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Seeing as I now have to say this cuz I decided to join a fucking contest here on Wattpad:
I dont care who you are, if you claim to be a professional, or say that you have an idea to share with me. You will be blocked across any and everything I am on especially if I find that youre lying. The only people exempt from this type of block are people I know PERSONALLY from my PERSONAL life that I know I can TRUST. I had someone not even 24 hours after I put up my competition piece for the WITW Contest say that they wanted to share an idea with me in case I wanted to turn Respawn into a longer story after the competition was over. Wattpad has DMs disabled between other users now. They private messaged me on Instagram, not only claiming to be a professional artist who does character artwork but then tries to scam me. No I didnt pay this person, but I definitely knew something fishy when the comments here on Wattpad said one story about wanting to share an idea and see if I thought the same and then the conversation on Instagram turned into a fucking business proposal/payment plan bullshit. Like come on, its a 2000 word competition piece that I dont care about if I win or lose. I literally wrote it cuz I was bored and there is a rule in the Wattpad rules for said contest that states that the winners will have no say in the rights of said story if the winner and top 9 runner ups place high enough. Yeah that's fucked up, but I read the fine print knowing I'd probably never revisit Respawn and if someone else wants to use it then cool. Everything else I write is fanfiction.
Sorry about this rant, this isn't the first time nor the first site(Quotev) where I've had so much bullshit happen cuz of people on the internet thinking that they can hide behind a screen. Truth or not, I dont buy into shit especially when your Instagram is nothing but stolen artwork which suddenly drops down to 2 pictures overnight after the conversation I had with them.