Farewell, Fedoralady

I’ve just had two independent reports (both via FB) that Angie K. Long has died.

Angie was a major contributor to Armitage-character fanfic when I became a fan. She didn’t shy away from anything! I particularly loved her stories, and she was endlessly creative, could make a joke out of anything (does anyone else remember the expression “Victorian Biddy Brigade”?), and in no way shy. If you’re not familiar, I’d mention “Truce” (at LiveJournal), “Guy and Rebecca: The Adventure Continues,” (at Live Journal; slash/mature); and in particular, her “Sloth Fiction” series, born from a joke I made so long ago I don’t even remember what the joke was — although it clearly involved junk food (at wattpad). Her stories are also (still) posted at DreamerFiction.

I was also privileged to meet up with Angie — she was the first online fan friend I met in real life. She blogged about it here. At the time, given recent events (if you remember the summer of 2012 and what happened to Angie that summer, you know what I’m talking about) we were both uncomfortable discussing the meeting openly or identifying each other in public. That made me sad at the time, as it was a spectacular encounter. She had positive energy for everyone.

The Armitage Effect was a major gathering point for the squeeing! Angie blogged about Armitage for several years, but was permanently locked out of it around five years ago or so and switched her energies to posts on FB on her own page and several others.

In real life, Angie was a military wife, newspaper reporter, photographer, videographer, and pet rescuer, all from her home of LA (Lower Alabama).

Although we were in looser contact after she stopped blogging, it’s hard for me to express the grief I feel about this turn of events. It draws my mind to memories of an earlier phase of blogging and Armitageworld in which she played a central role. I will miss her. She would have been out of her mind with glee over the announcement that Richard Armitage donated Guy of Gisborne’s jacket as part of Guylty’s fundraiser.

~ by Servetus on August 2, 2021.