Miss Kitty Fantastico

/srs but it is also funny so…

But basically, my sexuality sas pretty stunted due to my own sexual trauma as well as intergenerational sexual trauma #JustNativeGirlThings. I’m not going to get too into, but I think I was mistaking other feelings with attraction and I’m still figuring it all out ofc but so far I can’t confidently say I’m attracted to anyone but men.

As for autism, I don’t think anyone can blame me for this one because I was and still am proffessionally diagnosed, but within the last two I’ve come to the conclusion that I proooobbbaaabbllyyy just have FASD? Which has major symptom overlap with autism and it’s not uncommon for ppl with FASD to have autism diagnoses because an FASD diagnoses is way harder to get, the stigma is insane and there aren’t as many resources (due to said stigma).

And abt the warrior cats stuff, I don’t necessarily think I was wrong about anything I said, I just don’t care as much. There is rampant ableism in media but it is not unique to Warrior Cats or it’s fandom and it’s ofc good to push back against it, but I think it’s more productive to have conversations about general cultural attitudes and harmful tropes instead of fixating on individual projects and making enemies out of their creators and participants, wether or not they “deserve” to be called out, it simply isn’t productive because even if you convince them to take it down five more will spring up in their place- and nobody is perfect, pretty much everyone has said or done something insensitive and/or bigoted at some point in their life and if we were to s*succesfully* blacklist people based on something as simple as participating in a Warrior Cats MAP with ableist tropes and sentiments then we will simply run out of people- but it’s never successful anyways.

So, in conclusion:

It’s important here to remember that disability is a spectrum that can affect people in a multitude of ways. More severe disabilities are often less palatable to an abled bodied audience, so they don’t get represented that much.

It’s also important to remember that a disability is not just a health condition, here is the definition of disability according to the ADA

So, when someone “allows” a disabled cat to be a warrior they often make their disability significantly less restrictive sometimes to the point where they cannot even be considered disabled. Especially wen you go into it intending to fix the poor representation in Warriors and you make disabled characters less disabled you are saying that people with more severe disabilities cannot be good representations, while also just straight-up erasing our representation and saying the series would be better without us.  Disabled cats in Warriors not being able to hunt, fight, climb trees, whatever, is NOT ableist because in real life disabled people cannot do everything abled bodied people can, that’s what makes us disabled. What’s ableist in Warriors is how OTHER CATS treat disabled characters, how they compare Briarlight to “half dead fresh-kill” and are constantly pitying and infantilizing her. The narrative also often centres the feelings abled-bodied cats in regards to disabled characters, the books go on and on about how Briarlight’s disability freaks other people out, or how sad and heartbreaking snowkit’s death is, or how bad Leafpool feeels about Jayfeather being blind.

I don’t rlly post here much anymore, but Im still happy to answer questions like these and give my two cents:

Mental illnesses can totally fit the social model of disability! Coincidentally, I also have PTSD and I would have considered it a disability a year ago before I did some intensively DBT because it made me unable to attend school even when my pain level was low. The only reason why I made such a distinct difference between physical and mental disabilities on my Twitter post was because I was only talking about physically disabled characters, and I’ve seen a lot of neurodivergent and mentally ill people speak over physically disabled people in that particular conversation without acknowledging the crucial differences. In pretty much any other context you do not need to disclose your specific disability, if other people assume you have a physical disability that’s on them, nobody should be assuming that kind of stuff anyways. However when we’re having discussion within the disabled community it’s important to differentiate different experiences so we can address issues appropriately, but you never have to be super engaged with those discusssions.

You have every right to call yourself disabled due to your PTSD, and other people are not entitled to any personal info what so ever. However, if you still wish to be more specific “mentally disabled” would also apply, although I am not an expert I’m just some angry teenaged girl on the internet.

I’ve been listening to The New Prophecy audio books so here is Tawnypelt and Brambleclaw! I’ve just started Dawn and so far Brambleclaw is actually likeable and an okay dude?? He’s stubborn and can be a bit of a know-it-all but he means well and he cares about his friends so much!! I know he’s awful later on but Erins what happened??

🌌Twilight - Favourite ship and least favourite ship

I can’t choose just one so I’ll do top three in no particular order

Fernsong x Ivypool: this ship is the one thing standing between Warriors and complete misogyny (/hj). All their canon interactions are 10/10 Fernsong sees the best in Ivypool and rlly admires her and its clear that Ivypool rlly loves being around him even if she’s too prickly to admit it. But I also headcanon Fernsong as autistic, he prefers doing jobs in camp like helping the medicine cats and queens rather than hunting or fighting cause he finds it confusing and/or over stimulating while Ivypool I headcanon as having PTSD so she likes to patrol and hunt but can’t a lot of the time because she gets distressed and paranoid, so Fernsong accompanies her while she does her duties and does grounding exercises with her if needed, so they’re a rlly good team!! I also think Fernsong’s relationship with Lionblaze has a lot of potential regarding his relationship since I can’t imagine Ivypool likes Lionblaze very much given that he was totally on board with keeping her in an abusive situation as a child for the greater good even though he could’ve done it himself because he is literally invisible and defeating the dark forest is the reason why he had super powers in the first place. (Sorry Lionblaze lowkey pisses me off)

Feathertail x Sasha: read A Shadow in Riverclan and look me in the eyes and tell me they were not girlfriends. I love the trope of two individually troubled people finding eachother and loving eachother despite their pain so much and I think they could’ve worked things out if Feathertail didn’t die, she forgave Leapordstar she def would’ve forgave Sasha, also I understand why she was mad at her, even though it wasn’t justified I think it makes sense given Feathertail’s mental state. I also rlly like how you can actually see how their relationship developes, it’s not instant and you can understand WHY they like each other so much. I wish Feathertail hadn’t died, I wouldve traded Brambleclaw POV for Feathertail POV in a HEARTBEAT. I think Sasha might have stayed if Feathertail was still in Riverclan when she returned, after understanding her trauma more I def think Feathertail would have forgave and apologizing to Sasha. Seeing Sasha and Feathertail’s interact with Hawkfrost would have also been very interesting and could have fleshed him out more.

Grasspelt x Briarlight: I got another AU coming up that has to do with them, so I wont give to much away but I love the idea that indivually Grasspelt and Briarlight are both very smart and admirable cats but then when they get within 5 feet of eachother they both become goofy mushy idiots. I know Grasspelt is like a very minor side character so I’ve just given him a personality myself but just let me have this ok I am tired. They’d also make great parents!! I headcanon Grasspelt as autistic and I like to think he infodumps about how incredible Briarlight is- he is completely and unapoligetically in love with her and she thinks he’s a wonderful cat he lights up her life.

Least favourites:

Im not gonna include any of the obvouisly bad ships like firetiger or other shit like that, just assume all the pedophelic and abusive ships are also my least favourite, ok?

Daisy x Spiderleg: why did they feel the need to do Daisy like this?? What was the point??? I get that those types of relationships happen I’ll but I don’t see why you’d include it in the book if it wasn’t going to have any type of meaning beyond Leafpool being mad at Spiderleg. They could have still had that happen and then had Daisy get a mate that treats her right, I just feel bad at her.

Bumblestripe x Dovewing: Bumblestripe is such a pick me and their relationship reminds me a lot of a past friendship of mine that did not end well. Dovewing deserves better Bumblestripe is manipulative as hell and I feel like he takes advantage of Dovewing’s kind nature. I am so glad she left his pathetic ass, I rlly hope he doesn’t get a mate in the future and I am convinced Rosepeta’s crush on him was comp-het or something cause she must have some taste. I understand why Ivypool was for Bumblestripe and Dovewing’s relationship, she was still totally in the wrong and doesn’t deserve to be completely excused but it makes sense given her character, she’s been denied any agency for a rlly long time, Hawkfrost was her best friend and he treated her just as shitty as Bumblestripe treated Dovewing- so she’s less likely to see the red flags as they’ve been normalized to her. Everyone else though?? I have no idea why they told Dovewing to get with Bumblestripe he literally sucks so much. I think it should have just been Ivypool who said that cause it makes me dislike everyone else lmao.

🍃Into the Wild - Favourite prophecy/omen  “Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.” is the only one that sounds cool imo, but the meaning is still p obvious once you start reading imo they should’ve had Tawnypelt and Mothwing more involved and then done some kind of bait and switch with who was gonna kill who- instead of just having Hawkfrost and Brambleclaw fuck around for a whole book.

🌩Rising Storm - Favourite family relationship (parent-kit, siblings etc)

I love it when y’all send me weird shit like this my entire day is made