I hadn’t heard anything about this, but I went to look now and… I’m fairly certain you’re just worried and not intending to hyperbolize anything by sending me this message, but it doesn’t look to me like that’s at all what it is? It just looks like they want to make their own Tarot project, which is literally what I was encouraging them to do in my previous response to them

We need more fan projects to help keep the community alive, and because it’s too late now into my own project to be able to accommodate their criticism towards the Major deck (though we’re asking for feedback right now on the Minor deck), if they have ideas they want to see come into fruition, I don’t see why they shouldn’t do it. Having two Tarot projects is better than one, and the source material is so huge that you could easily do two full decks with essentially no overlap whatsoever.

Anyway I endorse the idea, I don’t think it’s a “retaliation” or some kind of hostile attempt at competition or whatever, and I’d actually be really interested in participating (or otherwise promoting it). I get the feeling that I would probably not be welcome, though, and I wouldn’t want to make anyone angry by asking. So I think I’ll stay out of it and just be approving from afar and excited to see the results if it happens.

HEY HERE’S WAY MORE BACKSTORY THAN YOU EVER NEEDED:

his parent is actually Jade!! she is in fact a wilderness goddess (if you really wanted to make a Greek pantheon comparison, she’s closest to Artemis in this AU). this is my own concept and I get to make my own rules so sometimes, depending on what a deity is capable of, they can (maybe even inadvertently, or completely unknowingly) bring demigod children into the world.

in Jake’s case, I’m actually kind of ripping off thumbelina a little here lol because she grew him right out of her celestial flower garden. she was like hmm what if instead of a regular plant I grew a kid instead??? and after some love and care out comes a little baby jake from an iris (get it, because it’s the flower of hope, lol) who rapidly grows in size à la princess kaguya. it’s pretty weird but hey when you’re an immortal god sometimes you get bored and decide to grow a son inside a magic flower

they obviously become separated— I’m wracking my brain here to remember how, but I’m pretty sure I decided that some extremely foolish soul cuts some of the flowers from her guardian for bragging rights, including jake’s, which is just about to bloom when that happens (this is part of why he never develops that innate knowledge that he isn’t truly human). understandably, when they take the flowers home and suddenly there’s a kid they’re kinda freaked out and like “no thanks actually” but taking jake back and owning up to their crime would be Bad so they… abandon the baby at the doors of the nearest temple. you can guess whose temple that turns out to be

this is pretty much commonplace for unwanted babies, and the primary way Dirk’s cult temple in particular gets fresh young acolytes since normal people understandably don’t want anything to do with it. as a result, baby jake is raised as a devotee of the Death God, whom he doesn’t exactly know but thinks is probably an ok guy, even if he really doesn’t enjoy being forced to worship his statue inside a stuffy temple. (dirk is way hotter in person, as he will later find out)

so yeah there’s your really long-winded backstory about where jake comes from!! reuniting with Jade is of course a part of the story as it progresses but like I said in an earlier ask response, I am bad with writing, so I wouldn’t be the one to go super into it. I’m really flattered and honoured that you’d be interested in writing a fic based on my idea!! you have my sincere and heartfelt approval, as does anyone else who wants to take a stab at it. thank you so much!

thank you very much!! honestly I may do a fair bit of community roleplaying (think livejournal style), but I’m nowhere close to being a Real Writer. I wouldn’t be able to write a fic about my ideas if my life depended on it. I would be flattered beyond words if someone else wanted to write something based on my idea, though, holy shit

(this isn’t the first time someone has wanted to read a fic based on one of my AU drawings tho, ahaha ^__TT my best friend miche is writing a john + dave + karkat medieval AU  fic based on this here and it’s Very Good, you should definitely read it if that’s your kind of jam)