I will forever hate the portion of fandom that romanticized Kin's rogues grooming a bunch of teenagers. Needletail was a young she-cat who got manipulated by an adult tom and people love to see it as a typical love-dovey couple, Sleekwhisker was a young she-cat who got manipulated and idolized a cult leader and even the authors hinted she was in love with him, bro what??? Yarrowleaf, oh my beloved Yarrowleaf, was a young she-cat who got PREGNANT with some rogue guy and nobody questioned it. It is so fricking gross.
remember when a vision of shadows had a prominent character who was a grown man and pursued & got into a relationship with a teenager whom he was also actively luring into a cult and then we never talked about it and labelled the teenager a “technical groomer” instead
Reading finally The Apprentice's Quest made me absolutely flabbergasted. The way that 2016's wc fandom portrayed Alderpaw/heart is so much different that they way he really was in that book and later ones. Bro hates his own sister, hates kittypets even tho he's grandpa is Firestar, his anxiety is written so badly that I don't even understand why people enjoyed his character back then at all. I swear to StarClan, he ain't your "soft, anxious, kind, baby, cool dad medicine cat", he's your "another boring, xenophobic cat".
tawnycrow is canon now :O
Softpelt!!!! She is having a bad time every moment we see her even after she dies. Congratulations on your one line though