#the-road-kill

[wc-confessions]

i wish hearing people would listen to more hard of hearing/deaf folks about the aus with snowkit. i know i have mentioned this in your asks before anonymously, but i just wanted to come out to say as a deaf individual, i cannot fit into the warriors fandom. there is never a spot for us, and when we try to make deaf characters, we are told that “they wouldn’t survive in the wild” or that “it’s unrealistic.”

i want every hearing person to think about how this is bad. they are implying, as hearing people, that cats in a society similar to humans, with their own religion and government, cannot survive. that they would die easily. that is audism, to me. and it hurts a lot more than most hearing people realize.

these snowkit au’s just bring more as a reminder to me that snowkit’s death and character brought a LOT of audist behavior and arguments in the fandom. snowkit should just left alone to be forgotten. as a young 6 year old who had related to snowkit and was excited to have a deaf character, only for them to die was, well, surprising for me. these books affect people, and they change the way people think about marginalized groups.

i just wanted to give a more fleshed out statement, and perhaps i’m just spitting absolute nonsense but, i don’t know. i have been surrounded by deafness my entire life and being deaf myself, you get a lot of toxic hearing warriors fans spit harmful rhetoric at you, and it hurts.

i just want a hearing creator to talk about snowkit and how harmful his character is, and hopefully, they’ll listen to me. it’s just shameful that a hearing person has to tell other hearing people instead of listening to an actual deaf person.

and i know that these hearing people who make snowkit au’s are just trying to have good fun, but kost deaf warriors fans i have spoken to about snowkit habe told me they absolutely despise his character. i try my best to let hearing people be excited about deaf characters! i enjoy seeing hearing people get invested into deafness and perhaps even research it on their own and try to learn sign language! but snowkit isn’t it.

sorry for the long ask. i just wanted to say this now because it’s on my mind. hope you are having a good day, and if you’re not, it’ll get better. remember to drink water and take care of yourself. good day <3

[wc-confessions]

i have a question for you. what’s your fav warrior cat. if so, tell me about them…

tigerclaw. ramble under the cut but basically hes a cool villain i think a lot about how he could have been better if the erins and the publishers werent pussies

anyway hes such a complex character and the result of how living by the code so devotedly can fuck up your views and just how terrible clan life is. there are many cats who are examples of this but tigerclaw is so special to me in his way of exhibiting this. if you really consider it, he truly believed he was doing something good and bringing the clans to how they should be. like he grew up with the code being heavily enforced and the adults around him that he idolized and trusted selfishly using the code to justify their actions and beliefs. like its not only thistleclaw if you think about the enviornment he lived in. whats more doesnt really help that he was already seen as a threat or a nuisance as a freaking kitten. of course hes going to grow older and assume theres a certain path for him, and that he should trust and encourage the code no matter what. i also dont believe him wanting to be leader or deputy was him being selfish or knowingly evil, rather, him believing he was truly meant for those roles. therefore it was only right for him to do what he must to get his way to make things as they should be. he viewed himself as someone rightously abiding by the rules established by his ancestors, someone worthy to set the clans in their places and lead them to rightousness. then having to witness changes to the clans def prbly set him off further, and he just knew in his head he was the one. i can admit that his actions seemed hypocritical considering his relationship with sasha and the way he went about things, but i truly believe they were like more than they seemed. for one i dont think he believed he was going against his beliefs or perhaps he recognized this but didnt think it was a bad thing if he was still making 'right'. then i think he also had this mindset that his actions were a part of a greater plan or what he believed to be a part of his plan, that he jad to do certain things make choices to reach his goal. additionally, becaise of the way he grew up, i think he believed it was better to sort of repress his emotions. like i think a lot of his actions were driven by his inner emotions and there are times where he kind of breaks the whole cold frame and we get kind of a different character (my Favourite scene is when he kind of expresses like a different, emotional side after meeting his kids again even if he doesnt outright share his feelings and for a moment as he witnesses this firestar sees him as a person not like the enemy in his story that drove him to that point. but then hes unsure if its some sort of ploy. then thats never brought up again bc the early wc the erins just Did That)(another scene i wanna talk abt is how prior to the reveal hes shown to be kind of fearful of ravenpaw giving away what hes done before he just plots to get rid of him does anyoneremeber when firestar catches him freaking out at the gathering and wonders why the fuck is he acting weird. i really think at some point he just got better at being evil lying cold etc it was never something he was good at or born with it it was developed and fed). it just makes you wonder if everything was better what kind of person would he have been. then his relationship with others ugh hes shown to be caring and hearty within the clan in the start even tho its SO MINOR. i believe it just says a lot about him. hes respected nd he likes his place he believes hes deserving of leading the clans to greatness he can do it and everyone makes him believe so but then there are those who want to change those ways theyre threatening him and his ideal way of the clans built so perfectly by the code and its pure people. i could go on and on but i dont want to make this too too long

but idk i feel like a lof of the things about tigerclaw early on are ignored because people focus on the depiction after tpb. in which hes another soulless power hungry bad guy also he hates his kids despite what we are shown before. because early on in the series you can see the erins wanted something interesting for him and his relationship with firestar with other characters, his way of thinking, the way he priorities the code, how his enviornment altered him. and yet thats all thrown away all the concepts are replaced its poorly developed and its just makes me go bangs my fist why why why we could have had it better fuck the erins

[wc-confessions]

I’m going to lose my mind.

my fave ones are the breezepelt, archeye and blade pages those made me laugh irl

[wc-confessions]

i’ve been giggling at these for the past 10 minutes.

YEP ITS SO FUNNYY

[wc-confessions]

i must say the warrior cats survey on the warriors website was an interesting one. why in the world was i asked about roblox. what does roblox has to do when warrior cats. Being interrogated about what spcial medias i use was also very odd. harpwr collins does NOT need to know i roleplay and currently in warrior cats discord servers. The survery was a fever dream. 3/10

this was sent a while ago but knowing now why they did it is kinda fucked up honestly

[wc-confessions]

confessions for warrior cats fans is so crazy one post is like “i love bigtooth i think hes a funny guy” and then the next post is like “i absolutely hate all women in this series and i pray that they are all hit with a meteorite sent by starclan themselves” (joking ofc)

tbh..yea. i dont try to post the extremely crazy ones since theyre meant to set ppl off, but i always feel theres an exception for the ones that are just so bad but in like a fun very pathetic way. love the way people come together and respond to those ones

[wc-confessions]

oh my gosh ur so right and thinking about it now it would’ve been so interesting for the hollyleaf plot if she was coerced by tigerstar BECAUSE they’re such similar characters. they both abide the warrior code greatly and believe in it so much and they’re so convinced they’re both important figures to starclan and have convinces themselves theyre the only ones who can hold these such high positions. if hollyleaf trained in the dark forest under tigerstar’s wing over this shared mindset of “we are code-followers/we were gien such high power just for our religion to give up on us because they think we aren’t the ones who can lead a society/make it much greater than the warrior code was ever written to be” WOULDVE BEEN SO GOOD AND SO COMPLEX… good golly gosh!!! especially because then hollyleaf wouldve realized she would have no powers!! she would’ve turned to the dark forest believing starclan had betrayed her!! that everyone betrayed her!!!! she was a code-follower… why are all of these bad things happening to her!! wouldve given her justification of killing ashfur and exposing the truth at the gathering an entirely new and complex meaning. absolutely crazy.

HOLY SHIT YES !! i actually regarded hollyleaf while writing that when i mentioned other characters being examples hehe. shes another character i enjoy but feel wasnt explored / developed more bc theres so much you could co there. youre so right i reallymlove this idea

[wc-confessions]

i really do enjoy your art you should be more proud about it. also when u do make ur art sideblog you should do those little warrior cats challenges where you design like. firepaw, graypaw, ravenpaw, bluestar, etc etc. if you know what challenge i’m referring to. or just design canon wc characters cus i really do like some of the designs u showed!!!! u also talked about ocs here one time and i would love to see them too maybe… idk. BE MORE CONFIDENT WITH UR ART CUS ITS LOVELY!! 💓💞

MWAH THQNK UUU!!! i rlly cant wait to like post my designs actually ive always kept them to myself but id love to show others! also i really wanna do hypokits someday too that looks fun :] but thnx so much this is so nice to hear as i havent been confident with my work for a loong time ♥ im trying to do better tho