when i started this blog nearly N9NE years ago, i never thought i would make friends online. i just wanted to keep in touch with friends i already had from atlanta. and i did do that for awhile i guess
i remember my first theme had a galaxy background with transparent black boxes. super square and ugly of me tbh! my first post was an alice in wonderland gif from photobucket lmfao and my url was perts-buh. a lot of supernatural (speaking of which, i ran into jensen ackles and jared padalecki over the weekend, how fucking full circle is that) and harry potter...and just posting for and with my friends. but then i started posting from Flickr (LOLOL) as we all do. those were the days of tumblarity!! recommending blogs officially, changing ur theme weekly, threatening to delete every other month
anyway, i started moving into posting film photography and following other film blogs and I think it was late 2010 when we all really started following each other. big 1s - lucas, blua, mahnoor, chelsea, conflate (this truly felt like A list)
it was pretty well-defined group, upwards of 100 people who all followed each other in similar configurations. and at that point, i thought i would be using tumblr forever. in my mind, i was like how can it be that all of us strangers are talking / tinychatting everyday and one day just wake up and pretend we don’t know each other?
but that’s exactly what happened. we graduated high school, we met up in person, we went to college, we made good friend groups, started serious relationships, graduated college, started working, traveling, etc
most of us stopped talking. a few of us still do, even fewer are very close friends. but we still follow each other wherever we can on the internet. twitter, instagram, facebook mostly. and so we’re still keeping up, even if not by our former means. we migrated elsewhere and so nothing really feels different, nothing felt like a seismic shift. we just adapted to communicating differently, and nobody knows when or how it really happened
i’m so fucking grateful for my ex (tumblr.com) !!!!! thank u, next
