SpookyGenderCommunist

What always confused me about RE6 is how, when Sherry meets Leon, she's like, "oh! He saved me from Raccoon City!" But in the canon version of RE2... Claire did that. Sherry is found by and taken care of, by Claire. Not Leon. She barely has any kind of relationship with him.

And I don't get why. Because Leon... Kind of has zero personality. He's just a walking Twink haircut, that shoots guns.

Claire, in RE2, is looking for her brother. So we know she cares about family. So I makes sense that she finds, and takes care of Sherry, and gets wrapped up in the family drama of Sherry's abusive parents being the zombie scientists, etc. That's so much more interesting then "will Leon and Ada fuck?"

So why does RE canon, after 2, continue to sideline Claire's relationship with Sherry, in favor of Leon???

Her playable sections in the remake are so good! And while you're right that it's a contrast, it's also kind of a parallel. Both Claire and Sherry are being stalked by imposing, threatening, men.

The sherry segments are god-awful in the original, but I have a soft spot for them. I'm trans fem, and As a kid, I always would pick boy characters in games, when given the option, because I felt like I had to. And there weren't exactly a ton of playable girls in games to begin with, at that time.

So, when 12 year old, very trans but didn't know it yet me, had to play those original Sherry segments. I wasn't having a good time. But also I was like, "but I get to be the little girl?? 👀"

Oh boy! A chance to talk about my Resident Evil Brain Rot!

Idk how a franchise can be simultaneously, both so incredibly camp, and agonizingly heterosexual, all at the same time.

Almost all of the characters are cops, which Is cringe.

Also, hot take: Sherry, the little girl in RE2 is honestly, kind of the most compelling character in that entire game. ~~Also, I headcanon her as trans. Someone please talk to me about my Trans Sherry headcanon lol~~

Anyway, Resident Evil is incredibly stupid, and I love it

I don't disagree. There's something to be said for regime stability, institutional memory, etc. That's all fine.

But that's not the same thing as a personality cult. A personality cult is what allowed Ceausescu to get a goofy-ass scepter, as a silly example, and they can undermine the process of Democratic Centralism.

OK, but when liberals screech about personality cults under Socialism, I always like to bring up President For Life, FDR.

Obviously that shit can be bad, and we should avoid that kind of dogmatism, as it can lead to a litany of errors. But also, these kinds of things Happen organically all the time, Because people like it when you make their lives better.

Ok, but this comic isn't an example of that. It's very obviously about how cultural experiences are so ungodly expensive, and aren't accessible up the average person.

There's a whole "Red/Anarchist Black Metal" scene that's been coalescing for a handful of years now.

Feminazgul and Iskra, are some favorite RABM bands of mine.

Realm and Ritual, on bandcamp, is a cool RABM/Dungeon Synth tape label that's putting out cool shit all the time.

As someone who loves hiking. Parks and such perpetuate this obnoxious settler notion that "nature" is a place separate from us, and that we are simply "visitors"to it. Rather than a part of a vast, dialectical, web of interconnected relationships.

It's fucking stupid, and I hate it.

Don't make me think about noted transphobic sex pest, Caleb Maupin

Cease.