PsychicVampire was at the Ghost Ship

[BLOWUPTHESUN]

I created an account just to say this. ILF member PsychicVampire was Feral Pines. She was one of my dearest friends. I loved her like she was my own sister. She loved talking about this forum, and how decent people here were to her. All of us that knew her and Cash Askew and Em Bohlka, who were also killed in the fire, are fighting a hard uphill battle against misgendering and deadnaming in the press. We could use any help possible with calling or emailing press editors to make sure they don't continue to deadname her.

http://www.nclrights.org/press-room/pre ... e-victims/

http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-calls-m ... re-victims

https://www.transassistance.org/oakland-donations/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... are-us-too

(Feral always joked about wanting to be "gay famous" someday. Now her face is on the front page of the Manchester Guardian. She might be one of the most famous transpeople ever.)

Anyone who wants to share any of their memories of Feral, or just mourn, or anything, I'll respond. I'm flying out to Oakland tomorrow. It looks like her friends have actually convinced Moby to DJ her funeral. She would have loved that. I hope her rad perv ghost is smiling down on all of us

[Invisible Man]

What the fuck

This is terrible

Legit crying at work right now. Godspeed, PV.

[dubkitty]

how sad and awful. I'm sorry for your loss.

[Chankgeez]

[fcknoise]

This is absolutely awful. And just today I saw someone wondering where she went. Tragic

[D.o.S.]

Fuck.

[BLOWUPTHESUN]

My links didn't work. Do they need to be shorter?

http://tinyurl.com/z8q4sf4 Guardian Article

http://tinyurl.com/gmowkg5 GLAAD call against misgendering

http://tinyurl.com/z2xuht7 Trans Assistance Project (run by Feral's friend Scout)

[gnomethrone]

im so sorry BLOWUPTHESUN. I only spoke with her on here but she always made my day and i'm sure the real thing was even more incredible. I'll check out the links you provided after work. Thank you for letting us know.

[01010111]

[gnomethrone]

links work for me. saw her picture in the guardian and now im crying at work.

[bigchiefbc]

Wow, fuck. This is horrible to hear. I as well had only interacted with her on here, but she always seemed like good people.

[rustywire]

Unreal. Earlier this week I was wondering where psyvam had run off to (for the past several months).
Hard to think of a worse answer to that question, than [this] news. 2016 has been one bitch of a long year, that cant end soon enough.

[BLOWUPTHESUN]

Feral left Bloomington Indiana because of a bad breakup, losing her job, and the general repressive transphobia and homophobia of the Midwest. She was really depressed and miserable here, but she came to life in California. She wanted to be where the other trans people were. She was only there for like three months, but that's probably why she stopped posting. I mean, she loved this forum, but being on forums all the time was largely from being to depressed to go outside the house. She was finally happy and vibrant and alive, and now she is gone.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh fuck this is horrible news. I'm so sorry for your loss and that it's being made even worse by a bunch of pricks. She always seemed like a really great person from interacting on here.

I read the Guardian article earlier but didn't know her real name at the time, it was sad enough as it was, I don't understand why it's so hard to have a little respect.

[oldangelmidnight]

Thank you for sharing. She was one of my favorite people on the forum and I was wondering why she might have stopped visiting as much. I'm so glad to hear that she found some good times for a while there. And so, so sad that she didn't make it out.