A Short Cautionary Story

Recently had a brief e-mail discussion with one of the contributors to Dimensions' Weight Room stories page, which your humble servant is currently curating, and I thought it was worth summarizing. Said e-correspondent had submitted two stories over a year ago to Dimensions, and one of the two stories had included the writer's real name in its byline. Both works wound up getting posted with this name attached; at the time the writer was still in school, so the fact that their name was affiliated with a couple of weight gain fantasies on the Internet didn't seem like a big deal. Now, the writer was looking at entering the job market – and, all of a sudden, the idea of having erotica that could be accessed by entering one's real name into Google didn't seem like such a good thing.

The writer asked me to remove their name from the stories, and I was happy to oblige. That doesn't entirely let them off the hook, though, since Google caches a lot of pages that have already been accessed. So their name's still out there, even if it's no longer on the Dim site.

Writing fanta-sizing fiction can be a liberating act for FAs – much as posing for glamour shots or sexy photo shoots can be for many fat women. But you've gotta show a little common sense, particularly in these too-judgmental times. Particularly if you're a young FA, looking for work in a tight job market and wanting to give the impression you're an upstanding citizen. So if you're writing stories - or producing art - that may be considered risky now, keep in mind the simple fact that it may be viewed online years after you've created it.

That's why the Muse created pseudonyms. . .