damage control

Y'know what annoys me? The fact that schizophrenia is used in common culture as a synonym for MPD or DID, when they really aren't the same thing at all. So when I reach for an easy, if hyperbolic, adjective to describe the scattered feeling I have over straddling two primary identities online, all I come up with is "schizophrenic."

Anyway. I'm in the process of putting together an Etsy store, and I ran into a wall over the name- I already have an Etsy account under falxumbra, but I'm a little paranoid about family members and such deciding to plug my Etsy handle into google. Falxumbra is actually a thoroughly locked down identity- but it's not one I feel any particular affinity for anymore. I am happy to continue using it for LJ, but I feel the need to move away from it in other aspects of my life on the internet. I'm feeling much more at home in solaciolum- but all of my solaciolum accounts are public and full of potentially embarrassing things. (I don't need my family members knowing I take a practical and academic interest in gay erotica, for instance.) Of course, it may be too late to worry about that, since I've already sent people links to my flickr account. *le sigh*

My real name, thankfully, doesn't connect to any of my online accounts- non-existence is the next best thing to having a name like "Mike Myers" in terms of internet anonymity. I'm not really concerned with people who know me online connecting my various identities to me; it's the people who know me in real life but not online that worry me.

I think I've finally come up with a satisfactory name for my Etsy, account, though- once I get it set up (and take pictures of my jewelry that don't completely suck), I will be pimping it from here to twitter and everywhere in between.