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On a scale of: handwritten in the depths of night and kept in a safe, typed up on a computer with no ties to you and posted using a fake IP

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Using your phone to store it and posting it under your real name.

Well, I post them on AO3 and Tumblr under a username that isn't associated at all with my real name and that are linked to an email that I use only for fandom stuff and don't connect to any work-based stuff. But I use my regular computer for them.

Mostly I just make sure my parents aren't anywhere nearby when I'm writing because I don't want them asking questions about what I'm writing, although I could probably come up with a decent lie if necessary.

I worry a lot about this. If you're tech savvy it probably wouldn't take much to connect my fic to me, although I use pseuds. I definitely worry about that.

I used to be dumb and post fic under my full real name, then more people started using the internet (like 1997?) and I realized maybe that wasn't a good idea when I was looking for employment, so I got paranoid...

I still use a psuedonym and actually sorta have two, one for the stuff I don't mind doing with my family (Animal Crossing and Pokemon Go for instance) and kept my other for the sketchier stuff like fic and shippy vids. I'm sure someone could figure out the latter is also me if they were paying attention and felt like following down some rabbit holes, but oh well. I live independently, my job is with a bunch of fellow nerds since I'm in IT, and my church is sex-positive and LGBTQ+ friendly. I'm not going to lose anything of value if someone finds my gay porn.

When I still wrote fanfic on a regular basis, I used to just store it on my own computer but gradually got paranoid about dying suddenly and my family finding it. Not that it's full of porn or bad or anything, it's just... something private that I do, that I've never shared with my family. I eventually started composing it and keeping it on Google drive, attached to an e-mail account created specifically for fandom.

I have an email that I only use for fandom stuff and a username that's not known to anyone I know IRL. All my fics are password protected on my computer and I usually only write at night, but that's mainly because I'm too busy during the day and when I'm not, there are too many distractions.

I will never post under my real name, though I am using an old fandom nick for that purpose. I do everything but work stuff from this computer, but everything fandom related is tied to fandom e-mails and accounts. Nothing tied to my real name. I keep fic on external drives. I don't care if AO3 knows I post from my real IP or via VPN.

I realized today that my fandom email has my cell number attached to it because I once accessed it from an Android app. Sigh. :(

Fun story: I was just about to make a thread here about how I posted a ficlet to AO3 tonight that proved wildly popular within the first two hours, and I'm now considering posting it to my otherwises fairly quiet main tumblr and hence "outing" myself as a ficwriter to people who follow me mainly for the occasional bit of meta.

So to answer your question: I publish my fic, but I've kind of been trying to keep it separate from my main. I don't really know why, though. None of my fandom accounts have any connection to my RL (different e-mails and all), except for the occasional mention of my nationality.

Edited 2021-03-13 23:29 (UTC)

I just 'outed' myself a few months ago in reverse! My AO3 account predates my Tumblr by a few years. I posted some ficlets for a friend on Tumblr that got popular, and I was like, "... Screw it, I'm going to put them on AO3 so they're easier to find AND let people know this is me on AO3." It's a small fandom, and I think several people had made the connection already anyway. So I guess this is me egging you on if you're on the fence. :D

Okay FINE I'll do it, haha. It's not like I have enough followers and fame on either for it to matter anyway. Thank you for the push <3

It's just under a couple gmail names on google docs, so....*shrugs*

I don't *hide* it, but I'm not printing out fic at work, either. Needs to be a bit of a divide, there, generally.

I mean, I post under a username and use a nickname that can't be traced back to my real name at all. I'm sure that if you really wanted to you could make the connection, but ultimately I don't know why you'd bother. A few people IRL know I write fic, but they're all very geeky as well so it's not like it's a huge risk lmao

I want so badly to write my ill-conceived, stupid-assed, weird as shit, self-insert+character, first person pwp fics using an assumed handle (I even have a handle picked out!!!), but.........1.) probably no one will read it, and if they do 2.) no one will like it, and 3.) I will be found out and deservedly mocked for my foolishness. So I guess it's the former rather than the latter, OP. Lol.

I have a fandom/AO3 username tied to a gmail account and gdocs, but I use it for paypal and shit, so...I guess if you were the FBI you could find me, but I don't care.

I'm not running for office and I'm too old to get a job with the FBI myself, and I'm not a parochial school teacher, so I doubt anybody would care about my Avengers slash. My spouse knows about my hobby and we're not having kids. My friends know my real identity from conventions and stuff.

For real, though: if I post something super extra kinky I usually do it anon on a kinkmeme or under an unconnected pseud.

I feel for people in countries that don't have the same freedoms in terms of content posting and speech.

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