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This is poetry

the sheer power and force of my love for squirrelflight is enough to kill a fully grown elephant

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I miss when the erins would let squirrelflight have fun

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I appreciate you blocking my username but I don’t mind coming forward and saying that I replied the first response to op. I simply put my take on their stance, but I can see how this can come across as toxic. All opinions should be respected (though I won’t respect outright incest/pedophilia) and although I do have a really strong opinion on bramble, that doesn’t give me the right to bash others for a different opinion even if it triggers me. Thank you for calling this out and I will try to grow and learn from this. I’m sorry to op if my reply offended you, and from now on I’ll take responsibility to mute/block others that may trigger me, not out of malice, but out of respect. I hope everyone reading this has a good day and stays safe <3

Squirrelflight stans leave people alone challenge

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Omg and then they all work it out and ashfur still dies and holds a vendetta and then when he possesses bramblestar rather than trying to be with her like that he just comes back to punish her and it would make so much more sense as to why he’s so obsessed about punishing code breakers and tries to make squirrel and crows life hell

Random au thoughts: Crowfeather joins Thunderclan to be with Squirrelflight (in this au they’ve been interested in each other since the journey) and they have the three. So Squilf is actually the three’s parents right? Except, so the power of three’s arc isn’t completely fucked, the fire scene happens because Ashfur still does his fucked up “I’m going to try and kill your kittens Squilf because I liked you and I’m angry you chose some windclan cat over me” (cuz let’s be honest Ash and Squilf were courting for like two weeks it’s not to much of a stretch to say he’d still try to pull some shit even if Squilf never showed interest). So in order to save her kits Squilf spins some lie up on the spot that matches canon (aka Crow and Leaf fell in love and Crow joined Thunderclan to be with Leaf but cuz medicine cat Squilf agreed to pretend to be his mate. The three are Leaf and Crow’s kits that Squilf pretended were her own and she’s actually barren). Problem is, Squilf is a really good fucking liar. This is good because it gets Ash to let them go but also the three also believed her and they are not fucking happy.

Maybe I’ll fully flesh this out another day but uh yeah hither

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I get people are entitled to their own opinion but idk how they can read this stuff and think bramble isn’t abusive. Like… he’s genuinely terrifying

Bramble and Squilf are so bad for each other. But I don’t get how that’s abusing Please explain

Have you read Squirrelflight’s Hope? If not then to get a full understanding of this I would highly recommending doing so so you can fully have context for a majority of what makes Bramblestar abusive.

Before I give a quick explanation I would also highly recommended watching “Bramblestar is Worse” by Moonkitti since that will explain the whole thing a lot better and in a lot more detail than I can achieve here.

Ok so basically, in Squirrelflight’s Hope Bramblestar’s behaviour towards Squirrelflight is straight up abusive, to the point where it even recontextualises some of their past arguments and interactions from what many people previously saw them as. To give a quick summary in Squirrelflight’s Hope Bramblestar and Squirrelflight disagree on how to resolve a land dispute and they argue - a lot. The fact that the are arguing isn’t the issue itself (even though it does really make the book drag, they argue for 4 pages straight at one point iirc), the issue is how Bramblestar behaves. And before I begin I just want to say it’s been a while since I have last read this book - it is not my intention to get anything wrong so if I do I promise it’s not intentional and I would appreciate knowing so I can make an edit.

He gaslights her- in Squirrelflight’s Hope he is constantly forcing her to question her judgement, he tells her that the Sisters are bad (despite not actually knowing them while Squirrel does) and tells her that she is a disloyal clan cat and that she has bad judgement. Due to this Squirrelflight begins to question herself more and more as the book goes on. To the point where she questions whether she belongs in ThunderClan anymore.

He exerts authority over her in a way that is inappropriate on both a personal and professional level- He forces her to run every single decision she makes by him, no matter how small or trivial. If she doesn’t comply he threatens her with demotion. She literally has no freedom to perform any of her usual duties. She wants to send out a hunting patrol? Bramblestar has to know and he has to approve who she wants to send. This isn’t normal. The point of a deputy is to do all this stuff so the leader doesn’t have to. Deputies should never need to do this unless it’s a battle patrol or something. He is punishing her. He even tells her at one point not to speak during a gathering iirc. That’s her right. Every clan cat should have the right to speak at a gathering. He takes that away from her.

He ostracises her - For a large period in the book he will not speak to her at all, no matter how hard Squirrelflight tries to engage in conversation with him, he will only talk to her when he’s giving her orders. This isn’t some little spat where he just won’t talk to her for an hour or two. This goes on for days. At one point he even refuses to speak up in her defence when the other Clans begin calling her a traitor at a gathering . He just watches. She is his deputy, she is his wife. Even if you are arguing with your spouse I assume you wouldn’t just stand there and watch as your rivals publicly ridicule and attack her. This isn’t normal.

He emotionally manipulates her - Early on in the book Squirrelflight expresses an interest in having more kits and poses the question to Bramblestar. Once she realises he doesn’t want anymore she decides to drop it and not press it further even though it does upset her (she tries not to let this show). In the book Bramblestar keeps bringing up kits in emotionally charged situations as a way of manipulating her, as well as bringing up other things like her supposed disloyalty and love for the sisters over her clan as a way to manipulate her.

Also there’s the entire scene where Squirrelflight is trying to get a dying cat some treatment, Bramblestar refuses to allow this dying cat to receive treatment by physically forcing himself between the dying cat and Leafpool, and then has the audacity to ask Squirrelflight “Why are you doing this to me?”

Also right at the end of the book he says “We should never let things get so bad” as his way of apologising as if he wasn’t the one actively continuing and escalating this dispute the entire book and purposely making Squirrelflight doubt herself more and more and feel worthless. All she wants to do is solve things with her husband. He doesn’t let her. Yes what she did to get him so angry with her in the first place was wrong (sneaking out to investigate some potential land for SkyClan behind his back since he was being very dismissive of her opinions), but she didn’t deserve this. There were points in this book I was scared for Squirrelflight. I was scared about what Bramblestar might do to her next. How he might decide to punish her next. What he was doing to her was abusive. Plain and simple.

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Ah yes, if this woman wasn’t in a position of power, then the male with the highest role wouldn’t treat her like shit 🥴

If Squirrelflight wasn’t deputy, bramblestar and her wouldn’t argue

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Hollykit 🤣🥺

Squilf doodle

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Big brain big brain big brain

Tbh id like to think Whitewing resembles Brightheart’s mom Frostfur quite a bit with her fur color.

I didn’t think of that before, I love it

And what if her eyes are just like Lionheart’s?

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This. So eloquently put. Props for bringing this up because this is so so important!!

squirrelflight may not be real, and the abuse she faces at the hands of bramblestar may not be real either.. but that’s not exactly the point? that’s not.. why people care so much.

we care so much because the way squirrelflight’s abuse is written is so realistic to real-life abuse that irl survivors of abuse can point it out and resonate with squirrelflight as an abuse victim. and terrifyingly enough, so many people have been able to compare their abusers bramblestar and his beliefs. his control and anger issues, his manipulation and violence. his behaviours may be fictional but the concept of abuse, and even bramblestar’s type of abuse specifically, are far from fictional.

we care so much because it’s almost.. scary? how careless kate cary has been with the handling of bramblestar’s abuse. at first she dismisses it, acts like it never even happened. acts like squirrelflight and bramblestar have been on equal playing ground their entire relationship. then she admits bramblestar was abusive, in squirrelflight’s hope. but she acts like that was the only time bramblestar has ever been abusive towards her when we know, as readers, that’s blatantly untrue. that bramblestar has always been abusive to squirrelflight for the entirety of their romantic relationship.

it’s scary because kate cary, one of the authors of both the warrior cats main series and the super editions squirrelflight’s hope, isn’t a fictional character. she’s a real person, who has an influence on many young impressionable people, who learn how to handle many real life situations through reading fiction starting at a young age.

we all know fiction impact and effects the way we view and experience reality. we, as readers, are basically told several times through the warrior cats series to apply our world’s morals to the book about religious battle cats. we know fireheart in series 1 is in the right to help others. we know squirrelflight was in the right to help the sisters, to protect their kits and queens. we know this because we apply our morals to the text we’re reading. it’s definitely not a coincidence that people who are horribly misogynistic in real life agree with squirrelflight’s mistreatment, or bramblestar’s actions.

even if squirrelflight and bramblestar aren’t ‘real’ characters, even if bramblestar’s abuse towards squirrelflight isn’t ‘real’, even if the situations they went through didn’t actually happen; why does that matter? why are you using the ‘reality’ of what happened in these books to dismiss very real people’s very real feelings? why do you care more about whether or not the abuse squirrelflight faced was real, when the impact it had on so many people indisputably was?

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Squirrelflight is the best character fuck you

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IF ME CALLING YOU DUDE OR GURL CAUSES YOU TO HAVE DYSPHORIA YOU SHOULD tell me because you being comfortable is so much more important than some stupid slang 

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Finchpaw will be named finchsong after her father and flamepaw will be called flameflicker after his brother I’m calling it now

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The “mama I’m in love with a criminal” amv/map on YouTube

reblog with how you first found out about warrior cats!

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Preach

i had to deal with people saying that ashfur and/or brambleclaw were “right” and the best wc characters for YEARS........so no i will not shut up abt squirrelflight being the best wc character ❤️

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Omfg yes

Cat squirrel

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