Screw the meme

[mtgat]

"Now cracks a noble heart."

Dammit dammit dammit.

Sorry, guys. I know some of you were very close to her. I wasn't, but I liked her. She had style. :)

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[tevriel]

*confused*

I don't get it - link seems to say that someone's dead, but that doesn't match up with meme references and a smiley.

[mtgat]

Meme reference: the Shakespeare meme going around that says "When you see this, post a quote from Shakespeare in your own journal." I fucking hate memes. I find them annoying and self-indulgent and a waste of my time scrolling past them. (Which doesn't stop me from doing them occasionally regardless, but I try not to propagate them.)

Someone has died: kielle died yesterday from cancer. Looking back through her journal, it had made her ill for a while, but was caught only a month ago or so. I had no idea she was sick, since I stopped reading her LJ over a year ago.

Smiley: I have a different approach to death than a lot of people do. I celebrate the person's life. I didn't know kielle well, but we spent time in some of the same places and I liked her work. She wrote one of my favorite stories and ran a website I used to visit. She made me smile, usually at times when I was beating my head into my desk. So her legacy to me will be the smiles.

[mice]

She was one of the first people I met in fan fiction - we started posting the same newsgroup at the same time. I was one of the first newbies she helped out (which was one of her trademarks). She was also one of the first people from the internet I met and one of the funniest people I've ever met.

[mtgat]

She was good people.