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drakestar is absolutely writhing at fourtrees rn loosing all of his nine lives at once

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the colonialist undertones and starclans flaws all make sense when you consider that warrior cats is a Christian series. In this essay I will

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YOURE RIGHT ABOUT THIS AND IM SO. MAD? It’s accentuated by the protags being like “oh remember night star and how fucked up that was?? But surely StarClan will do the right thing!” Like NO they VERY RARELY DO

Splashtail is hawkfrost with crappy sunglasses on

i think hawkfrost is better conceptually honestly, the air of tragedy around him (though mishandled by canon) is compelling to me. the narration has splashtail acting as comically evil as possible to remind everyone that he's an EVIL GODLESS HEATHEN who does NOT BELIEVE IN THE DIVINE BEINGS OF STARCLAN like a MANIPULATIVE EVIL MAN!!11!!!

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Erin hunter writing wind voice oh wait we’ve got to remind these guys that the series began as a moral tale about the strength of believing in god and the dangers of straying from his path

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I’m mad too but it feels like yall forgot that the first warrior cat arc ended in scourge’s biggest weakness being that he was an atheist like it is expressly said that is the only reason he’d fail. even like. bluestar rejecting starclan at her lowest being characterized as the most evil thing she’d done oh she’s a crazy woman oh nooo she’s turned her back on god. Only other first series atheist protag is cloudtail, the arrogant child, firestars foil. this has Always been there

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I liked a more coy and sneaky splashtail and im disappointed that warrior cats is going for not only “extremely outwardly comically evil” but also “Comically Evil even if it doesn’t make sense” like killing your clanmates before you are, supposedly, going to declare war. would’ve been wayyy more interesting if we had just found harelight in a ditch somewhere. like now all the tension is kinda gone bc who in riverclan Wouldn’t be opposed to him now

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OH MY GOD?

oh my god splashtail is just. allowed to threaten to kill people now. what about the warrior code

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oh my god splashtail is just. allowed to threaten to kill people now. what about the warrior code

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there’s something so horrific about that scene in squirrelflights hope where she visits starclan and all her family members are acting weird. hollyleaf simply doesn’t care anymore that ashfur is in starclan for whatever reason. her parents are like “oh yeah btw starclan is going to put you and your sister on trial in front of an extremely biased jury and you may or may not go to hell” with no complaint. imagine going to heaven and seeing your loved ones and they’re just gone, like none of their fire or cares or sense of justice are there anymore. it’s Bad Writing that they’re so weird and out of character but it is the writing that Is There and it has kind of this cosmic horror to it

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bloodclan should’ve been skyclan

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thinking about how the clan leaders are the only ones who understand the specific struggle of having so many lives in your paws -of the sudden isolation of being exalted, of the burden of the name -star, the gazes of their loved ones looking up at them during famine, sickness and war, pleading “help us. what are you going to do?” - and yet their pride and clan boundaries forbid them from ever being friends

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Bonus points if you say why!

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Title: Battles of the Clans

Arc: Field Guide

Type: illustration

Country: Russia

Artist: Leonid Nasyrov

Characters: Cedarheart

Source: https://warriors-cats.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8

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Title: The Ultimate Guide

Arc: Field Guide

Type: illustration

Country: Russia

Artist: Leonid Nasyrov

Characters: Dapplepelt

Source: https://warriors-cats.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8

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Title: Into the Wild

Arc: The Prophecies Begin

Type: gold collection illustration

Country: Russia

Artist: Natalia Sokolova

Characters: Firepaw / Firestar and Graypaw / Graystripe, fox

Source: https://warriors-cats.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8

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Title: Warriors Refuge

Arc: Graystripe’s Adventure Full Color Manga

Country: North America

Characters: Graystripe

Artist: James L. Barry

Source: book scans