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>>19536261
I unironically miss oob threads

so sorry to be so late. prussia please forgive me. i always have a good excuse and this time my tardiness was over somebody's dead body so i appreciate the patience.

uploading now

>>19536177
Does anyone else remember Alan Moore's magazine from the early 2010s? It was called Dodgem Logic.

lads is anyone still on the discord?
I remember some literal schizo/bpd guy who had a video game website. complete bonkers, dozen of nonsensical platformers with obscure rulesets and broken sprites. Can't remember the name.

>>19536287
Shit nigger as long as it’s not your dead body
Glad you’re okay

>>19536316
i'm fine. a frequent contributor and anon is a corpse but only i knew him in person.

011 is fully uploaded.
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/

Just cracking it open and the photos really make this shit look sexy

welp i already noticed a typo so great job. i probably won't kms yet as its been a violent week

BUY EGGPLANT IN STORES TODAY
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MV7G9CJ

Contribute to 012 now, lest I have to fill it myself with amateur and possibly dangerous articles on pharmaceutical business opportunities lamp.lit.magazine@gmail.com
>>19536177
Looks great anon, good work

> My poem didn't make it.
Fuck, my poem was too shitty for & I might as well just kms now.

>>19536805
No, you’re simply guilty of not smearing my nose in it like a guilty dog. Sometimes you need to make noise. I apologize; be sure to spam the inbox.

>>19536177
EditorAnon, that was the best edition so far, because the editing is superb. I loved the /p/ entries, the magazine is absolutely gorgeous

It was worth the wait, congrats dood

havent been on /lit/ since contributing to coronameron
neat

>>19536287
>my tardiness was over somebody's dead body
my condolences, fren
I honestly hope everything is fine with you.

You promised doing a great edit on my story, but all of them are incredible, it is a delight to my eyes.

Please do your part to report advertising, /lit/.

bump
Thanks for using my criggit, Editor-anon. To whoever wrote the poem: I really like it.

>>19537718
Reported your call for reporting under the premise "announcing a report or 'sage'"
Please remain where you are, jannies are coming at you

>>19537718
>>19537749
REPORTED.

>>19536420
Just noting that the ‘read online’ button for the November edition sends you to the October one

anyone buy a print version? how's the quality?

>>19537789
I realized this too. Click in the thumbnail of the cover.

>>19536177
This is great! Sad my essay on feminism didn't make the cut but also pretty fitting for my ego that I got rejected from even 4chan's magazine.

>>19537718
Dude you have zero concept of money. Advertising anything that is a free collective that generates <$15K in revenue is not advertising it's basically a PSA for the community.

>>19537718
Fuck off you fucking tourist

>>19537248
Cool, and just so you know it was the Lord Mixner poem that was supposed to be in last edition's mag.
> https://i.warosu.org/lit/thread/19323990#p19324338
No hard feelings, I will try again.

I was just about to masturbate!!

the computer crime one is one of the best things ive read this year period. like a borgesian infinite jest, stupidly creative, my mind has expanded. there's too many lines and creative leaps that i liked to name

>>19537929
>it's not advertising because it's free!

You are one stupid retard.

>>19538033
no one cares newfag, keep crying about it, lit has had mags for years now

>>19538033
Insulting intelligence isn't an argument.

>>19538033
>>19537718
I hope its bait. What a retard newfag

>>19538030
Wow, thanks anon. That means a lot to me.

Pages 8 & 9 are my photos! P. 9 is an Italian POW camp from WWII in the Texas Pan Handle.

>>19538033
no shit kys, you fucking bitter shit

>>19538075
yup
filled me with a deep sense of the poverty of my own imagination

>>19536177
and btw, whoever DBS was, I raise my glass for him.

I am sure he was a great guy.

>>19538150
UUUU

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>>19538075
I just read it. I'm really impressed with it, anon. Made me think of the depiction of Hell in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; its really got that kind of impact. I felt it creeping up on me as a I read it.

>>19538139
Thanks anon. But I’d hate to be responsible for you becoming discouraged, especially since I probably could be saying the same thing as you in a slightly different set of circumstances. I constantly get that lightning-bolt feeling of “God, why didn’t I come up with that? Why do good ideas seem to come so effortlessly to other people?” We become anaesthetised to our own originality, I think, because we stew in it constantly.
>>19538367
Thank you anon. I’m really happy people like it. The horror of Hell has been a preoccupation of mine for a while. I drew some inspiration from Joyce and one of CS Lewis’ sermons, too. ‘The Weight of Glory’.

>>19538030
I want to read it, can I have the link? I'm not going to flip through all those issues.

>>19538667
It's in the middle of the latest issue, p40 in the pdf, "THE ONLY COMPUTER CRIME FOR WHICH THEOLOGIANS ARE CONSULTED".

>>19538686
Thank you.

>>19536177
>triforce meme
That hasn't been around since 4chan changed the way text is encoded.
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>>19538465
I'll check out the sermon by Lewis. I read his Cosmic Trilogy, so I'm interested to see his religion in a purer form. Do you have any literature on Hell that you'd recommend? I recently read the Monk and found it to be interesting for following the fall from grace. No description of Hell, but the fear of perdition and wrath is there.

>>19538096
Good photos, man. I like

>>19538710
Hmm, I find Aquinas’ detached, colourless description of things like Hell and angels compelling in a strange way. You really get the sense that they exist in a realm of pure intellect. That’s different of course from the grotesque sensual overload in Joyce or what I describe but I find it very mindbending. I’m fascinated by the interlude he describes (if I remember correctly) between death and the resurrection of the body where the soul is supposed to exist alone, deprived of its natural frames of reference like colour, taste, sound, sight, etc. I’m not religious but the stuff Aquinas describes has a peculiar realism. I’ve never read him in full of course, just bits and pieces and secondary literature.
I also recently came across an amusingly sadistic booklet for children from 1885 called ‘The Sight of Hell’ by an (appropriately named) Fr. John Furniss. Here are some excerpts:
>You will be lying helpless in the lonesome darkness of hell. The devils come in the most frightful shapes on purpose to frighten you. Serpents come and hiss at you. Wild beasts come and roar at you. Death comes and stares at you. How would you feel, if at the dark hour of midnight, one that was dead should come to your bedside and stand over you and mock at you? You hear the most horrible shrieks and dismal sounds, which you cannot understand. The sinner, frightened out of his senses at those terrible sights in the darkness of hell, roars out for help, but there is nobody to come and help him in his fright.
and
>Look into this room. What a dreadful place it is! The roof is red hot; the floor is like a thick sheet of red hot iron. See, on the middle of that red hot floor stands a girl. She looks about sixteen years old. Her feet are bare, she has neither shoes nor stockings on her feet; her bare feet stand on the red hot burning floor. The door of this room has never been opened before since she first set her foot on the red hot floor.
You can read it here: http://www.saintsbooks.net/books/Fr.%20John%20Furniss%20-%20The%20Sight%20of%20Hell.html
Of the cosmic trilogy I’ve only read That Hideous Strength. Would you recommend the others? I read The Monk recently too actually. There is something stomach-churning about that feeling of inevitable damnation.

>>19538773
Thanks for the recs. I'd definitely suggest you read the first two in the trilogy; they're both good and good works of fiction in themselves. Out of the Silent Planet is more so sci-fi than the latter two, but it's interesting. Voyage to Venus is bizarre. In the Monk: I found the final appearance of Satan to be really captivating; revealing everything to be nothing more than a trick to lead Ambrosio into sin would probably read like an asspull to most these days, but it seemed like the most fitting depiction of devilish corruption. I'd like to reread that section and try to draw the scene where Satan appears in his true form since it felt so vivid.

>>19538838
Thanks, I’ll check them out. Do you draw regularly anon?

I wrote Le City Brie, good job on the background pictures I think it was appropriate, you guys also killed it with the font and the contrast, the Angelic looks really good too and I like what you did with the translation.

I haven't read everything yet but I skimmed some stuff from start to finish, the pictures are amazing, the one on page 77 is quite evocative, it really gets to me. And I did enjoy the narration too. I gave the Computer Crime a read as well and it's pretty darn good.

The untitled poem on page 79 has nice structure, reads like someone who started with the Greeks.

Ari Boon got some interesting word play as well.

Nice job everyone! The graphic design is on point, the pictures are on point, not to mention the letters and the order they are arrayed in.

DBS, Requiescat in Pace...

>>19537807
Will fix now thx
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>>19537797
Thanks
>>19537924
I missed it in the final dump but I resent it to the inbox because I noticed that it didn’t make it in, so it should be in 012.
>>19538150
He wrote some low end stuff early on, Kek. I won’t out him. He was tho thanks.

>>19539209
Man I'm starting to regret getting rid of all my old photos.

pic unrelated but still badass

When is the next one? I might try to submit something for it

>>19539413
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/
Next month obviously.

>>19539637
Yes that doesn't tell me WHEN next month though does it you stupid faggot especially since it's submitted in advance

>>19539655
You got 10 days to get it done!
>not the editor

>>19536805
I too was rejected for the mag. I have come to the unfortunate, and undeniable conclusion, that getting published is LE GAY.

>>19539209
Oh very nice. I hope it causes some good discussion.
-on feminism anon

>>19536177
PSA - the site you buy the mag on is 25% through Dec. 13 if you guys wanted to buy past issues and this one.

Just finished. Probably the best edition so far both in terms of content. Favorites were the serial killer one, the phallus mind virus one and of course the hell streams one. Maybe I won’t be so lazy and actually submit for next time.

>>19538879
Yeah, but it all ends as sketches. It's hard to come up with a good subject sometimes, so I should capitalise more on vivid imagery like in the Monk.

>>19536177
Thank you again based Editor for accepting my poem. Can't wait to give this one a read on my break at work.

>>19536177
Well done champ. You better publish my story in the next edition btw or i'm coming for that ass

I thumbed through it because everyone was posting positive reviews. The prose is bad and the photos are "pre-teen with an iPhone" tier. It's both sad and hilarious how many pages have a gaudy background for no real reason.

You all have some of the lowest standards I've ever seen.

>>19540612
There's a lot of amateur writers on this board. Let them have some validation. Don't expect the toppest of top prose. Wait till my writing shows up in it ;)

>>19540612
>t. creates nothing

>>19540612
That’s a lot of words to say nothing at all. Every &amp thread has posts like yours and they always desperately reject detail

>page 18, paragraph 3)

>>19539216
Dump all photos on &amp. Or put them on /p/, I raid that board every month.
>>19539967
No, it is the children who are are wrong. Keep sending, we just missed it.
>>19540111
Checked.
>>19540596
Submit it now. Prussia will actually use it whereas I will simply continue to misplace it.
>>19540612
Thank you. The aesthetic purposefully subverts taste, almost like an autistic, self-unaware reinvention of camp. Hopefully it only gets worse.

If I get published by &amp should I added to by resume?

>>19541135
Most certainly not unless it’s your resume to become a jannie

>>19541135
Chya. Say that you are the founder and editor. I put &amp on my resume as the founder and editor in chief however anybody can make that claim and get away with it.

>>19541135
The point in submitting to &amp is to be eventually dug up in 150-150,000 years by digital archaeologists

>>19541152
Excellent.

I am joining the &amp editors today.

>>19541304
consider lurking and curating a bunch of material from the board and making some cool pages

>>19536177
Absolute banger edition fr fr no cap. First three big pieces would have actually been really appropriate for the halloween edition.
The Mind phallus seemed to be very schizo, but at the same time I actually felt that it was somewhat serious. I’m not really big into the occult (read some Jung), can the author explain if he what he wrote was somewhat genuine? Is it just some larp nonsense or did he research all this shit about the monad and kali yuga etc. and believes it?
Couple editions ago I wrote the how to become schizo piece and was planning on a similar one about murder, but the one thats in this edition is better than anything I could have created. The last two paragraphs are pretty unique. “Tanned yugher leather” kek
Hell streams is the best one.
Gonna continue reading. Good job crackheadeditor

>>19541507
>The Mind phallus seemed to be very schizo, but at the same time I actually felt that it was somewhat serious. I’m not really big into the occult (read some Jung), can the author explain if he what he wrote was somewhat genuine? Is it just some larp nonsense or did he research all this shit about the monad and kali yuga etc. and believes it?

The document is a legit leak, many Bothan spies died for us to have this information.

Ok. Seriously now.
I'm the writer of this story and I'm constantly present in /x/, I just wanted to create a conspiracy-like story similar to SCP, but much more to channer culture's taste. A bit schizo, a bit conspiracionist.
I don't believe in what I wrote (well, I don't but I do, I actually think that universe is mind rather than matter)
This idea came to me while I was studying some Yogacara Buddhist concepts as much as Berkeley's subjective idealism.
The story came to me after I've read Tlön Uqbar Urbis Tertius. If you haven't read yet, you ought to.

>>19541507
>crackhead editor
I love this
>>19541698
SP could have gone first. I was so inspired by the format of this one, the leaked doc style, marginal notes, gonzo narrator, really good stuff. I’m going to put it in a standalone article so that it’s clickable and shareable with /x/, etc.

>>19536177
Good to see /lit/ getting up to some projects.

>>19540612
Yeah, but it's fun.

>>19538465
so ive read it three times now
>I constantly get that lightning-bolt feeling of “God, why didn’t I come up with that? Why do good ideas seem to come so effortlessly to other people?”
yup but not your ideas i’ve got ideas but your execution was basically flawless and being able to convincingly integrate anonymous imageboards & the darkweb into this magical realism without being propitiative because these really are the only places you would be able to talk about stuff like that, it’s like, yea, how didn’t i think of that? and then the impossibility of becoming habituated and the ineradicable awareness of what you're now missing out on at any moment, again, convincing & a lot like infinite jest, but also we all know what that’s like to feel and to feel something of such gravity that we want to share it and we get to hear those accounts about what it's like, the unfurling in black expanses (reminds me of IJ’s ‘large dark billowing horror flapping in the backwater of my psyche’) and "acts beyond all right knowing" is telling wording and how it could just be a “cosmically contingent entity” and how a societal taboo here obviously develops as no one wants to know that even while they relax & sip on coffee on snowy mornings someone is there right now being tormented without autonomy and the defense attorney’s “same urge to bear witness that compelled US servicemen to take photographs at Auschwitz” and the sort of intrinsic parasocial intimacy in being able to sit there in the knowledge that you are likely alone in this window watching this person experience their worst moment, an eternal creative genesis rising action of unassailable pain and the intoxicating fear and the trigger discipline of you both eerily watching the cars trailing long shadows. ego-dystonic memories and the poverty of imagination and above all the noise? you all of a sudden lay on us that hell streams have audio also and the infinite importance that everything becomes imbued with after ‘grazing inferno with your fingertips’ and realizing that its all fated into pain puzzles creative enough to rival the Seventh Day and all that’s left to do is watch those future grotesques frolic (last line reminds me also of IJ’s last line, finding yourself on a cold beach at low tide)
>We become anaesthetised to our own originality, I think, because we stew in it constantly.
very optimistic and we’re all gonna make it of you but the two hemispheres of my brain are like a twin pair of colossi with crossed swords blocking the entrance to any creative thought (while this sentence i just typed might seem creative i actually just plagiarised dfw when he said “but who is not a colossus on the roads of the human intellect”)

The first few stories were so creepy I couldn't even finish. Definitely a step up from the last few as far as design and content. Keep it up anons!

>>19543401
I'm very happy to hear that the imageboard stuff (and the psychology of it) has the verisimilitude I was going for. It's interesting you bring up Infinite Jest a lot as a point of comparison, I've never read it but I'm interested in the maximalist/metafiction elements, although you seem to be drawing connections more between the prose styles and imagery.

Anyway, thanks anon. It means a lot to me. Thanks for taking the time to write this (even the detail of having read the story three times), you could just as easily not have done. It's hard to know how to respond to genuine praise like this -- it's strange when the object of another anon's admiration is your own writing (rather than that of another writer) because obviously you can't match the other person for rhetorical enthusiasm without being horribly conceited, but the other option, remaining detached, makes you seem aloof and superior, especially if the other person seems profoundly affected by what you've written. Forgive me if the comments I made about creativity seemed patronising.

>>19541698
I enjoyed your piece a lot, great submission

>>19538075
Just read it. I’m blown away, I hope to read more from you.

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>>19541698
>A bit schizo, a bit conspiracionist.
I'm tyring to read Cyclonopedia right now and your short reminded me of Reza's writing.

>>19543911
>It's interesting you bring up Infinite Jest a lot as a point of comparison, I've never read it but I'm interested in the maximalist/metafiction elements, although you seem to be drawing connections more between the prose styles and imagery.
well i felt like i was reading borges if anything, with all of the required 'fire plus algebra', but a ton of sort of soft creative parallels came up in tandem with (maybe you aren't aware) the fact that IJ is largely about a film called IJ that's so entertaining it turns you into a zombie if you so much as see a single frame of it, so you can't learn about it first-hand, you instead sort of circle around rumors & backstory to learn about what it is, a lot like your story played out. (another probably silly coincidence is, you mentioned CS Lewis as inspiration, well guess which writer threw The Screwtape Letters at the top of their 'top ten favorites' list?) But anyway the best part is, yup you said it, that canny verisimilitude

>It's hard to know how to respond to genuine praise like this
>Forgive me if the comments I made about creativity seemed patronising.
ah dw, my mind never went that far. wanted to get all that out while it was hot off the press & u're still here & writing all that down also helps me remember what struck me. for possible future reference my unofficial namefag is y-anon, or maybe now i should just go by
>the adoring f-anon
>Golly, you're the best! I'm going to follow you and watch you and worship the ground you walk on! Let's go!

>>19544127
please tell me that van gogh wheat fields pepe is in a series, like the actual van gogh wheat fields are

>>19544248
Borges was a big influence obviously. I think my brain was primed for that sort of writing since I spent my childhood autistically reading encyclopaedia and Wikipedia articles. I knew about Wallace listing Screwtape Letters as one of his top ten favourite books. Didn't he also include Tom Clancy or something? kek

>>19544356
>Didn't he also include Tom Clancy or something? kek
yup ha to me the list reads like 'it wouldve been banal & wasteful to name a bunch of already dead & revered authors' and 'what's better than this? normal humble guys being normal humble dudes, right my everyman intellectual peers?'

>>19544256
I stole this from another anons post some time ago. If it does exist, I wouldn’t know.

>>19536177
OP you should be careful about just selecting photographs from /p/ because last time few fags created a shit show because they didn't give permission to editors for using their photographs. And there are photos in this edition which don't even belong to /p/ and were taken by someone on Instagram or tumblr.

I would suggest you to create a separate thread and I'll make sure to give a bump every week because /p/ is a very slow board and threads get weeks to get archive'd. And to make up for more visual art you should reach out to >>>/ic/ and >>>/po/ and >>>/gd/. One other suggestion is that you could dedicate two pages to the posts of some exclusive board every month which has nothing to do with /lit/ but with general 4chan culture, boards like >>>/trash/, >>>/s4s/, >>>/diy/, >>>/bant/, >>>/b/ etc.

Great thread
>>19544833
Checked. I’ve definitely taken liberties with regards to the fast and loose publication of content found across all boards. /p/ has been made aware that their work is being poached but it could bear repeating. I’ve tried to drum up direct support from other boards a few times before to little avail. I recommend anons take it upon themselves to spread the word and garner wider acknowledgement; mostly nobody cares but us.

I have to admit the first issues looked like shit, but this issue looks really good now. The stories are alright as well, might try submitting.

Not related, but whatever became of lit quarterly? Has it died for good? The editor gave me actual money for a story but the final issue was never published.

>>19542323
>I’m going to put it in a standalone article so that it’s clickable and shareable with /x/, etc.
Yeah, I was almost leaking there.

You know, this is a very silly fiction but crafting it was costly. The mirror drawings I annexed... I did that in a public bathroom of a mall.
Although I brought with me some cleaning tissues, someone ratted me to the security guards that caught me cleaning drawings dicks from the mirror.

I am no longer welcome in that mall.

I've just read "the only computer crime for which theologians are consulted" and I'm shocked how it taps in a similar subject as Shiva's Phallus (written by me)
There is an odd synchronicity here. I now have a channel to speak with the author but it's impressive that we were dealing with similar investigations without knowing each other.

Nothing happens by accident, it's all part of an unseen synchronicity. That's the only explanation I have.

I personally wrote SP out of contempt, the story of a man obsessed by a simple, trying to reduce the whole reality to a symbol is in my head since I've read the opening arguments ot The Red Book by Jung, and of course I've been thinking of Gene Ray there.
The idea of hell streams are very interesting for it shows how much we consume crazy shit online, and these crazy shit are surfacing more and more, as if this dragon of chaos is climbing from the depths of inferno in order to terrorize the living.
As a matter of a fact, many stories seems to be dealing with it, chaoskampf where these legions of chaos are arising and taking the week and feeble to their domain. Installing "softwares" in our mind in order to change permanently how we see the world.
It's a stranger perversion, we know many things we gaze online are sick, yet we want to come back over and over again as if there was some kind of magic in these insane imagery.

Maybe I'm overthinking, I don't know. But it feels this way.
The author may agree with the words or not, but this is the stream of consciousness I'm having.

>>19545968
I think both stories were kind of mediocre desu.
Yours reminded me of a contemporary take on Borges's Zahir, of which endless copies have been (consciously or not) produced over the decades.
Still fun to read though. The hellstream story was ok, but the execution reads a bit like an elaborate SCP entry.

>>19545982
Mediocre, well-written or not, it's impressive that we end up capturing some Zeitgeist unconsciously. Deny it if you must.
Burger Punk in a way is a manifestation of this contempt as we witness Chaos arising.

Where are the saints to slay the dragon of chaos, I wonder. Where is the knight Giorgios?

>>19546037
It's not that impressive when you think that we likely spend a lot of time around the internet and 4chan in particular. Odds are you've seen plenty of crazy shit over the years, so it's easy to fixate upon that.

Not shitting on your observation btw, just commenting that it's a fairly common view to have that we all share the same cultural background if we're posting here.

>>19544070
Thanks fren

>>19542986
You know it, fren!

>>19546088
Hitler dubs. Checked them.

I don't know, man.
Internet was much of a cleaner place 12-15 years ago.

>>19545095
I will try my best to shill &amp on /p/

How could the anons send you their work?

>>19545328
Yeah Lit Quarterly is still a thing. I can’t imagine how sustainable it is if they are paying people for nothing, however I do know the editor and he is a truly stand up anon. LQ is highly polished and probably an actual steppingstone for MFAs to publish their stuff, whereas t he primary purpose of &amp is to confound and annoy.
>>19545823
Dude the story you sent me of how you got kicked out is worth publishing alone! I’m gonna upload SP right now and post it when it done.
>>19545968
Yeah, like another anon said, this edition was spookier than the spooky edition.
>>19545982
Neither of them make a mess of prose or attempt any literary pretense beyond the imaginative themes therein. It is pretty remarkable to have that synchronicity occur so casually. I have put my hands on some truly poorly written material throughout the year however 011 did not exacerbate that in my opinion, perhaps aside from Burger Crusader, which, like all burgerpunk, intentionally employs bad prose and exaggerated plotlines. >>19547682
All materials great and small can be dumped into the email. Thanks for your help.

click here to find and read Shiva's Phallus on
&amp.com
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/miscellaneous-and-minor-standalone-works/

&amp kind of sounds like band camp
>>19545982
>i thought it was all mediocre and holy smokes, look at this, it's all mediocre!
useless like all the other lost critiques in &amp threads. at least say something

>>19547989
Hey anon, are you in contact with the editors of Unreal Press at all? Any news on what’s going on with their story competition?

>>19548068
Nice, I'll see if I can spread it on the surface web and give you some page views with that.

Shortly I'll be sending you a Christmas story for the next edition. Although I take the next issue will be launched long after Christmas, I think we can't skip it.
This time I'll try, on the limits of my English capabilities, to make a suitable prose.

>>19544186
I had no idea this existed, I'll have to check it since it is important for me to get out of the loop I'm into.

>>19548998
Do they do the Flash Fiction Anthology? If so then yes it is in progress.
>>19549079
Prussia is doing 012; I imagine we’ll get something around New Years.

bump

>>19549700
>Prussia is doing 012; I imagine we’ll get something around New Years.

well, I hope he will like it then
it certain will be different to what I was submitting before.

>>19548068
did it drop on /x/?

>>19552357
I think it is easier to drop it as images, is it not? I have the images here tho

>>19552705
Yeah true.

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Anyone else enjoy Marginal Lives?

>>19554456
not yet, I read the magazine slowly. one or two stories per day
I am afraid when I read it all, the thread will be gone.

I'll read later today and give my input

>>19536289
fuck yes, I have all of them

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>>19554530
Friend,
This story is the best I've read in this edition so far.
It's sincere, free of "memes" unlike the others (including my own stupid shit) and feels like literature, and I mean real literature. It is worth the name literature.
It has an elegant prose. The plot is unexpected. I absolutely loved it.

This has a heart and I personally feel humbled. I wish I could write like that someday.

Why aren't people here talking about YOUR story?

>>19554715
I liked it for two reasons: It acknowledges the most direct critical response to writing in the side notes that are written beside the text in several books, that is very personal. The second, I felt that the selflessness of Thomas and him considering a dead woman who went through abuse a very nice touch, it makes known the relevance of people who despite their fortitude and love of life they are in such deep shit that books are their escape. Overall I found it quite profound, it seems to incite reading not only between the lines but OUTSIDE them and that is just damn smart.

>>19555267
>>19554530
What about verse? Who liked what? I thought Le City Brie was cool. Just realized that it's a nonsensical anagram for "Celebrity" and there is a written upside down

>>19536177
anon I will offer to illustrate the cover for you if you leave a place to get in touch

bump

>>19554642
BASED

It's a shame Jibaku is so fucking hard on the eyes to read because that second half is quite funny. '...denim jackets embroidered with the Kaballic Sephiroth, each light filled with an ethnic emoji' made me laugh. Marginal Lives is legitimately quite good as well. Feels odd for it to be in amp alongside these shitposts.

>>19545328
Lit Quarterly is dead.
>>19548998
Editor is busy, but will be free soon.

Send submissions to lamp.lit.magazine@gmail.com, ideally before Christmas
>>19555426

Bump

>>19556803
No. Getting in your magazine would be the opposite of a good thing for a burgeoning writer.

>>19557977
>your magazine
Not OP but fuck off

&amp is by /lit/. It's our collective effort you failed narcissist

>>19554456
>>19554715
Editor here, really loved Marginal Lives, reminded me a Readers Digest.
>>19555426
I’m not editing the season finale, the esteemed Prussia, previous editor and contributor extraordinaire is helping the next one. Send your designs to the inbox. >>19556323
I’ll keep that in mind. Hopefully it’s easier in real print.
>>19557977
Checked. It’s your magazine too, anon.