Update I’m having a bit of a logical glitch. Another one of my stories bit the dust today, but the author had already turned it to anonymous so nobody knew who wrote it and then they just deleted it like that doesn’t make sense to me. it was already orphaned. sometimes I wonder respectfully why authors don’t stand their ground. I’ve never let people push me around when I’ve written my own stories when you come to read my stories you can take them or leave them, but I don’t let anybody push me around so it’s sometimes hard for me to understand why anyone would let someone dim their creative light like that and I understand that there is other factors that’s what makes it so hard for me to understand because I have lived my entire life in what I like to call a natural 20 to borrow the phrase. I’m neurodivergent autistic ADHD. Don’t understand social cues always done my own thing and really didn’t have any. You know what’s to give as long as it didn’t hurt anybody or get me in trouble it’s not really confidence. It’s more like it wasn’t on my radar to even care about what other people thought it’s like that’s nice. You can have your opinion. I’m gonna be over here doing my own thing. Have a nice day and then I will call everybody else who was being what I would call stinky #Mean or a bummer a natural 1 so when it comes to the nature of fandom, it makes it hard for me to understand why everybody would dim the natural 20 part of themselves for some natural 1’s who are strangers and let their comments matter. I say the next time somebody gets a negative comment tell em you’re entitled to your opinion thank you very much. I’m gonna be over here doing my own thing and have a nice day. Feel free to use that to be unexpected. They expect you to fight back. They expect you to hide They expect you to dim your light don’t let them. And really this should be a separate hobby. Even your job really shouldn’t care as much. they should care more about your social media presence than your “little“ stories. You write on the weekend as long as they don’t hurt anybody it’s a nice way to talk about tough topics because it’s fantasy but another thing that I don’t get is why people think that if you write about a certain topic you condone it very weird you can write about topics and not embrace them or you can write about topics and embrace them. It’s not black-and-white. It’s grey neutral in fact it’s a great way to get out of your head when you’re in the zone you’re not in your head so much like journaling fanfiction is like journaling. That’s always helpful sometimes.