#and i'm grateful that i'm learning more and more how to balance my fandom presence with my real life

[soulsilversprings]

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[losers-yurio]

Rylie!! It has officially been one entire year of us being friends!! I can't properly sum up how much you and your presence in my life mean to me, but I'm going to try!!

I owe so much to you. You pulled me out of my shell on Tumblr, helped me realize how fun it is to interact with people here, and helped me make other friends! For that alone, I'm extremely grateful. In addition to that, you were directly responsible for me joining three fandoms in which I found lots of friends (The Beatles, Mötley Crüe, Guns N' Roses). My blog would not be what it is today without you. I would not be the same person without you.

You are so much fun to talk to about random stuff, bands, and to spill tea with! I also know I can count on you to lend an ear when I need someone, and to offer kind words. You handle the good and bad parts of people very well. I value our friendship so much. Our (mostly) weekly phone calls are something I look forward to immensely.

Lastly, thank you for not judging any of my habits due to my OCD, including but not limited to, my 800 photos of Steven, and my obsessive research that leads to both of us learning too much about someone's teeth!! You're very understanding, and it is greatly appreciated. Also I'm glad to have another Swiftie friend to cry and scream with!!

I know I've said this all before, but I really want to nail down just how much I mean it all. Thanks for one amazing year of friendship! I'm excited for the next year and so forth! I love you a ton, dude! 🖤🖤🖤

(Okay through back to our paragraph to paragraph discussions bc I really want to take the time to respond to every thing)

Okay, first things first I know we've talked a lot about how in terms of Tumblr superiority I am an elder when it comes to how long both of us have been on the site. But I was absolutely terrified to send you that second ask but God am I glad I did. Who knew that something as small as conspiring to start our own clubbing business would turn into this BDBDB.

I also have a lot to thank you for the last year has been such a bumpy ride but I know that you were definitely one of the reasons that I was able to make it through. Though I must admit it is a little bit odd to have to explain to people that one of my closest friends is in college hshs, I know that I definitely look up to you in a "adultish" way.

The feeling is absolutely Mutual when it comes to knowing that I can always count on you to lend an ear or some advice. Our weekly phone calls are definitely something I know I can look forward to if I've been having a tough or tiring week. For that alone I'm thankful for being able to have you to talk to like that on a regular basis.

I think that's definitely one of the areas where we balance each other out or compliment each other I don't really know hdhdj but your interests and things like that really don't seem odd at all to me. However I will be blaming you for me feeling compelled to look at people's teeth more often than I would think to bdbsb.

Overall it has been an amazing wonderful year and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for our friendship. Maybe one of these days we'll be able to meet up and just talk shit about food hsbs

Love you dearly 💛💛