diet-cake

[diet-cake]

I just really like his face. It is pleasing for me to draw.

[diet-cake]

[diet-cake]

sorry for how I acted when there were multiple noises happening at the same time

[diet-cake]

This post is so funny like comment subscribe if you picture your favs bloodied and coughing on the floor and flinching

[diet-cake]

[diet-cake]

[diet-cake]

[diet-cake]

i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

[diet-cake]

weird unprompted opinion but i think out of all the storytelling mediums.....theatre best portrays loneliness

[diet-cake]

i have been introduced to wiggly paint

[diet-cake]

My favourite trope has to be:

I sacrificed myself to save you. I didn't plan to survive. I burnt all the bridges. I intended to break your heart with my death, but that would be all right, because I wouldn't be around to see you. I pretended that you'll mourn me for a while and move on. I convinced myself I was going down in the blaze of glory. That my deed was appreciated. That everything was going to be all right afterwards, and I didn't need to be there to see it.

But I survived. And now I have to look you in the eye. I have to pick up the pieces of the life I shattered and figure out how to put it back together. If it can be done at all.

[diet-cake]

𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝. 𝙵𝚎𝚗'𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚕 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛… 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚒 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚋𝚊𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚎.

[diet-cake]

what's wrong babe you've barely touched your potential even though all your elementary teachers really liked you and said you were gifted and that you were going to do great things

[diet-cake]

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?????

[diet-cake]

theghostegg on Instagram

[diet-cake]

[diet-cake]

id ask God for another youth and id waste it again but in a different cardinal direction this s time