So yes. New person. Older trans man with a hell of a lot of mental illness, the management of which has been predominantly self-taught and, I should note, pretty damn successful. I do a lot of fandom things. I did a lot of stuff in the Heathen community before I upped and disappeared because I was done with the toxicity of the community and the greater polytheistic shenans as a whole.
It really depends on the month. Sometimes I participate under various pseudonyms, mostly to contribute writing or to organize events and things. I've had problems with antis and RL stalkers to the extent that, unfortunately, it's very anxiety inducing to try to carry the same pen name all the time.
Ahh yeah, that's an understandable feeling. (I didn't contribute to fandom for a while because I had a tendency to burn identities to the ground at the slightest hint of people knowing about me.) Feel free to poke around Fan Town at your leisure; people swing around in different fandoms at different times, so even dead threads revive on the regular. And if you get the urge to change your name here, there's a thread in the Meta forum for requesting name changes. It's lovely to meet you!
I really appreciate it! And yes, having people sit in the hedges outside your flat waiting for you to come out, and sticking notes on your car windshield and other places to harass you, pretty severely kills your desire to continuously maintain one fandom persona.
Ah jeez, sympathy like man. (The Holler Closet in Brainbent is unviewable by non-logged in members, if you ever need a place to vent that can't be readily accessed by Google's spiders. I hope things got better for you!)
