Hi guys I'll be on a short hiatus bc my health has declined post con sobs. I'll be sure to return with blorbies again once i recover

a little addendum, from your not so anonymous spanish friend: when you say some shit about a character with a particularly complicated and based-completely-in-reality identity, you are saying this implicitly about me, and others. just because my history was written by the victors which became mine and countless others' oppressors, not even starting w the civil war but the advent of inquisition and colonialist/imperialist catholic spain, does not mean that history represents me and others.

the agrarian, pre-industrial people, the ethnic minorities whose identities intersect with those social placements and categorizations, were not the victors -- we were the victims. just as marginalized people in the united states are not represented by the racist, classist, etc-ist fascist regime they live under, neither are we in another country and another historical context.

my ancestors were not forcibly converted to catholicism and assimilated into an unnatural societal restructuring, or exiled, or killed, for some rando on this website to compare us to those who denied us a right to exist.

to add on to the last ask. thanks for your time in explaining to all of us these rhetorics. <3

hey you know who it is but im writing this anon because my social position makes it hard for me to speak for myself/you have a bigger platform irt RE4 stuff than i do (for reasons i will mention shortly, i do not interact w RE4 fandom sans you and our other friend hahaaa)

hi. i'm a spanish person. i love RE4 both remake and OG but im unable to participate in the fandom because its directly harmful to my mental health, solely because of the way people talk about a certain spaniard in the game.

when i first played remake i was very excited to see a well written, interesting, and relateable spanish character in a video game for once. the closest i ever got to good spanish rep was zevran from dragon age, who was spanish only in the fantasy context which gave him an accent and a culture more or less adjacent to that of spain. i got into that fandom at a young age, and was swiftly driven out because of the way people characterized and spoke about zevran online. it was not only annoying and frustrating to see the stupid ass takes people had about him, but harmful to me as well, and as a result it damaged the way i exist with my identity because when you say something publicly, authoritatively about a character with a certain ethnic/racial coding (explicit or implicit), you are saying this about real people as well. the same is the case with luis in RE4r.

yes its a video game. yes its a character. hes not real. i know! im not fucking stupid. but if you are going to make grand statements about someone who is directly tied to a real life identity, do some baseline research first. i beg you.

in particular, i am disturbed by the characterization of luis as "evil" or otherwise immoral. i am not going to deny that his actions were not always morally clean, or that he is a Good person or a Saint. he absolutely isnt. but the world is not black and white! i also want to preface this by saying that nationality (which i take into question with luis in particular) is not equal to race. nor is it equal to political ideology, or social status, or ethnic identity, or religion, or anything. if i said that all people in the united states are white anglo saxon protestants and republicans living in mcmansions, would that be a true and informed statement? no. this kind of thought doesn't apply to any nation. not even ethnostates, where the percieved ethnic or racial homogeneity is a construction of the state and not a reality at all. anyways.

im thinking explicitly about a post referring to luis as a mad scientist, and general posts ive seen talking about how he has a "sick fascination" or whatever with las plagas, and how that makes him a Bad Person who agrees with Bad People. i wanna point out firstly the alignment this characterization has with nazism. nazis were known to use scientists and scientific research to commit atrocities upon their victims. without getting into the discussion of these scientists' personal morals and ethics, an unecessary and tired discussion IMO for what im trying to say ("they were just doing their job" im tired of hearing this), i wanna point out the issue of applying nazi coded traits on someone from spain.

after a horrific civil war from 1936-39, spain was under a fascist dictatorship until the peaceful death of francisco franco in 1975. during the war, and the subsequent dictatorship, the people of spain lived under horrific conditions -- families were torn apart, civilians were gunned down, children disappeared, babies were kidnapped from hospitals and given to right wing fascist families to raise. ethnic minority groups were violently suppressed. this was widely ignored by the western powers especially after WWII ended, though some people were conscious of it; participants in the international brigades included people such as george orwell, who wrote about his experience on the frontlines of the spanish civil war.

anyways, back to nazis: spain was indeed a fascist regime. this regime did indeed not only follow the lead of other fascist state leaders (hitler. mussolini.) but also were allied with them, despite not participating in WWII directly. but the only beneficiaries of these alliances were state officials. if you are familiar with picasso's Guernica painting, im gonna mention its historical context. if you aren't, i urge you to take a look at it. its a depiction of the horrors of the aerial bombing of the town of Gernika. the town is situated in the basque country, a region of the iberian peninsula whose people were violently suppressed and persecuted due to their ethnicity, and under the regime their language was banned from being used. so Gernika, already a target of the spanish state, was devastated by german bomber planes. this was ok, because the town was basque. basque people were targets, and so franco invited the germans to bomb the shit outta their region. this was the first of many air raids, and weapon tests carried out in spanish territory by the nazis in particular.

anyways. back to resident evil i guess. valdelobos is not canonicaly placed anywhere in particular on a map of spain, but from the landscapes its safe to say it is in the north, and from hints in names of people and places i tend to place it somewhere in the region of galicia, another one of those areas that wanted (still does want) autonomy and is ethnically and linguistically different from the rest of spain. additionally this is a very isolated village with no contact with the outside. theyre using pesetas in 2007, a currency that was phased out in the 90's and replaced by the euro in 2002. it would take thousands of words to explain what i would like to explain, but im trying not to be overly verbose, so bear with me. from personal experience with the fallout of the civil war and dictatorship, its safe to say that the people from this village were hurt deeply by war and fascism (everyone was!) which would explain their isolationism, and the vulnerability to a power hungry interloper like saddler makes sense considering post war/dictatorship instability. people from a village like this were victims of the state, and outside states.

so i ask, why would you align luis with nazi science? maybe im being overdramatic, maybe im too sensitive, maybe im overreacting, but thats why im on anon… why would you characterize a victim in the way of their oppressor?

i doubt anyone will read this but you and i doubt it is even coherent. i dunno. theres too much to say and too little attention to hold onto. but like, i dunno. if u wanna look into a character, understand their motives, understand their personality, why they are they way they are, maybe do some research before you make uninformed and harmful statements. if you are truly interested in a character from a different culture than your own, understand this culture before you speak about it with authority. understand that people from similar backgrounds as this character have been made to feel unwelcome and alienated in discussions about their own life experiences.

sit on it for a minute and think: should i say this? i understand ignorance. we are all ignorant in our own ways. something that is a taboo in my own country to be spoken of like the dictatorship and the war of course is not going to be immediately common knowledge outside my nation, but perhaps knowing that there is more to a character than what you know as someone from a different cultural and historical and social context will urge you to reconsider the way you speak about them in a public forum.

-- a nameless, silent descendant of mozarabs and gitanos, whose ancestry lies scattered across the countless mass graves that paint my country's landscape blood red.

here guys, if you are still believing that this spreading of this character take is not problematic, you can listen to an actual spaniard who has grown up in spain about why this thought process is harmful. thanks.

Hello, sorry to bother & sorry if I sound stupid but I just needed some understanding is all.

I was late to pre-purchase one of your ‘RE: Frosted acrylic phone charms’ & the one I wanted is sold out which I also see is says those are a ‘fixed quantity’. & in another post I saw you said all ‘leftover sales will be available in mid-May’, does that include those charms or no?

Sorry, I’m just a little confused & I love your art so that’s why I just wanted to see if I could catch the desired charm possibly in the near future.

Thank you so much for you time.

Hello! The frosted charms will not be part of May after-sales but I'll restock it soon c:

only Leon, Krauser and Ada is sold out tho, so if you want other characters they will be available!

I've been having discussions with blveherb on what kind of scent leon and luis would have, and I may have found the perfect fragrance for luis

Already ordered a tester, will give u guys updates later 🫡

I don't think I've posted my little shrine booth at con 🤟

"The Scalpel Shines in God's Sunshine"

(click for better quality)

Guess who's still alive, this drawing has been the bane of my existence for the last 2 days after I got the idea back in like August djjjdjsk hope yall like

Lyrics from Scream of The Butterfly by Acid Bath

hello! i really love your stuff and cant wait to get my hands on some of the keychains soon!!

i was wondering; what manufacturer do you use for the keychains and plushes or do you make them all by hand?

Hi anon!

While there're some manu I can't tell you, those via proxy services or part of a GO bc they don't disclose manu names (usually mainland Chinese manu that are hard to contact without knowing the language ) I can tell you the more popular and easily accessible to foreigners: Vograce.

They offer a wide variety of custom goods that mostly cover what you need c: I still use them sometimes.

As for plushies, my manu is also mainland Chinese manu that can't be contacted without a proxy. But you can search for some on Alibaba!

I hope this can be of help!

Gay vampy jar is here!!!

Also I'll be inactive this week bc con is this weekend 🙉

I bought some charms from your shop and one of them came in broken :( I was wondering if there's any process I can go through to get a replacement? I don't order merch often so I'm not 100% sure how all of this works ^^

Hi! Please shoot me an email with pictures of the broken charms + your order number so I can help you!

Aside from hell site tumblr I'll start being more active on instagram now, so feel free to follow me there for more frequent updates c:

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Also moots pls drop ur pro5 as well so i can follow wahaha

Like your art +plushies are so cute my brain will explode

Thank yewww I put bombs in them plushies and art 🫰

HELL YEA THANK U more cursed leon cakes to my collection

Been putting my printer to good use guys

Has there been any progress/update on Luis and Ashley’s outfits for their plushies?

Their outfits have been made for quite some time ago actually! But unfortunately, i don't have the actual plushies with me so I couldn't get a proper pic of them wearing it T_T

I do have a picture of Leon weaing Luis' jacket though!

IM LOSING MY SHITHJGDHGJFGHJDH CAN I DRAW THIS PRETTY PLEASE

Been putting my printer to good use guys

Been putting my printer to good use guys

清明节快乐……

“I come to see you …my love”

Sorry I have been too busy recently,don’t have much time to draw in detail 😭😭😭