So recently I learned an old internet friend died. 8 months ago, in fact. It's got me in weird feelings. His name was CiiMassacre, or QuokkaCii as he eventually renamed himself. We used to hang out in an old irc channel, #bronymusic, with all kinds of other people. I wouldn't say we were the closest of friends, but I did add him to steam and twitter and the like and even after I left that place I still stayed in touch from time to time.

At the time, he was particularly known for his drawings. The ones I remember most (that I wish I could find), were of the Littlest Pet Shop gang in a sort of gory body-horror type of thing. He was pretty good at that kind of art.

This is one of them. It's a barbaloot who looks a bit weird. The pic is small because I cannot for the life of me find the original (if you happen to find it, LET ME KNOW), so I had to delve deep into my email and find old old responses to my old twitter account. Wherein the email had this as the old avatar. Thankfully, it was somewhere.

Anyway, I only learned recently that he died. In July of last year no less. Such a long time for someone to be gone that I didn't even know. Someone I used to talk to all the time. It makes me feel like we should have talked more, but just life happening we never got around to it.

In fact the last time I talked to him, I asked him to help me find this picture, which he had buried somewhere in his archives. That was the last time I spoke to him, and it's a weird feeling. Just a casual "hey, do you have this thing?" "Yep!" and then... he's gone.

Anyway, cherish the people you love. And make an effort to talk to people you haven't. It's easy for years to go by sometimes never speaking to somebody, and eventually they could just be gone. You never know when it'll happen.