So apparently this is a thing on social media now where people make fun of fanfic authors who take time off of writing for various reasons. And I just. MY BLOOD IS BOILING. MY GEARS ARE GRINDED. MY BISCUITS ARE BURNT. MY PEARS ARE PICKLED. I have lost 7 years from my lifespan due to the immense anger this has caused me and now I will share it with all of you so we can all be angry together.

First, I'll share a screenshot from a tweet that was reposted by a really popular Instagram meme account, pi (I don't feel like typing out 3.1459 etc). And I've been following Tim (the owner) for like 5-6 years but the caption just made me angrier than the post itself did.

Like are you frEAKING KIDDING ME???!!!!

But that's not all. xonceuponatimex (aka Alana) posted on her TikTok about a video she found where people were pretty much doing the same thing. She mentioned some comments and stuff but I actually found the video itself to take a look at some of them... and boy....

The video itself was Trisha Paytas saying "HAHA nobody asked" in a sarcastic way.

If it's not loading for some of you, the text on the video reads "when ur reading wattpad and theres a whole chapter about the writers mental health" and then the actual caption itself says "like nobody cares if u dont have the motivation make me a book"

AND THE COMMENTS!!! THE COMMENTS ARE WORSE!!!!

The one that says "it's sooo draining when u get the notification for a new chapter and you click on it and it's just them giving an update😑😑" made me literally want to stick my hand in a blender. You know what's draining?? Writing shit for free and then seeing people say things like this. Posting chapters because you enjoy it and having readers be so apathetic when you're a little busy with school.

If these people get so angry and don't care when tragedy strikes... why don't they write their own fanfics, then? If they're so tired of waiting, they should just make their own books!! Then they'll see how easy it is!! And how simple it is to organize your time so you can frequently update!! Because it's just so easy! :) :)

Like literally,,, us writers go through so much!!! And writing is SO DIFFICULT! It's not just writing a story with one-dimensional characters and a plot that's been seen a hundred times. It's creating original characters, exploring new themes in a pre-existing world, developing relationships, etc. It's not slamming your hands on a keyboard and clicking "Publish." Most published authors take years to work on their books. Expecting a bunch of people who do this for entertainment to do the same is ridiculous. Especially when most are kids.

(In the next paragraph I discuss death, cancer, hospitalization, and other things if you want to skip it).

Just some examples of stuff from my own life in the time I've been on here: I've been through the deaths of at least 9 family members including my own mother and a very traumatic murder case with one of said family members, we had to put my childhood dog down, my mom battled cancer three times, the pandemic happened, my grandma has been in and out of the hospital, I underwent thoracic surgery to remove some ribs and was hospitalized for a week straight, and more. And yet I'm still here. There are so many people on this app who have been through extremely difficult situations and still find the time to write. Some of my friends have posted messages that have absolutely broken my heart because of what they're going through, what they've lost, etc.

And these people have the nerve to be like "my happiness is more important than your life" and are so callous as to not care at all?? I've been reading fanfiction for 10+ years. I know how much it can suck to find a really good fic and find out it hasn't been updated for a while, but that gives you no excuse to start being rude to an author.

Newsflash: we have lives? We get stressed from school and parents and politics and personal relationships and mental health and experience other outside factors that non-writers do. But since we're authors, we should just... ignore it and keep writing?? Pull up Wattpad when we feel like we're drowning just because pissqueen14 wants an update??

ALSO THE PART WHERE SOMEONE SAID HOW PEOPLE WILL COMMENT THAT IT'S OKAY AND THEY'LL BE LIKE "NO IT'S NOT"???? BITCH I WILL ROUNDHOUSE KICK YOU IN THE FACE. IMAGINE NOT HAVING EMPATHY WOW COULD NEVER BE ME.

N e ways I'm going to bed angry. Goodnight >:(