hey everyone, I’m gonna have to quit using this blog
during the time I was away from social media I reflected on some things and decided I do not wish to run this blog on my own anymore, it’d be one thing if this was a community blog or something but, it’s not it was my personal space for sharing warrior cats thoughts, cool cat things and stimboards. I don’t know anyone else who’d be up for taking on the mantle with me to keep it alive, so it will remain here as an archive, thank you all for everything <3
firestar is an excellent protagonist because he never once thinks “killing tigerstar will put me at his level”. from book one onward he knows that he will one day punch the shit out of him and he looks forward to it. in bluestar’s den when his intentions are revealed he’s thrilled and “relieved. There were no more secrets, only the clean cut of battle.”
“the new arc feels like a fanfiction” yeah dude that’s a positive thing. it’s cool that they’re doing more over the top stuff with the setting instead of the usual endless prattle about piss trail borders. i want warrior cats to be as goofy as possible and i want the protagonist of the next arc to shoot laser beams out of their eyes
so.. i was scrolling thought some channels on youtube whose owners are problematic (just making a blacklist for my MAPs, not seeking for drama or anything like that lmao) and when i was in marinin's channel i just saw this shit:
if you're not brazilian or just don't interact with br indigenous ppl on social medias, you might be like “oh what about it?” and i will explain (in a summarized way) why this is wrong asf + add some context why i am talking about it:
first of all, marinin has already used her being brazilian as an excuse to cultural appropriation of indigenous cultures..
i am brazilian too and this is absolute bullshit, in our country indigenous people are always silenced and talked over by non-indigenous people. feather earrings ARE NOT part of general brazilian culture and we have NO RIGHT to speak over indigenous people like that. even if you live in goddamn amazônia or anything.
second of all, MANY brazilian indigenous people have talked about how harmful it is to call their beliefs “folklore” or “mitology”. i won't put screenshots here because they're all in portuguese so i don't think they would add much to this post, but if you speak pt you can search for @/naiatupinamba, @/nawayawa and their mutuals on twitter and read more abuit it. CURUPIRA, BOITATÁ, SACI, etc are all SACRED for lots (not all) of indigenous people and should not be treated like myths or aesthetic.
and before you say “noo but she was just trying to represent brazil, there was no bad intentions on that”, why didn't she use cultures like baiana? nordestina? são paulina (paulistana or litorânea)? carioca? sulista or gaúcha? brazil is a place that have plenty of cultures, but she just had to go for the indigenous lol
i don't want to be involved in any drama, i just want you all to stop supporting this person, she has already supported lots of bad people, showed manipulative behaviour and now racist behaviour. she might have been through some shit and that's sad, but it doesn't excuse these things at all.
(and marinin, if you see this.. por favor, só para de procurar tanto drama, você está machucando pessoas só por atenção e isso realmente não é certo. você se sente especial com isso? você acha que isso te faz alguém legal? por que você não pode simplesmente ouvir as pessoas e mudar? melhorar um pouco? ah. e por favor, não coloca esse post em uma postagem de comunidade só pra dizer que está sofrendo cyberbullying ou alguma coisa assim kk.)
Ugh! I'm taking forever with this X_X Sorry guys! I've lost track of how long I've spent working on this I think I've finished it now (: Guess what?! I'm going to Scratch Day in Chicago IL on May 19th! I hope to see some of you guys there! Love-it's are encouriging