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I'm moving again
belongings like charms
though keeping so many's less good than harm

I won't go back
to any place
that isn't happy to see my face

I unpack these
my curs'ed charms
I let my brain sound all alarms

I heard it rang
through boxes thin
stacked so high, up to my chin
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Thank you all for your kind words over the years. Unsure if you all are still around but I do appreciate your sentiment. I hope you enjoy what I posted today.

>>729
have you finished your book?

>>730
Nope. lol

but really all it ever was going to be, was an autobiography. If I write something now, it would probably be a graphic novel series consisting of only portraits and other paintings/pictures with some text.
idk, it was never about the book. it was only ever about getting it out of my head and it existing and being seen. (I am certain that is apparent)

That comment about the negative parts about my journey being a driving force behind my work… (which I read as "the driving force behind my work" because it was) I thought a lot about that "lost but looking" dialogue, and a lot about it recently. For a while I worried that I would stop drawing because, once it wasn't so unbearable that I Just Had To Put It Out On Paper, I wouldn't have that uncontrollable urge to create forcing me to draw so often. And I was right, for a long time I stopped. But my recent experiences reminded me that I'm a person constantly challenging myself and never accepting what is, and therefore am a challenging person and may not be accepting of what is around me, and I am ok with that. I can use that new form of "lost but looking" to drive my creative process now. I can be lost in myself but looking for ways to let what is, be. And not worry about being a perfectionist so much to change it and make it as perfect and efficient and shiny as possible.

I never really considered myself a writer, and I never really liked my art when I forced it, anyway. A lot of my writing felt forced. I want my art to be more lenient and expressive. This will definitely mean less writing, but maybe not so much less story/journey-telling. But more important than that, I want it to be sincere. so I am going to practice letting it exist as whatever comes to me, in whichever medium, in however long it takes to complete. That is how I let that poem happen yesterday.

I think this is the best approach.

I return!

>>687
I re-read this message. Thank you very much. These are incredibly kind words. I have a gift and I am its humble recipient. I will continue to loose my words into the world in all manner of places.

Thank you everyone for the kind words over the years. I need to collect them in a book. If you are here and find this message, I encourage you strongly to do the same. Collect the beauty you see in the world, much like Madotsuki collecting effects on her journey.

>>884
Done.

First one is an urban exploration manual, author finished it just in time before dying from cancer.

Second one is an old imageboard classic, it contains guides and tips on broad spectrum of subjects for anon, written by anon.

Third one is a pirate radio manual.

>>887
You probably won't see this but thanks for the books anon.

Non-fiction can be interesting.
It can also be hard.
I'm reading Aristotle (Categories) and it's a struggle.

stars played hide and seek in your hair
like a comet that ends its course, exhausted
sit down in the sky and rest breathless
draw with your hand a smile on the sun's face

you washed your head into the river
fishes hid out in your hair
they ate all the stars
now it's dark forever everywhere

Stars and jewels

Bring forth the tides,
the lust, the rhymes,
the manners we were taught,
the little thrills,
the haunts, the chills,
we sought,
whether beauty,
or betrayal;
is that beauty, not?
forever stay the light of day,
or e'er for naught,
yet still I'd say,
bring forth next day,
the love, the loss, the rot,
not one of these, forgot.

He tells me do this
You tell me do that
You're all bastards
Go fuck your mother
-dogmeat general

>>383
five night fredy
very scary
shit my pant
your ass is hairy

>>1077
shame the rest of the manga never got adapted

Spleen et Idéal

Hymne à la Beauté

Viens-tu du ciel profond ou sors-tu de l’abîme,

Ô Beauté ? ton regard infernal et divin,
Verse confusément le bienfait et le crime,
Et l’on peut pour cela te comparer au vin.

Tu contiens dans ton oeil le couchant et l’aurore;
Tu répands des parfums comme un soir orageux;
Tes baisers sont un philtre et ta bouche une amphore
Qui font le héros lâche et l’enfant courageux.

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In the afterword before chapter 15, oshimi recommends some manga that were inspiration for this one. Kinda bummed that none of them have any translations.

April 2026.

I started reading 'an introduction to philosophical analysis' by john hospers because i wanted to try to regain my attention span, i haven't read a full book in years and i want to think about things more, i figured this might help provide a framework to help me understand and consider ideas in other books i think i'd be more interested in.

I keep coming to a point where I just do not understand what's trying to be conveyed in this book and hitting a feeling i get similar to seeing other people's interpretations of art or knowledge or joy of a particular subject: my internal world is small, sad, dull and grey compared to others

Started reading "Khruschev Lied" by Grover Furr. Want to get into more books on history from an alternative perspective.

Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons" and some of Celine's novels(have an volume of a collection on hand from my college library) in an attempt to do the prose equivalent of a noise music palette cleanse.

i read nausea too
CRing Lalka by Prus

recently finished mishima's temple of the golden pavilion, now i'll probably read my year of rest and relaxation… though i've also been wanting to pick up a manga, something like fist of the north star, just huge muscular guys beating each other up ya know

>ban

why would you do this you're breaking hujles shrivelled little grifter heart

>>1047
no, its like a famous 4chan screencap from the guy reporting in
whatever…

>>1048
it would have to read like a cartoon or the FDD manifesto.
we do have "Some Were Meant For C". i found it insanely good actually.
ugh, what do you think, what would it require to convince ${GLORIOUS_CULT_LEADER} to make an audio book version?
looking at him, because hes the only one who doesnt have an insanely thick accent(USER WAS WARNED FOR DERAILING THREAD)

>>1049
In any case, I need to think about it more, and I do think we really, like really really, need our minimal C compiler.
I wouldn't want it to comply to any standard, fuck POSIX, fuck UNIX, fuck GNU, fuck WG14. Our own thing, without useless crap.
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I'm back to writing XCB/Vk, this page is always opened in my browser, I check messages every 30-60 minutes.

>>992
Practice! Any time even a small piece of a line pops into your head and sounds good, write it down and try right there to grow it out like a seed. The few words sprouting through your subconscious are attached to some concept you can expand if you get right on top of it while it's fresh.

Other times I write down an idea and then ruminate on it for years before suddenly finishing it.

There is another time that while driving down the highway I took the names of a few different exits and used those words as the basis to grow out a poem, and I really liked how it turned out. You can pull ideas from anywhere.

The more you practice the more you will understand your personal sense of literary aesthetic and how to appeal to it more effectively.

>>993
Honestly, this is really good advice. Read Letters to a Young Poet, very insightful tidbits in there

wake up!! we are about to enter tribulation and the Christian church has completely mislead you, you need to repent so God doesn't pour his wrath out on you
we are required to keep the Sabbath (Isaiah 56, acts 13:42-44)
and to abstain from pork shrimp shellfish (Isaiah 66, acts 15)
Paul specified in Galatians 3:19 that sacrificial law ended meaning we are still bound by the holy covenants
we still have to keep the ten commandments Matthew 5:19
in Ephesians 2:12-13 it says we are grafted into Israel meaning the prophecy and covenants given to Israel still apply to us
and Isaiah 11:11-13 says that you are apart of the lost sheep of Israel
christmas easter halloween are unbiblical idolatry, christ wasn't even born in December and these celebrations come from paganism such as yule, saturnalia and ishtar
The trinity is an unbiblical idolatrous doctrine (numbers 23:19, mark 10:18, Matthew 26:39)
the messiah's name is Yeshua not Jesus read John 5:42-43 about this

thanks!

>>1010
What a deeply Christian clunky story. But yeah funny head spin. Despite the joking, you did good, thanks!

cute

ty both for checking it out! I started production of Chapter 3

Its a bit rough but a fun read anyway. I liked the religious themes. Definitely clunky like that other anon said.

I wish I could do something like this but I can’t draw for shit.