Your namesake is prettttttyyyyy! *veg* Ha, now I'm just picturing myself writing fic for that pairing and making him a total Mary Sue, I mean come on! He has my name! That's just *asking* to be Mary Sued. :P
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. *nods* I also work in an environment where people are friendly and ask you a lot about what you do outside of work and to be honest, I don't do a lot other than fandom. I'm not going to try and lie if someone asks me what I did on my vacation. I'm always a little surprised when people do. I once lived with a woman who was really super into fandom. If you went to her house she had fandom stuff on all the walls and would go to all the cons, etc. But she told me she doesn't let "RL people" know about her fannish stuff. She said she'd come out at work about being a lesbian before she would admit to being a sci fi fan. I found that really weird.
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... 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. Secret handshake aside, I generally don't come out about slash either. It's not really because I'm ashamed of it, or because I was told to keep it a secret, it's more because a lot of people just don't understand the appeal. Males finding lesbians hot is well established but no one understands why women would find gay men hot. It's just not worth it to try and explain.
LJ is really the only place now that I use a pseud. My yahoo.groups all have the sig Linda, my first name. That's very similar for me too. I find it a bit weird to refer to myself as paraka. On mailing lists or when I'm chatting with people I always call myself Lindsay. Hell, the way my email is set up it shows my first and last name, so they all know my name over there if they care to look. Plus I use my LJ email, so it really wouldn't be hard for the mailing list people to put two and two together. Granted googling my RL name doesn't bring anything about me up, even if you're patient enough to go back to the 50th page of hits (which I've done in the past).
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Ha, now I'm just picturing myself writing fic for that pairing and making him a total Mary Sue, I mean come on! He has my name! That's just *asking* to be Mary Sued. :P
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.
*nods* I also work in an environment where people are friendly and ask you a lot about what you do outside of work and to be honest, I don't do a lot other than fandom. I'm not going to try and lie if someone asks me what I did on my vacation.
I'm always a little surprised when people do. I once lived with a woman who was really super into fandom. If you went to her house she had fandom stuff on all the walls and would go to all the cons, etc. But she told me she doesn't let "RL people" know about her fannish stuff. She said she'd come out at work about being a lesbian before she would admit to being a sci fi fan. I found that really weird.
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... 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.
Secret handshake aside, I generally don't come out about slash either. It's not really because I'm ashamed of it, or because I was told to keep it a secret, it's more because a lot of people just don't understand the appeal. Males finding lesbians hot is well established but no one understands why women would find gay men hot. It's just not worth it to try and explain.
LJ is really the only place now that I use a pseud. My yahoo.groups all have the sig Linda, my first name.
That's very similar for me too. I find it a bit weird to refer to myself as