A quick HORRORFIXXX update!
Hey! Some of you may’ve noticed that I’ve risen from my tomb again...
This blog has been in various states of hiatus for years now because, as some of you may know, I’ve been struggling with my mental health. That’s a battle I’ll always be fighting, but I’m happy to report that I’ve made some small steps in the right direction! My doctor and I have been trying to find the right meds for me for the last two years or so with mixed results (better than no results!), and I’m starting therapy for the first time in my life on Monday. I’m super anxious about that and have been since the day I got my appointment date, but I’m anxious about literally everything so it’s whatevs. Anxiety or not, I’m excited to continue bringing the fight to my mental illnesses. I want my life back.
My cocktail of mental and physical health issues still 100% dictate the pace of my existence - I’m basically a shut in, not gonna lie - but it’s high time for me to find healthy things upon which to focus the energy and strength that I do have. I want this blog to be one of those things, because my time away from it has only strengthened my bonds with all the wonderful, dopey scary movies we all love and the handful of people from the horror community I still talk to. I want to make my blog better, and bigger, than it has ever been, and I’ve spent a lot of time over the years mulling over ways to go about that. Progress may be a little slow at first as I dip my toes into therapy and try to embrace, love, and validate myself in spite of my illnesses, but I’m here to stay for the foreseeable future.
With all that in mind, I’ve been dusting the cobwebs off my account. I’m almost done with a new theme that will eventually house lots of new content and last night I unfollowed hundreds of dead accounts to make room for horror people who still use tumblr. I’m actively seeking new people to follow and will do my best to check out all the blogs that react to this post!
So. Yeah. If you’ve followed me for any length of time over the decade since I joined tumblr, even if you found my blog while I’ve been away: thank you. This place means a lot to me. I’m here if y’all wanna talk about spooky stuff! One of the things I need to work on is social interaction, so feel free to ask me about horror things or send me messages. I’ll do my best to get around to them all.
Speaking of social interaction! I’m fairly active (well, by my standards...) on Instagram, Letterboxd, Twitter, and Goodreads if any of you want to keep up with me that way! I’m hoping to integrate all of those platforms into my blog as I relaunch, so I’d love to have more tumblr people to interact with on them all.
Stay spooky, y’all. And please love yourselves.