Thanks! And the particular story is real...long. The short version is that I have always made it clear that I want my private life and fandom life very very much separate. Another person in the fandom that I knew irl ended up outing me, whether by sheer idiocy or spite I never stuck around to figure out. Suddenly my name, age, where I lived, where I went to school, it was all public and it simultaneously infuriated me and scared me. I'm under firm belief that if I ever wish to divulge that information to someone else, it will be my choice, and my choice only. In this case, it was not only out of my hands but on the fucking internet. I tried to ask for an explanation, but we never really talked after that. Like I said, i don't know if this is because she was embarrassed that she failed SO HARD or she was angry with me for some reason but it was kind of a big...deal. I don't mean to sound pretentious at all, but I was fairly "well known" in the Gundam Wing fandom back in the 90's and I still have very good friends from that fandom, but it got very shitty and ill-spirited after that happened. There's a little more to it, but that's the bare bones. Not cute.
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And the particular story is real...long. The short version is that I have always made it clear that I want my private life and fandom life very very much separate. Another person in the fandom that I knew irl ended up outing me, whether by sheer idiocy or spite I never stuck around to figure out. Suddenly my name, age, where I lived, where I went to school, it was all public and it simultaneously infuriated me and scared me. I'm under firm belief that if I ever wish to divulge that information to someone else, it will be my choice, and my choice only. In this case, it was not only out of my hands but on the fucking internet.
I tried to ask for an explanation, but we never really talked after that. Like I said, i don't know if this is because she was embarrassed that she failed SO HARD or she was angry with me for some reason but it was kind of a big...deal. I don't mean to sound pretentious at all, but I was fairly "well known" in the Gundam Wing fandom back in the 90's and I still have very good friends from that fandom, but it got very shitty and ill-spirited after that happened. There's a little more to it, but that's the bare bones. Not cute.