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The Warriors Website Team takes shots at Darkstripe in new article!

Many villains in Warriors are intimidating, whether through cunning, cruelty, or raw physical strength. Darkstripe is none of these. He has little in the way of cunning or charms to recommend him, his strength fails him in [embarrassing] defeats too often to be boasted of, and he has no strong convictions beyond wanting to serve [Tigerstar]. He is enjoyable as a character precisely because of how pathetic he is, and today, we're counting down his most pathetic moments in the first series.

"Darkstripe died as he lived - failing at the few things he cared about." "Darkstripe was finally exiled from his own Clan forever, and all because he failed a task as simple as killing a defenseless kit." "And yet, with faced with such a seemingly easy task, killing a half-starved, exhausted prisoner, he failed spectacularly. [...] All Darkstripe had to do was kill one starving, weakened prisoner, and he'd failed so badly that another cat had to step in and finish it for him."

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greencough will kill the patient, the patient will need catmint to live

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rustys owners are like some of the worst cat owners ive ever seen. like rusty was around 6 months when he joined thunderclan, yeah? and he was pretty used to roaming outside. these people were letting their unneutered kitten roam around outside including access to the woods full of animals that could absolutely eat a cat. and then when their kitten vanishes and is never seen again, they buy another kitten…. and ALSO let that one roam around outside, presumably unspayed. was rusty even their first cat or had they fed several to the fox population already.

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I love the short Firestar headcanons, but I raise you this:

The clans thinking he was short for like a year because he was actually a kit when he joined. He's average height.

Like no one asked his age at any point, he could've easily been like four or five moons old. I'm guessing they assumed he was six moons because he was on his own.

By the time they mention that part of the Warrior Code he's just hit six moons so he keeps it to himself.

That would explain how he's able to beat cats like Tigerstar multiple times. Poor guy was fighting for his life everyday as an apprentice.

The queens would probably recognize that he looks too young, but due to stereotypes they'd just assume that's how kittypets are. Of course he looks small and soft, he's a kittypet, they're just like that. They'd probably warm up to him quicker though.

Lol, Longtail getting beaten up by a baby. Better yet, Longtail finding out he tried to beat up a baby.

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miss moonpaw

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uh-huh

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Making this my own post since I worry it won't get reach as a reply (where I originally posted it):

Idea: going off of @ashcrowz post here: https://www.tumblr.com/ashcrowz/751958449972232192/moonpaws-if-shes-not-two-cats-and-one-wants-to - a lot of people are speculating the voice in Moonpaw's head will be her twin absorbed in the womb and will be evil, with some worries about playing into an evil alternate personality trope, my though is: what if the voice in her head is her absorbed twin but not evil at all, actually wants to be a medicine cat and never hurt anyone while the "main" Moonpaw is a proud warrior wannabe who is sometimes brash and cruel (think Leopardstar or Lionblaze type. The voice is often deeply dissatisfied with Moonpaw's morality and the mistakes she makes as a result. And the more mistakes Moonpaw makes the more the voice belittles her and tries to make her think she is worthless, because breaking down Moonpaw is the only way she would willingly cede control and let the voice have a chance of doing good and revolting against the Clans' violent ways that it hates. But Moonpaw of course, however much she might be flawed, is still a young cat who is steadily breaking down over being constantly reminded of her failings and told that it would be better if she was just replaced. Would be interesting to have the "perfect healer saint" character who, dealt a horrible hand in life in not even really able to be alive, can only do anything by being emotionally abusive and completely breaking her "sister's" self esteem goes into questions of what really makes a good person when a person can be amazingly good but be put in a situation where their only choice is doing something horrible or helplessness to watch the world's cruelties + personal misery, a lot more tragic and unique than just "the voice is EVIL and JEALOUS and that's all there is to it". Though if the Erins absolutely wrote this they would probably bungle it by making either Moonpaw or the twin portrayed as despised by the narrative and 100% wrong and to blame for everything...

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Kate Cary has announced that she is retiring from Warriors, Star will be her last book under Erin Hunter.

Kate has been with the series from the very beginning. Thank you Kate, for everything. Warriors wouldn’t be the same without you. Best of luck in your new ventures!

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!!! I NEED WARRIOR CATS COMMUNITY TO HEAR ME THE FUCK OUT !!!

I had a vision for an animation

too bad I can't animate

Y'ALL KNOW BEETLEJUICE MUSICAL?? Y'ALL KNOW HAWKFROST AND IVYPOOL??? IS THIS ANYTHING?????

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Sandstorm should have died fighting Darktail.

Imagine this: Sandstorm gets separated from Alder & co. Alder & co find the Kin, and do not realize they are not SkyClan. Later on, perhaps when Alderpaw finds Mintfur, he also finds Sandstorm, which leads to the discovery of the Kin not being SkyClan.

During their escape, Sandstorm stays behind and fights Darktail herself, in an effort to buy them time, and heroically looses her life.

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fuck it. warriors ask game except the questions are all weird and niche as hell

👴 : fav elder?

❓️ : fav total background character (im not talking minor characters like say. whitewing or moonlight, i mean cats with like...3 lines tops)

📖 : fav comic page from any of the mangas and why

👶 : how old were you when you first touched a warriors book? howd it happen

💢 : what scene made you the most irrationally angry upon first reading

💧 : how many times have you cried over this wretched book series? any favorite memories

💋 : is there any ships out there you absolutely hate for genuinely no good reason at all. like its not problematic in the slightest, if anything it's one of the better ones, you just cannot bring yourself to enjoy it

🐾 : have you ever named a cat after a warriors character OR given a cat a warriors styled name? if so, tell us the story

1️⃣ : was warriors your first animal based fantasy series? if not, what series was?

👑 : when roleplaying (if you ever have roleplayed warrior cats), did you used to power play? be honest.

🗺 : first map you ever watched?

🖼 : first amv/pmv you ever watched?

🖌 : when did you make your first warriors oc? (if you say you've never had OCs, i dont believe you)

📝 : if commanded to, without warning, approximately how many paragraphs could you write about your favorite warrior cat before you ran out of things to say

💔 : have you ever lost friends over warriors related topics?

🌈 : what's the most 2010s wcforum era esque fandom opinion you still hold onto and will fight people over (things like scourges collar color, dovewings eye color, etc)

🆕️ : are you still up to date / reading the new books? if not, when did you stop?

📱 : were you ever on warriors amino? (if you were, i'm terribly sorry)

🏠 : about how much do your family know about warrior cats, if anything?

🎶 : give me a song you're surprised you haven't seen turned into a warriors pmv yet - and what character(s) you imagine it to

🎥 : fav warriors related youtuber?

❎️ : what's the weirdest crossover au involving warrior cats that you've made? (if you haven't made any, then what's the weirdest one you've seen?)

🗳 : if you could make any cat leader of any clan right now, who would you pick?

🌟 : would you hypothetically go to starclan or the dark forest?

🤔 : what's the biggest series plothole that's bugged you?

😱 : how many people have you blocked over innocuous, not at all important warriors related takes?

☯️ : what dynamic between two cats has got you up at night pacing for hours? (romantic, platonic, familial, etc)

🌫 : what's a cat you genuinely forgot existed until recently?

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i think it's disingenuous to say mothpool is the only reason mothwing is widely interpreted as a lesbian by the fandom. obviously she's one of the few main female characters who never canonically expresses interest in a man, but i also think a big part of why the fandom took to that reading so swiftly and easily because her starclan baggage, a central part of her character btw, has a lot of parallels with a narrative about being in the closet. the emphasis on her having a secret that she can't tell anyone because she knows it will fundamentally change the way people see her and she'll be looked down upon, hawkfrost using her fear of being outed to blackmail her and threatening to tell everyone what she is if she doesn't comply, and, yes, the one person she feels safe confiding in, who she's closer with and respects the opinion of more than anyone else, being another woman, one from a different walk of life that she's not expected to be close with at that- like. it's not just the evil lesbian fandom shippers reducing her character to shipping or whatever lol it is very easy to understand why people interpret her as a lesbian and consider it a very important aspect of their interpretation of her if you think about it for more than two seconds and her relationship with leafpool is just part of it

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BlueQuince and RainSquirrel

not a huge bluestar shipper admittedly! i can see she and quince maybe having mutual interest but not getting together, especially in a world where bluefur saves tiny and brings him back to quince. they would be good friends, i think!

I FUCKIN LOVE RAINSQUIRREL!!!! i dont even know why. rainwhisker just seems like a genuinely kind cat, even under his very serious exterior. maybe theyd get close after sootfurs death? plus, since leafpool and sorreltail are best friends, it makes sense that sootfur and rainwhisker would at least be friends with the firetwins too! squilf deserves a great partner, and i think rain could be that for her :3

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WE'RE BACK

except the "see you in two years" wasn't a joke

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The warrior cats phase never leaves you

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this is a nice change!! honestly wasn’t expecting that tbh

and she’s so silly :3

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I really love the "Tigerstar is Swiftpaw's dad" AU. It doesn't change that much storywise, but it just makes it really tragic with Tigerstar sending the dogs that kill him and him wanting to prove himself.

To be honest I really thought for the longest time he WAS Swiftpaw's dad.

God... Tiger spying on Gatherings and not seeing Swiftpaw there. Overhearing apprentices gossip.

"Did you hear what happened to Brightpaw? I hope she doesn't get an infection."

"Better than what happened to Swiftpaw."

But... What happened to Swiftpaw? Where was he? Was he hurt?

Tigerstar getting his 9 lives and seeing his son standing in the crowd, glaring at him with a look that chokes him. He sees the glittering scars and puts 2 and 2 together. That was his son, his baby, his precious boy so full of potential and life and so stubborn and proud. Why was he not given a name? Why did Bluestar treat his son like this? She gave a name to the bastard kittypet child, but denied his son? She's to blame of course, not him, he would have named him Swiftstrike or Swiftfang, something respectable and powerful. His son... Sitting there with his other lost child, lost so young, they both look so unhappy...

Seeing Swiftpaw amongst his own victims as he keeps dying over and over again. Begging them each time to help him. Help me Swiftpaw, please, please, you love me, I'm your father you need to do something you need to save me please Swiftpaw please don't let me die I'm your papa I love y

Watching his other sons, another child of his lost too young, Tadpole was so much like him too, fearless and strong.

Comparing Hawkfrost to Swiftpaw in the horrible way that parents do. Come on Hawkfrost that was sloppy, Swiftpaw had that technique down and never left apprenticeship, you'll avenge me and your brother, Firestar was deputy he could have said something, it would have saved your brother's life.

Seeing Swiftpaw during the Great Battle giving a blessing to Firestar. Realizing he gave Firestar a life and just... Losing it. Firestar stole his son from him, and let him die, and his perfect son still gave him a life?! Why?!

Oh it all just goes perfectly.

Although... It does give Tigerstar the widest family tree EVER.

Lynxkit, Swiftpaw, Brambleclaw, Tawnypelt, Tadpole, Mothwing and Hawkfrost. Oof, gift giving events have gotta be a nightmare.