wickedwords

You know the way things are in fandom. Everything's okay until the flashpoint is met, and then suddenly, it's really not. Basically, the need of someone to keep track of an author's aliases is proportional to the amount of wank they have participated in, the amount of flouncing they've done, and how good the author's fiction is at hitting a reader's buttons. People do sit around and decode the stylistic ticks of a story, saying 'aha! that's who this person is' when they have a reason to do it. For most people, there's no real driving need to do the translation, but during a wank-fest, it happens.