Seyensay

Official Commisioned Art by Infold artist!

Rough translation for Xavier and Zayne MC says their names (their chinese names) "Shen Xinghui—— (followed by moans "aah")"

Same with Zayne's "Lí shen--" (followed by "aah")

For Rafayel's its something like:

"You humans...

Are you all like this,

leaving a "mark" on the things you like?" (Referring to love bites)

For Sylus its roughly like

"The shower here is not soundproof"

but what I think infuriates him even more, is the fact that caleb himself can admit that he would trust zayne to protect mc with his entire life if anything ever happened to him. and that if mc ever did have feelings for zayne, he would root for them (even if it breaks his heart entirely).

this makes the whole incident where zayne lost control n hurt mc even more heartbreaking. because caleb felt that zayne FINALLY messed up, that he isnt perfect, and he can finally take that spot from him again (despite how imperfect caleb believes he is). caleb can finally use the situation as leverage to stop mcs attatchment to zayne, something he was insecure abt for so long.

but what's worse, is that caleb realises that he doesnt feel relieved at all - he feels betrayed.

he feels betrayed that zayne managed to mess up, because a deeper part of him really appreciated him and wanted him to continue being perfect. because caleb secretly admired zayne all these years for being something he could never be.

There's a particular kind of movement that mistakes policing for protection.

The anti-AI art community will tell you, loudly and repeatedly, that everything they do is for artists. The harassment campaigns. The witch-hunt comment sections. The public pile-ons where a piece of art gets thousands of angry reblogs because someone decided the brushwork looked suspiciously smooth.

Let's look at what the protection actually looks like in practice.

A Japanese artist deleted their account after sustained harassment — accused of using AI based on their technique being "too clean." The accusation was false. The account is still gone. Artists have started deliberately drawing worse — safer, blander, more obviously hand-made — to avoid becoming a target. One false accusation post can hit 176k likes before anyone bothers to check the facts. The community's own moderators asking people to stop calling others scumbags were told: "It's not harassment when they deserve it."

So to recap: the movement protecting artistic expression is now determining which artistic expression is acceptable. The movement defending creative freedom is training artists to self-censor their style. The movement that exists to protect people is producing death threats.

Raise your hand if you can see the structural problem here.

"We're protecting artists" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. It's carrying the weight of a community that has decided some artists deserve protection and some deserve to be made examples of — and the difference has nothing to do with craft, and everything to do with the tools they used on a Tuesday afternoon.

That's not protection. That's a witch trial with better fonts.

The mechanics are identical: communal accusation, no burden of proof, social execution by pile-on, and a crowd that genuinely believes it's doing good. Salem had confessions extracted by pressure. Tumblr has reblogs extracted by fear of being next.

surprise, pips.