it’s real but for me it only really applied if the fic got popular. my most popular fic led to my 5 day hospitalization for infection in middle school

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it’s not real, it’s all just confirmation bias plus whose more likely to write fanfic ppl whose lives are great or ppl where it feels like everything is falling apart and they need an escape? I am not a good example of this though because about a year after starting posting my most popular fic I did so terribly in a class I had to drop and sprained my ankle and got hit with two hurricanes one where I was home and the generator broke so we just had no power until they fixed the powe

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… what’s the AO3 curse?

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I fear it’s real I was in the er a couple days ago

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Lowkey true I started my fic and my mom got cancer + I shattered my ankle

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Don’t worry it’s not real! I write and I mostly just joke about it, and if something does go wrong, it’s not bc I write, but rather something I can just add to the notes as a joke to why I’m perpetually late

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