The stuff I started writing when I was young would have been fine, just silly and embarrassing. But there's a chain of… If you know I wrote A you know my real name and you also know I wrote B under a fannish name which means you know A and B are by the same author you still know my real name. And if you know I wrote B, you know I wrote C under a slightly different fannish name and then it's easy to see where C was written by the same person who wrote D. So even though pennames changed over the years, it was still possible to connect the dots from innocent gen-rated sci-fi under my real name to explicit slash and I've had some super prudish employers over the years. I only recently figured out how to contact Fanlore and got them to take my real name off their website. I'm still a little paranoid about talking about my early days in fandom because everyone in my first fandom knew my real name.
Re: Sunshine Challenge ☼ 2019
Date: 2019-07-06 08:08 pm (UTC)