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A lot of people doing two-cat clans like to make one of their cats a medcat so everyone won’t immediately die. Im not doing that. Its up to the rng if Skykit were to become a medcat. If they die they die‼️

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stinky guy

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finished ivypools heart. as an icewing stan since shattered sky, just remember that 99% of random background character enjoyers give up reading the series just before their favorite random background character becomes plot essential and has gay bait with a pov character

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warriors au where theyre all show cats but the levels of drama and intensity are just as high

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the kids online safety act passed the u.s. senate.

long story short (for anyone who hadn't heard of this before) the kids online safety act, aka kosa, is a bill that will censor online content and resources for lgbtq+ matters, reproductive healthcare, activism (INCLUDING PALESTINE AND LIKELY OTHER CRISES GOING ON LIKE IN CONGO OR SUDAN), mental health, etc. everywhere--its effects likely won't be contained to just america.

today, july 30th, 2024, the senate passed it 91-3. it has officially moved to the house of representatives.

is this a pretty massive setback? yes. do you have every right to be scared, sad, angry, or whatever else about this happening? absolutely. but should you give up hope completely? NO!

even though kosa passed the senate, the house is on break/august recess at the moment. we have around an entire month to get emails, calls, and faxes in to house reps, maybe more depending on when they decide to vote on it.

should it pass the house and get signed into law, we still have a whole 18 months before it actually goes into effect. this is plenty of time for digital rights orgs (e.g. fight for the future, the electronic frontier foundation) and other groups that oppose it to file a lawsuit against it. even if, worst-case scenario, it flies through the house immediately after the recess ends, we can still fight this up to march 2026.

so, yes, remember what's at stake here, but also remember that it's not over yet. we lost a battle, not the war.

below are some resources to learn more about kosa and how to contact your reps (first link) + a page that lets you directly contact progressive house reps, sign an open letter opposing the bill, and view others' testimonies against it (second link):

FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.

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relatedly i'm gonna need the wc fandom to be a little less hostile towards lesbian headcanons and f/f ships. i get wanting a female character that's not in a relationship but you need to understand there are no canon f/f couples in the series (not even in the same table scraps word of god way ravenbarley and talljake are considered canon) and it's plain disingenuous to act as though f/f romance is normalized in a heteropatriarchy the same way straight romance is. it isn't regressive to want a character to be a lesbian and headcanoning a character as a lesbian isn't meant as a pointed act of contrarian aggression towards people who prefer the character single. you could at the very least try to start displaying half the amount of scrutiny towards the majority of the fandom deciding that the generic vapid shoehorned m/f canon couple of the week (fernivy bristleroot nightsun etc) is Good Actually and that everyone who disagrees or has gripes with the narrative's need to make finding a tom to mate with a mandatory feature of every female character's arc is just a petty hater with bad taste as you do towards people who like lesbian pairings if "forcing female characters into relationships they don't need to be in" is actually what you're pressed about here

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Alternate cover sketches, Fireheart's character design points, and a "behind the scenes" from Sara and Natalie's WCsonas via Amazon.

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art trade with @harriertail 🩸

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actually i think every cats fan needs to be obsessed with at least one rare/niche cat. it builds character

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reflection of a reflection of a reflection

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I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

Edit: can’t believe I gotta say this but yes other cultures utilize feathers, if people are using feathers that are used in their culture then don’t harass them. That’s weird have some common sense. Ostrich feathers, peacock feathers it’s actually so interesting how native birds to an area affect the culture there.

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Are you a fan of Pinepaw and the Forgotten World? Just asking bc I recognized the names in the recent poll feel free to correct me if im wrong

ive actually never heard of it!

aside from the canon character names i used for the first option in the poll all the others are from this generator