R.I.P. Starblade

[palshife_sakura]

Matthew Paul Finnigan, May 12, 1984 ~ Sept. 22, 2010

Murdered in cold blood was not how I envisioned this ending. Here's another article corroborating this storyYou know, fuck you for stalking and harassing me for the past eight years because I showed you a moment of kindness when I was too young and naïve to know better when you got kicked off

Comments

[llyander]

I wish I could say this post surprises me, but it really doesn't.

The guy's dead, and you stick the knife in one last time. That whole first paragraph just reads like one big "fuck you". Sad. Really sad. Just let it go. He's dead, what more do you want out of him?

[palshife_sakura]

Lly? Seriously?

Bugger off.

Until you know what it's like to be stalked, I really don't think you have any right to judge me.

[two_pi_r]

hardly surprising that the paragraph that reads like one big "fuck you", repeating it four times and all!!!

[shade99]

Not to sound heartless, but.. at some point he came up in conversation and I speculated on jail or this kind of ending. Just something he was progressing toward, y'know? Sad, though. I'm glad you can see it in this light.

[astolpho]

You know how he was always going on in his live journal about how he wasn't "strong enough" to kill himself and would sometimes ask the Internet to do it for him, even though basically everyone knew it was part of his attention-flailing cycle? I'm willing to bet he pulled this act on his buddy from the group home who didn't have the ability to tell that he didn't mean it, and thought he was doing Starblade a favor.

[drendle]

For some reason I don't think that's too far from the likely truth.

[tehvixen]

I feel terrible that I didn't give him the attention he wanted.

I couldn't have done anything to prevent this, but I could've been a better friend, and now it's too late, and I feel like hell.

[palshife_sakura]

I don't.

He absolutely refused to do anything anyone told him to act better as a person.

[malytwotails]

And now you know what those of us who lived through stars-pyre's legacy are feeling. His life ended in suicide, rather than murder, but it was a feeling of regret for too little kindness shown.

I realize that palshife_sakura's personal history with Starblade was vastly different for the rest of us, but that's just what it was - personal. We all had our own experiences with him, for better or worse, and it's our personal interaction with him that we will be forced to remember.

[palshife_sakura]

I'd just as soon forget my 'personal interactions' with him.

And I've never thought too favorably of anyone that's been okay with how Starblade treated me.

[kjorteo]

All this time I was thinking "yeah, whatever" because the dude couldn't have been more "schizophrenic homeless guy you see on the street corner"-like with his paranoid madman ravings on the subject, but... there really was someone out to get him after all? Fuck..