I Owe My Writing Career to Wattpad and an AO3 Tag I Can’t Print

Fanfic made me a writer. A slightly unhinged one, but still. Also, someone once tagged their fic with “incorrect use of an eel”

It started with 5,000 reads on Wattpad of a fanfic I wrote when I was 15.

And my whole brain broke.

I was a good student: straight A’s, strong essays, lots of gold stars and check marks and “such a pleasure to have in class.”
But nothing - and I mean nothing - scratched the surface of the pride I felt when real, actual humans were commenting on my unhinged…