I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE THE DAY HANK GREEN TALKED ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL INTEREST

John: will Hank run for office?
Hank: my back hurts and I'm soft-launching a religion.

Hank Green’s kid being a Warrior Cats kid makes perfect sense

"Why do I feel more compelled by these cat gods?"
Toxoplasmosis

I can't quote her exactly but a few days before my grandmother died she said she would never really be gone, that she brought up her boys to be kind and helpful and her sons all passed that to their kids and all of us will pass that on to our children. That her existence has touched the lives of people who never knew who she was.

She didn't need people to remember her name to live on, she needed them to remember her kindness.

That motivates me to be kind in a way that mainstream religion never has.

Too late, Hank. I already dedicated my existence to Starclan.

Part of why I loved the character Jayfeather was the way his (correct) understanding that starclan is neither omnipotent nor omniscient gets him into trouble with the other medicine cats, who tend to revere their ancestors as godlike.
Also the dark forest cats recruiting and radicalizing living cats against the best interests of their own clans is such an excellent and age-appropriate metaphor to put in children’s books.

"Some of what the dead leave you is a gift. Some of it is poison that it takes a long time to clean our world of." - Hank Green

"and Mothwing–we don't need to get into it"

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET INTO IT PLEASE

I think another interesting thing in their theology is that there are other theologies, but none of them conflict. Wandering ghosts, the sister's religion, the wildcat's, the Tribe of Endless Hunting.

This has to be why Warror cats was trending on Tumblr yesterday

I clicked on this video for the title including warrior cats, listened to Hanks atheistic worldview and then got caught off guard by the transition to warrior cats.

Erin Hunter, the team, is English, but that did not stop 11-year-old me from insisting that the warrior clans lived in the metropark near my house, which was its own kind of stubborn faith

What whiplash I just went from one green brother talking about running for congress and then another talking about warrior cats

Middle school- watching Hank Green on crash course, reading warriors
College - watching Hank Green talk about warriors

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Also, cats who are "gone" are not exactly vanished from existence either. They are not physically and spiritually there anymore. They cannot talk, think, feel or appear.
But their essence lives on in nature. They are just kinda "everywhere"

This concept is introduced in Ivypool's Heart.

"Mothwing- we don't need to get into it-" Hank Green I would LOVE for you to get into it. I would love to hear every thought you have about these cats, this is delightful

It's always great to see parents who are engaged in their kid's interests, and then there's Hank Green dropping a half hour video about the lore of the series he's reading with his son 🧡

Need a Hank Green breakdown on the leadership principles of Firestar vs Tigerstar

Hearing a non warrior cats YouTuber talk about warrior cats is surreal. Loved this series as a kid, and I still make ocs surrounding it