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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 #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.)
(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![[personal profile]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.)
This entry is also posted at http://friendshipper.dreamwidth.org/382740.html with
comments.
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.)
(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.)This entry is also posted at http://friendshipper.dreamwidth.org/382740.html with
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So basically, hurray for whatever you decide. \o/
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I've toyed with the thought of changing my own user name, since I initially chose it under the belief that I'd be posting an online story. I have no real issues with it except for the occasional discomfort over it being a made up word for a story I may or may not write. But since I wasn't putting all that much effort into the decision-making process, I finally just gave up and left things as they were. Ah, laziness, the ultimate end to all decision-making ;)
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Sholio is also from a story I haven't finished, although at this point it's become so indelibly connected to fandom for me that I think if I ever do finish it, I'm going to have to change the poor character's name. *g*
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I think it would help if you add a 'formerly friendshipper' to a few new posts after a namechange. I've seen a few people in flists I read regularly refer to having just done a namechange, and had no clue who they were.
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My current username was selected when I first signed on with LJ and
was heavily into Richard Sharpe.
Not so much anymore, but have used Black_Raven on Dreamwidth with our
squadron patch..........
But not sure how it would work as far as changing it and what about my
flist?
When I asked a few of my flist, they all threw up their hands and said
e.g. "Why would you want to do that? Love your username" etc.
All in all, I think it is YOUR decision. I could make do with
whatever you decide to do.............
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I ｄｏ ｕｎｄｅｒｓｔａｎｄ ｔｈｅ ｎｅｅｄ ｔｏ ｋｅｅｐ ａｌｌ ｙｏｕｒ ｄｕｃｋｓ ｉｎ ａ ｒｏｗ， ｓｏ ｔｏ ｓｐｅａｋ， ａｎｄ ａｇａｉｎ， ｉｔ＇ｓ ｙｏｕｒ ｊｏｕｒｎａｌ， ｄｏ ｗｈａｔ ｙｏｕ ｗａｎｔ． Ｈｏｗｅｖｅｒ， ｉｆ Ｉ ｈａｄｎ＇ｔ ｍｅｔ ｙｏｕ ａｎｄ ｓｏｍｅｏｎｅ ｎａｍｅｄ ＂ｆｒｉｅｎｄｓｈｉｐｐｅｒ＂ ｃｏｍｍｅｎｔｅｄ ｏｎ ｍｙ ｎｏｎ－ｆａｎｎｉｓｈ ｂｌｏｇ， Ｉ ｗｏｕｌｄｎ＇ｔ ｅｖｅｎ ｂａｔ ａｎ ｅｙｅ． (On the otherhand, if someone named potter'sgirl4life commented, I would suspect fannish involvement...)
．．．Ｔｈａｔ ｂｅｉｎｇ ｓａｉｄ， Ｉ have a hard time reading user names anyways. There's a user somewhere out in the LJ-sphere named rivkat, who read for the longest time as riv-kat, as opposed to rivka t. *shrugs* So that could just be a me thing, lol.
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I'm friendly TOO! :D
... but yeah, one of the problems with "friendshipper" as a username is that it's awfully ambiguous. I've also had people shorten it to 'shipper, which makes me go /o\.
And I know that I'm probably more critical of it than anyone else is. *g* Most people's pseuds are at least a little bit odd or quirky. But I do like the idea of being consistent between different sites.
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I was confused the first time I followed a link to a fic on AO3 and I still have to stop and think every time I see either name.
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I think most people who "met" me on ffn or AO3 won't have much trouble making the adjustment. And the response so far has been really positive for a name change, so I'm probably gonna go for it!
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If you fell more comfortable with sholio, the go by sholio!!
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