Confess Upon a Time

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. 

anonymous asked:

NAC: Have you closed this Tumblr? :(

I’m perfectly fine. No worries!

I’ve honestly been having the hardest time coming back to this blog after taking what was meant to be a short break. I kind of want to make a longer post, but I’m sure that no one is interested in a long, rambley post explaining all of my exact thoughts and feelings because it would be boring. 

At this point, I’m unsure of whether or not I’ll be making anymore new posts for a myriad of reasons. I was hoping to be caught up before the finale and posting again, but then all the rumours started floating around about a reboot and a complete change and I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. 

Then when Jen officially announced her departure, I started to wonder if I even wanted to watch the show without Emma Swan and then I started wondering about whether or not to keep posting on here. I’m still a little torn because I do love being able to have fun discussions and make posts most of the time.

anonymous asked:

NAC I’m scared that season 7 is going to be so messy, what is it even going to look like

anonymous asked:

NAC I’m actually excited for season 7, the ending of the finale was shocking

I definitely wasn’t expecting that to be the big twist and I’m kind of interested to see what they’re going to do, but at the same time, I’ve always preferred keeping things open-ended so that fans can imagine anything happens in the future. I think it’s a little less fun knowing exactly what happens. 

I really wonder why there is going to be a season 7 at this point. It feels like they are draining all the life out of the show just because it makes money. 

I’m at the point where I’m not even sure if I’ll bother tuning in with a next season unless they maybe turn it into some sort of spinoff series? I wanted to watch the show for Emma Swan and now that her story is done, I just don’t see what else is even left to focus on if they don’t really shake things up. 

Isn't it rumoured that s7 is going to be a soft reboot. Haven't only Lana, Colin, Jennifer and Robert signed new contracts? Or is that old news?

I relate to this massively. I have this "this is MY thing and I will do it MYSELF" feeling

Thank you! I always felt that the colour purple fit this blog best for some reason.

I ended up having to read the recaps of the episodes because for whatever reason, I cannot bring myself to watch them at the moment. I was so invested in this show before the mid-season finale and I don’t know what happened. I’m sure I will just end up marathoning the episodes in the next week or so and I’ll probably enjoy them, but I just can’t bring myself to get into it right now.

Anonymous asked: NAC-Is everything alright? Are you safe?

Anonymous asked: NAC - Hey are you still around?

Anonymous asked: NAC - Are you OK?

Thank you all for your concern. I’m all right. I’d had plans to keep the blog properly updated but then life hit me a little harder than I was ready for in the last couple of weeks. Nothing to be concerned about, though. 

I’m just a little exhausted now and trying to catch up on OUAT because I haven’t seen any episode after the mid-season premiere. I’m feeling a little detached from this half of the season so I’m hoping that I’ll like the last few episodes more than spoilers would lead me to think. 

I’m going to do my best to have the blog running normally this weekend, but I don’t want to make any confessions until I see the recent episodes because I’m not sure if some speculations have already been addressed. For now, I might be giving the blog a bit of a spring/Easter makeover.