My name is Tara. Everyone who's ever commented on my blog knows that. I got so much hate that was meant for Tara that I shut down comments just so my inbox wouldn't be full of people telling me to kill myself.
We all hate Tara, don't we?
I saw Tara live once. She sang this one song about loving yourself and not paying attention to people who try to put you down, all that sappy stuff. Just her and her guitar and thousands of screaming fans.
We threw garbage at her. My brother hit her in the face with a pack of gum. She picked it up after that song and threw it back into the audience. It's sitting on my desk now.
I sang a cover of that song. I could never be as good as Tara, and that was back when I'd just started learning to play guitar so my cords were beyond awful, but I tried. My video got so many dislikes that it was taken down. Are they even allowed to do that? Whatever, they did and I was so mad.
I covered one of Inanna's songs a few weeks after that. My cords were still terrible and I'm pretty sure I had a cold. That video has thousands of likes. Inanna even commented on it: "For a human trying to sing like a god, you're pretty good. It might help if you didn't have a cold though. ;)"
It was pretty awesome.
There's a poster of Tara above my desk, the one where she's sitting with her guitar and holding her mask. Signed, framed, no graffiti. It's probably worth something now. Those other posters were always more popular though. No pictures, just the hashtag. I'd like to say I can't believe someone got away with making money off of those, but I can't. We all knew what they were talking about. We agreed with them, we supported it.
Those comments I got, the ones that were for Tara, I've read all of them. I'd put them all here, but my blog is supposed to be PG, not full of people saying f***ing Tara, f***ing Tara, f***ing Tara!
Those comments hurt. They're not even meant for me and I can't get through them without crying. They were for someone who was going to be dead in less than two years.
Was.
I've heard around the Pantheon fandom that every god is told the same thing.
You will be loved.
You will be hated.
Within two years, you will be dead.
Tara wasn't loved.
Tara was hated.
Tara is dead.
We killed her.
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