#my poor cats don't know how to handle me having a breakdown

[wallabywannabe]

It has been a rough month for 100% physical reasons. I often blame a lot of physical symptoms on my mental health and I think it's often valid, but a sinus infection is not one of those things. I really really want my head to stop hurting.

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

i know we all like to talk about teh many not-so-great things about teh writing in warrior cats, but i really like how they did teh reveal of teh twist in power of three. it was foreshadowed really well without being obvious, and it was very dramatic and fun! i love plot twists in general so i might be biased.

Honestly, yeah. I never read that part (library at my school only went to Eclipse), but I knew from reading online stuff.

I had the feeling something was up, and going back and rereading TNP (Especially having read Po3 first, my order of reading was wack) made my jaw drop.

It was a well-done twist. Could it have been better done? Yes, but so could everything. I'll give credit where it is due, Hollyleaf's religious trauma induced breakdown was uncomfortable. As someone who no longer experiences what could called 'Faith' due to poor experiences with it, Hollyleaf is intriguing because we were taught the same stuff.

The foreshadowing was good! Those who caught it, caught it, and were satisfied. Those who didn't were SHOOK. I still remember people (hilariously) wondering if Tigerstar and Hawkfrost even knew, I'm in camp "Tiger didn't know but Hawk did and didn't care".

Part of the foreshadowing if I remember correctly was also one of the very, very few moment where being fat wasn't mocked. I believe the line was, in context, about Thunderclan doing well in their new home, so well in fact that "even the slender Leafpool was looking plump"

Her being plump having been a good thing and a reference to how healthy they all were was awesome, but also knowing that she was in early to mid pregnancy? That was the little tipoff that made me go "Oh they actually planned this one!"

If only they took that same mentality to every other arc but people whinged about "muh continuity lockout" like the books don't spell it out to you come ON yall. Ivypool's Heart mentions Bristlefrost's Fridge like 40 times in the first 2 chapters.

I liked they way the twist was handled initially, and while I will say, of course Leafpool did nothing wrong, the three had a right to not exactly be happy about things. You're allowed to be upset that you were lied to, especially something like this.

Everyone handled it relatively in character too, except Firestar and Sandstorm but they stopped being characters when Firestar's Quest ended. Hey ho, it was actually a good twist and I feel like they tried to invoke it with Onestar and Darktail.