Y'all I'm Confused I Only Just Got Here

Y'all I'm confused I only just got here 😭

Tumblr really has ruined me. I was in a Rite-Aid and "out of touch" came on over the speakers, and I freaked out a bit because I thought I had missed my thursday morning meeting. It took me a minute before I remembered that Out of Touch playing does not always mean its thursday. sometimes people just play the song.

A CELLAR!? THEY PUT HIM IN A FUCK8NG CELLAR!?!?!?!?!?

Currently reading The House in The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune and I just had a thought. The reason why Talia is so obsessed with murder is because her parents' deaths probably weren't accidents. I could see the insinuation that they weren't but I never made the connection between that and her behavior T-T.

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

Currently reading The House in The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune and I just had a thought. The reason why Talia is so obsessed with murder is because her parents' deaths probably weren't accidents. I could see the insinuation that they weren't but I never made the connection between that and her behavior T-T.

They're never getting back together now.