another year is ending and I want you to know that it is okay if you:

have not healed from the things that happened/did not happen from six months ago. just because the year is ending it does not mean your grief is too.

don't have any "fun" NYE plans to ring in the new year. this life is yours to live across days and months and years, and you can celebrate days other than the ones heavily marketed and shoved down your throat to shroud you in severe FOMO.

have no resolutions or goals for 2024 laid out in elaborate lists or shared on social media or with your friends. you are braving through this life trying to do your best every day and hold the fort and so of course you know, deep down you know what is needed from you for you going forward and of course you are going to work in that direction. good luck love.

have not become a "better" version of yourself by any of the tangible or conventional measures. that kind of bettering is mostly to serve others, not yourself.

are not happy with yourself/your life as it is now. you're a work-in-progress, remember? and if you're progressing in a direction you do not like, then it's time to change the blueprints and the strategy.

take time off social media around this time to protect your mental health and whatever little joy you have managed to keep.

don't want to spend too much time reflecting on how this past year went and doing various forms of 2023-wrapped. again, it's your life. you can also revisit this year in memories and pictures and feelings whenever you'd like. it's not like you don't still visit 2012, 2017, and 2022, right?

feel disconnected from your friends, family, lover. I know this is "ideally" a time to be celebrated with your loved ones. but life is not ideal, is it? it's just life. and if right now you are not feeling the love, the joy, or just don't have the headspace or social energy to engage , that's alright.

are finding comfort in simpler things like a TV show from the 90s or that book you first read at sixteen or that slice of strawberry cake or a random post like this you come across.

don't feel hopeful, encouraged, or excited for 2024. given everything that's happened in the last couple of years, on the macro and micro level, it's only natural for you to feel weary as well as wary. when the good things happen, when the healing happens, when things begin working in your favour over time, you will automatically feel all those things. it's okay if until then you choose to be neutral.

Kerrie Hayes as Viv in BLUE JEAN (2022, Georgia Oakley)

Happy New Year! (x)

marie.bogomazova__

When you have to work New Year’s Day 😅

—Iris West, The Flash, “Fast Enough”

Onward, onward...

Final Thoughts On 2023

I know I have a very dysfunctional sense of time, but this year seems extra short and long to me. But such is the way it goes. Vague recap time!

Shut Down published! I went to my first therapy session. I toured apartments with my roommate. I traveled for the first time with just a friend. I got to meet the voice actors for The Animaniacs Pinky and The Brain. I celebrated my first Aro week. I wrote my first pilot episode. I got on TikTok for class and ended up not hating it. I volunteered to help at an student Oscar event and for student plays. I lost my best friend. I finally joined my school's writing club. My parents accidentally read my poetry collection and loved it. I moved into my very own apartment. I went on a family vacation to New York and got to see my almost little sister for the first time in 4 years. I hosted my very first book signing! I published Reprogrammed. I learned how to live by myself. I took a pottery class. I started a movie script. I let go of my best friend for good. I became the secretary for the writing club. I found a little bit more of myself in my fashion sense. I hosted a Halloween party. I met the producer of Me Before You. I made more friends and learned how best to love some of my others.

And in what has been one of the greatest decisions I've ever made, I stayed incredibly active on this lovely site and I got to meet, know, and love all of you. You guys are my diary and my joke book and a safe place for everything I am and love. I can be 100% myself on here without a single worry and you guys will never understand what that means to me.

My love list will just have to continue to grow, but that's okay. I love each and every one of you and I cannot wait to spend another year alongside you. Happy New Year! 🥂

All my love,

~ toribookworm ♥️

Love List pt. I

@angryaromantics @minutiaewriter @pluromantic @christiew @candlelightkissess @lady-of-himring @asteroidtroglodyte @panic-in-the-attic @elizaellwrites @writing-and-trying @eli-writes-sometimes @thatndginger @hyuccubus @chargeaznable @master-of-the-pigeon-religion @lividdreamz @ashen-crest @saphoblin @akiwitch @wearfinethingsalltoowell @daisywords @the-orangeauthor @arigalefantasynovels @brianamorganbooks @bluejay-in-write @elijahrichardwrites @alittlewarlord @apocalypsewriters @bookmarks-reviews @pure-solomon @xtakeitisisx @alnaperera @all-my-dreams-and-ambitions @porchswingstories @jlilycorbie @rsdan @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @litbylightning @lyssentome @theunboundwriter @writingforevren @regalserpent @axl-ul @likegemstone

Hey! Happy New Year! 🥳💋

“Deadline” by Bianca Bagnarelli

l The New Yorker l 2024 l Jan. 1 & 8

yep.kong__

Happy new year from me to you

it's the last day of the year and, for me, two hours until midnight. i don't have any fun fancy posts for it, or any prepared fics, which is my bad but still. i just wanted to thank everybody who has followed me, liked or reblogged my posts, interacted with me, all of that stuff. i have made lifelong friends this year on tumblr (maybe not, but thats how it feels in my little cracked heart ok T-T). i love all of you. you guys mean the world to me and you've made me happier than ever.

@gettinshiggywithit @pinkiipeachiikeen @jesterph0bic @small-chaos @well-dressed-sewer-rat @kxmikomrade @kokoenjiandco @darling--angst @jackofanon @cloudyyoimiya @qupiikaaa @geo-metric @autistic-ranpo @aroacesigma @socialbatterycharging @jounosparticles @pyro-for-president @rxyyyyy @bsdlvvr @lettuce-on-toast @smol-sorrows @fyodorkitkat @celestial-cupidity @skyflower2405 @railleriee @fyodor-summer-nights @nightv4mps @maskeddivine @runboybeneaththemoon @schoolofdecadence @flower-of-darkness @breadsoup00 @arsonistclown @tachiehara @chuyasthighs0 @detachedlimb @2383-lines-of-code @katsuragimyprince @dandybabbler @otakufimi @lupvium @dazais-crab-addiction @nakaharaswife @gardenlilgnome @queerrocket

i love all of you. from those of you that i talk to every day to those i have never talked to. if you do not feel the same i hope this post has reminded you to unfollow me sshkjhfhsdg but yeah. for those who dont talk but would like to, just shoot me a dm and let's become besties!! (please)

i love all of the rest of you as well. thank you for everything. let's hope 2024 is...at the very least just alright. yknow?