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Just smooch your man already, Redfield! He’s. right. there. You yearning loser.

Day 2: War Zone | #NivanfieldWeek2026

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Finding shelter to tend to each other's wounds ❤️‍🩹

This is so stunning to look at and every detail I wanted was captured so wonderfully. I love it.

~NivanfieldWeek Day2: Warzone~

It started with a silly post but in my defence @puppynivans is an enabler. 💜

Like in retrospect, can we note just how prominent the foe-yay ChrisxWesker thing was in fandom's eye? How common it was back in the day for homophobic gamers to clock Wesker as a little bit queer and mock that to hell and back in parodies? We understood this character very differently once and I can't help but feel like something is utterly missing now. Wesker was melodramatic, purr-y, vaguely sexual, narcissitic, a kink-coded leather daddy. He had qualities the culture views as femme or other. He was modeled more than once after Bowie. There are literally double entendre lines throughout the series straight from the sinister gay villain trope.

Consider how the last time fandom exploded with massive enthusiasm was genuinely over Lady Dimitresque; a tall campy milf that quickly became a meme, a sex symbol, and inspired a thousand sapphic fanfics. As much noise men made about her tits, legit I think women love her more than men. She was a peak RE villain. Resident Evil thrived the most with campy, often queer coded villains.

As much as I always shipped Wesker with women (and still do), and spoke about him as something mainly in the heterosexual female gaze, it's never been more apparent how truly fucking camp he was now that it has been stripped from him. Because now, he's never looked or sounded straighter. Capcom never leaned so far into the idea of making him feel like some dumb boring vaguely nazi man. He looks like an aging conservative divorcee. When he speaks he blandly apes the RE5's eugenics rhetoric, and that's literally what they reduced his entire character down to, and honestly it's never been more apparent how much that in the longer run dulled his character and gave him nowhere to go. They pivoted so much toward it that by fully embodying it now, he's become basically unrecognizable. This man looks and sounds like a homophobe. There is no menace or excitement to this.

And then Zeno. Zeno feels like an attempt to shove the bore that is reboot Wesker into something a little more camp because they *know,* instinctively, that something didn't work with this pivot. He an attempt to ressurect something they killed, but he also sucks, and ultimately they kill him off too. He existed to say "there could be infinite interesting clone Weskers out there guys! You never know, we might figure out how to recapture what people liked!"

Download signal if you haven't already. Pick a resistance pseudonym. Make a proton email that has no indicators to your real name. Start buying and printing whistles and whistle zines.

Organize your school patrols and foot patrols NOW. Talk to your community and your mercados and your Hmong and Somali grocery stores, ask them what support they need. Get "ICE are not welcome here" signage for businesses and homes. Familiarize yourself with the difference between an administrative warrant and a judicial warrant.

Learn how to take down a SALUTE report. PRACTICE salute reports. Learn, memorize, and embody radio etiquette for rapid response work.

Pick your lane: rapid response or mutual aid-- you can't do both, because rapid response often puts you in direct contact with ICE. They've been taking down plate numbers and leading responders back to their own homes here in the Twin Cities.

Remember that being under siege is a marathon, not a race. Try to remember that while your neighbors are being kidnapped in their underwear, from their own homes.

Meet your neighbors. Attend your city council meetings and demand separation ordinances NOW. Tell your congress people and representatives not to give ICE more money.

Prepare yourself to see high school children being stopped and harassed. 5 year olds being used as bait for their mothers. Old men being dragged out of their houses in underwear and Crocs simply because all of them are not white.

Be flexible, be ready to pivot on a dime as situations change. Be ready to be paranoid. Be ready to be distrusting of every Texas, New York, California, or Illinois license plate. Be ready to be suspicious of EVERY out of state license plate. Dark sedans and SUVs with extremely illegally tinted windows. Unreadable or missing plates.

MN Community Response Resources

ICE Are Not Welcome Here sign

Private Property Sign

Know Your Rights Sign

Judicial Warrant vs Administrative Warrant

SALUTE Report Graphic Rapid Response Patrol Handbook

Legal Observer Basics MSP Whistle Hub

Whistle 3D printing File

Talking to children about ICE actions

OG Whistle Zine in ENGLIGH || SPANISH

MSP whistles which also have zines in Somali, Amharic, Oromo and Mandrin

Hmong Whistle Zine

“ICE NOT WELCOME” signs are great for solidarity and breaking morale, but please make and help pass out signs stating a home or business is private property. Make sure your business has an area explicitly for employees only. What we’ve seen in the last week makes all this seem like sticking a post-it on a viper and none of us know where we’re headed now, but it’s easy to do and could make a difference. It’s made a difference here.

I realized I never released the sfw version of this render.

And so it came bearing fortune.