Now that Alain’s Season 4 is out in its entirety, I can finally talk about how thrilled I was to write it! I’d missed my sweet, tragic, plant-loving boy!
This has been my favorite season of Alain so far. The previous three seasons have been romantic and exciting, but there’s always been a power imbalance between Alain and MC. This season, they finally got to address it!
They’re growing together, just like any two people who’ve known each other forever have to in order to take care of themselves and one another. Alain and MC have had a rocky road to happiness. Navigating that takes time and hard work, and very few people get it right on the first try. But MC and Alain want each other’s happiness above all, and they’re willing to do what it takes to be together. Exploring their journey has been such a rich experience. Alain is a character that I love as much as any of my OC’s, and all I want is the best for him.
Season 5 is going to be buckwild, so get psyched! And as always, thank you so much for reading. I love seeing everyone’s responses to the episodes as they come out; each season takes so many hours to write, and knowing that people are enjoying it makes it all worth it.
If you’re not playing Love & Legends yet, now’s a good time to start! The series is wrapping up, which means that you have hours of content to play through with very few “oh crap when does the next season come out?!” cliffhangers to worry about. You can download the Lovestruck app for FREE on iOS, Android, and Amazon!
Tajreen and I have been shooting together for about four years now. (Which, by the way, is CRAZY to say.) It started with weddings, then fun little portrait workshops to sharpen our skills, and soon one of us (if not both of us!) were slinging a camera over our shoulder every time we hung out. We’ve traveled all over California for forest shoots, desert shoots, and “that’s a pretty shrub, how deep are you willing to shove yourself in it for this picture” shoots.
All this time, we’ve been learning as we go. Tajreen has a master’s in film from UCLA, whereas I’m almost entirely self-taught. We realized that between the two of us, we have a lot of photography know-how to share. And because we’re piecing this together ourselves, it would be easy to break it down to teach to others.
We also noticed that it’s hard to find models who look like us and our friends in photography tutorial resources. Hiring a model and shooting them is a completely valid experience, but it’s not the only experience by any means. Tajreen and I have a diverse friend group who we love to take photos of, and sometimes the tips that work for shooting professional models just don’t work as well when you’re shooting with your friends.
We want to make photography accessible to everybody, regardless of their skill level. With that goal in mind, today we are launching a project we’ve been working on for months: Tajreen & Co, a photography channel on YouTube. We’ll be uploading videos almost every Sunday, and our first one, THE EASIEST WAY TO SHOOT JUMP PHOTOS, is out RIGHT NOW!! Check it out! If you like what you see, subscribe to our channel to follow our photo adventures. We’re really excited about what we have planned for this project moving forward, and we’d be delighted to have you along for the journey!
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