#Bumblesweep

[cheecats]

In light of how grossly disrespectful and dismissive some (not all) DC voters have been, here is something for a lovely lady who deserved better. [X]

#cheez rambles #cheez design #warrior cats #bumble dotc #bumble wc #vote bumble #bumblesweep #// I thank DC voters who have still acknowledged Bumble's injustice and have remained respectful towards her. #// this is in no way to slander Alex. What happened to her was disgusting and horrible. Voting for her is absolutely understandable. #// but extend the same courtesy to Bumble- yeah? #// Maybe dont fucking disregard heinous misogynistic writing as ''just cats so it doesn't matter'' #// something ironic with how disgustingly closed-minded you're acting in a MISOGYNY POLL?? fucking reflect on yourself #// learn some media literacy and read the opponent's propaganda before dropping the most willfully ignorant bullshit statements- mkay??

[bonefall]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

WE GOT EM

BUMBLESWEEP REAL

WE DID IT! SHE HAS DEFEATED ALEX DEWITT!

In spite of people trying to downplay the fact she is a domestic abuse victim treated as unreasonable and stupid for asking for help in a YA novel for young readers, not caring that both her abuser and her murderer are treated as good, worthwhile people by the narrative because they're all superficially written as cats, we did it!

BOTH characters in this poll were victims of egregious misogyny, and Alex DeWitt, inventor of the term fridging, was a worthy opponent. We respect her and the contributions to discussions about misogyny in media she's responsible for! It was a reasonable choice to vote for either option.

But we WON! We're doing it! People outside our fandom are seeing what happened to this character and acknowledging some of the awful things that WC does to its female characters, and ESPECIALLY to Bumble, possibly the greatest example of its hatred of women, fat people, and outsiders in the entire series. Thank you to EVERYONE who contributed to this round of the Canon Misogyny Tournament!!

And to everyone who thinks Bumble doesn't matter "because she's just a cat," WELL,

DEAL WITH IT

#Bumblesweep #VOTE BUMBLE #Bumble WC #LETS GOOOO BUMBLE #Bumble DOTC #warrior cats #moving text #gif #moving images #Alex and Bumble are HOLDING HANDS btw #Alex has adopted Bumble and she is kissing her little baby head

[leafpoollover729]

Bumble! She deserves better and I will keep pestering the Warriors team about it on Instagram until they actually say if she got into an afterlife later or do her justice

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#bumble wc #bumblesweep #bumble #warrior cats #bumble dotc #dotc #kitty #erin hunter warriors #traditional art #the authors did her so dirty #she deserves the world #poor baby

[honey-claw]

BUMBLE SWEEP 2K23

(Please ignore ya girl’s slightly uneven front legs, I referenced this from a photo of my fat son and he is shaped very strangely)

#bonefall #better bones au #warriors #warrior cats #bumble #bumblesweep

[harewhistle]

bumble drawing for celebrating bumblesweep

design inspired by @bonefall

#hare art #wc #wc fanart #warrior cats #bumble #wc bumble #bumble wc #kittypet #she deserved so much better</3 #bumblesweep

[ratfangzz]

Bumble

+ my cat pumpkaboo who i based her on :D

#bumble #kittypet #loner #bumblesweep :)

[yuridovewing]

Alex Dewitt has adopted Bumble and she runs an art gallery full of her photos and Bumble is her store cat and everyone coos over her and also Alex has a girlfriend. Hope this helps

#Bumblesweep but gotta give respect to alex’s legacy. she also deserved so much better mqn #man

[blimbo-buddy]

mmbumble :) /pos

BUMBLE SWEEP BUMBLE SWEEP #BUMBLESWEEP

THE DREAM IS ALIVE

#blimbo rambles #ask

[meatrise]

okay so im gonna post this in honor of the bumblesweep

Evil(?) Bumble AU

au where instead of killing Bumble, Clear Sky takes her into his group.

I'm imagining that he does attack her at first and she just fucking snaps like a rubberband, and starts ranting at this asshole about what's happened because she Just Cannot Take This Anymore. and it's enough to fucking explode his brain because Hey What The Fuck.

idk why i just want to see clear sky supporting womens wrongs. hey girlie pop how do you feel about some Revenge.

#broken bones au #come kill me i actually hate clear sky but the idea of bumble pulling a mapleshade is so appealing to me #get their asses

[clanswapper]

BUMBLESWEEP!!!!

#bumble wc #bumble warrior cats #warrior cats fanart #dotc #warrior cats #girl you deserved so much better #objectively the best warrior cats character #swapper scribbles

[tumblezwei]

bumblesweep?

They're sweeping the polls bay-bee!!

#ask #ballofdumb

[cheecats]

Busy atm but something quick for her

congratulations beautiful girl <3

#cheez rambles #warrior cats #cheez design #my art #bumble wc #bumble dotc #bumblesweep

[bonefall]

BUMBLESWEEEEEPP

WE DID IT LADS

BUMBLE IS THE WINNER OF THE CANON MISOGYNY VICTIMS TOURNAMENT

#bone babble #BUMBLESWEEP

[bonefall]

And not all DC fans are mad! I was happy when Leafpool beat Starfire, and I was pleased with Bumble winning too. (Epilepsy dad here, who is a comics fan, and has 4 kids who love reading the warrior cat books and have the Minifig warriors become superheroes In the Gotham city I hot as a kid) im digressing here: What keeps the warrior cats fandom strong is how you all form up around the cats that were mistreated by the writers, how you bring them into your homes and hearts and make better features for them. My Amuma always used to say if enough people believed in something, then maybe their will can change the world.

Always good to see you around!

This vitriol has been super disappointing, y'know? I feel like I have to keep stressing that DC fans are valid, their frustrations with the comics are well-founded, and Bumble's opponents should also be acknowledged as victims of misogyny

And then we don't get that grace back! Doesn't matter that Warriors is a best-selling kids' series with REALLY harmful messages in it read by millions across the globe. Bumble's "just a cat" and we're "reading too much into it." As if that's not the same shit that gets said about misogyny in media broadly; "They're not real, comics are just for fun, you're reading too much into it"

Now people are like "Oh it was a mistake for WARRIOR CATS to be in this poll" because they're mad our "just a cat" is winning. Like it's not a tournament and that's the whole point. We've got people trying to say that Bumble can't even have misogyny happen to her because the human writers superficially made her a cat, as if she's not a fantasy character like every other fantasy character she's been up against.

But, ugh. I won't let it stop me, y'know? StarClan gives its hardest battles to its strongest warriors ✨✨I will never shut up about the "justa cats," this fandom rocks exactly because of the fact we're so passionate about these issues and how to address and fix them, Bumblesweep FOREVER!

#I'm not a DC fan but one of my best friends in the whole world is #And he's always telling me about what's going on in them #His favorite guy is The Flash! #And me and my friend group have been watching the new superman show together #So like. I don't hate DC and I never have! #And it's not all DC fans obviously. There's just some really loud and nasty ones #But man I can't help feeling like WC fans are getting shit just because there's some sore losers #who are super mad their very prestigious and well-known comic book characters are being beaten by a character they do not respect #Bumblesweep #Vote Bumble #I don't know if I can change the world through my babbles and my passion #But I DO know that I can make some people feel a little better and less alone. #And I can back my girl Bumble and make everyone in this fandom and our surroundings see and acknowledge what they DID TO HER #JUSTICE FOR BUMBLE #bone babble

[bonefall]

Obviously nobody should be talking poorly about any of Bumble's competitors but it's insane how people voting for Alex are going 'its a CAT'. Like, okay and? Alex Dewitt is ink on paper and we rightfully take issue with her writing to the point of making it a term, so why is it any different when a fictional cat has misogynistic writing? And these are cats with a society, laws, religion, and understanding of (herbal) medicine. They are on par with people. And, it's a YA series. Shouldn't people take the message "fat, abused women dying isn't a problem because they can't contribute ackshually, and if we acknowledge it is how can the goodboy main character stop licking his brother's kitty boots if he's a bad person :(" as a red flag in any series? Let alone one for kids? Like, did everyone outside of the fandom miss the Ashfur defense? Because I was there for it and it was pretty clear a LOT of impressionable children genuinely believed the "he only loved too much" excuse hook line and sinker, and blamed Squirrelflight for everything. There were so many fans genuinely believing that I literally remember seeing hate art and fanfics portraying Squirrelflight as a horrible person just for asking to stay friends. That alone was a testament to how harmful Warriors can be, all because of that one scene of Ashfur being spotted in StarClan.

And with that fiasco in mind, how can anyone trivialize it to Bumble being 'just a cat'? Especially when kids are reading this, and could really take the harmful message Gray Wing the """Wise""" has for them that if you have nothing to contribute to the people you desperately need help from, you are stupid for trying to ask for it. I was lucky to not take any of the really harmful portrayals relationships in Warriors to heart, but not everyone will be. People should support Alex all they want, she deserves it! But downplaying what happened to Bumble because she's a cat is harmful :(

Alex DeWitt's story is so shocking and straightforward that you're able to sum it up with a single word; "Fridging." It's become the touchstone for a wider discussion about misogyny in media because it is so evocative and so easy to explain as an example.

That IS important. That IS a legacy.

But somehow, if you try to explain how EARLY misogyny in media starts, and how pervasive it is even in "less respectable" mediums like YA xenofiction, they lose their fucking minds. People who refuse to read anything at all going, "what could possibly have happened to a cat?"

You know what, though? I'm GLAD Bumble is winning, and I'm proud of this fandom and our campaigning. I think we actually deserve to be a little smug about this after all the damn "justa cat" comments. Bumble doesn't HAVE a legacy. The book doesn't VALUE HER LIFE AT ALL! "It's so sad Clear Sky is going to have his reputation ruined for killing this useless woman. I never liked Bumble anyway, what matters about this is my poor brother :("

The runner of the Canon Misogyny Tournament mentioned in passing how they kinda take issue with the idea of quantifying misogyny based on suffering because of how it oversimplifies the insidious ways it can express in a narrative, and I've thought a lot about that a lot. They're right.

And Alex is THE posterchild of this because her death is ghoulish. We needed what happened to her as a simple, evocative term, to advance the conversation around media misogyny and get it through people's skulls. But, she has become the conclusion of a sentiment that the more gruesome the death is, the more misogynist that makes it.

but. The fridge was not the misogynistic part of what happened to Alex. THE FACT SHE WAS ONLY INVENTED TO DIE FOR THE PAIN OF A MAN IS. THAT is what the term "fridging" is supposed to point out; The absolute LACK of interest in her as a 3-dimensional character, in women as people, to the point where the writer chose to send Alex out in a gorey, disrespectful way solely as a motivator for her boyfriend. THAT is the bad part.

But instead people have latched onto the fridge half. More violent = more misogyny.

There's a lot of ways for a narrative to be misogynist, though. To downplay the lives, emotions, or contributions of women characters, and to reinforce real-world bigotry.

Warrior Cats does a LOT of this, blaming bad mothers who didn't shut up and accept their 'purpose in life' for Brokenstar's tyranny, making it a TRAGIC thing that Clear Sky is being held accountable for murdering women because his man pain makes it ok, and even blaming Squirrelflight for rejecting Ashfur's advances which caused him to go "crazy" and attempt to murder her children (until, of course, the welcomed retcon of TBC).

Bumble's death, because she is a fat woman, is treated as unavoidable. It's not a terrible thing she died, Gray Wing never really liked her anyway, what REALLY "matters" is that now no one likes her murderer.

She was stupid and selfish to even ask for help, because she is so fat and weak. To be upset at all that her only friend watched her get dragged back to her abuser. Even as she bleeds out, she gets to listen to Turtle Tail making up excuses and wishing she "could have found happiness."

All while Tom the Wifebeater, the fat man who physically assaulted two women, gets a big cutesy redemption death and honored and beloved by everyone and even gets to "lose weight and that's so good :)". Because the books value the lives of men more than the lives of women, plain and simple.

Bumble wasn't just fridged. It's worse than that. Her life doesn't even have enough value to get Clear Sky held accountable for murdering her, because beloved writer favorite Gray Wing hated her for being friends with his wife and doesn't want anyone to hate his poor, innocent big brother :(

Like you said, you can ask anyone in this fandom and they'll tell you about the impressionable kid they were, or have MET, who was badly influenced by the constant misogyny of these books. People who defend Bramblestar tooth and nail as he abuses his wife, the screeds against both Leafpool and Nightcloud for making Crowfeather sad, and the absolutely radioactive Ashfur Defenders who have thankfully died down since TBC's welcome retcons.

It doesn't just end with annoying internet comments. Those kids carry that kind of message with them. It reinforces existing biases and causes them to downplay abused women and toxic men in their real lives.

But sure, "just a cat." Cool way to downplay the 20-year-old bestselling YA fantasy series that is still ongoing but ok. 50000 Bumblesweeps upon ye.

(though i do also have to say, since I started speaking more about it today, I'm seeing more non-wc fans push back against the 'just a cat' comments. Sincerely, thanks guys. It's not every DC fan or Alex voter, just a very vocal section of sore losers willing to downplay misogyny because they're angry.)

#Bumblesweep #Vote Bumble #Misogyny #fatphobia #abuse

[bonefall]

Bumble wasn’t just fridged, she was frozen 😭

We need a new word for what happened to Bumble. She wasn't even killed and put in a fridge to make a man upset, a man slaughtered her so that ANOTHER MAN could be upset that no one likes the woman-killer anymore

And then the NARRATIVE AGREES!!

Gray Wing: "It's so sad and unfair that people are holding her murder against her murderer. Don't you know she was fat and useless and it was unavoidable? My sweet brother only beat her unconscious and threw her on a highway It's not his fault she got hit by cars :("

#Bumble wc #Bumblesweep #Vote Bumble