Warrior cats meta blog

Pfp and header by @gingerakao

[blorboclaw]

Pfp and header are gorgeously from @gingerakao, fanarts of my fanfic Firefrost, on AO3

Frosted Violets on AO3, a time travel au titled Firefrost mainly check out my freakin’ 9k words Richard III au.

You can ask me just about anything about warrior clans, meta, plot, characters, aus... NOT CAUGHT UP ON THE SERIES. didn’t read most of the recent super editions nor most of the novellas. yet.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 5

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Moth Flight (Warrior Cats)

Buffy Summers

Moth Flight

Voting ended onJun 29

Propaganda below the cut:

Buffy Summers:

The fandom refuses to let her age past 22, and punishes her for having relationships outside their OTP of choice

Fandom blames her for Spike's attempted rape of her and in general acts like she owed him her love. In general, fandom is very focused on fighting over which of Spike vs. Angel "deserved" her.

She's an iconic hero with cool hair and deserves better than being reduced to a reward for either manpire.

She gets reduced to just the question of which hot vampire she's going to end up with and then people say crazy victim blaming shit about her to top it all off.

She's the TV Protagonist of All Time.

Moth Flight:

Gets hated for implementing the medicine cat celibacy rule despite being a neurodivergent teen mom who had lost her mate and was trying to take care of her kits with no support system along with fulfilling her medicine cat duties. Not to mention Starclan agreed with her decision and assured her she was doing the right thing. But even when other female characters get treated with more nuance and sympathy on this site by the fandom, I've seen many people reduce her character down to just an uncaring bitch who forces her ideals on others and was a shitty mother who didn't have an issue with giving up her kits.

I just have sympathy for her circumstances, especially being neurodivergent myself and wish others would look at the full context of her situation and why she made the decision that she did instead of once again hating a teen girl for making a decision they didn't like.

[life-in-toontown]

OMG

[shitty-fanfic-prompts]

Warrior Cats but they're anthropomorphic cats living in a Wind-in-the-Willows-like edwardian english countryside. The levels of drama and violence stay the same.

[nmbrs]

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

[histrionic-dragon]

Mufasa, I guess.

[shmellart]

The Warriors fandom was seriously lacking orange cat jokes, so I took matters into my own hands

Did you catch them all? 😼

[blorboclaw]

Just came across a very old guy wearing what i can only describe as a tshirt with "probably warrior cats fanart".

[ifwebefriends]

“Fireheart leaned forward to take Morningflower’s kit, but she pulled back, her ears flat. Fireheart looked deep into her frightened amber eyes and understood. She and her kit would live or die together.”

Jesus Christ man okay okay I feel normal about this

[skyclan-funny-name-squad]

Honestly I think Morningflower might be one of my favorite warrior cat names, like not only is the imagery beautiful, the fact morning is a homophone for mourning just itches the poetry part of my brain so well and makes it into such a beautiful tragic name.

[only-cat-memes]

[scarechrow]

ooooghb could you draw morningflower and fireheart being friends pretty please?

he just drops by windclan to rant sometimes

[bogcreacher]

dad lore

I’ve nixed most of the murder in my warriors anthro au but Mapleshade remains the same (now with a shlocky movie adaptation!)

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

[blorboclaw]

Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

last one i promise

[blorboclaw]

Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

the dopamine i'm getting from making warrior cats related connections is unprecedented

[blorboclaw]

Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

here ahve another warrior cats themed connections game

[blorboclaw]

Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

i made it a bit tricky, let's see if you can find the warriors themed connections