Sometimes I Have Thoughts @screwsandsprings - Tumblr Blog

wanting to kiss someone is just. like. what do you mean i am experiencing something akin to hunger? what do you mean i can feel this as an actual tactile ache? it is not "i want" like "i want a bike," it is "i want" like i am found wanting. you can want it so much you can force your own pupils to dilate. i'm seasick about it. this is a thing we evolved. this is something that we can physically crave.

#<- someone come get her #i don't know that i am healed enough to believe in love again. but i am in a place where i love life again #and through that. everything just feels so much better. brighter. like how bonfires make the night orange.#it feels like the bonfire. it feels like cinnamon and nutmeg. spice. it feels like ice skates. it feels like a wren.#it feels like i've been gone a long time. and now i'm home again.

teaboot

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?????

bastionofbibliophiles

Evidently John Green had a similar experience of rediscovering old work:

teaboot

I don't know who to blame for bringing this back in my notifications but yes I have resumed writing it :)

melonmortis

Wasteland Essentials

#sketch #procreate #fallout #fallout new vegas #digital sketch #fallout fanart

because-i-do-it-all-the-time

do you ever love someone so much you get kind of scared of them? not because they're scary, at all. but because you're so so worried you're gonna fuck up your closeness with them that you tiptoe around them, trying as hard as you possibly can to not do a single thing wrong

puncertainty

<3 (prints here)

avantgarden-er

I waited two minutes to like your post to be mysterious

omneco

sosaysdean

flirting with your mutual by liking their post and saying nothing

nonexistent-triangle

the irredeemable pervert is generally well regarded among their friends for their insightful thoughts and all around pleasant demeanour

midwestvalleygirl-moved

if you think the posts i make are bad you should see the thoughts i am thinking. in my mind

ardri-na-bpiteog

no matter how normalised it gets I will die on the hill that it is rude to record strangers in public without their consent

nudityandnerdery

This Pride Month, remember:

We're here, we're queer, we're really fucking tired so we're just gonna go straight to biting instead of feigning polite confusion if you're gonna be a bigot this time, just so you know.

Happy Pride!