#needletail but never checking on her

[greatshell-rider]

re: my own tags on a previous post i am too lazy to paste them here but needletail’s talk with violetshine is so shoddily done and i am offended on their behalf. first off it’s in alderheart’s point of view and like. that’s nice that he and needletail got to talk too, they deserved to have that, but COME ON. this whole book (well. some of it sigh) you have needletail’s ghost trying to track violetshine down, violetshine has awful dreams in which needletail disdains her, you have violetshine begging for forgiveness and understanding and reassurance that her one closest friend in ALL HER LIFE still cares for her and doesn’t regret sacrificing her life to save her, doesn’t blame her for anything- and in this scene where they finally talk, it is two lines. two pages before the end of the book. and in alderheart’s point of view

THROWS UP MY HANDS CMON

[drabbles-of-writing]

Any other Wing!AU ideas you have? I love all the worldbuilding and character motivations you have planned for it! Also I know Boscha is already a lovebird in that au, but think: Boscha… as a flamingo.

I’m so stupid I literally was thinking of pink birds when choosing her wings and I couldn’t even remember FLAMINGO Although honestly she still gives more Bird That Could Murder You vibes and parrots can totally do that.

As for my Wing AU ideas hhhh,,,,,,may end up repeating some things but LETS GO

Luz is eternally confused how some of the species names translated into the Boiling Isles. Like the species American Kestrel. How do they know what America is? They don’t! This is never explained.

Bird stereotypes exist in this world, too! Just because this isn’t the human realm doesn’t mean the Boiling Isles sucks any less. Owls are smart, ravens untrustworthy, peacocks are vain, parrots are loud and annoying, doves are peaceful, etc. This leads to many people trying to lean into or far, far away from said stereotypes. Eda may be an owl but everyone knows by now not to ask this crackhead for advice, and that is tacked onto the belief she’s not a ‘true owl’ because she’s a hybrid. Lilith is doing her absolute best to be seen as trustworthy and reliable to the Coven, a stand which has proved well in gaining admiration in the Isles. Of course, that comes crashing down when her betrayal is revealed and she’s fallen right back into her own stereotype. Most birds of prey are seen as bold and cruel, yet still admired. Amity’s family falls right into this. Skara leans right into her stereotype, though that’s because she actually does enjoy singing, she just happens to fit society’s expectations. Boscha is doing her best to not only prove that lovebirds can be more than just little matchmakers, but also be as intimidating as possible.

The Boiling Isles mixes with non-winged species pretty well. Demons or animal-like people (such as Braxus or Tibbles) often don’t have wings. Of course, despite their general unity, there’s a minor divide between winged and non-winged folk that can be seen in social groups. It’s still a bit of a wonder among Bonesborough how Eda and King get along so well.

People that can glide like flying squirrels, bat and bug-like wings do exist, though they are often strange demon hybrids, and aren’t technically considered witches. This has left many debate on if the Titan who makes up the Isles had wings or not, and what kind they were. Belos has chosen not to comment on any of these theories.

Preening is a sort of thing done with friends and family, to keep wings in check. There are places you can visit to get your wings cleaned up if their messy but unless your wings are covered in tar you simply Do Not go there in public. It’s like the social norm that it makes you look like a loser or asshole with no friends or family. So they mostly only get work at night. If Eda has to preen her feathers she WILL die and this is NOT a debate. Luz is willing to battle Eda to the death if it meant getting this owl to PREEN HER DAMN FEATHERS JESUS CHRIST. After Luz gets her squad of friends they have occasional sessions of preening each other feathers n just talking. It’s a pain for literally everyone, because Luz gets into so much trouble her feathers are constantly a mess. If you ever see Luz with normal-looking wings, it’s a cause for concern. Amity, of course, always has pristine wings.

The downy fluff baby birds are born with starts to go away at age ten. It completely vanishes between the ages of 13-15, depending on if your a late or early bloomer. Willow and Amity are the only ones with their fluff completely gone (albeit the last of Amity’s were plucked out prematurely), with Gus having a noticeable amount of fluff that hinders his flight slightly and Luz has some downy feathers at the base that mostly just serve as something soft to touch. King can over be found hiding under Luz’s wings and curled up in said fluff when Eda won’t let him nap on her wings.

Arial races are very similar to racecars, but are very, very popular. Beat only by Grudgeby. Some smaller places allow people of any wing size or shape to compete for a little bit of fun, but most official races only allow certain bird species, and there are even races for just one type of bird to keep things ‘fair.’ Many races involve peregrine falcons, eagles, albatrosses, needletails and swift-like birds. Hybrids between these fast birds aren’t too uncommon to try and get an extremely fast bird. It once got so bad that it was practically a breeding program, and now hybrids are banned from these very specific official races, and a thorough check in DNA and the family tree is made when someone enters a race, making sure everyone is the same species at least three generations back. Eda, of course, is always shouting about how stupid it is and claims she was one of the fastest fliers in Hexside, and would’ve gotten a lot for her time if they weren’t so specific.

Belos, being a wandering albatross, is often said to be truly relentless. Never giving up in his mission because an albatross does not tire, and that even if you are faster than him, he can outlast even a common swift, many say. It’s said he doesn’t need wing bindings, despite having the largest natural wingspan of any witch in the Boiling Isles, even by albatross standards. Which leads to the rumors that his bloodline is completely pure, nothing but albatrosses, maybe even only wandering albatrosses. Belos has said nothing about these claims, but his coven certainly helps evoke them.  Eda, however, is undeterred. Belos may have the largest wings in length, but Eda’s are THICK. She often jokes that she could snap Belos’s wings in half with one of her own without even trying. Which many people have overheard, and now there’s a group of people who lowkey really wanna see the ‘most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles’ duke it out with Belos, one on one.

Hhhhhh I’ll stop here, it’s getting long. But there’s more on the culture of wings in general!!! Still got more,,,dear god so much more. But that’s all I’m indulging on today.

[stimmypaw]

Stimmypaw reads Darkest Night! The fourth text post!

Back with these uh live reading comments! Remember those? yeah! I'm on the fourth book of Warrior Cats: A Vision of Shadows :D I read The Apprentice's Quest and Thunder and Shadow and Shattered Sky and now!! I'm here :D and boy did I have a time. Click read more to see it!

NEEDLETAIL?????????

Needletail???????????

What?????

OH???????

Wh THIS GUY IS TALKIN 2 DEAD PEOPLE????

HOW WHO IS THAT

OH MY GOD

These guys are weak and dumb skyclan is epic and sharing the territory with them is good, but of course sparkpelt isn't dealing well with change wink wink nudge wink nudge nudge huh???? (this is a nod to how I project into her and say shes autistic)

I am getting anxious for tinycloud SERIOUSLY how much longer until those kits??? Everyday you show up and its WOW my tummy ssure is HUGE AND BULGING I just Wonder Oh When They'll Be Born, probably pretty soon!!! :) and then they arent!!!! Birth dammit!!!

Cherryfall cut the sick and hurt cats some slack jeez youre Fine, youre not feeding half the forest and you have THREE medicine cats ready to help you if youre not feeling well

Bastard Cherryfall I hate you /lh

Dovewing and Tigerheart have relationship drama again. What is UP with those two I simply do not understand them

Watching Bramblestar trying to control this bizarre situation is actually funny he is so close to screaming "PLEASE dont be mad :c"

SOON WHEN???? JUST KIT THOSE KITTENS DAMMIT

Get her, Alderheart

They LITERALLY said something about sharing the territory, they were like "Stars have five points baby and we need those 5 clans togetherrrr" what else do these cats want??? I know its a big change but its necessary

Wait everyone shut up that cat is named Podlight this is so important to me

Dang these cats are really still struggling :c I wish they didnt blame each other

Harestar is so cool

What the FUCK mistystar????

God what a disaster of a gathering Starclan is gonna be so pissed everyone is doing the opposite of what they should

I was holding my breath oof

I hope thunderclan gives some territory too thats too small a space for Skyclan

Oh boy oh boy oh boy i am Anxious for these Kitties

Violetpaw is me having nightmares every night

Macgyver is a heavily gringue name and I have No Clue how to say it how the hell do you say it

Update its either Mick Guyver or Mac Guyver apparently

Its fun to see how different the sisters are from one another, I love them both

I also love their mom with the name identical to puddleshine wish I got to meet her

IM CRYING BRO........M...MDB.....NFBANN.....VIOLETPAW BELONGS MY DARLING MY DAUGHTER

Sadly Twigpaw is for gender binarism 😔 /j

Twigpaw is often in her thoughts and doesn't pay attention to anything around her and I love her for that

Bad news Finpaw is gonna lose his tail, good news I can draw his tail fin-shaped

Puddleshine surgeon moment!!!

I love Graystripe and Millie

And I love that being flirty is a part of Sparkpelt's personality, I don't know what Alderheart is talking about she's always been dandelion-headed

Ok this is epic, I’m glad we’re breaking gender roles in Warrior Cats my heart dropped when the books called Briarlight cr*ppled, that’s the thing they promised not to do anymore recently right? I’m not sure but, I could use some uh less ableism on my Warrior Cats, the series is old but the newer books should be better, so yeah, good modernize these cats babyyy

OH COOL Skyclan journey!!! Fun I hope they find someone :] also fuck Molewhisker and Cherryfall bastards.

Jayfeather is gonna miss Alderheart too much for him to leave hehehe

ALL of Starclan showed up just to call out Riverclan pahahah

oooo is shadowclan haunted?????

FINALLY TINYCLOUD IS KITTING YES GOD YES GO QUEEN GOOOO!!!!

I wonder why Twigpaw wants to stay behind, there has to be more than just the camp stuff

"I wish I were more positive like Twigpaw, but at least I'm just as scarred by the death of my loved ones as my dad :] I like being like him"

Violetpaw witnesses a car crash 😔 that was a bit messy what happened to those cars also why the hell was one of them smaller was it a bike??? Or ???? Idk what's up with it!!!

Needletail just happens to have slow-down turned on for her on the discord chat so she can only say like a few words each hour :/ why the hell is she here tho Violetpaw needs to get OVER your death!!!!

This short exchange has made me love Dewpaw

Also, I love Twigpaw, I still wonder why she stayed behind tho

Ahh, is it cus she feels too estranged from her family :c ? I wish her mom was around maybe that would help

Jee Twigpaw be a tad more empathic, I can see Twigpaw struggles with that sometimes

You can't cheer him up right now he's grieving, just find him on common ground, talk to him, don't try to make him happy just try to keep him company

Oh wow finpaw that's a dangerous thing to say I hope Twigpaw doesn't crumble under the pressure to never be sad because people like her because she's happy and her being sad would be bad

ALSO I JUST REMMEMBRERD UH TWIGPAW MENTIONED BRIARLIGHT BUT BERRYNOSE IS RIGHT THERE???? HE IS RIGHT HE DIDNT DIE OFF SCREEN IM SURE OF IT WAIY

BERRYNOSS IS RIGHT THERE I CHDCKED!!!! HE LOST HIS TAIL TOO AND HES A GREAT WARRIOR, TWIGPAW!!!! YOU SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED IT ITS MORE RELATABLE

Okay I'm glad they're getting along this is nice

Oh look twigpaw you Are like your father :] this is cute

Skyclan begins to fish competitively I'm glad

I like it when medicine cats bicker about their leader's behaviors ehheheh, Jayfeather talking about how weak Shadowclan is, Alderheart being annoyed at his father for wanting to stay silent, the others worried about the tensions this is all cheff the kisser

Jayfeather spitting the truths about how Starclan doesn't know shit, and he is very much one to speak

Puddleshine: Rowanstar stepped up the patrols :c

Leadstar: He has warriors enough for that?? Damn good for him

Dang poor Skyclan I hope they manage stuff better soon

Oooo the girls are fighting!!!

Alderheart starclan anxiety time dang

Sheep :]

Needletail :[

I'm sad Ravenpaw isn't here, this is a lovely reunion scene but knowing Barley will be alone when they all leave breaks my heart

Oh, maybe not, but if they stay I'll be sad also cus Skyclan needs its warriors

Aw man, Twigpaw is struggling :c

OUCH

I WANT SKYCLAN 2 SWIM THO......

Omg crimes

That sounds kinda possessive twigpaw!

DOVEWING?????

T

WhHAHAGAHAHA WHERE DID THAT COME FROM

omg tigerstar 2 real

Whats he gonna do to rowanstar???

ALRIGHT THATA OVER THEN PAHAHA

Aw, I'm glad they're having fun tho, and that twigpaw sees herself as skyclan

Alderheart, as he meets someone for the first time in a while: ARE YOU OKAY???

Blackstar protagonist moment

The medicine cats: our gods are toying with us again and destiny is uncertain

Leaders: I cannot DO this right now PLEASE leave and let me care for The Real Issues

Alderheart: YOU WILL hang out at my house Willowshine this isn't up for debate

Riverclan suffered enough and it's their turn to throw a tantrum about it, honestly good for them hsghahah

Alderheart asks his father to go on a quest to check people's feet

WHAT THR HELL IS A CANTANKEROUS

Alderheart and Willowpelt sitting there watching Shadowclan fight

This is really funny

HEWWO????

Puddleshine, in his eyes: help help

I love Skyclan

Ok this sounds like it's gonna be very very fun

Mission impossible: Escape From São Paulo

Oh, is Fallowfern deaf? That's so poggers omg I wanna see more of her

Edit: fallowfern is an elder that lost her hearing with age and retired after that happened :/ boring

I love leafstar so much

Juniperclaw: aren't you gonna punish her????

Leafstar: why

Juniperclaw: when I tell rowanstar he's gonna be pissed

Leafstar: don't tell him

Juniperclaw: the fuck is wrong with you and your clan??? Where is everyone???????

Leafstar: busy

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I don't trust abled people specially able-bodied people telling disabled people they just have to train harder and feeling sorry for yourself won't help.

But this is the closest to a positive message to disabled people we have ever had in warriors so I guess I'll take it but I want better

IVYPOOL!!!💖💖💖💖💕

Dang ivypool what a way to show someone you miss them hahaha

Twigpaw: uhhhh how's dovewing?

Ivypool: what do you mean did she do something illegal I'm sure she did

Ivypool is a seriously funny character WHY are you yelling at the young adult about your sisters illegal activities she doesn't know anything about it!!!!

Alderheart goes on an adventure

Feet inspector on the road!!!!

Jasper is so funny I love him

Omg what's he got against clan cats??? What's his sad backstory????

YEESSSS SPARKPELT MY LOVE 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💕💕💕

Sparkpelt your opinion sucks but I love you

I'm really really glad they had this moment this is really sweet, they hadn't talked for a while but this is genuine like, we hadn't had this sort of relationship in so long in the books with just, dialogue yknow??? THEYRE TALKING ABOUT THINGS

And the pause Sparkpelt takes between her speaking to fix what she's saying "I'm sorry for saving you :c no wait uhh not exactly but like" this is so good so natural so fun I love you sparkpelt

I get why she has a diferent opinion on Skyclan it's good for someone close to Alderheart to have a different mindset from him and for him to have someone like uh be opposites from him a lil yknow contrats his characteristics makes both siblings fun round and full of kitty do you get what I'm saying???

I love this

I love Sparkpelt, love her lil anxious moments, love her, love that she just wants to fool around with toms and enjoys Larksong but doesn't want to get serious you go girl

They wanted to write smart-ass they wanted to write smart-ass so bad

They're doing this in the rain?????

I'm quite certain Violetpaw is a young adult by this point its valid for her to go

Wh why did you let your cat out in the rain dude!!! When it comes back it's gonna dirty up the whole place it's wet out there!!!! And the cold is gonna get in the house!!!!!!!

I WAS HOLDING MY BREATH OH LORD

That was SO INTENSE AND SO FUNNY AND SO MUCH, IM SO GLAD SHE MADE IT I GOT SCARED

Oh this is so epic

That moment when your cat nearly dies and then it runs off and you go after it and then a bunch of other cats show up and start running with it

I hope Twigpaw can see the others soon

Glad to see her keeping her medicine cat knowledge ehehehe

???????

Sandynose I hate you you are so abled

Sandynose: I don't want my son to feel distanced from his peers so I'm distancing him from his peers

DOVEWING???

SANDYNOSE SHUT UP IM GOING TO KILL YOU ANS MURDER YOU

I'm so upset with Sandynose WHY isn't leafstar seeing this WHY DOESNG ANYONE SEE THIS SOMSONE PLEASE CONFORT AND LOVE MY CHILD TWIGPAW DOESNT DESERVE THIS

Angry sad upset why

Piscina

Thanks graystripe

Ok who's dying this time

Ok no one just a background cat got hurt he will survive otherwise it would be relevant

This was intense though what will happen now???

YES FINALLY

Oh this is lovely so good they're here!!! The rest of skyclan has arrived and we are all happy together

That dream felt good

NEEDLETAIL??? AGAIN

Where were you at!!!!

What!!!

Check this man's feet how many toes are there this could be good

What

Hegshahwha what the fuck is up with this guy

Okay I like him

Ohhh THATS tree

Change your name if you don't like it you sound trans already

Yeah nothing makes one smarter like dying

This is very fun I'm excited for more of whatever happening

Twigpaw :c

HIS SNIFFLES

Oh no

Hhhhnn I want Twigpaw to be happy so bad, I hate seeing her struggles

Sandynose you are so evil and very detested by me

You can and you SHOULD feel angry at Sandynose he SUCKS and he is being needlessly mean at you!!!!! There are much better ways to bring up the possibility that maybe you'd be happier with thunderclan!!! Fuck off Sandynose

Oh so Snowbush hasn't improved, maybe he will die?

Poor Alderheart

Oh fuck there he goes

Yeah

Aw man, rip to the background cat

That was a heavy death too

Aw, I was hoping the rest of Skyclan would show up before the gathering, maybe just after it???

I wonder what's going on in Shadowclan

TIGERHEARTS MISSING HUH???

The couple was kidnapped

HUH????

Oh my lord oh fuck

Can't anyone step up to lead why do they depend on Tigerheart so much???

Jesus christ

Alderheart kills his gods

This is so chaotic and funny I'm worried as hell for shadowclan but excited a lot is happening

HI TREE AGSGAHAH

Tawnypelt >:(

Puddleshine: WAIT DONT KICK HIM OUT, CHECK OUT HIS FREAKY FEET INSTEAD

Oh dear

Twigpaw :c

TWIGPAW :CCCC Man rememebr when I said I hope Twigpaw doesn't crumble under the pressure of being happy for others? yeah

GET OUT SANDYNOSE I DONT CARE YOURE BEING REASOMABLE FOR ONCE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN LATER

:C

I'm so heartbroken for them

Uh pdhsgahab okay then

Bye finpaw

Wow that was easy for him

This is fun

I'm still sad as hell

Okay there's a lot going on right now wow

The owl scene was funny as hell to picture, this dramatic prophetic moment and the cats just "uuggh is that a prophecy??? Nooo"

Okay so

There's some shadowclan cats missing, considering the many sleekwhisker maps I'm sure she's up to no good but I have no clue what happened to the others and I hope they're okay

Wow! That was really something

Fantastic ending to a very good book its, definitely a different energy from the third but I'm really enjoying this I'm still excited as hell!!! I got worried things would get kinda bad from here but nope!!!! Very fun stuff for now this is very very good and I am enjoying it

This is definitely one of the most fun arcs I've read so far!!! The drama the stakes the little moments everything is tying together really well into a very fun story I'm enjoying a lot!

I worry for Twigpaw and hope for her happiness, and Violetshine too, hope her and Hawkwing deal well with missing her. Tree is being interesting. Alderheart wasn't much of a focus here but always fun to see him trying to solve the damn prophecy no leaders seem to care about. Mousewhisker was okay??? Lots of very fantastic turns for all events and uh let's see where this all goes next!!!

[smile-files]

(bright colors)

all of the main characters of hello mello! i really want the vibe to be brightly colored, like kids toys or early 2000s cartoons, contrasted with existentialism and how terrifying the world really is.

bio time!

peppo - nonbinary (they/them), melon

while easygoing and quite the good egg, peppo can come off as awfully distant and reclusive. they enjoy thinking about things, often to a fault - they can end up quite paranoid and anxious about the future and how people perceive them. 

chloe - female (she/her), radish

a clever tomboy, chloe is sarcastic and witty. she seems to have her entire life in check - in reality, however, chloe just puts up a confident act to help ground her friends and help them feel steady in life. she may not be as confident as she seems...

matthew - male (he/him), tomato

peppo’s childhood friend who’s been with them through everything. thoroughly supportive and protective of his friends, and often gets angry at people when they act rude. tends to self-deprecate a lot. a bit of a nerd.

gertie - female (she/her), strawberry

she’s a lot younger than her friends, but gertie is nearly as mature. she goes out of her way to make sure everyone is happy, even people who aren’t very nice to her - whether this is out of naivete or pure self-sacrifice, we may never know.

bruce - male (he/him), potato

very intimidating and quiet, bruce generally likes people leaving him alone. he’s physically strong but also rather conscientious, dishing out life advice to those close to him. doesn’t interact with people often and has a limited grasp on reality.

fun facts below the cut!

1. ‘hello mello’ was initially the title of a different show i was planning, which was going to be much, much more depressing. i soon scrapped it because of this! (rip rudy, my god...)

2. a number of these characters are inspired by people in real life! peppo is inspired by me, chloe by my friend shelly (whom i had a crush on for a while), and matthew by my friend daniel!

3. color palette and general early 2000s vibe directly inspired by the parappa the rapper anime! it’s such a vibe, man.

4. cool girls. i love cool girls. every story i make has a cool girl. i love katy kat. i love little my. i love needletail. i love shelly. i love chloe. i love the cool girls!!

[larksinging]

and as a last one: what are your thoughts on a vision of shadows? is there anything you would've wants to change if you could?

now HERE’S a good one. this ended up really long so ill put it under a cut

i think it’s really important to note that AVOS, kinda like the new prophecy, is distinctly seperated into two parts by the plot. the first half is the darktail plot, and the second half is the skyclan plot

the first half of AVOS is one of my favorite arcs. i think its tonally more like the first series or the second half of TNP, which is really about interclan politics and down to earth struggles and the arcs of a few characters. i enjoy some of the high concept stuff of POT and OOTS, but i think cat drama storylines in warriors tend to be... better written. anyway yeah just this growing conflict of the clans falling apart and darktail getting more powerful is really compelling!

actually i was gonna say, i think darktail’s kin has.... well it’s not efrafa, but i think its up there in evil animal groups as far as being effectively scary and intimidating. there’s nothing really sprawling or extensive about the kin or darktail as a villain and i think thats why it works best? its just a scary rogue group taking over lead by a clever and manipulative dude who hurts people. darktail himself i think has definitely earned his place among warriors villains. he’s kind of sol 2.0 (though i actually like sol’s backstory better? i think sol’s simpler backstory > darktail’s luke skywalker plotline but its not TERRIBLE) but actually allowed to be effective

one of my favorite parts of AVOS is the female characters!!! 2/3 POV characters are female. and one of them isn’t thunderclan!!  needletail and (obviously) violetshine are standout characters to me. needletail is a fascinating tragic story of someone who’s good that makes some bad choices and gets misguided. violetshine is someone hardened by adversity and isolation who still stays brave.... twigbranch is. Fine. she’s a lot like dovewing imo where she’s not awful but her arc isn’t as... compelling compared to some of the others. poor alderheart is actually a good character too and would be a standout in another series, but needletail and violetshine and darktail kind of overshadow him LOL 

maybe im bias because im so used to warriors that i cant see the flaws but i still think shattered sky is a really great warriors book. thunder and shadow is also good but its a middle book, it does everything it needs to but isnt as climatic. apprentice’s quest is... fine, journey books are always a bit eh.

okay this is getting long so let me speak to the second half. it’s. uh. it’s pretty nothing. which makes the flaws even more apparent. it’s all about trying to get skyclan to settle, but none of the conflicts are really sold well... theres only a few interesting things... tree is a decent character. he’s fine. seeing skyclan is fun. mistystar does stuff.

so the first three books of AVOS: good! i recommend if you like warriors. maybe the fourth book too, the end of that has a nice moment of catharsis for the first half. but river of fire and raging storm vary from nothing to aggravating

SO things i would change. while the shadowclan falling apart is done pretty well, there’s this undercurrent of “shadowclan is just a lesser clan than thunderclan” which was.... not great. i think they could’ve sold the social upheavel of the clan more. show rowanstar making more obvious mistakes. needletail makes some good points that are ? never addressed? ummm what else

oh my god okay so the later half has this problem where tigerheart and dovewing disappearing is like a big problem and this big mystery. but tigerheart’s shadow came out before then. so everyone already knows. switch around the release schedule of tigerheart’s shadow and crowfeather’s trial lol

honestly i think AVOS needed a complete restructuring. make darktail the final villain and shattered sky the last book. put skyclan settling stuff as the first few books, to build up tension slowly and then go full darktail in the last few ones. maybe? idk if that would have worked... i do think darktail as a villain only worked for three good books, buut. those last three are really a slow. 

also violetshine and twigbranch’s arcs get flipped around and fall apart as the books progress. as soon as they get names, really. it’s really a shame, they deserved so much better. 

theres one death in river of fire i cannot ever forgive. but thats all ill say 

ummm okay yes ill stop rambling but yeah! i like AVOS a lot, or at least the first few books. if you made it through POT and OOTS you should definitely check out AVOS i think, some aspects are a breath of fresh air after that. its got flaws, major flaws, and are showing some cracks in the formula, but... i think it gets some things right. there’s a reason darktail and needletail have already gotten a lot of fan content, AVOS just has some really compelling stuff. for warriors. 

[tkyoedn]

SPOILERS FOR SHATTERED SKY UNDER THE CUT (just gonna warn you beforehand: it’s a l o n g list)

okay this is basically a list of my reactions to the book. 

- Onestar can go suck a small hairy dick for all I care uGH

- Ivypool: Dovewing, Tigerheart, nO.

- They need to stop pushing this ship in our faces (DoveXTiger)

- I dont’t see any love interest for anyone coming up

- And I’m okay with that

- TWIGPAW YOU FUCKIN IDIOT

- vIOLETPAW JUST LEAVE THEM HONEY

- Needletail can also suck a dick too fuck her

- Darktail is so creepy I thought he was a bit t o o friendly with the Needletail and Violetpaw like ew

- Crowfeather is still a massive asshole damn

- I still dont like the name Sparkpelt like-

- Thank gOD THEYRE NOT SHOVING SPARKPELT BEING FIRESTAR 2.0 IN OUR FACES

- Alderheart being everyone’s personal advice friend aW

- I love Bramblestar and Alderheart’s relationship sO MUCH UGHH

- but what about Squirrelflight’s relationship with her kits like?

- Needletail I guess I can give you points for sacrificing yourself but you were still a manipulative brat.

- I actually didn’t see the Darktail being Onestar’s son bomb at all

- They’re not dead watch

- aAAHH THEY FOUND THEIR FATHER A H H

- Jayfeather’s sass is what keeps me alive man

- LIONBLAZE AND CINDERHEART HAVING MORE KITS YA S S

- I want to learn more about their kids especially Hollytuft like hELLO I MISS HOLLYLEAF A LOT

- Leafpool being an excited grandma but then being a sad serious protective grandma when she realizes the clans may fall

- bye Onestar I sure as hell will not miss you

- Tigerheart and Dovewing did it I’m calling it now

- Dovewing’s pregnant I’m cALLIN IT RIGHT FUCKIN NOW

- I AM SO PISSED DO THEY EVEN REALIZE HOW TOXIC THIS RELATIONSHIP IS LIKE GOD DAMN

- Ivypool is gonna be so mAD if Dovewing is pregnant

- If the next conflict’s gonna be where Twig and Violet are gonna go I’m gonna shoot myself

- If Onestar pulls a Hollyleaf and I will shoot myself

- Hey what if Twig becomes the new medicine cat for Skyclan? She seemed interested in it

- question: how old is Mistystar??? 

- wHERE THE FUCK IS DAWNPELT?? I NEVER LIKED HER BUT 

- the amount of sass in this book was uNREAL

- Wait wasn’t Ivypool supposed to have a mate or some shit like that???

- I don’t know about you guys, but I called Thronclaw and Blossomfall from the get-go

- Where the hell was Bumblestripe??

- Berrynose can also suck a dick I never liked him anyway

- yES SPARKPELT YOU PUT THAT NO TAILED PRIVELEGED BRAT IN HIS PLACE

- where poppyfrost at?

- aLSO PURDY DYING JUST TAKE MY BROKEN SOUL WHY DON’T YOU

- ALDERHEART NO IT WASN’T YOUR FAULT BABY

- I’m pretty sure Violetpaw’s gay and was gay for Needletail

- I fuckin hate DovexTiger I liked it before but to be fair I was like 11-12 okay

- ITS SO TOXIC AND DISGUSTING AND E W 

- I will check the fuck out if she’s pregnant like fuck yall fuck you erins I’m out

- wHERE’S BRACKENFUR???

- Anyway this was a really good book bye