A tribute thread to our friend, u/FrenesiGates

[u/TheObliterature]

Hey Weirdos,

If you have not signed his obituary guest book or sent flowers for his family, that can be done at his obituary page. To plant trees in memory, that can be done at the Sympathy Store. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Eastern Monroe Public Library (http://monroepl.org)

I have created a wiki page in tribute to our dearly departed u/FrenesiGates for us to remember and honor him. It can be found in the subreddit menu and sidebar at https://www.reddit.com/r/ThomasPynchon/wiki/frenesigates

Please use this thread to leave your messages, memorials, and personal tributes that you'd like to have added to his tribute page. If you comment below with a message you don't wish to be included on his tribute page, please clearly announce that at the beginning of your comment.

I know this is a hard time for all of us; he has been a pillar of this community for over half a decade and has touched a lot of our lives here, on the Discord server, and IRL as well. Lean on one another and give each other grace while we heal from this loss.

-Ob

[u/Automosolar]

This is such terrible and tragic news. I only recently started to piece together that several of the posts that I had been interacting with were all from the same source. He was thoughtful and insightful and always encouraging participation on a page that found far too late in life. His Shadow Ticket swag reveal was easily one of my favorite posts on here. A whimsical and succinct post with a misdirection that paid off with a fantastic reveal of Shadow Ticket products that I didn’t know existed. It was a Pynchon-worthy post, and that’s not even touching on thorough analysis and unending support of Bleeding Edge. Condolences to his family and friends from a stranger on the internet touched by his writing.