God suburban anti-drug culture would be so funny if it didn't brutally traumatize a bunch of kids
Yeah and it's also easy to impress people when you say you've read The Brothers Karmazov whereas say, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man you're probably gonna have to actually know a fair amount more about mid 20th century African American politics than a lot of young adults would have had exposure to
www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comm... Their annual top 100 list is full of genuinely good classics for the most part but it's preeeeeetty easy to read the demographic appeal when you take a look at it in aggregate. And for your average bored suburban teenager it's culturally risk-free
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact. https://discord.com/invite/9jRMDk8YJP
If your only exposure to the wider world is online basically the only easily accessible areas of the internet (as it is now) that drives people to read higher literature (comprised of booksyou would recognize) is like, 4chan's /lit/ board so that's the association I guess
Decided to make my initials for my name during transition Haley R (R kept blank as its still my legal name) and I have come to a disquieting discovery
You know in retrospect "I love this authour because I finally feel like I'm understanding the culture that shaped my mom!" might have been more of a red flag than I had bargained for
Every Alice Munroe story is just "there was a divorce and i was jealous of my friends and my friend was ugly and i was prettier and thinner and a man was there and he fucked a twelve-year-old and i was jealous of the twelve-year-old the end"
Lots of trouble could be avoided if people were taught horniness is a state to be enjoyed, not a problem to be solved
Trying to write something that isn't sad or shmultzy and having a hard time of it, which feels like something I should maybe interrogate