#i would like warriors 1000 times more if i could just kind of ignore arcs that are shitty

[tigergender]

I kind of wish warrior cats ended after arc 1 and it was remembered as a classic children's series that got cut short and had a small but nicely filtered fandom in the year 2023. I would miss very specifically Leafpool and Squirrelflight and the dozens of amazing MAPs based on the later arcs but at this rate I think we need to just stop

#warriors has never been fantastic but i think the first arc has a charm to it that's missing in the later series #i think the series has suffered greatly from focusing on this very linear progression of the cats' lives #cats feel like they live way too long and get born way too often and honestly it just gets exhausting to track it all #the incest problem and the flanderization problem and the firebaby nepotism could all be done away with #if you timeskipped years between the series #wc needs to either stop existing or it needs to do a soft reboot at some point #most of the books in the series are kind of bad and it might be more bearable if they didn't all impact each other lol #dotc sucked ass and it was important but most things beyond the founding of the clans and like 1 mention of shattered ice in #tallstar's revenge it wasnt that essential to have read. the most damning thing from that era was mothflight and her stupid rule #i would like warriors 1000 times more if i could just kind of ignore arcs that are shitty #i think warriors is at its best when it releases things barely connected to the rest of the series because the authors #are clearly not doing amazing at progressing the society of the clans #it feels pointless when we know medcats are never gonna have agency starclans never gonna be good clans will always be blindly conservative #so why not stop pretending to be a story about change and instead just have fun with new protagonists. go crazy go stupid #write some books about the mythological tiger/lion/leopardclans #anyways tldr: i hate warrior cats but i'm obsessed with it so i wish it stopped pretending to be good as a continuous story