Guys I never said "warrior cats is bad because it's unrealistic" I like that warrior cats is unrealistic!

The cats know fractions. Mistystar says "at least two thirds of the Clan" in the new book. They know fractions. The cats are small, furry people who know fractions.

the fact that firestar never got the zoomies is a tragedy. let him zoom

If they actually depicted cat gender stuff relatively realistic then they'd have to actually write decent female characters.

I like the idea that Warrior Cats are literally an entire subsecies of cat. Born with eyes open, their eye color for life, patterns imiediaty shown, growing at different rates, increased intelligence, different schedules, etc etc etc

Imagine what a human would think if they found a Clan camp with expertly woven structures, a pile of prey, and cats treating cat wounds with herbs.

I want at least one warrior cat character to get the zoomies. Some warrior on a border patrol and all of a sudden they sprint back and forth, leaping off boulders and pouncing on leaves and scrabbling up trees. I want to see that happen right now.

Guardians of gahoole Is a great example of actually having animal characters act like animals even though they're more humanlike and use weapons.

I think one weird, recent change, is the cats' ability to cry. Like, obviously the cats *can* cry. In Tallstar's revenge, soil lands in Tallkit's eyes and his eyes water up in response. But I'm specifically talking about cats crying in sadness. You know, a very human and not cat-like behaviour. In older books, they don't cry to communicate sadness. But in more recent ones? Yeah, totally. They totally do. Like in Leopardstar's super edition. When Whitepaw's mother dies, he climbs into Leopardfur's nest, and they cat-hug as he sobs into her fur. Or when Rootspring loses Brostlefrost. I'm pretty sure, at some point, his eyes begin to water and his vision blurs. These are sweet scenes, but at the time I was kind of like, "this isn't normal, right? Cats don't cry from sadness, right??"

There's an AU rewrite of warriors on AO3 by FatalBlow and there the Clans have actual differences, they call each other Rivers, Thunders, Shadows, Winds. They stand on their two legs, have knives, and how certain events happen are changed and it's really well written. Cats like Cinderpelt legit have amputated limbs rather than just dead leg slowing them down. The writer there actually kinda makes it a point to say in one line of dialogue "she'll still have 3 good ones." as if to point out "Yes cats can move around fine with one limb missing." And deaf cats function in that world as well. They sign. It's hard to imagine but the writer takes the "the cats are people" to a good level there. They do swear a LOT it's almost funny how much they curse. I wish the rest of the series had been finished cause they only have Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, and Rising Storm finished. I like the world they built. I wish the actual books had that-where you could tell the clans are DIFFERENT. That's what a lot of fanfic gets right.

Warriors needs a term like boyfriend or girlfriend cause in the latest book Sunbeam refers to Blazefire, a cat she was courting at the time, as her "special friend." Twigbranch and Finleap could have also benefited from a word like that.

There's actually a bit in Crookedstar's promise where the cats marking territory was described as spraying. I remember cause it just felt really weird to read lmao

*THIS* is what I've always talked about, and it frustrates me when people _still_ try to tell me that they're 'just cats'! Mainly when people try to justify unacceptable things some characters have done [*cough**cough*, Thistleclaw- *cough*] By pointing the blame to them being cats, they are not cats. They're people in cat skins, they don't even show many cat-like behaviors- Things in real life cats do that is acceptable for them, but not for us is because they're unable to think like we do, and some things are just within their nature, Warrior Cats ignore that These cats can build religion and society, irl cats can't recognize their own reflection, there is a difference.

it would have been amazing if they made the Sisters a group that paid attention to the growth of the young, and maybe the whole ghost and earth thing wasn't innate but showed up in the males at certain ages, so when a mother noticed her son talking to a ghost or using the ability they have, she'd be forced to remove them from the group as it was their time. It'd be interesting if Squirrelflight started noticing tomkits going missing here and there and the mother's being a bit solemn but smiling with a 'it was their time'. LIKE FERAL CATS HAVING EMOTION?

"I wish I could count higher than four." Somewhere, Frith is laughing.

I remember from one of the SkyClan mangas, when Leafstar when in the Twoleg nest, she had to jump off the furniture to reach the door knob, despite being a cat who can naturally jump over 6 feet high AND a SkyClan cat who are known to be able to jump extra high

People seems to always forget that Couldtail is YOUNGER than Ashpaw and Fernpaw. They didn’t get apprenticed at six moons.

I’ve got some fanfics, but the only real thing I’ve improved upon was keeping around deaf and disabled cats as warriors. Snowfoot(deaf cat) and Hopspring(cat born with shriveled front legs) have both been cared for by their clan and are valued senior warriors by the time my fic starts. Snowfoot worked out a system of mock sign language via tail movement, ear flicks, specific expressions, and stomps to speak to his Clan, and even kits in the clan are raised being taught it. While he does need another warrior by his side for most battles, it’s been noted that another Clans strategies of confusing their enemies with echoes is notably useless against him which makes him an asset. Hopspring was briefly considered to be deputy before he passed on it himself. It is awkward for him to walk around, and he’s admittedly not the greatest hunter, but he has a sharp mind and a kind heart, making him excellent for forming strategies and mentoring other cats. He’s also been noted to be strangely graceful in battle, as he’s good at using his weight to his advantage. Hell, we even have a kittypet who was declawed in his front paws before joining the clan. He’s a surprisingly effective hunter, and he’s been able to utilize his paws as grappling limbs and sharp blows. He once accidentally knocked out an apprentice by striking the side of her head with his strength.

Finally someone brought up (if only briefly) how all warriors do is just work and patrol and never relax. It's been bothering me hardcore since I reread Guardians of Ga'hoole and enjoyed all their little harvest celebrations and holidays, time spent hanging out in the library and visits to Trader Mags' shop, all things that Warriors just doesn't have equivalents to. (GOG also is way more successful at having its characters act like animals despite the more unrealistic setting, and owl biology is frequently used for plot points) I feel like more frequently having leisure activities or celebrations like that one Olympics they held in PO3, or even just celebrating the passing of seasons could do a lot to make the clans feel less... depressing? Soul crushing?? Also I agree I think the Sisters are way more interesting than the Clans from a lore perspective. I'm all for flawed cat societies btw, as long as the authors are willing to dismantle them within the narrative *intentionally.* The Erins have been super resistant to truly changing the status quo though, but maybe ASC will turn things around with the code changes? Idk my hopes aren't super high

unrelated but something i'd love for you to talk about is how in the original series shadowclan actually had lots of rogues/loners join their clan, and much more than thunderclan did. i feel like later on they tried pushing that shadowclan doesn't like non clan born cats, but lots of the respected warriors were not clan born

I keep waiting for one of the clans to randomly save a puppies life and raise it as their secret weapon to attack the other clans 🤣

For these reasons i love contrasting warriors with books like Tailchaser's song! Tailchaser's song addresses how cats largely communicate with eachother via body language, but also has a literal monarchy. Both are goofy and unrealistic and its fun to see how they contrast! Im a sucker for wildly unrealistic animal books

I think it's fine that they dip more to the human side since it allows the authors to come up with more ideas. It also allows the readers, which are usually young children to understand more. It wouldn't be as fun if we read about them sleeping for most of the day or having a border fight every other day

Has anyone noticed how Windclan cats have had names like doe or stag but no cat has ever mentioned seeing a deer?

I would love to have warriors keep certain cat habits like when they wake up and go to bed while continuing to make them form complex thoughts an actual cat would not be able to have.

I only know this because I'm rereading Crookedstar's Promise rn but there's a part of that book where they do explicitly refer to marking the border as "spraying," which is the only time I can remember them specifying in terms other than "renewing the border markers" or whatever, so maybe they didn't want to add many direct references to peeing. It does seem like they would need a LOT of fluids for each patrol though lol. Would have been funny if there had been a casual note about the border marks being faint in The Fourth Apprentice because of the drought.

Imo I liked warrior cats in arc one, in terms of how cat they were

this is like that one video "on all levels except physical, i am a wolf. awoo!" except its a cat saying "on all levels except physical, i am a human. politics!"

When they'd say ”he sprayed his scent” I always had a pretty good idea of what they were trying to say. Then my younger sister showed it to me and said ”what does this mean?” I then had to think of a good way to tell her what they are doing

It's easy to write a book about animals by stretching the rules and making them basically just like people, and it's easy for an audience to relate to for sure. (And I do love Warriors!) But man, what I think is super cool is authors who are able to go beyond that. Silverwing is a book (technically series) about bats that uses their migratory habits and echolocation to develop the culture of the bats and mythology of their world (it also factors in their color blindness)! Or Fire Bringer, a book about deer that works deer social structure and instinct to fight for mates right into the story in a way that feels natural despite being a book about talking animals with a prophecy to fulfill. Both of these examples obviously aren't realistic either and take some creative liberties -- in Silverwing, vampire bats are carnivores with a 6 foot wingspan and in Fire Bringer, the antagonist forms a military and the protagonist more or less has a superpower -- but they take an animal's real behaviors and physiology and work it into the plot and I think that's really neat.

I feel like it would've been more interesting for the sisters, If that toms leaving was portrayed more like a coming of age Rite rather than a requirement. Like toms will only be considered proper adults once they leave on their pilgrimage. Maybe the toms who have chosen to stay can train and prepare the next generation of kits for this journey. Maybe mollys could then have their own coming of age Rite to parallel what the toms do, I am not sure what this Rite would entail though. This was just a thought experiment though, heavily influenced by the channel worldbuilding notes. This ain't realistic or all the much better either, but I love having more explanation than just a non described tradition.

one other but very minor detail is that the male cats in art are never depicted with tomcat jowls. in real unneutered male cats, the flesh and fur around their cheeks will grow due to testorone. it's very prominent in feral cats, and it's used to help cushion attacks from other males while searching for female colonies. they're never shown on any male cat in the series, or described in the books as far as i know. pretty strange, but again, the cats are anthropormized for the most part, even if not that much physically

Warrior cats be like:On all levels except physical, I am a human.

Not sure if anyones mentioned this yet but in the last book of the broken code(forgor what its called), when needletail is trying to push through the border between starclan and the dark forest, it says at one point that she can fit her head through but not her whole body. But, in real life, cats supposedly have no collar bones and thus if they can fit their head through something, they should be able to fit everything else too. This is sometimes false, like when a cat is overweight, but when old cats go to starclan their body is changed to make it more comfortable than a shaggy old ass cat, so presumably underweight and more importantly to the argument overweight cats in starclan would be a healthy weight, no? So theres no reason needletail shouldnt have been able to get through at that point It is a small nitpick in a series where cats literally can be colored blue, pink, or yellow, but ya know, something i noticed (Also i might be wrong about this and the ‘cats having no collarbones so they can fit through anything their head can’ thing might be untrue i didnt look it up)

9:35 "No, not even Ferncloud. There is no evidence for that. Stop saying Ferncloud had kittens as a child. Please." Wow, people say that? Because not only there is no evidence for that, there IS evidence for her having kittens only after becoming an adult. In A Shadow in RiverClan, when Feathertail runs into Ferncloud, she mentions that she and Dustpelt were now (as in, then) mates.

5:01 i remember them describing it as "spraying" a few times (i think tigerstar in specific is describing doing this) and im fairly certain theyve mentioned scratching marks onto trees as well. they usually just say "marking the border" but they do say that the cats are spraying or clawing a few times that i can remember

Cats have scent glands on a few different spots on their body. This means that when they rub up against something they leave behind a smell, and it's their smell. Cat's we keep in our home do this. They typically rub up against us, marking us as their own. They also have scent glands in their paws, meaning that when they scratch things, they leave their scent. I like to assume that this means in "Warrior Cats" the cats just nuzzle or scratch a tree or bush.

I think it just depends on specific instances. The old books they acted much more like actual cats(with still a lot of human traits thrown in). Ex. It being flat out stated male cats don't raise the kits and mates not really being "married". They go back an forth a lot on how human or how cat-like these cats are, so it makes it difficult. I will say there are things I try to go "well they're just cats" about bc other wise it is a bit uncomfortable, (a freshly made warrior dating an apprentice). Yeah kits are kids, apprentices are teens, and warriors are an enigma, it's hard to pin down EXACTLY how old any of that is, since they don't just evolve like pokemon overnight, so an apprentice could be 15 and a new warrior could be like, 18, or any age in between or older/younger. who knows? But apprentice/warrior relationships happens often enough I'd like to say, for my own sanity, they're "just cats so it doesn't matter". (Plus I forget how old anyone is any way and half the time forget a character exists until they're mentioned again so I can't keep track enough to really notice or care how old anyone is. If they become mates I go, "oh, ok that's a thing" and move on) (DISCLAIMER: Thistle/spotted is still gross, even as animals an adult cat preying on a kitten is gross, Thistle is a gross old man, them being cats doesn't make it ok!)

The sisters would have functioned better... if they worked more like the Amazons when it came to male kits. Which is basically giving them to the fathers. Probably after they aren't reliant on milk. Instead of just punting out unprepared kits

It could just be a representation of how artificial their lives are. Natural human sleeping patterns and culture are much different than our current ones.

I like to think of Warriors as akin to a series I read called Lost Dogs. To spare the trouble of looking it up, the overarching plot focuses on the spread of a disease that gives animals the intelligence of humans while at the same time being incredibly deadly to humans themselves, so basically, a bunch of humanoid pets running around without humans. I like to imagine the clans still as cats but with this added intelligence and humanity while rouges, kittypets, and the like are often the "unintelligent" or "normal" cats. The fact that they can have such complexity to their structure is unnatural to begin with. Additionally, there have been many a time cats outside the clan have shown disinterest, unease, or even disgust toward the concept of clan life. I can almost see this difference in characterization as a reason to classify them separately. Perhaps the best canonical rationale for this would be the existence of and connection to Starclan. Though I can't claim to know much as my memory doesn't serve me greatly here, I would propose that Bloodclan might have been one of the better examples of a more realistic feline narrative.

They literally could use any other animal (dogs, squirrels, bunnies, mice, birds, even humans) in the place of cats in Warriors and it wouldn't make a difference in the story.

It also seems that when they start a new series they introduce a lot of cats that we’ve never heard of before in every clan except Thunderclan. No one knows where they come from. It’s fairly easy to keep track of who is related to who in Thunderclan even though as of late they are SO MANY of them

i will say that in into the wild it specifically says "Tigerclaw lifts his tail" to mark his scent. it gets more vague after that but at SOME point in the series it was spraying. just wanted to share.

Cats also have scent glands in their paws and face so rubbing them on a tree or bush would also leave a scent “marker”

But ye. It rly bugs me when ppl are like "they can't be lgbt! They're cats!" You see it a lot with trans hcs especially. It's such a silly argument. Like they have organized religion n shit, i think they can question their gender

In a new arc of warrior cats the cats should accidently invent capitalism

We need cat restaurants

One of the strangest instances of "cats act too human" in warrior cats i think is their prey system. In real life cats are uncontrollable hunters who will kill anything thats small and scurries around in sight for no apparent reason while the cats in warriors actually have a system of how to ration out their food and have an entire rule dedicated to not over hunting and over eating. If warrior cats was realistic practically all of the small mammals and bird species around where the warrior cats lived would have gone extinct.

They are simply advanced beyond our mortal comprehension

The cats have intelligent brain molecules upon those we understand

I like to write my warrior cats oc stories in a way that the characters are actually more like real cats. Leaders are often female, toms often leave their group as young adults to start their own (it’s they’re free choice, no one forces them - except maybe some bad parents), females tend to have multiple mates and more kittens (my oc Clans are a famous cat colony living next to a „feral cats research center“ with humans that catch some of them twice a year to spay & neuter them; that way the clans don’t get too overpopulated; also seastar once let herself and her kittens get captured by the humans because they were sick to a point where not even the medicine cat could help them, because she knew humans would take care of them and save her kittens - she managed to escape afterwards) The queens take care for all the kittens, not just their own litter, so that the biological mother can go out hunting etc. Fathers don’t spend too much time with their kittens The cats often sleep when it’s sunhigh and go on patrols when it’s sunrise or sundown

breaking news: the warrior cats are no longer cats they are just furries /j hope that isn’t offensive because I’m also probably a furry :p

The people are just cats. You'll see flashes of human like behavior, the characters slapping each other over the head or kids playing with each other but largely the changes that make them people over cats are largely aesthetic and physical, Yes they have the abilities of people, cooking, advanced movement, and running on two legs, but on the inside... these people are just cats.

Honestly I think them being more human is a good thing, it make it physically possible to almost completely and totally understand their motivations, thought processes and lives and also prevents undeserving characters to be treated cruelly or unkindly as they would be in a more realistic cat civilization setting.

I THINK UR RIGHT ABOUT THE WARRIORS WORKING ALL DAY THING. I WANT THESE CATS TO HAVE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES GIVE US MORE CAT HOCKEY AND CAT OLYMPICS. MAKE THESE CATS HAVE LITTLE DND CLUBS OR SMTH IDK

Points at a cat: That's a human person! You're very right though lol the "they're just cats" argument only works if they ACT like cats. Which they do not.

Warrior Cats are just furries confirmed.

It’s kinda weird to me when people complain about this because, from my experience, animals actually acting like animals in media is pretty rare. The only things I can think of where they do act like their animals is watership down and the movie spirit. And even then I can’t be sure. Idk I just don’t like when people complain about this cause to me the point of fiction is that it doesn’t have to be realistic.

“Male cats in warriors dont fight over females” Ashfur and brambleclaw: 👀

*WC characters:* in all ways but physical, I am a human person. *WC characters:* _[medicine cat weeping over the vows of eternal solitude and chastity required of them in order to take on the esteemed role of healer and religious leader]_

Oh I didn't think of that aspect of warriors at all, even though most of my experience is comparing them to real human social structures. It does put warriors in this weird spot though, where they're not quite human not quite cats, so anyone wanting to look up references for why they do things is out of luck. To take the apprentice age stuff as an example: IRL, cats can be adults at X months old, while for humans it's Y age, which may not sync up with the human-cat calculator age. So...where do warriors lie? They never really address "this cat is an adult so they should be made a warrior", it's "they're not an adult UNTIL they become a warrior regardless of age" which is... okay for the basic purpose of understanding things but when they're assigning intense plot points to cats its a little weird that readers dont have a mental reference for how old a cat is or what guides the society goes by. It CAN work but is something that the authors need to spend more time in actually thinking about and putting into the story with a specific language for these cats

Tangentially related but this is why it bugs me sometimes when people will take criticism of wc being "unrealistic" to extremes.. like Yes of *course* the brand new apprentice is described as being Tiny compared to their mentor, that is a kindergartener. yes it's unrealistic for a 6 month old cat to be Significantly smaller than their mentor, but this is the Least of wc's writing problems to the point where that's not even a real problem, it's just the authors trying to make you feel emotions about babies. but i've seen some people blow that minor criticism so far out of proportion to the point where i've actually seen someone compliment a pmv Solely on the basis that the apprentices were drawn realistic sizes and guys it's not that big of a deal why does the collar color matter i'm so tired people please /lh anyways tho good video very excellent points 10/10 made me say "THANK YOU!" out loud several times.

Yeah after a while I don't even imagine them as just cats anymore but they talk like people that just occasionally turn into cats for hunting.

another note that i dont see people talk about much is the fact that cats cannot see the color red, at all. it just looks like green to them. so warriors with names like redtail should actually be named greentail lmao.

Whenever you feel comfortable making that video about sexism in Warrior cats, I promise I will personally contribute, like, ten views, just like that Briarlight video

*so ew I have to bring thistle into this but like….”oh there just cats” I’m sorry? Does that justify Thistleclaw’s weird disgusting behavior in the um. spottedleaf book you know. “Oh cats just do that!!!” so you think I’m still comfortable with the stuff he did? No sorry*

4:17 Watership Down!!! I'm so happy you referenced it in passing, it's such a good book ;-;

The Clan cats are acting as like as a human primitive group millions years ago. They haven't discovered fire and writing but technically they are starting a civilization. If twolegs disappeared because of mushroom war or Covid-cough, the clan cats would be next dominant intelligent species on the earth. (Thats my AU idea)

This is a lovely coincidence as yesterday I saw a comment saying "*Insert random warrior cat surrounded by drama* is completely justified in killing because feral cats kill!" this video perfectly sums up what I wish to say to people like that.

I like to think that the sisters being 'punished' for keeping male kits is entirely coincidental- or even just the result of the whole 'if you wait long enough something bad will eventually happen and then they can blame it on that one guy' thing. I also think StarClan covering the moon is coincidental

I loved the watership down references about how they can't count higher than four!

4:50 In Tallstars Revenge on a border patrol tallpaw is said to spray something halfheartedly so yeah the cats are pissing everywhere lol

I'm currently working on writing and drawing an AU of Warriors where they're all humans, and the only real changes are mostly in setting and character design. The characters themselves I barely even change, (unless I'm bothered by the way they're written) it's moreso about converting the environment around them so instead of only hunting mice and squirrels, they're hunting bigger game and also growing crops within the territorys. Change the claws to dual wielding knifes and other such weapons, space out the timing where kits are born, make Twolegs incomprehensible eldritch beings, and bada-bing-bada-boom, Warrior Cats without the cats. This also give me a chance to make the clans more distinct, with the way they dress, the space where they live and that affecting their resources, and the way I choose to represent their fighting styles. Most of this stuff doesn't really change the core of Warriors, because these cats basically are already anthropomorphized in everything but appearance and minor traits.

I don’t mind the human like qualities of the cats, I find it just as interesting as a realistic group of cats.

It’s kind of saddening to see just how cynical the production of Warriors was from the start

Me: _only knows what has been covered by In A Nutshell videos and what I read from the 3 super editions I own from like 7 years ago_ Moonkitti: 13:27 "Rootspring even uses this inherited talking to earth power to try and find a trace of Bristlefrost after she dissolves, and somehow through this absurd superpower, he finds her dying dream instead." Me: What in tarnation is *going on* over there??

The crooced jaw super Edition confirms border are marked by spraying

2:04 the amount of times I was like “ I- Oh my god- “ is infinite

I'm sitting here listening to you enjoying you talk about the bad things of one of my favorite book series. I enjoy it

i wonder what everyone thinks of the dragons in Wings of Fire. for some reason the dragons feel a lot less human even though they have scrolls, politics, reading/writing, armour, blankets, piercings etc. because we don’t have dragons in our world to compare. but every now and again i’ll see something that is too human in that world. i like it sometimes; it makes the dragons another species capable of sentience, side by side with humans, but then at that point why not write about human characters? (i love the dragons tho)

When people try to excuse stuff as "they're cats" I always point out the fact they behave more like humans and thus if I find something they did morally wrong they likewise would believe a similar thing..they're not "just cats". People often use the cat excuse for apprentice warrior ships.."cats don't care about ages" if they didn't care about ages they wouldn't care when apprentices are named as apprentices, they may be in the body of a cat but they very much are just like us! A lot of things are horrible mistakes as they're seemingly writing as they go..no thought no brain. A lot doesn't make sense as there isn't really an over-arching plot but there also is, they never really worked on the world building mostly just the main characters and firestars line..so rules can be kinda dumb, things they do can be kinda dumb, ages they don't know as they've never focused on world building wat-so-ever.

Me only on forest of secrets and I hear spoilers and I’m like OK

That is why I appreciate the "Survivors" so much. There are a lot of downsides to this series, but dogs do act like dogs.

"The males don't fight over females" except for brambleclaw and ashfur

I’d like to say that realismpaw is my favorite character in the books, it was so sad how they killed them off in between books :(

Man, the more I learn about cat cults, the more I'm scared for kids whose lives revolved around the books.

FINALLY! MORE SPECIFIC SPOILER WARNINGS!!! you'd think a community based in 80 books of kitty shenanagans would be more specific when it comes to spoiler warnings, knowing that the majority of the community isent done with the books, but all they ever say is "sPoIleRs" AND THEY NEVER SPECIFY FOR WHAT! But you, YOU. MOONKITTI. An indevidual that I found out exiseted particularly because of their "i spoil" series, YOU are the pionyeer of the new age... thank you...

Entirely unrelated to content: thank you for your dark mode/night browsing friendly grey backgrounds in your videos lmao

Warrior cats is game of thrones for kids. So they made it PC and turned all the people into cats so they can get away with violence and gore and murder and graphic childbirth scenes with lots of blood and wailing cats. I just consider them to be enlightened from religion and thats what makes them more human.

Quick thing about that border thing: When the clans were leaving the forest, they mentioned " Brackenfur rubbing his head on the ferns for the last time *as if There was a territory border to mark* " Implying that this was how they marked their borders. Im a little unsure though as in Crookedstars promise they sprayed instead. So yeah thats weird.

The sisters, aka "the chonkers"

This is incredible. This information will be so useful for my world building thank you! I've been wanting to make kitties more cat-like.

this is why most of the time I play as a rogue in rps. It allows for more realism while still being able to have fun!

12:00 Is it just me or is the Sisters somewhat inspired by the Romani? They are nomadic and also are descended from a “single man kittypet family.” Roma also descend from a single group that left India I know they are also inspired by the amazons, but it seems to take inspiration from both.

People talk about “unrealistic” or “realistic” as an argument in what cats know or not know when at the end of the day, we have cats in the series who act like humans in a cat body and having superpowers with grammar, spelling, and terminology mistakes that happen often. I wonder if the Sisters being terrible religious zealots was their intention, but then again, we already have something like those in the series, if I’m not mistaken. Can I bring up how Sunstar is just StarStar but people are like “cats don’t know that” when I criticized their opinion on Twigbranch being Branchbranch but not bringing up Sunstar? Cats don’t know people are aware of the sun and stars being the same, but cats also don’t know that people have their own language that make “Branchbranch” (It’s a series based on English writing that can differentiate twig and branch)

Unrelated but: Where did Moonkitti’s Frecklewish website response video go? I know it wasn’t a "real, scripted, planned" video, but I wanted to rewatch it :(

in conclusion: give us some damn LGBT+ cats already!

idk how well this would work exactly but it could’ve been kinda neat if the Sisters had a different concept of gender from the clan cats, where whether someone was a tom or molly was dependent on whether or not they could see ghosts and commune with the earth or whatever (maybe they’d have different words for them idk)

4:18 Hold up is that a Watership Down reference? Love it.