If this is the first you're hearing of it, I'm very sorry to be the one to tell you. My apologies in advance if this message is not formatted or tagged correctly; I have not used Livejournal in many years and am not familiar with how this platform works.
I know I won't be the only one devastated to hear this news. Jesse's writing was some of the first openly queer fantasy I'd ever read, unapologetically gay and unafraid. I devoured Metanoia, and Jack Saturday, and the Mafia stories as a teenager, and even though I haven't really read any of his work since... maybe 2015, not a week has gone by that I haven't thought about it in some way, that it hasn't influenced my own writing or thinking in some way. And now, there will be no more writing from him; his story is ended; the ink has dried.
Goodbye, Jesse, and thank you for all the worlds that your writing you gave us. May your merit stand as a witness for you, and speed you to the far shore.
As long as I have my copy of The God Eaters, my fond memories of Metanoia, and how Jesse's writing helped me come to terms with my sexuality, this fandom will live on. Even if I am the only one left holding a torch for it.
Hi all, long time fan and lurker. This might seem out of the blue, as I got a lj account just so I could post this question.
Are there plans to continue Summerlands? Jesse, this is one of my favorite stories ever, it's absolutely fantastic and I'd love to learn where the main and subplots go. There are so many threads and interesting suggestions and I'd love to know there they'd wind up. So far summerlands feels at least half way to maybe 3/4 done. This story is also awesome for the well developed characters, great dialogue, and vivid imagery. I'd love to finish reading Summerlands.
Why was summerlands left on hiatus in the first place? What needs to be done to finish summerlands?
This time, a fanart of Kevin Sobiezki, because potatoe1988 asked for one of him in particular and deserves it for surviving NaNoWriMo. I actually had some trouble drawing him -- it might be that I haven't been drawing him since I was barely a teenager (Yeah, my adoration of Star is kind of a long-standing thing, okay? And I was totally mature enough to read the comic at that age. Shush. ANYWAY...) but I hope that he came out okay despite this.
So, a friend recommended God Eaters to me some months ago, and I ate it up in like four days, garishly colored text and all (maybe it just looked bad on my phone where I read it, sorry). Then today I found this comic called Metanoia, with a familiar-ish sounding name but I couldn't remember why. Then I decided to google for fanart for Metanoia, which brought me back to God Eaters, and the realization that they originated in the same brain. Consider me shellshocked.
Anyway this doesn't seem to be a very active community, but they're both such great works of art and love and aught in between that I'd really like to express my adoration in the form of fanart (or maybe fanfiction, though I haven't written any in a really long time), but I'd appreciate ideas for what I should draw/write about. I'd prefer God Eaters to Metanoia, because Kieran is f*in hot (and I love his attitude. I can't help it, I'm drawn to the broken.). But yeah. Any feedback would be great! Thanks!
Random fanart of Star Tyrian, because you can't really unlove him.
(I was pleased -- my little brother looked over my shoulder as I was finishing and said "Isn't that... Metanoia?" so I must be doing something right with my life.)
I've almost got it done guys! Thanks for all your help! It's looking pretty good, and really the only thing I still need is a main character to play Ash. I have vague references of him all throughout, but since he's a main character, he kind of needs a face to relate with. (so, a curly, redheaded boy, preferably in clips doing action-y stuff!) Other than that, I'm just going to be playing around with it until I'm happy :)
also, why the heck am I the only one alive on this site?? :(
