No, You Don't Get a Comment Section
Writing Life, Freedom & Fire, Rants & Raves Kate Sjostrand Writing Life, Freedom & Fire, Rants & Raves Kate Sjostrand

No, You Don't Get a Comment Section

You are completely free to disagree with me. You're free to complain about me, tell your friends I'm an asshole, or buy a domain and write an entire fucking dissertation explaining why I'm wrong. I'll defend your freedom to do it. What you're not entitled to is space on my website to do it. I paid for my little corner of the internet. I built it. I fill it with my words. And I'll decide what fucking goes there.

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Apparently, I'm a Victim Now

Apparently, I'm a Victim Now

Apparently, writing about shitty things that happen to you means you've embraced a victimhood mentality. Except there's a pretty fucking important difference between acknowledging what happened and surrendering your agency because it happened. Sometimes you're a victim of circumstance. Sometimes somebody genuinely does something shitty to you. That's where the story begins. What you do next is the part that matters.

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