among us warrior cats are born

i'm salvator e/em or it/its. this is my warrior cats blog. it waxes and wanes in activity. i post art and random meta.

not nsfw but i'd prefer followers to be 18+ just because i'm crudely made and i like to swear and be cynical. and also i like to complain about misogyny and racism and other serious topics in the books/fandom as well. if you follow me it means you promise to behave under my posts.

i primarily enjoy interpreting warrior cats as a satire on war and jingoism, very in line with 'theater of cruelty' surrealism. i don't like rewrites that sacrifice the shortcomings of clan society. most of my wc discussion is under this lens of hostility and doesn't necessarily follow the textual 'mood' that the authors of the books imply. this is because i think they don't know what they're doing.

my favorite cats are shadowsight dovewing twigbranch spottedleaf leafpool and tree. fav background cats are foxleap and icecloud but also hazeltail and mousewhisker. favorite clan is windclan or shadowclan. favorite arc is the broken code. i miss novellas real bad. ive given up on reading any mainline story stuff past asc.

required readings for my interpretation of warrior cats (yes really) - spurt of blood by antonin artaud - galapagos by kurt vonnegut - marisol and sueño by josé rivera - additionally, life is a dream by pedro calderón de la barca - man alive and get to heaven by everything everything - basically any arthuriana, but also this specific article about prophecies and free will - my #readinglist tag which is half a farce and half real

#la vida es gatos is the tag for my humanised fantasy retelling of wc. i don't know if i'll ever do anything serious and complete with it but all my posts about it go in there.

ok so. echoing stuff youve said. i like the Idea of crowfeather as an accessory to leafpool's arc. i like him as a misguided excuse for leafpool to sort out her feelings of alienation and loneliness and i like how, when they return, crowfeather immediately tries to sweep it under the rug and compensates for his "disloyalty" by entering a loveless marriage with nightcloud entirely for political gain. i think, without the context of things like tbc and author word of god "they still love each other and they will live happily in starclan" type shit, it's very strong for both characters involved. similarly (and this stretches a bit past the tnp threshold, but whatever) i do like how crowfeather and nightcloud are some of the only cats to actually split up as a couple without it being a big dramatic thing. like i mean all the breezepelt stuff is a mess and there's moments where they try to portray leafpool as a cheating whore or whatever, but just on a base level, between crowfeather and nightcloud, i think their (lack of a) relationship is really interesting.

Or xenofiction in general

for avos: i really like the sisters conceptually and ive talked about it before but i really like tree as what he is in base AVOS… i think his novella was a bad step for his characterisation because his false backstory to needletail i think in one of the extra chapters was far more compelling and mysterious. i think he works best as a reflection of sol as this mystical outsider who can do miracles but while sol has the attitude for it while being really pathetic and having 0 control and skills, tree is someone who is genuinely capable of doing amazing things but has no drive at all for it. and i suppose i think of it more cynically than the books actually intend it, but i also like taking his forgettability in clan politics as a conscious flaw of the clans and the mediator role in itself. his job is entirely optical and meant to uphold a vision of peace that is completely unattainable.

thats not so much about avos i suppose as it is about how stupid the extra material is. so uhhh more in the spirit of the game: i love twigbranch. i love her clan hopping and hesitation and the fact she doesnt want to have kids and the way she struggles with connecting with a family that she never really had at all. i know a lot of avos rewrites kind of place more of an emphasis on her and alderheart's connection, or her and thunderclan in general, but to be perfectly honest i like her as someone who is drifting everywhere she goes and feels out of place everywhere she goes, who only stays in thunderclan because she "began" there and it's the greatest normalcy she can ever hope for. it does just speak to me personally as a mixed immigrant who lives in a completely different country now. also i like the fact that sticking with skyclan is not the resolution of her arc. like obviously its written with the "we're in different clans but we're still family <3" caveat but even that is kind of refreshing for warrior cats which is so focused on blood relations and nationalism. i guess its happened before with tawnypelt but that was like a weird "people compare me to my racist father so im joining my racist father to prove im not racist like my father" while twigbranch feels more realistic to me lol