spotfur for deputy 2k22

blog where i yell about warrior cats | 22 | white

[tallshadowstar]

hey everybody! wc isn’t my main special interest atm, so if i stop posting for several months pls don’t worry about me. 

when i get special interests they usually last for about six months on average, and wc wasn’t an exception. this blog is mostly a place to post about wc, so if my interest in it starts to wane then i imagine it may go inactive.

that being said, wc has been a special interest for me on and off since i was a kid, so even if i leave this blog i’m sure i’ll come back at some point. idk if my special interests are actually even shifting, but i figured i’d give a heads-up just in case. i’ve worried about mutuals who stopped posting before, so if i suddenly vanish i want to make sure everyone knows i’m fine

[tallshadowstar]

i can feel the warrior cats special interest trying to claw its way back into my brain and im honestly trying to suppress it at this point. yeah i love a lot of the characters in these books and want to see where their stories go next, but im also so sick of investing time and creative energy into a series that will likely never fix the bad habits its had for twenty years now and if anything seems to be actively backsliding back into them at full speed

[tallshadowstar]

still have minimal interest in wc at present and have not read shadow but after reading a snippet of the preview for thunder i felt obligated to pop in and say spotfur was robbed

[tallshadowstar]

okay i know this is warrior cats and i need to take it less seriously, but it genuinely makes me so viscerally angry how the erins are writing a man who expresses entitlement to a relationship with a woman and deliberately choosing to have the narrative bend over backwards to excuse that entitlement and position it as normal (and even justified). what an absolutely horrifying message to send to a readerbase that has always been predominantly made up of little girls, especially at a time where mra talking points and overt misogyny have become increasingly widespread and normalized 

[tallshadowstar]

haven’t been thinking very much about warriors lately but i had a dream last night where lionblaze became lionstar and immediately wanted to start a war with shadowclan because he was still bitter over them harbouring imposterstar and shadowsight letting him escape, and then spotfur publicly challenged him and told him how stupid his plan was during the clan meeting where he announced it. the dream ended with lionstar and spotfur getting into a physical fight in front of the whole clan. is this something

[tallshadowstar]

once again caught between wishing we got heathertail as leader instead of harestar (aka the worlds most boring man) and recognizing that onestar would never ever put his daughter into the same miserable leadership position that he occupies

[tallshadowstar]

one of my many disappointments with onestar’s confession was that he and heathertail had a completely bog-standard and uncomplicated father-daughter relationship through the entire book, like where’s the fun in that. give me an ambitious heathertail screaming at her dad post-ashfoot’s death about how unfair it is to pick harespring as deputy instead of her, and onestar not even arguing back because he knows she’s right, but will still never give her that position because he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he passed the very same leadership that made him so miserable down to his daughter

[tallshadowstar]

this is made even more juicy by the fact that onestar had the leadership given to him by tallstar, who was his father-figure, and he still hasn’t forgiven him for it. heathertail looks at him with unconcealed fury as he announces harespring’s deputyship to the clan, and onestar just thinks ‘even if she hates me right now for not making her deputy, this is nothing compared to how deeply she’d grow to hate me if i allowed her to be windclan’s next leader’

[tallshadowstar]

once again caught between wishing we got heathertail as leader instead of harestar (aka the worlds most boring man) and recognizing that onestar would never ever put his daughter into the same miserable leadership position that he occupies

[tallshadowstar]

one of my many disappointments with onestar’s confession was that he and heathertail had a completely bog-standard and uncomplicated father-daughter relationship through the entire book, like where’s the fun in that. give me an ambitious heathertail screaming at her dad post-ashfoot’s death about how unfair it is to pick harespring as deputy instead of her, and onestar not even arguing back because he knows she’s right, but will still never give her that position because he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he passed the very same leadership that made him so miserable down to his daughter

[tallshadowstar]

once again caught between wishing we got heathertail as leader instead of harestar (aka the worlds most boring man) and recognizing that onestar would never ever put his daughter into the same miserable leadership position that he occupies

[tallshadowstar]

torn between continuing my ‘spotfur for deputy 202x’ blog header for the third year running or changing it to ‘mothwing for leader’. i still love you spotfur but i need to think tactically here

[tallshadowstar]

what the fuck do you mean warriors is 20 now

[kiwianacat]

Here's my annual reminder that I'm still emotionally invested in maybe the most irritating and inconsistent character of the 7th arc.

I feel like Mistystar is one of the most unexplored characters in Warriors, especially in regards to how her various traumas affected her perceptions of clan loyalty.

I mean, being given up by a parent for a deputy position and then returning to the clan that publicly executed your brother for that same position suggests some pretty unhealthy ideals, hopefully this illustration communicates this in some ways!

[osabishi-yama]

https://fundo.jp/85255: 7年に一度しか現れない幻の池『池の平』の神秘性に心を奪われる…

[tallshadowstar]

listen i love both characters to death but you can pry my headcanon of shadowsight fucking hating mothwing (as of asc sky) out of my cold dead hands. shadowsight is a nice cat but he would absolutely hold a grudge against her after what happened in that book

[tallshadowstar]

i have this mental image of shadowsight taunting mothwing as they sit together as the odd ones out at the half-moon meetings, like “how goes it in riverclan, mothwing? let any more children die lately?” and mothwing can’t say shit in her own defense because she knows how badly she fucked up with the catmint situation

[tallshadowstar]

listen i love both characters to death but you can pry my headcanon of shadowsight fucking hating mothwing (as of asc sky) out of my cold dead hands. shadowsight is a nice cat but he would absolutely hold a grudge against her after what happened in that book

[skinwretch]

shipping isn’t praxis but that said shipping two female love interests of the same boring and/or obnoxious dude character together out of pure spite is the only way to get into heaven

[skinwretch]

shipping an annoying male character’s love interest with his sister is literally one of the most important things you can do as an ally

[quiverpaw]

kind of feel like flaunting my ego. what’s everyone’s favorite disliked/terrible character

[quiverpaw]

doing this again. what’s everyone’s least favorite popular character

[tallshadowstar]

i really do wonder if spotfur would have been the next she-cat to be hated by the majority of the fandom if her little arc about not feeling ready/wanting to be a mother hadn’t ended with her embracing motherhood… like what if she had instead come to the conclusion that no, she really didn’t feel ready or willing to be a parent to her litter without a living spouse to co-parent with? would she still have been anywhere near as well-liked as she’d been previously, or would the fanbase have turned on her for it?