Thank you all for making We are scum a top story 7/5/2020 · 10:22pm Jul 5th, 2020
I want to thank all you beautiful people who have followed me, liked my stories or have added my stories to their libraries. My story We are scum is one of the top stories for today(7/5/2020). When I started my page on this site a few months ago, I never expected to see such love from the community. Truth be told, I know I'm not a particularly great writer and I mostly posted stories on here for my own benefit as a creative outlet and a bit of catharsis. With the amount of people that have liked or added We are scum, I am feeling a bit overwhelmed from the positive outpouring. I honestly don't know what to say as I never expected to have any of my stories to get much in the way of traction. I want to give you a little bit of a backstory on my inspiration for writing We are scum, I deal with mental illness on a daily basis(bi-polar disorder, OCD and schitzo-affective disorder), about 20 years ago I went through a real dark patch in my life and slipped into a deep dark depression in which I couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel and slipped into self harm and even attempted suicide. Though I eventually made it out of that particularly bleak period, I was left with a few scars(one on my wrist from the suicide attempt and the rest mental), from time to time my mind goes back to that particularly dark patch on my life going over the events. Over time I have managed to get better and I have set up for myself web of help to call on when I'm having problems with thoughts of self harm or negative thoughts to help pull myself out of the pit my mind is digging. One of the ways over the years I've helped my self is to deal with the negative thoughts is to write stories where I can vicariously explore these thoughts in a safe manner. I usually listen to music when I'm writing and have either youtube or spotify open to help me concentrate, when thinking about the premise for We are scum, it just so happened that Hurt and Long Hard Road Out Of Hell played back to back and it became an ah-ha moment, allowing me to channel the emotions from that particularily bleak time in my life as well as channel the feelings I get from those two song.
This is being kind of a long, run-on sentence so in closing I'll say, thank you all my fellow bronies and pegasisters, you beautiful people. I hope you'll like my other stories and I hope you will continue to read, like and comment on my stories.
You are welcome, my friend. You deserve it for its thought-provoking genuinity.