Some huge monster called Weapon's been on a rampage.

Sirea // Some legendary monster from the past, goin' around tearin' shit up.

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OH GOOD HOPEFULLY CLAIRE WON'T CONTROL LIKE A SLIPPERY MAC TRUCK

based hirabyashi thank u

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This fantasy con will be held in Poland in July so next month but they did promise they will post YouTube videos of the RE panel so to be seen however there's this recent one :

https://youtu.be/vzMI_NCVUT4?si=vWiTZLroVWu7MPpk

I didn't watch it yet do idk if there's anything worth noting in it but I'll leave the link if you're interested

oh sorry my bad i thought that the con had already happened and that's why you were looking through it LMAO whoops

i'll take a look at this fan expo tho thank u

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I was going through the fantasy magic con instagram page and stumbled upon a comment from genevieve wanting to "join her RE fam"

I didn't know she was still invested so it tugged on my heart a little bit, hope she gets to go as a visitor or gets invited to other cons along her RE fam again

aww gen 🥺 i hope the other actors gave her a call that night, at the very least!!

anything interesting that you found from the con itself tho?

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I do believe anon confused her with Eden too I never heard angela say anything about future games from all the videos I've watched of her

yeah that's really what i'm thinkin

and i would be shocked if eden had any insight on future RE games, just like, in general

like i know that the actors are all friends and they all talk to each other, but other than RE0make, everything that capcom's currently working on should be so freaking early in development that probably not even the actors know about it yet

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guys i've seen the video where angela says that claire is her hero. that's an ooooold video that came out not long after RE9 did.

what i was asking anon for was the more recent video (from two days ago, they said) where she allegedly hinted at other games that'll answer the question of claire's absence from RE9.

i appreciate all of u who sent me the link to the first vid, but it wasn't what i was asking for.

i'm starting to wonder if anon got angela confused with eden, because eden made a very similar comment very recently.

and if we're talking about what eden said -- i don't think that she's actually hinting at anything. she's kind of just stating a fact. there WILL be more RE games that get released. RE9 isn't the only opportunity for capcom to answer the question of what the rest of the cast is up to.

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https://x.com/nowr_art/status/2064382610814677203?s=46

Why are they doing this??

I don't understand what I'm looking at...?

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I know you said you don’t have Instagram but Capcom just posted this (of several pics). I’m sure it doesn’t actually mean anything but my petty ass hopes it annoys some people anyway 😏

I don't get it.

Leon and Claire are the stars of the two games in active release cycles. What else is it supposed to mean?

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Grace’s VA about two months ago said that Claire is her hero and she would love for Claire to meet Grace and two days ago when she was questioned about claire’s disappearance from re9, she said in general that there might be games to answer it so Do you think that there might be new content involving Claire and Grace together?

I think it's way too early to predict something like that.

I would really like to see what Angela actually said in context, though.

But Bawk had an interesting theory that CVXR is going to make it so that Claire gets infected and Chris has to find a cure for her, and that's going to be the explanation for why she's not in RE9/doesn't have RCS. It could be something like that.

But, again, if you have the link, I'd love to see what was actually said.

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My only hope for Steve in the Code Veronica remake is that they bring back his fuck-ass DiCaprio hair from the original Dreamcast version, lmao 😭

LMAO WHY

i will forever be haunted by that hair style because they tried to give him a widow's peak, and he just ended up looking like vegeta

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I went to sleep, woke up, and see your asks getting crazy 😭 like I understand you’re a big? Name in the RE fandom but mannnnn you’ve done little to warrant all these like “call out” and “gotcha” posts. Maybe you need like a spiritual cleanse or something, somebody put the evil eye on you.

see, that's the thing. i don't think i am a big name in RE fandom. my follower counts certainly don't support that claim.

and that's not me going "boo hoo i wish i had more followers." it's just a simple fact of the matter.

i was actually thinking about this before you sent this ask, that like.

i occupy such a weird space in fandom, because what i'm actually doing is lore analysis and exploration like so many others (think all of those videos on yt that are like "what zeno's character tells us about the t-virus") -- but fandom, as a whole, doesn't/can't/won't see romance as being synonymous with "lore."

even though it is.

shippers and shipping discourse have become so toxic and poisonous that anything that even dares to brush against the topic of romance gets collapsed into "shipping" and is discarded by mainstream fandom.

so, the only audience i'm left with (well, mostly -- i know that not all of you are like this) are unhinged shippers who are looking for ammunition in the next fight in their ship war. but those aren't the people that i'm talking to.

i talk about romance in terms of what it means for the story and what it tells us about the characters. i build lore arguments.

but shippers aren't interested in lore. they're interested in winning.

i'm trying to chart a course, and they only care about the destination.

and i don't know how to get other people who are otherwise interested in pathfinding to come my way.

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I accidentally went viral LMAOOOOOOO

https://x.com/Layla75949759/status/2063689492188340515

so i scrolled thru the replies

and this guy

this guy's got it all fuckin backwards

nathan drake? i sleep

young victor sullivan?

#REALSHIT

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Now the problem is not only that Steve is a minor , but also that he tried to kiss Claire while she was sleeping 🫩

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Sometimes, thanks to certain asks, your blog starts to resemble a kindergarten playground.

help me

free me

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All the good leshley shippers are leaving twitter and us small account leshley shippers are left with the racist ones.

can't say i blame them

for multiple reasons

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i'm so TIRED of this stupid bullshit, dude. my principles have been very clear from the very beginning and have not changed:

don't be a dick to people

leave other shippers alone

if someone is a dick to you, stand up for yourself (within reason)

retaliatory measures are not "within reason"

doxxing is not "within reason"

and if you violate those principles, i come down on you.

and since i'm a fan of the eagleone ship, it's always eagleones that i see engaging in behavior that violates those principles. i don't see it when other ship fandoms violate it, BECAUSE I'M NOT LOOKING AT THEM.

I'M FOLLOWING PRINCIPLE #2 ON THAT LIST.

I LEAVE OTHER SHIPPERS ALONE.

i don't go into their spaces, i don't look at their shit, i don't talk to them. i don't know who they are. i leave them the fuck alone.

i only speak up when i see something that violates my principles OR when i see something that's genuinely hilariously stupid.

that's it. it doesn't go any deeper than that. there's no grander conspiracy at play.

i'm so ungodly TIRED of this tribalistic team sport mentality that other eagleones try to force on me. i don't care about any of that shit, dude. i'm not keeping up on the current cast of characters in the ship wars, i don't know what was said by whom or to whom about what, and i'm certainly not going to just take your side by default just because you happen to enjoy the same fictional romance as i do.

stop trying to recruit me. stop acting "betrayed" when i don't take your side. I'M NOT ON YOUR SIDE TO BEGIN WITH, BECAUSE I'M NOT ON ANYBODY'S SIDE.

as far as i'm concerned, i am not in eagleone fandom.

i am in resident evil fandom. and it just so happens that i also enjoy the eagleone ship.

but make no mistake: i am an RE fan first. before anything else, my team? is Team RE. period. the end.

my love for RE will not diminish if it turns out that ashley is not leon's wife. because that isn't what i play the games for. if the games continue to release and be good, i will continue to play them and love them.

that's why i don't care about ship war discourse.

i don't care what the romantic endgame of this series is.

i just want to play good games, and i will appreciate the stories in those games for what they are -- not who fucks who.

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It's funny because they're still better than eagleons for you. You clearly saw what other cleons wrote to defend her

NO I DIDN'T BECAUSE I DON'T FUCKING CARE TO THE DEGREE THAT YOU MORONS DO

HOW DO YOU NOT GET THAT YET

I DON'T LOOK AT ANY OF THAT SHIT

I DON'T CARE

i react to what comes across my feed, i don't go digging into every reply and QRT and go digging into every person's timeline to see who they're aligned with or what they said or if they're "worth" defending

i have a fucking life outside of REtwt

i see stupid thing, i call thing stupid, i move on

it's not fucking complicated