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

(I have also done this)

i've had the thing happen where i posted a fairly personal story on threads where people are sharing bad IRL stuff, only to watch others chime in to sympathize with the posters they probably know IRL and never referencing mine. it's okay, i have a lot of friends IRL. i do recognize the thing you describe when it occurs. i just assume bc i've only met one (ex?) ILXor for social purposes IRL (and another definitely ex-ILXor for a fleeting moment at a show) that people don't really associate me with anything other than this dumb username. god knows what they say about me on the slack!

j/v/c, you're a pretty known and well-regarded poster around these parts from what i can tell. i mean i personally regard you well, i don't know about the rest of these jokers.

wait omar aren't you gear and, as such, the perpetrator of the great trucker hat hoax? that means lifetime residency in the essential ILXors bracket imo.

srsly

haha that was from a window of time when i was heavily using alcohol so i try not to think about it but i'm glad i'm in some kind of HOF. sorta prefer my action film movie poll to be my legacy but we can't print our own legend.

I've only met 3 or 4 other ILXors IRL that I know of, all through the shabby fraternity of music writing — Ned, Scott Seward, Whiney, and maybe a couple of others that I'm forgetting or deliberately omitting. But I didn't go out much even pre-pandemic.

Jimbeaux ilu

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D'oh

feeling relatively anonymous on here sounds positively enviable

https://i.ibb.co/7vR6XSz/youre-sogood-analyze-this.gif

heh, Imago, you could not handle being anonymous

Try to stay on topic here: God, dildos, and bananas. Not Prince.

I enjoy killing threads

cool

killed a thread in Reno just to watch it die

omar, you are a good poster and I always pay attention to your posts even though I lurk more than I post these days.

^^ same

yeah agreed.

most of the ILXors I know IRL no longer post here (lauren, nordicskillz, jaxon) but sarahell (who I knew prior to her ILXdom and in fact I did not realize was on here for a while) and Ned remain.

oh and chaki of course

Threads that can get killed so easily probably deserved to die.

-Charles Darwilx0r

Alfred not sure why you initially doubted yourself and posted that here cause you really hit the nail on the head

― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan),

wait where and when?

t'was joke response to you posting "Hi all!" in this thread

lol

Felicity, karl, table, you're all longtime posters I like a lot, legit cool folks I learn a lot from. I do appreciate the positive thoughts.

a lot of people here talking about how they're ilx "unknowns" are people who, at least ilx terms, i know and like reading posts by

for the record

ILX really is like a small town where everyone recognizes everyone else. The only usernames of regular posters that are unfamiliar to me are attached to ilxors who post exclusively to ILM.

Small towns are scary
As a relative unknown and frequent lurker and frequent poster, I like reading the posts of everyone that has posted from Jon onwards, I recognise every name here and think you are all very clever with plenty of interesting things to say. Everyone takes their turns killing threads, it’s part of nature, less so a personal indictment. All threads have use by dates!

*Frequent lurker/infrequent poster

^^Readily apparent why that is the case

Small towns are scary, it's true, but I take comfort in the fact that the few posters on here who have decided that I am an enemy, or a danger to their sense of well-being, or simply a less than human being and therefore an acceptable target when their irritation requires release, are easy to ignore. We aren't neighbors or relatives. They can't inflict any genuine or lasting misery upon me unless I permit them. No matter how they try, they can't lay a finger on me. It's the posters I respect or admire from whom I accept reproof and take to heart.

i can’t speak for anyone but myself, but i definitely don’t think of you as less than human. in fact i sort of think of you as superhumanly patient. sorry for the cheap shot i took at you the other day :(

No one who's posted itt today is a non-entity? Entities as far as the eye can see afaict. Given the state of the internet/world at large, I'm regularly grateful for the number of smart + funny + cool + not criminally insane people this place has managed to retain.

I've definitely been burdened with the thread killah self-perception, felt like I was on the outside of the ILX 'cliques' looking in, etc. I guess I just don't concern myself with it as much anymore? At this point, I'm mostly cool with just hanging on the periphery and diggin the vibe (particularly since finally having a job I'm invested in means I no longer get paid to lavish ILXors with toilet-centric bon mots all day long, to the chagrin of everyone).

Who farted

Thank u for picking up my slack

So like, did this thread stop being about its stated purpose months ago and no one ever said anything? :P

I wish I could kill some of these threads let me tell you!

Small towns are scary, it's true, but I take comfort in the fact that the few posters on here who have decided that I am an enemy, or a danger to their sense of well-being, or simply a less than human being and therefore an acceptable target when their irritation requires release, are easy to ignore. We aren't neighbors or relatives. They can't inflict any genuine or lasting misery upon me unless I permit them. No matter how they try, they can't lay a finger on me. It's the posters I respect or admire from whom I accept reproof and take to heart.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 3 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Don't worry Aimless, you are none of those things. The truth is much simpler and more banal than that ❤️❤️❤️

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Yeah, seriously, fuck contextualization. It should just read, "moon has dark side, where title from. Floyd good." I mean, who even has the time to read a whole paragraph?

haven't there been enough paragraphs written about that bloody album already

in general though the "just write about the music" line strikes me as profoundly incurious about music as anything other than a product for nerds to massage their ears with

Imago otm

not what I fucking meant but got the fuck off

you all won today

Yeah, seriously, fuck contextualization. It should just read, "moon has dark side, where title from. Floyd good." I mean, who even has the time to read a whole paragraph?

Life is too short to listen to any Pink Floyd album that doesn’t have “Lucifer Sam” on it.

Life is too short to care about what other people think about your taste in Pink Floyd albums

That take's something I can't explain

Sometimes you just have to let art . . . flow over you.

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― brimstead, Friday, August 4, 2023 11:00 AM bookmarkflaglink

why did you have a second thought about this???