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hilsI love online friendships, and I am always a loud advocate for them being just as real as friendships with people you know in person. I'm friends with people I have known online for 20+ years whereas most of my in person friends from the same period have drifted away.
I think there's something magical about being able to yell about your interests with someone on another continent, and how fandom friends will drag each other willingly or not into new things.
Sometimes online friendships end up becoming in person friendships, and sometimes they don't. Both are valid.
The downside is when you lose contact with someone it's hard to get it back.
I've been talking to someone on Tumblr these past few weeks. We've been mutuals for about a year but we only started chatting properly relatively recently. She's always been very encouraging about my fic writing, and I've been doing the same. I watched Kei x Yaku because she'd written fic about it and I wanted to better understand the characters, she's the reason I watched The Devil Judge last year as well.
On Sunday she deleted her Tumblr account without a word. I'd literally spoken to her a few hours earlier. She was telling me she'd made a start on the latest chapter of her fic but hadn't written as much as she'd wanted. I filled her in on the progress with mine and wished her luck. A few hours later I went to message her about a show I'd started watching and her account was gone.
It might be that she just needed a break, or it might be that something bad has happened. I have no way of knowing. Tumblr was the only way we communicated (aside from commenting on each other's fics) and all I know is her first name and what country she lives in (because we used to joke about the insane time difference).
So, yeah, that sucks and I just hope she's okay.
I think there's something magical about being able to yell about your interests with someone on another continent, and how fandom friends will drag each other willingly or not into new things.
Sometimes online friendships end up becoming in person friendships, and sometimes they don't. Both are valid.
The downside is when you lose contact with someone it's hard to get it back.
I've been talking to someone on Tumblr these past few weeks. We've been mutuals for about a year but we only started chatting properly relatively recently. She's always been very encouraging about my fic writing, and I've been doing the same. I watched Kei x Yaku because she'd written fic about it and I wanted to better understand the characters, she's the reason I watched The Devil Judge last year as well.
On Sunday she deleted her Tumblr account without a word. I'd literally spoken to her a few hours earlier. She was telling me she'd made a start on the latest chapter of her fic but hadn't written as much as she'd wanted. I filled her in on the progress with mine and wished her luck. A few hours later I went to message her about a show I'd started watching and her account was gone.
It might be that she just needed a break, or it might be that something bad has happened. I have no way of knowing. Tumblr was the only way we communicated (aside from commenting on each other's fics) and all I know is her first name and what country she lives in (because we used to joke about the insane time difference).
So, yeah, that sucks and I just hope she's okay.