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brimtoast ([personal profile] brimtoast) wrote in [community profile] podficmeta 2010-10-22 04:19 am (UTC)

I guess one solution in a situation like this would be to post podfic under a separate name and never associate it with one's other username. But that, I think, would feel frustrating, because it's hard to be a fragmented person like that. Like, I've actually been actively trying to bring my fandom life and personal life together, talk to non-fandom friends more about fandom stuff, because if I leave out all the fandom stuff from my stories, my life starts to sounds kind of dull, like I have no hobbies or passions that I spend my free time on. And I'm proud of fandom, and of the ways I spend time in it, and I want to share that with (certain) people.

On the other hand, I do want to try to maintain that boundary where work is concerned. So it becomes a tricky line. I actually do have a separate journal for my podfic, and I think it's harder to trace that back to my RL identity... but then, on the other hand, it's not terribly hard to trace that journal back to this one, if someone were trying, and from this one to my RL identity is... still not totally easy, but slightly easier. I don't really know what to do about that in the end, except keep as many levels of separation as I can without feeling too constrained by them and keep a close eye on them so that if I did need to adjust, I would be able to do that.

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