Hora Fugit

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.

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT

EGADDDDDDD

THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES

THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE

“Tour Guides”

Kandy G. Lopez R ² - Roscoe and Reggie 2024 Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh

And I know that's silly right, like yeah no shit Ice, we knew that. BUT my point here is don’t be afraid to study photography, theatre, and staging for ideas. They actively work with light! It’s why I share so many images of models; it’s purposeful, focused staging of light with many of these compositions!

Brown-skinned Black people- brown-skinned people in general- GLOW in the light! Our skin reflects environmental light! There’s so much opportunity to play with that, and you can see different examples in those mediums."

How do you memorialize a person like Kit? I don't know how to start. They were so vibrant, so full of life. They were the person who got me into tabletop, one of the people who got me to write again, one of the people I could spend hours upon hours talking with, even if it was just about the trainwreck anime they were watching on Crunchyroll. I have known them for seventeen years. That's a long time to know someone, to love someone. It wasn't enough. To quote Jim Croce, there never seems to be enough time to do the things that you wanna do once you find them. There was so much I wanted to do, so much I wanted to see, so much I wanted to share with them.

I knew in my heart that Kit was one of the people I wanted to go through time with. I love them. I miss them. I will never stop missing them. There will always be an empty space where they should be.