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Ranch-to-City: Girl Transitions
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Well, Honeycrisp apples, I hinted last week that there was a very, very big surprise I might unveil this week, although not all of you would be in favor of it. Some of you guessed correctly, and others were way off the mark. But nonetheless, here is the surprise:
This is the end of Girl Transitions.
Thank you so much for your kind messages and Tumblr asks and all the support you've shown me through the three years I've been a lost little forget-me-not! You sweetpeas have been the joy of my heart since I first came to the city, and writing Girl Transitions has been one of the sweetest experiences of my life. I am so grateful of have 'met' all of you, and to have experienced Tumblr ohana like this. And although I am leaving Girl Transitions, I'll always love Tumblr and all of my followers.
But why are you leaving?! you guys cry out.
Well…
Because I gone and done bought me a farm!
That's right, toy flowers, I'm moving out of the city. A certain island group put up an ad for a rancher, and you know me, pink cats – I just couldn't say no. In a week or so, I'll be moving out of The City and back to nature.
Again, my clovers, thank you so much for supporting me through city life. I love you all so much and I'll miss posting! I hope you all learned something from Girl Transitions, even if it's just how a silly little girl managed to live like a city slicker for three years. :) I love and I'll miss you all!
Forever and ever yours,
Ranch Girl
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sherlocki-ann: Omg. Nooooo. Don't leave, Ranchie!
lady-loki-of-asgard: I'm going to miss your blog so much! :( Can't you blog from your ranch? Like, City-to-Ranch or Girl Got Back or something. :(
stone-wand-cloak: What Tumblr user lady-loki-of-asgard said! I'll miss this blog so much. Keep posting!
storm-in-my-best-dress: Is it possible to dislike a post? I'll message staff. Ugh. Heart = breaking.
green-lanturn: But what about The Boy?
Chelsea leaned back as Tumblr flooded with notes and asks from her followers. It was heartwarming – and heartbreaking – to see how badly her followers took the thought of her leaving Girl Transitions.
Ranch-to-City: Girl Transitions had been her coworker's idea, three years ago when Chelsea's homesickness was obvious. "Blog it out," her fellow teacher had suggested. "Write about it on Tumblr. It's a great platform, easy to use and understand."
So Chelsea had tried it. She found themes and HTML to be a bit beyond her, but with some clicking around she'd picked a decent-enough theme and an URL and title. And there she'd written post after post about how she missed the farm where she'd grown up, shared her miserable attempts at imitating her mother's farm-fresh cooking with city ingredients, and just generally talked about how hard and awkward it was to transition from simple farm girl to city-dweller.
Somewhere between her recipe for white bread and her mother's orange curry, she'd started to gain followers. Chelsea didn't really understand it, but there they were: reblogging her recipes, sharing in her sorrow when family dog Pongo died, sending her loving messages. It was due to her blog that she hadn't gone crazy in just under a year of city life. She never stopped being homesick, but blogging made her feel better.
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lady-loki-of-asgard replied your post: Well, Honeycrisp apples, I hinted last week that there was a very, very big surprise…
I'm going to miss your blog so much! :( Can't you blog from your ranch? Like, City-to-Ranch or Girl Got Back or something. :(
Girl Got Back omg that made me laugh so hard. XD It's a great title, though. But, I mean…would you guys be really interested in what a rancher has to say about ranch life? (Omg. I am going back to ranch life. Celebrate with me!)
green-lanturn replied to your post: Well, Honeycrisp apples, I hinted last week that there was a very, very big surprise…
But what about The Boy?
The Boy is no longer in the picture.
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Peaches! Due to huge demand (like seriously, I can't even, you guys are the sweetest), I've decided to keep blogging.
*explosive cheering in the background*
(I can dream, can't I?)
But not on this blog. Ranch-to-City: Girl Transitions will be kept up as an…archive, of sorts, of our three-year journey together. I'll leave it here, if you dandelions ever want to reminisce, and my back-to-nature blog will be on a different Tumblr. That way, we've a divide of transition from nature and getting back to it. :)
You can find my back-to-nature blog here, with URL (thank you, Tumblr user lady-loki-of-asgard!) ranchgirlgotback.
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A/N: Hi, everyone! It's Chrysa Lite, several years older and wiser from when I first started writing fanfiction. :) This is a Sunshine Islands fic, because I'm currently replaying it, and I thought, wouldn't it be so cute if Chelsea was a Tumblr blogger when she first moved to the islands? So, here is the brainchild of that plot bunny.
Just a quick clarification for those unfamiliar with Tumblr: in the part where it goes: lady-loki-of-asgard replied to your post etc., the italicized portion is what the other Tumblr user said, and the normal text is what Chelsea replied to it.
And lastly, if I accidentally used anyone's URL in here, I'm so sorry. I just thought the URLs off of the top of my head. Just message me if you want me to change the URL in the story, or if you want me to feature your URL! :)