I’m Lady; in fannish spaces I go by a couple of names, predominantly :⁠—

• J’Li, jellyfish_link: Most of my older fannish writing is under this name. It’s technically a pun on Marrus orthocanna, a species of pelagic siphonophore, which is to say a “jellyfish” made up of linked organisms. But it’s also a reference to Metriods and The Legend of Zelda.

• Autumn Leaf, Hojarasca, 红叶 Hongye: I use these aliases when I’m writing Pokémon fanfiction, and sometimes in other fannish spaces as well. They all ultimately derive from the default name for a girl player character in Pokémon FireRed Version (“Leaf”).

As the above description implies, I spend a lot of time in Nintendo fandoms. My first attempt at writing fanfic was in middle school with ‘The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ (dating myself here), and I’ve generally thought way too much about Zelda as a franchise. Lately however I haven’t done much which is fannish in an obvious and direct sense, because I’ve been spending all of my time working on technical/infrastructural things re: hosting fannish materials on the internet. I’m a strong believer in fannish decentralization and don’t like the impact that A·O·3 and social media have had on fandom. Professionally, I work in library technology, and I think there are a lot of tools and lessons from that space which fandom could adopt if people were willing to take the problems of digital fannish curation seriously.

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