Sometimes people are meanie meanheads. Sometimes they're going to do things you don't like.

Get the fuck over it.

Someone didn't like your story? Okay. There's always someone who didn't like your story.

Someone added your story to a bookshelf with a weird name? Suck it up. I've got a bookshelf named "Favorited in Self Defense" for a reason.

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Nobody deserves things. Nobody at all.

Let me back this up. I've been seeing on the internet recently some spirited discussion about whether certain redemption moments -- and "redemption" moments -- in a recent popular television series were "deserved." I also had this argument with someone on a fanfic, whether a character "deserved" to be forgiven for their horrible trespasses.

Let me elucidate a point of personal philosophy.

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