How many Stories and Forum people do you know IRL?

[AG31]

Just saw a thread where someone said the saw some people "around," and a while ago someone notified us about a death. I wondered how they knew.

I, myself, know absolutely no one IRL.

 

[Erozetta]

I've not met any IRL, but I have talked to a few other Lit authors on the phone. We keep in touch almost daily. A couple of them know my real full name, what I look like and where I live, so searching me out if I vanish wouldn't be difficult for them.

I've also mailed cookies and homemade caramels to one a few times, so he might have more incentive to check up on me than the others, lol.

 

[Voboy]

Several. Fewer than ten, but more than five. We're very friendly. Many of us have met; we know each others' names and families, for the most part.

No homemade caramels for me though, alas.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Two that I've met in person. (That is, people who I first knew via Lit and then met in person; I also have a couple of IRL-first friends who also have Lit accounts, but I don't actually know what their Lit accounts are.)

Probably dozens who have an email contact for me and vice versa, since that's how I usually handle things like beta-reading. About a dozen who are in touch with me on other social media platforms, though I maintain a separate "Literotica friends" profile rather than using my regular handles there.

 

[Tessinwales]

I know 2 of my readers IRL

 

[TheRedChamber]

Exactly zero.

And with the best will in the world, I'm probably going to keep it that way.

 

[KeithD]

Just one.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Exactly zero.

And with the best will in the world, I'm probably going to keep it that way.

Good choice, we're mostly terrible.

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't know anyone.

 

[Britva415]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone I know IRL is behind one or more of these handles, but, if they are, I don't know!

As for me, people could probably suspect and then figure out that this handle belongs to the person they know IRL.

 

[litfan10]

I've been in a serious relationship with one for over twelve years now after meeting here in the AH.
I know several others very happily but don't live close to any of them.
One weekend before slave_ and I moved in together we were friends with two other Litsters who were dating at the time. As all four of us were in different cities, using computers and phones we had a virtual double date watching a movie, drinking, talking and laughing. It was a lot of fun.

 

[THBGato]

Exactly zero.

And with the best will in the world, I'm probably going to keep it that way.

Ditto.

I would, 100%, be fired (and quite legally) if my employers found out I was writing online erotica. I would also then find it extremely hard to find another posting. My industry takes the online profile of it's employees extremely seriously.

 

[PennameWombat]

I have a few email IDs from folks here, mainly due to editing, beta reading or feedback reasons. But nothing beyond a few comments slightly outside of that. Nothing that exposed real world identities in any detail beyond country and some general background.

I only know of the real-world identity of one person here (besides myself, and I'm not even sure I know me.) But that's only because that person posted a word-for-word identical screed here and on a Facebook group that I happened to be in. So I saw it in both places. Here it was under their Lit handle, there it was under what was apparently their real identity.

 

[AchtungNight]

Zero, but honestly I’d like to meet someone sincerely into this place and my stories irl. Anyone interested is welcome to drop me a message.

 

[TheLobster]

I'm on a different continent than most people here so no.

 

[StillStunned]

Nice try, but you'll never convince me that you lot are actual people, and not just AI personalities generated by my computer.

 

[Devinter]

Nice try, but you'll never convince me that you lot are actual people, and not just AI personalities generated by my computer.

Nice try, but you'll never convince me that this entire world isn't just one big simulated illusion generated by an alien species.

 

[StillStunned]

Nice try, but you'll never convince me that this entire world isn't just one big simulated illusion generated by an alien species.

We're a reality TV show for aliens. "Tune in for another episode of Real Authors of Literotica!"

 

[onehitwanda]

No homemade caramels for me though, alas.

I'm still asleep and on first parsing I was wondering

1) why on earth you'd want homemade camels
2) what on earth is different about them that they qualify as homemade
3) why on earth I'd thought of #2 above
4) and what on earth you planned to do with an indeterminate number of them

I need coffee.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm still asleep and on first parsing I was wondering

1) why on earth you'd want homemade camels
2) what on earth is different about them that they qualify as homemade
3) why on earth I'd thought of #2 above
4) and what on earth you planned to do with an indeterminate number of them

I need coffee.

The Black Country has a long tradition of camel-making as a cottage industry, I believe. I've seen scholars argue that the Industrial Revolution would never have happened without the impetus of the single hump-double hump rivalry. In some ways it's a shame that the skill has almost died out. A good home-made camel can be a work of art.

 

[onehitwanda]

The Black Country has a long tradition of camel-making as a cottage industry, I believe. I've seen scholars argue that the Industrial Revolution would never have happened without the impetus of the single hump-double hump rivalry. In some ways it's a shame that the skill has almost died out. A good home-made camel can be a work of art.

I'm a double-hump girl. A single just leaves me feeling... cheated.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm a double-hump girl. A single just leaves me feeling... cheated.

Single-humpers will tell you that it's all about quality, not quantity. But I agree. I prefer two humps as well. That said, when resources are scarce, you make do with what you have, and single-hump camel-making tells the story of a harder time in history.

 

[onehitwanda]

Single-humpers will tell you that it's all about quality, not quantity. But I agree. I prefer two humps as well. That said, when resources are scarce, you make do with what you have, and single-hump camel-making tells the story of a harder time in history.

To be fair, I have heard tales about women willing to cross vast, frigid tundras and scorching desserts (and the occasional desert as well) in pursuit of that elusive double-humper.

But then I also think that a lot of the time they're pursuing a Fata Morgana.

 

[StillStunned]

To be fair, I have heard tales about women willing to cross vast, frigid tundras and scorching desserts (and the occasional desert as well) in pursuit of that elusive double-humper.

But then I also think that a lot of the time they're pursuing a Fata Morgana.

Two humps are better than one.
Double the pleasure, double the fun.

 

[onehitwanda]

Two humps are better than one.
Double the pleasure, double the fun.

Alice the camel had no humps, so Alice was a horse.