The Great MoFo Delurk of 2007! …and the nastiest hot mess I’ve seen in a while.
I stole this from Allison over at Reality on Bravo; it’s The Great MoFo Delurk of 2007! (Okay, so it’s a day late. Hush. Man, why did they have to put dates on the buttons?)
What does that mean? That means that all you lurkers out there - and I know there’s a bunch of you; this site gets a couple hundred visits a day, and a decent percentage of you are repeats - need to stop being so quiet and speak up! Even if only for this one post, click that little comment link down there and leave a note. Introduce yourself! What’s your name, what’s your sign, how’s it hang, where are you from, why do you keep creeping on by here to watch me make an arse out of myself on a regular basis?
Hell, I’ll even start, even though this is all old news. I’m Adri, 27, an Aries who completely ignores astrology unless he needs a good laugh, and I am spectacularly gay and just about as pretty as I can be without being too flaming. …I’m also quite full of it on that last part, but allow me my moments of vanity followed by the usual self-deprecation. I’m from the New Orleans area, I currently live in Houston, and with any luck by next year I’ll have fled to Chicago and found a publisher for my first novel. I have a silly little smart aleck of a boyfriend named Takeshii, but still daydream about running away to Acapulco with a moderately articulate version of Vin Diesel - and if you think I’m an arse, you ought to meet my cat. Why am I here?
…well…’cause it’s my job. That, and I enjoy the feedback and opposing viewpoints people offer when I get up on my pulpit about current issues in the gay world. So why so silent lately, kids? I’ve made an idiot out of myself introducing myself on my own blog, so…even if I already know you, now it’s your turn; do it so the other visitors can get to know you, too.
Ready…set…delurk!
…I think I made the coffee a little too strong this morning. When I sound perky, it’s time for a bloody tranquilizer. Anyway…if you want to participate in The Great MoFo Delurk on your own blog, just click that little icon up there and get your own code.
See you tomorrow with something a little less…fluffy. In fact, while we’re introducing ourselves, let me introduce you to someone, if you haven’t already met him. (I’d be surprised if you hadn’t, but just in case this hot mess missed some obscure corner of the internet, here I am to spread the…um…love.) His name is Chris Crocker, and he’s an embarrassment to gay boys everywhere.
…you may want to turn your volume down before watching that.
If that doesn’t get your trainwreck syndrome going, I don’t know what will.
the great mofo delurk, chris crocker, youtube, britney spears, omfgwhat?
October 4th, 2007 at 7:56 am
I should have known you were an Aries xD We really are black and white in a lot of ways =P
And is that the guy who cried about people badmouthing Britney Spears? My bloodpressure drops too much from things like that to watch it myself, but a friend told me about him. It’s kind of sad.
I’m looking forward to meeting new people on here, so please introduce yourselves! =D
I’m 20, from Belgium, religious (and often irritated by others who claim the same thing), exhausted, and too nice for my own good. I’m a Sword-and-Sorcery kind of girl, I read, write a little, game a little, and watch too much anime and movies. That’s all I can think of right now!
October 4th, 2007 at 8:07 am
19, English, androgynous goth-girl, fantasy RPG and novel addict, politics and human rights student. Bi/poly by nature, so I’ve got good reason to keep up with bits and pieces of news- even if they are in America rather than Britain, they can still influence decisions over here.
Not quite a lurker- just an occasional commenter.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Not so sure I qualify as a lurker. Lurkette? Either. I don’t know. Haha.
0_0
October 4th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Yes, watching it for the second time did give me the same WTF response as the first time! … How can anyone whine that much? Seriously!
… might as well be just like everyone else.
23, I think ::counts:: Yes. 23! Taurus, Wood Rat in Chinese astrology. When I was little I was always sad that I wasn’t the Tiger. Then I married one. :3 Uh… from Seattle, Washington and someday I will flee to Victoria, BC. I game, I make chainmaile… I RP way to fucking much. ::Grins::
And now? I have ee-lurked!
October 4th, 2007 at 11:42 am
I lurk but sometimes comment.
Hrm. 26 on saturday, Libra (yet unbalanced). The split difference of Texas and Colorado=where I’m from. I’m too much in love with DMC3’s Dante and Vergil, as well as Vincent. If you don’t know Vincent…you’re silly. Also read too much, beta too much, and watch too much anime. Live with an epileptic cat, brain damaged dog, nymphomaniacal bird, senile father and pyromaniac sister.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Trust me, Amanda, Adrien knows Vincent.
Heyo. I’m Reynai (online at least), I’m 24 (though if you shave off my moustache, I don’t look a day over 20… which is why I never do, even after the headhunters told me it made me unemployable), a Cancer (*insert joke here*) who lives in Michigan, home of the failing economy.
Lately I’ve been avoiding selling alcohol and cigarettes to people who, by selling to, I’d be arrested, while working my 6pm-2am convenience store job. And trying to get my coworkers/boss to let me spend more time doing things in the backroom/cooler, because there aren’t any people back there. Ah, being an introvert cashier….
Well, I’m gay with a side order of thinking that some women are sexy..but I wouldn’t wanna have sex with one. Probably puts me on Kinsey 5 with psychological issue leanings… I think Jewel Staite, Amber Benson, Anthony Head, Nathan Fillion, and Alice Cooper are hot, which should give some insight into how weird my tastes are.
I play tennis (badly), video games (quite well), and online roleplaying games (not MMORGs)… and I have a cardstock model of a Dralthi fighter on my computer monitor. If you know what that is, I think I love you.
Um….is that delurked enough?
I’ll go back to my FF12 play then. Ta!
October 4th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Yo’, I’m Kate. 25, Chicagoan, Aries. I am addicted to, in no particular order, House, forum trolling, George R. R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, WoW, Balthier, Private Stock, Lost, Silvers, annnnd… muscle cars. I’m chronically unsatisfied with my life and always will be. I’m a huge geek. Now I am thinking with portals. I am obsessed with books, and with paper. I
October 4th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
HEY IT CUT MY POST OFF.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
That happens sometimes, to a lot of people. Don’t take it personally ^_^
Should I add that I am a Capricorn and a Tiger?
Also I know what a Drahlti fighter is… And who Vincent and Dante and Vergil are. I’m probably proud of that.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
GODS I hate that Chris Crocker idiot.
I’m Anji, or Gia, or Ang, or Wench, depending on who’s talking to me. I’ll be 22 on Tuesday, which makes me a Libra. Not that I believe in astrology, particularly, but I seem to embody this particular sign. I’m from the Baltimore area and hate it so very much that I am already making plans to move the hell away as soon as I graduate…which isn’t for another two years. I’ll have my associate’s degree in Professional Cooking and Baking this December and then I’ll be going to a cheaper state university for my bachelor’s in business management. I dye my hair a lot and worship the Egyptian gods and have an obsession with Anthony Bourdain that borders on scary and I’m giving up smoking by the end of the year and I have an affinity for wearing odd-colored make-up and I can recite Clerks nearly word for word. Hm. What else? Oh! I have a really cute girlfriend.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Kate: It hates you.
Reynai: …methinks I fanboy on my LJ too much with Vincent.
Which make of the Dralthi fighter?
Anji: What else? You write run-on sentences worse than mine, woman!
October 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I’m a student, 18, Sagittarius. I’m geeky, cynical, and a complete arsehole, but I live in England, so I can blame the weather.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Well, I’m not sure I really qualify as a lurker since I only tend to remember to check back here every month or so and then read all the entries posted since the last month. So that isn’t quite lurking but I figure it’s close enough. Plus I’ve been meaning to comment, I just always want to comment on an old entry and feel like I’m too late. Maybe now I’ll remember to check more often?
Soo, I’m Anna! 20, female and technically bi, although I completely despise that term, mostly due to its use by the scads of self-described “bi” girls my age who’re actually straight and looking to get attention from boys by way of some girl-on-girl. Sounds like a quick and easy way to a broken heart (not to mention a sick stomach) for an actual bisexual! Soo, I tend to think of myself as just not straight or queer. I’m also an Aquarius who takes no stock in horoscopes, and I’m studying biology and photography, both of which I adore.
I read your blog because I’m very interested in GLBT politics and this is a good place to find out what’s up, and get some amusing commentary, too. I love amusing commentary. Oh, and I also think your comics are awesome.
So… Hi!
October 4th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
…lurk, lurk, lurk…
hello…I’m Shirvona, I live in England and I’m 17 nearly 18 (omg nearly an adult scaaary)…Scorpio…female…running out of inspiration? I love Chris Crocker, he’s so easy to mock. Actually I have ‘I heart Chris Crocker’ written all over my schoolbooks coz my friend thought it would be amusing…on reflection, I think I need new friends.
I am apparently overly fond of ellipses.
I draw stuff, read a lot and spend waaaaay too much time on teh intarwub. I’m told I talk too fast. I make jokes that no-one understands and find new cutlery amusing. I’m probably bi but not really sure. I study History, English, French, Politics and Critical Thinking (yeah I don’t really know what it is either). Once a week I learn karate.
I read your blog coz I like the comics and I find it amusing and I have a slightly homophobic friend I like to piss off by reading it aloud. I’m working on making her more broad minded but it is an uphill struggle.
Am I sufficiently delurked? I may comment again now I have crept trembling from my comfy lurking hole.
October 4th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Mostly known as Fluffy and occasionally known as Simon, 19, sleep-dep’d college student, nuclear reactor operator, and shame-filled genre fiction wannabe writer. Yeah.
October 4th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
I definitely count as a lurker. I don’t necessarily mean to be, but I come by, read the article(s) and then scramble to finish the homework I was supposed to do an hour earlier. I’m 23 and a grad student in Hawai’i, which requires all students be sleep deprived. I’m a Pisces and a Rat, and if I were born a day later, I’d only be 4 and 3/4. Gotta love leap years. I love fantasy and sci fi and manga, and I’m a dork for the older British actors, like Alan Rickman and Hugh Laurie. I come here because I like to be informed, and I like the style Adri uses to inform us. He amuses me. ~smirk~
Yeah, that’s about it from me for now. Maybe I’ll actually try commenting from time to time now.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
HEY.
I LIKE my run-on sentences.
I forgot to mention that I’m probably the only lipstick lesbian in Baltimore.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Am I too late for Lurkers Anon? Hm. No?
I’d like to see if I have any talent for writing but right now my art muse has enough fun torturing me. I don’t think I can handle a story muse bullying me too.
Well then, I’m Luci (online).Female. Age 22. Cancer with a Leo ascendent which (if you know what that is and what that means) actually sums up my manic-depressive, jackilene-and-hyde, never-has-a-clue personality pretty well. I don’t really buy into astrology but I gave it a shot before deciding its not for me. I think im a Bull or Cow or whatnot in the chinese year. *shrug*
I’m from southern california, just not any of the fun places in that region. I go to college and am thinking of switching to an art major (I started out all science-y, go figure). I’m a professional lurker, I admit. I actually came across Adrien’s stuff when I stumbled across the comic-that-shall-not-be-named-here a few years ago. Loved the art and the rants so when I heard he was being paid for it, of course I happily tagged along. I also lurk on another of his sites which i guess I’ll have to start posting on now too. ;P Like Anna I tend to want to post on stuff thats old, or to post my VERY strange humor (which as part of an into can be very bad for first impressions). I guess I’m hetero but haven’t really experimented enough to say for certain. Why am i here then? Curiosity. I figured here there is a diverse group of all kinds of people, sharing their opinions and experiences. Overall I find it to be a very humanizing experience. Walking in anothers shoes I guess. Probably one of the best ways to learn. Anyway, I’m in to art, books, role-playing games (WoW is my addiction), anime (way too much), snazzy humor
And I think I’ve taken up enough space here. Back to my camo-bush to lurk some more.
October 4th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
This has got to be a record for this blog =D
October 4th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
*pokes head out of camo-bush*
Aaaaaaannnnnndd apparently I talk too much. Even when I type instead. Ha. *headdesk*
Sorry.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Me. Amy Shelton (since I know there’s another Amy floating around here somewhere), a.k.a. Storymaker, Sailorgirl (when I was in the Navy), and Abodaore (on select sites–go on, ask about the name). 33, 34 next month, Scorpio–good for a laugh–disabled bisexual generic Christian lunatic (I’m Bipolar, too) that flirts with pretty much anything with only two legs and a nose. Overweight, missing two upper front teeth, overbite, glasses, and a dog. You want more, go to okcupid and look up Abodaore. If you make a profile there, we can be friends.
And, if you’re REALLY curious, you can check out my blog. http://mundanelifeofashelton.blogspot.com/
Disclaimer: I am not to be held responsible for any adverse effects from reading my blog.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Name’s Lala and I’ve been reading your stuff since I stumbled across [old comic] three years back. Loving No Style just as much too!! I Just turned 20, double majoring in French and Japanese in Canuk Canada land (Toronto :P) I consider myself to be asexual and I find your articles amazing! (hence the reason I leave random comments sporadically) I love comic books such as V for Vendetta and manga (though not to the level of the new fans…they’re scary)
Pleased to meet you!
Peace, love and chocolate chip cookie dough!
October 4th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Hey, my name is also Adri (well it’s short for my middle name Adrienne, but it’s what I mainly use).
I’m 17, will be 18 at the end of the month. I’m in college in SoCal (but from NorCal) and like it down here better. I’m majoring in either math or math and physics.
I read this because I am a lesbian and I like my LGBT news delivered with a dose of humor. It also amuses me that I sort of have the same name as the writer.
Adri S.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Well. Hi. I’m Ryn. I’m stupidly shy and a habitual lurker. I’m 18 and I live in a small house in rural Pennsylvania where the farm land is rapidly being developed into those creepy clone houses. I like to read, and I especially like small shops with leaning towers of used books, a maze of shelves, and paperbacks for fifty cents. I also like to write, but I’m not very good at it. I’m very much a night person.
Also, for someone who has trouble keeping up with news (the lack of magic, swords, or humor seems to bore me- says something about my attention span, doesn’t it?), this is a good place to catch up on a few things.
I visit here because it helps me feel slightly less alone living in a place where not much is understood outside of gay or straight, and bisexual is just another word for slut. So, thanks for that.
Oh. Chris Crocker scares me, mostly because I don’t know what to do with anyone that hysterical. I’m pretty quiet and outbursts like that confuse and frighten me. Especially when they’re about Britney Spears.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:24 am
20-year-old Cancerous Rabbit (Tiger, Sihaya? Awww….) Androgynous Irreverent half-Japanese nerd-girl who fits most definitions of “straight.” I have an LJ (site above) which has exactly 1 non-friends-locked entry in the last 3 months, and I like to friend people but am unlikely to unless there is an established connection (through *that* comic, most likely)
CS major who enjoys coding more than the technicalities, and is easily distracted (case in point? Should be finishing AI project now). Recent addict of Slashdot, old addict of BoingBoing (why oh why did they add commenting?)
Likes: anime, manga, console RPGs, strategy RPGs such as Fire Emblem, White Wolf (most exposure through Exalted), Dungeons and Dragons (loving Eberron, skeptical about 4.0)
I do like to talk more than I like to blog (not saying much); my AIM is Crolapras. (Did I mention I was a huge Pokemon fan and mostly still am?). I like to argue though, and sometimes I get too caught up in debate to be careful about what I’m saying, so be warned.
Another blogging note: I am a recent addict of X/1999. My spare time *snort* goes towards adapting d20 Modern to a setting in which such a scenario could easily occur. If I actually get to writing things in a coherent fashion (this is very hard for me) it might appear on my blog someday.
I am here because I have always respected Adri and so will follow him where he goes, although in the past I have been too shy to ask the way–and still am. I’m weird like that.
*breathe* I think I’ve had too much expresso. Bzzt.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Ooh, and an interest that hasn’t been covered yet: Pheonix Wright. Miles Edgeworth =
October 5th, 2007 at 2:04 am
Everyone fanboys something. Well, not everyone, but you know what I mean.
And it’s the original WC1 version, not the Mark IV (I believe) that showed up in WC3. I never did like any of the Wing Commanders after 2, for some reason… Maybe it was Mark Hamill? It just didn’t look or feel the same.
October 5th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Likes: anime, manga, console RPGs, strategy RPGs such as Fire Emblem, White Wolf (most exposure through Exalted), Dungeons and Dragons (loving Eberron, skeptical about 4.0)
I knew there was a reason whi I love you so much xD
And I’m still a Tiger because I was born before Chinese new year… ^_^
October 5th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I’m Joe, the token gay republican. HA! Um, I’m a gemini, and I hate long walks on the beach. Chicago is my home, but work drags me to both coasts a lot and overseas, too.
The main reason I read Darkside Rainbow is because of Adrien’s insight. Most gay bloggers or bloggers on gay issues make me gag from their smug superiority and insane belief that if you don’t agree with their views it makes you “not gay”, or something. I don’t know, maybe Adrien thinks so, too, but he certainly hides it well
October 7th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
I’m a gay Republican too! Weird.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Horray! Usually, I feel so alone xD
October 9th, 2007 at 3:12 am
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October 10th, 2007 at 9:28 am
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October 10th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I’m late as usual. As some other commenters have admitted, I don’t usually read when the posts are current. However, I believe I may have commented once. Maybe not. Anyway, hi I’m Unbalanced. I don’t read comics or play RPG’s (ha! I figured out what that was as I was reading the comments). I am a scorpio and a lesbian (RSG, actually). I love ready my cheeky daily horoscope but can never remember it for more than 5 minutes. I am definitely everything that embodies a scorpio. I believe I’m a Dragon… can’t remember. I’m 30 and I have 3 kids, my oldest daughter who is 14 is bisexual and shared the same sentiment that Anna shared earlier. I come hear because I adore Adri’s snarky sense of humor. I don’t keep up with news very well because inevitable it bores me. Here a get a good dose of news that entertains as well. Oh and I LOVE the comics.
Yeah, so that was fun and not so painful. Maybe I’ll comment again.