about 7 years ago, i stumbled upon a fanfic author who got embarrassed by one of their works, and i and some other loved it, but they still deleted it. i didn't understand why they deleted it anyway. I GET IT NOW.
Re-reading my own works from 3-5 years ago makes me wanna curl in on myself. some of them or majority are so poorly written or just straight up cringey, but i give myself grace bc i was like 14 or something like that.
i don't think I'll delete them just yet, but maybe rework them slowly whenever i feel it.