Tumblr crosspost (7 February 2021)

[anghraine]

I normally keep my various personas somewhat separate (mainly: Anghraine + my original fic writing persona + the academic identity). But one of the sf/f magazines I follow on my Twitter original fic account just tweeted out an article for the magazine on fanfiction’s effect on editing, for an unexpected crossing of the thought streams. It was cool, so I looked at the author—and I’ve met her before! In person! It was at an academic conference, under my actual name.

I mean! She attended a panel I was on, asked questions, and gave us all her business card! This was well before she wrote this article, and it’s not like I know her just because we briefly interacted once (she was an editor at Tor lol), but still, the world can be unexpectedly small.

Tagged: #someone i met through my rl self writing about something mostly of interest to my fandom self #coming to my attention through my original fic writing self... weird

steinbecks said:

oooh can you link??

primeideal said:

love it when that happens!

yavieriel said:

Pls link! I’m very curious what that article says

[ETA 5/1/2024: I think I forgot to respond at the time, but I was talking about Diana M. Pho's article in Uncanny here.]