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changing skies is going to be dogshit

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Huh. What. What is this Erin hunter?

WHY DID THEY MAKE BAYSHINE EVIL.

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I notice sometimes in queer and feminist spaces the idea of "this group is generally given more leniency and privileges in wider society; it's okay for us to be critical or even a little nasty to them because anywhere else they'd be praised". and that's understandable, i think. when you have real issues with men and how men act, it's ok to express that and to mock mens behavior. cis men who are generally praised and celebrated in society should be able to take some mean jokes or criticisms and accept they're not always going to be lauded.

but since queer and feminist spaces are generally more accepting of trans people and the wider society is not, this is also projected on to trans men. "trans men are men" was an affirming statement to our validity, but that was interpreted as "since trans men are men, and men are celebrated by society, I get to be a little nasty to them because the rest of society worships men. they can take it."

but the rest of society doesn't have that same level of trans acceptance. they don't see trans men as men, they see trans men as mentally ill, broken, mutilated women. so it's absolutely aggravating when we turn to queer and feminist spaces for solidarity, we face the same reactive nastiness cis men get and are told "come on, trans men are men. you are celebrated in society. you can take it." and when we look at the rest of society there's no celebration. there's only more nastiness and cruelty. so how can we "take it" when we have no community that accepts us and treats us without mockery? we don't have the shelter of acceptance that cis men have in the status quo, and sometimes we can't find a small umbrella of acceptance in queer communities either.

to be honest, I think a lot of people view trans men as a safe punching bag to vent their frustrations with men. you can mistreat a trans man and he's probably not going to fight you back since he's already so beat down. you can feel like you put a man in his place, you can feel like you're resisting the patriarchy. but all you did was act cruel to a marginalized person. and you know if you treated a cis man like that you might be putting yourself in danger, cos he might not take it lying down and he might not care as much about your wellbeing!

trans men are men, but trans men are not cis men. cis men are lauded and celebrated in society as long as they conform to the gender roles that were placed on them at birth. and this privilege is extremely conditional and not equally spread between men of different sexualities, races, ethnicities, ability, age, etc; trans men and intersex men are thrown to the side completely. I understand needing to vent about men. trans men do it too. but a persistent attitude of resentment and cruelty towards all men, including trans men, is not activism. all you do is push marginalized men out of the only communities they belong

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i think we should rename the Classic Tabby to Swirly Whirly Tabby. reblog if you also think we should rename the Classic Tabby to Swirly Whirly Tabby

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starting a support group for people who grew emotionally attached to ASC characters in spring 2022

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Sunbeam!

I struggled quite a bit with her design but Im so happy with the result aa

wdym we get a protagonist named SUNBEAM in a series where almost all arcs have a ginger protag and she is BROWN??? No. She is a torbie I genuinely cannot imagine her not being one. Like at all. Im all for new protag fur colors/patterns, but the cat named SUNBEAM?? Im a sucker for sun themed stuff so I was so excited to hear we had a protag with such a gorgeous name and was so dissapointed by her canon description I never got over it sorry

Requests for Warrior cats to design are welcome!

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Leafpool and Squirrelflight keep popping up on my Pinterest feed??? They are real???

ITS THEMMMMM

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Squirrelstar illustration. Enjoy, my beloved minions!!!! Closeup of Spark baby and Alder baby under the cut \/

Arent they just adorable?

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"Wow omg you drawwwww? I wish I was a drawer soooo bad omg I suckkkk so bad at arrrt"

me:

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nothing sadder than a piece of media making a girl who clearly more than anything else should be a dyke and then going out of their way to make sure the audience knows how interested in men she is. many such cases

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scrapped star ending leaked: curlfeather and leafpool talking at the df/starclan border and curlfeather says “maybe u were my star all along” and then they make out

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Hollypaw being (gayly) jealous of Jaypaw and his ~female friends~

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skimmed the star spoilers thread. these books fucking suck lol

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if u hate them u will die and go to hell

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Shout out to the (checks files) 8 times I drew Tigerstar's death between 2013-2014, so here's a new rendition of it :) I'm honestly not entirely satisfied with how this came out, but oh well shrug

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there is something so comedically perfect about chapter 22 of star providing a beautiful, poignant ending for frostpaw, one that the book absolutely could have (and should have) concluded on… and then you flip the page and the last chapter of the book is a fucking nightheart chapter where he looks at the camera and says “yep this arc was about me and the name thing all along. i’m not orange and this is the note we’re ending the book on. And Sunbeam Is Pregnant.”

i had almost forgotten about how much i hated him. we were so close to a final book where nightheart remains in the background where he belongs. and then the final chapter of the entire fucking arc comes in with a steel chair of nightheart

i cant even be mad. it’s so absurd. this is the perfect summation of what reading warrior cats is like. nightheart’s been a social experiment this entire time, goodnight

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