oh Dear

i am not watching this, but.

Nervous

GO AWAY, CLERETIC (okay okay technically Cleretic can make all the YouTube videos she wants, it's a free internet)

but also, nope not watching that

If it’s the same Cleritic who posts on SA I have vaguely positive feelings

it is the exact same one that posts there, but let's be real, her opinions RE: gender are kind of. Bad.

Everyone not from SA knows her for making a big long twitter post with "headcanons on how all the characters would handle a trans WoL' that were very personal headcanon

And it went over like a lead balloon cuz it was mega offensive

oh no

Oh dear. I guess I haven’t read threads where that kind of thing comes up

That does not seem like a good idea for a Twitter post

it was not

to be as generous as possible, I am sure that every single headcanon was coming from a personal place of experience and vibes on Cleretic's part

But there's also the thing where everyone's personal experiences are different, often wildly different, and one person's "seems legit I know people like that" is another person's "you said WHAT about Minfillia????"

wh

on a less generous level she tended to make POC-coded characters more transphobic and primitive and whatnot so.

fuckign ew

Do not want transphobe Minfilia

(I am so sorry if I am hijacking this Plurk I just spend more time than I should on various forums video game threads and being exasperated with Cleretic is a long-running thing for me )

SO YES in the context of prior lousy opinions I know in advance that her opinions on re-genderizing the entire cast are going to be the sort that make my head explode

thank u for hijacking i didnt want to explain

and yeah minfilia is not transphobic (the reasoning was 'because shes so religious to hydaelyn')

Minifillia was "not transphobic but kinda weird about womanhood in a Hydaelin Worshiping sorta way"

yeah :/

??? D:

whhhh

nnnnnnnno

speaking strictly as someone who spends way too much time on both sa AND twitter. cleretic has never had a single good take where ffxiv is concerned, and this video looks especially egregious just going by the thumbnail

and heres the funny thing. i've thought a lot about gender with ffxiv characters, so. my recoil was even more.