>tfw when you've been on /lit/ for nearly a decade on and off
>reading, never faltering, continually reading while people come and go
>make your way through all of the classics and the meme literature and the postmodern
>still reading the same shitposts after you finish entire bibliographies of Joyce, Hemingway, Dumas, Hardy, Hugo, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gogol and many others
>(and when you already anticipate the machismo responses to your post as you formulate it)
>tfw you start writing short stories, pass through the "rate this passage /lit/" phase, the writer's block phase, the phase of publisher rejection and the phase of self-doubt until you write for the rush of it alone
>start getting paid writing gigs
>tfw 26th birthday, closely approaching nirvana when you will hit the X at the top-right of the page and never come back
>feels good bros don't give up
I've been here for three years, 'seriously reading' for some five
Already feels like I'm way too smart for this shithole, and I feel like a retard compared to most people in real life. Can't wait till I can move on.
I'd call you out for using that picture, but I'm happy you are finding your way. I'm currently meming my way along this board while getting paidlittlefor writing second-rate knockoffs of Barth, Barthes, Perec and Queneau.for you