when I was fifteen, I wrote a 600-page novel. I haven't looked at it in years but I'm reading it now and...

...it's pretty good?????

me at fifteen using swears to be edgy in my writing

me at 15 owning me at 28 and making me cry wtF

15-year-old me: how to really delve into this character's motives? Ah yes. Write a non-canon meta piece about them going to hell and bartering with a psychopomp for their soul

actual picture of 15-year-old me, making the core romance of the book be between two 50-year-olds with a tumultuous marriage and scoffing at other teens who read romances about teens: