i like a vision of shadows

-it reinforces the idea of "the pedophile" as a social interloper boogeyman who is evil because he exists outside the societal institution of normalcy as opposed to being a direct product /of/ those societal institutions. thistleclaw is not bad because he represents the violence encouraged by the code that the clans as a whole partake in on a daily basis, he's portrayed as uniquely evil because he betrayed his clan for the dark forest and selfishly desires power

i feel the need to remind everyone that this was vicky's initial response to the backlash. the implication of this tweet is that this was not something meant to diegetically translate into an actual moral concern because real life cats have no concept of age, much like how cats wouldn't consider the dangers of eating unclean raw meat the same way humans would. she clearly did not go into spottedleaf's heart intending to write a story about pedophilia

Family that is a Greek tragedy to me

twiggy is abusing her apprentice right in front of my eyes rn