Inspired by a post compiled by @missoneminute​ of some of Carl’s Greatest Fibs & Backtracks, I thought I’d collect a few more quotes from Carl, Peter and friends around the topic of some of said vacillating: fanfiction. As much for my own reference as anything! 

Have you ever Googled yourself? 
Carl: Of course. But all that came up was some filthy bit of fan fiction about The Libertines. I looked at it the other night with my girlfriend but I can’t seem to get it up anymore. 2006 (via here cos original source seems to be gone)

“I’m aware of it, but it’s not choice reading for me. Would you like to read stuff like that about you? If it has a literary basis, I think it’s good and healthy and I stand by it. But I’d rather they laid off me and my supposed homosexual tendencies. It does make me uncomfortable to read it, but as long as people realise it’s fiction then I have no problem with it.” 2006 (can’t find source for this, if you know please tell me!)

There are loads of gay erotic fantasy stories about you and Pete being lovers on the internet, does that bother you?
Carl: I completely advocate creative thought, and if people want to make up stories, I am flattered to be involved. I don’t mind it at all really. I’d rather people did creative things than did nothing or negative things or talking shit in forums. 
Didz: I would be quite flattered I think. 
Carl: Didz is hoping someone might very well do it for him as well. You just need to work out which band member you’d like to be with. (laughs) Even if it’s not sexual, I wish there was more things to advocate creative writing. 2006 (original source seems dead)

Speaking of the two of you as lovers, have you read any Libertines fan fiction?
Carl: I wouldn’t even know where to look for it.
Pete: He’s lying. Someone pointed us in the direction of it. It’s fucking weird, man, isn’t it? A lot of effort has gone into it. There’ll be a poetic stream of consciousness and then suddenly, BANG! My cock will appear in Carl’s ear. I think it must be written by someone close to us, because apart from the actual sex side of things, which obviously isn’t true, some of it’s quite close to life.
2015

I do love the comments under your Youtube videos. A lot of people seem to want a romance between you and Pete Doherty.
Yes, there are many supporters of this idea. They turn us from men into just objects … no, so it’s really strange.
Is there fanfiction about you?
Yes. I just was going to say, there are some pretty unique stories.
Sometimes do you sit there, in the candlelight, and read about yourselves? While getting closer?
Yes, with a bottle of wine… no, not really. 2015 (translated from German)