#anyway shoutout to lesbians . with your help we can ruin all warrior cats men forever.

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just wanna say your fernsong takes are so refreshing bc this fandom is extremely childish and misognystic and u arent allowed to hate male characters unless theyre comically evil ♥️ nice to see another lesbian who doesnt care for chars like fernsong

i think its normal considering the fandom is full of kids/people who primarily read warrior cats, so nuanced characters isn't something theyre really used to, haha. and because there are so many books and so many characters, a lot of people forget every character's actions that may make them more nuanced.

like for example. i absolutely DESPISE the fandom's perception of leafpool . her personality is primarily as she appears in the first book of tnp and then being a sadsack about giving her kittens away, when in reality leafpool is extremely impulsive, often selfish and judgemental, and quick to anger. despite her regretting giving her children away, her interactions with said children half of the time are her having virtually no patience for their questions and mistakes. but i guess as a reaction to the amount of hate leafpool got in earlier fandom times, people have to portray her as absolutely flawless and unwittingly manipulated by starclan instead of a very flawed character, because her being flawed wouldn't make her sympathetic to them.

it's a double standard of course, because characters like crowfeather and hawkfrost are still extremely popular despite the fact the former abuses his child and the latter abuses his sister and grooms ivypool. but no one blinks an eye because theyre male characters and its understood that you can like them because they're "nuanced", but at the same time people understand if you DONT like them because theyre flawed. so the problem with my fernsong portrayal is that in canon he's virtually flawless and i've added flaws to make him more interesting which some people view as an attack. plus i think some warrior cats fans view traditional femininity with virtual divinity? so the fact a MAN has two lines in canon that imply he could be traditionally feminine???

anyway most importantly you aren't a warrior cats fan if you don't take any criticism of your fave as seriously as if someone was bullying a real living person.