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complete (as far as i can remember) list of dropped plot threads in a starless clan

1. lightleap's red herring/potential involvement wrt what's happening in riverclan

through out the first book lightleap is high strung and uncharacteristically irritable to those around her, particularly sunbeam. this is ostensibly attributed to her overcompensating for not going to the df in the previous arc, but since shadowsight is both still alive and not exactly getting the heroism treatment, she has no real reason to feel either guilty or like she missed out on an opportunity to prove herself. to me, it seems unusual that she would still be stuck on that, especially since it's implied this behavior isn't really like her. it felt very much like there was something else troubling lightleap that she wasn't telling anyone else about. like, notice how oddly defensive she gets when sunbeam questions her here even though she has no reason to be. notice how the text points out that her claim about stepping on a thorn feels off. when the book initially came out people theorized she had something to do with reedwhisker's death, but this has since been disproven by canon.

despite the way this scene seems to hint at a connection between lightleap and riverclan, apparently it really was just wholly coincidental that she happened to step on a thorn the exact same moment reedwhisker was murdered. any deeper meaning to her behaviour in river is never made clear and it's never really brought up outside of sunbeam sometimes remembering that lightleap was a bitch to her. maybe it was meant to allude to her burgeoning feelings for blazefire, if i had to guess?

2. sunbeam's sexy mysterious she cat dream

near the end of a starless clan book three, sunbeam has a dream about nightheart ignoring her in favor of a mysterious dame, which is what pushes her to join him in thunderclan. sunbeam provides a specific description of the cat: a dazzling beautiful silver tabby with blue eyes, noting that even within her dream she understands this cat to be a stranger. the dream successfully predicts that squirrelflight is going to be appointed leader, which is otherwise unrelated to the rest of the dream, implying it is prophetic in nature. all of this, to me, suggests something of significance, that this cat is not merely a vague representation of sunbeam's insecurity but meant to represent a specific person. however, it is never mentioned again. in the next book nightheart immediately leaves thunderclan to travel with frostpaw. frostpaw is a grey (so depending on the lighting, silver) blue eyed cat, but she is not a tabby, and sunbeam seen her before and would recognize her. there's never any indication of romantic interest between her and nightheart. when sunbeam finds out where nightheart has been, she is immediately understanding and the question of his loyalty to her never comes up

3. bee

a park extra from book four, bee, speaks of having dreams about cats watching him as he walks across a frozen riverbank. nightheart even wonders if he would have been a medicine cat. again, all described in a weirdly distinct way that makes you think it's going to be important later but then it just isn't. bee doesn't even go back to the clans with them. is this an ivypool's heart thing??? i didn't read that one

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"this isn't fridging, because you see, the death of the female character really impacts the male character! it's grief!" this is textbook fridging

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Wcrp forums is taking Brambleclaw sweeping BGA’s least favourite character poll well I see

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it's weird how cloudbright is considered to be a canon pairing that Has No Problems like even putting aside the weird ass "brightheart's self esteem hinges on cloudtail's attraction to her" part why does the fandom never acknowledge cloudtail being up daisy's ass at the clear expense of his wife in tnp

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I feel like media got so much worse once i started just like. Taking a mental note of how many stories are about a dude’s dead wife and/or daughter, and said death motivating him to go do whatever the plot needs him to do

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Vi deserved a cool Zaunite girlfriend who understands and cares about her mental health, who lets her talk about her time in prison and how traumatic it was, how she feels being a Zaunite in this world where Piltover still doesn't view them as equal. She deserved a woman who wouldn't hit her in the stomach with her rifle and never apologize, who wouldn't turn into a despicable dictator who ran The Grey, violence and fear through the lanes in search of a singular person, who wouldn't sign off on the mass imprisonment of Zaunites, who wouldn't refer to Vi's people as animals, and who wouldn't refuse to take accountability for her personal heinous war crimes while lecturing Jinx about good deeds not crossing out mistakes.

Vi deserved to be with her family, to be with her loved ones. she deserved to still have a support system outside of her life on the topside, she deserved the family life the alternative universe showed, the one she's craved and held out for that we got a glimmer of in the end of Act 2, but only to end up alone, a class traitor to other Zaunites, with a Piltie girlfriend who never apologized for hitting her less than 2 hours after they kissed for the first time.

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Purity Culture has gone too far! Now these Puritan freaks are forcing basic literary criticism on my show!!

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we love and support evil women but we don't support being evil to your wife

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has anyone mentioned yet how in the last war they made the people of Zaun wear enforcers uniforms?

anyone??? cause I'm going nuts over this. having the oppressed die in the clothes of the people that oppress them

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looking at arcane s2 finale spoilers and laughing hysterically the entire time

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the fire that will burn us both

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This happened

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So Christian Linke confirmed that in absence of shimmer AU Silco got his eye fixed using innovative topside technologies

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Writers waving away Vi being imprisioned as child for 7 years like she took a summer vacation or sm🤦

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Mel and Jayce genuinely having the healthiest relationship out of Arcane and being thrown away by the writers for some mlm, or what ever the fuck that was, really makes you think of their actual values.

i didn't yet watch the video/interview thing and I'm not sure I want to after hearing what is being said but yeah. Just makes me think.

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just saw the video and there is just two things Im gonna say, really.

1. Throwing away your only genuinely healthy relationship and saying well Jayce only used Mel for the sex is absolutely disgusting and weird. For multiple reasons. Throwing in the line that she was his cover up? shut the fuck up. oh my god. Mel is so not appreciated in this fandom alone and for CREATORS to join is so very insane. Especially here.

2. The undervaluing of friendship in media is quite frankly very weird. It's always "they can't be JUST friends because they did this and that" as if platonic love is somehow less. If my best friend was on the brink of literal death I'd also leave everything behind to be by their side. No question asked. And I'm so serious when I say that if anyone thinks that for some reason this must mean I'm in love with them, then I have to say

I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry that you never got to experience the gentle love of a friend.

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do you remember that show, the one that was praised for its narrative and tight knit story, the one that was said to have one of, if not the best, portrayal of: mental health/illness, classism, women, character development, characters in general and show not tell? that one??

well it killed its 3 suicidal characters, sidelined the women in favor of a "bigger story" that forgot its central theme of classism

BY KILLING THE OPPRESSED IN THE CLOTHES OF THE PEOPLE THAT OPPRESSED THEM.

It brought together a lesbian couple in a cell in a prison one of the lesbians was tortured in and depicted it as her kneeling infront of the rich woman because the show loves its show not tell. It brought in new characters and killed them off, they had no overarching purpose in the story.

Yeah that show.