monikers

[marycrawford]

Long ages ago, I picked Mary Crawford (or nowadays, marycrawford) as a fannish pseudonym because there were some writers I admired who had literary pseuds, like Emma Woodhouse and Flora Poste - it's been so long that I can't quite remember, but I think they were all K/S fandom zine writers. And so I chose Mary Crawford, because nobody had chosen her yet, because I love her, and because she was the only character to make a gay joke in all of Jane Austen.

There are some advantages to a 'real name' pseud - it's easy for people to call me Mary when we meet, online or offline, and I like that. The disadvantages are largely that I can't search for my own work when I'm feeling blue and want a pick-me-up, hoping to find someone saying something nice, because any links are inevitably Austen-related. And another issue is that I can't namesquat my pseud on any other type of social media, except if I get there very early, which is rare. (I don't have a twitter, and I'm sorry for everyone who's going to miss using it.)

I was in time for cohost, not that I've used it at all yet, so I'm marycrawford there.

I recently picked up Tumblr again, and I'm mcvices there. I've used it so rarely because it overloads my brain easily and I hate tagging, but the gifs are pretty. And for me, a major upside of the Twitter breakdown is that fandom saint wenella has made her way to tumblr and is posting Zhu Yilong photos and interviews she translated there, so I can see them more easily. (He is too beautiful and this is a fascinating interview.)

Comments

[marthawells]

I tried to follow you on tumblr but I've only been on it 15 minutes and it's giving me anxiety. I used to use it so much to look at art and photos but I don't think I can do that anymore in the current format.

[marycrawford]

Aw, thanks, I followed you back! I used it so little that I don't even know what about the format changed, but I do get similar 'brain overload' vibes if I stay on it too long. Probably I will mostly be (re)posting Guardian art and Zhu Yilong closeups and the like, anything text-based will always go here.

[marthawells]

I wanted it to look at Untamed gifs and photos, but I may just use the login to get past the "you can't see this if you aren't logged in" screens.