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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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GOOD thread.
I used to be into wolf roleplaying as a teen so there are countless examples. The worst is something I didn't write, though; at some point a foreign piece of extremely sappy handwritten poetry of the LIFE IS PAIN, NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME variety made it into my home (my mother used to be a teacher, so that was probably the source), and she accused me of writing it even though my handwriting was much shittier than the author's and I'd never write poetry of my own accord let alone something like that.
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