Brian Randall - 1/2014

[VySaika]

What served as the memorial was held yesterday. I read off what those from here sent to me, and his family and the others there were very glad to have words from Brian's friends who couldn't be there.

[Dracos]

Thanks to Gate for doing so.

Also, the pictures we have are up on Brian's site.

[Serafita]

I only just found out about this a few hours ago, and debating back and forth about posting condolences.  I first knew of Brian's works from the Ranma/lots of other anime fanfic Process of Elimination way back in the day, encountered him on Delphi forums, and in IRC.  Sadly with life and work becoming busy, I found less and less time to get on IRC until I stopped altogether.  He would always be friendly and polite in IRC, and amused when I told him I still re-read PoE every few months from start to end.  I got back heavily into his works when he started work on the Haruhi fanfics, of which I have read every single one.

I only wish I could have talked to him more.

[Dracos]

You know, he had three of those old Soulriders shirts with your art on them. 

[Yuthirin]

Thanks to Gate for doing so.

Also, the pictures we have are up on Brian's site.

Somehow I do not have the link for this. Could you post it?

[VySaika]

The link was edited into the first post in the thread.

[Dracos]

His site also for those that didn't know was http://www.soulriders.net/brian/

http://www.durandall.com/brian also works, but I have no idea how far in the future it will.

[Serafita]

You know, he had three of those old Soulriders shirts with your art on them. 

Wow.  I never knew people even made use of the drawings I did way back then.  I did do a t-shirt design but didn't think anyone would get it printed onto a shirt...

[Merc]

You know, he had three of those old Soulriders shirts with your art on them. 

Wow.  I never knew people even made use of the drawings I did way back then.  I did do a t-shirt design but didn't think anyone would get it printed onto a shirt...

Drac, Brian and I all had the shirt on at some point during the last SR Gathering. Your design totally saw print and use.

For Drac: Speaking of the gathering, I did find a few photos with Brian, four from the cave and two from the arcade. I'm sending you a PM with those photos if you want to toss them into the website and send to his family some more recent pictures. Sorry I didn't dig around earlier when you'd asked before.

[Dracos]

I give you cred for having the second viable picture of modern Brian, the Hatted.  Before Wally's find, we just couldn't find any of him in his hat.

[Music-chan]

You know, he had three of those old Soulriders shirts with your art on them. 

Wow.  I never knew people even made use of the drawings I did way back then.  I did do a t-shirt design but didn't think anyone would get it printed onto a shirt...

CyMage and myself both have that shirt design too.  I've packed mine away because it was starting to wear out but Cy still wears his occasionally.

[Dracos]

I should mail you one of Brian's.  Then you can have an extra up there.

[CyMage]

I think we still have the key chain or two as well.

[XenOutbreak]

I never knew Brian personally, but I can tell you that he was one of the best writers that I have read. He was one of the people who made me realise that I wanted to be a writer myself. I thought if I could write half as well as Brian, then I'd be pretty damn good. I've read almost all his stuff, and I've had the Kyon: Big Damn Hero page open for over a year, waiting for updates.

I toyed with the idea of contacting him to tell him how much I liked his writing, but I thought I would just annoy him or something. I wish I had.

I wish you'd finished KBDH, because it was one of my favourite pieces of fiction ever, but I thank you for writing it in the first place. Thank you for everything you wrote Brian, and thank you for inspiring me. I hope you're in a better place.

- Anonymous fan you never knew existed.

[Dracos]

*pats* :\ Missed opportunities.