What’s the plot also Wattys deadline is on the 30th how long do you have until it’s complete maybe we can ball park this
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WELCOME!
Also I adore your name
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TYSM!!
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welcome newcomer, i am maia, your resident skinni thicc friend 
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welcomeeee, i love ur name it sounds so… idfk lol but i LOVE it
welcome to you too!
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Of course, credit where credit’s due, you also led me to Wacky Writers in the first place!
Ohh, yeah, my heart goes out to all y’all New Yorkers during this pandemic. I have a couple of friends from there and they say that life is just… completely different.
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Lol, I’m glad! I used to have really dark, mysterious usernames… and one day I was just like, ‘bluebird’ that feels approachable. Best decision ever, I’ve made a lot more friends thanks to it.
When I first looked at it, I thought your pfp was the Black Panther suit – it looks dope as hell.
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lmao I hate you for this why is this your identifier I love it and need context
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It’s weird now but im into it… kinda, my summer sucked I refuse to party right now but its a trip to see everyone out with mask and stuff. How is it where you are?
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Hmm, that’s interesting. I guess I can’t imagine living a life… in New York, that isn’t all hustle and bustle, but I’ve only been there once, and I did the entire tourist thing – the shows, Times Square, pizza, all that.
My life was pretty chill before the shutdown, because I’m a student, so doing it now… wasn’t that much of a shift. However, in DC, where I live… things are pretty interesting. DC’s always been super “we’re gonna have a hell of a summer, y’all” all of the big artists come here for concerts, there’s free events, historic stuff, parades… everything just went still.
Generally, the atmosphere here is… everyone is exhausted, like it’s weird because the average person is doing the least they were before… but it’s just tiring. There’s a lot of good and bad things happen when it comes to social justice, and Black people in general. I live in a very white neighborhood, and it feels so weird to see all of the BLM signs everywhere, and know it’s mostly bullshit.
But yeah, it’s not too bad over here, things are slowly starting open back up. We’ll see.
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I love the tourist thing thoooo it’s expensive so I only do it when I have visitors lol
Isn’t it weird!
Bad experience there?
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Wait, really? Most of the people I know… just, I dunno, like, they avoid Times Square like the plague, and generally get annoyed at the tourist shenanigans. Interesting.
Heh.
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Yes, definitely. But, to preface, having grown up overseas, and specifically in the Middle East which is basically tucked between Europe, Africa, and Asia… I just don’t get the whole race thing. I mean, obviously, I understand the problems in the US… but there was nothing like this there, there was prejudice against nationalities (most of the workers/housemaids/drivers were from India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and parts of Africa) and there were definitely problems there; but skin largely didn’t matter. It would be stupid to be prejudiced against dark skin because you’re so damn close to Africa, there’s no novelty in it, and equally ridiculous to have a prejudice against people with white skin, because not only was the country colonized by the British, it’s the Middle East, they’re smack dab between Europe and Africa!
Anyways, coming here was a major culture shock in a lot of ways. But, largely all of the racial issues we have, while, yes, they are absolutely real… just feel so ridiculous.
So, when we moved into this neighborhood we spent one night in our house, me and my family, and in the morning I was making breakfast and someone is pounding on the door. My Mom has had enough interactions with police to know that that is an officer at the door, and if she doesn’t get to it, they’re breaking it down.
The kicker? Our neighbors had called the cops on us, they thought we were squatting. Even though 1) the sign outside of the door said “GONE”, over where it had been advertising our home 2) it’s a complex, so, there’s a key and buzz-in system… how would we have gotten in, and 3) the place had been advertised for several months, there’s suddenly more activity – c’mon now. Well, ultimately, my Mom talked the cops down, the officers were also Black so we had a chuckle about it and they left.
The other month the same neighbors put up a sign that said “Black Lives Matter - A LOT” in their hand-writing and it just feels so fucking disingenuous.
That story hits closer to home for me, but, you know I could go on and on about the bullshit we’ve seen here.
But on the flipside, antifa is blockading routes as if this is a third-world country, not the capital of the US. They’re harassing, not just White people, but anyone who disagrees with them. I’m hella light-skinned (like, if I relaxed my hair, which I’ll never do, but if I did, you would have a hard time connecting my dark-skinned mom and me, unless you’re used to looking at mixed people) and I’ve felt people… militantly watching me, and my Mom has had to, sort of, be more obvious that’s she’s my Mother because she’s felt I haven’t been safe around… insane antifa people.
It’s just crazy on both ends, and yeah. I’m realizing more and more that picking a side isn’t an option, I have to look at everything with a neutral lense.
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HKSBCHJXSDVCGJSV AHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAH OMG CACKLING AT THIS OMFG
TY THO LMAOO
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i luh u too bitch 
Its because im shaped like a box, and like to say I have an hourglass figure. its a straight upi mood 
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Lmao idk no one like that. Like I wont talk on Broadway if I’m trying to get somewhere but I like it. I like the shows plus at least for myself and the people I know we live literally right there like legit to get to Time Square from my house is a straight line down. I just don’t like it in warm weather because people smell and never move. Its basically the only place I shop since I hate having to travel to Harlem and the mall here doesn’t have much.
Slow walking and always confused which is confusing for me because im not from NY but I don’t get lost it’s like umm… whats your phone say? and dont stand in the street while checking
Depends, India was pretty colorist in my experience lol dont get me started on MEA it’s just in my opinion less noticed when its not someone who looks very different.
Sorry on our behalf lol
This makes me sad and angry and I think im in a privileged space where I think I WISH A BITCH WOULD but this is a reality to some people
Ew fuck them its too late but I would have pressed harassment charges (You can do that cops will tell you not to but they have to if you tell them to)
Doesn’t actually exist its a buzz word. Antifa stands for Anti fascist but if someone says they are anti anti facist it means they are pro communist so we make words like Antifa which is the same thing as nazis calling themselves far right. The US is an anti fascist country.
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I’m sorry everyone, I know it’s early but I need to seriously vent right now. Allow me to be frank when I say that I am utterly frustrated with some of the things I’m seeing on Wattpad. Recently, I’ve been reading more and more genres in an attempt to make the rewrites I’m doing on my own series more relatable to the African-American audience it’s intended for. However, what has proven utterly frustrating and confusing for me is that I’m seeing a lot of very cliche stories that have VERY stereotypical plots such as My Sexy Thug, Drug Dealer’s Slave and nonsense like that but on top of that, the vast majority of these stories are so poorly written from a grammatical and literary standpoint that its headache inducing to read.
I’m not talking about simple grammatical mistakes which I can excuse but like full on, inability to separate action from dialogue poorly written. The real kicker is that most of these stories have over 3k reads and it’s almost a mystery to me how people can sit there and read this stuff. It makes me question at times what exactly I’m doing and if my stories will attract the African-American readers they are written for. Does anyone else feel this way or have similar feelings of frustration?.
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Literally me 
Check out my playlist on my page for POC stories if you need inspo I purposefully avoided that shit.
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@MTBias @AnaWryneck Hey you guys! Just wanted to see how you both were doing! I miss you all! 
@MTBias I’m so sorry to hear you’re dealing with that. It’s hard when stories like that get readers and you wonder what’s wrong with your own story, but I believe that you can do it! Just keep writing.
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yeah fr
as an african enby, the plots for those stories are just…terrible.
why do people see us as drug dealers and thugs lmfao
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