as you all know, i’ve been on hiatus for the last couple of months and, as i mentioned in my post about it, i had some decisions to make regarding this blog. this decision is well overdue and i’m sure it’s quite obvious where this is going, but i have ultimately chosen to archive this blog.
this was honestly a really hard decision to make and i’ve been thinking about it for a very long time — about a year, to be exact. truthfully, this blog has brought me a lot of emotions and good memories and i think i’ve just been struggling to let go of it because of that, but i truly think within the last couple of months i finally have, to some degree, found peace with the idea of letting it go.
it’s for a culmination of reasons:
for one, i’ve been running it for nearly 3 years. i started it at 17 in my junior year of high school and i’m now about to be 20 in under a month. it’s been a long time and i’ve changed a lot and so much has happened in my personal life that doesn’t really allow me the time or motivation to run this blog like i used to. the lifespan of this blog has also led to a lot of burnout over the years regarding writing (at least within this fandom) and it’s gotten to a pretty constant point that makes it feel unworthy of continuing on considering everything i’ve written as of recent feels very half assed.
two, i don’t really even play genshin anymore and i barely even play star rail. i have not touched genshin since around september/october 2024 and i genuinely have no plans of ever returning to it. the game, in my personal opinion, has died with natlan’s release. it was already on an up and down scale, constantly alternating from peaking to being absolutely disastrous and disappointing, and natlan was really just the final straw. i was ready to let it go a long time ago because i played it every damn day, but it was so hard to let go of. i’m honestly happy i’ve been set free from it 😭 and as for star rail, i enjoy it, but it’s never been the same for me and i don’t want to make this blog entirely centered around it.
reasons for leaving aside, i want to express my love for this blog and the time i’ve had on it. it’s been so much fun, for the most part. i loved watching it grow from what was supposed to be a small summer project to help with my writing before taking ap lit my senior year of high school, to becoming another comforting and creative outlet for me. i had originally intended on deleting it after 3 months, but here i am almost 3 years later with over 3k followers and nearly 60 works. that’s a fact i’ll never not be in awe of. and to my lovely mutuals and anons, i love you all so so much. thank you to everyone that’s stuck around, no matter if you’ve been here since the beginning or you just found me yesterday.
if you’re wondering what’s going to happen to this blog, no i will not be deleting it. all of my posts and fics will be here for you if you’d like to come back and revisit them at any point in time. i’ve created a lot of fics that i am honestly pretty proud of and i don’t intend to get rid of those anytime soon. and also because this is a side blog and tumblr is weird about deleting side blogs 😭
sorry this was so incredibly long. i’ve rewritten this around 3 times already, racking my brain over and over for what to say as a final, proper goodbye. so yeah, that’s it. it’s been fun. thank you all again for making this such a wonderful experience for me over these last 3 years.