Grooming Mention - Blog Posts

spottedleaf hates bluestar and she hates featherwhisker and she hates thunderclan for not doing anything about thistleclaw, she sees how they were willing to let his behavior slide because he was a respected warrior. Anytime bluestar tries talking to her she wants to vomit she wants to tear off her bandaged paws and slice into bluestar until her face looks like shredded pork bluestar has tried apologizing to her but it was so shitty it was so ass, not even about spottedleaf's own trauma it was all just "If I had known" "If I knew better", bluestar makes it all about *herself*. every apology spottedleaf has gotten by any of the older thunderclan cats, she could tell it was done to relieve their conscious and not actually make an effort to help her or mend broken bonds. She can't get mad either that is the bullshit part, she *must* be okay with what they're saying otherwise she's just being difficult. Then she will be blamed for her own abuse for lashing out, thunderclan doesn't care about her they just want to forget everything that is a detriment to their own social morale she wants to poison the food supply in camp and watch everyone die she wants to hurt them

YOOO TY FOR ANSWERING MY UNHINGED RANT!!

YES IM PRETTY SURE I think it was meant to be educational and one more dig at Thistle but it just turned him into an even more terrifying monster bc you know no one will fucking believe Spottedpaw, no matter how respected or loved she is Thistleclaw is above her even when she’s a med cat and it’s so gross and scary, my poor poor girl.

AND YES to me he was like Tigerclaw with respected warriors on the inside who will blindly follow and believe whatever he says which is why his victims are too scared to speak out. Your absolutely right though it could have been great but instead it was “something terrible happened and now you’ll shut the fuck up about it” HELLO??? She just suffers ???

NO THISTLECLAW IS TERRIFYING especially bc he had so much respect as he followed the tradiotal clan values of killing anyone who isn’t Thunderclan like that’s not horrific? And it’s shown when you go against him he will make your life miserable. There’s no escaping him !! Sure he held no power but he had so many respected friends and also had a deal w hell. The only reason Whitekit was spared was bc he wasn’t with Thistles time

SORRY TO RANT !! I really love your takes and Thistle makes my blood boil bc the only punishment he got was hell. No one talks about how evil he was, no one told them not to be like him he just did shit and rotted and it makes me mad.

I do feel pretty bad for pre-SPH ThistleClaw fans because it was just out of nowhere that he's a pedophile now. Really shows how little planning went into his character.

Because could you imagine a version of him that was actually planned out that showed how respected members of a community can be capable of getting away with horrible things because they have positive public opinion on their side. And then at the same time, show how Thunderclans and the Clans as a whole will fail those who seek justice or sanctuary from their abuser because if that abuser is respected, then nothing is done about it.

No worries about the rant! He's a very frustrating character to me. I could be so, so, so very wrong on this but didn't the erin who wrote the story say that it wasn't even intended to be a story about grooming. Again please tell me if I'm wrong I have a fuckass memory. I have a lot of thoughts on him that I can't get out very well but I think, had his character been planned properly, he could have served as a very good warning about how predators or groomers aren't always going to be the shady figure in an alley or anybody scary, sometimes they're going to be a well-respected member of your community, internet or in real life

LGBT people, I need you to know that any “pedophile execution bill” passed in the US is meant to put you, personally, to death. When the right says “groomer,” they’re talking about you. When they say “predator,” they’re talking about you. When they say “pedophile,” they’re talking about you. Any actual child sex abusers who are convicted and executed would be, to them, a happy accident, a cherry on top of a law that’s meant to exterminate anyone who deviates from the cisgender, heterosexual norm.