This is a ridiculous post.

[smittywing]

So! I signed up for an AO3 account the other day because...I don't remember why.* Because it's awesome. But I got my invite on Saturday (and missed it because it just showed up as do-not-reply on my bberry) but I have found it now and am pondering my user name.

When I started writing posting fanfic on the internet, I used "Smitty" as my pen

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[shetiger]

I do not actually have much of an opinion, but! Did you realize you can have more than one pseudonym on your account? Not sure if that helps, but it takes a bit of pressure off deciding on the account name, because you can always use a different pseudonym. :)

(Says she who has too many to keep track of.)

[smittywing]

I saw that! But then they said you can only have one username and to choose carefully and I was all, "Oh! Commitment anxiety!" Because just because I have been known by one name/pair of names for ten years doesn't mean I won't suddenly change my mind or something. I have issues. :P

*twirls you* Hi! How are you? I get internets at home on the 28th!

[shetiger]

I get that. :) I probably would have had way more name-related angst when I created my account the other day, but I had to get it done in time for Yuletide. Deadlines are occasionally useful.

Hi! I am good. Massively lazy, avoiding getting ready to go to my parents, and having fantasies of writing about a dozen different stories before Christmas, but good! I can't wait until you have real internets, yay!

[smittywing]

What did you end up with for your username? I am trying to figure out how this username/pseud thing works.

I have actually volunteered to go to my parents' apartment early and sleep on the couch, but that's mostly because I get to go back to my sister's house on Christmas night and take care of her kitties and puppy while she goes to visit her in-laws. I am quite looking forward to massive laziness. \o/

[smittywing]

An Archive of Our Own - fan-owned fiction archive. You should sign up!

[merhawk]

Smittywing. It's less generic.

Unless you want to be hidden in the crowd (I can not tell you how often I'm bemused by the fact that so many of my old posts/contributions to Xmen fandom are lost in the generic haze of my name).

[smittywing]

My immediate response to that was to say, "But you're Hawk," and then I thought about the other people in fandom with "hawk" as part of there name and see your point. :P

[merhawk]

Heh. Quite true. And unless you're as old in the fandom as you are - you're unlikely to know whom I am at this point.

[ratcreature]

Ithink you should go with Smitty for your username, because it's shorter and thus convenient, and associate "smittywing" as a pseud.

[trobadora]

I'd suggest it the other way round, because there might be other Smittys, but "smittywing" is a unique username.

[smittywing]

Oooh. These are both good points. Thank you! *ponders*

[trobadora]

Just let us know who you are in the end. :)

[smittywing]

Aww, thank you! (Srsly, 5-6 years is enough for onelist to become egroups and then yahoogroups. It's a while in fandom years.) I'm glad you've been enjoying the DC stuff - I'm always afraid it's obsolete now that so many things have moved on, relationships have changed, characters have been killed off or written out, new characters written in, all that. It's also flattering to know I'm in such august company as the other writers you've listed!

I am still pondering the smittywing/smitty thing mostly because I'm used to typing "smittywing" to sign into my email and yet I kind of want to stake out Smitty the way I do on ff.net - since all subsequent smittys have had to add numbers or other differentiators (is that a word?) to their names. Who knew this would be hard?