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note to self: i’ll be there for you, always

written june 6, 2021. Photo by Kristine Cinate on Unsplash I have always looked for myself in other people. I think the idea was that they would somehow hold the pieces of me that I felt were missing. That maybe, if I wrapped my identity up in theirs enough, we would somehow make a whole person. It's not healthy to live like this, but I did it anyway — burning through relationships and searching for something I couldn't quite name. It was never enough, not to be myself, but it was never enough to latch my identity to other people, either. I got close, several times — I thought I had reached the pinnacle of self discovery. I thought I had completed myself. But in the end, relying on other people to help build yourself is never a viable way to do things. It's only recently that I've started to become comfortable with the idea of being enough, as I am, on my own. Several years ago, in this same position, I would have searched for another person to attach my identity onto,

Best Fandom Advice (Fandom Friday)

The Fangirl Initiative has started a new link-up titled Fandom Friday! Thanks to this link-up, we get an opportunity to gush about our fandoms every week. This week the theme is best fandom advice.


There are so many things fandoms have taught me. (I mean, I founded TFI, in part, for the exact reason to talk about all the things fandom taught me!) But one big piece of fandom advice comes from an episode of NCIS I recently watched ("Willoughby").
"'You think you're alone in the dark. Close your eyes. Remember everything good.' My mom said that to me just before she died. Smart lady." - Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Smart lady, indeed.



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  1. First off, heck yes to Leroy Jethro Gibbs and the rest of the delightful show that is NCIS!
    Second off, that's a great bit of advice. Thanks for posting it :D!

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