Three years ago, snarksquad.blogspot.com had it’s first post, titled “Trauma Never Looked So Good.” Lorraine put together a video from all the silly shit the original team of five had uploaded for our own blogs. Childhood Trauma was born. Since that time, the team has shrunk and grown, the site has moved, gotten renamed, been made over, broadened its scope, and acquired an amazing little family of Traumateers.
This post, right here, is post #647. That’s insane. I can’t get over how high that number is. That’s a lot of blogging.
As it happens, Lorraine and I hang out together around this time each year. Last year we made a magical video to celebrate, but this year was a little too hectic for that. We’ve also technically missed our blog’s birthday and now we feel like awful parents. SORRY BLOG.
To make it up to her, we’re rounding up the other fabulous Snark Ladies to celebrate how much we really do love this blog even when we neglect it for a week or so. We’re commemorating this magical occasion with some of our favorite memories from three years and over six hundred posts:
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Sweeney: Fifty Shades Darker Chapter 17 – Raindrops of Shit. Fifty Shades, in spite of being truly awful to read, definitely led to some of my favorite posts. Being asked to choose a favorite makes me go all Drew Barrymore. “I could no sooner choose a favorite star in the heavens.” This one is probably the narrow winner, though. It’s the one with the original layout for Snark HQ, shameful Twilight confessions, a GoT reference, and Lorraine gif face. SO MANY MAGICAL THINGS!
Lorraine: Fifty Shades Darker Chapter 18 – Professional Advice. It was a close call between this one and that one time EL James followed me on Twitter for 10 minutes, but in the end, I had to give it to the recap in which EL James popped in to dispense professional writing advice. That, plus Ana’s being too stupid to realize Grey brought her to an empty house with a realtor to discuss purchasing it, make this a fun time.
Democracy Diva: VM S01 E02 – 1 Episode in Paris. Because it’s not 2004 until you’re forced to suffer through Paris Hilton attempting – and failing – to be an actress. There might be nothing in the world easier than snarking Paris’s “acting,” except making fun of her clothes. And her pink moped.
Sara: Sweet Valley High #100 “The Evil Twin” – Or the final installment of the greatest miniseries ever. The series includes evil doppelgangers, terrible lawyers, shitty parenting, drinking and driving, romance, and death. Basically the perfect combination for a Christmas in Sweet Valley.
Kirsti: Buffy the Vampire Slayer S03 E16 – Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff. Vamp!Willow, Real!Willow disguised as Vamp!Willow, Oz, Anya flunking maths, Faith and The Mayor, and a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey-ness
Sweeney: BSC #019 “Claudia and the Bad Joke” – PTSD. I’m cheating and adding another one because I don’t want CT to feel unloved. I’m pretty solid on the fact that time has made us better bloggers so my favorite BSC post is also the most recent one…June of last year. Womp.
Lorraine: Well, fuck it, in that case, I’m cheating too. Sara already picked my favorite CT post, but I’ll go with Sweet Valley High #005 – Or how bears are never there to eat bitches when you need them as my second favorite because it gave us both the birth of the Youth Mauling Bear and a fantastic porn stache.
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I don’t think we can ever say enough times that all the people involved in this project are what make it so magical for us. There are no people I’d rather be doing this with than these girls and I can’t imagine we’d still be going at this if it weren’t for all of you lovely, lovely people. I thank them for putting up with all of my rambly emails about life bullshit and all of you for laughing and growing and snarking with us.
Thank you for making this three amazing years. Here’s to three more. (My brain exploded just thinking about that sentence, but it was a totally good love-filled brainsplosion.)
