On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I think we've known each other as fellow comics and SF fen since a couple of years after I moved to Ottawa, although I knew of for a few years before that from the letter columns of comic books I'd read and enjoyed.

Many more and happier birthdays to you, I hope!

Having sent a note privately, it seems wrong to not also honour your day publicly. I know you've largely left LiveJournal behind, but you're not forgotten in this corner of the Internet. Hoping today's been kind to you and yours, and that days to come are kinder still.

Take care, okay?

...i almost forgot one: pompe!

How was yours, today?

Trying to find a way to say something that needs saying.

elaynetoo confirmed it earlier today, so now I can let the breath out.

Leah pikachette Adezio's in her last hours, so far as anyone can tell, as I type these words.

Before I worked with gumprich on Evening Shift, there was Ari of Lemuria. A project we - and Elayne - had high hopes for, but ultimately didn't happen.

I've known her but poorly in the decade plus since joining the online world myself. Met her a handful of times at conventions. A couple of phone conversations. Back and forths online. I can say that I'm a distant friend. Perhaps not much more than that.

It's going to hurt, even so, living in a world without her. Not in the same way as when Dad died, or any of my other relatives or friends, close and distant, who've died thus far...but it's going to be there.

And I don't have any more words right now.