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[spookyji]

mille 0.0 u doing okie? should i call jjuni up and tell him to calm down ???

OH NO

[holisticdogpark]

oh the tragedy of a podcast character with a daughter..............

[lalunabunny]

[bonefall]

while i do agree with the sentiment that bloodclan should be more nuanced as an entity i still believe it is wrong to portray them as the necessary "response" to clan injustice (haven't read the books in years but i am pretty sure that bloodclan started with no connection to the clans) / an opposition to the clan's flaws. some of the thing scourge did was out of selfishness and bloodclan isn't the other colour of the black and white debacle with the clans. the clans are heavily flawed yes, but it isn't realistic to completely say that their structure had no redeeming qualities altogether and that all outsider groups is fundamentally better than the clans.

all clans and groups are flawed in their own way and i believe we shouldnt brush past the things that other groups (the sisters and what they do with their toms *cough cough*) did solely to be able to degrade the clans and their culture.

Buddy, you're setting up a strawman. I promise you that if you look into the reduxes I've made of BloodClan, Guardians, The Sisters, and the Tribe, you will see that I don't make any of them a "flawless" alternative to Clan life.

Nor do I say that the Clans have no redeeming qualities. In fact, you can browse the "Clan Culture" tag to see the various expansions I've made to show how these traditions, values, and technological advances make Clan life so alluring.

The overarching theme of BB is that the nature of culture is change. For better AND for worse.

With respect, I think there's something insidious in the wording of "the things the other groups did." We're talking about fan responses to a work that consistently demonizes and degrades foreigners to make the Clans look like the "best way to live," justifying xenophobia. These are not real groups, they are writing choices.

In the franchise with some pretty extreme examples of misogyny, the authors said "What if bizarro world where women rule and have no men... woag..." and only includes a single Clan-alligned member of this culture, with a BAD opinion of them, who can't even do his diplomatic job because he HATES them so much.

In the same franchise that shows Fireheart getting bullied, facing prejudice, and fighting a murderous tyrant who publically executes a mixed-race character, their endgame villain is an outsider, like him, but this one IS a godless heathen who HATES love and friendship and banned families.

In the VERY same franchise which made its first non-malicious group barely able to get through an arc without needing to be saved by Clan cats, totally unable to defend themselves, framed as "whiny" for not wanting their clearly 'inferior' culture to be forcefully changed.

And I'm re-stating all this because, again, no offense to you in particular Anon, but I've been seeing a few people with a sentiment like yours lately. Complaints into a vacuum that don't make targeted critique of anyone's fanworks, gesturing at this broad "woobification" which is apparently out there somewhere over the rainbow, saying things like "well Scourge is selfish" or "well Moonlight abandoned her 13 year old" as if we haven't BEEN knew.

As if we're not all directly responding to these choices. As if I haven't written ESSAYS on this topic.

Since this was about BloodClan in particular though, and you admit you haven't read the books in years, please go back and actually read Rise of Scourge before trying to make critique of the ways fanon rewrites its origin. It's EXPLICITLY a response to the Clans, in the text, that the Erins wrote, it is canon that fanon is working with.

And you want people to take that out and approach it a different way... why? Because it's so incredulous to you that a nation forms in response to a threatening neighbor? That a common enemy through invasions is a way that people might choose to unite, and encourage their new culture to value brutality? Because you don't like the idea of Clan Culture's XENOPHOBIC BATTLE CULTURE affecting surrounding communities??

Could YOU, maybe, be doing this "woobification" thing I keep hearing about? Can I play this stupid game too? What's our stupid prize? Can it be a lollipop? Do we get stickers

TL;DR, ok.

[phayz]

tumblr "trans people are nsfw but our ads for sex dolls and jacking dudes off and doing drugs are not" dot com

[lover-of-botatoes]

lung cancer

[ableedingpromise]

I can't relate to women who want a child at all. I don't even hate children, in fact i think they're very cute!! And i understand that it could be rewarding to help nurture another human being and help them grow.

But i still can't understand the need for one. Like I've never wanted a baby and never will. But it feels scary to know that I'll always be different from everyone around me. After twenty years everyone will be happy with their own families and I'll be alone :(

[syn4k]

pov you are watching hermitcraft season nine in july of 2023

[ask-redsoldier-tf2]

[the cat drops the rocket launcher off of her back as she goes to lick herself, but, conveniently, somehow kills a spy by stomping on the trigger with her paw, the rocket launching at an invisible spy and blowing it up. Wow. Lucky. Kitty's first kill]

Engineer: *flabbergasted*

Soldier: Good job, maggot! You deserve a treat!!

[bedforddanes75]

blocked nose itchy nose sore throat i should just die actually

[rainingincale]

I call all cats mr meow

[ryuseitai]

I'm tweaking right now

[ultramantr1gger]

goodnight

[arrowheadedbitch]

Every month of my life, my periods get a little bit worse

[vaultsixtynine]

should i buy indian to unjokerfy myself or just make pastina. scream

[noodle-anime]

Watching Yuri on Ice for the first time (finally!) and I am losing my FUCKING mind at the way there's like eight episodes of the regular anime "hahaha they're just friends! Isn't Victor quirky doing naked splits in the bath *wink wink*" and then they upgrade to the sneaky "it wasn't a kiss it was a hug!!" on the ice that they Don't talk about and then they CASUALLY EXCHANGE RINGS ON THE STEPS OF A CHURCH AND GET CONGRATULATED ON THEIR MARRIAGE?? AT DINNER? ABSOLUTELY NOBODY IS SURPRISED?

AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT IT?????