which ilx poster has had the most transformative effect on your life?

Also, off-site, my conversations with nakh are often disorientingly educative. I don't know if people here really know how much information that guy absorbs on a daily basis.

Disconcertingly tbh

I value the way this site has pushed me to change my mons on a number of issues

I cannot stop laughing at this typo

There have been many influential posters over the years, but the one that I think has had the greatest effect on my life is this little nugget from the running running thread:

Had been thinking about starting again tomorrow. Got a wild hair about it, the stars are aligned, whatever. But the forecast is for 95 degrees. I might go through with it anyway but goddamn.

― how's life, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rip

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:09 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"rip ― lag∞n" goes through my head now every time I start to flake out about my health and self-care. I still don't always make the best choices, but this little phrase has helped me more times than I can count and I am on a slow but steady path of improving health and fitness. hopefully will get where I'm going before I die.

lagoon is a great guy

From what I know through ilx and social media at least.

There are so many here. So many, and I'm worried about missing anyone but off the top of my head:

Sick Mouthy offered me my first writing gig back in 2004
Branwell, despite falling out with me a huge number of times, did make me reassess my position on a number of issues. That could be said for other ilxors, Lex, DJP and many others.
FGTI gave me some fantastic advice about songwriting once which I'll never forget
And then there are those who have either inspired me a great deal, offered advice and opinions, or just helped me in my life with friendly encouragement, among them Le Bateau Ivre, imago, Rev, Ned, marcos, wins, NickB, chewshabadoo, M4rk H3st3r (can't remember what handle he goes by now), Johnny Fever, man alive, Kerr, Gravel Puzzleworth, seandalai, Moka, emil.y, Michael B, Drugs A . Money. Like the latter says upthread, the Outloud chats were so so great and I miss them a lot

So many more.. I've been on here for 18 years now so...

lagoon also convinced me to stretch before lifting and that was helpful

god, Treeship and flopson and Karl Malone too. I don't interact with them directly much on here but their posts all seem to either be really reasonable, insightful or funny and it's influenced me to at least try not to just write any old shit on hear (I still do though)

love to y'all!

Fpd everyone itt btw

^ the transformative effect we need and deserve

/ I value the way this site has pushed me to change my mons on a number of issues/

I cannot stop laughing at this typo

I missed that, was too busy lolling

my mind put the l in on first pass

I value the way this site has pushed me to change my lmons on a number of issues

I learned to change my diamonds every day.

Twisting my mlons man

miss silby

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:02 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

silby still posts every day + is active on twitter

― flopson, Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:23 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God, is it really every day?

lol--sorry! i read that post, was like, huh? coulda sworn i've seen them around, and did a search and u had posted the previous 2 days

it always takes me a while to notice when anyone has cut down or quit

still nice to be missed though right? :)

I miss "If Timi Yuro would be still alive..." and love it whenever I run across one of his posts. RIP.

Everyone here has been transformative.

Elvis otm

I miss "If Timi Yuro would be still alive..." and love it whenever I run across one of his posts. RIP.

A great guy. Very glad I got to meet him a couple of times thanks to the Pop Con.

in the interest of not just listing all the ppl i read ilx for / am friendly with on a personal level, im just gonna say tim f

same

Thirded

tim is yoga flame.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Y5HEiPdsChOh2/giphy.gif

i keep writing tl;drs (true love doctors) here and then deleting them, so instead this is the quick summary: ilx is more of a "community" for me than just about any irl community. in certain ways that is endlessly rewarding, and i don't even want to know how many times i click the ilx bookmark everyday. it is weird. it's too much. when i think about transformative effects it's not so much one person or group of people that i think of, or a specific thread, but just the overall influence of what i'm reading and thinking and talking about all the time with you all. true <3 doctors

with all that said, big ups to pplains. dr casino said something about pplains' "finest hour" on the steely dan thread today, and my first thought was "more like pplains finest year, with 8760 one-hour blocks, each one featuring a pplains greatest hit. god, 8760 hours isn't really that long for a year, i really expected the number to be higher."

also: if you're having a bad day and need something to lift your spirits, check out the only song by The Bonzai Predicament. it is really good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7odcV25sHg

seriously, put that song on if you're ever feeling down. i just listened to it for the 4th time today and literally spilled coffee all over myself and my couch

Probably me tbh

Momus was a big find for me 10+ yrs ago
Mordy is an inspiration constantly
Yancey proved that capitalism can elevate you into a better social circle, Max too

how do you measure
measure a year

what's another year
for someone who's lost everything that he owns?

Honest to Christ is that a Johnny Logan ref on ilx in 2017

today's the day for it imo

Every day is a good day for Johnny Logan. Go ahead and fp me Deems, you only need 31 51 socks to make it happen.

^^ I didn't mean that. Hold me now, D.

Horseshoe (miss u, lady) specifically because she talked somewhere on board about body positivity and HAES and posited that dieting might be unhealthy. For someone who had an eating disorder in the past and who has been on a diet pretty much constantly since I was 10, being introduced to these ideas was nothing short of life changing.

Feel bad now for fooling around because that is one beautiful, sincere post.

(did she leave for real?)

Wouldn't fp anyone for Johnny Logan love

Horseshoe is great

Aw, don't feel bad! I meant to post that here last week but realized I didn't. It was such a big deal to me at the time (this was like 2010 ish) that I wrote to her separately and she sent me all kinds of reading recs and it was a really big thing for me.

I'm not sure if she's gone but I haven't seen her post in a while but I don't really post very much these days so idk.

And, yes, she is great all around.

That's really great <3

I believe I've seen recent horseshoe posts on the cooking threads

I'm also going to say Odysseus for dragging me out to regularly participate in things like chat and plug and reading philosophy, through which I made irl friends. Also, the mid-00s metal polls introduced me to contemporary avant- and post- black metal, which became a regular part of my listening diet.

abby is consistently awesome and absent these days

Don't want to be nasty and there some assumptions coming up on my behalf but, if by 'A***' you refer to Horseshoe: there's probably a reason why she *never* used her real name on ilx and would probably prefer for it to stay that way?

her name isn't abby?

oh wait you meant crabbits? i thought you meant horseshoe, whose name does not begin with A
anyway that's now how she spells it but yeah maybe not use her name