Mate, all YOU WILL KNOW is that you aren't the main character and you aren't entitled to someone's time or attention and that they're actually astute as fuck for getting a clean read on your weird vibes and refocusing their offers elsewhere.

Like, for real, I get that putting yourself out there and feeling self-consciousness and anxious about it is like being in a shitty Rumpelstiltskin AU where you're cursed to spend all day spinning stress out of NOTHING, but the all that's happened is that you just dodged a potentially crappy fic from someone who doesn't want to write for you. Pretty good Bad End!