The Bluestar Diaries

[Cloud]

Ah. I've never done that. See, for me it's because they have no eyes. I can never think something's alive if it doesn't have eyes. Probably comes from kindergarten, where every single picture of an inanimate object we saw had these weird little oval eyes. It was strange.

[duckyaisha]

Also, I have an issue with the prefix Feather-. Feathers are so many different colors, it doesn't tell me anything about the cat except they're the color of a feather, which could be anything from purple to brown to blue.

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I always think Feather as a prefix is used to mean lightweight and tiny.

[Ten]

Somehow Smallstorm or Tinystorm sounds tougher than Featherstorm.
Feather is better than Petal, though.

[Cloud]

There actually is the name Featherstorm in the books. xD Which to me has always sounded like a bunch of birds molting simultaneously.

[duckyaisha]

Featherstorm? It makes sense as a name though.
I had an issue with Snowbird. Bird cannot be used in a name. It is WAY too broad. Are you talking about an eagle or a hummingbird, a duck or an owl? It really says nothing about the cat when you think about it.

[Cloud]

Chapter 18

“brushed his tail lightly over Bluefur’s shoulder”

Naughty Pinestar. –waggles finger-

“The taste of water and stone and earth”

I’m pretty sure there’s no dirt down here, so I’m wondering what could pass for earth besides the stone.

“His scent was lost in the jumble of strange odors”

..and yet you’d think she’d know the smell of water and rock pretty well, they’re very common things. And I imagine a cat, as a living thing, smells quite different. So…does her sense of smell suck or what?

“The stone reached several tail-lengths high, sparkling like countless dewdrops and illuminating the cave like a captured star.”

The Moonstone shall henceforth be known as the Holy Disco Ball.

“wondered if sunshine filled the cavern the way moonshine did now.”

Hee hee. I imagined the cave filled with illegal whiskey.

And she dreams of drowning. Yay.

“Had she just tasted the truth of the prophecy?”

Maybe, although I’ll admit I don’t know what truth tastes like. Pudding maybe?

[duckyaisha]

Do the Erins even know how ridiculous they sound when they say crap like 'Moonshine filled the cavern?" I mean, really. It's like their brains are mush. Or maybe their editor sucks.

And Truth tastes like Kishin souls of course!

[Ten]

Do most Brits not know the... er, alternate meaning for moonshine?
Is that just an Appalachian thing?

Moonshine filled the cavern. x)

[Cloud]

I HaVe no idea, but it pops up a lot.

[Cloud]

Chapter 19

“Goldenpaw flicked her tail across his ears.”

Butt-facing has become so popular.

“At least in battle you knew where you stood”

Unless you can’t see.

“Swiftbreeze quickly tugged him back by his tail”

Supercats, oh how they fail.

Lots of stuff not worth mentioning happened. Namely Blue Sue worrying about Pinestar and encountering Oakheart.

Leopardfoot begins to have her kits. Yawn.

“Has he forgotten Leopardfoot is having his kits?”

Of course. Because, you know, he just has so many she-cats going…/sarcasm

“Was he just being squeamish?”

Nah, he just wants to chill with his other girls.

Waiting for the kits to be born that is described in typical Erin fashion, i.e, boring us all to death.

They are born. Whoo.

Then Mr. Crazypants (Goosefeather) says that the kits may not make it through the night.

…no. I don’t care. I never did. These cats aren’t interesting characters. They’re cardboard cutouts with fur or they’re stupid and we hate them. Occasionally one is semi-interesting, but this is rare.

Heck, MY cat is more interesting than these ones, and all she does is eat, sleep, be petted, and accumulate fat and fur.

Chapter 20

Blue Sue gets a bad stomachache. Hurrah!

“Why did ThunderClan seem to have the laziest, dumbest medicine cat?”

It’s a sign from StarClan saying how much you all fail.

“”Evil omens everywhere.””

This is Goosefeather, and it gives me silly thoughts. Evil omens in his fur? Evil omens lined up in single file around camp wearing top hats? Evil omens on an apprentice’s claw that they chew out of nervousness?

He’s commenting on Leopardfoot’s hard birth and the fact that Blue Sue and two apprentices have stomachaches. I really don’t think those things count as evil omens everywhere.

“He leaned toward her, his breath stinky in her face.”

Of course, everybody knows that crazy hobos medicine cats always have stinky breath. No one else does, so they have to.

More unremarkable stuff happens.

“How could he? He was their leader, for StarClan’s sake!”

Blue Sue has (of course) figured out that Pinestar is visiting kittypets. Now I would like to point out that there are no laws against talking to kittypets. They’re disliked and looked down upon, but there’s no rule saying you can’t talk to them. Heck, Blue Sue and her sister did it when they were with Featherwhisker (supposedly scaring kittypets away from the catmint he was picking) without blinking.

And as we all know, Graystripe does it in the first book. Much to our dismay.

Inconsistency anyone?

I mean really. What’s he doing? Nothing that threatens her or the Clan. So he’s talking to them. So what? He’s a bit distracted, so what? I say Bluey should leave him alone.

“She wasn’t the only cat in ThunderClan questioning Pinestar’s loyalty.But she supposed she was the only one who knew just how far from the warrior code he was straying.”

…no one is questioning his loyalty, he hasn’t even done anything bad. So he didn’t visit Leopardfoot right off the bat after her kits were born. Most cat fathers don’t. Most cat dads have nothing or very little to do with their kits, like Stormtail, Blue Sue’s father. This is natural.

Besides, I’m with Pinestar. Even the kittypets have to be better than the loser Clan he leads.

Oh, and if anyone's interested, the last law in the warrior code "Thou shalt not be a kittypet" hasn't been made yet. It IS made later on because Pinestar decided to be a kittypet.

So. Yeah.

On a completely unrelated topic, what are Kishin souls?