There are exactly a million things I have to do and this isn't any of them. But there are an infinite number of things I want to do and this is currently at the top of my list. And since almost everyone crash-landed in StarClan at least once, it's my turn. I sound serious. That's a first.

With a thud, Ivystorm (in cat form) found herself landing headfirst within the hunting grounds of StarClan.

"You again?" groaned Bluestar. "I thought this challenge was dead!"

"Apparently not," said Ivystorm, raising her head from the ground. "Ow."

"So. This time, I'm not here to yell at you, but to... rant at you in a civilized way? Kind of like debate, but one-sided. And without those annoying questions. If you have any objections, the door is there."

Said door led to the world of other fandoms. No one dared walk through.

"Right. Let's begin. KT has already talked to you about not sending us to the Dark Forest and the will to live and things that were too complicated for my unicellular brain to understand, so I'll skip that.

"First off, StarClan, what happened? Let's time travel way back to 2003 in the first arc, when Firestar first came onto the scene. Remember how StarClan was this mysterious bunch of dead spirits with all power known to mankind? Yeah, those were fun times. StarClan was still pretty mysterious in The New Prophecy, but that was mostly just because around fifty percent of the series was spent on walking to some mysterious place by the will of StarClan. And because of those overly vague prophecies. Actually, I'll just go off-topic for a bit and talk about those prophecies, even though I think someone did that already.

"Instead of saying 'Darkness, air, water and sky will come together and shake the forest to its roots. Nothing will be as it is now, nor as it has been before', a prophecy that I actually had to look up to remember the whole of, you could just have said 'A bunch of cats from each Clan are going to save you and bring you to your new house," and boom! Problem solved, everyone is happy and no one has to do Google searches for whatever the heck the newest vague prophecy is.

"But back on topic: StarClan's powers. Throughout the Power Of Three and Omen Of The Stars arcs, StarClan's powers seem to have dwindled down to nothing. It's not as though the old StarClan cats are all dead. It's not like, in fact, StarClan has lost any of its power. It's actually gained, because cats seem to be dropping dead everywhere. So why does StarClan seem to be weaker by the hour and even claim to be powerless against the Dark Forest— which consists of less than 50 cats?"

Ivystorm paused for breath. The StarClan cats were all staring at her, bar a couple of kits who were intent on chasing a gray butterfly that was flying just out of reach.

Then a small tabby spoke up. "You can't just expect us to be all-knowing. We are just cats with our own flaws, after all." A few cats nodded in agreement.

"That's exactly what I mean. It's not that I have an issue with StarClan cats being flawed, it's the problem of continuity. If the Erins decided to make StarClan all-knowing, StarClan should remain all-knowing. If the intention was to make them flawed as they were in life, they should always have been flawed, without dramatic changes between arcs."

"That makes a bit of sense." said someone.

"I hope it did. Now onto my next point. The OG gang. KT or someone has mentioned this in their rants: the fact that it is always the same three ThunderClan cats in StarClan. By the rate this is going, no one will remember any other cats. There are more than three dead cats, and most of them died pretty recently. So, as other authors have mentioned: why not let other cats do the jobs and the OG StarClan gang retire in peace? It doesn't just have to be ThunderClan dead cats, either. Try RiverClan, WindClan or ShadowClan dead cats! Crookedstar's dead enough too; he can do a bit of talking."

"Yeah, but cats need dead people from their Clans to talk to them. It's a trust thing," said Redtail.

"Well, if your prophesied protagonists weren't all from StarClan, that might make life a lot easier for us. ThunderClan and the newcomer SkyClan have stolen all the spotlight. What of RiverClan? WindClan? ShadowClan, to a lesser extent? Don't they need a chance for a PoV chapter in a main arc book too?

"Speaking of prophesied protagonists: what's with all the chosen one plotlines? Why does every arc have some sort of chosen one to save the world, or at least have some huge role on their shoulders? This is actually somewhere the Broken Code did well. The focus isn't on some random world-saver, it's more on 'Oh no! Bramblestar got possessed!'. Which is good, but it should have come much earlier."

"And that concludes my pretty short-ish rant."

AND this took me way too long to type. The challenge lives.

Stay alive,

Ivystorm