Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

your objection is duly noted

I have no objection. I'm 100% on the sidelines here (not trans/nb/questioning, not even a little; don't care about Nirvana, not even a little), so your need to believe is really all that matters. I'm amused (as in diverted, not as in laughing at you).

Would be a good thread

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I have no objection. I'm 100% on the sidelines here (not trans/nb/questioning, not even a little; don't care about Nirvana, not even a little), so your need to believe is really all that matters. I'm amused (as in diverted, not as in laughing at you).

― but also fuck you (unperson)

oh for fucks' sake, look unperson, say whatever the fuck you want, but please don't insult me by telling me that you're doing it as an _idle diversion_. frankly i'd rather you laugh at me than tell me that you consider the things that are important to me _mildly entertaining_.

i have no stakes in this so i'm just going to say dumb shit in the posts you had second thoughts about thread

fair i guess

struggling a fuckton with my emotional boundaries

if people are saying shitty things to me then fine, that comes with the territory, i post Discourse bait and people will fucking Discourse

but people are saying shitty things to trans people and that does hurt. i don't even necessarily mean cis people saying shitty things to trans people, the worst of it is that trans people _do_ say shitty things to other trans people when Discourse starts

it doesn't bring out the best in us. i'm lucky in that i have a really good, supportive local community. i'm not coming into this unprepared. other people, though? they're at serious risk of getting hurt, and, well, if i didn't want that to happen my only option was to not say anything in the first place.

god help us all if this shit goes _actually_ viral, rather than being contained to the relatively quiet, kind, and placid waters of ilx.

I read your article and thought it an interesting idea, and at least worth exploring, fwiw.

xp I hope you’re not meaning ufo.

A thread where a majority of the responses are positive or encouraging too.

thanks folks :)

right now i feel like i'm in a better place with my boundaries. i've said my piece. i trust in what i said, that i said what i needed to say, and it's time for other people to say what they need to say. right or wrong, it's out there now.

i appreciate y'all for giving me a place to say it!

What else should I plan
Eeeeeeeevryone is trans

Man, didn’t look before posting that here and thus didn’t realize the last like several dozen posts are about that thread. FTR I don’t really have a dog in the fight and I think people are making much better points than I could make from all sides and from a better place than I could.

this is fan fiction right?

So what

despite quality commentary (and commenters) i will NOT bookmark this thread NOPE.

^ilx serenity prayer

Lol

he'd be posting on this thread, he'd be the one that said something funny or interesting

Lol correct

The only good thing about this thread is as a source of abundant natural gas when Putin decides to cut Europe off this winter.

Is there not enough horror in the world as it is? Do we really need to torment ourselves with 30 alternative horrible futures too?

who the hell uses the fourth amendment

luckily the book i am editing today is all but the revolutionary political value of forgiveness

Turkets?? DEATH? WHY!

Probably also wouldn’t be so quick to highlight someone else being incorrect about something if I was doing something as stupid as naming my high profile employer online constantly.

Yes I said "cassingles" and even if it was a trifle anachronistic in context I stand by the spirit of the post. Because "cassingle" will never not be funny

if I didn't care for the work of a popular musician I would simply not expend any thought on them

^Truth B

I don't think REM is boring

but okay

de gustibus etc.

i think that would have been a perfectly fine objection for the thread! although you would be right if you sensed that the thread was not really about whether rem is boring or not

Spiderman Anus

^kind of a weird inclusion for the "Beatles remaster" thread but ymmv

Late great - precisely. I love the B52s and I do not wish to detract from a celebration of their awesomeness with a de gustibus detour.

I don’t care how much impact it’s had on the culture, Twitter is and always has been bullshit and anyone saying otherwise can eat my ass

That's a middlebrow poet opinion.

BY NO MEANS "a beauty way to go"

That's a middlebrow poet opinion.

I wouldn't bother. You show it already to everyone here on a daily basis.

Lovely how a little joke about a disagreement becomes nasty, fuck you dickhead

How is calling you a middlebrow pet nasty?

Poet.

That's got me wondering what a middlebrow pet would be tbh.

Parrots.

that's quite apt coming from someone whose only contribution to ilx is c&ping other people's tweets

I can c&p posts from here too. Like this one:

That's why I am not going to post to ILE any more; I'm going to be the one who changes. But if you fucking dare approach me on ILM I'm going to say some things which make today's freakouts seem like a warm and friendly greeting. Adios.

― imago, Friday, 1 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

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xyzzz, fwiw i read yr post as insulting because middlebrow is actually an insult, in most contexts. tho we disagree sometimes i really value many of your posts , even if you dislike me and my posts. we can’t all be friends, that’s fine!

Hi table, I was just teasing you. I found it a tad annoying you were like "eat my ass" in the passive aggressive thread.

Fwiw, I like some of your posts too, your enthusiasm for Prynne and passion for poetry.