who do you know?

[sweetnpetite]

Who do you know in r/l from lit?

Anybody correspond off line- letters or phone calls or messanger pigion?

ps- not meant to be a nosy question or about things you feel are private. just in general, who knows who that wants to share.

The only one I know here is Seaknight. But he posts so rarely as to be almost invisible. I don't know any regulars.

how chummy are the rest of y'all?

 

[cloudy]

There's several here that I communicate with other than on here. I met them here, but we've exchanged phone calls, gifts, etc.

Dran, of course, is one, but the others I'll just keep to myself.

 

[nikkijames]

Rikkaim.

 

[Kassiana]

No one, though I have talked on the phone to BlueElf once. Very nice guy. Good voice. I've met other people from the Net before IRL. I may meet some more at Arkenstock if I go this year.

 

[Liar]

Depends on your definition of "know". I have casual contact off Lit with a few via mail and IM. But not many knows the true man behind the mask ... I mean nose.

I know two members personally in that parrallell universe called Real Life, but they're not active anymore.

 

[carsonshepherd]

OhMissScarlett and I have been best friends since the eighth grade. She introduced me to Lit and we use it as a fun way to interact online because we live 5 hours apart.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

BlackSnake! Haven't met face to face, but we've had plenty of interaction that wasn't in these boards. He's easily one of the coolest cats in Lit.

 

[Guest]

 

[~photoguy~]

i chat on Yahoo with a few, but no meetings in RL, yet... maybe someday for coffee, or dinner, or ... whatever

 

[cantdog]

I met someone and mentioned what I do here. She said, "Literotica? I'm on there!" and told me her handle here. She doesn't post anymore, though her photo is still on her profile. I keep imagining that one day she'll revisit the place. That would be one.

Strange to meet in real life and only discover afterward that you're on the net together.

There's also a person who lives in the South of new england. I travel to Lowell frequently, as things like that go, for overnight stays at the apartment of some close friends. This person heard me say that, or rather, read me writing that. I shall try to stop by to visit the next time I make the pilgrimage to the mills.

That will be two, if and when.

Otherwise, you are all, so far, 'net figments.

I can make you alll disappear-- any time I want to.



cantdog

 

[tolyk]

I met a woman from Lit back in August. She no longer posts here nor do I have any contact with her anymore (unfortunately).

She didn't frequent the AH.

 

[shereads]

Thanks to Cantdog, I was inspired to take a meaningful detour from a business trip in the Dominican Republic, and visited a church in La Romana where our favorite athiest has done missionary work. I was traveling with people I'd known for over a year and felt less connected with than I did with Cdog that day. They didn't want to bother with La Romana; Cdog is a man who clearly takes pleasure in bothering with places and people most of us don't notice.

It was a highlight of the trip, and the one business associate who agreed to come with me ended up loving the town. It reminded him of the hometown in Cuba that he last saw as a child. "Identical," he said, "right down to the plantains hanging in the door of the corner market."

It felt as if we had met. Thanks CDog.

~ ~ ~

As for others I may or may not have met, I ain't sayin'.



It would be like providing a roomful of sugar addicts with directions to Candyland.

 

[shereads]

Since I'm relatively new here, the only person I know is LonelyKnight, and that's because I sucked him into the site. LK and I have known each other through another board, MSN and telephone convos for almost a year.

I'm looking forward to getting to know more people.

Welcome, new person.

 

[cantdog]

I felt a bond with you during that trip, too.

It was moving to suddenly lift the trivial connection of a forum into something real, especially at such a distance.

My recommendation of the place rested on the tenuous idea that a person I knew so indirectly was sensitive enough to appreciate the place. La Romana's value and beauty are not of its surface. You breathed the sweet acrid smoke of the sugar plant and met that silly round man and felt as I did, despite the long odds that it would be like that.

Then Altos de Chavon.

I have never forgotten it. We met as surely as if we'd gone to shake one another's hand at some airport or bus station and spent a day wondering what to say, and to much more point than such a physical meeting would have had.

I didn't presume to mention it, but I am gratified you did. One of my greatest treasures out of my time here.

 

[shereads]

I felt a bond with you during that trip, too.

It was moving to suddenly lift the trivial connection of a forum into something real, especially at such a distance.

My recommendation of the place rested on the tenuous idea that a person I knew so indirectly was sensitive enough to appreciate the place. La Romana's value and beauty are not of its surface. You breathed the sweet acrid smoke of the sugar plant and met that silly round man and felt as I did, despite the long odds that it would be like that.

Then Altos de Chavon.

I have never forgotten it. We met as surely as if we'd gone to shake one another's hand at some airport or bus station and spent a day wondering what to say, and to much more point than such a physical meeting would have had.

I didn't presume to mention it, but I am gratified you did. One of my greatest treasures out of my time here.

Mine too.

But try explaining to a couple of co-workers that you're not having breakfast with them because there's a Baptist church you need to visit on behalf of a missionary you met at a porn site. People can be so dense sometimes.

 

[cantdog]

 

[TheEarl]

I know Elsie Grey from RL. She read my stories, read my posts and I coerced her onto the AH. And now, there's no escape.

Apart from that, there's few people on here who even know my first name and only a couple who've seen my face. Mr Paranoia partly, but partly cause I like to keep this self separate.

The Earl

 

[SensualCealy]

Ravin the Poet, even though we have never met in person, we took a writing class online together.
C

 

[impressive]

No one ... yet. I do feel a bond with certain Litizens, though.

 

[Guest]

quite a few actually
but not as many as i would like.
one day, maybe...maybe no.

hrm.. pointless post.

 

[cantdog]

Good morning vella. Get some coffee!

 

[SensualCealy]

Its funny, some of the people you meet on here you become close to, you learn about them outside of posts to the point they are friends, you care about them when they are down, you are happy for them when they are up, you want to know whats new in their lives and offer them help when they ask, or dont ask! lol

Meeting face to face doesnt mean you are any closer then meeting in person. I have friends on here I will cherish forever, and some people that I have met in r/l Id rather forget! lol
C

 

[cantdog]

I dunno. It feels a lot more three dimensional in real life, all the same. You can delude yourself in both places and believe you know a person when you don't, too.

It's always complex where people are concerned, isn't it?

 

[Guest]

I only "know" one person here, and that's me. Half the time even that isn't true.

However, I do know one other here, in the biblical sense.

Lou

 

[sweetnpetite]

Its funny, some of the people you meet on here you become close to, you learn about them outside of posts to the point they are friends, you care about them when they are down, you are happy for them when they are up, you want to know whats new in their lives and offer them help when they ask, or dont ask! lol

Meeting face to face doesnt mean you are any closer then meeting in person. I have friends on here I will cherish forever, and some people that I have met in r/l Id rather forget! lol
C

here! here!

and since no one has made an offtopic post about avs for a while, yours is beautiful.