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if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.

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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

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Any other INTJ moms out there, who love motherhood but hate romance? 🤣 🙋🏻‍♀️

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Why do so many

Hate my confidence

I celebrate myself, my choices, my accomplishments

And so many

Hate me for it

Why do so many

Hate my confidence

I put forth my heart, my mind, my body

And so many

Hate me for it

Why do so many

Hate my confidence

I’m competent, and strong, and gentle

And so many

Hate me for it

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We stand with the cycles of the moon

Always running

Always circling

Keeping one side hidden

Holding our Shadow

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Do not enchant me to rise. Simply leave me to rest, to return to the earth, and be remembered in my own time.

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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?????

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On my front porch this morning.

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If you know the artist, please tag.

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it's better to be lost than in a place you don't want to be in.

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Elena Ferrante

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And after years of conformity, and putting our pretty heads down, and biting back on our truth-telling tongues, we finally raise our heads, toss our wild hair, and blow out a truth so raw, so vulnerable, so undeniable, that we are set free just by our own utterance of “no more.”