#about battle cats from a series directed towards middle schoolers

[shadowsight-aster]

I do not regret opening Pandora's box whatsoever, in fact I'll keep opening it over and over again like a gremlin child.

I'M SO GLAD THAT I FOUND SOMEONE WHO LIKES THIS SHIP AS MUCH AS I DO! I was beginning to feel lonely.

An overhaul? Is that another word for a rewrite? If so, can Grey Wing be less forgiving of Clear Sky? He was way too light on him, Jagged Peak should have gone off a lot more about how horrible he was when their mom came to visit. She didn't even find out half the shit he did before disowning him.

And can Grey Wing PLEASE live up to 5 years at least? I want him to be happy with his husband for a little while longer, 2 and a half years is so young. 😭

AND RIVER SAYS HE LOOKED A LOT OLDER WHEN HE WAS LIKE, WHAT, A YEAR AND A HALF? THIS POOR CAT NEEDS A BREAK!

The difference between Grey Wing and River Ripple's lives is insane actually, Grey Wing was going hungry for the sake of others while River was taking food from twolegs and meditating. Grey Wing watched half of his friends die in a battle caused by his paranoid, delusional brother, was almost killed by said brother and blames himself for the deaths. River's camp probably seemed like an unreachable dream.

TRIPPING OVER NOTHING AND CRASHING THROUGH GLASS SLIDING DOORS. HOPPING FROM PAW TO PAW LIKE MY TAIL'S ON FIRE !!!! slash positive words cannot describe the unfiltered joy i get learning that there are people out there who also love my warriors ideas/ships n stuff. stimming so hard i simply stop existing TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION!!! yes yes i do mean rewrite and let me tell you about anon (dotc spoilers beneath the break!) (and a lot of words. like almost too many get ready to read)

starting all the way from the top: i kept fluttering bird alive i don't like it when the erins kill off the babies esp in the first few chapters of knowing them for shock value (and yeah yeah it was motive for the settlers leaving but. the ancients were already starving. they didn't need a little kitten dying to tell them to get moving) bird actually becomes the next stoneteller (at a very young age but i'll tell you what i was inspired by in a second) and passes on her last message, the prophecy of the sun trail ok so first: this one cover of the hobbit's "i see fire." (the one by celtic woman literally so beautiful) with bird singing it. "o' misty eye of the mountain below / keep careful watch of my brother's souls / and should the sky be filled with fire and smoke / keep watching over durin's sons." IS LITERALLY BIRD TALKING ABOUT HER BROTHERS!!! real not false i can see her leaning into the pool in the cavern of pointed stones, begging the world to tell her if they're even alive and getting just blurry images and feelings in return secondly: i think quiet rain would see her kids be burdened with leadership moons before their time and mourn the death of their kithood, as all mothers do. and on the other end, jagged peak. seeing all of his siblings fly above their stations on wings of starlight, while he himself is grounded, literally and figuratively. that he eventually remembers that he's still himself, he's still important and powerful and needed. he is not a burden--even if he's not one of the golden children--and it shows in the fierce love he has for his campmates (btw side note. we need more canon warriors disability rep NOW. justice for my kids.) do note i forget if this happened in dotc originally but now it's tripled. sorry jagged i still love you

as you said, yes. grey wing and jagged peak are lot more harsh to clear sky (and i say this with the most love) (sky is an ASSHOLE.) (rewrite clear sky even more so. ohhhh let me tell you.) circling back around to i see fire. i always thought that fire was very important in warriors, right?? from the first book, we know that the colonies (thunder, at the very least) see fire as this violent, fickle, destructive force that kills off colonies, we see it in how everybody distrusts firepaw when he joins the clan, we see it rip through territories and drive out entire colonies, we see it in the visions warning the healers of impending danger, in the colors of the aura of the sun eclipsed by the dark eye of the moon, in the ripples in the lake stained red with blood at sunset. but in these blazes, there grows new life afterwards. it's the knowledge learned in the ashes, the guilts and mistakes laid raw and bare with no cover to hide it. it's the phoenix dusting itself off, ready to grow stronger on the next cycle. the fire cleanses, the fire takes away, it is a device of nature and a weapon to be feared. enough prose: what am i trying to prove? well. i always thought that one eye had a lot of unused potential as a villain (AND STAR FLOWER. holding my tongue i'll get to her in a second) and slate was a fuckin. waste of time! in the rewrite, one eye uses fire to get his way. the mountain cats have never had many encounters with it (not a lot of fires near a waterfall with 0 kindling opportunities) and that it's been reduced to nothing more than a scary kit-story so one eye can intimidate them with it because he "knows how to control it," and understands how to get it he burns away patches of the blazing star to make a point (star flower gets on his case for this because "YOU MOUSE-BRAINED SCAT OF A DAD. *WE* ALSO NEED THAT."), he burns his followers, and nearly convinces clear sky to burn away all of the territories so they can easily kill and drive out all those who oppose them and rebirth a united nation underneath one eye's watchful gaze. clear sky comes full circle and becomes the very monster he was running from. doing this leaves no prey and will starve all who live in the territory the plague of death follows sky wherever he roams! haha! his siblings absolutely tear into him for this AND all of the other warcrimes he committed. let this freak work to earn forgiveness (also this feeds into why the colonies fear fire) (because this little menace of a man nearly killed everyone including himself) (his practices were deliberately buried so nobody else would get the idea to do that) (OTHER THAN NIGHTHEART BUT THAT'S ANOTHER REWRITE FOR ANOTHER DAY!) even though this is a lot of fire, grey wing does not die to his asthma! i have asthma and IM still alive. why can't he? huh? huh erins? he lives on the moor but he constantly stops by the island to visit his husband <3 all of the kindle cats treat him like one of their own, lift their tails and bunt and purr at him (the apprentices always see him coming from the moor and race to be the first to tell river ripple) night always has to flick river with her tail and be like: RIVER. GO TALK TO GREY WING. YOU'VE BEEN STARING AT HIM FOR FIVE MINUTES?? she also gives them tips on how to care for the younger members of their camps, how to be patient with them ALSO ALSO he AND river raise turtle tail's kids as their own. river calls them young ones, pebbles, minnows (that last one is picked up from arc. bawling) oh and also thunder and lightning tail are also in love. mic drop (my reasoning? they grew up together, they are so best friends to lovers) (and lightning tail gets so obviously jealous of star flower being with thunder it's hilarious) ONCE AGAIN THIS IS GETTING SUPER LONG BUT I WILL GO ON IN ANOTHER POST!!! i have many thoughts in my brain :3

[childofraddblog]

Tonight I got to watch 2 Netflix original films. Okja is an original film that I had been very excited for and was fairly confident that I would enjoy. Death Note, an American adaptation of my favorite manga series of all time and a popular anime, was a piece of work I was far more on the fence about. After all Hollywood doesn't necessarily have the best record in adapting Japanese works of fiction. [Verdict] Okja - A wonderful story about a girl's journey to save her pet super pig from being slaughtered in a factory and served on the mass market alongside its kin. Crawling with overarching themes of animal cruelty, corporate greed and activism, though the film chooses to make a focus of them at times overall I felt the director Bong Joon Ho was deftly able to keep the focus primarily on the relationship between Mija and the titular Okja [also the aforementioned super pig]. Joon Ho also has a great sense of comedy, often sneaking in incredible amounts of laugh worthy moments during the most dire of situations through the mannerisms of the characters or the framing of a certain shot. There's also often many little things going throughout a shot so if you lose focus of the main players of a scene you still won't be bored by a scene. This adds to its rewatchability status as there is so much to discover just based off of the background interactions alone. Finally, the actors characters all did wonderful with their characters. Being deftly over the top when necessary or calmly subdued for the same reason. Tilda Swinton is great as the evil Mirando, Seo-Hyeon Ahn who plays Mija portrays being a kid in stellar fashion. Often not completely understanding a situation, or jumping into a dire situation because she is a kid and will do what she wants. Overall, Okja is an incredible fantasy piece wrapped in real world issues and as long as that doesn't bother you I highly recommend it. ------ [Verdict] Death Note - Guys, listen. It's no secret Hollywood sucks at adapting Japanese stories. Usually it's under the assumption that these stories can't work as American films because they're told through a Japanese lens. Fictionalizing an Asian experience or culture. However, if there is one story that can bridge that gap quite clearly based on the very idea of what it is it's Death Note. A very smart high schooler receives a notebook that kills people, he likes it, and a very smart detective uses logic to go after him. There is a whole thing about Death Gods but their lore is very rarely explored in this story that is at its core about greedy humans and the battle of Light vs. Darkness. Geniunely, you can't get more American than that. Or at the very least multi-culturally transcendent. And yet director Adam Wingard and the execs of Netflix still manage to screw it up. Somehow believing they had to make functionary changes to the story and the characters in a way that ultimately makes them very unrealistic (and by proxy unAmerican) based on how plain generic and cliche they are. Instead there's focus placed on the Japanese thing in the entire series, Ryuk the death god, and even that is only used in an okay manner. Truthfully though, Ryuk was my favorite thing in this movie. Light is no longer a sociopath (Americans won't root for those in a show because there's just no way to make them nuanced enough to give them any empathy. Not like someone successfully wrote 108 chapters based off the very idea.) willing to use the Death Note for what he twistedly perceives to be the greater good. Literally he's frightened into doing it by Ryuk the first time, the second time he does it for emotional revenge, and all the other times after that he does it to impress a girl who gives him nookie in exchange for lives. It's disgusting. And the less said about Mia, the bettet. L, the subtle and logical super detective who successfullh deduces that Light is Kira mostly does so on a forced hunch and retains his persona of L in name only. Though L's mannerism in the original series are present they are only there to showcase L as a quirky character whom we couldn't possibly relate to. Completely glossing over why L developed those mannerisms in the first place, like how he sits in chairs, or eats sweets constantly, or the fact that he is a purely logical creature that doesn't allow himself to succumb to emotion. The last of which in that list is never present as we get an L that runs strictly on emotion which eventually causes him to compromise his own operation and often undercuts his admitedly amateur deduction skills. This movie is a not a game of cat and mouse. L and Light are never given the chance to bond truly interact with one another causing their friction as adversaries to fall flat. Neither of these characters are smart and painfully shows in the latter half of this film. The more I think about it this film has no story. A guy gets a notebook, his girlfriend uses it better than he does, he pisses off a cop, and just as the story begins what should have been the third act it cuts out. Rolling credits as two characters are in the middle of a conversation and one character who is not Light struggles with the idea of using the Death Note to get his revenge. There is literally no resolution to the story. Only Mia has an end to her arc and that's because it's really contrived in a painfully laughable way towards the end. I am all for thematic endings that leave the viewers with morally ambiguous questions to mull over as their journey comes to an end, the original manga ending to Death Note does that. But it has an end. Some stories get resolved in some fashion. Not all, but enough. I have never experienced a film like the American Death Note that literally cuts out in the very middle of the third act reaching no climax what-so-ever. Finally, the actors. Willem Dafoe as Ryuk is literally the best thing this movie achieves. I would watch an entire movie if Dafoe as Ryuk. Lakeith Stanfield who plays L does a good job with what he is given, but he never feels like L because he was directed to act like a weirdo while we never once get to know the weirdo. Margaret Qualley I would also does a pretty decent job as Mia. Mia's just a terrible character like the rest of them. Manipulative but never in a truly evil way, just in a cliche "I'm doing what's best for you but only because it ultimately serves me kind of way." Nat Wolff who plays Light is just plain awful in the role. Watch the scene where he meets Ryuk for the first time, or any of the scenes where he's trying to impress Mia. That first option literally made me think this movie was a comedy at first. Death Note is one of the worst American adaptations of a Japanese property I have ever seen. Not as bad as Dragon Ball Evolution, but Ghost in the Shell was definitely better. And that movie literally made whitewashing the central focus of its story.