I knew your name before I got hooked into the slashfic concerning your namesake and a certain male youknowwhat who shall not be named here. I'd watched the series from the beginning, but only went 'omg if they're not doing it they should be!' recently after seeing repeats. Your namesake is prettttttyyyyy! *veg*
Yep. I'm like you. My workmates, before I retired, knew all my travel was to sf/media conventions, and that I worked on the local ones. I was always talking about shows and fandom, as it was just the way I was.
I've since retired and moved into a retirement home, and while I don't chat a lot to the residents, they know I still go to sf conventions when I can.
I've never made a secret of my zine hobby. And I've loaned gen zines to pretty much anyone who asked to see them. There were a lot of closet Blake's 7 fans out there. *g*
I think only the slash has been a secret, and I think that is more from conditioning than anything else. I've never been shy about supporting gay rights, and people know I read alot, and I've loaned a few folk some of my vampire homoerotic novels. But I started out in a slash fandom where you needed both a secret handshake and someone to vouch for you in order to be allowed into the club. Pro's fandom had secrecy down to a fine art, and so the whole idea of under the table, secret handshakes, and pseudonyms just seemed like how slash business was done.
I just transferred that to LJ once I started an account. Funnily enough, LJ is really the only place now that I use a pseud. My yahoo.groups all have the sig Linda, my first name. I never use my last name, but there are so many Linda's out there that I've never seen the need to use something else for safety or privacy reasons.
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I knew your name before I got hooked into the slashfic concerning your namesake and a certain male youknowwhat who shall not be named here. I'd watched the series from the beginning, but only went 'omg if they're not doing it they should be!' recently after seeing repeats. Your namesake is prettttttyyyyy! *veg*
Yep. I'm like you. My workmates, before I retired, knew all my travel was to sf/media conventions, and that I worked on the local ones. I was always talking about shows and fandom, as it was just the way I was.
I've since retired and moved into a retirement home, and while I don't chat a lot to the residents, they know I still go to sf conventions when I can.
I've never made a secret of my zine hobby. And I've loaned gen zines to pretty much anyone who asked to see them. There were a lot of closet Blake's 7 fans out there. *g*
I think only the slash has been a secret, and I think that is more from conditioning than anything else. I've never been shy about supporting gay rights, and people know I read alot, and I've loaned a few folk some of my vampire homoerotic novels. But I started out in a slash fandom where you needed both a secret handshake and someone to vouch for you in order to be allowed into the club. Pro's fandom had secrecy down to a fine art, and so the whole idea of under the table, secret handshakes, and pseudonyms just seemed like how slash business was done.
I just transferred that to LJ once I started an account. Funnily enough, LJ is really the only place now that I use a pseud. My yahoo.groups all have the sig Linda, my first name. I never use my last name, but there are so many Linda's out there that I've never seen the need to use something else for safety or privacy reasons.