White Collar vid rec

Streets of Gold by noiproksa (gen, ensemble, action)

noiproksa made a White Collar vid for me in the Fall Fandom Free-For-All, and it is wonderful! I asked for a fast-paced, cheerful ensemble vid, and this is PERFECT: great song choice and excellent editing and a whole slew of fun clips of the characters being their irrepressible, adorable selves. It made me smile so much, and now I need to go rewatch it A BUNCH, because it is made of happy. ♥ ♥

White Collar vid rec

Streets of Gold by noiproksa (gen, ensemble, action)

noiproksa made a White Collar vid for me in the Fall Fandom Free-For-All, and it is wonderful! I asked for a fast-paced, cheerful ensemble vid, and this is PERFECT: great song choice and excellent editing and a whole slew of fun clips of the characters being their irrepressible, adorable selves. It made me smile so much, and now I need to go rewatch it A BUNCH, because it is made of happy. ♥

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Somewhat random question

I'm seriously thinking about changing my journal name. I'm Sholio everywhere but here: on ff.net, on AO3, and most recently on my fanfic website since I bought the domain name "sholiofic" a couple of years ago.

I originally started using "friendshipper" back in 2005 on a lark, really. Sholio had been my pseudonym in anime/manga fandom, and since I'd been out of fandom for a couple of years and didn't really consider myself a part of my old fandoms anymore, I wanted something fresh for LJ. I thought "friendshipper" sounded cute, and appropriate for the sort of thing that I normally write.

But I'm not really happy with it anymore. It's too overtly fannish, for one thing. I feel a little weird using this journal to comment outside my usual circle of friends, especially if I'm commenting on non-fannish posts. And it's too 'shippy for my tastes anymore -- or too blatantly unshippy, really. I feel like I'm wearing my status as a genficcer on my sleeve in a more ostentatious way than I'm comfortable with.

And I like the idea of being consistent in my fandom persona across all of the sites I frequent.

But I've been "friendshipper" on LJ for 6 years now, and that's where most of my online social interaction has taken place. Would it throw people off too terribly if all of a sudden I change my name?

Poll #8336

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41

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Would you find it difficult to adjust if I changed my journal name?

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Probably not; I already know you as Sholio elsewhere anyway
20 (48.8%)

It would be a little disconcerting at first, but I'd get used to it
15 (36.6%)

I think of you as "friendshipper" and I think it would be hard for me to adjust to a new name
0 (0.0%)

Having changed my journal name myself, I say go for it! I did it and don't regret it.
2 (4.9%)

Having changed my journal name myself, I didn't find the adjustment and difficulty worth it.
0 (0.0%)

I have no opinion about it. It's your journal, after all.
2 (4.9%)

... other?
2 (4.9%)

LJ version of this poll

(Obviously I'm not going to base my decision solely on the results of a poll. But since I don't think of myself as sholio OR "Sholio", but rather as my RL name, it doesn't actually matter to me all that much what my LJ/DW name is -- and so the poll results do matter to some extent, because I'm balancing my general dissatisfaction with "friendshipper" versus the amount of disruption it would cause me socially to change it.)

Somewhat random question

I'm seriously thinking about changing my journal name. I'm Sholio everywhere but here: on ff.net, on AO3, and most recently on my fanfic website since I bought the domain name "sholiofic" a couple of years ago.

I originally started using "friendshipper" back in 2005 on a lark, really. Sholio had been my pseudonym in anime/manga fandom, and since I'd been out of fandom for a couple of years and didn't really consider myself a part of my old fandoms anymore, I wanted something fresh for LJ. I thought "friendshipper" sounded cute, and appropriate for the sort of thing that I normally write.

But I'm not really happy with it anymore. It's too overtly fannish, for one thing. I feel a little weird using this journal to comment outside my usual circle of friends, especially if I'm commenting on non-fannish posts. And it's too 'shippy for my tastes anymore -- or too blatantly unshippy, really. I feel like I'm wearing my status as a genficcer on my sleeve in a more ostentatious way than I'm comfortable with.

And I like the idea of being consistent in my fandom persona across all of the sites I frequent.

But I've been "friendshipper" on LJ for 6 years now, and that's where most of my online social interaction has taken place. Would it throw people off too terribly if all of a sudden I change my name?

[Poll #1787384]

(By the way, when you answer the LJ poll it will take you to this backdated entry because that's the only way I could figure out to get LJ to let me post a poll in a crossposted entry. I should probably have just made a new LJ entry anyway, but I tried this workaround instead. SORRY.)

DW version of this poll

(Obviously I'm not going to base my decision solely on the results of a poll. But since I don't think of myself as friendshipper OR "Sholio", but rather as my RL name, it doesn't actually matter to me all that much what my LJ/DW name is -- and so the poll results do matter to some extent, because I'm balancing my general dissatisfaction with "friendshipper" versus the amount of disruption it would cause me socially to change it.)

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