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

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(Don't say anything about my poor spelling!)

I'm ever so proud of you! Aww! The two year older than me person that people think is me is a fast learner!

There's no fight clubs for girls. And fight clubs didn't exist before the movie (or the book).
And I've just changed my e-mail - not that I think anyone cares (not a grab at pity), but I don't want you to think that I'm someone else. Or something.

Aja, don't hate me. Cuz if you do, I'll CRY.

I am starting to hate this Algebra homework. It's easy, but it's just too many problems. I GET IT ALREADY!

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I am not a replica of you AT ALL.

You know what? Don't answer that.
Just stop calling me a "replica". I take being called a replica of anyone an insult. Unless it's...I don't know.

Nowell?

Alright, I'll stop. I'm just trying to procrastinate because I don't want to do my homework.

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i posted the wrong link, sir. a thousand apologies

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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

I don't know whose name is Abby, all I was trying to say was that name never came up on here, the dropped 'Abby' only made me wonder 'who?', and one might not use it that freely if the person itself didn't use it that way either on here.

good point

horribly phrased sentence on my part but hope you get the gist. dropping her birth name felt like doxxing to me.

agree that "let's not do that going forward" is a good way to proceed wrt that issue

idk the answer to this or that it has been one person so much as a community presence for me (like KM)
it's a place i can go reliably, a place i can jib jab about stuff without much concern because no one can see me or know who i am? ilx can be relaxing in that way (except for when it's being toxic or i follow the wrong threads) + it's also a place where people like talking about music. you don't get that everywhere, or the people who like the same music i do or are interested in music the way i am aren't always compelled to talk with me about it in person (more now than before, but it was a long time between high school/college and a time when any of my close personal friends cared about music as much as i did)

i will say that i have gotten positive vibes from all ilxors i have met irl
and there have been quite a few!

i have gotten positive vibes from all the vast majority of ilxors
it needed to be corrected and i am not interested in talking about it

If now it comes across as if I am berating you, of all people, that is totally not what I intended! Just thought the transition from "we sure miss horseshoe" to "yeah Abby is the best" felt weird to me (which wasn't you even doing that in the first place).

Ilx is totally relaxing, a safe space for me too, very much so, and it should stay that way. I met good friends on here, stayed at ilxors places abroad, but don't get called by my first name on here because I don't use it as a dn. And that is awesome.

So ilx is awesome, all positive vibes for me for so many reasons. And it should stay that way imo, is what I meant. Without calling users by their real name when they themselves haven't used that.

But don't get me wrong, all <3 to you LL. 'LL' is fine.

xp :-(

Got bad vibes once from an ilxor who stayed at my house of all things

IT'S ALL PIPES DEEMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09pfBEJYHc

very kind of sund4r and others to say those thing. Much unexpected so thank you!

sund4r otm

LL otm, ILX is basically the one place I talk about the things that interest me the most because basically no one I know irl is interested in or interested in talking about those things.

Odysseus is a v important cog in the ILM wheel. The world needs proper enthusiasts

Coming the mechanism I mean. IDK I'm not an engineer lol

Cog in the mechanism. I hate my phone

Most engineers argue against coming the mechanism, fwiw.

Seconded on Odysseus. Good egg, enthusiastic and has brought a lot of people on this board closer together.

thanks for the shout outs

Thanks Veg Grrrrl...initiating the process that led to so many wonderful ilxors distributing that Seger comp all around the web will always be my ILM legacy

100% bonafide hero AND legend <3