#sorry i used this ask to complain but man. asc's handling of kitty poltiics is embarrassing

[the-owl-tree]

the fact that we finally had a chance for a political murder mystery story and the writers threw it away for more christianity. i feel so deeply violent now when i think bout how excited i was after reading the first book of asc

It's kind of interesting how a lot of the issues were set up in the first half and I'd written them off as issues and not like. focal points of the plot. One thing that's been eating at me is how the narrative is taking on the One Bad Apple approach with Splashtail

"They'll change back" LIKE WHAT?????? IS THAT HOW THIS WORKS NOW. It's such a telling line when it comes to the writing team's ideology, it's not that RiverClan's xenophobic pride has opened them up to a leader that uses those fears to gain power, it's that Splashtail is a nasty little man who OHKO's no take backs his own deputy and loooooveees murder. I was kind of baffled by this decision then I remembered it's literally how they described TigerClan, with Tigerstar being the nasty little man who corrupted the poor wittle RiverClan cats in executing half-clan cats. Let's not examine the underlying ideology in Clan society that might have lead to it!

I don't think WC has anything really that interesting to say political wise and the more i think about it trying another political story, the more gnawing off my toes becomes appealing. I agree that ASC started off on a way more grounded tone that was appealing and that definitely was thrown out the window with little to no warning.

They just dropped the ball real hard. It's rough.