might as well

[tielan]

seldear = tielan

Initially, I wanted to see if Atlantis fans would appreciate my writing without my Stargate SG-1 name attached. Some did, and I kept writing under the name tielan. Then I signed up for a ficathon on a fiction list where I was known as seldear. Rather than letting myself be known, I wrote and subbed the story under my SG-1 name. And it just snowballed from there.

Result? Two LJs writing Atlantis fanfic.


keeping them separate - or not

For the record, while I have occasionally linked from one LJ to the other, I have honestly done my best to avoid reccing fic from one LJ to the other, and vice versa. If I have subscribed to a ficathon under both LJ names, I have written both requests, and I never leave feedback to any story with both LJ names.

In the Isis Awards 2006 and 2007, multiple fics by the same author were permitted in a single category, so I felt no obligation to avoid having the two usernames in a single category. (allisnow was highly amused when she saw the Best Drama category.) In the Stargate Fan Awards, the rules went that 10 fics were permitted per author - no matter the number of usernames. Both years, I have dutifully pared the combined total of stories down to the required 10. (Geeky Sam moment: "It was awful.") Even if the organisers were apparently unaware of both my names, I was - it would have been bad form to cheat.

I hardly swept the awards in 2006 anyway, only winning one category under each name: Clutching Straws as seldear, and Five Men Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagen as tielan.

As to the usual purpose of sockpuppets, I have mostly avoided using the two LJs as a wedge against someone else or to make myself popular (in fact, I seem to voice very unpopular opinions and have almost certainly dropped in popularity from the statement of such). The one exception is listed below, with an apology for my behaviour.


who knew?

My friendslist was originally informed, but I suspect most have since forgotten. Only a handful have both friended.

Two people guessed, purely based on my writing style - and kudos to them both!

As to the rest...well, I don't know. Some people may have guessed, some people may have tracked my IP addresses or seen an answer I gave under the wrong journal, some people may have been told by those in the know.

Most probably don't care since I don't write any pairings they're interested in.

In truth, I'm not sure who knows what anymore, other than the handful of friends who followed me over. In the end, this 'unveiling' is just easier.

It's been lovely to see familiar names pop up on the tielan LJ - particularly those who liked my SG-1, BSG, Firefly, Justice League, and Harry Potter work - a real encouragement that there are people for whom my writing holds appeal no matter what fandom I'm in, or what name I'm writing under. Thank you.


apologies

I have three apologies to make: two specific, one general. I don't know if either person will notice or care, but my conscience requires the apology to be made. I've apologised to the entire Sam/Jack mailing list when I made an incendiary comment before, and that was 1,800+ people at the time; this is a walk in the park by comparison.

vaberella, I apologise for not telling you the truth about the tielan userID during the JT Convergence fic kerfuffle. In all honesty, you needed to rant, and I needed a frank kick up the butt. I still believe that archiving should be done only when permission is explicitly given and that the default is not 'okay, you may archive', but I know that you only wanted the site to succeed and I’m sorry.

sanssong, I apologise for using both personas to voice an opinion on your list during the Isis Awards 2006 fracas. While I retain the opinions I stated on the list, I regret 'adding my weight' in as both seldear and tielan - that was unconscionable. And I still maintain that there's nothing wrong with having John/Teyla in Isis - the Isis Awards always been about how much fanwork can be easily found for the pairing, not the pairing's canonicity.

And I'm generally apologetic towards the John/Teyla fans for not being two people. I wish there were more writers in fandom for the pairing, too.


and now, onwards!

To make things simpler, in future, seldear will be my personal life journal, as well as the name under which I will continue to write in any fandoms where I've already published - with the exception of Atlantis.

tielan will be the journal and name used for all Stargate Atlantis commentary and fanfic, as well as for any fandoms for which I am contemplating the plunge (presently Torchwood and Heroes).

You're welcome to friend either or both (or unfriend either or both, as you feel the necessity), block me on Gateworld or every mailing list you own, dis-member me from your communities, bitch me out on AIM or MSN, or never ever leave me another piece of feedback - whatever. It's a free world. Some of you I'll miss, others I won't, and that's just the way it is.

However, if you want to stick it out, I'm willing to let bygones be bygones and shake on it.

For those of you friending one or the other, be aware that I'm not going to auto-friend on either LJ, and that my reading of the tielan friendslist is sporadic and dependant on how fandomically inclined I'm feeling that day.

cheers,

seldear/tielan

Comments

[skandrae.livejournal.com]

I am surprised, but only because I'm not very good at paying attention to what's going on around me ^_^

[tielan]

I don't think it's of much note except to most of the hardcore J/T shippers, actually. I haven't advertised it until now.

So it's not that you haven't been paying attention. :)

[snoggingpicard.livejournal.com]

*hugs* and cheers! :)

[tielan]

*smooches*

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[tielan]

LOL. Never mind, everything's fine, just carry on!

[therisingmoon.livejournal.com]

huh? that's a surprise to me. then again, i never really paid attention to fandom anyway.

[tielan]

I haven't really advertised it - mostly, it's only going to matter to the hardcore JTers in fandom and only at a tangent.

[marag.livejournal.com]

::blink:: Huh, I didn't realize people *didn't* know they were the same. It never occurred to me it might be a problem.

[tielan]

Mostly, it's not a problem. It just gets a bit dicey to step around, though since I'm known by the different names at different forums.

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

Actually, my response is simply: Who is Seldear? And might they really have more J/T listed there.

Anyway. Cheers to you. I am, at the moment, looking at your Seldear journal b/c I honestly don't know if I've seen the name before. If you wrote J/T there then surely I have, but I don't recog the name at all.

Good luck with any potential negative fallout.

[tielan]

I haven't written a lot - most of it was about a year ago, with occasional sporadic ficathon-ness since.

Mostly, the seldear LJ was for SG1 fandom, before I drifted out of it.

[ubiquitous-girl.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Well, I've only ever heard of seldear in passing, so I'm a little surprised, but no big. :p

Friended seldear as well, although I think it might be a while before I stop thinking of you as anyone other than tielan ^.^

[ubiquitous-girl.livejournal.com]

Okay, just saw your banner at seldear. Have you posted at GW?? Cos that header looks really similar to a sig I've seen.

Happy Monday!

[whiteroselover.livejournal.com]

Sel/Tielan,

Hope you don't mind if I friend you here, too -- I want to hang out and see if you actually start posting Heroes fic, as Heroes is my only must-watch show. If you do end up posting such, I'm likely to be much less quiet here. ;-)

-- Shawn

PS -- how do you pronounce "Tielan", anyway? (TY-lan, Tee-el-an, Teel-an?) And what is its significance? *curious look*

[live-brave.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised, and then again I'm not. :D I've loved the fics produced under both names, and I keep up with both sets of recs, too (your recent Remus/Tonks recs were great btw). Hey, as long as you keep producing such wonderful stories, you can be whoever you want to be. :D

[tielan]

I really need to look up a few more R/T fics - I drifted out of HP circa 2005, probably because I had a fondness for Harry/Luna and it was impossible to find anything that didn't ditz Luna up.

Maybe I'll do that while I'm on holiday.

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

<<<<<>>>>>> You are not the only person on my flist to have two distinct journal personas.

[tielan]

I imagine that they're usually a bit more up-front about it, though.

It was getting difficult posting on Gateworld as seldear and LJ as tielan - this is just making the link plain and then continuing with business as usual.

<<<<>>>>

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

I have to say I didn't notice but then I'm not much around lj communities or GW anymore and only really partially kept up with this lj. So it's a surprise, but I have to admit to being quite interested how the experiment worked out, if name status make much difference.

[tielan]

Like I told skandrae and lilyayl, it's not something terribly noticeable unless you're very specifically into the JT fandom segment.

As far as the experiment goes...yes and no. There are people who've randomly picked out my Atlantis work who also read my SG1, and people who wouldn't read my Atlantis work although they loved my SG1.

How much of that is due to pairing or pissyness, though, is a matter of individuality. There might be a few people watching the seldear LJ who'll now try my Atlantis stuff, although I doubt there'll be many, particularly if they're not in the fandom - and most of the seldear f-list are multifannish or fandom-apathetic these days.

[fishphile.livejournal.com]

De-lurks for a second.

Hmmm, I didn't guess it either, but I think it's because Seldear to me is Firefly fanfic and Tielan is Atlantis fanfic. Either way, I've liked all your work. I don't write much fanfic anymore, but I have an alias (clearly not this one) for my work too. It's always been very silly, but fun (don't know if that's the right word) to have people judge me without preconceived ideas of what I will say or do in my fanfic based on other comments I have made under another name.

Anyway, your fanfic is excellent.

re-lurks or something.

[bellalarina.livejournal.com]

Didn't know, don't mind, have a hug. :)

I knew it!

[stacy2002.livejournal.com]

I really did.

[majortrip.livejournal.com]

LOL, I didn't make the connection through fanfic, but I thought Seldear's posts at GW sounded like you.

I'm friending Sel @ LJ, btw.

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

Okay, fair enough. I have only one thing that sticks in my jaw a little: if I'd known you were both the same person, I might not've been as quick to hand over the reins of the Isis Awards to you. Not because I had a problem with your complaint during the second year--in fact, I agreed with you wholeheartedly and as far as I'm concerned, you're pretty much the reason the category got restored, so I'm grateful for that. But, because you *were* involved in the kerfuffle, it would've been nice to have at least been told, so that if any accusations of partiality *had* been made to me or meg_tdj, we would've been prepared to answer them. :-/

I'm not angry, I don't regret the change of hands, and I'm not going to demand control of the awards back (especially considering I'm barely involved in SGA fandom anymore due to them now having gotten rid of *three* characters I loved--Beckett, Weir *and* Heightmeyer //sigh//), but...yeah. If it had become an issue and we hadn't known until someone else threw it in our faces, I might have felt differently.

I hope you can understand that.

[tielan]

I hope you can understand that.

Yes, I can understand that. But I'm still grateful it didn't ever come down to that.

[skandrae.livejournal.com]

I am surprised, but only because I'm not very good at paying attention to what's going on around me ^_^

[tielan]

I don't think it's of much note except to most of the hardcore J/T shippers, actually. I haven't advertised it until now.

So it's not that you haven't been paying attention. :)

[snoggingpicard.livejournal.com]

*hugs* and cheers! :)

[tielan]

*smooches*

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[tielan]

LOL. Never mind, everything's fine, just carry on!

[therisingmoon.livejournal.com]

huh? that's a surprise to me. then again, i never really paid attention to fandom anyway.

[tielan]

I haven't really advertised it - mostly, it's only going to matter to the hardcore JTers in fandom and only at a tangent.

[marag.livejournal.com]

::blink:: Huh, I didn't realize people *didn't* know they were the same. It never occurred to me it might be a problem.

[tielan]

Mostly, it's not a problem. It just gets a bit dicey to step around, though since I'm known by the different names at different forums.

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

Actually, my response is simply: Who is Seldear? And might they really have more J/T listed there.

Anyway. Cheers to you. I am, at the moment, looking at your Seldear journal b/c I honestly don't know if I've seen the name before. If you wrote J/T there then surely I have, but I don't recog the name at all.

Good luck with any potential negative fallout.

[tielan]

I haven't written a lot - most of it was about a year ago, with occasional sporadic ficathon-ness since.

Mostly, the seldear LJ was for SG1 fandom, before I drifted out of it.

[ubiquitous-girl.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Well, I've only ever heard of seldear in passing, so I'm a little surprised, but no big. :p

Friended seldear as well, although I think it might be a while before I stop thinking of you as anyone other than tielan ^.^

[ubiquitous-girl.livejournal.com]

Okay, just saw your banner at seldear. Have you posted at GW?? Cos that header looks really similar to a sig I've seen.

Happy Monday!

[whiteroselover.livejournal.com]

Sel/Tielan,

Hope you don't mind if I friend you here, too -- I want to hang out and see if you actually start posting Heroes fic, as Heroes is my only must-watch show. If you do end up posting such, I'm likely to be much less quiet here. ;-)

-- Shawn

PS -- how do you pronounce "Tielan", anyway? (TY-lan, Tee-el-an, Teel-an?) And what is its significance? *curious look*

[live-brave.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised, and then again I'm not. :D I've loved the fics produced under both names, and I keep up with both sets of recs, too (your recent Remus/Tonks recs were great btw). Hey, as long as you keep producing such wonderful stories, you can be whoever you want to be. :D

[tielan]

I really need to look up a few more R/T fics - I drifted out of HP circa 2005, probably because I had a fondness for Harry/Luna and it was impossible to find anything that didn't ditz Luna up.

Maybe I'll do that while I'm on holiday.