To those that should be remembered · 3:25am Nov 2nd, 2023
Remember those that were here for us, those that we lost or left too early.
Remember the value of their lives; the happiness they brought to our lives. All the things we told them, and the things we wish we could have.
Remember them.
Remember your family and your friends.
Dad
Sonia
Joaquin
Ernesto
MythrilMoth
Rarity EQM
Darth Link 22
NinjaDeadBeard
Level Dasher
LH45's dad
Jake's Aunt
Warren Hutch
UnlicensedBrony
Delverna
James Vassar
Marty Criswell
Uncr3at1ve's Mom
Rollie
TheMyth
Olden Bronie's Father
Olden Bronie's Military Friends
Jimmy Buffet
Raiden Fireblade
Jordan179
RosarioVampire39's mom
Loyal
oblivion2k's mom
CoffeeBean
Here's to all of you, and the many more that we remember, even if we continue with our lives, your memory is within us. Every time we say or write your names, we bring those precious moments back.
Thank you. I just did some of that myself, prompted by your post.
NinjaDeadBeard
Ink Stroke
Level Dasher
My dad
Here's a drink and a moment of silence for them.
Raises a glass to those that have gone before us, may they rest in peace, may the day of our reunion be long in coming and when it dose may we have lived a life worthy of them.
Darth Link 22.
Thanks Wandy. Here's to you as well
Here's to them, and to all of us.
May those names never be forgotten, and their memories perdure
5753336 5753323 I hope you don't mind, I've added them to the blog itself.
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Not a little.
A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.
My aunt
Warren Hutch
One of the ways modern life is weird is that we're so age-segregated that most people are blissfully insulated from death, except for family members, until they reach about 80, when suddenly everyone they know starts dropping dead. If they reach 90, they're likely completely alone in the world, unless they have children, and often even then. Many, many people spend the last 10 years of their life living alone in a house that they can't leave, watching television all day.
We have pushed death into a corner where we don't have to look at it until we're 80, and then we're sequestered in that corner with death, where others don't have to look at us.
One of the ways modern life is better is that some of these people learn how to use email or facebook or cell phones, and that's their lifeline to the world. But the user interfaces of the web, and especially of cell phones, and ESPECIALLY of iPhones, are so reliant on the user memorizing hundreds of undocumented, unintuitive, and constantly-changing icons, semiotic cues, and other rules of UI that it seems they're deliberately trying to push old people away. Many give up after a few weeks of trying.
It is a little terrifying to consider that all the older people we knew when we were growing up will most probably all be dead by the time we reach retirement. We treasure the time we have to spend with them and appreciate the memories they leave behind when they're gone. Still, so many have been taken before their time.
My mother, Delverna, who was the original audience when I was doing my read-through of The Lazy Dragon
Members of my college gaming group including James Vassar, a prospective designer of many games
My first real college friend, Marty Criswell, who beat cancer as a child only to have it come back and take him before he reached retirement.
UnlicensedBrony
MythrilMoth as well. Man has it been a while.
Rarity EQM was the first person I talked to, on EQM (muck) when I first created my OC and started exploring the fandom.
WarrenHutch and MythrilMoth for me.
5753374
Came here to mention him. Met him at a con. Really nice guy. Gone far too soon.
5753360
I'm picturing MythrilMoth steadily getting more annoyed by the ringing in his ears, until he finally snaps and just starts yelling something along the lines of "What? What?!? What the fuck do you want already?"
I'll raise a glass in remembrance.
My Mom, and my coworker and friend "Rollie", both taken far too soon.
- Dylan Thomas, 1943
Raiden Fireblade and The Myth...
Thank you, D. It’s good for us to remember those who mean so much to us.
When I read this last night, it put me into a melancholy mood. Thoughts of friends and the joy they brought into my life. I tried to think of a good way to pay them tribute. But talking about them, sharing their names and memories is the lasting legacy they deserve.
RarityEQM
TheMyth
Level Dasher
Warren Hutch
Several military friends
My father
Jimmy Buffet
To them, I fill the parting glass and wish joy to you all.
Jordan179, too.
My Mom:12/14/76-10/21/18
Age 41
Cause Of Death:Fentanyl Overdose
I Was 21 When She Died
Loyal
My mom
Maybe it doesn't make everyone feel better that there are odd fellows like me who scurry around in the shadows remembering people I haven't even met, but I recognize a lot of these names. I've been there for some of their stories, their blogs, heard about them through others telling their own stories, and... sometimes I find the posts or other messages announcing their passing. I don't have much to toast with and a moment of my silence isn't particularly special; to speak up to mourn seldom seems appropriate when you keep to the shadows and say nothing, but... I imagine I can't be the only one: we noticed them, we felt it when they passed, and we remember them too.
Now...
... This is hard to write.
I assume you've taken that moment to remember them if you're still reading; I don't mean to disrespect the deceased or those close to them.
I still feel like maybe I shouldn't write this.
I want to suggest another sort of person to remember, for those it may be relevant to. Some of us have been torn away from our original ability or to participate in the community, or even to reliably interact with our friends therein, by ravenous challenges and hurdles in our real lives. Sometimes it's sickness -- our own or someone else's -- or a financial bind, or anything else; before long, you can't find the time to participate, and sometimes you can't even find the energy to contact your friends as time goes on.
You didn't stop living, but you legitimately wonder if anyone still remembers you.
I don't have the ego for this to be about myself, specifically (I am the captain of my own fate, and while the waters do what they will, I have my hand on the wheel for whatever that's worth), but I know both sides of this well from my own experiences:
Remember the the ones you haven't seen in a while. Remember them before it's a notice of their passing that reminds you. Maybe they're fine, maybe it doesn't matter, but maybe being remembered would mean more than I could hope to describe at 2am with even a thousand more words.
5753439
Jordan179 is dead!? Aww.
Oh, one more I remembered:
Loyal
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Ah Loyal, dear friend
Archmage was great
5753502
Unfortunately yes. He died two years ago.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/946975/jordan-has-passed-away
I still miss MythrilMoth… wish I could’ve gotten to know you better
"If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever."
Wait, Ink Stroke is truly gone?! It’s been a decade. But…
5753573
Thank you for this.
The internet is a weird place. You can read stories from people who you think are alive, but aren't. You see them online, you see their comments and they come and go, so you don't think of them as being dead, just moving on to other things or life interfering with their abilities to write. Sometimes they vanish for good, but you never have closure. I'm very sorry for his wife. I'm also sorry (selfishly I guess) for all the unfinished stories living on in limbo... and his aren't the only ones. How many of our interesting authors that disappear didn't lose interest, but are no longer among the living? I assumed he was alive because there was no line through his name like Mythral Moth. Thank you for closure.
Remember them all and hope they rest in peace. For me the names that hit hard are Level Dasher, NinjaDeadBeard, and Jordan. A lot of great people gone in a flash. Also want to add one more to the list if you don't mind, Wanderer D. CoffeeBean (profile page) has been gone since April 5, 2020. He impacted so many people just like the rest listed. Thank you for this blog post.
Ink Strokes on right now
Melodicpony
My entire extended family on my mother's side.