Many, many years ago I was just starting this whole 'vid' thing and poking around the edges of fandom and kinda scared when I found a message board called Band of Buggered, run by the snarkily hysterical ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
valerie_z. And there I found my first fandom home, and in very large part due to her, my first vidding community. Those of you who were there will remember how she could crack the whole board up, how much fun it was, how much we all learned and played and were goofballs and fans and vidders and it was amazing. How many incredibly close friendships were formed there. My life would not exist in its current form without Val. It just wouldn't. We hadn't talked much in the last few years, but I still looked forward to her posts because the honesty and sly biting humor she had about her own life were always insightful and amazing. I meant to comment more. I didn't mean to let her friendship slip so far away. I meant to.
We lost Val today. The world lost her, and it is a poorer place without her in it. Thank you Val. Thank you for everything you gave me, and the world you opened up to me. I will miss you forever, and I wish I'd thought to let you know that before now.
valerie_z. And there I found my first fandom home, and in very large part due to her, my first vidding community. Those of you who were there will remember how she could crack the whole board up, how much fun it was, how much we all learned and played and were goofballs and fans and vidders and it was amazing. How many incredibly close friendships were formed there. My life would not exist in its current form without Val. It just wouldn't. We hadn't talked much in the last few years, but I still looked forward to her posts because the honesty and sly biting humor she had about her own life were always insightful and amazing. I meant to comment more. I didn't mean to let her friendship slip so far away. I meant to.We lost Val today. The world lost her, and it is a poorer place without her in it. Thank you Val. Thank you for everything you gave me, and the world you opened up to me. I will miss you forever, and I wish I'd thought to let you know that before now.