rthewriter23

[rthewriter23]

The define word option google docs is such a lifesaver.

[rthewriter23]

Intro Post!!!

Hi!! I'm Rits, a writer working on her writing skills and project completion skills.

My goal is to write at least 3 stories a week.

Here's some info about me!

I'm an aesthetic girlie, which is why both this and my main blog are very aesthetic, and my 2 favourite colors

I'm a multifandom fan, and I'm working on putting my whole list in the intro post on my main!

I love writing and reading, both fan fiction and books

I'm a huge Swiftie

I'm straight, but a big LGBTQ+ supporter, and so are all my blogs.

I don't really have a genre of favorite music, just really depending on my mood

I'm open to writing requests, but no NSFW!

You can find my main at @fandomhopper23 of course, I go by Fanny on that, but you can call me either.

[rthewriter23]

Yessss!

'Said softly' is all vulnerable and emotionally and angsty, but 'whispered"?

'whispered' is more mischevious/heisty, like you've got a secret or are in the middle of a heist/prank

I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

[rthewriter23]

Op, you just put into words the story of my life. Ask me any word, and I can put it in a sentence, but ask me the definition, and you've got one of Taylor swift's blank spaces, with more than enough space to write the names of all the men in the world.

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

[rthewriter23]

40-20-60

I am my mother's daughter, yet when we walk the street she is mine.

When we walk the street, out the house, I am older. I am legally named her guardian, because she is too young to be her own.

20 year ago, the world had a new breakthrough. instead of AI or space travel, there was a drug that altered one's genetic composition to cease aging.

They'd marketed it as giving you a new life. One that had you frozen at the perfect age, at the perfect time. Now.

They used it to justify the lack of insurance they provided, the lack of guarantee, or time frame for how long it would last.

Even 15, I knew that the risk was astronomical. I was a business studies fan, a future entrepreneur with big dreams of her own sustainable, comfortable fashion line.

Those came true of course, but my point here is, I wanted that dream to come true. Which meant I did all the work, all the research, into marketing and economics and whatnot.

Which meant that I recognized the holes in their pitch. I figured out what they were lying about. I realized that the things they justified, they weren't just refusing to tell their customers. they themselves didn't know. That was why the costs were so low.

They figured that if such a miraculous thing costed less, with more credentials - and believe me they had credentials, what with being one of the biggest most famous companies in bioengineering - more people, for all over the world would buy it.

So I refused. Barely legal when they offered it, I'd done my research. I did my best to tell people, to stop them from buying it, but very few people believed me.

Then it went commercial. There was scientific proof, thousands of millions of people, were just fine. The worst side effects were people temporarily getting high, which well, it was a drug.

So I stopped convincing people. Gaslighted myself into believing it was false information. but there was always this nagging in the back of my mind, convincing me to never try it. And well, I wasn't exactly legal during its height of consumption, and it was technically a drug.

So when my mother chose to do it, I didn't say a word. And that is something I will regret forever.

I didn't always regret it you know. Not till a year ago, when I was 35 when the side effects popped up. In fact, I'd been close to doing it myself. I've never been more glad for my inbuilt habit of procrastinating, that I had worked so hard to get over.

3 years ago, on the 20th anniversary of the drug, videos started circulating on the internet. The original takers of the drug, they were getting de-aged.

They'd done too good of a job at stopping aging, to the point that they reversed it, and they hadn't even known.

Turns out, you were de - aged by exactly 40 years, exactly 20 years after starting to use it.

Nowadays, it's not really that big of an issue. Lots of people hadn't been using it that long, or had just stopped. In fact, now it's safer. Poeple have it in their 40's, ready to be 20 when they hit 60.

It goes to show how powerful information can be.

I don't think I'll ever do it however. I remember holding my mother, terrified and 50, looking forever 30 as the date of her first use approached, obsessively scrolling through articles of users who had just vanished, not yet 40 when 'DA Day' - As they were calling it - rolled around.

I promised myself I'd never subject my daughter, Sofia to sad smiles from strangers after she explains to them that no, this is my mother.

I wish I could hate my mother for subjecting me to it.

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AN: Hi! I hope you liked my very first Tumblr story!

Please feel free to give me feedback in the comments, whether you liked it or not! I devour constructive criticism like a... uh something that devours stuff. As you can see, my creative battery desperately needs a recharge after that!

A drug is discovered that stops all effects of aging. You decide to not take it. 20 years pass and the side effects are discovered.