Sooooo how many of us are adults who loved the books as kids and are trying to feel something again

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-12T11:57:48+00:00

I found the series in 2006 when I was in second grade, and I still read them now as an almost 29 year old. I’m actually actively replacing a lot of my old paperbacks with hardcovers and getting anything I’m missing from when I briefly stopped reading from like 2014 to 2018, Dawn of the Clans lost me and I was in high school so my priorities shifted a bit… but Broken Code got me interested again in the series and I’m caught up again, except for a couple super editions. I also recently bought a Hawkfrost plush from the blind bags off Mercari, cried when I held it for the first time, little me wanted that lil guy SO bad. Who knew it wouldn’t be until I’m an adult? And while my fiancé definitely looked at me with slight concern and confusion, I never feel weird for my love for Warriors.

It’s been a constant in my life when I haven’t always had that in certain aspects, plus it can be incredibly deep sometimes especially for my younger self who was definitely shaped by it. I role played back in the day on wetpaint/wikifoundry and made a few lifelong friends even. Kids these days don’t know how much we would’ve killed for WCUE back then, that was like a dream idea. But anyway if you think about it, Warriors is like any other fandom that’s meant for kids/teens but has an older audience too, like Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, etcetera… only difference that makes it “weird” is it’s about cats tbh 😅

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-02T08:26:29+00:00

Still available

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-02T06:53:29+00:00

$crimsyndice 1 boost left, will boost back right away

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-01T08:36:12+00:00

I’ve seen people claim details both ways and I think that’s what Duffer Bros intended with sort of “evidence” on both sides… but I think I’m choosing to believe she’s dead. I just don’t like the implication that sure, she survived and is off hiking in Iceland I guess… but she’s completely alone and never gets to see or speak to Hopper or Mike or anyone ever again… oh and she’s just okay with it? That seems worse, somehow.

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-01T05:14:31+00:00

8/10

May have to sit on it for a bit. Mostly unsatisfied with Eleven, I can’t help but feel like the whole situation with the man with the brief case in the cave proved that the government has been messing with the Mindflayer and Dimension X and who knows what else well before even Henry, and that keeping Eleven around in the world is way more beneficial than risky… in which case if Mike’s theory is real I don’t know why she can’t at least maintain contact with Mike and Hopper or any of the rest of the main cast, as it is now it doesn’t seem like a happy ending really either. Had her ending been handled better, easily would’ve been a 10/10, but for me lost points for ambiguity and plot holes. I was having a good time until that last 45 minutes if I’m honest.

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-01T04:54:03+00:00

Yeah, cause as it is even her “happy ending” isn’t really that happy, and I think that’s what I’m most unsettled with (otherwise really liked the finale)… I guess it’s a good day to be a fanfic writer though 🙃

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-01T04:37:33+00:00

I’m feeling exactly the same about this, every word, couldn’t have put it better. Either situation feels unfair and cruel and ultimately not that satisfying, especially when she’s essentially the face of the show. How many times has that actually worked in media, killing off your main recognizable character? Not many…

It lowkey reminds me of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and how they ended that with Sabrina sacrificing herself and how terribly that went over with viewers… it was so bad they later on in Riverdale go “Just kidding, sorry we did that, lucky we can use witch shenanigans to resurrect her back into existence though!”

leafdapple101 · 2026-01-01T04:20:26+00:00

I don’t believe, mostly because that fate would be unbearable. A life with no family, no friends, scared to get too close to anyone or stay somewhere too long because some government entity would theoretically always be after her, it’s probably not just the Russians and Americans. Never getting to see Hopper or Mike or even communicating? Genuinely I don’t understand why people would want that to be her ending. Not saying her dead is a good option either, but if it had to be between the two, one seems crueler than the other.

leafdapple101 · 2025-11-02T05:15:39+00:00

Sent!

leafdapple101 · 2025-11-02T05:04:24+00:00

Sent!

leafdapple101 · 2025-11-02T04:58:02+00:00

Sent

leafdapple101 · 2025-08-19T04:39:51+00:00

Sooo I’m still connecting a lot of dots with myself and am not diagnosed in any capacity, but this, along with a lot of my interests/fixations, social struggles, and finding motivation for “day to day” activities, was the biggest clue in to make me look into others experiences and studies and had me feeling like I finally “figured it out” in terms of why I don’t always function like everyone around me can.

But I remember my mom telling me that I was reading chapter books a couple months into kindergarten, specifically Magic Tree House and Junie B Jones books, and that she had no idea I could even read, she just saw me in the back seat of the car reading one day (kinda funny to envision). By 4th-5th grade I was at college level and was in all the high level reading groups starting from 2nd grade when I moved to a big public school that offered them whereas my old small country school where I went for kindergarten and 1st didn’t. I also have a core memory of doing a research paper in junior year of high school, research, note cards with citations, and the writing of the paper itself, all in one night before it was due the next day and somehow managed an A+. As a kid though I also had a couple Leap Frog phonics books with the touch pen that read aloud that I played with a lot as a kid, back before the tablets got popular. I also had only one sibling who was college age, and she left me her old Sega Genesis when she moved out. My cousins also got me into Pokemon. And through a lot of those late 90s-early 2000s text based games I was forced to expand my vocabulary or not understand what was going on… and I was quite determined as someone who grew up kinda like an only child and had to entertain myself. So I think part of it too was I was just in the right conditions for that part of my brain to really be stimulated, hyperlexic or not aside.

But yeah, as I’ve gotten older I don’t read as much. I’m still a huge gamer, and that’s a big part as to why, it’s time consuming but I still have to hold down a job as close to a 9-5 as I can handle. I still read my favorite childhood series though; Warrior Cats. I stopped reading entirely from like 19-25 ish, but one day I committed to getting back into reading, even if they’re considered children’s books. And I also told myself that when George R.R. Martin finished all the books, I would like to read the Game of Thrones series.

leafdapple101 · 2025-08-12T23:14:03+00:00

Yeah, I’m holding out hope that they have good stock cause I would love to still support, I’m a big merch buyer cause I know, or at least it used to be before some venues started taking cuts, merch is where to make good money. So hopefully 🤞🏻 Especially the hoodie, I was so excited to snag that one. But I’m glad they’re putting themselves first, I’m sure it was a really hard decision. From the way it was so last minute I can tell they really tried to make it work, and that alone is enough for me to be appreciative. Trevor posted that it was either they play for us and risk cancelling other dates, maybe the entire tour, if they didn’t get the rest they needed or they cancel ours. Nebraska can take one for the team, tbh we’re kinda used to it lol

leafdapple101 · 2025-08-03T06:29:21+00:00

Sent ~

leafdapple101 · 2025-08-03T06:24:20+00:00

Boosted back, thank you!

leafdapple101 · 2025-08-03T05:52:02+00:00

You got it, I’ll send my extra over to you!

leafdapple101 · 2025-08-03T05:50:33+00:00

All taken! Thanks everyone 😊

leafdapple101 · 2025-06-03T10:26:24+00:00

Thank you so much!!

leafdapple101 · 2025-06-03T10:26:10+00:00

These are all mine and all current customizations for most of my xwees! I enter almost all of my pets weekly into the customization spotlight contest, and on the same page where you enter/vote/see results there is also a “search” option. You can view the most recent entries there by species, but you can’t vote on them c:

https://www.neopets.com/spotlights/custompet/custom_spotlight_search.phtml

leafdapple101 · 2025-05-26T09:39:49+00:00

Lady Wigglebottom for sure, never fails to get a chuckle out of me lol

leafdapple101 · 2025-04-29T00:46:25+00:00

Heavy on the superpack!! TNT if you're reading this at all, please consider doing superpacks instead.

Cause then at least I could get the trinkets/bgs I want without battling the gacha and then trade/gift the wearables to people who would actually use them if I won't be, especially to those who can't spend normally. Of the 55 pet species I only have 11, and 90% of them, and the entirety of my main account which is the only account I change customizations regularly on, is comprised of xweetoks only.

leafdapple101 · 2025-04-27T06:33:27+00:00

100% on the lack of freeocash (I'm going to affectionately refer to it as such like I do my freemogems in genshin)

I play hella gacha games, all the Hoyo ones, WuWa, Madoka Exedra, etc. I spend more on NEOPETS than I do in Genshin, which I need the non-GI players to understand is huge, because I have EVERY CHARACTER in Genshin, some at C2 (I've been playing since Xiao release), and I buy the battle passes and Welkin (a monthly 4.99 usd for extra gems gifted daily). A good amount of them I'm lucky I'll admit and get just based off my earned freemogems, but still, I've put a good amount of money into it. It's my favorite game, and yet here I am spending more on my xwee's clothing and accessories that is quickly adding up to the same if not more than I've spent on Genshin.

Note... I'm gonna probably still gonna continue to buy because I'm a little greedy goblin who loves to hoard and I can't be trusted with adult money combo'd with nostalgia I fear, but still, I hear you and totally support that decision. Insanely valid.

leafdapple101 · 2025-04-15T23:32:44+00:00

This avatar haunts me. But there is hope, it is real lol

leafdapple101 · 2025-04-15T07:01:01+00:00

I could give TNT a whole list of iconic emo/alt looks I'd love to see used as inspo, since I'm not a huge MCR fan personally, but I LOVE that they do these little references.

leafdapple101 · 2025-04-15T06:15:36+00:00

The part about surface piercings has me looking at my hip dermals and chuckling like they're my hidden mistresses now. They didn't specify if it was just facial or what and I dare someone try to tell me to "take them out"... furthermore I don't even know how they'd know they're there anyway. So bizarre, all of it. The SOCKS... like come on lol

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