warrior cats fans are like “i hate when people reduce two female characters to a ship while ignoring how complex and nuanced their relationship is in canon” and the “complex and nuanced” interactions they’ll be talking about are one female character hating another for no reason other than to cause arbitrary drama and because women be catty. like yeah it was so Complex and Nuanced to saddle feathertail with a completely different characterization to justify a storyline where she starts a budding friendship with sasha only to then later decide that sasha is actually stupid and evil for the things her evil abusive boyfriend did with not a moment of retrospection on feathertail’s part about the unfairness of her judgement by the end. you can tell that when the writers made needleclaw abruptly drop her previously established principles to become a code devotee so she could nag rootspring about his relationship with bristlefrost they did it because they value the emotional complexity of needleclaw and bristlefrost’s inner lives and perception of one another
whats that defunct land quote again? every part of the film making process is awful, but not making film is even worse? idk something like that. anywah im being completely normal about art rn ::))
I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.
People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.
I think the main problem with warriors rewrites is they get so bogged down in ‘trying to make sense’ or ‘make them act like actual cats’ is they forget to make things COOL AS SHIT. Like yes your bloodclan has 200 pages of foreshadowing but is it still COOL AS SHIT? Does scourge still steal the show and be awesome as he fucking obliterates tigerstar? I don’t care if dog teeth claws makes no actual sense it’s COOL AS SHIT! If your warrior cats rewrite wouldn’t result in 200 scourge animations of him being cool as shit if it was the canon material you have failed. Having cool as shit moments and awesome dramatic scenes should be a priority in any rewrite as it’s a very important part of what keeps people into the series.
