My Little Pwn-y

People can and will say things online about Warrior Cats that you will disagree with.

What you can't feasibly do is change their mind by arguing with them about it.

It's not your job to crusade against them and to tell them how wrong they are— You are not the end all, be all self-elected moral arbitrator of the fandom.

I can count on my hands and toes the amount of times I have strongly disagreed with another fan over their interpretation of the books—

I block them, and move on.

It's not a world ending scenario if someone on tumblr thinks Cinderpelt can't be a Warrior with her broken foot, or that Queens don't do anything but sit on their asses all day.

And it's also, not a personal attack against you, it's their opinion on a book series, devoid of any relation to you.

—You are not the center of their universe, their life does not revolve around yours, and Warriors is made-up! It's fake! Not real!

Put the phone or tablet or computer down and go outside. The Internet is not real life. And there is zero reason to treat it like it is.

What if Tigerstar got tnr'd but the vet noticed he had a weird lump in his stomach so he ordered an mri but it turns out that lump was just a big hunk of metal or whatever and Tigerstar exploded on the spot and lost all nine of his lives at once.

reblogging my own post to tack on this "additional" commentary.

whenever questions of the worst wc character come up, i can't really understand the fact that darkstripe has genuine vitriolic haters that think he's one of the worst characters in the series. like obviously morality holds some stake in character preference, and i can also understand why people hate on him in a jokey way because canon keeps putting him in a position where he's easy to point and laugh at and he's given very little on-page sympathy or reasoning unlike other antagonists, but, like. darkstripe? he serves his narrative role well, he's got room for intrigue and headcanons, he can be at least funny or endearingly pathetic if you don't want to do that, and he's still not nearly the most morally reprehensible character in the series even though he tries to poison a child/potentially his little sister depending on how much parentage retcons you buy into, so like idk what you people even want from him

If you get an mri and have metal fillings or a pace maker do you just explode.

I still can't believe that Warrior Cats get so old, so fast. You're telling me you're already at retiring age at 8 years old? That's absurd.

Out of everything in Warrior Cats that I suspend my disbelief for, this particular choice always makes me laugh. Like, look guys, it's an old man.

The results are in! Bramble x Squilf sweep!

I never had an issue with 'age gaps' in Warriors because they're cats.

At no point in Warriors does anyone say, 'I think Onestar being mates with Whitetail is a symptom of a major issue in our society'.

—As it stands, the world building is that it's acceptable in their society.

The world building is that the cats are ok with it.

They are in no way analogous to real people unless you're looking to ignore the fact that the books are about cats and not people.

Ferncloud and Dustpelt, for instance, were thinking about being mates long before Fernpaw had even received her warrior name.

If you compare this to a human relationship, yes, that would absolutely not be ok. But, again, they're cats. They're not humans.

Has anyone else noticed the 'mid-arc' creep, in the books? Like, the arc will be really good, until part-way through at like, book three or four where it just starts getting bloated with unecessary filler to pad out a book or two before the finale?

Follower count doesn't matter on tumblr. If I have five followers, or if I have a hundred— S'all good, either way.

Thanks for being here with me. It's a blog, not a competition.

Have you heard of the Proteus effect?