#dirkstirfry

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.