Sunday Diary: The Best Day Ever

Yesterday, I saw a chat with Lizzie Widicombe and Tavi Gevinson and to put it out plainly, it was the best day of my life. Tavi was not only hilarious but one of the best people I have ever met. There are even pictures of me crying after meeting her! I also got the pleasure of meeting Amy Rose and the diarist, Britany. Who we had a long and hilarious talk about scene kids. Rookie readers are also the best people ever. Viv and I met two awesome girl named Lulu and Mira who I plan on staying in touch with. Just I can't even explain how amazing this day was.

-Ann

Sunday Diary: Never Have I Felt More Like Tavi

Dear Blob,

Tavi Gevinson

Remember last week when I was frantically looking for writers yet scared to death about "taking my blog to pre-school"? I guess this is the next step. Now How Fitting isn't a blog by Ann Louise. It is a blog created by her. There is a difference. It is seriously the scariest thing ever to realize that your baby isn't really your baby anymore. Emma started Thursday and let me tell you, she did an amazing job but I just had to sit there from the sidelines of my blog and watch her post on the front of the blog. Pride for How Fitting burst inside of me yet I was scared of the future. At that moment right there and then, I have never felt more like my role model, Tavi Gevinson. This girl who was about my age began with a small blog and then just kind of slowly bloomed to the top and expanded into the best thing I have ever seen in my entire life, Rookie. Obviously, Tavi doesn't make this giant website with three articles a day alone! OK OK How Fitting has three people writing (and one editing and running) and Rookie has around sixty but you can understand my point. My biggest Tavi moment this week would have had to be when Emma (our newest member) sent me a draft of her latest post with the subject "My Thingy For The Blog :D"  so I could edit and publish her piece onto How Fitting

Honorary Tavi

. Wait a second. Not only am I a writer but I am en editor. I truly am Tavi Gevinson. Well here we go. Emma's post was published (you can read it here ) and Fiona will be starting by tomorrow which I can't lie. I think I am more excited than her about this. In the end, every blog needs a Tavi Gevinson and I guess that I can at least try and be as fabulous as she is. 

-Ann

Life Scouts

Since I am the lamest person in the entire world, I earned a single badge this week. 

Photography

When I was younger, I used to really be into taking pictures of

mostly stupid things but still pretty cool. God I am lame. 
Play List
This weeks playlist is mostly just made up of a combination of Sleeping With Sirens, Lights, and Pierce The Veil. I also added a single One Direction in honor of their insanely uncomfortable music video and put in "Garbage Truck" from Sex Bob-omg from my favorite movie, "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" for I have seen it far too many times this week. 
Sunday Diary 26

The Perks Of Being A Blogger

Just today, something extremely special happened to me. Something on Twitter. Bethan Mary Leadley wrote me back on Twitter saying that not only did she read my British Invasion blog post, but she actually enjoyed it! After receiving such a special Twitter message I got to thinking how many special perks of being a blogger there are.
On February 25, 2013, I was bored. I had been reading ROOKIE and hearing about Tavi Gevinson's success with blogging and instantly knew that this was exactly what I wanted out of life and what I wanted to do. I had always loved writing and even wrote a novel in sixth grade (it was awful) and a couple fan fictions (Ed Sheeran, Alex Day, and Twilight) so why not create some sort of blog? I had never really written actual articles before much less anything about fashion. This continued a phase called

Young Tavi

I'm Not Good Enough
This was a TERRIBLE time. After seeing Tavi's style I instantly hated my own wardrobe and thought the only way to be noticed was to be an exact copy of her. I always felt awful and not "special" enough anymore. You could compare this phase towards Dan Howell's "Extrasensorial Crisis" in which he basically just wanted to change his life around. I wanted to change almost everything about myself from the clothes I wore to the music I listen to. I began throwing out clothing because it wasn't "Tavi enough". My love for this girl was becoming something that made me hate myself.

My favorite Tavi Outfit

Mwah!
This part is named after my God awful fail of an online magazine called "Mwah Mag". It wasn't the fact that my writing was terrible that bothers me. It was that I put no effort into my posts and thought that viewers would appear out of nowhere and make me a famous blogger. Sweetheart, it doesn't work that way. Within a week, I gave up for I figured that this would never work out. Here I give you the link to MWAH! Feel free to laugh about it.
Mwah Mag
Why The Hell Not?
Monday, February 25, I got bored at my house. I had been calming down with my whole wardrobe and actually starting to like what I was wearing. After refreshing Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr for about an hour the best thing to do was make some "dumb" blog just to give me something to do. I took a look at "The Style Rookie" Tavi's original blog for some ideas and came up with something called a "Fashion Bible". That first post was messy and disorganized but I put effort into it. The next step was coming up with a name for this blog. A couple weeks ago, I had made a fashion instagram called "how_fitting" and decided that was the best name for a blog. After fighting with myself, I took the risk and posted the link to this post my friends on G+. By the end of the day, I got lots of positive comments that made my heart do a little happy dance. I began posting more and more and coming with Music and Lifestyle posts. My writing was something I loved. At first, it was a big deal when I got five views on a post but the viewers and post views were soon rising. The whole thing was exiting and unbelievable to me. This was something I never imagined doing and I was here!
Ann Louise: Blogger
One of my closest online friends, Pietro started a blog and the two of us began talking about blogging and even doing some posts together! He is my blogging rock and whenever I have writer's block he can get me out of it. Besides, it's a good excuse to just talk to him more! I love blogging more than anything. So far not only has people such as Bethan noticed "How Fitting" but Bridie McDonnell said that she also loved my article of her! The experiences and friends I've made just through some website is absolutely amazing. I like to model my wardrobe and blog with some Tavi Gevinson elements but I do not intend of becoming an exact clone of her. She is a huge role model to me and if it wasn't for her, this whole website probably would not be here. I was the quiet unimportant girl before craeting this website and I feel almost like a different person. I now get to write about the things I love: Fashion, Music and all the other cool things I find in life. I want to thank YOU GUYS! You've given me The Perks Of Being A Blogger. 
-Ann
I wrote this post in honor of my 1000th view on this very blog. I owe it to you guys. I love you all.
Pietro's Blog