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Post by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯IvyStar¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on May 2, 2024 22:28:33 GMT -5
Reposting this thread from a LONG time ago. But yeah. Title says it all. When did you start reading Warriors? I started back in 2020 because I had been into WoF for 2 years at that point and discovered the author (Tui T. Sutherland) also helped write Warriors so I got into that because I love cats so yeh
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Post by tumblepaw on May 2, 2024 22:34:15 GMT -5
In 2005 or 2006. I remember seeing the display at Barnes and Noble for TPB and TNP. POT hadn’t come out yet.
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Post by Sphinxwhisker on May 2, 2024 22:45:12 GMT -5
Good Ole ‘03
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Post by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯IvyStar¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on May 2, 2024 22:50:55 GMT -5
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Post by ✲ριкαƒυєу✲ on May 2, 2024 23:09:03 GMT -5
I didn't realize Warriors existed until I was 14/15. So I started getting into the series back in 2009-2010. Have been stuck in the series ever since. Lol
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Post by Sphinxwhisker on May 2, 2024 23:11:47 GMT -5
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Post by wygolvillage on May 2, 2024 23:52:31 GMT -5
Had to have been 2008 at the earliest. I remember a family friend coming over for a pool party at my house and gifting me a copy of Tigerstar and Sasha #1- I was hooked from the start and fascinated by the darker aspects of the story because I was quite young (and hoped they could be together even despite everything). I was fascinated by the intensity and community of ShadowClan, especially coming in without the context of their existence in the main series, so they read a lot like cool anti-heroes than straight villains. The family friend later gifted me #2 (which is actually my favorite of the T&S series, I find Sasha's boat adventure to be a really unique story, the series doesn't dive deep into the relations between cats and their housefolk nearly often enough!) and I bought #3 at a Barnes and Noble. I think I started checking out the main series from my local library at the same time. Since I was pretty young at the time, plot points like the conflicted romantic affair, Sasha leaving the other boat cat, and the deaths of characters like Tadpole and even Tigerstar himself were SHOCKING and felt super mature (again, to someone who wasn't even 10 yet ) To my memory: I think the pool party was for labor day, which would have had to be in 2009 then, actually. (since labor day 2008 was just before Into the Woods came out). So 2009 is more correct but I already voted for 2008.... Ah well.
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Post by Viperstrike on May 3, 2024 0:44:05 GMT -5
October 2008. I started with The Darkest Hour. I had no idea it was a series. I just saw a book with a cat on it and decided to give it a chance. Makes me really nostalgic to think about.
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Post by dahliadove - #1 nightpelt fan on May 3, 2024 5:39:59 GMT -5
2020. Lockdown put me on to peak
How y'all reading Warrior cats before I was even conceived TS is CRAZY
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Post by 𓆩♡𓆪Moonshine𓆩♡𓆪 on May 3, 2024 6:50:25 GMT -5
I'll be gratuitous and say around '08... I started reading in elementary school in like 2nd or 3rd grade and the librarian told me I shouldn't be reading these books til 5th grade. I started reading them anyway lol
I swear The Sight was already out when I started reading so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯IvyStar¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on May 3, 2024 8:25:51 GMT -5
2020. Lockdown put me on to peak How y'all reading Warrior cats before I was even conceived TS is CRAZY yas another 2020. and lol i was only 3 or 4 when most of them starting reading. i barely even knew what a book was
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Post by Petalshine on May 3, 2024 12:05:07 GMT -5
I was neither a newcomer nor a day-one fan (since I was literally three when ITW released lol). I remember seeing ads for them in, I think, National Geographic Kids magazine at around 6 and thinking "ooh, pretty cat books," but when I saw them in the bookstore I realized they were "big kid books" with no pictures, and my baby squirrel brain lost interest. Flash forward to 2010. Fifth grade. I was hungry for more fantasy adventure books after working my way through Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, and nurturing a burgeoning obsession with xenofiction after devouring Star Hatchling, an obscure middle-grade novel about two alien siblings from a primitive culture who meet a human girl who crashed to their planet, and Frightful's Mountain, a realistic look at the life of a female peregrine falcon. And then, as if a ray of sunlight shone down from the heavens onto them, or I was drawn to them by fate, I saw them. Those pretty cat books from the magazine ads. Still pretty. Thick but not huge and dense. I found the first in the series and my intrigue mounted as I read that it would be a fantasy adventure series all about cats. So I checked it out, and was never the same since.
Sorry for the novel. I really just think that it came to me at the perfect time in my life.
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Post by Slightdapple on May 3, 2024 12:09:55 GMT -5
I started reading Warriors in early 2022, and joined the forums a few months later.
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Post by valleylight on May 3, 2024 12:34:21 GMT -5
2009. Twilight was my introduction to the series, because it was the only Warriors book at my elementary school’s library. The librarian told me she accidentally ordered it trying to get the first book in the Twilight Saga.
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Post by floweryfox99 on May 3, 2024 12:48:10 GMT -5
I started reading Warrior Cats around 2020-2018
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Post by Sunleap24973 on May 3, 2024 16:47:35 GMT -5
2017 a friend gave ITW to me.
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Post by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯IvyStar¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on May 3, 2024 20:02:43 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that I just got a Kindle for Christmas, found a book with a cat on it, downloaded it, and then fell in love. So WoF and my new Kindle helped me to find the series
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Post by Fireleap on May 4, 2024 0:38:20 GMT -5
Fall 2013. I'd just moved to a new school and loved reading and cats, so I went right to the animal and fantasy section. I remember very vividly that they had The Sun Trail up at the front by the door because that was the newest one they had, but I wanted to start at the very beginning. So naturally I picked up Moonrise.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on May 4, 2024 14:45:37 GMT -5
I think 2008? I'm not completely sure but sometime close to then. My older sister actually got the complete first arc boxset either as a gift or from a Scholastics book fair, and I picked them up to read later on. I feel like that was toward the end of third grade.
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Post by duskflight on May 5, 2024 2:26:05 GMT -5
How y'all reading Warrior cats before I was even conceived TS is CRAZY Lol for realll
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Post by ✯ice feather✯ on May 5, 2024 5:34:54 GMT -5
2009. Twilight was my introduction to the series, because it was the only Warriors book at my elementary school’s library. The librarian told me she accidentally ordered it trying to get the first book in the Twilight Saga. honestly that’s amazing lmao
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Post by Poppysong on May 5, 2024 5:41:48 GMT -5
I started reading Warriors in fall of of 2018. I fell in love with the series and finished all the books in the series in time for the Broken Code. The Broken Code will always hold a special place in my heart, because it was the first arc I followed along with at the books published.
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Post by Stormwind on May 5, 2024 7:46:11 GMT -5
2006ish? The New Prohecy was still being published and I remember waiting forever to get them from the library.
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Post by Brownie on May 5, 2024 9:47:58 GMT -5
I read the first arc... probably 2006 because it HAD to be in elementary I wouldn't have had access to it in middle school.
I remember starting to write fanfiction about the series in... 2008 it would have been been, because I got Firestar's quest for christmas the year it came out and that's what really hooked me on the series. I only picked it up because I was obsessed with animorphs and someone said it was similar vibes
Dude i was writing fanfiction on windows '98 on the computer in my basement that had a boxy 15" monitor omg it was such a horrible vibe. I cant believe I actually still HAVE that writing. I didn't get to join the forums until high school because that's when I got internet at home. I had to go to the library to do reports and to google things, which man I feel old
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Post by Petalshine on May 5, 2024 10:20:01 GMT -5
I remember starting to write fanfiction about the series in... 2008 it would have been been, because I got Firestar's quest for christmas the year it came out and that's what really hooked me on the series. I only picked it up because I was obsessed with animorphs and someone said it was similar vibes I guess if the vibe is "shocking amounts of war and violence for a children's novel"... but seriously, this comment is wild because I was also obsessed with Animorphs concurrently with Warriors. They were reprinting the first few books around 2010, and then my middle school library ended up having a massive stash of the original 90s printings.
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Post by Brownie on May 5, 2024 11:12:47 GMT -5
I remember starting to write fanfiction about the series in... 2008 it would have been been, because I got Firestar's quest for christmas the year it came out and that's what really hooked me on the series. I only picked it up because I was obsessed with animorphs and someone said it was similar vibes I guess if the vibe is "shocking amounts of war and violence for a children's novel"... but seriously, this comment is wild because I was also obsessed with Animorphs concurrently with Warriors. They were reprinting the first few books around 2010, and then my middle school library ended up having a massive stash of the original 90s printings. ikr??? Animorphs went HARD for a book aimed at like, 10 year olds. Like Tobias got stuck as a hawk in like, book four? and by book 10 literal children were being brainwashed to do terrorism that 100% resulted in people dying. And didn't Jake's sister get mindslug'd and it was literally described as her being dead/zombified and there was no way to get her back like. He was just expected to Deal with That alone without telling anyone. And didn't someone had to kill their own family pet fairly graphically when they thought it was a morphed spy? As a kid I was just like cool the covers move this is so awesome and the action scenes felt like comic books but WOW those books were something when you think about it. I never actually finished the series (if there ever WAS an end?) but I heard it was actually pretty good (if heavy). And I'm pretty sure the adults didn't know how graphic they were tbh. You just read animorphs and redwall and people were just like. They're animals how cute!! when these animals are very explicitly doing racism and war crimes
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Post by *Ravenpaw* on May 6, 2024 17:53:42 GMT -5
I want to say I started reading Warriors in 2009 since that was also when I joined the original forums. I remember reading Midnight so many times! lol
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on May 6, 2024 18:12:41 GMT -5
Christmas 2017 when I received Power of Three as a gift from my aunt and uncle. I've been obsessed since lol.
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