Oh, man, I had the same experience posting stuff under my college email address so I was real.name@real.university.edu everywhere and only in hindsight did it occur to me that maybe I didn't want future employers to know so much about my hobbies. I started gobbling up the free emails wherever I could, not because I was smart enough to think ahead, but because the university had a hard limit on your email usage each month and I kept using up my data before the end of each month.
Also, sympathies on the reincarnated dragon. Sometimes it's hard to tell who is simply having fun with bonus roleplaying, who is messing with you but not in a fun way, and who just takes themselves way too seriously. I had one friend (someone I met first in person at a mutual friend's place) who would be very silly about roleplaying and tried to get people to play along all the while pretending she was serious, right until you did start to play along with her joke and then she'd instantly switch gears and start making fun of you. "I can't believe you actually believe that stuff." This was a grown adult; I think she was already forty-five when I first met her. I think she'd built her whole persona out of being "the eccentric one" and had to knock everyone else down a peg. I hadn't heard the term "gatekeeper" at that point, but that's totally what she was. After that, I was pretty skittish about fandom for a while, not because of the cliche of Internet fans but because of fans that I knew in real life.
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timeasmymeasure
Sunshine Challenge ☼ 2019
Date: 2019-07-06 04:28 am (UTC)Also, sympathies on the reincarnated dragon. Sometimes it's hard to tell who is simply having fun with bonus roleplaying, who is messing with you but not in a fun way, and who just takes themselves way too seriously. I had one friend (someone I met first in person at a mutual friend's place) who would be very silly about roleplaying and tried to get people to play along all the while pretending she was serious, right until you did start to play along with her joke and then she'd instantly switch gears and start making fun of you. "I can't believe you actually believe that stuff." This was a grown adult; I think she was already forty-five when I first met her. I think she'd built her whole persona out of being "the eccentric one" and had to knock everyone else down a peg. I hadn't heard the term "gatekeeper" at that point, but that's totally what she was. After that, I was pretty skittish about fandom for a while, not because of the cliche of Internet fans but because of fans that I knew in real life.