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- Oh, Draga…

RIP bedsheets🪦

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TW : blood ; violence ; strobe effect ; self harm

Hello theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere !!!!! Here we are, finally posting the vid ! It was supposed to be a short project… HEM. It is way more longer than expected, but we like the result so much :D Hope you’ll like it too.

Here is the youtube link if you want to see it in full screen (it is so prettier !!) : https://youtu.be/UUiLodW7aIM

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Music : Ox1 - Tommy four seven SugarBread - Soap&Skin Lady Dimitrescu Theme - Resident Evil Village

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Chlodineweek: Domestic Life

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Chlodineweek: Popular Memes/Tropes

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Drama in the VA side of the fandom aside, I continue to be confused when people will use the "Oh but Maggie Robertson said that she thought Alcina would be into all sorts" argument to try and somehow disprove the lesbian-coding of Alcina. And as my clip of her saying this got a few notes in the past but the caption was misleading (thus I deleted it later), I need to reiterate how you should not be bashing people who do see Alcina as a lesbian-coded character over this one line said by the VA.

Not only because that came from one of the earliest interviews she did and she has since then said multiple times that she is not the authority on the character - because, again, VAs are only told the absolute minimum to get their job done and therefore cannot provide Word of God in either way most of the time - but also because Maggie Robertson has been fully supportive of the lesbian reading for Alcina since then.

Here is a quote from one of her interviews:

I am sure that those who watch the live signings have more examples of this.

So if you think Alcina is something else other than a lesbian, good for you. But remember that VAs do not write the characters and that nothing is confirmed until Capcom says something through its canon channels, namely what is presented in the game, and even then commenting under people's posts that you think she is X instead is just rude.

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some scribbles

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the new lady d statue 😍😍 i am in love

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lady d is coming to teppen in july c:

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Capcom is holding a survey following the showcase, so if you are one of the people asking for more Lady Dimitrescu content and/or LGBT+ representation in their games, there is a space at the end of the form where you can express that!

They do take player input into consideration and this is a good opportunity to have our voices heard.

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for the lesbians

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Call me sensitive all you want, but seeing a bunch of men swoop in to say “SEE?? SHE WAS MARRIED TO A GUY!!” after a popular RE artist posted that portrait of Alcina where she has a ring on her left ring finger, even though all the files seem to indicate that Dimitrescu is her maiden name (and the portrait is just a bunch of photoshopped Victorian paintings with Helena’s face added anyways, and probably should not be overanalyzed like most of RE’s writing), really reminded me of how important canonical lesbian representation is. Some will even conveniently pretend that every woman of the past was forced into a marriage with a man - even though like, half of us have at least one “spinster aunt” in every generation of the family tree - simply to find a justification for her treatment of men. As though being born in the early 20th century as someone who is canonically chronically ill/disabled would not be enough to make a person like Alcina resent the patriarchal system of the time, and that the only plausible explanation for a woman not being fond of men is that she was romantically or sexually abused by them. There’s an entire thesis to be written here, but it merely rubs me off the wrong way.

(And yes, lesbians have entered white and lavender marriages before, but I really doubt Capcom would dare make this into a plotpoint and that the fandom at large would ever see past that “Mrs.” title.)

It almost seems like there is this huge chunk of the fandom that desperately wants to prove wrong those who interpreted her as gay, beyond a simple “I disagree with this reading of the primary material and will therefore ignore it”, and the more I see it, the more I think these people resent the notion that a character as great as Alcina could ever be a lesbian. And boy, does the subtle lesbophobia suck.

So, if you are an LGBT+ member of the fandom, and specially a lesbian, here is nothing but a well-meaning reminder that there are plenty of creators large and small alike putting out genuine representation out there, often told from personal experience. Look to them if in the coming months, Capcom’s treatment of Lady D’s character comes to disappoint you (though I wish to have faith, I am sure it will by this point). And if you don’t see your story represented anywhere, consider taking it upon yourself to leave your mark. I assure you that whatever you create will mean the world to someone else who is also desperately waiting to at last be seen by the media they consume.

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new official art!!!! finally content after ages

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Bad habits

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Always gotta give Lady D them low angle shots to show off her power.