@cgormley4
Hello dear,
I was just looking through your book for the Poetic Pulse Awards' participation award.
Just realised you're not following me anymore.
As the host, you were supposed to give me a permanent follow.
May I know the reason behind unfollowing?
Host,
Poetic Pulse Awards
ARCANE.
Hi guys, I hope you are all doing well. This will be a lengthier post so, feel free to skip it but I think it is important for you to read.
I got this message from the Wattpad team the other day and I was a bit stunned. Apparently someone reported my posts. I received the message because "Users may not post content or works that promote, support or represent any kind of self-injury. This includes content that encourages or promotes eating disorders, or suicide."
It is never my intention to do such a thing and I am upset with myself knowing that anything I have said or done may have come across that way. I have struggled with mental health a lot and for me writing is an outlet. The reason I put my work on here is so that hopefully others can feel less alone.
To whoever reported me, I am not upset with you in the slightest, I just wish you had contacted me directly so that we could talk about what I could do to prevent such things in the future. If that person is reading this right now I hope you will reach out to me so I know what exactly gave you this impression and I can edit it or take it down.
A shortened version of the message I received is attached below:
Hi there,
A concerned community member has contacted us about your post. We are concerned about your safety and would like to provide you with helpful resources if you are having difficulties.
Your story has been removed because of the violation of our guidelines (http://www.wattpad.com/guidelines), in particular:
The glorification of self-harm and suicide:
"Users may not post content or works that promote, support or represent any kind of self-injury. This includes content that encourages or promotes eating disorders, or suicide."
It is our sincerest hope that you would be able to get through the difficulties with support from others.
Best wishes.
Sincerely,
The Wattpad team
@parryos awwww thank you so much!!! this means so much to me!!! i'm SO glad tp hear that! i keep meaning to continue reading your work but honestly i haven't been reading at all lately T-T
@cgormley4 Don't even worry!! I did read them and to me they seemed very emotional and nice. you actually inspired me to write more! <3
how the fuck did we let this happen?
POSTEDDDDD!!!
...finally
i don't know why but for some reason i have so many different writing styles. like if you look at my poems they are all over the place.
like some you can tell i really took my time with, while others are just things that pop into my mind. i'll literally just jot it all down fix a few things and boom, post it.
idk, it's so weird. does anyone else do this?
@cgormley4 No of course not!! Haha, like all our emotions aren’t the same, our poetry styles cannot be either
@LemonOreoSlut thank goodness cause i was just thinking about it and i was like "am i the weird for doing this" lmao so now i know i'm not
i forgot to thank you guys for 50 followers. but can i just say,
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR 60 FOLLOWERS!!!!!!
ik it might not seem like a lot but to me it is so thank you so much for supporting me and my work. i love you all so much. take care of yourself. you are amazing. <3
i am actually gonna go crazy. the stress headaches are so bad that not even a good cry does the trick. i'm so done.
I know, a good oll mental break down used to fix them for a little bit but now they still just stay T~T
how is everyone doing? take care of yourself.
i'm gonna try to get a new poem out soon but school has been killing me, sorryyyyyy.
if any of you also like writing poetry check out the Poetic Pulse Awards on https://www.wattpad.com/user/IrenicJ_stories