I now just have to take a moment to get serious on ya'll. At the end of 1996/1997 when I first got online, I met a few people in the Batman fandom who became really good friends of mine. One of these friends was a lovely lady by the name of 'Query' who was, seriously, the BIGGEST Riddler fan you could ever hope to meet. She adored Eddie in much the same way I adore Mistah J. I was lucky enough to travel to the USA in 2001 and meet up with this gorgeous person and spend time with her at Disneyland and in LA. It was a great couple of days and we got along as well and easily as we did online.

While the years passed and my internet life waned as I got busy with a million other things, we stopped communicating as much but we never stopped being friends. She was always a supportive, generous and thoughtful person. She also had the misfortune of becoming ill with breast cancer. When she first told us, I was in denial, thinking it couldn't be real. But it was. The years of treatment that followed were very debilitating for her. She never wanted to burden anyone with the amount of pain and sickness she felt as well as the trauma of the cancer itself. She became very involved in cancer groups and interested in educating people about breast cancer.

After a long period of chemo, we thought everything would be okay. But it wasn't. Tumors kept coming back. Finally she told us she was terminal. Again I just didn't want to believe it. I was in total denial.

She passed away on the 22nd of April this year. She was thirty years old.

I've known Query for almost eleven years. Although we didn't spend as much time talking and communicating over the last few years, we were always friends and I always valued her and her presence in my life. Those early days of fandom were very significant to me and I've never forgotten them or the people who were involved in them. I'm honoured I got to know Query and know her until the end.

I am deeply regretful I did not put in more effort in communicating with her in the last few years, being too distracted with other things going on here in Oz. I took time for granted and now I am left wishing I had acted differently and knowing I cannot change the past.

I will never forget her or what she meant to me. I don't want the fandom to forget her, either. Please go and read her wonderful Riddler fanfictions at her FanFiction.Net account. There's never been a Riddler fan like her and never will be again.

Rest in peace, Dee. You will always be remembered and loved.