Gabbi | 18 | Vancouver | Gay | Ravenclaw + Primary Fandom: Doctor Who
Secondary Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, MLP: FiM, RoosterTeeth, Supernatural
Tertiary Fandoms: Angel, American Horror Story, Bee and Puppycat, Bravest Warriors, Community, Cult, Dollhouse, Downton Abbey, Elementary, Firefly, Game of Thrones, Gravity Falls, The Guild, Harry Potter, HiMyM, The Hunger Games, Marvel, Misfits, Once Upon a Time, Orange is the New Black, Orphan Black, Parks and Rec, Red vs Blue, RWBY, SDoaCG, Sleepy Hollow, Summer Heights High, Torchwood, Veronica Mars, Welcome to Night Vale
Fandoms in Progress: 30 Rock, Adventure Time, Bob's Burgers, Regular Show + Bad Wolves
If you've managed to find my blog somehow and wanted to come see if it was follow-worthy, it probably was, at one point. But I've outgrown this website like a favourite pair of jeans. Except I hate this website now so that metaphor doesn't work.
I had to leave because when a website impedes on your happiness and drive to do things, it's time to close the tab. That's something I think a lot of people don't understand, is that you are under no obligation to continue to run your blog. Go outside, meet people, enjoy life to a greater extent than white boxes against a blue background. If you want the full explanation you can go here.
But because I am a digital hoarder, I cannot bring myself to delete my blog, there's too much important shit on here, so it is now an archive. It is in the same state as it was when I left it, plus a few extra posts. But I haven't changed any information or links or anything.
I'd like to say it was a good run, but it wasn't. It was more two laps around the track after not having done gym for a summer kind of run. The kind that burns your lungs and leaves you feeling dizzy and nauseous, but you gotta keep going because people expect you to, but then when it's over god damn are you relieved.
So yea. It's been a long time coming, but it finally did. Have a good life, do that for me guys. Have a fantastic life.
So some of you may have noticed my slight absence from this abhorrent blue website. You are the people this post concerns. Those of you who did not notice, and merely followed me because I posted several things from the ______ fandom, and don't care about my life, carry on blogging, and don't let that sentence make you feel bad. You are not inclined to care, don't even worry about it.
So anyway, this is going to be a long post, so I've put it into sections, bolded the section names, and listed them off here so you can ctrl-f your way to whatever you please. I'll be queueing this post up to post once a day for the next week, and then in a week or so I'll be back to delete 6 of those posts, to answer any messages, to put up one last post, and any other general maintenance.
Why I Left · What I've Been Doing · Where You Can Find Me Now · Ownership of TheTuggLife · Super Special Thank-You Paragraphs
I left for two main reasons: productivity and positivity. I spent a good three years on this site and I regret wasting that time hating the world and passive-aggressively whining about things that aren't really important. People get really upset about really small things on here, and either I would get sucked in and be angry with these people, or I would be angry at these people, and it was all around a bad time. I was sick of people freaking out about something the AH guys said, or a single line from a Doctor Who episode. I know it's all about who you follow, but even though I would unfollow or blacklist certain users, the negativity still managed to find its way back to me, usually through posts of people getting mad at the people getting mad, and I was just sick of it. And let me tell you, after a quick stalking-session on Mar's blog a while ago, I found an angry post about the RT CAH game, and instantly I remembered why I hated it so much, and how great it has felt to not have to deal with that.
A lot of people on here have a problem where they lock themselves into the tiny blue room of tumblr and forget that the rest of the world is not this little bubble full of tagged trigger warnings and mushy gushy hugging. There are issues that are important, like violence against women, and then there are issues that are more trivial, like guys sitting with their legs open on buses. Learn to pick your battles, and remember to pick the important ones.
And of course, the site was just a general waste of time that I really got nothing out of. I don't always get everything done now, but I get a lot more done than I used to. I started reading again, and I'm almost done but I get at least 75% of my homework done on time.
What I've Been Doing
Just some general life updates: I was in my grad fashion show, my grad red carpet/dinner-dance/dry grad is this weekend [or this past weekend depending on when you're reading this], I've been playing an excessive amount of Minecraft, I'm going to RTX, I started going to a youth alliance group for LGBT*Q youth and it's been tippy toppers. The people are super nice and no one gives a fuck about anything, it's a good time. I also discovered through receiving a dick pic & a drunken night with queers that I'm gay. Full homo 100%. This section was shorter than I thought it'd be.
Where You Can Find Me
I mean, I have these two links on here already but if you want to keep up with me then you can find me on Twitter and on the Rooster Teeth Site.
Ownership of TheTuggLife
So I used to run a fuck ton of blogs on here, and I don't really care about any of them falling away besides thetugglife, since it's a pretty nice blog and I'm still under the firm belief that the world needs more tuggey [irrelevant is the fact that she's jones now], so if anyone would like to run the blog, shoot me a message on here, I'll be back in a week to check on stuff. First come, first serve basis, friends have priority obviously. Idc how you want to run it, if you just delete it right away [although don't do that that'd be lame], but Lindsay herself does follow the blog so I mean that's a bonus.
Super Special Thank-You Paragraphs
Though I feel like this site did more harm than good to me, I did make quite a few friends, and I really am going to miss the immediate interaction with a lot of you since tumblr is most of your guys' site of choice.
Of course Mar, I've known you since before this place, but we grew closer because of this stupid place, and I will continue to stalk you in the future to look at all your art and shit. I'm not even a little bit sorry for turning your life into a pit of madness surrounding RT, but tbf me signing up for tumblr is technically your fault.
Emma, the one who followed me b/c of my dumb url, we talked a lot in the beginning and less so as time went on, but I feel like we have a special silent connection of utter distaste towards most things. And also that thing with the light switch cover. That day blew my mind. Watch RWBY.
Ida, I followed you from the beginning and spent the majority of my time on here being too scared to talk to you, until of course you fell into the RT pit as well and we became shouting partners. Thanks for being my cool European friend, and many thanks for supplying me with the perfect face to make hashtag gifs out of.
Sophie, our first interaction was when I made you a URL graphic, and then somehow we were friends, and I haven't looked back. One day I'll make it over to the big scary continent-country and we'll hang out & I'll fix up your dumb shoe situation
Sarah, I think you requested a destiel drawing from me and then somehow friendship. Remember that time the both of us were gonna quit tumblr together and then bitched out? Lol well I did the thing. One day we will go on an epic horse trek together
And Gabi, my name twin, though it looks like you're gone as well, we had some good skype streaming sessions w/ pause button difficulties and all that nonsense. We should do it again some time. I don't really remember how we became friends, but all that matters is that it happened, and you're close enough to me that us meeting is actually something that could happen in the next year or so.
There are many more of you guys that are important to me, thanks everyone for talking to the dumb idiot that screams about TV shows. The site was shit, but the people were alright, keep on keepin on everyone ♥
