That could be it, but that just brings back the marketing issue: why would you be "tied" to anything just because you started with it?
I mean, I put some thought into my username - I knew I didn't want it to be fandom-specific, because I did love other things, too, and might eventually move on completely. But that was kinda the point: I knew going in that the username would probably outlive my current interest, and it never occurred to me that I'd have to stop being Krait if I left my current fandom.
My fannish identity is pretty much "me," so it seemed perfectly normal that whatever I was into should be part of my fannish identity, and that it would change over time. (Do I edit and select which parts of 'me' go into my fannish existence! Sure; I don't post about my RL work or my offline hobbies much, because the focus here is fandom. But not the reverse: I don't edit and select only some of my fandoms to admit to. Which seems to be more and more what the Tumblr/Twitter crowd thinks is normal.)
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That could be it, but that just brings back the marketing issue: why would you be "tied" to anything just because you started with it?
I mean, I put some thought into my username - I knew I didn't want it to be fandom-specific, because I did love other things, too, and might eventually move on completely. But that was kinda the point: I knew going in that the username would probably outlive my current interest, and it never occurred to me that I'd have to stop being Krait if I left my current fandom.
My fannish identity is pretty much "me," so it seemed perfectly normal that whatever I was into should be part of my fannish identity, and that it would change over time. (Do I edit and select which parts of 'me' go into my fannish existence! Sure; I don't post about my RL work or my offline hobbies much, because the focus here is fandom. But not the reverse: I don't edit and select only some of my fandoms to admit to. Which seems to be more and more what the Tumblr/Twitter crowd thinks is normal.)