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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2022 14:50:20 GMT -5
I’ll start.
So I remember one night I found scratch (a coding website) and wanted to see what I could find. I’m pretty sure I knew that Warrior cats existed but didn’t really know what it was. I then proceeded to type it up and play the first game that popped up (kit to leader). I eventually decided to read it. At first I didn’t want spoilers but then went screw it. And yeah that’s basically it. What some of y’all’s?
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Jul 22, 2022 14:54:37 GMT -5
in late elementary school, i was at my grandparents house with my cousin. she had TNP #1 Midnight. she didn't say much about it, but from what i remember, it didnt sound like she knew it wasnt the actual first book (TNP is the second arc). i was capitvated by the original cover (the starry sky with brambleclaw with green eyes in the circle lol). so i looked through it. i eventually got to the back and realized it wasnt the first arc, so the next time i went to the book store Borders (RIP), i made my parents buy me the entire first arc. and then i went from there, collecting every book.
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Post by cable on Jul 22, 2022 15:04:22 GMT -5
a book report. we had to present our reports to the class, and i couldnt tell you what mine was on, but a kid in my class did theirs on into the wild. it sounded interesting enough that i went down to the library that day and checked the section, and sure enough they had every single book on the shelf (i think it was around the latter half of arc three when i started reading). also yeah my schools library was so obscenely huge they just had the whole series in multiples. the library was nearly the size of the lunchroom i think? like thanks for all the books but also. damn thats a ton of space
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Jul 22, 2022 15:32:47 GMT -5
Didn't find it. Warriors found me via my dad who in turn got Into the Wild from a coworker that thought I (a seven year old at the time) might like reading about cats. The rest is history.
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Jul 22, 2022 17:08:57 GMT -5
A Christmas gift. My aunt and uncle sent me and my sister the whole Power of Three set that was previously owned by my cousins for Christmas 2017. I started reading The Sight on Christmas morning because I had nothing else to read, and I loved it and read everything else.
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Post by Brownie on Jul 22, 2022 20:05:33 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I read like, every serial kids series in my elementary school, especially if it had animals in it. Hell, I read the entirety of animorphs and those were the worst books that ever existed (some of it was cool... most was filler). Redwall too. I remembered that one super fondly but going back to it as an adult and wow it's super racist and sexist and it's sad I can't enjoy it like I used to.
Honestly, warriors holds up better than a lot of those serial series. There's really only a few contenders, and most of those I wouldn't call "serial" because they only have like, 6-10 books in the series (unfortunate events, seven keys, artimis fowl).
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Post by rabbit on Jul 22, 2022 20:11:22 GMT -5
I saw cats on the spine at my library so I had to read it. The new covers have blander spines that don’t stick out, I’ve might have never notice this series if I grew up with the newer covers.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 22, 2022 20:55:31 GMT -5
my brother got my sister the first arc box set for christmas but i ended up reading them instead
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 22, 2022 20:57:20 GMT -5
Redwall too. I remembered that one super fondly but going back to it as an adult and wow it's super racist and sexist and it's sad I can't enjoy it like I used to. huh???? ive re read the books multiple times as an older teen, adult and ive never thought that
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Post by cable on Jul 22, 2022 21:15:46 GMT -5
Didn't find it. Warriors found me via my dad who in turn got Into the Wild from a coworker that thought I (a seven year old at the time) might like reading about cats. The rest is history. this is the funniest one so far. here your small child is going to love reading about cats goring each other in the forest. warriors is a kid series for kids <3
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Post by ivysaur on Jul 22, 2022 21:38:37 GMT -5
I was on the old schoolastic books website when they still had flash games based on their books. I really liked animals so I searched for animal games and I eventually stumbled onto their Warriors page. I liked cats and it looked interesting so I searched it on youtube and I found SSS Warriors. I was obsessed from that point forward.
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Post by Cloudstorm on Jul 22, 2022 22:29:34 GMT -5
Redwall too. I remembered that one super fondly but going back to it as an adult and wow it's super racist and sexist and it's sad I can't enjoy it like I used to. huh???? ive re read the books multiple times as an older teen, adult and ive never thought that It’s mostly from what I’ve gathered on the topic to do with the strict Black & White nature will f morality being handled across the species( or allegorical races) throughout the series, with your ferrets, foxes, weasels, rats etc almost entirely being evil, and Mice, moles, Badgers, hedgehogs etc being always good. the sexist debate generally centralizes on their being a lack of heroic or hero/warrior female characters in the series, or fantasy as a whole. The main example being brought up being Mariel not being entrusted with Martin’s sword somehow delegitimzes her as a heroine, than in context to the lack of heroines in the broad spectrum of Fantasy, The chronicles of Narnia is referenced a lot as an example as well. even though, hello? Half the main characters are female and are equally heroic as the male lead roles, and Redwall has plenty of great female characters and heroines as well, so honestly don’t get where people are coming from on that debate. And thats about the gist of it.
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Post by whiteflight on Jul 22, 2022 23:14:59 GMT -5
A elementary friend introduced me to warriors
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Jul 23, 2022 3:52:54 GMT -5
Didn't find it. Warriors found me via my dad who in turn got Into the Wild from a coworker that thought I (a seven year old at the time) might like reading about cats. The rest is history. this is the funniest one so far. here your small child is going to love reading about cats goring each other in the forest. warriors is a kid series for kids <3 I agree with it being kinda funny like that lol. But also know for a fact that neither my parents nor the coworker of my dad knew what really went down in those innocent looking cat books. My mom and dad only found out about it not being as harmless when I told them about Scourge ripping Tigerstar open. Instead of not buying me any more of the battle cats madness after that, they just figured it was too late for me to go back now anyways. Best/worst (an even mix) decision ever made.
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Post by Twilight Sparkle on Jul 23, 2022 6:17:04 GMT -5
My older sister got The Rise of Scourge from her middle school library that the librarian had recommended. She gave it to me because she knew I liked cats, and then she started to get me the rest of the series when I asked her to.
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Post by Mau Furlong on Jul 23, 2022 7:37:51 GMT -5
In 2016 i was looking at cat books on Amazon....i didnt mean to buy the first book, but i did...i didnt read it for 2 months...read it and loved it! it started from that.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 23, 2022 8:04:18 GMT -5
huh???? ive re read the books multiple times as an older teen, adult and ive never thought that It’s mostly from what I’ve gathered on the topic to do with the strict Black & White nature will f morality being handled across the species( or allegorical races) throughout the series, with your ferrets, foxes, weasels, rats etc almost entirely being evil, and Mice, moles, Badgers, hedgehogs etc being always good. the sexist debate generally centralizes on their being a lack of heroic or hero/warrior female characters in the series, or fantasy as a whole. The main example being brought up being Mariel not being entrusted with Martin’s sword somehow delegitimzes her as a heroine, than in context to the lack of heroines in the broad spectrum of Fantasy, The chronicles of Narnia is referenced a lot as an example as well. even though, hello? Half the main characters are female and are equally heroic as the male lead roles, and Redwall has plenty of great female characters and heroines as well, so honestly don’t get where people are coming from on that debate. And thats about the gist of it. if thats truly people’s arguments than that’s…pretty dumb. the different animal species are not intended to be allegorical to human races. it’s just a trope of the genre. Jacques’ whole point was to depict a very clear distinction between good and bad morality, and tell a classic tale of good vs evil that’d be easy for kids to understand. i think if people are finding themes of racism and sexism in the book, they are looking way too critically into an innocent children’s book series. also who tf thinks Mariel wasn’t a hecking good heroine?? she’s an icon and i thought gullwhacker was a much better weapon suited to her. tch.
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Post by Cloudstorm on Jul 23, 2022 10:58:24 GMT -5
It’s mostly from what I’ve gathered on the topic to do with the strict Black & White nature will f morality being handled across the species( or allegorical races) throughout the series, with your ferrets, foxes, weasels, rats etc almost entirely being evil, and Mice, moles, Badgers, hedgehogs etc being always good. the sexist debate generally centralizes on their being a lack of heroic or hero/warrior female characters in the series, or fantasy as a whole. The main example being brought up being Mariel not being entrusted with Martin’s sword somehow delegitimzes her as a heroine, than in context to the lack of heroines in the broad spectrum of Fantasy, The chronicles of Narnia is referenced a lot as an example as well. even though, hello? Half the main characters are female and are equally heroic as the male lead roles, and Redwall has plenty of great female characters and heroines as well, so honestly don’t get where people are coming from on that debate. And thats about the gist of it. if thats truly people’s arguments than that’s…pretty dumb. the different animal species are not intended to be allegorical to human races. it’s just a trope of the genre. Jacques’ whole point was to depict a very clear distinction between good and bad morality, and tell a classic tale of good vs evil that’d be easy for kids to understand. i think if people are finding themes of racism and sexism in the book, they are looking way too critically into an innocent children’s book series. also who tf thinks Mariel wasn’t a hecking good heroine?? she’s an icon and i thought gullwhacker was a much better weapon suited to her. tch. I agree. to argue that Mariel somehow is lacking as a heroine, or isn’t one is nonsensical to say the least imo. And while the different species aren’t intended to be interpreted as allegorical human races, some people still like to do so for some reason. I think some people just really enjoy grasping at straws in order to find negativity out of things these days. the argument usually boils down to the heroines not becoming hero’s in the exact fashion as the males, or having put forth more effort or some form of it. Which I don’t believe there merely being differences in how a character achieves a certain status between genders as grounds for sexism. There’s other claims of sexism, like Jess the Squirrel being a submissive, gentle housewife that just takes orders from Men. Or that Laterose of Noonvale is nothing but a “damsel in distress” love interest for Martin. As example of damaging tropes and sexism, which i find absurd imho, but the arguments exist. The strict black & white morality of the series has interestingly has become a much more popularized argument after Jacques’ passing.
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Post by Alexisawe on Jul 23, 2022 12:11:35 GMT -5
I think I was first exposed to Warriors when I saw people roleplaying it in a video game. (Transformice, if you want to know) After looking through the thread, I was very interested and even started roleplaying it myself, even though I had next to no knowledge of what Warriors actually was beyond what I saw of other people who were roleplaying. I mostly just picked up on context clues from what I saw of other people roleplaying and went from there. Then I found SSS Warrior cats on YouTube, and after that is when I finally started to read the Warriors series. My dad had actually bought me the book before I even started roleplaying, but I never actually got into the series itself until then.
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Post by smallflame on Jul 23, 2022 12:43:21 GMT -5
The same way I discovered Harry Potter. My nephew had the book, but he wasn't much of a reader. I picked up the book, sat down to read, and got hooked. I don't have all the books but I'm working on it.
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Post by Slightdapple on Jul 23, 2022 14:03:04 GMT -5
One day I was at a bookstore, and I saw Into The Wild. I’d watched some videos on it, so I was super curious about it. I got it, loved it, and read more.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Jul 25, 2022 2:11:35 GMT -5
I was at the mall and went into Waldenbooks (RIP) and I saw on the new book table a silver book with a gray cat on it - Bluestar's Prophecy. I flipped through it, thought the map and character list was an interesting concept, realized it was a series, and searched out the rest of the books in the store until I found the first one. Got it, loved it, started slowly buying them in order (money was tight), then my mom found out, and offered to buy me the rest of the series, which involved going to several Border's (again, RIP) until I found them all.
Where my collecting descended into madness is when after talking so much about them, my mom asked to borrow them, and I begged her to please not crack the spines - when she returned them to me, 19 spines were indeed cracked, so I started rebuying them in mint condition (money was a little better by then) and found the series in Chinese on ebay - my husband got me the first 4 arcs in Chinese for Christmas that year, and the rest is history.
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Post by 🌸🐥silvermoon2🐥🌸 on Jul 25, 2022 19:12:11 GMT -5
The way I found warriors was, I was in third or fourth grade and a kid in my class was reading warriors and (cats being my facorite animal at the time) I decided that I would like to try out one of those books and have been in love with warriors ever since.
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Post by Lizard 🦎 on Jul 26, 2022 1:46:52 GMT -5
picked out a random book from the elementary school library in like 3rd or 4th grade i think it was the 2nd or 3rd book of the prophecies begin
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Post by BobTheHuman on Jul 26, 2022 3:21:30 GMT -5
That one Ivypool pmv that was on my recommended on Yt
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Post by Willowbreeze on Jul 26, 2022 3:55:32 GMT -5
There was this book on cats that I really enjoyed, and I heard that warriors were kinda similar so I started to read it. Nothing was the same, really, exept the fact that both books had cats, but I enjoyed warriors better.
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Post by *Ravenpaw* on Jul 26, 2022 19:37:09 GMT -5
A friend introduced me to it; now I've read most of the books, some more than once.
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Post by Stormwind on Jul 29, 2022 8:26:17 GMT -5
My mom got me "Into the Wild" for Christmas. I was in 4th grade and due to finances and me having a learning disability, I'd never had my own chapter books before. The closest thing I had was a family set of Junie B. Jones. This Warriors book was all mine and I read it until the cover fell off. Then I taped it back on and kept reading it. My grandma is a librarian who often babysat me and my siblings over the summer.(another reason my family didn't really own books. Direct access to the library lol) and that summer I discovered that there were more Warriors books. I believe Midnight had been recently released at the time? I remember I read a majority of the books as they were being released.
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