The End.
I’d thought about just leaving this blog basically dead, but I feel like it deserves a proper goodbye. I’d meant to basically “close” it months ago, but couldn’t get into the account to do so, and then ended up forgetting about it. But yeah, this is it. The “final chapter,” if you will.
I’m not deleting the blog because I want people to still be able to go through and enjoy the confessions and discussions and reblog things, but there will officially be no more new confessions posted. I just want to thank all of you who made running this blog such an enjoyable experience. 6 years, 22 000 followers and 23 000 posts later, all I have to say is that I am so grateful to have experienced being a part of this fandom.
I had every intention of running this blog until the show ended, but the truth is that I lost interest last season and struggled to keep up with the show. I still haven’t watched the current season, but I am planning to watch the series again from beginning to end once it is officially wrapped up. I wanted to keep loving the show as much as I did before, but my interest slowly dwindled until I was constantly behind on episodes. It felt wrong trying to run the blog while not knowing half of what was going on in the show, so I figured I’d just take a brief break until I caught up (which never actually happened).
Thank you so much to all of you who submitted your confessions, contributed to discussions, and sent in love, suggestions, questions, etc. It really made me happy seeing this blog be successful because it was just a little side blog that I made when I was 16 and bored and had no one to discuss the show with. I never imagined it would take off at all, let alone become so big. I remember starting off and begging my friend to send in a couple confessions so that I wouldn’t have to post my own. At that moment, I could not have anticipated constantly opening Tumblr to dozens of new messages.
I loved it. I loved making the confessions (even some of the more controversial ones) and watching as responses rolled in. I loved keeping up with fan art, theories, speculation, spoilers, and all that fun stuff. But to be honest, I think I did let the negativity get to me a little too much at times. That may be where some of the fun started to get sucked out of the show for me. It was at a point where I was literally refreshing my Tumblr app every 10 minutes or so, checking to see if there were people arguing in my inbox with me or one another. And I do regret not focusing more on enjoying the show, especially now that it is ending. But I still have a lot of love for this show, even if I haven’t been keeping up with it. I feel like it became a big part of my life, and it will always be extra special to me because to date, it is still the only fandom that I have ever been seriously involved in.
To conclude this last wall of text (I’m sure y’all missed these, huh), thank you to everyone who made this blog what it is. And I’m sorry that it didn’t get the dramatic, flashy send off that it deserved. Thank you for following and keeping this blog alive. For sending in thousands of confessions. For being patient with me when I didn’t deserve it. For all the amazing discussions throughout the years. For all the advice and suggestions that made this blog better. Thank you thank you thank you. For everyone. Much love to my OUAT family.
Xoxo, Gossip Girl Mod
