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Warriors book club: Changing Skies: Chasing Shadows

Been a while since I did any book club entries because of my life going crazy the last few months, and I kept putting off the hold on this one till I had a little more bandwidth, but here we are at last.

I just reread my last thread on these books and ohhhh boy. I forgot how bad they’re getting. Let’s see what we get today.

Starting with Cloudtail, huh? Is he dead? If he died last book, I don’t remember.

Okay he’s not dead (yet). Is this gonna be a new Moonstone?

I’m not sure I consciously realized until now how absurd the prey selection is. Because it’s like, mice and blackbirds and rabbits across the board, wherever they are. Very suburban England/America. The mountains should have different things!! Not just more eagles!!

Tawnypelt is continuing to be appalled that some elders would stay behind/some clans would leave elders behind if the clans had to move again. You did that! You! did that! when you left the forest!

I’m so convinced it’s the authors forgetting and not her. But come on. Please read your own books.

They really never squared up properly with how much longer the cats from Firestar’s generation onwards lived so much longer than the cats in the background of the original books did, huh

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I called it. Damn twolegs built a swimming hole in the Moonpool. It actually really affected me, thinking about that place getting paved over. I’m having Emotions™️

And that’s that! We’ll be back in a few months for the next one.

tlbodine

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

prof-grace-aspen

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

earhartsease

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

eldritchsandwich

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

#writing related

theglitchywriterboi

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

stevviefox

Passing along for all the writers out there!

ourdramaqueen

I could sure as hell use some of this... 😭 And of course wishing all my fellow writers the same!

lierdumoa

Every time an author reassures readers that the smut is skippable I sigh a disappointed sigh. This is not a reassurance. Why would anybody who likes smut want to read smut that was only included as an afterthought and has no impact on the narrative? Insulting. Just don't write it at all if you're not going to make it matter.

lierdumoa

#on the one hand I understand that some people don’t want to read smut

Like 85% of tumblr users hate and loathe embarrassment based comedy with every fiber of their beings, but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure their audience that the embarrassing scenes are skippable.

Lots of people dislike tragedy but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure the audience that the death and grieving scenes are skippable.

Stop trying to pass off self-censorship as “accommodation.” Stop trying to pass off pandering as “inclusivity.”

Your audience can smell your fear, and it smells rancid.

#writing related

valtsv

this is going to sound like such a little sibling ass take but i genuinely believe that being a little bit annoying is actually a greater sign of maturity and self awareness than being universally likeable and on good terms with everyone

valtsv

if some people find me annoying and can't stand me because of how i think and act then that means i'm a fully realized human being with my own personality and opinions and free will and not just a reflective surface for other people's desires, which is in fact a good thing despite what people who want you to just be a reflection of their own opinions and desires will tell you, and why being considered "cringe" or whatever doesn't bother me at all

valtsv

also it's really funny when you're confident enough in yourself to know that people not liking you isn't always a sign that you're the problem. like there's something undeniably hilarious about being aware your mere existence has the power to piss someone off and ruin their day and i recommend embracing it.

spice-ghouls

Oh fucking thissss

Being Transmasc is wild because first you’re a girl and you’re weak whiny emotional irrational annoying and uppity and “on your period” and you’d be prettier if you smiled and stopped making everything about feminism all the damn time

and then all of a sudden you’re a man and you’re ‘the problem’ and you just want to oppress girls and talk over women to validate yourself and make it all about you because all men ever do is take over the conversation and be abusive and use their toxic masculinity to bludgeon everyone around them and like

The whole time you’ve always just been you

deafmangoes

Hate to tell you this teaboot but it's the same in reverse for us trans femmes

Solidarity in always "doing it wrong", eh?

Masc spectrum 🤝 Femme spectrum

Being reduced to the worst gender stereotypes when we just want to be human people

It’s not that a prison can’t be nice sometimes, it’s just that you can’t leave

my family has had some pretty interesting encounters with psychics/mediums that seem genuine in the past, but nothing will ever be funnier to me than the last guy my mom talked to who was so definitely bullshitting, because she said "I was hoping to hear from my husband" and the guy went "he said....it's okay to Move On" and like. every single person my mom has recounted this too has been like "He Would Not Fucking Say That". as if this was an ooc fanfic about my father. it's just so fucking funny. fake psychic dude take your shitty headcanons about my ghost dad and LEAVE!!!

like, my parents were legitimately insane about each other. I cannot stress how much he wouldn't say that. I have to assume his ghost was standing right next to this fake psychic yelling "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!" when he told my mom to move on lmfao

actually. funnier to imagine he was a Real Psychic who was just trying to put a move on my mom and didn't think the ghost would do anything about it and now is now dealing with a violently angry haunting for the rest of his days lmfao

this psychic for the rest of his life all because he tried to hit on some dead guy's wife in an elevator

Ghost Dad: WE LITERALLY CHANGED OUR VOWS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE "TILL DEATH DO US PART"

Psychic: he says you need a real man. a tangible one. a man visible to the average eye.

thequeeninyellowlace

Psychic: I also choose this guy’s still-alive wife.

creekfiend

Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead

creekfiend

Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement

TRIED TO COME UP WITH AN ON-THE-SPOT ANALOGY FOR BEING ASEXUAL AND THE FIRST THING MY BRAIN SHAT OUT WAS "IT'S LIKE A WAFFLE MAKER"

Ways that sex is like a waffle maker:

1. Lots of people have one but you don't really think about it until they start talking about making waffles and you're like "oh shit they have a waffle maker"

2. Messy as fuck and you know what as far as I see it why even bother when you have pancakes, you don't need to bother with all those fluids and crevices with pancakes

3. WHY DOES EVERYONE AT THE WEDDING THINK YOU NEED ONE

4. Theoretically implied fun with whipped cream until it melts and starts soaking into shit

5. If you don't prep ur surfaces ur gonna have a bad time

6. It's fun in the kitchen but only on like special occasions cause again it's a pain in the ass to clean

7. ??? I prefer crêpes tbh I don't get it