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When I was sixteen, I spent the summer at my older brother’s house. One night I was bored, and I started printing out my favorite boy band fan fiction. In the morning, his wife told me that he had found one I left behind — a gay fiction where two of the members were dating. I was mortified. That’s why I can empathize with Kristi, a mom on social media who revealed that she reads ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan fiction. The show’s main characters are gay, and because fic writers are adults, the content is even more racy than it is on the television show. So you can understand why her life nearly ended when she sent it to the wrong person.
She had to alert the ‘Heated Rivalry’ fandom to her mishap.
“Ohmygodohmygodohmygod,” the mom wrote in a post on Threads.
“Y’all, I was just sending a fic download file to my Kindle and my Kindle email address has been the first suggestion for weeks now, so I just automatically clicked the first listed email and hit send and I just sent Shane Hollander is a Slut to my kids’ school attendance office! WHAT DO I DO?!?!?!”
She followed up her crash out by adding what she deemed a “detail for your entertainment.” Her kids attend a Catholic school. That’s right, she sent gay fan fiction to a Catholic school.
“A couple of things – I sent it using Gmail which only allows you to recall an email for the first 30 seconds. I froze for a full minute. There’s no undoing it,” she said.
“If you’re worried if I will survive this, this is only the 2nd most mortifying thing to ever happen to me. Once I had an electrician at my house and when he moved my nightstand to access an outlet, my “special drawer” slid open and exposed its entire contents to him and his assistant. If I survived that, I can survive anything 🥴,” she continued.
She shared updates, and what a journey it was.
The mom shared an update later in the day, saying “I have decided that the best approach for now is to handle it like the Catholic Church handles pdf priests and pretend it didn’t happen until presented with irrefutable evidence.”
“10AM update: Attendance has to be called or emailed in by 10, so I have been waiting on tenterhooks for 3 hours waiting to see if I get a response. Nothing yet,” she added. “Is it worse for it to be acknowledged so I can just own it? Or to forever wonder if it was seen and studiously ignored or maybe caught by a spam filter and never delivered?”
One Threads user shared that the story had made its way to the author of the ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan fiction, and they offered sympathy.
“And speaking of that…to the person who accidentally sent this fic to their child’s school office email, I am sending you thoughts and prayers.”
People immediately rushed to offer condolences.
@kissandswoon I literally scream laughed about this for ten minutes. #heatedrivalry #shanehollander #hudsonwilliams #ao3 #fanfic ♬ original sound – Mya 💋📖 | kissandswoon
“Take the kids out of school. Either switch to a new one or start homeschooling,” one person replied.
“You just have to own it,” someone else wrote. “Be a menace, there is NOTHING to be embarrassed about. Maybe she’s seen it. Or maybe now she will watch.”
“This is the moment you pretend that your email has been hacked. I don’t even lie, but this might be a lying moment,” another comment read.
Another user had an interesting theory that could be helpful. “As a teacher, I’ve worked at multiple schools and at every single one of them the attendance lady is a romance novel girlie. You will be not only understood but SEEN,” they wrote.
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