starting tonight i will no longer be using tumblr
the history of thestarcried
it has been a ride. i remember first being hooked onto reblogging and searching my interests on this site back in middle school. it fueled my emo phase, that’s for sure. i ‘navigated’ the site under my name (which is like a bad thing to do. never do that lol. i even made the domain of my account my semi-full name. do NOT do that, youngings.)
a couple years later, i created a multi-fandom account for anime and made some amazing mutuals, learned more about editing, and discovered some breathtaking art. this era, i went under plenty of names ranging from cielkane, noya(something) [i honestly don’t remember at all] and i still have itobio saved... hopefully no one will want it because i’m too lazy to give it up.
then i went under vvons and itsmolstar. vvons was an era alright...
i also learned a tiny bit of coding without thinking about it because of how the HMTL works for our blogs. another couple years later, i deactivated that account as well as my other accounts (or changed the username) and started this one where i freely posted and reblogged what i liked: no theme, no niche, just whatever. basically, i went full circle to what i did when i first started minus reposting googled images without any artists’ consent... hey, middle school me didn’t know any better!
reason for staying
i initially wanted to leave back in 2018. i even made a huge post at the end of 2017 talking about leaving that you can find here; i stayed just for the sake of having a site that didn’t take itself so seriously. a dear friend of mine also told me that he had an account so i thought tumblr would be an interesting medium to get to know him better.
ironically, i think tumblr is the closet of social media: you hide away into your real self and express things you wouldn’t normally express on twitter or instagram because not many, if anyone at all, know of your tumblr account. i say this through my own experiences.
reason for dipping
being inactive and only hopping on every once in a blue moon is a sign that i should drop this site. plus, having too many social media accounts isn’t healthy (more or less). i realized that if i don’t feel an urge to check tumblr like i do for other apps, then i should leave.
however, i’m not going to deactivate. that way, anything that was posted on this “blog,” including this message can remain on here. i will remove links that lead to my other social media for the sake of privacy but will keep some pictures. (kind of goes against the privacy claim but whatever. it’s on the internet, it’s there forever anyways.)
acknowledgements
i’m not sure who among my mutuals on here still use this but i will mention some of them. i greatly appreciate the following people:
james (@gaymiscreant) - we genuinely became friends because of tumblr and that idea is just wild to me. we still need to meet up!! when it is safe to do so, yes pleaseee. i still have that birthaday painting i made for you like a couple years ago. :}x we’ll be moving our friendship onto ig... vardan (@atwubis) - we actually know each other irl so this isn’t goodbye but it was really fun sharing posts with you... even though you did most of that because i was never on. it’s nice to be thought of when looking at something. i love you, friend viria (@viria) - we’re not mutuals but your art is AMAZING @birdsons - for you’re funny and aesthetic posts. we never talked but i remember just admiring you for the longest tiime.
there are those from my anime blog days who i either don’t know their urls or they don’t use tumblr anymore but that includes tania and carmen - two wonderful people who i couldn’t believe were my mutuals. (like i was mutuals with people with thousands of followers... i couldn’t get passed 300 if i remember) <- plug that in the “reason for dipping” because numbers really didn’t matter. luckily i outgrew that.
just like i outgrew this site.
it’s time to FLY.
take care of yourselves and never settle or compromise who you are. for anyone. not even yourself. you are loved; you are important; and you matter.
((p.s. feel free to roam on my blog for the music. thestarcried.tumblr.com/tagged/music or the wikiplayer i have attached to my blog aha.))
