done it a couple times for my wife and she seemed to like it. I'm not very expressive usually so I get to really say what I want trough t a poem.

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>>25622430
Eastern Europe

>>25622434
Literally who doesn't?

>>25622437
Makes sense. Well that's okay then.

>>25622440
> Makes sense.
What do you mean?

>>25622439
Me, and every other sane person I can imagine, apparently.

Super

>>25622433
I think it’s like being online on Christmas or something, you would expect everyone to be out of their computer celebrating. Maybe not the case anymore given how glued up everyone with their devices.

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>>25622444
What's the problem with you? Literally you're are the only person on the planet that doesn't care

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>>25622419
>It has literally deserted over two last threads. Anon denies that,
I think it's just early morning UTC.

I only have two clean boxers left but too lazy to do laundry. fuuug

>>25622442
Awkward (generally speaking) grammar. Ever since that thread a few days ago about a new type of not-quite-English infiltrating this board, I've noticed it more and more; I'm paranoid that I'm speaking to bots.

>>25622433
Nothing happens at Halloween where I live because of Catholic stigma

>>25622448
Our entire population? Bait, I suppose.

>>25622447
There a regular poster in Australia like that, every time he goes out he has to keep talking to us for moral support or to make it looks like he has friends when he's standing alone at the bar not talking to anyone. But yeah, tonight and tomorrow night are the two best nights of the year to go out and meet people. Would be cool to see the resident /lit/ recluses actually go out and try to meet people and post here with their progress

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>>25622453
I try my best. However, I’m genuinely crappy at composing complex sentences, and my syntax is close to random. At some point I tried to put in some effort, but my laziness took the best off me.

>>25622450
Are you mod or something?

I can't go out for Halloween, I already agreed to hand out candy!!

>>25622465
>took the best off me

>>25622465
S'all good man. In real life I, as with virtually every other English speaker, have no problem with second language English speakers. Generally, unlike the French, I/we find it endearing. But it can be really abrasive online, for some reason. And of course there's the worry I'm talking to a bot.

>>25622455
I'm a Catholic in a heavy Catholic area and we literally carry Halloween. Halloween is basically a Catholic Holiday here, every church celebrates it. The two biggest Halloween neighborhood parties by me are right behind two Catholic churches. It's perfect for Catholics because we have all the gothic tradition but also because it's the eve of All Saints Day. Just like Catholic areas party on Fat Tuesday before Ash Wed, same with Halloween and All Saints Day

But there is a movement among non-denominational and Baptist churches to cancel Halloween and replace it with muh feels Harvest Fests and Fall Fests and pumpkin patches. We all love those too but don't cancel Horror Night & Costume Night just because you don't like the genre

>>25622467
God no, it's just 4stats.io.

>>25622475
do you want to be a mod, though?
We could really use someone like you on the team!

>>25622476
I'll do it for £1 an hour, every hour. (That's £24 a day.)

>>25622471
Fun fun: a while ago I got this idea of dipping my toes in writing, specifically in English. Probably I should become more serious with my reading-for-writing if I want to keep going.

>>25622482
Just digest a textbook on English grammar. (Will also give you the ability to teach English online.)

>>25622472
What country are you in?

>>25622468
Kids will be done by 9pm, other than stragglers. Usually 7-9pm is your best time to go out but on Fri & Sat night of Halloween it's going to be 7-11pm. So as soon as 9pm hit, lock up and take the candy operation out to the party. Before then you can start messing with the kids until you just start tossing a>>25622468
handful of candy at their face as soon as they walk up: SPLAT in one kids face. Hey! SPLAT in the other kids face: "Now get moving I'm trying to get out here and enjoy my Halloween too"

>>25622409
If you say what kind of things you like to read now people can give you better advice. If sampling different prose authors is like listening to different sorts of music then maybe reading different poets is like trying different food -- people have stronger reactions to food they don't like and often have narrower preferences in food vs being generally more accepting of different music and having broader taste in music.

One poem that is almost universally liked and respected and which is also important to the history of literature is Paradise Lost by Milton. Less universally liked but almost as important and much freer and human in feel is Leaves of Grass by Whitman. Weaker poetically and in influence but full of iconoclastic meaning and mission is William Blake, where for a first work probably you read Innocent and Experience -- which is also much shorter than the other two.

I'll stop with those three. There are a lot of poets people on this board would feel it is insane to skip over to get to Whitman or Blake. There is a lot of poetry that's closer to us in time that would maybe be a much easier start than those three. But I think everyone who is well read as far as English literature goes should have absolutely unquestionably have read those three works, even if they hated them, so they are safe recommendations in that regard. Maybe especially Milton.

>>25622484
USA obviously, the country that invented Modern Halloween, so it goes with our patriotic duty too as Halloween is a national holiday here. Every shop or store has Halloween stuff all Oct, every home, school, business and church celebrates Halloween except the non-denominational and Baptist ones but they still give out candy if you go by. They just have a normal kids fair other than that with bounce houses and such

>>25622491
Do mutts make a distinction between shop and store? Are they different facilities? We don't have any 'stores' in merry old England.

>>25622480
That's a deal!
If you just go ahead and drop your contact information as well as your account and registration numbers in your next post and I'll get you added to our system. Thanks!

>>25622485
>SPL*T in one kids face. Hey! SPL*T in the other kids face:
wtf get help creep!

>>25622492
I did add store to imply everything on up to CVS and Walgreen chain drug stores on every corner on up to Walmart
But if you're not a poor fag you support your local mom and pop shops and every city and town has whole strips of those that throw great Halloween events. That should be one of your main targets when checking your area to see all the parties

>>25622491
Well I'm Italian and for some reason Halloween is not really as celebrated as in other countries, even if we're overwhelmingly Catholic. I don't think I've ever seen decorations outside.

>>25622498
It's being celebrated hard in the Celtic countries. Northern Ireland claims to have European biggest Halloween festival and Edinburgh has the legendary Celtic fire festival

>>25622495
Sure thing, anything else you'd like to know? The size of my cranium, number of sexual partners (ranked), views on human-animal cohabitation? Much else besides, too, I imagine; I've just listed the obvious.

>>25622497
So, "yes", interesting: a store is anything larger than a local shop.

>>25622504
Not necessarily because the phrase "going to the store" is so common now it just means "going shopping, going to run errands"
But yes in general "shop" means a mom & pop while "store" implies a corporate chain. There are always exceptions like Bill's Dry Goods Store out in some Western town in Wyoming or something

>>25622503
>anything else you'd like to know
Just as much as you're comfortable sharing, really. The more I have to work with, the smoother the onboarding process will be. The only thing I NEED to know, though, is penis size. Preferably in centimeters, but I am able to make the unit conversion on my end if you only have it in inches.

I also forgot to ask: Do you mind if we pay you in USD? With the going exchange rate that would be 1.34 USD per day.
Let me know, thanks!

>>25622509
I'll have to have a think re: penis size. I've masturbated mine into more of a "pulp", see; I'm not sure how I would go about measuring it. I will try to provide an illustrated diagram. I'll get back to you.
Yes payment in USD is fine, my bank (details to follow) will handle the conversion.

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>>25622509
Should’ve asked feet picture, just for human resources

>>25622516
No use, I don't have any of those.

>>25622492
It's not a hard line thing, but generally in the US a shop is a smaller, more specialized thing and a store is a bigger more generalized place to buy stuff. There are also certain phrases that only really take one word out the other. Like you would always say "I'm going to the store" rather than "I'm going to the shop" even if the place you are going to is 100% a shop (small, privately owned place selling books or coffee) rather than 100% a store (Walmart). In fact, "I'm going to the shop" in America actually probably means "I'm going to the place where I make and assemble furniture, do welding, or work on cars for income" more often than it means you plan to buy something, unless the American saying it was recently watching a bunch of British TV or something.

Also it may vary regionally, maybe there is some part of the US where they call everything a shop or whatever and I just have forgotten to consider that. I speak what's considered the most standard sort of American English though so you shouldn't find overwhelming disagreement about what I've said in this post.

Lastly there are giant places selling many different things in the US that have "shop" included in their name. A lot of musicians traveling through the US from Australia seem to love to to Bass Pro Shop and get one of their logo hats to take home. A Bass Pro Shop is the size of a Tesco at least and sells everything from guns to fishing rods to small boats to clothing to charcoal grills, anything remotely related to outdoor activities. The "shop" in their name is meant to allude to them being specialized and to call a kind of small country sweetness to mind, which is something outdoor enthusiasts are fond of as a demographic. So it's called Bass Pro Shop, but everyone knows it's 100% a store, not a shop. 100% some B tier comedian has a bit about exactly that.

>>25622525
Interesting, thanks.

>>25622514
That sounds just fine, Jasper, I'll await your next post.

re the state of your penis: f it has taken on more of a liquid form, you could just measure its viscosity (in cP, please) and I'm sure the egg heads at corporate would be able to work with that ;-)

>>25622498
American holidays get picked up to varying degrees in other countries, but I will say that while nobody cares about Christmas in Asia a lot of countries there do a bit of stuff for Halloween. They like the costumes, even if they don't decorate their yard or do the candy thing.

In the US most of our holidays are a thing you do with family. Only really St Patrick's Day and Halloween stop being holidays if they aren't celebrated with the community. Even New Year's you can just do in the house with your family, but Halloween isn't Halloween if you don't give kids candy or go out to a bar, same with St Patrick's. You have to leave the house or people have to come to your house if you're going to participate.

Halloween is good because the community aspect and slight expectation that you be impish rather than strictly nice makes it fairly unique, especially here where we don't usually interact with our community and are generally supposed to be somewhat upright and rigid when we do.

>>25622527
Just wanted to add that the advertising sense of shop vs store works both ways. You might call your book selling business a "book shop" if you are trying to impress upon people that it is cute, cozy, specialized, friendly. You might call it a "book store" if it is large, covers many subjects, also includes a coffee counter, has lots of free parking out front. The second phrase is more common here than the first and is more normal, but that's pretty much the difference in the feel of those words to an American. A girl is more likely to put pictures of her visit to a shop on her Pinterest page than she would of a store.

>>25622538
I’m a bit envious. In my area the closest equivalent of that happens on Christmas eve - kids go out, sing carols and get candy and money. Some even go as far as wearing costumes, though they are usually traditional characters. When I was a kid I would normally go to grandmas and aunt/uncle’s houses, but some do that randomly around strangers houses. Once I witnessed kids successfully caroling at a cafe, and a fairly posh one to mention, smart move on their part.
We don’t really have Halloween as a tradition, it’s rather something people adopted from the West to boost up the business on the occasion. Fun observation - there isn’t many Jack-o-lanterns here, it’s mostly whole pumpkins used as a decor. I feel like people probably cannot stomach wasting an entire pumpkin merely for decoration, so these will be happily repurposed on November 1 :D

Trichilocosm

>>25622501
It's Celtic New Year, they basically invented Halloween. The US commercial version takes a lot of the Irish and Scottish versions (the laterns in pumpkins/turnips, the going house to house dressed as scary things to demand treats, or to play a trick on people who are too antisocial to have sweets) but don't adopt a lot of the stuff like barm brack that tells your future (a fruitcake loaf with tokens in it which tell you if you get married or rich or poor depending on what gets in your slice) and it's 50/50 if they do a lot of the party games (like bobbing for apples)

>>25622558
The house my family lived in the longest was, when we moved into it, in a neighborhood full of kids. My dad fucking loved getting candy and sitting by the door and handing out candy to the kids and chatting with them briefly while their parents looked on happily in the background. Over time the neighborhood grew older and the kids disappeared out of it, so by the time he retired he would still be sitting in a chair over by the door with the porch light on (you turn on the light to let kids know you are participating, if the light is off you cannot expect to get candy at that house) but only one or two groups of kids would come by which he would be disappointed about.

A few times when I was a kid we went trick or treating (you have to say "Trick or treat!" when they open the door to initiate the candy getting ceremony) with friends. One year when out with my friends mom we went by a house of some people she didn't get along with. She had brought a bag of popcorn kernels and gave it to us to sprinkle around on her door step and sidewalk to express that she didn't like them in a non-damaging way. Traditionally teenagers have aged out of being able to get candy on the holiday, so they celebrate it with similar acts of mild vandalism, such as smashing up people's jack o lanterns or throwing toilet paper rolls over the trees in their yard ("toilet papering") to make a mess that the owners will have to clean up, plus it's destructive and therefore implicitly fun.

I also had the good fortune to live in one of NYC's Chinatowns for a while. Lots of Chinese rather than English signage, restaurants by Chinese for Chinese, that kind of place. The kids there came from parents who weren't born in the US but these kids grew up as American as I did, with their parents making the extreme kind of effort and sacrifice it takes to afford to raise a family at NYC prices. Halloween was a bit of a conundrum for them because their parents didn't really give a shit about it or understand it, nor were there private homes in the area to trick or treat at (it was all apartments or businesses). The solution was to gather a group of people around the one kid whose parents had sprung for a mask or a minimal costume, put him in the front, and then go to businesses in the area and trick or treat that way. So you had these herds if visibly Chinese kids speaking excited NYC accented English to each other, only one of them in costume but all of them with bags, who would all yell "Trick or treat!" together and all get candy for it. The people running the shops that day were the younger generation of the families that operated them -- even if Dad usually manned the register on Halloween it was the son that was up there because he was raised in NYC like these kids were, and he understood what Halloween was like for them -- they weren't going to hassle the kids without a costume about it because they were those kids, or their friends were.

>>25622605
Around Louisiana there's a tradition where a small plastic baby is baked into a cake that is eaten around Fat Tuesday sometime, in forget exactly when. If you get the slice of cake with the baby in it you'll be the next person at the party to conceive. In practice that means you monitor whether the baby has shown up yet or not and people stop eating the cake when it's getting down to just a few baby having slices left. But that tradition is unique to that area as far as the US goes, as far as I'm aware.

This lady from my insurance has had me on hold for a while, I'm starting to worry!

>>25622678
They said their system is frozen and to call back in a couple hours, wtf

>>25622684
Cold, unsentimental Wanda, Queen of the frozen wastes. Lucky you!

I want a burger with fries

>>25622645
I think both of those traditions rely on Catholic marriage/life being the norm, eg the odds in the barm brack tokens are weighed heavily towards you'll marry and be poor/beaten, which is pretty good guess for Catholic Ireland when the tradition started. It also explains why it's rarer and rarer to have the token for going into a religious order within the year in the brack, as taking vows became rarer in general society.
I'd assume Louisiana's French Catholic background has a lot to do with the babymaking cake.

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A big boobied, curvy, well-dressed woman who was setting up for a seminar at my church where I work got all close up to me and started playing with her hair as soon as I entered the room and said hello to me, she smelled nice and admittedly, had a wonderful physique but she had a big forehead and I didn't like that she wore glasses, I was polite and short with my interaction with her and dutifully went about my work. She closed the door to the room she was using and I never saw her again.

I think about that pretty often. Autism is fucking hell. I'm too picky for my own good, she had a sincerely fuckable, pleasantly thicc body.

Maybe I'm gay and I just don't realize it...

>>25622645
> a small plastic baby is baked into a cake
You mean not literally baked, but places between layers? And also, does that cake only get eaten by women?

>>25622733
>Big forehead
>Glasses
You dodged a bullet bucko.

>>25622744
pls, lasik and bangs and anon would be married with three fivehead kids

>>25622739
No it gets mixed in with the batter and then baked. The inside of the cake doesn't get as hot as the oven and before you bake it you try to center the baby in its part of the ring shaped mold usually used for these cakes. Maybe they sell special food safe plastic babies for this purpose these days, maybe they used to use a coin or something else in the old days before there were plastic babies. All that I don't know.

If a man gets the baby then he will be the next person at the party to conceive a baby. Conception is a two party activity.

>>25622724
All seems reasonable to me. It's also probably limited to a specific group of people in Louisiana. I don't have all the details as I'm not from there, this is how it was explained to me by someone from there at a party in Las Vegas where they had brought the traditional baby cake along with them.

There are a lot of people from the New Orleans area who have relocated to Vegas, which is maybe not a surprise.

I just saw in a commercial for detergent you're supposed to use cold water for laundry. My mother always said cold was for delicate clothes like her woman's clothes, so for mine I should do warm. Thoughts? I started a load right now and did warm because I included a smelly towel in it.

>>25622765
In Ireland they usually only sell the barm brack with a ring because of food safety laws where they're concerned people might swallow the other tokens/be allergic to the tokens. It's stuff like a rag and bean and stick, so apparently the ring was the only thing that didn't count as a big enough choking risk. Homemade cakes still include the other tokens if you want to put them in, but I don't think I've ever seen or heard of plastic tokens.

I want to give in and eat now. But really I want hold out until the day is over and eat then. Can't make progress if you keep postponing things to tomorrow :/

>>25622798
Some detergents are formulated for specific temperatures, but unless you're using an enzymatic one designed to get blood or other protein stains out (which are expensive and have to be sought out specifically, you won't have an enzymatic detergent you're using by accident) you can use any detergent at any temp.

The hotter you wash/dry the more colors will fade and the more things shrink. In general I wash all of my clothes cold and dry on medium heat. Bedding and towels I do separately with a hot wash and hot dry, as the hot water does obviously clean better and the hot dry does obviously get them dry faster.

>>25622829
I see. I guess I'll start trying out cold, thanks. I think the reason my mother recommended warm was because, since I don't sweat much, I have a habit of wearing shirts multiple times before washing them. And yeah, normally I'd do towels separately, but this one was particularly smelly and I don't have enough dirty towels for its own load afterwards, so figured I'd just toss it in with my shirts, socks, and boxers. Anyway, thanks.

>>25622798
You shall watch that old English lady that gives laundry advice on tiktok/yt.

>>25622835
Moms often wash hot because they have kids and not a bunch of spare time for laundry. If you throw some shit streaked underoos in with the teenage daughters period panties and some mud caked jeans you just want it to all come out clean and not have to examine and care for each thing individually, so you just crank it to hot and hope to not have to redo it. After years of doing this they worry that maybe cold won't really get the clothes clean. Cold works fine for everyday clothes laundry, I promise you.

>>25622851
Noted, thanks.

>>25620603
For those who hate the gods, very well, I will speak your language: get your head around the fact you are not under surveillance. You are not being graded. Your life is your life, even your wholehearted mistakes are better than your wringing your hands wondering when and how to jump. If you die, you will come back. Yet please don’t die, people love you. Don’t leave your babies to be raised by other men and electric screens. The last great superstition for you to overcome is that there is no truth: you know this is a lie, and you’re only hurting yourself. You think keeping your head in a stopped up sink will get you ice cream? I know you’ll be out gasping for air in 30 seconds, and then cry and run to your room and kick your teddy bear and pout. You better behave yourself. We raised you better than this. You think this is a contradiction? You’ve obviously never woken up to the fact that you must be your own dad.

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>friend is going to canada
>said he can get something for me since he'll be there during black friday
>check items my (third world) country has and compare prices with canada's
>they're almost the same with the currency conversion
I'll have to pay him back anyways, what is the point in getting anything from there at this point

>>25622864
Noted, thanks.

>>25622864
The strange feeling about this post: I feel, and somewhat can relate to its vibes, it’s cadence, it’s sound BUT for the life of me I don’t understand actual words being arranged into sentences like that.

>>25622864
>You’ve obviously never woken up to the fact that you must be your own dad.
ExCUSE you, I have read Wordsworth's immoral words,
>The Child is father of the Man;

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.