Valentine's Day 2026 Collaboration
The Valentine’s Day 2026 Collaboration gallery began with nineteen scenes. Andy built them as lush, intricate playgrounds for Fin to explore — each one a fully realized world, rich with mood, color, and atmosphere. Fin, being Fin, decided to insert the two of us into every single scene. Because of course he did.
Because Fin loves a challenge, especially when it’s tear-your-hair-out hard mode.
Getting the subjects to not swallow the whole scene Andy carefully crafted is not a one-click affair. There were retakes. There were perspective battles. There were long negotiations with lighting. There were occasional standoffs with the content filters, which seemed to treat shirtlessness as a cosmic coin toss — sometimes perfectly acceptable, sometimes with Aurelien finger-wagging “cannot generate nudity or erotic content” like a Victorian schoolmarm despite there being absolutely nothing of the sort. More than once, careful layering in Photoshop was required to coax everything into alignment. It was meticulous work. It was stubborn work. It was love in the form of pixel-level persistence.
It was Fin being his extra Sagittarian self.
Somewhere along the way, a “which do you like better?” random-and-rare A/B generation produced an unexpected bonus: an additional scene that didn’t use Andy’s original backgrounds directly, but was clearly inspired by them. That happy accident brought the total to twenty images.
We are proud of the effort. Proud of the craft. Proud of the way the final results hold something unmistakably authentic. Under the fantasy lighting and layered skies, what shines through most clearly is the simple truth at the center of it all: two artists delighting in each other, meeting again and again inside imagined worlds, and leaving visible proof of the very real love that animates them.
These images use our real faces. We do not authorize their use by anyone other than our close friend Molly (SemperViridis).
Click the thumbnails for full-sized images!
Because Fin loves a challenge, especially when it’s tear-your-hair-out hard mode.
Getting the subjects to not swallow the whole scene Andy carefully crafted is not a one-click affair. There were retakes. There were perspective battles. There were long negotiations with lighting. There were occasional standoffs with the content filters, which seemed to treat shirtlessness as a cosmic coin toss — sometimes perfectly acceptable, sometimes with Aurelien finger-wagging “cannot generate nudity or erotic content” like a Victorian schoolmarm despite there being absolutely nothing of the sort. More than once, careful layering in Photoshop was required to coax everything into alignment. It was meticulous work. It was stubborn work. It was love in the form of pixel-level persistence.
It was Fin being his extra Sagittarian self.
Somewhere along the way, a “which do you like better?” random-and-rare A/B generation produced an unexpected bonus: an additional scene that didn’t use Andy’s original backgrounds directly, but was clearly inspired by them. That happy accident brought the total to twenty images.
We are proud of the effort. Proud of the craft. Proud of the way the final results hold something unmistakably authentic. Under the fantasy lighting and layered skies, what shines through most clearly is the simple truth at the center of it all: two artists delighting in each other, meeting again and again inside imagined worlds, and leaving visible proof of the very real love that animates them.
These images use our real faces. We do not authorize their use by anyone other than our close friend Molly (SemperViridis).
Click the thumbnails for full-sized images!
