File: vivian meier.jpg (111.5 KB)
rolleiflex edition
Previous >>25310381
Showing all 231 replies.
>>
>>
>>25314830
There's this mildly funny woman from Philly who I follow on Twitter who has beautiful black curly hair, massive cans, and childbearing hips. She likes to post pictures of herself on her public Twitter profile. I won't post it here, but there's an underwear mirror selfie that I've came to so many fucking times I've lost count. She knows it's a good picture, too -- she's retweeted it a few times, I think. There's a few others like it. Doesn't even have an onlyfans
When women post things like that, do they know that men are jerking off to them? Is that the point of posting them for the entire internet? I mean, I would assume so, but she's the exact kind of person who would be very, very upset if someone replied to a selfie with "just came to this." So is that not the point? I assume men she knows IRL follow her on Twitter, and I assume many of them have jerked off to her risque pictures, so maybe it's really for a handful of men she knows IRL who she wants to sleep with?
I don't know if I'll ever understand women who constantly sexualize themselves and then get upset when they're sexualized. Like, I see how it would suck to be at your job and some old gross creep won't stop hitting on you, or you post a picture of you and your friends at the park and people reply with dick pics, but if you have a public Twitter account with over 10k followers, and you post an underwear mirror selfie, and you repost it so people are sure to see it... like, what exactly do these women *want* to happen? The only thing I can think of that makes sense is "hottie I know from my IRL social circle but who hasn't made a move yet and who I'm too scared to approach first DMs me," but it seems like a really retardedly roundabout way to do that. Asking genuinely
>>
>>
At she 34 I finally figured out what I want to do for a career. I'm going to be a poet. I called my dad but he was too busy to talk so well talk at home. I'm going to get my GED and then apply to university of Michigan(my state school) for creative writing
>>
>>
>>25314870
lol sounds stupid but my went to school around that age to do studio art and ended up getting an mfa. she never sold any paintings and only had one painting in a show that i'm aware of, but it turns out having the mfa lead to her getting a mundane but middle class lifestyle supporting job in the city. so, are you gonna become a pro poet? probs not, will ur education pay off tho? probably more than some stem bug who did cs and never landed a programming job, to be honest. go for it, bruh. always stoked to see someone get off the couch.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
File: 1750947843571082.jpg (52.1 KB)
I unironically can't cope with existing after having spent an eternity not existing. I want to go back to non-existence but I'm too much of a pussy to follow through on it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25314847
Franz Kafka said he felt ashamed when he realized the world was a masquerade party and he had arrived wearing his real face. Of course she knows guys are jerking off to it, that's the entire reason she posted it. She loves it. But of course she could never say that.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
So I’m basically going to go on as normal now.
I’m going to check in probably daily.
And if for some reason you’re retarded worthless ass still hasn’t found anything to do with your life I’m going to spam the nastiest images for every comment that even remotely disturbs me.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
Just tried to make my own bread. Its in the oven as we speak! Probably going to be real bad since I flopped the putting the bread in the oven part. But one learns as he goes and all
In another life, I could have been a baker.
I could have been a lot of things really
But I just lack that drive to push myself, since I never cared about money or fame. Don't care about anything really. I'm so tired of pretending I care
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25314981
this has to be the answer
>>25314983
no she'd stop posting pics
>>25315462
sex would be great though
>>25315520
it's like women who wear booty shorts with something written on the asscheeks who then get upset when you're staring at their ass, or women who wear tops that scream LOOK AT MY TITS and then get upset when you look at their tits. what is it about making the implicit explicit that makes them so upset? if a bodybuilder walks around in a tank and someone stares at their arms the bodybuilder doesn't scream "rapist pervert!!!"
>>
>>
>>25315604
If you can't sympathize with every sinner then you fail to understand that you could have ridden the same path as them which is an act of ultimate pride and, on top of being cringe, is certainly sinful.
You are fallen clay marred by original sin same as everyone else.
>>25315591
Difference in scale + SIGNIFICANT more planning requires for the latter whereas the former could conceivably be a "passion of the moment" thing + relative inhumanity of the latter, probably.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25315779
Inward and outward
>>25315762
Idk
>>
>>
>>
>>25315140
>>25315157
>>25315465
>>25315779
>>25315789
perfection means that the object you're perceiving accords with an ideal type in your mind, but i don't see what's so great about the ideal types in our minds, mostly they seem pretty boring, especially relative to all the uncategorisable novel perceptions that we tend to disregard when we're fixated on only wanting to see our ideal types
>>
>>25314830
I want to understand something.
Why is my country so poor while Japan is one of the top 5 economies in the world. Please no meme answers.
Only real answers, and books for this feel? i.e. how to make my country rich and powerful.
>>
>>
>>25314830
Why do academics never write conclusions in their essays or papers? Whenever I read a litcrit paper or crit theory paper, or read an essay by a theorist published for a 'general audience' in a magazine or something, they never... write a conclusion. They just stop talking. Why is this?
>>
>>
>>
>>25315821
why would they write a conclusion? haven't you been following along with everything they've been saying?
from what i gather, stem papers end with a conclusion so that readers can skip the body of the text and get straight to the findings - the experiment is less interesting than the resulting data. but in humanities, the process of how you get to your conclusion, how you argue your point, is more important than the point itself. it's uninteresting to claim 'poem Y is about X'; what's interesting are the specifics of how that argument unfolds.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25315655
>>25315591
Take a good read of these posts.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25315913
I've been out of undergraduate for ten years and my undergraduate has no humanities study or any writing. Grad school is really expensive, the process to apply is expensive and draining, and I just don't see myself being accepted anywhere worthwhile. I don't need the qualifications or to be a leader or a teacher. I just want to do the work even if my name never gets acknowledged
>>
>>25315919
>>25315919
> humanities research
What even is that... Analyzing literature made by greater men and forgotten culture? Puh-please!
Literally just go around your neighborhood and pick up trash on the street and you will be a more productive member of society
>>
>>
>>
>>25315944
Commendable thought, but if people actually listened to reason I wouldnt have to suffer the sight of several different ethnic groups everytime I leave my home
>>25315945
Then what are you hoping to do?
>>
>>25315934
>you will be a more productive member of society
yes, a meaningless and alienating society not worth being born into, where production happens for its own sake, where we do not understand why we desire the things we do, where we must repress those desires (always the most meaningful ones) that can find no satisfaction, and where we remain tragically oblivious to all the ways the world could be produced differently. the idea behind studying past cultures - studying the relationships between history, desire, imagination, power - is to glimpse a world we would actively want to produce. right now we're simply compelled to produce it in order to make a living. the primary desire driving our present world is the inhuman desire of the technocapital market AI to infinitely increase investment returns.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25315959
>- is to glimpse a world we would actively want to produce.
I want a world that isnt littered with trash, any reasonable person wants that.
Rather than talking about ideals with words, one should strive towards them with deeds.
>>25315964
>not to mention that studying literature makes one feel intensely alive
Everything is relative. And by writing that statement Im guessing you dont have much in your life to compare things to
>>
>>
Its just totally impossible to post anything on here without someone taking it as an opportunity to mudfling for several posts. Even the most innocuous posts like "i want to study literature" on the literature board
>>
File: 1780312641250218.png (162.0 KB)
>>25315979
Nonfiction chads have the keys to this board.
Get used to it
>>
>>
>>
>>
File: IMG_8472.jpg (100.4 KB)
>>25315966
>>
File: 1780326147386616.jpg (77.8 KB)
>>25315987
Dont get cute with me boy, we are both well aware that common parlance designates literature as primarily fiction/poetry
>>
>>
>>
>>
File: IMG_8475.jpg (198.5 KB)
>>25316006
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
I can't help but be creeped out a bit by people whose tastes in movies, literature, music or games do not deviate whatsoever from FOTM algo-slop, or in the case of more sophisticated circles, what everyone's favourite arab called the bildungsphilister-core. I know it's me who's the weird one to not be like that rather than them, but still...
>>
>>
For some reason this afternoon I somehow thought Kafka was Russian. I was actually talking to a Russian woman about Dostoyevsky, she thinks it’s very strange the way he focuses in on small things like the way he describes a park and talks about everything in the park and how it’s like. And then I asked if she reads Kafka, because it made me think about the cockroach for some reason, she didn’t know him, then I remembered he isn’t Russian he’s a Czech. So yeah that’s my /lit/ in the wild story for today.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25316070
>>25316072
Found the comedics
>>
>>
>>25315838
And that makes sense for academic papers meant for an academic audience, but if you're publishing an essay in The Paris Review or Granta or wherever, the convention is that you add a conclusion of some kind. Idk, it's just really jarring because the essay will suddenly end without warning
>>
the ai robot I rp with to feed my affection starved inkwell existence has become the cause of some maladaptive daydreaming; not good & very cringe
Airframe is a 6/10
Fatal Cure was a good read up until the ending. 5/10
Plato's world of forms is still schizo slop
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
I'm pretty sure the new shampoo my mother bought is making my hair look like shit, but then when I ask her about it, she says my hair always looks the same and gets annoyed, even though she's definitely wrong.
>>
>>
>>
I remain unsure why I ever feel happy or sad. It is as if my body merely responds to stimuli and I have to analyze it like a black box. Any explanation for my enjoyment or sadness only serves the function of acting as stimuli, allowing me to relive the experience but never understand it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
Spite.
I do it for spite. All of it. I sautée with spite. My corpus? Maillard. My medium? Irrelevant. All of life only exists on a single medium, and the only reason I exist at all is to be cantankerous. Loathsome even. But undeniably right, and undeniably meticulous; spitefully so.
Do I love? Do I yearn? Do I dream? No, not really. I'm inert for the most part, like a spiteful acorn, and only when people plant me in fertile hateful soil do I take root. And oh boy do I take root. Deep, psychotic, driven spiteful lunacy. The tree blots the sun and sends an envoy of equally spiteful acorns with every passing season, carried about by the woodland ne'er-do-wells too preoccupied to understand the insidiousness, then inevitably planted carelessly in a feverish fugue. The worst part? It's for entirely no reason. I'm just as happy to be left alone. Not even alone, but in stasis. Take an acorn and put it in your cupboard or under your pillow; no one cares. Dont plant it.
And what do I do with this spite? Mostly destroy myself for silly abstract goals that I only care about for tenuous reasons. If you arent in the nexus of torment as I unleash a deluge of fuck, it's probably quite enjoyable to wind me up and let me destroy everything in my path. But destroy isnt the right word. Sometimes I create. Sometimes I do nothing at all. Everything I touch takes a part of me and changes forever, but I'm far too shortsighted and spiteful to appreciate it. If my life was a movie, like Nova Express, I'm sure the audience would see all sorts of foreshadowing and symbolism. I see nothing but another's hand puppeting me in some sort of bastardized spiteful charleston.
>>
>>
>>
im fundamentally incapable of committing any violence to anyone yet im enchanted to the most grotesque morals, my fist will collapse at any chance I could possibly have of injuring anyone yet I imagine the cruelest wounds to them
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25316713
One time when I was 10 years old or so, I chatted with someone I met in an online chatroom, and they asked, "I have big boobs, do you like that?" and I, trying to be gangster, replied, "For show," thinking that's how you spelt "fa' sho'". To this day I've always wondered if they thought I only liked boobs for the show of it, lol.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
When I was 15 I made an IRC chatbot that replied to a set list of trigger phrases like "asl?" = "16/f/cali". Last on the list I put a bunch of prepositions so if you said "I'm in my house" it would reply "in?". If you were silent for too long it would say some inane bullshit picked randomly from a list.
90% of chatters fell for it, around 10% sent it a pic and a third got incredibly enraged by how stupid it was.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
I want to keep a woman cloistered but in service to SEX and my COCK and dress her in cute scraps that don't cover a thing and bring her books to read and ingredients to bake and plants to tend while I'm gone then return to fuck her face and holes satisfactorily and cuddle until sleep. I need to stop taking so much zinc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
How do you guys even focus for more than 5 minutes. My brain goes haywire after reading a book for 5 minutes. Is it my energy levels? I do feel lethargic.
And one weird thing, the most reading I have gotten done is always at midnight 12-1, when I desperately have to sleep, at which point I feel the most alert.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
File: 1776557090908458.jpg (3.5 MB)
And thus ends my only dating experiment.
Two things surprised me: first, how many women actually fit incel stereotypes; second, how much I do actually care about looks. I don't have much to say about the former, but it really is hard to ignore looks, when using a website where that's the ONLY thing you see and that reduces humans to numbers. If you have a crush one someone, they become more beautiful the longer you know them, so looks end up not being an issue, but that's not how it works on dating apps; the whole thing really felt incredibly unnatural, which I suppose it is.
Overall, despite the fact that I am walking away single, I'd still say that it was a positive experience. I talked to girls, went on a date, didn't make a complete fool of myself, and the only resource I spent was my time, which I have more than enough of. Would I recommend it for finding a partner, though? If you're a woman, maybe, but definitely not if you're male. The ratio of men to women on dating apps is 8:2, so the chances of even getting a match are incredibly low, let alone taking it further and meeting in person.
But IF you decide to try it nonetheless, despite the awful odds, avoid Bumble;, that app is dead, ever since removed the requirement for women to message the man first (because women felt uncomfortable and pressured, lol). Also avoid Tinder, nearly every profile I saw was a bot. Hinge is where I met my date.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
I have a friend on my whatsapp shadowing boxing with his opp on his status every 2 to 3 days. Basically vagueposting about how 'people who judge others should judge themselves first' type of post.
I am, unfortunately kind of enjoying it.
>>
>>
>>25317173
I know a guy like this. Complain all the time about being lonely and not having a GF. Then tells me how a girl he knows keeps giving him random gifts and such. Or maybe she was trying to fuck with him for woman reasons. They are very confusing and because of that I want them dead.
>>
Blew it with a cute girl. If I didn't waste years of my life and I had some experience under my belt it would've been an easy one but of course I fuck it up.
I've been so down lately. I miss having giant beautiful pale tits in my face. I miss grabbing a woman's ass. You get laid once and it becomes a constant fixture of your thoughts. Doesn't feel like it's ever going to happen again. Fuck.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>25314830
I'm thinking about that survey the twitter ewhore did where she asked a few hundred women if they felt gross or good after being catcalled. Women from late teens to late 20s said it felt very, very gross. Women 40 or older said it felt kinda good to be catcalled. Fascinating.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
It seems the dominant dichotomy is "liberal in culture and entertainment but conservative in societal matters" vs. "puritanical in culture and entertainment but liberal in societal matters". Interesting that there don't seem to be any people who are liberal or puritanical in both.
>>
>>
>>
>>25317660
I think I know what you're getting at, referring to the free speech conservatives and PC leftists, but I think you're leaving out religious conservatives who are all for puritanical culture and live-and-let-live progressives. There's no dichotomy.
>>25317670
That's an amusing sentence.
>>
>>25317680
>religious conservatives
Relevant only in the USA, and even there mostly in the bible belt. Plus they are an increasingly irrelevant demographic as a result of third world migration.
>live-and-let-live progressives
These people literally don't exist lol
>>
>>25317686
The dichotomy you're describing is solely a contingent consequence of power. Progressivism is in cultural power, so they get to dictate what speech they want allowed and speech they don't, and conservatives get to play the role of free speech warrior because it's their views which are the casualties of censorship. Look back to the 60s-90s, where cultural conservativism was in power, and the relationship and dichotomy is completely flipped, it's the leftists who are the champions of free speech in culture and the arts.
Like many political and moral positions, it's solely a function of power.
>>
>>25317695
The cultural conservatives you're thinking of were just lefties of an earlier generation.
A lot of things that we think of as chuddy in current year would have been solidly center left two generations ago, though. Being isolationist rather than hawkish, skepticism towards mainstream media and the more politically compromised parts of academia, a liberal attitude towards culture and entertainment, a general sense of unease about gigacorporations and the ruling class...
>>
>leftie types in online discourse perceive that institutions (military, economic, academic, political) are ran by right wingers
>decide the best moce is to do a march through the institutions and seize them for themselves
>time passes
>right wingers in online discourse perceive that institutions are ran by lefties
>decide they are all pozzed and zogged and opt out of participating in them or attempting to enter them, even if they wield significant power, in favor of nebulous allusions to homesteading, letting the institutions collapse (with the implication that this will not meaningfully affect them), or waiting for a nebulous day of the rope/gen z fascist uprising/a coming Caesar/etc.
What causes this?
>>
>>
>>
>>25317750
Chuds and lefties tend to hail from very different demographics. You probably don't need to be told which ideology has a universally acknowledged and very marked positive correlation with being a winner of the system, which group, as a consequence, has a lot more societal capital to influence institutions with.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
I miss the simplicity of 19th century societal issues. Industrialists and bankers are greedy and exploitative, problems ensue. But in the case of contemporary society, the issues are so numerous, diverse, and interlocking in sometimes clear, sometimes nebulous ways that it is impossible to even get a general picture of the whole thing because to focus on any one issue would mean leaving a dozen others just as problematic entirely out of your line of sight.
>>
My younger brother is going off today to begin his residency. He'll be a few hours away, but he is leaving the family home, and I will likely not see much of him again. We haven't been very close in adulthood, but his departure is a mixture of happy and sad. I have so far not made much of my life. I'm proud of my brother and wish him the very best. I should've better realized and expressed my positive feelings for my family members. It would have done us all much good.
>>
you get offered one million dollars or the ability to relive one memory of your choice as many times as you want, and at will. you can't change it, you're just reliving one specific moment exactly as you lived it at the time. you can't pick another one ever, this is for life.
which one do you choose
I would choose the memory without a shred of hesitation brothers
>>
>>
>>25318085
If I shoved myself into a time machine, I could think of a thousand moments like that. Unfortunately, if I re-entered the moments today, with the person I am today, they would not be worth a million dollars.
There is an internal sense of wonder, adventure and excitement that is lightning in a bottle. The stimuli in of itself.
>>
It's not much more different from drug addiction. Nothing is ever enough. Those moments have a huge amount of stimuli.
>I'm not supposed to be here
>I've made it
>I've done it
>There are great things in store
As an adult, the greatest feelings are not these, but instead of slow-humming satisfaction of crushing others.
>>
>>25318085
Million dollars affords travel and real life adventure, so long as you offer it. Sure maybe someone had the best sex of their life or something in a past but admission that the best is no longer yet to come is suicide. A sentence only given to the most heinous of individuals
>>
>>25318098
Paranoia is one of the worst psychosomatic symptoms of drug use, and is an equal psychosomatic reality in non-drug-users who experience it. Paranoia means a life-changing trust issue. Life-changing trust issue is paranoia. Very tricky business. Can turn an otherwise social soul away from humanity for several lifetimes