freebirdflyingforever:

love-in-mind-palace:

therealmartinsgrrrl:

leandraholmes:

skulls-and-tea:

i’m stuck out on mobile and the answer to this requires some sitting-down time and a full keyboard.

anyone else want to chime in on this in the meantime?

1. Because they may not feel comfortable sharing their personal interests with the public

2. Because they may have people in their real lives that would make them feel uncomfortable about their fandom activities

3. They even might live somewhere where it would be heavily frowned upon or worse.

4. Their professional career might be at risk because employers can be huge dicks, and not everybody has the luxury to choose a cool boss

5. Because others may (wrongly but still) view it as unprofessional and childish. 

From the top of my head. I’m sure there are more valid reasons than those 5. 

I work for a university. If people at work knew about my fan works, I would lose an enormous amount of credibility. It’s important to keep those things separate.

I live in a pretty mych homophobic environment. And people don’t have the clear concept of fandom here. So if anyone now finds out about my blog, what i do, even my rl friends (sigh) i will be mocked and made fun of. And i am open about my sexuality in the fandom which i am not irl..that’s enough of a reason.

Same here…I use a username that is different from what I use for everything else and I don’t link any other social media to my tumblr/ao3 accounts. I am from a conservative religious background and my family would not understand why I would support a gay ship. I have actually mentioned reading Sherlock fanfic to them, but they think it’s casefic and such; they have no idea that there’s porn in it. 😉

If it was known, it would make it very difficult for me to get funding for a job I’m hoping to start next year. I’ll be teaching in an extremely religiously conservative place, and while one of the reasons I’m being brought in is to be a voice of moderation, it won’t help if I can’t get there.

Besides all that, writing and putting it out there is a bit scary. It’s so much easier when my readers are people I’ve met only in this sphere. I finally gave the link to my ao3 works to one of my best friends irl this week and I’m really nervous even though she’s one of the least judgmental people I know. Not really about the gay ships, but just the quality of my writing as I’ve just started writing again after ten years.

I work in healthcare and if anyone knew I had this blog they would definitely raise and eyebrow. I had to change that I was a part of an LGBTQ+ org on campus to something less obvious so I would even get a call back for an interview after I graduated. If the convention happens in Minnesota next year I’m not sure if I’ll be able to go because of where I work and so many questions will be asked.

Only one of my irl friends knows about this blog. Just one. And she’s in the fandom too. My roommate and one other friend kinda knows that I’m more into the show than someone who watches it when it airs and that’s it. My other friends would be confused, some would not be supportive at all, some wouldn’t care if they knew. Since starting this blog I only catalogue posts at night, late at night when no one can watch over my shoulder because I don’t know how they will react.

My personal tumblr is linked on my blog as well as my name, but I don’t have it linked to my Facebook or anything else. I suppose if someone hated me they could find out where I live and by proxy who I actually am cause my name is rare. It’s not something that I think about often but it could happen.