(^_^;)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 August 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link
Well said.
One of the secretly greatest things about ILX is that it doesn't use hashtags, which really are the most banal thing about the internet
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
#secretgreatestthingsaboutilx
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 08:43 (five years ago) link
Hear, hear LL!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 August 2019 08:45 (five years ago) link
Still the only place I can hang out comfortablyThank god for deathless threads, no hashtags and no avatars
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 2 August 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link
^ Yes, and LL summed up ILX's appeal succinctly. This is pretty much the only form of electronic communication (or, well, communication with humans generally) that doesn't make me anxious. Usually. For the most part.
― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 August 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
I'm literally so grateful for the atmosphere of ILX (in peace times) that I composed (and posted!) that post. Cheers!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
LL well said & you rule
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
i don't like praising people specifically probably because of how i was raised but i feel like sarahell has been doing a lot of work to be less snarky and more open and compassionate over the last few years and i think it's paid off really well, i think she's a top poster
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, August 2, 2019 9:06 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
"(and posted!)" indeed there are many times that I compose and then do not post!
― Evan, Friday, 2 August 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
We really need avatars though
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 August 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
check out james fuckin cameron over here
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
we really need five avatars
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
2027 can't come fast enough
― Criss Angel Raw: The Mindfreak Unplugged (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
Didn't realize we'd already firmly rescheduled 2012.
― COOL DUDE'S ONLY, NO NERD'S ALOUD (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
no need for Arrrghhh..vatars on here thank you very much. I have enough trouble brushing my teeth on a morning.
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
LL way otm. I have rewarding interactions on other social media but honestly a chill generalist nerd message board is the kind of online hangout space I’m most suited to. It feels like it’s senesced even in the eyeblink since I joined but it’s very comforting to me when everything else is shit to know I can go on my phone at coffee time and see a 2am darraghmac troll poll or a yerac food opinion or the mordant capering of Britain’s onlinest shepherd bizarro gazzara
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:31 (five years ago) link
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
I love every poster in this revive
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
i will take all compliments, back-handed or not? i think?
― sarahell, Friday, 2 August 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
sarahell imo you have always been a good poster
― sleeve, Friday, 2 August 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
yes
― 2019OK plus bennu (wins), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
idk ... I have definitely had my self-indulgent embarrassing periods, and the troll the fuck out of everything periods, and honestly, I am almost expecting former posters to login just to remind me that I suck.
― sarahell, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
same here tbh, but the way i was raised was if you condescend like fuck to someone like they are one of your creatures or something.. they might just tell you to go fuck yourself [exclamation mark]
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
sorry if I have been condescending to you?
― sarahell, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link
no!
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
forget it!
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
some of your r-word use used to piss me off but i was probably too much of a delicate flower at the time, but otherwise I've always enjoyed angry posters on here. but I found that post about you a bit of a creepy stretch. who is to say where anybody is right now just from reading their posting style on here. we are all in all sorts of different situations, but yeah i'm glad you've found the path of light by not offending my delicate sensibilities etc.. etc..
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
lol i think I'm doing this thread wrong .. I'll log off!
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
lol, if I'm the poster that turns "say something nice" into "say something kinda nice, but also kinda mean" ... as in I'm the subject of that ... I accept my fate.
― sarahell, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
This revive is so nice!! ILXers are pretty swell, for the most part I think.
brimstead has been very funny lately imo
― brimstead, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
i want to say how much I appreciate all the other "no boys" thread posters: it's one of the threads that keeps me here. ... also, whomever made the various "old" stylesheets, they are nice.
― sarahell, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Old Lunch’s Hooch thread made me laugh like a deranged idiot on the subway today
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
Would 100% go antiquing with OL
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
i still want to go thrifting w sarahell
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 2 August 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
Yes! and drumming too?
― sarahell, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
Of course!! A noncompetitive duet!!! If it were competitive, I would 100% lose and it would be embarrassing for everyone. This thread is a perfect example of something I wouldn't trouble anyone with irl but I enjoy talking about asynchronously with ilxors i'm over here in the green section, see you by the hats
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 2 August 2019 23:50 (five years ago) link
OL and Karl Malone are delights on the political thread.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 August 2019 23:52 (five years ago) link
You are too.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
i like Alf's book recommendations as well, just finishing that excellent J jackson book on the Vichy regime.
― calzino, Friday, 2 August 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
i didn't mean it as backhanded! it's more like, idk, you were one of the people whose bad side i was specifically terrified of getting on the bad side of. ilx was just a super intimidating and scary place. oh, i don't know, that almost sounds more backhanded, doesn't it?
what i mean is that everybody here is great and/because everybody here has gotten better over time
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
it's cool! i can relate! you are a rad person, too!
― sarahell, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
It's a good spot, this place.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
― calzino, Friday, August 2, 2019 7:58 PM (three hours ago
oh thanks! I hope someone's read his De Gaulle bio.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
i don't recall the era when sarahell claims she was sometimes trolling? she's always been a+ unless it involves semiotics, about which i'm unqualified to comment
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 August 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link
so i woke up thinking about this (no i don't have an ilx problem) and i'm sorry if i get kind of personal here but i do want to talk a little about how ilx has grown and developed and what that means to me
i get frustrated when i see people being nostalgic for Old ILX because, particularly when one of those threads gets bumped, it was something i was always kind of conflicted about. the people here were really smart and really well-spoken and, well, the reputation was that it was sort of a critics' hangout, right?
that was kind of difficult for me. partly because i'd had some pretty terrible interactions with a music critic on usenet (he will not be named and as far as i know was never here, but he was super into kink shaming), and partly relating it to my own life
all the trauma work i've been doing the topic of the "inner critic" comes up. it doesn't mean quite the same thing as someone being a professional critic, but i don't see the two usages as being entirely unrelated. writers are people who tend to have a pretty poor self-image in the first place (one of the misguided reasons i never really pursued being a professional writer - i feel like i sort of confused correlation with causation, which i've done in other areas of my life), and then you add in a sort of work which tends to magnify the critical voice and at worst critics can become these "boys in the band" types who are utterly merciless and lacerating both of themselves and of others
well that was sort of how i saw Old ILX, and for whatever reasons - i'd prefer to accentuate the positive ones - i feel like ILX has become kinder, more compassionate, its posters more self-accepting. that makes me happy.
at the same time that experience and growth, this is the paradox, means that i feel like people here don't necessarily say as much stupid shit. people give the impression of having thought before speaking. certainly that's what i try to do, and the flip side of writing things and not posting them is that i've written some stuff where not posting was absolutely the right decision. there's less viciousness but it's still an environment where if someone talks shit, i mean speaks ad ignorantum, they stand a good chance of being called on it. it's been helpful and hopefully i talk less shit than i used to!
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 August 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link
i feel like people here don't necessarily say as much stupid shit. people give the impression of having thought before speaking. certainly that's what i try to do
i love the 'posts you had second thoughts about posting' thread for this reason
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 3 August 2019 07:36 (five years ago) link
just listened to all 50 of the songs brad has considered as being the best ever
i don't agree of course but it's an amazing list
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 August 2019 03:31 (five years ago) link
is that a real list? because if so i'm so down.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 4 August 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
yes when did i miss that? always have time for brad's enthusiasm.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 4 August 2019 06:24 (five years ago) link