Iâm an adult, and sometimes I post or repost content with sexual themes - (MDNI). My pronouns are she/her. I like a lot of stuff but this is primarily a LADS blog. I love all LIâs so haters are not welcome. My mains are Caleb and Zayne. Check out @frostypilot, my second page!
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TLDR: I plan to drop the game before June if I manage to kill my fomo and impulse but Iâd like to continue to engage with Calebâs character as a separate entity from what Infold do with him. (Heâs basically becoming my OC LOL) This way I donât have to support dynamics I donât like and still get to enjoy my comfort character.
I missed posting on here a bit but between all the bull shit Infold has been throwing towards us without trigger warnings as well as rlly oddly behaved Infold dickriders, I just thought Iâd let you know how I personally feel and how I am going to cope with this situation.
Iâve made it abundantly clear of course, that I donât stand for incest or view it as romantic and that I donât view Caleb as a brother to my mc. (Iâm South Asian, I literally couldnât if I wanted to)
However⌠I still really adore Caleb and think his previous cards, writing, characterisation etc are beautiful. The new year banner I was willing to ignore because it was an AU and I believed it wouldnât occur again.
BUT Calebâs 3rd myth is here now and theyâve reduced calebmcâs cosmic twin-flame bond into a predatory and infantilising dynamic. (Especially with that inclusion of the article Caleb sends you that places emphasis on âsiblings in mythologyâ) itâs hard to chalk that up to just bad translation and loss of nuance because of English language and not intentional choice.
I really donât like the usage of âbaby sisterâ and how itâs not used to encapsulate what âGegeâ means but rather bastardise it for the benefit of fans who support a problematic dynamic. Also white ppl in general being really weird to Chinese players about their own language.
Iâm fine with uncomfortable and dark media but this is fundamentally a self-insert romance game. I donât want to self insert into abuse. Thereâs a fine line between just including dark topics and romanticising the problematic. By default lads is doing the latter by reducing calebmc to this. Following this I will likely try to sell my account before June which is when his next bday banner will happen. Not confirmed but likely. Message me if youâre interested.
As for how I cope with this situation, itâs like I said, I really enjoyed Calebâs previous writing up until this turn. I canât see myself switching to another LI as too much of my time/money has gone into this. This new content also feels really out of character to me for Caleb so, because of that I am deciding to mentally separate Caleb from LADS to keep my original perception of him intact.
I plan to screen record older paid content and other things I liked, save glints of my mcâs outfits etc, so that my money doesnât feel wasted. This way I can kind of keep my sanity whilst still enjoying him and talking about him. This way I also donât have to engage with any further incestuous content I dislike, and can continue my discussions around him from a safe and romantic perspective.
I wonât be be very active in playing the game and supporting his new content, especially given this turn. Iâm not engaging with his 3rd myth and hopefully not his future main story when I decide to drop the game. For me this is a way I can enjoy him and enjoy the romantic elements of him without directly supporting Infold and this inclusion of incest.
Tbh as a result of this I canât see it likely that Iâll discuss new content for the other LIâs also, but when I drop I may keep up with them on YouTube as I still want to engage and interact with the safe side of this fandom.
I honestly refuse to let a character I spent so much money on be ruined for me.
TLDR: I plan to drop the game before June if I manage to kill my fomo and impulse but Iâd like to continue to engage with Calebâs character as a separate entity from what Infold do with him. (Heâs basically becoming my OC LOL) This way I donât have to support dynamics I donât like and still get to enjoy my comfort character.
I missed posting on here a bit but between all the bull shit Infold has been throwing towards us without trigger warnings as well as rlly oddly behaved Infold dickriders, I just thought Iâd let you know how I personally feel and how I am going to cope with this situation.
Iâve made it abundantly clear of course, that I donât stand for incest or view it as romantic and that I donât view Caleb as a brother to my mc. (Iâm South Asian, I literally couldnât if I wanted to)
However⌠I still really adore Caleb and think his previous cards, writing, characterisation etc are beautiful. The new year banner I was willing to ignore because it was an AU and I believed it wouldnât occur again.
BUT Calebâs 3rd myth is here now and theyâve reduced calebmcâs cosmic twin-flame bond into a predatory and infantilising dynamic. (Especially with that inclusion of the article Caleb sends you that places emphasis on âsiblings in mythologyâ) itâs hard to chalk that up to just bad translation and loss of nuance because of English language and not intentional choice.
I really donât like the usage of âbaby sisterâ and how itâs not used to encapsulate what âGegeâ means but rather bastardise it for the benefit of fans who support a problematic dynamic. Also white ppl in general being really weird to Chinese players about their own language.
Iâm fine with uncomfortable and dark media but this is fundamentally a self-insert romance game. I donât want to self insert into abuse. Thereâs a fine line between just including dark topics and romanticising the problematic. By default lads is doing the latter by reducing calebmc to this. Following this I will likely try to sell my account before June which is when his next bday banner will happen. Not confirmed but likely. Message me if youâre interested.
As for how I cope with this situation, itâs like I said, I really enjoyed Calebâs previous writing up until this turn. I canât see myself switching to another LI as too much of my time/money has gone into this. This new content also feels really out of character to me for Caleb so, because of that I am deciding to mentally separate Caleb from LADS to keep my original perception of him intact.
I plan to screen record older paid content and other things I liked, save glints of my mcâs outfits etc, so that my money doesnât feel wasted. This way I can kind of keep my sanity whilst still enjoying him and talking about him. This way I also donât have to engage with any further incestuous content I dislike, and can continue my discussions around him from a safe and romantic perspective.
I wonât be be very active in playing the game and supporting his new content, especially given this turn. Iâm not engaging with his 3rd myth and hopefully not his future main story when I decide to drop the game. For me this is a way I can enjoy him and enjoy the romantic elements of him without directly supporting Infold and this inclusion of incest.
Tbh as a result of this I canât see it likely that Iâll discuss new content for the other LIâs also, but when I drop I may keep up with them on YouTube as I still want to engage and interact with the safe side of this fandom.
I honestly refuse to let a character I spent so much money on be ruined for me.
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itâs fiction really why does it matter if caleb is written as such
What kinda dumbass logic is this? Because REAL people are triggered by topics like this? At the very least if characters are to be written in such way, there should be content warnings or at least prerequisite content for something like this even happening in the story line?
thinking about vampire hunter caleb... who just so happens to have been turned into a vampire himself on one of his hunts. he first started vampire hunting after he saw how devastated you were when you lost your parents to them and swore to exterminate the kind that made you suffer.
and so when he gets turned into the very monster he wanted to eliminate, he's disgusted at himself, but more so, scared of how you'd react. he thought of ending himself before he truly became that kind of creature, but he just can't bring himself to leave you behind. you'd already lost so much, he couldn't think about what would happen if he were to be gone too.
so he hides it, carefully, desperately, hoping he never has to reveal this fact to you, because he'd rather push a stake into his own heart than watch your face crumple and distort with disgust and horror at him.
but fate has other plans and he ends up in front of you injured and losing blood quick. your concern has you rushing to patch him up quick, and he can't control the way his instincts tell him to grab you and ravish you right then and there. when you lean closer, his nose is filled with the scent of you, and desperately he tells you to get away from him.
he covers his face, not wanting to show you his fangs or the way his eyes glow eerily, but it's too late.
you've already caught a glimpse of it and you stumble back in shock and... fear. and it feels like his heart shatters physically.
Ok but the opportunity this presents for Sylus to be the one that turned him. LIKE. When I saw Sylus in the main story for the first time, I immediately assumed he was some kind of vampire till I learned about his myths.
You could probably write something like Sylus turned him to teach him the error of his own hypocrisy. (hurting sentient beings to protect another kind of sentient being.)
And suddenly the whole thing is now Caleb x Sylus x MC đ and they all want eachother. Goodbye.
You weirdos really saw this as a gotcha moment to talk about âyandereâ, âdark romanceâ and pseudo-cest. Regular Caleb fans are not hypocrites or âfunnyâ for being rightfully upset and disappointed by this banner.
Hate to break it your media illiterate brains, but Calebâs arguably more possessive and âtoxicâ tendencies were never framed in a way that romanticised them and always depicted like genuine mental health struggles he hated himself for.
His entire narrative overcoming that and his relationship with MC progressing because he learns to MOVE AWAY from being unhealthily co-dependent and seeing her as a woman with her own agency rather than the little girl he consistently saw harmed by their shared abusers.
And then yaâll have the audacity to also mention dub-con⌠idk what fan fictions youâve been reading but in the ACTUAL game Caleb runs away and freaks out at even the thought of making MC uncomfortableâŚ
Not to mention the already debunked drugging plot line yaâll love to bring up.
i try to be a let it play out kind of person because i donât like getting worked up over nothing and iâd hoped that that would prove beneficial here. after the trailer i thought full context would end up making things better but i guess i was fucking wrong! âimperial thronesongâ spoilers and tw: blood-related incest below
for context:
i have never particularly cared about which version of calebâs trope does what because 1) his character is more than a trope to me and 2) iâm in the minority of people who donât see that big of a difference between languages. if something says childhood friend or gal pal i say yeah sure and move on because the core of the story is whatâs important to me
i understand that this is fiction. i write fiction. i have an english degree. but even more than it being fictional or not i think my biggest problem is what the fuck this was handled horribly
IF any part of this turns out to be a mistranslation or awkward translation
1) it didnât have to be and wouldnât have been if they werenât so dedicated to using vague language, 2) they easily couldâve said âbrother by oathâ or literally anything else to make things clear, 3) itâs laughably irresponsible
marketing ethics? hello??
in the promo materials infold used scare quotes around âsisterâ and âbrother,â which under any other circumstance would be to imply they werenât related by blood. this is not the case. not even close to the case. and itâs just scummy advertising like why would you intentionally mislead people into believing they werenât related just to jumpscare them into consuming and potentially spending money on a depiction of real incest. without any sort of genuine content warning at thatÂ
even if they were blood related before this in any other language, which iâm pretty sure isnât the case, they never were in english until now. hell, they weren't even pseudo-siblings in english until now and they just jumped straight to the real thing. how do you as a company tell a casual fan who only plays in english and stays offline that the person you've been marketing as their friend for a year is now supposed to be their biological brother
childhood friend vs. adoptive brother trope supporters
maybe iâm just insane, idk it feels like it, but is this not a lose-lose situation? itâs obvious on the childhood friend side, but the adoptive brother enjoyersâ main reasoning for liking that trope is generally that theyâre not blood-relatedâthat thatâs part of the appeal, that that was a safety net from crossing over into darker things. this card is presenting an entirely new relationship dynamic which is different from what both sides have been arguing about for a year now. all of that time and energy just for both sides to be screwed over and have their arguments invalidatedÂ
âi always favored the original trope i knew the original trope was right iâm so right for liking the original trope and everyone else is wrongâ
this card is not the original tropeÂ
the âfrom the same sourceâ line
thereâs a difference between having the same creator or being concocted in the same test tube and being blood-related siblings in the standard biological sense. both the main story and his limited myth are talking about experimentation on children with superpowers in a world where aliens exist. so forgive me if i thought that line could be taken in a non-literal/sci-fi/cosmic space shit sense. even if theyâre supposed to be modeled after adam and eve that still has a pretty significant level of divinity involved iâd say
fandom interactions/fandom-wide repercussions
why is anyone making fun of anyone else for having limits or being uncomfortable? how are people being made out to be losers or prudes for not being comfortable with an incest fantasy? if you are comfortable with it thatâs none of my business. but not everyone is going to be, especially if they feel that theyâve been blindsided
how are we blaming childhood friend trope enjoyers for consuming the content that was given to them? how does this turn into a âyou should have known better,â âyou should have expected thisâ situation when theyâve been receiving the opposite for a year? if anything, this is infoldâs fault for making everything so ambiguous and inconsistent in the first place. that way of consuming his character doesnât exist (at least not at full strength) without them enabling and reinforcing itÂ
i understand that some caleb mains are really fucking annoying so this is a gotcha moment for some people, but if youâre somebody whoâs rejoicing at this and calling it karmaâit affects you too? even if itâs to a lesser extent, youâre still playing the same game. this could easily happen with any other love interest. not to mention this is going to taint the gameâs reputation for non-players even further? if i had the choice i would rather be accused of playing a âgooner gameâ every day of my life than take whatever the hell kind of scrutiny this is going to spawnÂ
this was already a hellish fandom to be in (though tumblr is much better than twitter) but literally how is this supposed to be an enjoyable space now, unless you just ignore probably half/most of everything. whether you like him or not this isnât just going to go away
itâs just an AU!
literally no matter what they do with his story and memories in any language from now on this is going to be attached to his character and the game as a whole forever. my brain is already starting to reframe past interactions even though it knows they werenât done in this context because the power of association is just that strong. i donât want something that has brought me comfort for so long to be reduced to controversyÂ
but other people are fans of way worse things!
okay?
the story is just like game of thrones!
i didnât watch game of thrones also this is a romance game that encourages players to self-insert
stop playing the game!
this literally happened 12 hours ago. iâve spent time and money and effort on this game. i made this blog for this game. i started writing creatively because of this game. and i think i am allowed to react to itÂ
the other LIs murder people!
well they do it without being my blood-related brother who fucks me sometimes, donât they
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You weirdos really saw this as a gotcha moment to talk about âyandereâ, âdark romanceâ and pseudo-cest. Regular Caleb fans are not hypocrites or âfunnyâ for being rightfully upset and disappointed by this banner.
Hate to break it to your media illiterate brains, but Calebâs arguably more possessive and âtoxicâ tendencies were never framed in a way that romanticised them and always depicted like genuine mental health struggles he hated himself for.
His entire narrative overcoming that and his relationship with MC progressing because he learns to MOVE AWAY from being unhealthily co-dependent and seeing her as a woman with her own agency rather than the little girl he consistently saw harmed by their shared abusers.
And then yaâll have the audacity to also mention dub-con⌠idk what fan fictions youâve been reading but in the ACTUAL game Caleb runs away and freaks out at even the thought of making MC uncomfortableâŚ
Not to mention the already debunked drugging plot line yaâll love to bring up.
