what is this, the fourth post in a month? unexplained hiatus who?

anyways

i think the main reason that i stopped blogging oh so long ago is that i felt that it was pointless. i was ignoring homework and other priorities in favour of pouring my heart and soul into a post that practically no one would read. to try and fix this, i'd post the link for each of my blog posts on my tumblr with copious amounts of hashtags that were barely relevant in an attempt to reach a wider audience. but even then, i assume the handful of people that even bothered to click the link were just there to skim through another piece of work to do with their fandom before never checking out my blog again. that's not what i wanted. i wanted readers. i wanted friends.

then i realised that this sense of isolation was probably to do with the fact that i was isolated. i was trying to reach out to the teen blog universe but i was barely in it myself. i wasn't following any other blogs similar to mine - i wasn't really reading any other blogs at all. i was just wandering around on a lonely, empty road yelling my opinions into the nothingness.

so i turned to my good old pal, google. i scoured through posts and posts about 'the next tavi gevinsons' and 'up and coming teen bloggers to look out for'. i read through article and article on teen vogue, forbes and elle. i even clicked onto the second google search-page. but the second i clicked on each link, i would just dig up a dead blog. their owners had left them ages ago for the bright lights of ready-made social media accounts on instagram and twitter, abandoning their adolescent obsessions like a nintendog. when they were older, they might come back to blogging but i didn't care. adult blogs didn't interest me - i didn't want to read about divorces, mid-life crises and fabulous meatloaf recipes. i thought the world of teen blogging was over. that is, until i stumbled across 'teenage blogger central'.

suddenly i was faced with a buttload of blogs that were actually still being updated. there were people all around the world that were my age who were writing and creating and photographing things that i actually liked. the world of teen blogging wasn't dead - i was just looking under beds when i should of been searching through the clouds.

so, don't make my mistake. hit up tbc. trust me, you'll probably find a blog that's a lot better than this one.

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