Pronoun Trouble

And here's today's Lurker Day treat! For everyone hanging around this journal, it's just a little something to say "thanks for being here". Whether you want to talk or not, I'm glad you're reading/watching/whatever.



Title: "Clear Body"

Inspired by an exchange I had on Tumblr. I had a lot of fun drawing this, and while I would also really love to share the "making of" pics I have of it, having work today left me with less free time to organize that than I'd like 😅 Still, if coloring pages or Pokémon are things you like, I hope this was a good treat for you and that you have a very good Lurker Day!

I have lucked out! I've finally remembered the existence of Lurker Day close enough to when I used to traditionally celebrate it! (Well, one of the dates, anyway.)

For reference, Lurker Day is an imaginary, semi-annual holiday I came up with in early 2006 to celebrate lurkers, both those who want an excuse to introduce themselves, and those who are happy to stay lurking. I haven't done anything with it since 2011, but I've been feeling the need to try and bring it back for some time now. Maybe only once a year this time around instead of twice, but we'll see how it goes.

Anyway, Lurker Day! Yay! Coming up on September 2nd.

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!

Hello hello, and welcome to Lurker Day Spring 2010!

As you may know from Lurker Days past, I usually like to make a "masterpost" of as many Lurker Day links as I can track down. Unfortunately, for Lurker Day Fall '09, I seriously fell down on the job ^^a I still hope to more-or-less catch up, which I will probably get started on just as soon as I remember how to do that "look up a certain date on your friends list" thing.

Those new to Lurker Day can find information on it below the cut, including the Lurker Day concept post and masterposts from previous Lurker Days. I'll probably be adding links from my friends list as the day goes by, but I don't think I'll be quite as vigilant about it as I once was. (If I put up a link to your journal and you'd prefer it not be up, please feel free to let me know, I'll take it down right away. Likewise, if you have a post up that I haven't linked and you'd like it to be, I'll put it right up.) In the mean time, I still have to actually finish some stuff for today, s-so.

Anyhow, I hope you find something that interests you under the cut ♥

( Lurker Day Link Collection )

Good day everyone, and welcome to Lurker Day Fall '09! As per usual, this is where I'll be making my "masterpost", with links to all the Lurker Day posts I find, if only for my own ego. Once again, if you don't want a post linked - or do, and it's not up here - let me know and I'll make the appropriate edit. (Friends Locked entries will also be linked, with a note that they're locked. Because some of us have people friended, sometimes even mutually, and then forget to actually say anything to them most of the time ^^a)

Those new to Lurker Day can find information on it below the cut, including the Lurker Day concept post and masterposts from previous Lurker Days. I hope to add links as the day wears on, including some of my own, so keep an eye on things if it interests you ;)

( Links of Lurker Days past )

Happy Lurking, all ♥ And keep me updated on degrees of separation, dammit! I'm vain, and if they're friends locked from me, I won't learn any other way!

Four banners for your Lurker Day viewing/using pleasure today :Db All found under this handy dandy ( cut )

That's all I have for now. Hopefully I'll be able to get up a Lurker Day meme before I leave for work... Aaargh, why don't they look very good this tiiiime -_-#

Edit: "More scared than you" banner now a better size, orz ¬_¬ I am totally doing all the pre-editing in PaintShop next time, I swear.

( Here there be banners )

And that's all I have for now :3 Expect a fic meme up shortly.

You know what this is for, folks! Or possibly you don't if this is your first Lurker Day. If that's the case, this is the post where I like to collect links to all the Lurker Day posts I can find, because I'm vain like that. If you don't want a post linked - or do, and it's not up here - let me know and I'll make the appropriate edit. (Friends Locked entries will also be linked, with a note that they're locked.)

( Links go here )

No introductory posts this year, it looks like, but still a good crop overall ♥ I-I'm actually running a bit late on my posts this time around I blame Pokémon, so I might end up posting more stuff Tuesday-ish that was intended for today. So if I have any Lurkers who still need to psych up to do the big de-lurking thing, you get a bit of a rain check ;)

I will be keeping my eyes peeled for more posts as long as I can, though with dates and times conspiring against me this year, that might be a little harder than I'd like. Feel free to link me up to your posts and save me trouble ♥ Here's to three or more degrees of separation!

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For those of you unfamiliar with Lurker Day, it is a recent tradition started by Yours Truly, celebrated on the second day of March and September. More information can be found here.


In other news, finished the Potter book and have nothing particular to say ¦Db Well, okay, there is one thing I wish was different, but it's pretty minor, and that's what we have fanfic for, right? And I kinda feel like writing something Magic Realism-y, like I did way back in houseofsmex that one time someone talk me out of it, and also how does Magic Realism even work in a world that has regular magic. All in all, I was satisfied.

Edit: I... seem to have neglected to include a few of the more prominent shounen retard series in the list up there :D;;; F-failure. Um, add Air Gear, Bleach, Naruto and/or Shaman King on there mentally, I guess? Too late to edit poll :(

Or something like that. Anyway, Lurker Day is coming up again soon, so I spent an hour or so in front of the computer tonight making pretty, pretty banners. We have seven in all: four Yakitate!! Japan, one Avatar, one Day of Revolution, and one Detective Conan. (Images are copyright their respective owners, etc, I am just borrowing to celebrate a made-up holiday and stuff.)

Anyway, banners! And links and stuff. ( Under here. )

Edit: THIS REMINDS ME. If you don't know what Lurker Day is and wish to find out more, go here to discover its magical origins ¦D You can also click the tags for other related banners and entries and stuff.