I ask cuz I was chatting with someone today about a creative project I'm working on, and said if I ever were to publish it I'd want to do so under a pseudo-name because if it did really well I wouldn't want to become famous, the idea of being famous at all makes me anxious.
They felt this was weird of them. Personally I think this can't be an uncommon sentiment, I mean plenty of authors out there despise public life, so I think it's a pretty common feeling.
oh you don't want to be a PUBLIC figure? you want a PRIVATELY OWNED, CAPITALISTIC figurehood?
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Nah pretty sure he was a true believer. I think what he did was stupid and impulsive, he probably coulda done more good for communism from his beachside home, but his heart was in it.
Yeah me too, I don't even have normal social media. This is closest I've gotten in all honesty.
Noms de guerre and noms de plume are just cool. Coolest French thing there is.
I would have 0 problems being a public figure. In fact im thinking about doing something that would make me at least noted in some circles and areas. Now I doubt im ever gonna be famous but im not opposed to it. I can be trusted with power and should be allowed to wield it without consequences.
I bet he got his toga in a twist over it too, ought to respect tradition and not wear it so loose anyways.
I think as long as people didn't like recognize me on the street, I'd be fine with it. Or if it was for something really niche
I do creative stuff and purposefully don't promote myself because I hate the idea of people knowing about me who I can't speak to directly
I mean, if I ever get my books published or my video games designed, I already have like five alter-egos to utilize in an elaborate plot to confound and stymie my potential enemies
I just need someone to pretend to be Flakes Bongler while I dress up as Flakes Bongler's private luchador bodyguard, Señor Peligro
Lol if I never do become a mega successful author I think I may do the Magnum PI thing where I pretend "author me" if off jet setting and being a playboy while I pretend to be the groundskeeper in my isolated mansion and just kinda show up to all the events about me and drink wine in the corner.
If I ever make it as an author I will indulge my publisher in book signing events under controlled conditions but never ever doing a tv interview or the like fuck that
Yeah, trying to avoid being too public facing within a smallish org sucks, especially when you're really active.
I'm always careful to portray myself as an underling
I was front page news once. I won't go into any detail because even a little one would be enough. It fucking sucked though.
Daily Mail outside my house asking for interviews kind of front page. Climbed the back fence and had someone else tell them to fuck right off.
I couldn't do that frequently at all.
I've been interviewed on TV and radio a few times and have been recognized in public a few times because of it and it absolutely hated it. I couldn't imagine being an actual public figure.
I'm really more of an evil Grand Vizier (Vizieress? Viziera?) Than the public face.
Vazir doesn't appear gendered in modern iranian, but it seems like it should be Vičirā or something in pahlavi when they used to have gender
anyway i hope you wear a swanky hat and kaftan whilst scheming to steal away heroic warriors' wives and such.
