Markaba was one of the folks most responsible for nudging me away from seeing an AoC as a necessary evil towards just seeing it as an evil. I'm sorry that he had such a radical shift away from some of those views. But his halfhearted turn away from advocacy didn't persuade me that he hadn't made a lot of sense earlier. That, and the fact that he was a fellow comix geek and amateur cartoonist led to some interesting convos.
LGsinmyheart is perhaps the closest I have to a soul-brother here. As-salaamu Aleikum, man. Heck, even our alt-nicks sometimes come to the same odd-ball conclusions. I also think that he's as cogent at picking apart flawed thinking as he is at assembling an essay. Marky's proposed "Best of GC" book would be incomplete without a handful of well selected essays from the guy.
During times when I was hurting everyone was very kind to me. But Jensman and Astronomer in particular helped see me through.
Taf-kat was one of the few advocates of the non-contact stance at a time when hardly anyone else was. While I hold it as a personal moral stance and not as an imperative; his willingness to hold his own inspired me. And his courage in sharing his legal struggles taught me a lot. His was the first sympathetic face I knew of who'd been processed by the legal system. Now I know of others here, and I am friends with an SO in RL. But Taffy showed me what the Injustice system is like. That and he's got an unrivaled knowledge of the music industry.
I'm also deeply indebted to anyone who ever argued with me and cited your sources. Whether you persuaded me or not, you gave me new information I had to incorporate; and in doing so, forced me to step-up.
While I largely missed the classic posting years for Rosesinherhair and CindyK, I was always impressed by the POVs shared by Ella, littleblondegirl and breedr to name three eloquent posters who shared so much.
There are so many more I could name. Some present and some gone from our pink pages. But as a collective; GC attracts more than its fair share of thoughtful posters.
Dante