#ngl I roleplay British pretty hard

[londonfoginacup]

Hello! I really love your fics, thank you so much for blessing us with all that goodness!! I was wondering, why did you choose londonderrytea/ladylondonderry as your pseuds? Sorry, I'm very curious!!

Ahahahhaha hiiiii anon hello!!

The answer is actually going to be VERY DISAPPOINTING I THINK!! And you look at me with this face: 😒 and point and whisper things like “nerd!” and “dork!”

But alright—

In creating an Internet persona, this was 2014ish and I had created “Londonfoginacup” on a whim when I had meant this to be an aesthetic blog (“what’s an aesthetic handle? Well the city of London, gifs of rolling fog, and gifs of steam coming out of a cup, it’s perfect”)

But I had been looking for a name that suited me more— Londonfoginacup doesn’t evoke a NAME so much as it does maybe an odd BOOK TITLE.

Coincidentally this was a time when I was desperate to become more British because one direction is British, and so I had been frequenting tea stores. I also had been WAY over steeping my English breakfast because I didn’t realise you needed to take the tea bag out, and so was accustoming myself to a particularly bitter taste, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that I stumbled on a tea called Lady Londonderry tea.

It has STRAWBERRY IN IT, ANON.

It’s a lovely tea. No one near me sells it anymore.

ANYWAY this coincided with my becoming familiar with Derry, Londonderry, because Radio’s Big Weekend was held there in 2013. So the name stuck in my mind because it had TWO connections to me now! Plus, it sounds like a name, since it starts with Lady.

As a side note I did google it at the time and found that there was an Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart who was the Marchioness of Londonderry, and an influential society member between WWI and WWII, and I quite liked the look of her. So I decided that yes, I shall simply impersonate her. Seriously you should read her wiki she’s rather neat.

SO, it is because of those three facts that I thought, yes! This is who I shall be from now on!

…and then I found out that I could not change my tumblr url because someone YEARS AGO STOLE IT 🙂‍↕️ which is what led to me instead calling my main londonderrytea. Close enough. ah well. Someday… perhaps…

Anyway if you can get your hands on some lady Londonderry tea it’s quite delicious