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>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