Marigold Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) If she was banned, then I'll have to add her name to my wall of honour of The Finest Members Who Got Banned From Aeclectic. (I checked to see if my name is on it. Apparently not. Not one of the finest it seems! 🤣). Edited November 18, 2019 by Marigold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire cat pickles Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 I don't think she was banned. If I recall correctly, she wasn't very active in the last days of AT though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveLightPeace Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 Gregory, thank you for letting us know that firemaiden is no longer with us. May she rest in peace ❤️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightEye Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 I only found out today, having missed this thread. Rest in peace, great Firemaiden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregory Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 On 11/18/2019 at 6:46 PM, fire cat pickles said: I don't think she was banned. If I recall correctly, she wasn't very active in the last days of AT though. I am certain sure she wasn't banned. No idea where that idea came from. But she was already ill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire cat pickles Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, gregory said: I am certain sure she wasn't banned. No idea where that idea came from. But she was already ill. Probably because she had become inactive towards the end of the AT days. I remember missing her then, and wondering what was going on with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 (edited) Would surprise me too. I mean firemaidens don't get banned ever. It would be like banning a unicorn, or a rainbow... or Olaf from Frozen. It's nonsensical. Edited November 19, 2019 by Marigold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLizarraga Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Just stumbled into this. I remember firemaiden very well. How sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MollyCat Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) I've been thinking about Firemaiden from time to time since her death. One of my best memories of her is her love for the Marguerite Petersen deck. From memory, she opened a study group for the deck on Aeclectic and posted invaluable reflections on each card. This study group can still be accessed, I think. I purchased the the Marguerite Petersen because of this. It's very beautiful but I was never able to read with it. Maybe I could now. Who knows? I took the deck out on the weekend and looked at it, sure that Paula found her way quickly to that place of light, colour and beauty in the next dimension. Vale, Firemaiden. A review of the deck: http://www.tarotpassages.com/petersen-mm.htm A link to the Aeclectic study group on the Marguerite Petersen which shows Firemaiden's imaginative responses to each card. They provide a glimpse into one woman's creative mind interacting with the creations of a brilliant artist: https://www.tarotforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=115&daysprune=-1&order=asc&sort=postusername Edited December 2, 2019 by MollyCat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOLMES Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 I am out of sorts, I didnt' read this to just now,, I remember how proud I was that she didn't know that atf was closing down til I pmed her. :) . and our last conversation to each other via post there, as I posted about her strong spirit. toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aoife Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I had presumed that when the end finally came, very soon afterwards the words would come, after all, it was through the power of words that I and most of you reading here had known Paula. But it was as though Life… The Universe… Whatever… was stunned by what had been done. A silence, a respectful veil descended in acknowledgement that it had been wrong, in every sense, to take Paula from this life before her three score years and ten and more, much more. I had, and in the almost seventeen years since, never met anyone like Paula. In some sense she was born to the wrong time. The brash modern world - and particularly its music - often assaulted her senses. And yet she was the most computer-savvy person I’ve known. Those many, seemingly contradictory characteristics shaped a multi-faceted jewel of a personality able to create such glorious prose and music. I believe that the love of Paula’s life was Beauty - be that in the movement and music of ballet, and opera… and art and literature… and history and archaeology… and the natural world of flowers and insects, and puppies. But, at risk of sounding hopelessly mawkish, it was Paula’s ability to see the best in people, the hidden beauty, the pearl of wisdom beneath a heap of stupidity, that was so remarkable. Yes, I know that such is said about most people when they die, but we all know its said as a salve. About Paula, it was true. And those privileged to have taken part in, or read the tales of Firemaiden and her Cosmic Toaster will have had just a taste of Paula’s sublime, anarchic humour. Too many times to count I had had to step away from the computer, helpless with laughter. To borrow a cliche, Paula was a ‘radiator’… an exquisite, thumping furnace of positivity and light and love. Fly free my beautiful, wondrous cyber-cyde-kick. It was an honour, and pleasure beyond measure to have known you. Ay-woof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marigold Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Thank you Aoife, for this remembrance of our beautiful and irreplaceable friend. It is one of the most beautiful obituaries I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonGypsy Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 (edited) ...RIP. dear FireMaiden...sigh...i only just now found out. i am really saddened to hear this. i do remember her so very well and her beautiful voice. i am in mourning myself, as we had a death in the family Tuesday night. So much loss in the last couple of years... Edited December 8, 2019 by MoonGypsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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