Morgan

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

I was thinking about scrapping my fic because it's not very good but I think instead I'll have to rework it as something to be proud of and post it anyways because at least I didn't use ai, thanks for this reminder

--- **the specific stages of grief when you finish a monster romance series** stage 1: denial. there's a novella. there's an extra. there's a side character book. you can google. you can google so hard. stage 2: anger. she only wrote four. why only four. she could have written eight. there is no reason for there to only be four. stage 3: bargaining. you reread the second one because the second one was your favorite and reading it again will be almost as good as a fifth book. this is a lie that you tell yourself and you know it is a lie. stage 4: depression. you start a new series and the new series is fine. it is just fine. you are settling. the new series knows you are settling. stage 5: acceptance. you find another series. it is great. you are devastated to discover the same author has only written three of those. we live like this. ---

I've been stuck in the depression stage for two months, when does it get better /silly

Super embarrassing for me because I walked out like "People are so over exaggerating, I think that was a nice ending" and then ALL I see is people bombing the hell out of it😥