#Submitting this essay and praying that my screenwriting lecturer and/or TA doesn't know what AO3 is

[seethestarsalittlecloser]

Some facts:

in 2018 while studying for my BA in Classics I wrote a short story about Helen of Troy and the oracle Cassandra falling in love during the Trojan War

It sat on my hard drive for 3 years because I didn't know what to do with it

I eventually went "fuck it" and posted it on AO3 under the original fiction + greek mythology tags. This is the only place it can be accessed by anyone other than me.

For my screenwriting degree this semester I had to do a project where I wrote the first act of an original screenplay

I pitched a film adaptation of my Helen/Cassandra short story which was well received.

wrote the screenplay

I have to write an essay about how I wrote the screenplay

my bibliography now has an entry that looks like this:

The visceral horror of having to cite my own AO3 account in an essay has short-circuited my brain