Ramblings on names..
Oct. 13th, 2011 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauragarabedianSo while out to lunch with Idess and her boyfriend today, a topic which randomly strikes my curiosity came up. That of fursona names and how/when to refer to people by them.
It is strange because it seems like it is a familiarity I am hesitant to strike up. And yet AT a convention to ask for any other name is to familiar. I tend to fall into the at conventions, I strictly address people by their fursona name, and afterward I keep to that unless they offer otherwise in e-mail correspondence, yet once they have offered their name if I see them outside of the convention I tend to refer to them by their given name because I know so many furries are 'closeted' and don't want to be 'that guy' who outs them. In any case, it all ends up getting mixed up because my brain misfires anyhow... but I think it is an interesting subject.
It is strange because it seems like it is a familiarity I am hesitant to strike up. And yet AT a convention to ask for any other name is to familiar. I tend to fall into the at conventions, I strictly address people by their fursona name, and afterward I keep to that unless they offer otherwise in e-mail correspondence, yet once they have offered their name if I see them outside of the convention I tend to refer to them by their given name because I know so many furries are 'closeted' and don't want to be 'that guy' who outs them. In any case, it all ends up getting mixed up because my brain misfires anyhow... but I think it is an interesting subject.
