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mishadaySo. I haven't really been updating my journal. Not because everything or nothing has been happening, but I'm trying to figure out where the lines are drawn.
My real name has been emerging on the web: Facebook and LinkedIn and I've joined a couple of professional groups, which is all well and good, BUT:
I really would rather keep my fannish identity separate. I'm not worried about my current employment so much, but the future is unknowable, and really it's just professional to keep the pr0n and the squee at home and not in the workplace.
However, the lines are a little blurred right now. I'm Misha Day in fandom. Mostly. I keep meaning to rename this journal, as I'll be keeping it (cause hey, permanent account) when/if I move to Dreamwidth. Misha Hall wrote with the Lois and Clark roundrobin team, but that was well before I made an effort to keep my last name out of it. But Misha also games in World of Warcraft and on the SOK boards. And Misha Day has a Ravelry account.
It's the Ravelry thing that gets me, since I'm as fannish about knitting as media fandom, certainly for levels of squee and nifty, and yet, knitting? Not exactly something people are going to get squeamish over real names. It hit me even before this, when I signed up on one of the Austen boards, and the mods insisted on a real name behind the board account. I skimmed by because I'll answer to Misha if you call me in the hallways, but not every section of the internet welcomes anonymity.
The real question is where do I draw the line: what gets lumped in with the professional identity? What becomes fannish and personal? And where do I draw the personal/family line? Is it simply relevance?
Eh. I've been thinkerating over all this in between knitting and WoWing and reading, so honestly, not much time spent. But it's lurking in the back of my mind.
My real name has been emerging on the web: Facebook and LinkedIn and I've joined a couple of professional groups, which is all well and good, BUT:
I really would rather keep my fannish identity separate. I'm not worried about my current employment so much, but the future is unknowable, and really it's just professional to keep the pr0n and the squee at home and not in the workplace.
However, the lines are a little blurred right now. I'm Misha Day in fandom. Mostly. I keep meaning to rename this journal, as I'll be keeping it (cause hey, permanent account) when/if I move to Dreamwidth. Misha Hall wrote with the Lois and Clark roundrobin team, but that was well before I made an effort to keep my last name out of it. But Misha also games in World of Warcraft and on the SOK boards. And Misha Day has a Ravelry account.
It's the Ravelry thing that gets me, since I'm as fannish about knitting as media fandom, certainly for levels of squee and nifty, and yet, knitting? Not exactly something people are going to get squeamish over real names. It hit me even before this, when I signed up on one of the Austen boards, and the mods insisted on a real name behind the board account. I skimmed by because I'll answer to Misha if you call me in the hallways, but not every section of the internet welcomes anonymity.
The real question is where do I draw the line: what gets lumped in with the professional identity? What becomes fannish and personal? And where do I draw the personal/family line? Is it simply relevance?
Eh. I've been thinkerating over all this in between knitting and WoWing and reading, so honestly, not much time spent. But it's lurking in the back of my mind.
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