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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