I made a dumb transfic back before it was cool, and nobody said anything about it, and that was fine, I figured it was a Just For Me thing.
TEN PLUS FUCKING YEARS LATER...
I get a comment out of the blue from a rando. They say they not only READ my little fic back in the halcyon days of [WEBSITE], but that it inspired them to transition, and they had now found it on Ao3, ten plus years later, and it helped them get through a shitty recent period of their life. They said that they were much happier now and wished me, a random online stranger well.
And I got to feel like some sort of accidental wizard, who made a stupid fanfic that I thought nobody looked at, but apparently it helped like, set in motion this whole chain of things that really, Rando had done all by themself! Trans butterfly effect!
Who would've thought my stupid fanfic about superheroes banging would've been the catalyst for someone like that?