I received a very long message regarding the patreon leaks that happened yesterday. The message explained that the culprit was none other than a young man who didnโt know much about copyright and economic values.
After reading the message I felt so empty. At the time I was overcome with rage, trying to find out who leaked all my work with gritted teeth, alongside with bursts of sad crying in my husbandโs arms.
Itโs been difficult for me to draw comics. I have never had a break during weekends while drawing December Twilight, and was moaning about it to the point it would have made my friends uncomfortable. All the times I had to held on to my pen with cough drops and headache pills, just so I could put my creation out there came rushing back to me when I heard about the leaks. It made me hate the whole world.
I thought I had gotten used to leaks and pirating from when I drew illustrations for Patreon, but with the comics the pain was incomparable. It made me feel so little. Whatโs the point in drawing something of my own if people were just going to scatter it into the wind and mock it so mindlessly? It felt like the things I valued were deemed worthless. Why put in more work and live like this if itโs not worth it? I was also getting exhausted with all the things I tried to stop the leaks, and tired of the whole situation that made me suspect my supporters.
I got to know about the leaks some days ago, just when I was going to get some sleep after a tiresome day. I felt everything going numb with vengeance. I wanted to get revenge on the leaker. Then I got to know that they were just young and naive, that they now know that what they did was wrong due to the feedback and input from the comicโs supporters, and they deeply regret the choice.


I forgave them the moment I read the message. They erased all the images that werenโt public, left the public images like before, and just like that my anger melted away. I felt like a fool for getting so angry about this. This person just wanted to share my work because they liked it so much. They even drew fanarts. Thatโs when I realized I was consumed by my rage. I never actually thought there would be people who pirated without know the repercussions of the action. There was no need to hang them on the gallows straight away. I should have contacted them personally or blocked them before jumping the gun. (Iโve decided to do that from now on, but donโt think that Iโll slack off on catching pirates.)
If you're reading this, please don't comment on it yourself. I've forgiven this friend, so I hope he won't be reprimanded or blamed again. Thank you for the cute fan art, and I think it would be good for you to do anything with your drawings. My cartoon... There are some levels to the illustration, but I think you know everything here already if you look for it. Just don't let anyone catch you.
Iโm sorry for causing so much drama, and I thank you all for comforting and taking care of someone like me. Itโs all thanks to you the situation didnโt escalate too much. I had so many things to say, but I thought it would be best to cut this short and show my gratitude through art. Again, thank you so much for being there for me. Christmas is around the corner, but Iโm not sure if I can make it in time. Anyways, see you soon!
With gratitude, Raccoon_21C
P.S. A special thanks to the person who dug into the case and mediated the whole situation. Thank you so much.
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์์ ํดํ๋์ ๊ดํ์ฌ
์ด์ ์๋ฒฝ ์ ์ถ ๊ฑด์ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ ์ฅ๋ฌธ์ ์ชฝ์ง๊ฐ ์ ํํ ํ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ถ์ ํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ค๋ฆ ์๋ ์์ง ๋์ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์น๊ตฌ์๊ณ , ์ ์๊ถ์ด๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ธ ๊ด๋ ์ด ๋ถ์กฑํ๋ค ๋ ์ ๋ณด๊ฐ ๋ด๊ธด ์ชฝ์ง์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ ๊ธ์ ์ฝ๊ณ ์ ๋ ํํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ์ ์ถ์๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋ฐ๋ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ์์ค์ด์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๋ถ๋ ธ์ ์ฌ๋ก์กํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ์ฌํผ์ ์ธ๋ฉด์ ๋จํธํํ ํ์์ฐ๋ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ง์ด์์.
๊ทธ ๋งํ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์ ๋ง ํ๋ค์์ด์.. December twilight์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋์ ๋จ ํ ๋ฒ์ ์ฃผ๋ง์ ์ฌ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ , ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ชป๋ ๋ณด์ผ๋งํผ ์๋ ์๋ฆด ํด๋์ผ๋๊น์. ํธ๋ํต์ฝ ๋ชธ์ด์ฝ ๋จน์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ฒํ ผ๋ ๊ฑฐ, ๋์ฝ ๋ฐ ์ ์์ด ์ค๋ก์ง ์์ , ์์ , ์์ . ๋ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ง๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์ผ๋ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฒํ ผ๋ ๋๋ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ์ถ ๋์ ๋๋ ์จ ์ธ์์ด ์๋ง์ค๋ฌ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
(์ ์ถ ๊ฑด์ ์๋ ๋ถํฐ ์์ด ์์ด์ ์ ์์ด ๋ ์ค ์์๋๋ฐ ๋งํ ๊ทธ๋ฆด ๋๋ ๋ ๋๋ฏธ์ง๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅด๋๋ผ๊ตฌ์.)
๋๋ ์กด์ฌ๋ ์ด๊ฒ๋ฐ์ ๋์ง ์๋๊ตฌ๋. ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋งํ๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ํฉ๋ฟ๋ ค์ง๊ณ ์กฐ๋กฑ๋นํ ์ ์๋ ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ๋. ํ๋ฌดํ๊ณ ์ด๋๊น์ง ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋๋ ํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ถ์ ๋นํ ๋๋์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ด์์ ๋ญํ๋ ์ถ์ ์ ๋๋ก.. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ์ ์ถ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์๋ณด์๊ณ ๋ฒ์ธ ์ผ๋ ์ง์ณ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๊ณ , ์ฌํ๊น์ง ๋๋ฅผ ์ง์งํด์ค ๊ณ ๋ง์ด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ์ํฉ ์์ฒด์๋ ํ๋ฉธ์ด ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ง ์ ์ค๊ณ ์ง์ณ์ ์ข ์ฌ๋ ค๋๋ฐ ์ ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋ผ์ ์๊ทธ์ ... ์ดํด... ํผ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ฅด๋๊ตฐ์.
๊ทธ๋์ ์ ์ถ์์๊ฒ ๋ณต์ํ๊ณ ํ ๋ง์์ด ์ปธ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ, ์ ์ ๋งํ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ํ๋ ๋น์ฌ์๊ฐ ์๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ์ด๋ ธ๊ณ , ๋งํ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ ๊ณ์๋ ์ ๋ ์์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ป์ ์ผ๋ฌ์ฃผ์ ๋์ ์์ ์ด ํ ํ๋์ ํํํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ๋๋ค.
๊ทธ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ฝ์๋ง์ ์ ๋ ์ฉ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ตํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ง ๋น๊ณต๊ฐ์๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ญ์ ํ๊ณ ์ด์ ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ฏ ๊ณต๊ฐ๋ถ๋ง ๋จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ๋๊ตฐ์. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๋ ๋ ๋ น๋ฏ ํ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋๋ผ๊ตฌ์. ๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ณต์์ฌ์ ๋ถํ๋ ์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฐ๋ณด๊ฐ์ด ๋๊ปด์ก์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์์ด๋ ๋จ์ง ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ข์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด๋ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค, ๊ทธ ์์ง๋ก ๊ฒ์ํ ๊ฒ ๋ฟ์ด์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ ๊ฒ ํฌ์ํธ๊น์ง ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ด์ฐ ๋ชจ์ง๊ฒ ๋ด์น ๊น์.. ์ด ์ฌ์ค์ ์๊ณ ๋๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋์ ๋๋ฌด ์ ๊ฐ ์ผ๊ถ์๋ ๊ฑธ ์งํค๋๋ฐ ํ์์ด ๋ผ์์๋จ ๊ฑธ ์๊ฒ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตณ์ด ์ ์ถ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ถฐ๋ด์ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ฒํํ๋ฏ ํ ํ์๊ฐ ์์๋. ์์ถ ์์ ์ ํ๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋ธ๋ฝํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํด๋ด์ผํ ๋ฌธ์ ์๊ตฌ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. (์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ํด๊ฒฐํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค.)
ํน ์ด ๊ธ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ค๋ฉด ์ ๋ ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ ๋ฌ์ง ์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ด ์น๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ฉ์ํ์ผ๋ ๋ถ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์ง์ฑ ๋ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ์์ฑ ํ๋ ์ผ์ด ์๊ธฐ์ง ์์์ผ๋ฉด ํ๋๊น์. ๊ท์ฌ์ด ํฌ์ํธ ๊ณ ๋ง์ ๊ณ , ์ด ์ ๋๋ฉด ๋ณธ์ธ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ผ๋ก ๋ญ ํด๋ด๋ ์ข์ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ์ ๋งํ... ์ผ๋ฌ์คํธ๊น์ง ์์๊ฐ ์ข ์๋๋ฐ, ์ฐพ์๋ณผ ์ ๋๋ฉด ์ด์ชฝ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๊ฑฐ ๋ค ์ ๋์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ ๋ ๋๊ตฌํํ ๋คํค์ง ๋ง์๊ธธ..
ํฐ ํผ๋์ ๋๋ ค ์ฃ์กํ๊ณ , ๋ถ์กฑํ ์ ๋ฅผ ํ์ผ์์ด ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธ์ฃผ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋จ ๋ง์ ์ ํด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ์ด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ ์ ๋ถ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค ๋๋ถ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ง์๋๋ฐ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ง ๋ณด๋ค ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒ ํด๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ ๋ซ๊ฒ ๋จ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ธ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.. ๋ ์ดํดํด์ฃผ์๊ณ ํญ์ ์ ํธ์ด ๋ผ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. 12์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ง์ค๊ฐ ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ถ ์ ์์์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ค์. ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ๋ค์ ์ฐพ์์ค๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
ps. ์ ๋ฅผ ๋์ ํด ์ง์ ์ํฉ์ ์์๋ด์ฃผ์๊ณ ์ค์ฌํด์ฃผ์ ์ต๋ช ์ ์ ๋ณด์๋๊ป๋ ์ง์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
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