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So my husband's name is Lee.
Back when I first started blogging, over on Xanga, I didn't censor his name. I had no reason to. I made friends on Xanga and barely anyone else read anything I ever posted. It was, basically, a lot of trash.
When I first moved to LJ (well, I cross-posted for a while), I didn't censor his name. It was early 2005 and I thought that LJ would be like Xanga, that I would make friends and no one nasty would read my posts.
Then I started posting fic.
There was a contingency of Libertines fans who did not like The Fic. This is mostly because they hated Peter, like seriously to the point of hate. Some of you will know exactly who I mean. They were Carl uber-fans, to the point that they actually put me off Carl for a good long time simply because of how they depicted him and how they imagined he was - which is nothing like the slightly shy, very funny, very sweet, self-deprecating Carl I've met.
So anyway at the time I must have pissed off one of these people in one way or another, maybe just by the mere fact of writing fic where Peter was not The Anti-Christ And Everything Bad In The World, and they followed me back here and through, I dunno, conjuring the devil, they managed to find a looooot of information about my husband.
At the time he had a website where he was trying to become a freelance programmer. He wasn't particularly happy in his job, and he was travelling 20 miles to work every day (and 20 miles back - which is the trip I make now, which I hate, but it's a job and I only do it three days a week), so he was trying to go freelance and at the time we both thought it would work out for him. The People Who Disliked Me found the website and left a bunch of comments on it detailing - and quoting! - parts of my fic and railing about how sordid and terrible it was.
Lee always knew about the fic writing and didn't much care, and still doesn't, although he does say he wishes I would write something "proper". But he was trying to be professional on this website and in the end, because of the barrage of comments, he had to close comments. I got comments anonymously here, too, telling me what they'd told him (uh, no shit, he does talk to me y'know...) and ugh, it was just horrible, and it was so stupid.
So from then until now I called him Himself, because I couldn't think of a better nickname. For a while, on other platforms, I've called him JD, which is a little in-joke with myself that is twofold: a) a friend of ours once told him he looked like Zack Braff (who played JD in Scrubs) and b) it's short for Jack Daniels, and he doesn't drink, but mostly, he's just been Himself.
So why now? Well, I'm kind of sick of it. For ages after, I still got stupid fucking comments occasionally, but I haven't had one in ages. Maybe The People are fed up of being nasty to people who like Peter? Maybe it's because I don't post fic anymore? I dunno. He isn't trying to go freelance anymore, but he is trying to push his band, and I've always regretted not being able to link you all more to their site and Facebook and stuff.
So yes, his name is Lee and he's in a band called Gretanova who are also on Facebook and their EP is available on Corporate Records and Lee is also now doing gig promotions under the name Will Be Betrayed.
Oh, and he's mine, and I love him, tyvm :)
Back when I first started blogging, over on Xanga, I didn't censor his name. I had no reason to. I made friends on Xanga and barely anyone else read anything I ever posted. It was, basically, a lot of trash.
When I first moved to LJ (well, I cross-posted for a while), I didn't censor his name. It was early 2005 and I thought that LJ would be like Xanga, that I would make friends and no one nasty would read my posts.
Then I started posting fic.
There was a contingency of Libertines fans who did not like The Fic. This is mostly because they hated Peter, like seriously to the point of hate. Some of you will know exactly who I mean. They were Carl uber-fans, to the point that they actually put me off Carl for a good long time simply because of how they depicted him and how they imagined he was - which is nothing like the slightly shy, very funny, very sweet, self-deprecating Carl I've met.
So anyway at the time I must have pissed off one of these people in one way or another, maybe just by the mere fact of writing fic where Peter was not The Anti-Christ And Everything Bad In The World, and they followed me back here and through, I dunno, conjuring the devil, they managed to find a looooot of information about my husband.
At the time he had a website where he was trying to become a freelance programmer. He wasn't particularly happy in his job, and he was travelling 20 miles to work every day (and 20 miles back - which is the trip I make now, which I hate, but it's a job and I only do it three days a week), so he was trying to go freelance and at the time we both thought it would work out for him. The People Who Disliked Me found the website and left a bunch of comments on it detailing - and quoting! - parts of my fic and railing about how sordid and terrible it was.
Lee always knew about the fic writing and didn't much care, and still doesn't, although he does say he wishes I would write something "proper". But he was trying to be professional on this website and in the end, because of the barrage of comments, he had to close comments. I got comments anonymously here, too, telling me what they'd told him (uh, no shit, he does talk to me y'know...) and ugh, it was just horrible, and it was so stupid.
So from then until now I called him Himself, because I couldn't think of a better nickname. For a while, on other platforms, I've called him JD, which is a little in-joke with myself that is twofold: a) a friend of ours once told him he looked like Zack Braff (who played JD in Scrubs) and b) it's short for Jack Daniels, and he doesn't drink, but mostly, he's just been Himself.
So why now? Well, I'm kind of sick of it. For ages after, I still got stupid fucking comments occasionally, but I haven't had one in ages. Maybe The People are fed up of being nasty to people who like Peter? Maybe it's because I don't post fic anymore? I dunno. He isn't trying to go freelance anymore, but he is trying to push his band, and I've always regretted not being able to link you all more to their site and Facebook and stuff.
So yes, his name is Lee and he's in a band called Gretanova who are also on Facebook and their EP is available on Corporate Records and Lee is also now doing gig promotions under the name Will Be Betrayed.
Oh, and he's mine, and I love him, tyvm :)