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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-05-22 07:06 pm

[ SECRET POST #1967 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1967 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #281.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2012-05-23 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the reasons I made myself a new username for LJ, Twitter etc. a few years ago was that I'd been active enough on a sales comm on LJ that quite a few people could associate my real name with my fandom activity. I'm a freelance journalist and fledgling fiction writer, but my goal is to publish my YA novel and develop my career in that area.

Now, I absolutely believe that fiction for children and teenagers can talk about difficult subjects, with increasingly adult overtones in the case of books for older readers. But that's a situation where the author can set the terms of the conversation and deal purposefully with how it plays out in personal or online interactions with young readers: very different from, say, my future kid readers seeing my fannish self using a lot of cuss words, talking about very personal stuff, and fangirling porny fic.

I miss the days of being carefree online, but realistically I think anyone whose job (whether their present one or something they're working towards) involves a lot of interaction with children and young people is going to ask themselves questions about how secret their fannish identity really is...