Sunshine Challenge - Prompt 2
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meridian_rosePrompt 2 is about fannish identity.
What does your username mean? How is it pronounced? What's your origin story? Is it fannish?
I was looking for a good fannish name for posting fanworks. I'm not monofannish (and before the tumblr bs you couldn't change your id every 5 minutes to reflect new fandoms) and I didn't want to refer to a particular fandom. I put my first, middle, and surname into an anagram site that gave various options. A Redials Immersion for example! Of the first 1000 the list included A Meridian Rose Slim and A Meridian Rose Mils. I decided I liked the sound of meridian rose.
I'm now meridian_rose (and had I been better educated about internet names I wouldn't have used an underscore!), meridian-rose, and meridianrose, at most fannish places.
For reasons I don't recall I thought I wanted something different on my youtube channel when I started posting vids there, where I'm Rosetta Gray and my thought process on choosing that is a little hazy now.
What is your default icon about? Does it have personal meaning? Why did you choose it?
I've had a lot of icons with roses on them, some with a representation of earth's meridian lines on them, some red, some purple. I've got a previous LJ rose icon at my AO3 site. I was/am in the habit of following icon sites and browsing them, saving faves. I came across the 'writer' icon and thought it would be a perfect default icon for the majority of my posts since many are about writing in some way. The icon is from LJ user![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eyesthatslay.
What does "fannish identity" mean to you?
For me it's about who I am and how I interact with fandom. I have the same username most places because it's important to me. I've spent years building up this persona, this part of my life. All the fic I've read and commented on, all the fic I've written, all the fanvids, etc.
I'm multifannish and often a multishipper.
I'm primarily a fic writer and reader but I dabble in many other things.
My first love is hurt/comfort as a trope.
A bit more about my engagement with fandom
I've been using the internet for a very long time, I started my fannish obsessions with magazines and fanzines, then email lists. I've been through the bullshit 'warning for slash' era and seen enough censorship to become increasingly anti-censorship/anti-fandom police as tumblr's self-styled fandom policing ramps up.
I have done and do read (and occasionally write) explicit fic but as I've become more comfortable with identifying as asexual I find it important to write and want to read more asexual relationships, platonic life partners, and romantic nonsexual pairings. H/C doesn't need sex in it anyway!Though some of the tumblr Sex Positive At All Costs brigade spit on this as Bad and How Dare and Homophobic if Queer Characters Involved but screw them (not literally of course ;) ) while others feel there's no point in any fic without The Sex *sigh*
I have an eclectic approach to things in general, media, music, reading. This bleeds into my fannish life in multiple ways from the fandoms I write in to the kind of details I include.
I miss the more active livejournal atmosphere and the way you can have more original content and nuanced debate and threaded discussions.
If you have any questions, leave them in comments and I will try to answer them :)
(Though as regular readers know I've taken a hiatus for a month and haven't been good at responding to things. I am hoping to get better at it again!)
What does your username mean? How is it pronounced? What's your origin story? Is it fannish?
I was looking for a good fannish name for posting fanworks. I'm not monofannish (and before the tumblr bs you couldn't change your id every 5 minutes to reflect new fandoms) and I didn't want to refer to a particular fandom. I put my first, middle, and surname into an anagram site that gave various options. A Redials Immersion for example! Of the first 1000 the list included A Meridian Rose Slim and A Meridian Rose Mils. I decided I liked the sound of meridian rose.
I'm now meridian_rose (and had I been better educated about internet names I wouldn't have used an underscore!), meridian-rose, and meridianrose, at most fannish places.
For reasons I don't recall I thought I wanted something different on my youtube channel when I started posting vids there, where I'm Rosetta Gray and my thought process on choosing that is a little hazy now.
What is your default icon about? Does it have personal meaning? Why did you choose it?
I've had a lot of icons with roses on them, some with a representation of earth's meridian lines on them, some red, some purple. I've got a previous LJ rose icon at my AO3 site. I was/am in the habit of following icon sites and browsing them, saving faves. I came across the 'writer' icon and thought it would be a perfect default icon for the majority of my posts since many are about writing in some way. The icon is from LJ user
eyesthatslay.What does "fannish identity" mean to you?
For me it's about who I am and how I interact with fandom. I have the same username most places because it's important to me. I've spent years building up this persona, this part of my life. All the fic I've read and commented on, all the fic I've written, all the fanvids, etc.
I'm multifannish and often a multishipper.
I'm primarily a fic writer and reader but I dabble in many other things.
My first love is hurt/comfort as a trope.
A bit more about my engagement with fandom
I've been using the internet for a very long time, I started my fannish obsessions with magazines and fanzines, then email lists. I've been through the bullshit 'warning for slash' era and seen enough censorship to become increasingly anti-censorship/anti-fandom police as tumblr's self-styled fandom policing ramps up.
I have done and do read (and occasionally write) explicit fic but as I've become more comfortable with identifying as asexual I find it important to write and want to read more asexual relationships, platonic life partners, and romantic nonsexual pairings. H/C doesn't need sex in it anyway!
I have an eclectic approach to things in general, media, music, reading. This bleeds into my fannish life in multiple ways from the fandoms I write in to the kind of details I include.
I miss the more active livejournal atmosphere and the way you can have more original content and nuanced debate and threaded discussions.
If you have any questions, leave them in comments and I will try to answer them :)
(Though as regular readers know I've taken a hiatus for a month and haven't been good at responding to things. I am hoping to get better at it again!)
