Small Rant?
I've realized that by having things such an LJ or a fanfiction account, it makes it easier for people to find you and keep up with a little of what you're doing. In one way that's good because it allows people who want to read my writing easier access (should they want it!) to all my works.
What I am now just realizing, however, is that it is also one way for unwanted people to sort of keep tabs on you. Take, for example, an ex-bf. After over a year of break up, one would think that the said boy would get the hint and stop contacting me...but no. Today, I had the misfortune to receive another communication. *bangs head in keyboard* How much more blunt should I be in imparting my so NOT wanting to have any sort of contact with him? How much more could I ignore him before he gets the picture that i absolutely would like to get away from the past?
Anyway, getting back to my point, in this latest communication, he has let it slip that he's read my fanfic writings in ff.net. Something I guess he is free to do, and yet...ugh! I know he has no interest in fanfics and the fact that he reads mine sends shivers of creepiness down my spine. It doesn't help that I have connected my ff.net account to my LJ, where at times I might put something a little more personal than my stories.
Strangely enough, while i don't mind strangers reading my stories (after all, they're strangers and for all i know, i never have to see them or their possible judgment), I find it distinctly uncomfortable to know that my ex could lurk in my journal or my ff.net account.
I had thought to change my pen name, but i have found myself particularly attached to this one that I've had for about nine years of fanfic writing now! Not that the name itself is that great (named myself after two of my favorite anime characters at the time i started writing stories), but I've had it for almost a decade! A decade!!
Well, here's my hope that if he ever does finally find this journal and reads it, he can perhaps take a hint and GET A LIFE (more specifically, a life away from mine.)
What I am now just realizing, however, is that it is also one way for unwanted people to sort of keep tabs on you. Take, for example, an ex-bf. After over a year of break up, one would think that the said boy would get the hint and stop contacting me...but no. Today, I had the misfortune to receive another communication. *bangs head in keyboard* How much more blunt should I be in imparting my so NOT wanting to have any sort of contact with him? How much more could I ignore him before he gets the picture that i absolutely would like to get away from the past?
Anyway, getting back to my point, in this latest communication, he has let it slip that he's read my fanfic writings in ff.net. Something I guess he is free to do, and yet...ugh! I know he has no interest in fanfics and the fact that he reads mine sends shivers of creepiness down my spine. It doesn't help that I have connected my ff.net account to my LJ, where at times I might put something a little more personal than my stories.
Strangely enough, while i don't mind strangers reading my stories (after all, they're strangers and for all i know, i never have to see them or their possible judgment), I find it distinctly uncomfortable to know that my ex could lurk in my journal or my ff.net account.
I had thought to change my pen name, but i have found myself particularly attached to this one that I've had for about nine years of fanfic writing now! Not that the name itself is that great (named myself after two of my favorite anime characters at the time i started writing stories), but I've had it for almost a decade! A decade!!
Well, here's my hope that if he ever does finally find this journal and reads it, he can perhaps take a hint and GET A LIFE (more specifically, a life away from mine.)