Snowflake Challenge 2015: Day Five
Day 5 In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
First of all, I want to direct your attention to my brand new icon!! I posted as part of Snowflake Challenge that I would love a Dancing Groot icon and someone I didn't know posted this one in the comments for me. Is this awesome or what???
My fannish origin story is one from the dark ages - the pre-internet days. I fell into it by accident when a friend mentioned she was putting together a Star Trek zine. I'd never heard of such a thing but I was intrigued. It was wonderful and scary and incredibly awesome!
Fast forward to the advent of the inter-tubes (thank you Al Gore) and I finally decided to brave this electronic world and post my stories. Like many of us, I'd always written stories in my head. It took me a long time to work up the courage to share them with the larger world.
When I was deciding on a pen name, I was solely in the Star Trek TOS fandom. I wanted a name that sounded vaguely Vulcan but wasn't impossible to remember. If a word doesn't make sense to me, I won't ever remember it. Some people have cool, weird fannish names but I can never locate them again after I've admired their pseudonym. Being a fan of the Eagles inspired me to go with Tkeyla Sunset. I would have used Tkeyla Sunrise but I was afraid they'd sue me (yeah, like they'd notice.)
Ironically, I can't drink tequila because it makes me sad - "the world would be better off without me" sad. Plus, I have a hard time remembering how to spell the real version of tequila. So I spelled it phonetically.
I only post under Tkeyla. I've tried creating other pseudonyms but then I forget the email for it or the password for it and it all falls apart. If I'm not willing to post something as Tkeyla, I probably shouldn't post it at all.
I'm really fond of my pen name and can't imagine being anyone else in fandom.