#wc rant

France and England out of world cup are you fucking kidding me. then it’s basically barça vs argenfifa🫩

anyway with all that talk yamal better pull through (lovingly), Spain gotta lock the hell in.

idec at this point argentina js gotta go we do NOT need another wc win frm them. If they do win (they won’t bc i said so) I better not see Messi and his gang anywhere NEAR the balon d’or 😭 Give my king olise a chance bro

Mbappé gotta lock in w the 3rd place match bc if Messi wins the goldenboot i WILL crash out.

i remember sparkpelt had always been interesting to me, even before squirrelflight's hope and a starless clan. i felt like it was kind of unfair to paint her as this "super-awesome never stressed" character in comparison to alderheart. (don't get me wrong, i understand that the books from alderheart's perspective is obviously going to portray her in such a light because that's genuinely how he sees her, but it's a little upsetting since i feel like as the main character's sister, there was a lot that could have been done with her).

and i know a lot of people will argue that her being a background character is good because too many of firestar's descendants are main characters but like. i feel like she could have been important while still remaining a non POV character. i had always interpreted her personality as extremely hidden.

i never liked squirrelflight's and brambleclaw's relationship, so i always headcanoned sparkpelt as kind of being the peacekeeper within the family. alderheart was too anxious and unsure of himself to get involved, so sparkpelt automatically assumed the role. i always just assumed she put on a fake smile and told everyone she knew what she was doing when in reality, she was just going with the flow and hoping she didn't lose herself in the process.

when she and larksong ended up getting together, i imagine that him in all of his sweetness finally treated her with the care and attention that she deserved after being such a strong force for everybody in the clan.

i feel like nightheart's angsty "firestar" plotline could have been so easily given to sparkpelt for her to deal with in the background of alderheart's problems.

correct me if i'm wrong, but does alderheart ever think about his dead littermates? besides the sentence where we hear about them? it would have been so interesting for us as readers to see him or sparkpelt doubting themselves and then wondering if dandelionkit or juniperkit would have done it better.

I think it would have been super cool if Sharptooth was seen as a God instead of just a predator.

The Clans already view big cats--Tiger, Lion, Leopard--or at least whatever they imagine those big cats to be as these almost sacred, possibly spiritual, beings of the past. How come when an actual big cat showed up in the series, no one thought it might be something spiritual?

--

The Tribe cats are already treated as a group of..to put it plainly, idiots that always need the Clans to help them. What if their first encounter wasn't of being saved from Sharptooth thanks to the Clans?

What if instead, the Tribe saw Sharptooth as a god, who comes to take their tributes (sacrifices) once every [blank]. Like Someone might be close to dying--elderly, sick, just wanting to pay tribute--and they send them to a place where Sharptooth comes to get them (away from the cave so that he doesn't actually become a huge issue in the way that he did in the books). They see it as his guiding spirit leading them to the afterlife.

It would also allow more cats to eat because their numbers can remain steady, so they don't run into the problem that caused half of them to leave back in DOTC.

Remember how the Tribe was meant to show how groups can be different and unique, but also good? Wasn't it a thing for 9/11 or was that made up? I'm tired it's 3 in the morning

What if they leaned more into that idea? The Tribe of Endless Hunting is too similar to StarClan imo, so what if instead of a entire afterlife of cats that guided you, it was Sharptooth that was the leader? And those that sacrificed their lives for him was believed to be granted a high position in the stars?

What if the Clan cats think that this is wrong and try to stop it, but by the end they realize that they cannot control other cats' lives, and that these cats are happy with their beliefs and lifestyle, and it would be wrong of them to force them to change?

So instead of the Tribe being helpless and always needing the Clans' help, they are instead shown to be a group living differently and believing in different things, but who also have mothers just like the Clans, fathers, kits, friends. I don't know, my brain's too tired to formulate the words I want to say right.

Just...There was so much missed potential. I'm pretty sure the Tribe was made because of different ways of living and different groups irl, so it sucks that one of these groups in their books are, for one, so similar to the other in their beliefs, and for another they're so bad at taking care of themselves without the Clans coming in to save them. It would have been so much better if we instead got a moral of getting along in spite of differences and beliefs.

Maybe they don't accept each other at first and believe that the other's way of living is wrong but then there's another enemy or natural disaster that makes the two groups work together and make them realize how similar they are, and that it's okay that they are also different?

PLUS just imagine God-Sharptooth.

People in this fandom who misuse the words misogyny and sexism and label it as literally anything they don't like are the reason it's not taken seriously here. The same can be said for abuse. Abuse is a cycle, and half of y'all who label that are purposely misusing the word because you're either uneducated or you're just being arrogant.

Sexism, in short, is discrimination, stereotyping, and/or prejudice against a certain gender. (usually women), but this can still be directed toward men. Misogyny is extreme hatred toward women to keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the social roles of patriarchy.

And does that happen in the series? No, it doesn't. At least to my knowledge, there's very few who seem to be misogynistic. DoTC is the only arc where I can clearly remember there being blatant misogyny. And fatphobia. And leafpool's situation, but that seems more like exploitation than misogyny. The series honestly seems more ableist than hateful toward women. Multiple female characters have been given powerful roles. Ex Bluestar,Doestar,Tall Shadow,Wind Runner,Yellowfang,Leafpool, Mothflight, Squirrelstar, and Tawnypelt (briefly leader, I think)

The misogyny honestly comes more from the fandom than anything else. And cats like SF or Maplesahde are not a good example. People have a valid reason for their hatred for them and give valid arguments when they're saying that those characters aren't innocent or victims of something. It's just that you people are too much of an actual asshole to see them, or you can't argue against them. These people provide book evidence yet you still refuse to see it for what it is. 

They aren't sexist or misogynist for hating them. Everyone is entitled to disliking or liking whatever cat they want. And by your own logic, you are sexist if you hate another male/female character. Now, one example I will give of sexism is directed toward Ferncloud. saying that she needs to be killed off because all she did in her life was "be a baby machine". There was nothing wrong with her, and she was living perfectly fine. She was happy with her life. 

Another example of misogyny is Spottedleaf. But not for the reason you think. Canonically, she is a pedo; it was revealed in Spottedleaf's honest answer, which, to my knowledge, is not retconned. But the point is that people think that because she was preyed on, it's okay, or that it doesn't matter that she liked Firepaw as an apprentice. It's misogynistic because you're watering her down to the point of literal infantilization and justifying her attraction to a barely pubescent child. 

It is super easy to make a trivial mistake like design, especially if you are so engrossed in the writing that it’s just that one document and no other that you’re looking over.

Not defending or criticizing any authors (although this is a warriors blog, so you have probably guessed who I’m mostly talking about). I mean, there’s a difference between forgetting eye colour and forgetting a character has already died three times. 

But I think it’s also important to remember three things:

1) writing is tough as FUCK. Not even saving information can save you.

2) writing with a team of other people is (probably) pretty tough.

3) the editors are behind a lot of mistakes, too. I think(?) that the authors tried to get them to get a character out of the allegiances after he died, and they didn’t do it for several books or something.

------------------------

Again not defending, but as a writer, more specifically as a writer with some memory issues, these posts can be very irritating, and then I get anxious that I’m going to make a mistake in the book that people on Tumblr will criticize.

I’m not saying that you should stop making those posts, I’ve just been wanting to say this and get it off of my chest.

Yeah, I have memory problems, but that doesn’t speak for each of the authors. Maybe some do, maybe some don’t. Maybe some are better writers than others, maybe some editors are better. 

but anyways my point is!! they literally LEAVE for like 2 seconds. and then come back. it’s something really specific and unnecessary but it’s so dumb. my hc is that they were gone for about a quarter moon (aka a week). in comparison, in crookedstar’s promise, crookedkit leaves his clan for a moon.

everything’s the same pretty much, crowf and leafpool meet midnight and she tells them about the attack. so they go back, it’s sad, they split apart.

this way, they have time to yk concieve their children and it’s not super quick. i don’t think they should stay for THAT long because they might bond really strongly together and be more reluctant to go back

it’s a really unfortunate coincidence that they JUST so happened to see midnight. it’s really like, what if leafpool & crowfeather actually did run away? then we get into crowfeather’s character and how he would act if he was with her for an extended period of time. they’re opposites, feathertail was the opposite of him as well, and he softens around both of the she-cats. but would he eventually crack or something like that? i like to think not, i like to think that leafpool would soften him and make him kinder. but we’ll never know, because the crowfeather we know not only did not go through that, he got pushed further down and ended up in a worse situation.

i think them staying for a short time was like intentional though, it does explain some aspects of why no one made the correlation of leafpool’s kits. but also like, they probably wouldn’t have turned back if it weren’t for them not fully settling in yet. like it hadn’t even been ONE day. they were in that nervousness, unsure of themselves stage. midnight could’ve warned the clan cats on their own.

also random but i feel like if cinderpelt survived, there was a chance that leafpool would just be like, “I’m sorry, but this is not my calling. My life is not meant to be here among the Clans.” and then LEAVE. bc if she really wanted to, she could have left with crowfeather. but, that wouldn’t happen with cinderpelt’s death.

i also wouldn’t like this au because then the three never would’ve been born so. 

tldr; chapter 20 of twilight is dumb and should be longer.