Something I need to tell you all · 3:54am Sep 1st, 2015
I found this out about a week ago, and it shook me up a good deal. I've been trying to find ways of wording it best, but nothing seems to fall into place. So I'll have to go with the direct route.
This is concerning Silverstein, whom you may all know from his own work or his writing on the story. Recently I found he changed his account name to 'Dead and Gone' and I am unable to find any of his work on this, or any other, site. I've tried to contact, but I've gotten no response and there was no real warning prior to this. I'm afraid it may be worse than it seems.
Silver told me he had a problem with depression in the past, though I never actually saw him go too deep with it. Still, it seemed to have played a big part in his life. I've tried talking to him, but he hasn't spoken in a couple months and gave no indication of this removal of work from the whole net. Coupled with the username, I am fearing that, in the worst case scenario, he may have died of his own hand; best case is that he simply left. I can't say for sure if that is what happened, I can't even say which is more likely. But it worries me all the same.
The hard thing is that, if it was the worse one, it hit me hard as well. Silver felt like a true friend of mine. Not just a writer or partner, but a real friend in how we talked to each other and such. I even looked up to him a bit when I was first starting out here. I do dearly hope that he is alright, but either way it feels like a lost a true friend, and it's hurt me deeply. There's not much I can do, sadly, other than pray for him that things turn out alright. If it's not too much, I'd like you all to do the same, if you can.
I only wish I could give the best for him, and I feel like, in telling me about his problem, I failed a bit myself. Again, I can't tell if he is truly gone from this world or not, but I feel like I've lost something important either way. I only want the best for him, and if he is gone, I can only hope he's found a peaceful rest. He was a great, very imaginative person, and he will be greatly missed.
As I'd rather not go into it, but more or less have to, I should address the effects on the story in this. This departure is not a massive blow to it, and it will continue as such. In fact I'd like to write some parts of his nation's forces into my own chapters, but the problem is, as I can't find any info on the nation's specifics online, I'm lacking a bit in details. If you have any info from his work, please send it to me so it can be preserved and help with it's accuracy. That's all I want to say about that.
This about wraps it up, and wraps up a rather disappointing summer with a terrible blow. I'm sorry for taking so long with everything, including telling you all about this. All I really wanted for this blog was to inform you about Silver. Please do show how close he was to us; if it's to late, then remember. Either way, I hope he finds his peace, and he'll always be a friend to me and vice-versa.
Thank you for your time.
I don't know what to say, man. I suppose the possibility that he might come back is always there. If you knew where he lived, it might be informative to try and find out any recent suicides in the last week in that location to know for sure.
I sure hope he's alright. What were some of the fics he wrote?
Oh dear, I sure hope he's alright.
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I don't, unfortunately.
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A few things; Days of Ruin, H, Forty Six & Two, among others.
Fuck...