#bramblehate

[bonefall]

Would we by chance have squirrelstar in the rewrite? It is that toooooo far from canon

It is, unfortunately. I can't change very much about Bramblestar in general because he's TOO impactful. The Erins have made him so awful so consistently that he's the heart of several major conflicts.

Squirrelstar would NEVER have let Rowanstar seperate Violetkit and Twigkit. She wouldn't have let ThunderClan go into that battle against the sisters. Her clanmates would have known IMMEDIATELY that she was replaced by an imposter.

That's three just off the top of my head. The plots would have gone massively differently if she was leader, which is contrary to the goal of my redux to keep the major events the same... even though I love her.

So instead she is getting a lot of love in other ways. Lionblaze rejects Brambleclaw completely after his behavior in OOTS, she never gets back with him as a mate (Alder and Spark are Jessy kits), and her leadership is not doubted in TBC.

#On the note of TBC she also wants to bring Bramble back because that's who she is #Yes loyalty to the leader is a factor but Squilf wouldn't have left ANYONE in there #They will still probably be Friends of some sort but they never get back together after that gathering #Not because he was hurt by the lie he IS entitled to that pain #But because of how he treats her in OOTS #As Moonkitti says ''It's the behavior while they're estranged that's the problem'' #This is not a Bramblehate post btw I am actually legitimately fascinated by him #His flaws are on purpose in my rewrite #And he gets some growth too! #Not interested in making a living demon out of Bramble #Just a realistic emotional abuser. #Squirrelflight #Squirrelstar #Bonefall Rewrite

[mallowstep]

daily reminder that squirrelflight is in an abusive relationship.

#q #mine #txt #28th #March #2021 #March 28th 2021 #justice for squirrelflight #squirrelflight #bramblehate #warriors

[mallowstep]

it’s time for another squirrelflight rant

because i saw a post that called her selfish and bad and not a good character and i’m angry.

fsadkj i don’t need to break down bramble and squirrel. i don’t want to. other people have done that for me. so this going to be some incoherent rambling and kinda vagueblogging.

look.

look.

here is the thing about squirrelflight.

we are actually not only exposed to her pov. we have a lot of brambleclaw/star pov. that’s just…factually inaccurate?

we have a lot of tnp, bramblestar’s storm…i’d be willing to make the argument that we have less of squilf’s pov. i mean i’m about 85% sure we do, but i don’t feel like doing the math.

and so we actually know exactly what is going on in bramblestar’s head.

but that’s not really important.

what is important is just.

squirrelflight is fine, guys. first of all, she’s a child when we first meet her. the reason that she seems aggressive and pushy is because we’re in brambleclaw’s head and he thinks she’s annoying.

ffs.

but even then, she’s actually fine.

and uh, yes, yes the books do in fact position her as right. not as often or as clearly as i’d like, but…

you know when one party is wrong, it’s not bad to say that.

like, hm, i don’t know, what do you think is worse:

(a) squirrelflight saying “hey i think ur bro is evil, has nothing to do w the tigerstar thing, but i think he’s evil”

OR

(b) brambleclaw saying “why do u want to b w ashfur?? he only tries to protect u that’s weak”

to be clear, i think (b) is one of the least bad things that brambleclaw does, but it fits w the flow of the post so eh.

because if you want to get into it…

does squirrelflight put him down? i mean, she tells him she thinks his brother, who is evil, is evil. and specifically articulates why this matters to her: she feels like bramble has chosen hawkfrost over her.

is this a fair ultimatum to put on him? i mean, i think so, but even we say it isn’t, i don’t think we can compare this to, say, the way bramble treats her in response to this.

since i’m not actually trying to convince anyone. i want to.

he treats her in an abusive way.

i should know! i should know because i have seen this in my own life. i don’t want to put the unfair position of “you can’t critique this piece of media without invalidating my life” because well. that’s a strawman and a half. i’m just saying that i have always thought this way about squilf because of my life, long before i was part of the fandom.

and i don’t usually do a lot of squilf discussion because:

> but squirrelflight? squirrelflight? speaking badly of squilf to me might lead to me banning you just on sight. or at least writing like 14k words on why you’re wrong. > > god i just. she’s so. i love her. please protect her. she deserves so much and she has been given so little.

because you know i like to provide good criticism but uhh yeah see! i will be talking about squilf, who is, good actually.

fuck

just, how up your own ass do you have to be to possibly construe squirrelflight as the worse character.

like, yes, she does have the winning side in most conflicts.

do you know what that is?

do ya?

it’s because she’s right.

i want to reiterate that the clan does not realize that bramble’s behavior towards squilf is out of character until, uh, honestly i’m not 100% sure, i’m not trying to spend forever on this, but it’s way too long

not to mention, like, bramble’s imposter does a lot of stuff bramble did. like patrols and controlling and holy fuck.

okay, my last point is probaby the most coherent but.

let’s just. okay.

so, starting from around the hawkfrost drama, squirrelflight basically never is on equal footing in her relationship. i don’t mean the external power imbalance, i mean that.

she’s always supposed to be available as a partner for brambleclaw, right? she’s supposed to wait until he wants to be with her again, without any reassurances that that will even happen.

to talk about the hawkfrost situation without also discussing how bramble reacts to squilf courting ashfur is so disingenous.

there’s no way to construe this as a healthy relationship. squilf and bramble were done, she went after another option, he had no right to treat her the way he did.

but he does, and he gets away with it.

and this cycle repeats over and over and over again.

squirrelflight is not allowed to not be with bramble. every time things end, she’s punished if she tries to leave him. but he gets to have his whole flirtacious thing with jesse, and when she’s jealous, he’s all “durr hurr who would have guessed?”

i mean, i consider this abusive, but even if you don’t, i think you have to know it’s unhealthy.

fuck.

tl/dr: what the fuck are some people reading and also smoking

#q #mine #txt #25th #March #2021 #March 25th 2021 #squirrelflight #bramblestar #bramblehate #tnp #warriors #abuse #domestic abuse #justice for squirrelflight #29th #March 29th 2021

[mallowstep]

"I just don't understand," Squirrelflight says. "I thought he..." Leafpool wonders, desperately, what the rest of that sentence is, but she knows better than to ask. (If it's, "loved me," well, Leafpool doesn't know how to answer that. But if it's "wasn't like this," then Leafpool can feel the guilt curled tight in her stomach, the knowledge that he was like this. Because Squirrelflight moved past it — at Leafpool's urging, no less — but Leafpool remembers how he behaved around Ashfur, remembers the way he treated Squirrelflight when he was supposed to be done with her. This isn't anything new.)

secrets passed over in the dead of night

#q #mine #quotation #9th #April #2021 #April 9th 2021 #spoitdon #leafpool #squirrelflight #bramblestar #warriors #bramblehate

[mallowstep]

daily reminder that squirrelflight did not deserve anything bramblestar did to her

#q #mine #txt #25th #March #2021 #March 25th 2021 #squirrelflight #bramblestar #bramblehate

[mallowstep]

for your consideration: leafstar and squirrelflight complaining about bramble’s nonsense

#q #mine #txt #21st #May #2021 #May 21st 2021 #warriors #leafstar #squirrelflight #bramblehate #memery #tbc

[mallowstep]

you know what? bramble & squirrel make me angry for a new reason today

because there's so much potential

and look? i'm not...i'm not...there's some good bramble/squirrel content

but usually it either brushes off their canon issues or just...doesn't acknowledge them

but if you imagine a parallel timeline, where they have to work through their relationship issues, where bramble isn't abusive but it's unhealthy and they have trust issues and they work through it, together, and i know that's the arc the erins want us to believe they had, but it's not, and that just

it's a really compelling arc. it's just they didn't get it.

#q #mine #txt #16th #April #2021 #April 16th 2021 #bramblehate

[mallowstep]

He hissed. She could have heard a thousand things in that hiss. Mostly, though, she heard the same sound he made when she followed him to the sun-drown place and when she told him the kits weren't his and why, of all things, should helping her clan get this reaction?

curse, bless me know with your fierce tears (may there be no sadness of farewell, ch. 2)

this is a sign squirrelflight is in a bad relationship.

#q #mine #quotation #23rd #April #2021 #April 23rd 2021 #mtbnsof #warriors #squirrelflight #bramblestar #bramblehate

[mallowstep]

“Young cats in love make curious decisions,” Squirrelstar said. “I followed Brambleclaw all the way to the sun-drown place when I was an apprentice.”

see with blinding sight (may there be no sadness of farewell, ch. 3)

squilf talking to violetshine like “i don’t know how we have so many successful young cat marriages”

#bramblestar #warriors #squirrelflight #squirrelstar #violetshine #q #mine #quotation #14th #April #2021 #April 14th 2021 #mtbnsof #bramblehate #15th #April 15th 2021