It’s been quite a while since I’ve come on here. Back in the day and for several years, most of you knew me as riveranayas. I came on here to clown and discuss Glee for a good portion of my teenage and young adult life with some of you. I edited pictures of the cast. I liveblogged nearly every episode (except the murky times and by those times I mean, season 4 and 5.) Then came life and I slowly started coming on less and less until it became not at all.
When I first heard the news of Naya, my heart broke. She was someone I looked up to for so long. Someone I had idolized, put on a pedestal and hoped nothing but the best for. After I stopped watching Glee regularly, I didn’t follow her career really. I checked up on her social media every now and then. But, that was it. I had hoped her career and en-devours went sky’s the limit.
I remember coming on here and praising her talents. Getting giddy and excited when they would release snippets of songs for the upcoming episodes and I would hear or see that she was featured. I remember making fun of her when she was embarrassing. I remember keyboard smashing over new pictures. I remember when she would do Q&A’s on twitter and I would screenshot and share them on here. I remember it all.
As the shock wore off when news broke that it was confirmed that it was infact, Naya, I came back on here for the first time in years. I scrolled through page after page of my own Tumblr and laughed at the asks and at the tags used and teared up a bit too.
Glee brought a group of misfit teens and adults together on this hellsite and turned them into a community, a family. She was a part of that. A huge part of making us all feel connected in some way. Making us feel some type of glee when some of our lives were shrouded with darkness.