Shaking people to remember just because it’s canon doesn’t make it inherently not good, and no your cool girlboss alternative idea isn’t inherently better, especially when it destroys all emotion from the conflict beyond ‘haha go girlboss go’ . No leafpool shouldn’t snap at hollyleaf at the death berry scene not only is it WILDLY out of character leafpool wasn’t ANGRY she was essentially grieving, the fact leafpool still so dearly LOVES hollyleaf is what gives the scene it’s weight??? No hollyleaf running away into the tunnels wasn’t a get out of jail free card it was self imposed exile where hollyleaf was given time to reflect and understand herself and her place in the world in a place away from the code her staying would just give her ANOTHER mental break down if the clan didn’t EXILE HER ANYWAYS! Sometimes these reworkings can work in the frame of specific aus, but in general please let your favorite characters have emotional nuance and more then witty one liners
Just because you think your cool favorite character should get to have an epic one liner or your least favorite should go through some poorly thought out sadism in the name of ‘justice’ doesn’t make it better, and no it’s not better if everyone is just friends instead of having actual interesting personality conflicts, it often actually makes the scene or plot much more boring and ooc.
Dispite their reputation, cats are very very socal creatures. Cats do the equivalent of this for you when they sit in front of your laptop and put their arms on the keyboard or put their paw on your phone while you’re using it. This is their love language, it’s how they show that they like you and care about what you care about. They don’t understand why you care about it but they’re trying.
If you turn around and do the same for them they’ll be absolutely delighted. Sometimes when our youngest cat goes to the scratching post I scratch it with him too and he loves it. He’ll gets so into the scratching that he ends up climbing it cuz he wants to scratch with his back paws too. If they’re chirping at the window I’ll sometimes go over to see what they see and they usually scoot over so I have room beside them to see the offending bird or insect and they’ll purr like crazy cuz they’re so happy I’m helping them
