I draw sometimes

“nightheart’s misogyny isn’t unique so i don’t get what the outrage is about” have you considered that maybe it’s outrageous because of how long it’s been going on especially since the fandom most of the fandom doesn’t address misogyny most of the time unless a youtuber with a wide outreach talks about it (people didn’t realize how much bramblestar sucked ass until moonkitti made a video about it and even then i still see takes like “oh he was a good character until squirrelflight’s hope” despite how a lot of the flaws in his writing have been present since tnp. i still don’t see many people talk about how characters like sparkpelt and needleclaw are only relevant as props in their brothers arcs despite the fact there is plently of potential for individual character explorations in their own right, sparkpelt’s relationship with resembling the most famous man in the world, needleclaw being named after her mother’s dead friend being halfclan and not possessing the abilities typical to her bloodline etc) and also because misogyny, even if it’s in “small” amounts, is something worth getting angry and talking about as opposed to just shrugging it off and assesing it as “well this is just the usual, guess there’s no point in anything other than accepting its being there”

reading warrior cats (especially male pov’s) is genuinely the hardest thing ever simply because all of them follow this loner plot line that put them in a mental position that no one understands them or everyone it out for them when the books then only present people being kind to them. like w/ brambleclaw his obsession w/ thinking everyone sees him as his dad is proved by nothing but his own thoughts. lionblaze’s power (before it’s revealed) is seen as an awesome and cool thing and lionblaze has always been complimented for his fighting skills but thinks of himself as an outcast when he never is. jayfeather is increasingly mean to anyone and everyone and yet chatacters always just roll their eyes playfully and i can name several characters who are all close with him. our newest example, flamepaw/nightheart, fits perfectly when he has constant turmoil over how everyone treats him when everyone around him treats him exceptionally well. the only male characters i can think of who actually fits the “everyone is out to get me which affects my personality and judgements” that actually make sense are onestar and shadowsight.

Breezepelt should have been deputy. It would have been kind of funny

No redemption or anything btw. Super evil. He's deputy.

This. Wait I love this hold on.

something so evil about leafpool asking starclan for help when she was lost and confused and they told her what to do and she did it and then they shamed her for it in life AND death. they came to her in visions and dreams and told her how stupid she was and how badly she messed up and how it was all her fault. they let the clans shun her and squirrelflight for a mistake that they encouraged and that was prophesied to happen anyway. and then when leafpool dies saving a mother and her kits, starclan (MANY OF WHOM BROKE THE CODE IN THE EXACT SAME WAY SHE DID!!!!!!) have the nerve to hold a trial for her where they line up and berate and humiliate her and try to decide whether or not she should quite literally go to hell for the crime of. having kits with a cat from another clan. like what. even in death she’s never going to escape her miserable life. there’s no comfort for her ever.

perpetually annoyed by character criticism that is just “is this character sympathetic? is this character relatable? does this character get an ending they ‘deserve’ (as it correlates with their own moral goodness)?” so what if they’re unsympathetic. so what if they’re unrelatable. so what if they are made suffer. so what if they’re a symbol. they’re not real! fictional characters are tools in a story, like setting, or tropes, or tone, or style, or pacing, or medium. they are a figment, a fragment. they are not human beings, and they do not exist in a real life moral framework. this is not good analysis. ask better questions.

Call me cringe but I think its far more fun and sexy and respectable for creatives to try in earnest and produce something Bad than to never create at all because they fear it might be bad