See, I don't assume that a person has other ljs unless I find out about them and I do see a big different between the more noticable fannish nicknames and the ones that take a little work to figure out the reference. I certainly didn't look at your nickname and go 'Oh, that's THAT character!'
won't necessarily assume that the character/fandom/pairing is the absolute center of their life -- it might just be a playful part of their leisure time activities, not the absolute center of their identity, online and/or offline.
That is a good perspective to have - since we're given so little to go on at first meeting with most fannish interactions, I think the little things - icons, usernames - have larger weight than, say, a t-shirt or a nickname would in real life.
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See, I don't assume that a person has other ljs unless I find out about them and I do see a big different between the more noticable fannish nicknames and the ones that take a little work to figure out the reference. I certainly didn't look at your nickname and go 'Oh, that's THAT character!'
won't necessarily assume that the character/fandom/pairing is the absolute center of their life -- it might just be a playful part of their leisure time activities, not the absolute center of their identity, online and/or offline.
That is a good perspective to have - since we're given so little to go on at first meeting with most fannish interactions, I think the little things - icons, usernames - have larger weight than, say, a t-shirt or a nickname would in real life.