For the writers in here, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever written?
I'll go first:
Back when I was a braindead teenager, I postponed my senior capstone for an entire semester.
I originally started designing a whole table top game. This would have included box art, a resource book with illustrations, tables, the whole 9 yards.
But I was laughed at by 3 fat they/thems when I presented that idea.
So I wrote an awful novella about lesbians going to prom in the last 2 weeks of the project. I admittedly hamed it up for extra points by padding out the plot with needless identity politics. But I got a B+ and multiple classmates said it was the best thing they'd ever read because it spoke to them as
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IDK if it was embarassing, but back when I was in college I took a women's studies course.
It was taught by a radfem and I used all types of the jargon when writing essays for the class.
Think like "deconstructing calvin klein advertisements in the context of the male gaze of capitalism." stuff like that.
I got an A.
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The best class i ever took was classic lit thru a radfem lens
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Yeah it actually was a good class, I enjoyed it a lot.
The radfem teacher was like Queen TERF and pretty based.
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I had a textbook rotund tumblrina as a prof but her choices of book and the class in general were S tier
Never would have read wide sargasso sea or mrs dalloway if it wasnt for that class
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The same year I wrote about lesbians going to prom, I wrote a feminist retelling of Bluebeard where the protagonist is actually investigating the disappearances of the other women.
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