meet me in the woods tonight

what is with the mental gymnastics people do to justify how crowfeather treats his son. it's not even a case of messy writing, po3 is hammering the reader over the head that breezepelt is being abused and it is important set up for how he gets indoctrinated into the dark forest. that's author intention baby.

i dont know if i was leafpool and i saw brambleclaw training with the Kill All Half-Clan Cats guy i'd be a little hesitant to let him in on the truth about my Half-Clan Babies

squirrelflight is good at making acquaintances and distant friends because she’s friendly and she’s charming but she struggles to really make any close friendships and she doesn’t know why and it hurts because she’s really not built for the whole lots of surface level friendships thing she’s really not she would be happier with a few ride or die relationships but nobody ever seems to take her seriously and people tend to assume she’s not genuine or that she thinks too highly of herself and it’s not true and she doesn’t know why everyone has this perception of her she just wants somebody to sit and laugh with her and tell her about something embarrassing that happened to them last week and listen to her tell them about this new album she’s looking forward to and maybe they’ll let her borrow their coat or something and this is all theoretical because they’re cats but whatever that’s not important and she just kind of always feels hollow because nobody ever seems to really want to know her and anyone who does want her wants her in this shallow way that makes it feel even worse and she can’t even tell her sister about this anymore because leafpool would have understood and leafpool always got her and loved her but she’s dead

always makes me uncomfortable when wc fans genuinely seem to think mapleshade is an entitled cunt for being in a halfclan relationship and wanting her children to grow up in thunderclan without issue

like i disagree that frecklewish deserved to go to hell obviously and the way shes treated is super misogynistic but why are we acting like you hate trauma victims if you say that her dehumanizing and enabling in the exile of children is a bad thing (while simultaneously acting like mapleshade is just some entitled hysterical bitch for not going to the bridge) like youre just adjusting what flavor of misogyny you like while playing into the xenophobia the series relishes in. be for real