Hussie stated classes were gendered on his Twitter, even after all the criticism. Do research before misinforming your readers, you’re too influential to make things up.

Lmao so this kind of pedantic bullshit is why I don’t like talking about Word of God much, people will veer wildly between A) wildly making shit up and B) prying into WP people’s words to try and squeeze any sort of desired meaning out of them and I’m not here for any of it.

For what it’s worth, I was referencing this:

Which is an ancient, ancient post that was deleted ages ago. I really shouldn’t have to dig it up to make a simple point that people can do w.e they want in fandom, because it’s fucking fandom, and it’s for fun.  Coming at me like I’m spreading some Hideous Misinformation for…saying that people can have fun how they like with this fictional context seems bizzare to me, especially when it comes with this weird Author Intent mindset that I basically don’t give a shit about at all.

But it’s worth keeping in the public conciousness that Hussie as an author, and Sburb as a concept, have always been all for hyperflexibility and reader engagement/self-insertion. People in Sburb can have two dreamselves, no dreamselves, ghost summonings, they can turn into any kind of animal or fantasy creature, they can have any kind of powers, etc. Whhhyyyyyy would the lines of realism be drawn at a girl growing up with a fascination for historical figures and a penchant for vanquishing threats and saving damsels. The female Prince archetype already exists in modern fiction. Have you heard of Utena???

My point is that while Classes–like any of the game’s symbols–might lean a certain way or carry certain connotations, it doesn’t make any actual sense as a fandom participant to try to hold to the Hard Line of Canon and gatekeep what other people can do. Canon doesn’t fucking care what you imagine or dream up, it’s systems have already accounted for your unique fantasy, by design, now matter how bizzare or “unlikely” it is. Hussie is evidently not interested in telling people what they can and can’t do, and hasn’t been for at least years.

So yeah. I do my research just fine, anon. Feel free to source your point, though.