intimate update
this is insane. this site started out as just something where i could post things i love, which was mostly assassin’s creed. then i started making ac gifs for a couple years and it was such a big part of my life... i mean my first ac post was in 2010!!! i met amazing people on here and my followers were just the best. i have the fondest memories of falling in love with the game and the creative process of creating on photoshop and a lot of who i am today still involve the two. i honestly had the happiest times updating this site.
then i just slowly let go. a little bit before i “disappeared,” i had to move across the country and during the process i got into a nasty car accident. this site just reminded me of everything that i had lost and all my pain. ac was a lasting link to what i considered home at that time, which is probably why it still holds a special place in my heart, but it just made me hurt so much. after i moved, no one there seemed to understand my adoration for the game. as stupid as it sounds, i was identified as an ac lover where i used to live and losing that made me feel like i lost a part of myself. who i was on this site just wasn’t enough to keep my emotionally afloat at that time. eventually, opening up photoshop became a chore; i was forcing myself through each gif. i tried really hard to keep it going as long as i could but updates became so sporadic, i kept making excuses to prolong posting, and i knew i was being disingenuous to my past self and this site. i even thought just creating another new ac gif site would solve the problem... it did not.
however, within these 6-7 years i have grown so much and learned how to accept what has happened to me. i fell deep into depression, and even now i’m still slowly crawling out, but i was, and still am, fortunate enough to have people who cared about me to nudge me towards therapy. i got the help i needed and took the time to heal. i let the pain this site gave me happen; i did not try to avoid it. it stayed for a long time, persisted, and finally it calloused... it doesn’t hurt like it did before but i will always remember how it did.
currently, i am in rome, a place i chose because of my love of ac. i never felt so rejuvenated and motivated to come back to this site. just seeing the places where i virtually did missions but in person... it just... really makes me feel some type of way. to be completely honest, i don’t think i will ever feel the same happiness i felt back in 2010, but that means i wont feel the pain i had before either. it’s just during all these years, ac has been so important to me and i think i finally feel that i am in a good enough state of mind where i can enjoy coming back and updating. hopefully, that feeling lasts.
i know this post might not matter to many because i have no idea if anyone still remembers me back in 2010. but... i don’t know. i felt the need to explain myself and i am comfortable enough to do so. but on the matter of if i was articulate enough... who knows, haha.
anyways, maybe i’ll be back soon... or not.