y’all look cinderpelt has a pet snail!!

I love them so much

oh my god, is that a missing cat poster for rusty.

happy pride month

as cute as many parts of a thief in thunderclan were, i really do not like the narrative of "we‘re worth something to our society, as disabled people, as long as we can be useful!" its a harmful message on its own, and even worse when using brightheart of all characters as the mouthpiece for it.

i am partially blind. i cannot see with one of my eyes, just like brightheart. this has caused some major complications for me, just as it has for her. i have extremely poor depth perception, hand eye coordination, etc. i have learned to live with it, just as she has. i like that she has figured out her own way of doing things, as i have. but there are things i cannot do, and that she cannot do. and to say, through her, that disabled people are only worth anything if they can be useful, is an awful message. you do not have to contribute some usefulness to be worth something. you do not lose worth by being disabled.

the fact that the authors use brightheart to parrot this message to longtail is equally has disgusting. this is a very shitty narrative they are spreading, that they always have spread. warrior cats is a series that very rarely handles its disabled characters with any form of tact and respect. im pretty tired of it.

good one ashfur, you really got them there

Ferncloud. ❤️

ashfur king of comedy

I'm gonna be real with you guys, I'm not digging the entire "It's okay if you're disabled as long as you can contribute to society in ways that we deem useful and valuable!" thing going on with A Thief in Thunderclan. It just sticks out waaay too much for me to ignore

Ngl this is the cutest shit I’ve ever read

I thought the thief in thunderclan was going to be Bloodclan stragglers stealing the prey. We get a bloodclan plot line before and after this book and Brightheart even mentions the claw marks look like a cat’s but the claws are different.

he’s just like me lmao

things that are extremely unlikely to cloudtail: starclan is calling his uncle on a quest

things that are apparently much more likely to cloudtail: sandstorm becoming a kittypet

snippets from A Thief in ThunderClan from James’ Instagram stories!

Remembering Brightheart and Cinderpelt are sisters, exploring Brightheart’s PTSD from the dog attack, extremely tiny Whitekit....finally some good fucking food

gonna talk about a thief in thunderclan

i love slice of life stuff but. it didn't really show much of it. we get moments of brightheart calling cinderpelt her sister but there's no reference of her being thornclaw's and brackenfur's sister also really wished there was more frostfur :( Brightheart keeps mentioning her and Frostfur just never shows up other than to get one sentence congratulating her pregnancy. What's up with that

ive seen ppl call the fact the thief was just an owl a bit anticlimactic but i thought it was neat. shows that not every bad thing that happens is from some greater evil. if anything im surprised something like that hasn't happened before. cover your food. these guys would never survive walking a boardwalk with fries

one storytelling element i did not like is graystripe like as a whole

His response at BrightCloud after knowing they didn't tell him about the prey thief was weird considering every cat knew prey was disappearing. the gouges in the ground could be seen by anyone. the fact it took two warriors and not even the deputy to sit and think about "hm what could possibly leave this claw marks and take all our food" it was also really strange how this just didn't seem like an issue the cats cared about. Usually prey is a big deal and the fact it just going missing unnoticed and no cat is talking about it besides "hey where'd all the food go" and just leaving it at that (Also Cloudtail didn't seem to care either ?? Something has important as food going missing just didn't mater with any cat other than Brightheart ??)

these r the same guys that will pummel another clan cat if they so think they hunted over the border. if there's anything a cat shouldn't mess with is their food supply- it seemed thunderclan could care less about their food vanishing

another thing. ur telling me brightheart first bonding moment with longtail was after he got injured and idk not after the events of swiftpaw? Despite the controversy over their conversation, it feel like its such a lackluster reason for that to be the thing that brings them together. The book shows Brightheart's only issue with not trusting Longtail is because he's a clan mate and not idk someone you'd think she'd be acquainted with ? Someone that grieved over the same cat she did. And it seems so offensive for the book to say "oh longtail was friends with tigerstar that's why brightheart feels like she can't trust him" and not mention that tigerstar was responsible for leading the dogs to thunderclan. Longtail being blinded was the thing that was meant to assure Brightheart that he could be trusted ?? That's crazy

It's not like they forgot about Swiftpaw. He made an appearance, he was there. The writers just didn't seem to care to show a connection.