#don't do it on goodreads or twitter where people who aren't in fandom are going to see it and go “ew”

[heartofstanding]

Can we please agree that this shit is not okay to do to an author?

If an author wants their fandom life known, fine, talk about it all you want. Don't out them as a fanfic writer when they clearly don't want to be known as one. And yeah, maybe it shouldn't matter but that doesn't mean that it doesn't matter and that it's your place to decide that for anyone other than yourself.

#you know how we all go on about keeping fandom away from creators/cast/etc? that also works for someone's fandom life and their real life #and if you must do it do it on some fandom place where the only people who will see it are also in fandom #don't do it on goodreads or twitter where people who aren't in fandom are going to see it and go “ew” #and tbh i haven't read harry potter fanfic in a long long long time (like... 20 years long time) #but this novel did not strike me as fanfic-y in style or tone or character #at worst it struck me as trope-y and melodramatic but fanfic has hardly cornered the market on that #text posts #god the thought of this being done to me is like.......... fuck #(it's not about thinking fandom is lesser it's about the fact that yeah people fucking judge you for it) #(and there's things i've written that i do not want to explain to people in my real life or to random people)