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Raphaël Gromy avec Bob sa marionnette à Strasbourg

They screwed up. Straight up. They communicated poorly, and Tulip wound up bearing the brunt of the consequences of it. Nobody was perfect in the situation. All three of them are just clearly going through it. Divorce is hard on everyone involved, and it’s clearly shown to be a fresh wound. It’s just a shit situation all around.

And I’m confident in saying I’m sure both her parents felt bad over the ordeal. It’s not fair. It sucks. Yeah, they’re trying, but they’re still learning to navigate these brand new dynamics. At the end of the day, they still screwed up because Tulip has to miss something she really cares about.

But then Tulip runs away. And she doesn’t come back for months. Can we imagine the panic, the guilt they must have felt? Tulip packed a bag; surely they noticed stuff was missing when someone checked her room. As far as they know Tulip actively ran away (true). But they had no way of knowing she was prevented from coming home. Just horrifying to think of the implications of that. They don’t know where she is. She’s disappeared without a trace. Even if authorities tracked her well, she’d still appear to have vanished into thin air upon boarding the train. Tulip is just. Missing. They don’t know if she’s even alive.

And with the added weight of what happened immediately before Tulip disappeared, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume they both held a lot of guilt. That they both felt Tulip disappearing was their fault. That they wondered if things had just been different maybe they’d still have their daughter. We see Tulip has the tendency to take on things outside of her control—maybe that’s a tendency she picked up from one or both of her parents.

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With a heavy heart, I come to you all with the news announced by close friends of Cat Frazier that she had passed away on Monday, June 29.

She had been running @animatedtext since 2012, with her impact on the internet SHAPING tumblr. If you have a years long history on this site, you’ve seen her art.

She ran a venue in Oakland called Oakland Secret, a punk venue where I’d vend at regularly as an artist. She made a safe space for queer artists, artists of color, and local furs too. I am forever grateful for her work both in the Bay Area creative scene and online, and am forever changed by the totality of her impact.

I’ll be linking some articles from the 2010’s about her impact online: The Fader | Action | Jezebel | ObviouslySocial

I invite you to take a visit through her archive, and if you have a long history with this site like I do, it’s like walking down memory lane. (open link in browser)

Still one of the best animations I've ever done. Took just under a week and was equal parts fun and challenging. So here are some process passes! The full version had too many colors so I had to do some compression T0T

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