I met my tumblr best friend.
So. I don’t know how to start this. I don’t wanna make it this huge, sappy post, but holy shit. I’m so happy. I never thought it would be possible. So let me give you all a little back story:
Julianne ( @mintyjin ) and I met through tumblr waaaay back in end of 2016. I was talking to my sweet, now inactive anon and somehow the show X-Files came up. I don’t watch shows other than the occasional episode of Law & Order SVU, and so as I was trying to steer the conversation another way this chick, known as juxianne at the time, popped into my inbox with “Are we talking about the X-Files?????!!!!!???”
I immediately thought she was 12 years old. I begrudgingly replied that yes, we are, and that we should talk about something else. But “juxianne” kept coming back. And finally, I’m not sure who it was, but we began messaging back and forth and the rest is history.
So now, a year and 6 months later, I’m here. Sitting next to Julianne, on the steps of the Georgia Aquarium. Laughing at Julianne on her bed beckoning her pretty, fat cat Misty towards her for pets. Laying in the bed in the guest room, wondering how this all happened and how incredible the internet and Tumblr really is for connecting two people who would have NEVER crossed paths otherwise. And I mean, never. I’m from Illinois, about 30 minutes outside Chicago whilst Julianne, lives in a little town an hour from Atlanta. We would have never known each other without Tumblr and that prettt much blows my mind.
About 93 days ago, it began as an idea. And then it spiraled into plane tickets and accommodations and before I knew it, my little countdown timer looked like this:
And boom. I was in Georgia. I was on a 6:40am flight to maximize our time together and it was all worth it.
As I hopped off the flight, wandered around the biggest airport in the world in search of something familiar, asked a lot of random people for directions, jumped on the Marta (the sub way type thing there. Yeah, I thought it was weird, too) and found myself in College Park awaiting Julianne, I realized it was finally happening.
This girl, who knew all my secrets. Who knew everything about my life without actually being there to witness it. Was finally going to be there right in front of me.
So as she pulled up and got out of her car, it wasn’t this big hello. There were no High School Musical-type jumping or any ugly crying. But I could tell in the smiles between us both that it was like - this is real. This is really, really real. And you know what my first thought was? “She looks like Taylor Swift.”
Thank you. Thanks for everything. You know how much this meant to me. Stay cool, stay weird. Don’t stop singing Werewolf Bar Mitzah at the top of your lungs on the way home from Atlanta. Keep playing baseball with pool noodles and please continue watching weird YouTube cooking shows.
Never stop writing!!!! Like. It’s okay if you write 2 sentences a week. 2 sentences a MONTH is an accomplishment, right? Did you guys know that Julianne has a Chick-Fil-A calendar? Yeah. It’s true. But anyway, I’m so lucky that I have the opportunity to have a friendship with 1000 miles between us, and have it prosper anyway. I find it so unique- how many of us can say that we have a friend we met on the Internet? That normally may be taken as a negative statement, and having this friendship has gone against everything I’ve been taught as a child. You know, the “don’t talk to strangers on the internet” type thing. But I’m so glad I did it.
So @staff , thanks. Without Tumblr, this friendshop wouldn’t exist. Without kpop; BTS, GOT7, BigBang, Day6, our friendship wouldn’t exist. So I’m thankful that fate decided to give us a go.
Moral of the story? These faceless usernames you talk to on the internet are real people, and you can so easily make a positive impact. Take advantage of that ability and make a new friend. With caution. Like I did (not). Ha.
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