It's Lurker Day!

[soc_puppet]

Hello to everyone, and happy Spring Lurker Day 2011! I actually only have half an hour before I need to be at work (more hours + sleeping in + slacking off in fannish stuff = bad combo for Lurker Day, unfortunately), but I'm going to do the best I can with the time I've got :)

For those of you as yet unfamiliar with Lurker Day, it's a semi-annual, informal holiday I established a few years back (mostly for myself) to celebrate internet lurking in all of its (healthy) forms. For those of us who lurk at blogs and journals, accessing public content but not interested or afraid to delurk; for those of us who access that same content and contribute with comments; for those of us who provide that content and may or may not have lurkers of our own: welcome, I say to you, and Happy Lurker Day!

If you're shy (like me) and want/need an excuse to delurk, well, here it is for you :) If you're happy lurking and want to continue doing that, that's cool too! If you're not a lurker and we comment back and forth sometimes, that is also cool! If we already know each other but neglect commenting liek woah, this is also a great excuse to say "Hi" again ¦3b Whoever you are, I'll be celebrating today with warm feelings and welcomes to all of you, and hopefully some art and/or writing later today for you to enjoy ♥ I'm also planning to put the vargouille pattern up on hooked_on_anime, which will hopefully end this most recent period of me being a giant fail over there, s-sigh.

I think that's all for now. Happy lurking/delurking/non-lurking/other to everyone, and please feel free to join in the celebration if you so choose :)

(Twenty minutes left until work, woo! I can so do this!

Comments

[dorothean]

Hi again! :D

[soc_puppet]

Hello ^_^

[eviltammy]

Lurk. Lurklurklurk.

Hi!

[back to lurking]

[soc_puppet]

:D *lurker dance time?*

[carrie_ironhorse]

Hallo!

I think I lurk less here than most places on the internets, funnily enough. I always hoped I'd be less shy on the internet, but it's rarely the case. :P :)

[soc_puppet]

Hi ^__^

I usually find I do better after the initial introducing-myself hurdle, which was probably a big motivation to create Lurker Day on my part ^^a Still, I'm glad you're not too lurk-y here <3 It's always fun to talk to you :)

currently lurking...

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, I didn't know today is lurker day, then again, I keep on forgetting, so happy lurker day then. :D

:D Hi, lurker! ♥

[soc_puppet]

I'm not much better; I usually forget until it's only a few days away, and then I flail trying to get stuff ready ^^a And I implemented it, so one would figure I'd be better at remembering it. Apparently not, though 6_6;;;

[leek]

Happy Lurker Day!

I am actually a brand-new lurker on your journal (which, um, probably means I'm not a lurker at all since I just got here and I'm already speaking up but anyway).

Mostly just wanted to say that I saw your comment on Shakesville tonight where you mentioned liking fanfic and your were on Shakesville fo crying out loud! It's not often that I see that intersection between my fandom funtimes and my fascination with sociology/social justice/politic!RAGE, so it made me smile to read your comment.

So, hi!

[soc_puppet]

X3 Close enough! Welcome, welcome, welcome ♥

Yay, another fannish Shaker \o\ I had a bit of an unintended break from fannish stuff for a while, but I'm falling end-over-assets back into it and remembering exactly why I love it so much. Putting the built-in community feelings of both fandom and feminism together is just the most delicious idea ever!

So yes, hi back ^__^

[ickaimp]

Drabbles up on the DW and LJ account as a Thank you.

http://ickaimp.dreamwidth.org/616040.html and http://ickaimp.livejournal.com/667595.html

Oh, and I lurk here!

[soc_puppet]

XD The lurking is mutual, I assure you ♥