Names...

I do not give out my IRL name online. Ever. I haven't done so in about two decades I'm not about to start now.

"Lea" is an abbreviation of my first internet handle, Leareth, which was the name of the villain of one of my favorite book series, The Last Herald-Mage by Mercedes Lackey. This is also the series that introduced me to the concept of gayness.

Seriously I was quite young (like, eleven, I think) when I read it, it was still the 90s, and it took me some time to realize that what the main character was experiencing was even possible.

So yeah, this series affected me greatly. Why the name of the villain and not the hero? Honestly I just thought "Leareth" (which I always pronounced "Lee-air-eth") sounded cool.

Eventually I decided to cut off the obvious link, which was easy enough by just dropping the last few letters, and I've been Lea ever since.

Notably, I did this before Days was released, and I've always been mildly perturbed at Axel as a result.

wow not joining the cool kids club by doxing ourselves online?

smh

i think i have that book somewhere around my house

i never read it though

It was released in 1990, I think, and it definitely shows, but I fucking loved it and it still stands as one of my favorites.

The main lead is a fucking amazing pretty-boy super magician who would be the world's biggest Gary Stu if so much of the series wasn't about life hurting him brutally.

He gets chosen to be a magic hero defender of the kingdom in a world where A: that's basically a job there's plenty of other people doing it, and B: it usually means a harrowing life and an early grave.

(He's no exception)

That sounds like an interesting book

Interesting trilogy, actually! Lackey tends to do those.

Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, Magic's Price.

I'm always looking for stuff to read

Haha, also not giving my real name. But I can see why the KH stuff would be funny XD

It came out like, a year after I'd started mostly going by Lea, and I was just like "are you kidding me"