What's your writing process like? What are you working on now?
5382
2025-06-05 20:21
Any writers here?
2843
2025-04-21 15:35
/dreaming/
The realm of dreams has always interested me. They are something that most people have encountered, see regularly, seem to have some relation to our lived lives, but immediately flee upon awakening. Y
6898
2025-08-10 03:17
I work for an AI company
I've never felt physically sick from work before, but this is doing it.
Imagine you are required to use four different AIs each day to maximize your productivity. Imagine the boss is talking about a
Imagine you are required to use four different AIs each day to maximize your productivity. Imagine the boss is talking about a
6836
2025-08-09 06:18
I am antisemitic
That is all
7571
2025-09-26 09:33
Conspiracy theories
It seems that conspiracy theories are no longer a fringe phenomenon confined to tinfoil hat-wearing preppers and everyone is a conspiracy theorist now. Why do you think conspiratorial explanations of
5835
2025-06-21 07:22
Documenting the AI Deluge
everything is moving too quickly. The transformation has gotten so obvious that Even on normie sites they have to admit that half of internet traffic is bots.
everyone has been made aware of the dead
everyone has been made aware of the dead
7549
2025-09-24 15:18
Share your thoughts.
What are you thinking of? What's on your mind right now?
1619
2025-04-06 15:37
What are some niche stereotypes you have noticed?
For me it's that American boomers always accuse you of being 'rude' (and usually immediately follow that with insults) if you say something mildly sarcastic or correct them on anything.
Also gay men
Also gay men
7515
2025-09-21 18:44
No title
Remember, no original research
7474
2025-09-14 05:20
I'm never eating this shit again I can't do it anymore
7261
2025-08-22 15:54
Understanding soyjak culture
Has anyone here tried to make a genuine attempt to understand soyjak culture?
I feel like there genuinely is something to it, as deranged as it all seems they're at the forefront of western internet
I feel like there genuinely is something to it, as deranged as it all seems they're at the forefront of western internet
7538
2025-09-23 12:24
Diet
I am creating this thread for the discussion of diet, as it pertains to you or to humanity as a whole.
Diet, food, nutrition. All of these things are under scrutiny today, but really have never left
Diet, food, nutrition. All of these things are under scrutiny today, but really have never left
6717
2025-08-03 02:57
Language learning
Is anybody here learning a language? I'm watching youtube videos in German. Forced me to clean up my algorithm and make it only german.
Anyway, share resources regarding language learning books, gramm
Anyway, share resources regarding language learning books, gramm
7615
2025-10-01 15:53
What are you reading?
Working through my stack of books after being in a slump last month. Currently reading The Passion According to G.H. by Lispector.
What is everyone reading?
What is everyone reading?
6014
2025-06-30 13:21
Drugs and Drug Culture and Culture
I recently read Junkie, my first Burroughs. It got me thinking on the full democratization of drug use in America. Marijuana use is practically ubiquitous, there's legal opiates (kratom, etc) at every
7283
2025-08-27 00:15
albums that changed your life?
what's an album that you connected with spiritually, emotionally, maybe even physically?
wilco's yankee hotel foxtrot does it for me. layered, gorgeous, and emotional, the lyrics punch in ways that r
wilco's yankee hotel foxtrot does it for me. layered, gorgeous, and emotional, the lyrics punch in ways that r
7371
2025-09-01 15:19
Demoraphic decline is subtly haunting
Libs will tell your ear off about "muh geedeepee", pension system falling apart and etcetera, right-wingers like to talk about replacement and death of nations and cultures. It's not that it's all bul
7631
2025-10-02 04:05
good introductions to architecture?
have any of you read any good books on architecture broadly? or i guess on subtopics. i'm really interested in the field but my only knowledge atm comes from wikipedia articles & just visiting nearby
6101
2025-07-03 16:22
No title
Anons, what will be the next great philosophical development? Will there ever be another?
7513
2025-09-21 17:42
I started a fashion & style discord server
https://discord.gg/EGGNGuYR
(Sorry if this is against rules to post, can remove if its a problem)
Disclaimer I know very little about fashion, I just want people to talk about it all with. If that so
(Sorry if this is against rules to post, can remove if its a problem)
Disclaimer I know very little about fashion, I just want people to talk about it all with. If that so
3549
2025-04-27 15:18
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis was one of the largest philo-scientific adjacent developments of the 20th century, but is it bogus? It seems philosophers reject it for not appreciating metaphysics, and scientists reje
4949
2025-05-24 03:14
Tell me your favorite fragrances
This is a thread about perfumes and colognes in general. I want to know your favorites and your least favorites. I want to know your thoughts about various perfumes, houses, perfumers. At the airport
7560
2025-09-24 19:40
I listened to this album in the dark and I had to turn the lights on
What music scares you?
6906
2025-08-10 09:21
Contemporary right wing writers/novels?
I read some M. Houellebecq, but aside from that I am familiar mostly with 20th century writers like Mishima, but I got through them fairly quick. Preferably people who are alive and writing right now
7225
2025-08-21 01:57
canadian euthanasia
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/
archive:
https://archive.is/adDZ3
opinions on the article? what are your thoughts on euthanasia?
archive:
https://archive.is/adDZ3
opinions on the article? what are your thoughts on euthanasia?
3283
2025-04-24 10:51
book club thread #2
What are you reading right now? What do you think of it?
What have you read so far this year, and what are you going to read next?
> last one: >>238 (https://archive.md/chbSl)
What have you read so far this year, and what are you going to read next?
> last one: >>238 (https://archive.md/chbSl)
7337
2025-08-29 20:52
The Gutenberg Bible
No other technology man has devised came as close to perfection so early in its infancy as book printing. The Gutenberg Bible was impossibly refined—still today it is beautiful. It was also the firs
7434
2025-09-10 17:58
rsp refugees
Kirk passed into the next life and rsp hung on to his coattails.
7472
2025-09-13 23:43
NEPAL
A strange, noble country. I hear they are electing their new post-communist government via discord. They're disproportionately active in sceney anglophone internet communities. What is going on?
7458
2025-09-12 09:46
What if we
What if we held hands under the limited-edition Rammstein wood table
7424
2025-09-08 21:39
koreader
Any koreader enjoyers here?
I'm running a PW3 Kindle on 5.9.x firmware but the earliest FW included within the jailbreak .zip is 5.12 so uhhhh what am I supposed to transfer over as far as that goes?
I'm running a PW3 Kindle on 5.9.x firmware but the earliest FW included within the jailbreak .zip is 5.12 so uhhhh what am I supposed to transfer over as far as that goes?
294
2024-08-05 14:32
share what you're listening to
because every forum needs a music thread
I'm enjoying 'Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93' a compilation album of upbeat synthy tunes made by Ghanaians
I'm enjoying 'Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93' a compilation album of upbeat synthy tunes made by Ghanaians
6763
2025-08-07 01:51
The Iconography of Lord Jagannath
Lord Jagannath is a Hindu deity worshiped in the Odisha region of India. He is regarded as an form of Krishna and as the Supreme Being.
There are some aspects to the history and philosophical implica
There are some aspects to the history and philosophical implica
7179
2025-08-19 02:13
mfa as the enemy
i've noticed a rising hatred towards the mfa amongst non-mfa holders who enjoy culture in recent years. is this hatred warranted? i can't deny that i hold some skepticism that this idea isn't just eve
7000
2025-08-12 03:23
7
G
6750
2025-08-06 07:54
You will never stop the New right.
Leftists are on the run as the right win elections all over the world. In not a single country are leftists winning. There is nothing they can do, their age is over. Soon we will put them in the priso
267
2024-07-24 17:16
Post something you've made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE6NZ4bsmow
post something you've made
post something you've made
7355
2025-08-31 12:40
Self-improvement content that isn't cringe?
I'm currently trying to get my life back on track (focusing on work, fitness, relationships, cutting out bad substances) and looking for videos/podcasts to listen to while exercising and cleaning etc.
7022
2025-08-12 16:31
No title
Has anyone else here noticed people of their own generation sorta losing contact with reality over time? Like we all know boomers are delusional, but if you look closely it's like millennials and zoom
7408
2025-09-05 13:15
No title
Arigato Gozaimasu Mr. Hosono-San... your sugoi ongaku changed the way I think about sound
1773
2025-04-16 10:33
tea general
what tea are you drinking these days?
7324
2025-08-29 04:58
25 euro/dollar reward! /lit/ contest!
Hello,
I decided to host a literary contest for aspiring writers and poets from the "chans" communities. The rules are simple: submit your work in the comments below. The form does not matter; it can
I decided to host a literary contest for aspiring writers and poets from the "chans" communities. The rules are simple: submit your work in the comments below. The form does not matter; it can
7246
2025-08-21 20:37
Space
How often do you think about it? What things do you think about it?
3897
2025-05-01 11:49
Trans Rosa Parks
>A transgender woman was arrested at the Florida State Capitol last month after she used a bathroom there to protest a state law that blocks transgender people from using a rest room that aligns with
6308
2025-07-14 17:57
site updates + meta thread
Hi /pt/,
I fixed the thing where old threads get bumped by spam posts and then don't drop back down the catalog when the useless replies get deleted.
At the same time I bumped the version of the web
I fixed the thing where old threads get bumped by spam posts and then don't drop back down the catalog when the useless replies get deleted.
At the same time I bumped the version of the web
7254
2025-08-22 10:09
British Food
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd43YoaQaHo
our food is better than yours, we don't deserve the hate!
our food is better than yours, we don't deserve the hate!
6406
2025-07-20 13:33
Ugliness
I have been re-reading Plato's dialogues, and one thing that strikes me about Socrates is his humorous openness regarding his own ugliness. Immediately, I recognize it's a form of irony and lowering t
6425
2025-07-21 17:20
Best literary / culture blogs?
I'm looking for really sharp, insightful writers who talk about books and culture. Are there any bloggers out there on the level of James Wood, Robert Hughes, Sontag, Amis?
7112
2025-08-15 18:28
re: admin
met him irl. cool guy.
4033
2025-05-04 17:11
THE DOCTOR IS IN
Describe yourself, or someone you know, or even make someone up, and I will speculate and preform shitty psychoanalysis based on your post
3828
2025-04-30 12:38
No title
Your last watched film?
Your review?
Your review?
6814
2025-08-08 14:02
No title
>creates cool website
>posts takes on leddit instead
admin why
>posts takes on leddit instead
admin why
6839
2025-08-09 08:00
writing group/discord?
u guys part of any writing groups or discords? been looking to join some to get some bounce for my ideas
6980
2025-08-12 00:19
He was the greatest man in history
You should have listened to him, he tried to warn you. He told you that if you turned against him, the world you see today, a world so insane that any sane man will rise up and conquer it, would exist
6417
2025-07-21 13:00
The most over-analyzed movie of all time?
people doing more hermeneutics on the shining than medieval theologians did with the bible. why?
6934
2025-08-10 21:15
why is redscare so 4chan incel coded?
Like the people on the ledditcord don't even seem to listen to the podcast either they seem like just loser NEETs. Then I find this place and there's discussion about /tttt/. Also theres an rdrama sub
6123
2025-07-05 10:23
what are yout thoughts on that site that shall not be named
7131
2025-08-16 09:46
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What does /pt/ think about the 19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins?
Hopkins, who gave up poetry for several years due to his vocation as a priest, is known for such works as The Windhover, As Kin
Hopkins, who gave up poetry for several years due to his vocation as a priest, is known for such works as The Windhover, As Kin
4723
2025-05-19 11:20
How’s Africa doing?
So like, what’s going on here? Has it gotten better or worse or? For the record I’m not taking North Africa into account, only the Sahel, Sahara, Central Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, so I mean t
7046
2025-08-13 09:51
A review of St. Anger by Metallica
St. Anger is an album released by the heavy metal band Metallica in 2003. It was universally panned and still continues to be to this day. Many metal fans felt that Metallica had sold out, as the band
5887
2025-06-23 14:06
No title
>waaah waaah waah!
>I wanna be a professional writer who gets paid to put short stories in magazines!
>I wanna be a tenured professor of English literature who writes self-indulgent novels about fucki
>I wanna be a professional writer who gets paid to put short stories in magazines!
>I wanna be a tenured professor of English literature who writes self-indulgent novels about fucki
6930
2025-08-10 18:35
This cat found me what should I do about it?
6775
2025-08-07 03:42
No title
The next time you're arguing with a moron online that sounds like a bot parroting Markov chains, remember that this is the cohort you are wasting your time on:
6841
2025-08-09 08:09
Obsessed with my colleague
He is Autistic with a Russian accent. His mind moves a million km/hr. We like all the same books and films and laugh with all our teeth. His girlfriend is dying
6489
2025-07-23 19:47
Good rabbit holes?
I enjoyed reading through that Pizzagate thread on the rsp sub the other day. Even though it was all bullshit, it was fun to read that substack that piled on all the evidence, piece by piece. Anything
6585
2025-07-27 20:01
Great prose writers who mostly wrote only-okay novels?
John Banville comes to mind (though The Book of Evidence is a beautiful novel). Any others?
6786
2025-08-07 13:23
No title
For ten years I've been saying it! Fujo eyes never lie!
4581
2025-05-16 06:53
Absolute fucking dystopia
6562
2025-07-26 20:49
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
What was his problem?
5543
2025-06-12 10:17
Ventoux, Issue 1
We are pleased to release the first issue of Ventoux, an online literature magazine with contributions from the users of Petrarchan.
See the announcement post on Substack here:
https://ventouxmag.su
See the announcement post on Substack here:
https://ventouxmag.su
1538
2025-04-03 03:30
Announcing Ventoux Magazine
Petrarchan is one year old today! To celebrate, we are launching an online magazine of arts and literature, and we want your submissions.
Ventoux magazine is looking for examples of original work in
Ventoux magazine is looking for examples of original work in
3486
2025-04-26 12:55
Anthropocene Blues
Basically every corner on the surface of Earth that has been destabilized by human activity. Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus are being released at insane rates, leading to chaos in the oceans (algal
6731
2025-08-04 04:21
Reading
Pretty interesting idea from this article:
>Despite what many education experts would have you believe, literacy lag is not some natural or biological law. Children can learn to read very early, even
>Despite what many education experts would have you believe, literacy lag is not some natural or biological law. Children can learn to read very early, even
6253
2025-07-11 02:13
Your betterment
What is that defect, flaw or vice of yours that you're working on? How are you working on it? How long has it taken?
These days, I'm trying to cure myself of a propensity to feed off drama, through e
These days, I'm trying to cure myself of a propensity to feed off drama, through e
6693
2025-08-01 04:18
malcolm gladwell. yes or no
Prolific author. Popularized 10,000 hour rule. Also is a bit cliche. Would you consider him good to read or not
6715
2025-08-02 21:29
Is this the worst time to be famous?
It seems like the barriers to fame are weaker than ever before. But even a modest amount of fame brings the attention of hateful mobs and actually psychotic freaks. Even Reviewbrah gets channer stalke