Nicole: An Illustrator; a Canadian from Gainesville in Brooklyn. 23. I have a degree in Communications Design from Pratt My illustrations are at nicolerifkin.tumblr.com (apparently I can't get hyperlinks to work. sorry) and also at reformforest.com
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Dear Tumblr,
Not the company, but followers of mine who have virtually hung out with me (and in some cases stalked or harassed) for about 6 years now:
Thanks so much for being a place for me to vent, be sad, be incredibly nerdy, and develop my personality through college and for a short time after. I’m 24 now, and I guess when I first started using tumblr that fine line between LiveJournal and this community didn’t really exist to me. So, in a way I never got to do with live journal (due mostly to inactivity, angst, and just general disinterest in my own shitty problems) I get to say: thank you and goodbye. I’m no diarist, but I now have an archive of stylistic change, the things I was interested in, the people who made the world different for me, the people who hurt me, the things I’ve done that I deeply regret, the people I’ve done that I deeply regret… Really, the best way to archive the times where I didn’t have emotional baggage or debt. This wasn’t a social experiment, it was a genuine journey into a community that I at some times felt very connected to. But in the end, blogging is not for me and I have never really fit into the community (it sucks to admit that by the way, I’m a millennial but that special snowflake thing is bullshit, I wish I found a place I fit into completely) so I have decided to maintain some of the very little social media anonymity that I still have and say: hey, thank you and I’m sorry for leaving. But it’s time to say goodbye.
Til the next blogging site comes around,
Nicole
If you would like to follow my illustration/big girl career I will continue to maintain @nicolerifkin but that won’t be involving me as a person(not really).
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it’s been a while, but I’m exhausted. grad school is insane and working on top of it is just… extraordinarily tiring. anyways, I turned 24 yesterday. 23 was arguably the worst year of my life and I’m so proud that I made it through~
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♫ ♬ “.. ’Cause I’ve had the time of my life… ” ♫ ♬
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