A Study in Salt

Here salt is a way of life. Obviously the environment here is all salt. The ceiling is salt, the floor is salt, the walls are salt and to an extent the air is salt. And you breathe that in and you constantly taste the salt.

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Has the fandom been good lately?

I have stuff that I had previously archived but didn't get the opportunity to post.  This fandom burns people out.

I originally made this blog to vent my frustration.  I'll keep it open for when I jump back in and see dumb shit.

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choose only 1:

Either there's 20 kl0tiz targetting you OR

It’s Laci

She's one to talk about harassment, what about when she share other people's selfies and trashes their appearance because they like another ship?

pointing out her antics isn't harassment and she doesn’t have any character to smear to begin with, she does a fine job by herself

she's the one who engages with people first

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This blog is tripping me ngl. Had no idea how toxic the fandom is on Twitter. (But also I’m kinda confused because you have a lot of anti clerith but you’re saying that hollow is solely about them?) uh anyway keep doing what you’re going I guess

Everyone arguing about this song is an idiot.  Cleriths are trying to cope big time, because it hurts when your ship is not canon, so let them have this one if it makes them feel better.  It doesn't change who Cloud loves and ends up with.

They've grasping at straws for years, instead of mining the salt and laughing, people just play their stupid game

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Why “Hollow” is clerith

I'm sick of seeing people argue over this fucking song, it's clearly clerith, ok? end of the discussion, everybody go home

Right now some people are having trouble accepting things.  Just let them have this because how do you expect them to cope?  as fellow fans we should be kind and understanding

Hollow is a cloud x aerith song

It's not going to change things that matter: canon and the story

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Fuck off

This bitch is just jealous that Aerith and Tifa have more chemistry than clerith.  Tifa’s nicer to Aerith and saves her multiple times...unlike Cloud

If you ship clerith you need to do so exclusively or be excommunicated. I know this might come off as strange to clerith cultists but sane people and cloti fans have the ability to appreciate aerti’s relationship (romance and/or friendship)

Obviously she can’t do this because 

1) she's in a cult where the High Priestess Inquisitor and her gate keeping minions will break her on the wheel and have her drawn and quartered if she strays

2) she hates Tifa and needs to tear her down to prop up clerith

Better love story than clerith. Tifa is always the one to reach out for Aerith

I think these two touched more than Aerith and Cloud?

Someone plz confirm

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The crazy isn’t just on Twitter but on TLS forums

I think it was him who pulled the old clerith tactic of playing the victim when an admin slapped him with a warning

everyone in the thread were warned btw

loool

Does he know about the High Priestess of the Clerith Cult? I think they should date, they can cosplay as Cloud and Aerith and live out their fantasy in an epic story of a LARP

They’ll find happiness together and won’t need to experience it vicariously through fictional characters, the fandom will be less crazy as a result

I totally ship them now, rooting for them

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Fence sitting does not to work, it’s been tested in this fandom

Another page full of delusion

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EXCUSE ME IS THAT AN INDIVIDUAL OPINION? HOW DAAAARRRREEEEE YOU UNPLUG YOURSELF FROM THE HIVEMIND!!!!!!!! GET BACK IN YOUR CAGGGGEEEE!!11111

People weren’t exaggerating when they said that ship is a cult

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“a cloti female”

Misogyny is not limited to men and yes you are a misogynist, you fucking donkey

And get a load of Granny CherriesandRoses with the shitty takes

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I looked up the word stupid in the dictionary and there was only a link to Daga15′s twitter

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The first two points are examples of grasping at straws

the attributes apply to both Aerith and Tifa

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emotional moments of confusion

is that a new Mariah Carey single?

That’s what any normal person would do

You'll be stamping your foot on the ground like a petulant child when you'll see it close before your very eyes in future chapters

The level of cognitive distortion is off the charts

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Some multi-shippers think that multi-shipping makes them righteous and admirable and gives them some kind of superiority

"I ship cloti but my bff is a clerith shipper but we're bff forever and ever"

So you didn’t break off your friendship over a ship? Isn't that what normal, sane people do? No one gives a fuck

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do I have to make a guide for cloti fans?  don't make me do it, man

It’s FAN art. FAN. ART. Stop being an immature prick, you’re acting like a clerith shipper

Bringing the race card out to derail the discussion

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She should add herself to the list of fools

she tries to hide her bias but it's not working

This person's entire shtick is: oh look at me, I'm a multi-shipper, I'm open to all ships, bask in my superiority, peasants!!!!!!!

She only call it when it’s one side but shuts up when it’s the side she have a bias towards

In the west...lol

someone complained to her about the overwhelming cloti fans on weibo and her response was “u poor thing!1!!!”

so which is it?

Smaller fanbase but crazier:

you were saying?

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misc stupidity

Rudely demanding things from people doesn’t work

How about taking the initiative to mute/block her

CloudxAerith probably does this so she can claim that she was “bullied” later on and play the victim

Well this is an example right here

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suuure

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That same old tired argument again...

Sephiroth grabbed his hand minutes before and if he tells Tifa about it the narrative falls apart

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I guess Cour doesn’t have time to get laid either since she's projecting her delusions onto cloti fans and arguing over a ship on the internet.  

Why is it always about sex with these people?

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Daga15 likes bestiality

“cLoTi FaNs LiKeD iT” You’re just in damage control mode because you’re getting backlash

The clerith fandom supports her and attack people instead.  It’s just zoophilia bro, chill.  This is the length they go to. Nice fandom

So what about the narrative of cleriths being innocent sweet fluffy angels?

Here’s the entire thread with all the hot takes from clerith retards  (mirror).  I advise caution if you click

more damage control

No clerith or tifa bashing thread is completely without shitty takes from Granny who loves playing the martyr  "I don't know how much we clerith do have to take" (x)

Pro Clerith anti Cloti and Bestiality

The only one desperate here is her

“We got your back!”  of course you do

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Cloti fans can be really cringey too

If you're going to over-analyze every single dumb detail in the game as cloti, then you're just as crazy as the other side.  You're no better than this:

It’s worse because cloti doesn’t lack content, the other side does and that’s why they grasp at straws

get a grip

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Where is this love?  Sephy don’t stab me, don’t stab me, no more

Nice example of selective abstraction and nitpicking

Cloud didn’t ignore her, he was sleeping.  On the same bed as Tifa.  I wonder what else they did on the bed other than sleep