People who have multiple journals don't surprise me, but it's certainly not an automatic assumption that I make.

And since the name was something sufficiently Western and non-dramatic that nobody would have blinked twice at seeing it in a local phone book, and the book, while critically well-regarded, wasn't the sort of thing that this predominantly nerdy-male crowd was rushing out to buy, I initially had a lot of the established regulars mansplaining to newbie-me about how I didn't have to use my real name here

Ha! You know, it's really interesting to hear about fannish activity when the internet was just starting up and it was much more locally focused.