Astromeleon
Astro as a Pokémorph would obviously be a Charmeleon! Given how much I enjoy them, it's only natural! That nice lilac tail flame is my favorite touch here. Maybe not a very natural color, but a very magical one!
So...the above is my best attempt to have a relatively normal description for this image, but the rest of this is going to be a bit heavier. This picture is by , a commission I got from him earlier this year to help him out. Always intended for posting, but just a matter of not remembering at the point where I could. But I wanted to make a point of getting it up now, because I learned just a little bit ago that BlakeZekky sadly passed away yesterday.
I'm a writer. Being able to convey thoughts and feelings through text is something I'm all too familiar with. Some might say I can say a lot more than I need to to convey those things, and they would probably be wrong. Death, though...that's the one thing that I really don't know how to express myself over. I go over the words in my head and just...nothing sounds right. Even in this case, I couldn't really call myself CLOSE to him, but...he left an imprint on my soul. Just as anyone who puts their soul out there for others, through their personal works of any kind, does to those who resonate with them. And it's a loss that I've felt, pretty deep, and it has me struggling for the words.
I don't think there ARE any 'right' words, really. Just the best I can do.
I guess what I want to say is: value. Value those who you care about. Value those who care about you. Value those who bring light into your life. Even if they're only in it briefly. Even if you only "know" them by an avatar. It's not meaningless just because there's some physical distance, or because there's a cloak of character over it. Because even those cloaks are them, just in a different way. And every connection is another light to shine in our souls, and that's what makes life worth living. We exist to bond with others, and those bonds linger beyond everything else. It's something I'm sure we all know on some level, but sometimes we need to be reminded, because you never really know what's going to happen.
This is a fragment that remains even if he's no longer here. A piece of him still here, and I'll remember him by it. I have another to post, but I'll do that once I've processed this a bit and can do so in a less intense mood.
So...the above is my best attempt to have a relatively normal description for this image, but the rest of this is going to be a bit heavier. This picture is by , a commission I got from him earlier this year to help him out. Always intended for posting, but just a matter of not remembering at the point where I could. But I wanted to make a point of getting it up now, because I learned just a little bit ago that BlakeZekky sadly passed away yesterday.
I'm a writer. Being able to convey thoughts and feelings through text is something I'm all too familiar with. Some might say I can say a lot more than I need to to convey those things, and they would probably be wrong. Death, though...that's the one thing that I really don't know how to express myself over. I go over the words in my head and just...nothing sounds right. Even in this case, I couldn't really call myself CLOSE to him, but...he left an imprint on my soul. Just as anyone who puts their soul out there for others, through their personal works of any kind, does to those who resonate with them. And it's a loss that I've felt, pretty deep, and it has me struggling for the words.
I don't think there ARE any 'right' words, really. Just the best I can do.
I guess what I want to say is: value. Value those who you care about. Value those who care about you. Value those who bring light into your life. Even if they're only in it briefly. Even if you only "know" them by an avatar. It's not meaningless just because there's some physical distance, or because there's a cloak of character over it. Because even those cloaks are them, just in a different way. And every connection is another light to shine in our souls, and that's what makes life worth living. We exist to bond with others, and those bonds linger beyond everything else. It's something I'm sure we all know on some level, but sometimes we need to be reminded, because you never really know what's going to happen.
This is a fragment that remains even if he's no longer here. A piece of him still here, and I'll remember him by it. I have another to post, but I'll do that once I've processed this a bit and can do so in a less intense mood.
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Honestly when it comes to death it is always possible for there to be no right words. The best you can hope to do in such times is to remember them for who they were, and remember them as that.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to try to do. This, I think, will help remind me. I always do better remembering with a trigger. That's why I keep a picture of my late dogs on my desk - same thing, wanting to remember them.