𝑷 𝒆 𝒂 𝒓 𝒍

Don't sweat over it, don't fret over it. An exile of lover’s conundrum in the middle of a swaying ghost house. Have you ever harvested any good growing seeds? Deep down, in the victim of fictionalised doom — you’re always mourning/flashing over dead cells. A charm of spells, care to explain? A certain slime, of course. O! O! Don’t look at me with those eyes, passing over every bizarre adventure. Now, the silver moon glances back in a mocking stare, a petty lone figure?! 
          
                     Hush! The whisk of dark night shimmer with grey lights, you must watch, you must take out those barks of solemn oath. 
          
                               So here I stand, in the long night to wait for another signal, the buds: giving away their fleas, run, run, run, until you see the blue lights fairly, dimming into a dying amber. 
          
                    Easily drawn to the warmth of embrace, take me where you must grace.

A new poem, "Parabolic flash mob" has been added in Quidam—
          https://www.wattpad.com/1440612533-q-u-i-d-a-m-parabolic-flash-mob

I don't know how many writers out there can pull out every genre so gracefully or at least multiple genres together. Yet if you find any, let me say they're really rare. Since as a writer, I can confirm, there are a lot of things going on in our head but only so little we're able to put it in words let alone act it. 
          
          But— my friend @gideoneaston is a gem. He's not just a brilliant writer but a versatile writer. It's been only like one and a half years, I've been seeing him. I'm glad that I'm a part of his anthology journey. While last year, he said it would be a collection of multiple genres— I'd little idea of what was about to happen. So far, there are few stories: new plotlines, new genres from mystery, sci fi, paranormal, fantasy, humour, light hearted, romance to historical figures.
          
          I can guarantee, you'll be blown away by his words. Especially the last story, can't give spoilers yet I can assure you it was so heart touching with his remarkable writing; I was in awe full time. Yet this isn't the end, I'm so glad there's more in future. 
          
          So, if you have time and can invest a few hours in this brilliant anthology, please have a look— you're not gonna regret. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/342303664-animals-we-made

With passing each gentle breeze, there's always a burning passion beneath// withered, slithered with unheard desires but how can you go far without getting caught in the shower of ripped dreams? Yet this isn't the call, this isn't the prayer of getting heard// simply getting bypassed with each second// clocks ticking the sensory nerves// that piercing reminder, a melody, a music// twisted muscle, don't wait for another summer// reasons aren't far behind/// your clock is ticking by // an atomic bomb. 
          
          If it provokes a thought, perhaps check this. 
          https://www.wattpad.com/1437155334-q-u-i-d-a-m-hunter-squad
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          Engagement has been lost, reasons can be the recent chaos or because I've not been reading much nowadays. Either way accept my apologies, if you've certainly have any poetry recommendations/poet/author recommendation, please drop it here.

Your bio is damn good ✨️

I agree with you Pearl.  Wattpad should focus on fixing the numerous bugs in their software instead of playing with A.I (which really stands for amazingly ignorant).  If there were a better writing site, I might jump ship, but like you, I don't want to leave the great community I've found here.  Despite all the second-rate teen trash that is so popular here, there really are some very talented writers here and ironically some of them are the ones having their books deleted!  The kids running (or should I say ruining) Wattpad have no concept of what is good literature.

So is anyone safe out there? I don’t know because they’re still gonna flag books by random bots without proper checking. Honestly speaking, if people want to leave this crappy app which is running an old coding system that’s not suitable for 2024 at this point, I’m not surprised. 
          
          Check out @SeraDrake , @Shivran86 , @AdrielleReina ’s  recent announcements on their mb, you will understand better. 
          
          So in this chaos, is poetry a safe genre? 
          
          Can be, I did check if anything happened to my books, or my favourite poets — thankfully we’re saved for now. For how long, I don’t know. 
          
          Yet I won’t be surprised if it goes, since last Jan @Ladysausten ’s poetry book got deleted. Because of what? Some mild visuals when her poetry was perfectly fine. Wattpad can’t handle mild visuals yet can have explicit smut scenes for preteens here. Wow, just wow. 
          
          Unfortunately, @donna1828 ’s book got flagged too. I hope she’ll request a manual review. If your book got shadow banned, not deleted right now — it means it is under review. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad thing, but make sure to request for a review if you didn’t break the guidelines in any angle. 
          
          Am I gonna leave this place?
          
          Although this app is heading towards a pitfall— I love the community I made here. Moreover I got lifetime friendships. As long as poetry is alive here, I have got 1,5,10 people here, I will be still writing. For me, for them. 
          
          I don’t wanna be popular, neither want fake compliments but the people who genuinely look for my works, that’s it. I want nothing more than that. 
          
          And again, I will suggest you go through content guidelines once in a while, have your work backups somewhere else.

Looks like Wattpad has come to its doom era! 
          
          If you’re not familiar with the recent chaos here, then here’s a brief explanation of what’s happening. 
          
          Shadow banning— in recent days, many books have lost their rankings, aren’t appearing in search engines, the reason (due to content violations)? 
          
          *Scoffing* BIG JOKE! 
          
          As far as I've heard, even the book that got shortlisted for Wattys by @happycoati wasn’t exceptional either. What changed? Content guidelines that didn't come across their mind? Not really. 
          
          It’s because of the stupid old code system, random buzzwords. On the contrary, some books got lifted from the ban by requesting a manual review. So I thought Wattpad is finally coming into use?
          
          Nope! Around 2-3 days before, people’s books start to vanish from nowhere. The reason they were given was, “Due to content violations, your book has been deleted.”
          
          And my two friends were the victims of this. Even though their book never broke any guidelines, they decided to delete those books without warning. Just because of what AI judgement?! They couldn’t even shed time to give a proper review. 
          
          Those books didn’t have any smut, minor coitus shiz, mafia romance, nor explicit horror scenes yet Wattpad decided to run its freaking bulldozer. 
          
          It's a mess! A freaking mess. If you’ve seen the recent update, you already know. Their upgrading system is only the age consent of having coitus, which is gonna be 18+ to make this a safe environment. Yeah, as if this is gonna stop those bunch of horny teenagers. 
          
          Wattpad is never gonna delete those actual shiz books, some are Wattpad originals too but they're ready to delete real writer's hard work? It definitely looks like it has made its priority. 
          
          
          . . . Continues in the next announcement. 

PEAAAAAAARLLLLLLLLL

A new pic! Cool. I liked the shawdow veil, but this one brings more. Very jolly.