The Bluestar Diaries

[Ten]

Oh. That kind of moon.

[Cloud]

xD That kind of moon. Sorry, but it got embedded on my mind because once I said to my mom that if I ever had a dog I'd name it Moon, and she explained to me why that wasn't such a good idea.

[Rebecca]

K. So, apparently the Erins think that cats’ eyes can open ON THE DAY THEY’RE BORN. No. Fail. Any fool who googles it knows that kittens’ eyes open when they’re 9 to 14 days old. So it can take up to TWO WEEKS for them to open, and they DO NOT open before that. It would be highly unnatural if they did. Or are warrior cats Just That Special?

Ahaha Cloud, you are so right. Both you and Ten know more about cats than all of the Erins combined. However we can't expect too much from the same people who brought us Firestar and his cronies.

[Thistle]

The Erins' apparently have short-term memory as well; in one of their books, it says that some cat wondered whether a couple of kits could understand him, and those kits were only two/three weeks old.
-slinks back to lurking corner-

[Cloud]

Well, we all knew that. Have you seen how long the list of their errors on Warriors Wish is? I mean really. My memory sucks and even I remember this kind of stuff.

Chapter 2

“She wanted Stormtail to look at her again.”

It’s okay, Bluekit, I’m sure he’ll look at you like that when you’re older, because as we all know, this kind of thing happens in the future of ThunderClan.

“..hollow with disappointment.”

Due to the fact that the surgery had not gone as planned, Bluekit’s organs were not all returned to the correct places. She was quite disappointed.

“Mumblefoot”

No. Seriously. That’s this elder’s name. Apparently it’s because he’s ‘slightly clumsy.’

Does he talk in his sleep, I wonder? Or is naturally a mumbler? Was he like this when he was born? I didn’t know mumbles looked like anything.

Perhaps he is a mutant and talks from his feet.

““Smallear is recovering from an adder bite,””

Hold on a minute. In Sunrise, Leafpool said adder bites could not be cured and thus Honeyfern died without Leafsue trying to cure her. So…did they have more potent and/or different herbs back in the forest, or is Leafsue just that twisted and evil? I’m pessimistic enough to think it’s the latter.

Oh yeah, Moonflower’s brother came by after Stormtail left. He’s the medicine cat and his name is Goosefeather. And he’s stupid enough to leave two kits alone in a den full of herbs. Go figure.
Naturally, they both dare each other to eat one. Snowkit eats two poppy seeds and Bluekit chews on dock but spits it out. Then Moonflower comes storming in and is all “RAWR” at them. She takes them back to the nursery.

“I’ll never let her go into Goosefeather’s den again!”

…even if she were injured or dying, Bluekit? How nice you are.

[duckyaisha]

Pants on the ground. Pants on the ground.
Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground.
Gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways, lookin' like a fool
with your pants on the ground. Get your pants off the ground.

----x-----

I love this song.


Oh sTaRrrzies (lolwhat? the censors gotcha). Seriously. Really. Why are their books so FRIGGIN INCONSISTENT!

[Cloud]

Chapter 2, Part 2

“Pinestar’s call woke Bluekit. She scrambles to her paws, excited. A Clan meeting!”

And as most of us know, a Clan meeting has the phrase “all cats old enough to catch their own prey in it”. I don’t think she’s old enough to catch her own prey, way ahead of her developmental schedule though she is. So the question is, is she that dumb or is she that arrogant?

Moonflower proceeds to let her kits go to the meeting. Of course. Who could deny Bluekit the Uber Speshul One? /sarcasm

“The early morning sun filtered softly…”

Can it filter in a hard way?

Bluekit does actually ask if they can be there, to her credit, though I’m wondering why she didn’t just stay in her nest. Moonflower says as long they’re quiet they can. So breaking the rules is okay as long as you don’t draw attention to yourself, is what we are shown here. It may be small in this case, but still.

All Pinestar says in regards to this is that they’re a little young for a Clan meeting, (a little? THEY’RE FLIPPING THREE DAYS OLD) but he’s glad they’re here to see a ceremony they will one day experience.

What a great leader. Totally upholds the traditions. -_-

Oh, and Mumblefoot’s “fine hunting skills” are mentioned. Clumsy cats (which he supposedly is) do not have fine hunting skills, methinks.

Continuity? What continuity?

And thus the chapter ends with Patchkit and Leopardkit becoming apprentices. Whoo.

[Ten]

"Apparently it’s because he’s ‘slightly clumsy.’"
--
Tripping isn't mumbling. They must have balance confused with articulation.


"all cats old enough to catch their own prey"
--
Maybe Bluestar invented that phrase. Does the leader in the book say it?


"Can it filter in a hard way?"
--
Did you leave out what it was filtering through? Light can't filter all alone.


"It may be small in this case, but still."
--
It's the principle of the thing.


"(a little? THEY’RE FLIPPING THREE DAYS OLD)"
--
They can talk already?


"but he’s glad they’re here to see"
--
If they're three days old, they still have at least a couple days before their eyes open.

[Cloud]

"They must have balance confused with articulation."

Must, though why any mother would name her kit Mumblekit anyway is beyond me.

"Does the leader in the book say it?"

Indeed he does.

"Did you leave out what it was filtering through? Light can't filter all alone."

It was filtering through trees. I don't see how light filtering would be "soft". But that's just me.

"It's the principle of the thing."

Exactly.

"They can talk already?"

Mm hmm. -_- Even though they're totally not supposed to, as any fool who googles it knows.

"If they're three days old, they still have at least a couple days before their eyes open."

Exactly. But I guess Bluekit's specialness lets her get past little things like that. XP

[Rolo]

Wow, hilarious stuff. I actually got my sister this book for her birthday, and I started reading a little bit of it today.

If you don't mind, Cloudie, I may well point out some frikkin ridiculous things I've found in the first few pages later. Some of these things were just so... blantantly awful, I couldn't ignore them.

One thing I'd mention right now, right off the bat, that you haven't mentioned already is how ridiculously... ridiculous Bluekit and Snowkit's development have been. No, I don't mean mentally or verbally, I mean physically. The day they were born, they could walk. I mean properly walk. And what's worse, Moonflower decides to let them outside the den, the day they were born, because it's 'not dangerous in camp' and 'you will have to go out some time'. I literally sat there dumbfounded at the utter stupidity of it all. There were so many problems with it, it was so ridiculously distracting I put the book down XD. Kits that age couldn't walk and they'd be totally dependant on their mother, they couldn't reason that way, the mother wouldn't let them out of their sight (even in camp), and most of all they'd be incredibly wary .

I'm frankly disappointed. The rest of the series had semi-realistic kit development... but this just takes the cheese -_- I don't think the Erins have done this to make Bluekit powerful (she's displayed as being weak for not opening her eyes as quickly as her sister) but because either they did not do the research or they decided it would be easier for their later naming strategies if kit's eyes opened sooner -_-.

So, long story short; I'm disgusted at the bad writing so far. Not as much as I was in book 5 of the new prophecy, but enough. I truly hope the rest of the book is better.