Dear Wattpad,
I'm back. Not for long, just for laughs. I'm posting, because I've had this Wattpad account for 7 years. Though I've been on Wattpad for 9, almost 10 years because like any self respecting 12 year old, I forgot my first accounts password and as well as my transgression of a pubescent 13 year old trying her hand at writing.
Still almost 10 years of fanfic is sweet it doesn't explain why I'm writing to my no one in particular. And this is honestly like a Dear John, Hail Mary, crime heist, history lesson and love letter all smashed into one. I'm going to be 22 in a couple months, plus I'm feeling nostalgic tonight and fanfic has been an integral part of me for the past decade.
So to anyone wondering, no I didn't start out on Wattpad. I'm not sure if I started reading fanfic on quotev or YouTube (yes people read fanfic on YouTube and I'm not talking the boyfriend ASMR stuff, I'm talking ships and x reader and crackfics.), though I'm 58% sure the first fanfic I read was a Marichat fanfic. Though it might have also been MLP. Yes, I did form part of the the ven diagram of 12 year old girls and 30 old basement dwellers that were obsessed with MLP for very different reason.The important part is I just remember being 11-12ish, reading Marichat on YouTube and after filling what My Little Pony character am I quiz on Quotev exploring the power of friendship fanfics.
Now I'm 21, I've read on fanfic.net, Tumblr, Wattpad, Ao3, discord servers and a few other sites, here there and inbetween. Hell I've even written on almost all of these. And it's weird, a 14 year old kid might be reading this right now and wonder what a loser would still be reading fanfic in their 20's, but it's kinda funny, because right now I'm wondering if someday in 20 years time will I still love fanfic and will it still be part of my life?