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In case anyone gets confused, just to say, I needed to change my name and someone gave me the token to do it, so I am not lost_spook any longer but thisbluespirit (and will presently be thisbluespirit everywhere else, too, barring Teaspoon which I never changed from vvj5, and LJ).

All Dreamwidth/AO3 links should still work fine anyway, tumblr won't, though, because tumblr. But it's still me!

ETA: So, I accidentally deleted my tumblr while I was trying to update it as I thought I might as well delete an unused sideblog with the old name on. Turns out it didn't think I meant the unused sideblog. I actually had no intention of taking the nuclear option, but oh, well, that's tumblr for you.

Now I look like a mysterious vanished drama queen! Which is a first, anyway.

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Re. the name change - nothing is wrong and the only drama was my accidental deletion! Apologies if I alarmed anyone. I didn't exactly plan to do either when I woke up this morning, but it fell out that way.

I came up with my user name a long time ago when Spooks was only at S5, and not finished 8 years ago (!) to use on a Spooks forum as a Ruth Evershed reference. All the obvious Ruth-related names were taken and she was missing at that point, so lost_spook. It's just that 'spook' is also a racial slur in some places (which obviously I didn't know back then, but it's why the show was MI5 in the US), so someone gave me a rename token to fix it, and now I have.

It's a bit weird to say goodbye to it, because it's been me in most places for over 10 years now, but, as you can see from above, it was never carefully chosen, it was just nicely oblique for a general fannish name.

What I didn't mean to do was delete my tumblr, but on reflection, I'm not sad about that either. I'll probably make a new one next week or some time to salvage some of my lost posts via people's reblogs, but there was very little there to mind losing, and it feels oddly better to have it gone, and if I do start another one, it'll be easier.

thisbluespirit is also nothing profound, though - I played around in my head with things I like + variations on 'spook' - and hopefully it will not have any such unpleasant associations for anyone.

(I also feel sure thisbluespirit must be cooler than lost_spook, but that, I fear, can only be delusion, as I am very much still me and, alas, Uncool. ;-D)

I still love Ruth Evershed to pieces, though. (Nicola Walker is amazing in anything, of course, but Ruth is how she won my heart forever and other characters cannot compete. Also Ruth is many many things, but not cool. I love her. Did I mention that already?)

( Nowhere in the country is safe from her )