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hi! i was wondering what kind of problems you’re talking about in your last post about the warriors books? i stopped reading after the Great Battle and honestly i haven’t picked up a warriors book since middle school, but im trying to get back into the fandom and would love to hear what you have to say!

there are kind of a lot, some more rampant than others. you've actually read further than I have (I stopped at sunrise), but I know a bit about the books after it because I frequent the analysis side of the Warriors fandom and I don't listen to spoiler warnings. The most common issue in the books is how not much happens in them. power of three and omen of the stars easily could have been one arc, but because the authors didn't plan the books properly they ended up as two.

some other things have been pointed out more recently. the series doesn't give disabled cats all that much respect (consider Snowkit's death, for example, or how Jayfeather was pressured by Leafpool to become a medicine cat because he was blind).

a few years ago, spottedleaf got her own novella which contained some very problematic aspects that I don't want to get into here.

there's also a lot of implicit sexism in the books; she-cats get fewer lines (i.e. less focus) and usually settle down and have kits no matter how little it seems to fit their characterisation. it's especially bad in dawn of the clans IMO; I haven't read it since 2020 but I'm pretty sure gray wing has like three girlfriends in two books? I never finished dotc but I've heard the sexism continues all the way through it.

the tribe of rushing water is also in a bit of a weird spot. i think some people claim cultural appropriation, but I don't know enough about that to verify it.

that's all that comes to mind at the moment, but I'm sure there's more. and i also haven't read any of the books in almost four years, so i might misremember things or misrepresent points originally made by people who actually did read the books properly.

Edit: @smewduck reminded me of the WC racism doc, which is as far as I can remember where I heard about the Tribe thing. here's the link to the doc in case people haven't read it, but just know it's really long: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnCCD4TfR-5MZie9hQgpDfEE4mYpCtjNXQpD9VqOkxs/edit

I reblog too much stuff so I made a reblog blog. If, for some reason, you'd like to see nothing but stuff I thought was sort of interesting, you can go follow it I guess? Anyway, hopefully, this will keep this blog clean(er) lol

The blog is @rebloggerous so yeah

Spoilers for WoF arc 2, sort of

What if instead of using Fierceteeth to replicate Clearsight, Darkstalker did it with Moonwatcher

Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me.

Rambling under the cut

The character here is Firestar from Warriors. I'd tentatively recommend reading the books if you haven't read them, but I'm not confident people will like them as they have their problems. Although most of the problems show up after the books that feature Firestar. He's supposed to be a Somali cat here. There wasn't any reason for drawing him. I just default to cats with my art experiments because they're easy to draw. And I did a study last night and I wanted to put the stuff I remembered to good use.

I'm trying to experiment with art that mimics traditional art, specifically the doodles I like to draw in class and stuff. This was really my first attempt and I think it turned out good so yeah!

Also, this is my first art piece of the year! Well, the first finished one. The New Year's Redraw is coming... eventually... I'm not too fussed about that coming out on time because I'm not usually on time with them anyway. One of them took four months and another was just never finished because it looked so ugly. This year's version will hopefully turn out very good, but I'll have to see. Anyway. Thanks to all my followers and stuff, and here's to a good year. Maybe I'll even open commissions.