#Still kinda bad tbh

[a-kinda-boring-writer]

@troutfur

I was hit with an awesome bout of insomnia, so I decided to do something with the time and write this... proof of concept, I guess? 'Cause your enthusiasm for the idea was greatly encouraging.

Hope this is a nice breakfast! We're jumping straight into the deep end, tho :3

<3

He was frantic.

When he'd woken up, the moss of his nest was soaked in blood, clumps of his dear daughter’s black fur were scattered amidst the crimson.

Lionblaze tore down every decoration, and shredded and upturned every nest, and dug along every wall. He didn’t stop until he’d checked every corner of the nursery.

Nothing.

His daughter had been taken. 

He began pacing around the nursery. Thinking, thinking. It’d never been his forte, unfortunately. But his daughter needed him!

Who could have done it? A vicious fox? Some opportunistic rats? No… oh, those foxhearts! It must have been ShadowClan! He was going to walk straight into their camp and start ripping out throats until someone confessed. And to them, an even worse fate would befall.

How could anyone have done it? The nursery was supposed to be the safest den of their camp! Had every clanmate of his stood idly by and let it happen?

More importantly, when had it happen? He never left the nursery, always kept her by his side. Hollykit was his life’s mission. The one kit he’d made correctly. She’d been there with him, nursing from his belly, and then he blinked and she was gone! He just… he was so lost…

Where was his daughter?

The other two followed him around as he searched, wailing and calling, ‘Papa! Papa! We’re cold! We’re hungry!’. A growl clawed its way out of his throat. Selfish, wretched things! Couldn’t they see that their sister was missing? Hollykit, the only one of their litter who mattered.

The worst, however, was when they asked ‘Where did you take Hollykit?’. How could they joke about that!? Oh, it angered him terribly. And he realized they'd been with her too when it happened. Why hadn’t they defended their sister? Didn’t they understand how important she was to him?

He planted his paws, whirled around, pulling back his lips into a snarl. Fernkit and Sorrelkit froze, eyes going wide. As he took a step towards them, claws sliding ominously out of their sheathes, they stared at him with confusion and curiosity, rather than fear. 

Before he could lunge at them, a horrified gasp caught his attention. He wrenched his gaze away from his worthless kits and looked over to the entrance, where Leafpool now stood. She was bristling in alarm, stiff as a branch, staring mouth agape at his blood-stained nest.

“Mom! Thanks StarClan you’re here!” Lionblaze called, padding up to her.

Leafpool flinched as she finally registered his presence. She flattened her ears, lowered her head, backpedaled a few pawsteps, and for a heartbeat, she looked ready to bolt away from there. Thankfully, she didn’t. He really needed her.

“Oh, Lionblaze…” She meowed. She… lamented?

Though it looked like it required great effort on her part to take each pawstep, Leafpool reentered the nursery and padded forward, met him midway. She pressed against him comfortingly, nudging him closer to the wall, then her paws wrapped around his neck, and she pulled him down into a warm hug. It was welcomingly soothing. Some of his distress melted away as he pushed his muzzle into the fur of her shoulders.

“Mom. Hollykit disappeared. I think ShadowClan took her. We gotta…!”

“Shhhh” Leafpool gently silenced him. She patted softly on the back of his head with a paw, and slowly ran her tail up and down his back “Calm down, my son. Everything…” She had to pause as a shudder ran through her “...everything will be alright”

Lionblaze heard pawsteps. 

Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a bunch of cats, all doing stuff, all keeping their distance. Dustpelt and Ferncloud were inspecting Lionblaze’s ruined nest, a grim expression upon their faces. Daisy was herding Fernkit and Sorrelkit out and away from the nursery. Foxleap and Rosepetal were crouching near the entrance, watching him intently, as if they were ready to lunge at him at any moment.

He tried to get a better look, but the paw behind his head pressed firmer, pushing his face further into his mother’s fur. 

“This is all my fault” Leafpool meowed “I’m the senior medicine cat. I should’ve seen the signs. I should’ve done something” Her voice seemed to crack with every word. She sounded almost like she was choking “My dear Lionblaze. Oh, my sweet son. Will you ever forgive me?”

“Forgive you?” Leafpool wasn’t making any sense. Frankly, she was only wasting precious time. He put a paw to her chest and pushed her away enough to glare into her eyes “Leafpool, I don’t know what cryptic Starclan shit you’re trying to spout right now, but I don’t care for it. My daughter is missing!” He growled, watching with confusion as fear flashed across her mother’s eyes “Tell Bramblestar to form a patrol. I will lead it into ShadowClan myself!”

“Lionblaze…”

“No, I do not care that I’m a queen. I can still fight! And Daisy can look after Fernkit and Sorrelkit. That’s her whole deal, isn’t it?”

“ShadowClan didn’t take Hollykit, Lionblaze”

“Then who di-…?” He trailed off as he noticed a red stain on her mother’s shoulder. That… that hadn’t been there, had it? He hadn’t noticed it, at least.

Leafpool followed his gaze up to her shoulder, then her eyes traced it back to his muzzle.

Immediately, he raised a paw to his muzzle and ran his toes along his jaw, just below his lips. It felt sticky to the touch, and when he pulled back, his paw was stained red as well. He looked down as a knot began forming in his stomach, and found himself in a most gruesome state, as if he’d just returned from a bitter battle. His neck, his chest, his paws, all stained in blood. All red, red, red.

Except for a few little black clumps of fur stuck between his claws.

Dread crashed into him like a wave, washing away his strength and anger. He stumbled back and fell onto his haunches, feeling sick, although not really understanding why, only that something profoundly ghastly had taken place in this nursery. Something in his mind was doing its damndest to not let him comprehend what exactly.

“Leafpool?” Lionblaze meowed. His voice cracked “Mom?” He sounded tiny. He felt tiny.

“I’m here, son” Leafpool pressed her fur against his again, and he was pulled into a hug shortly after “It wasn’t your fault. Ok?  It wasn’t” She insisted “Take a deep breath. That's it. Very good. Why don’t we go to the medicine den? You can lie down on my nest and rest a little. I’ll bring you some water and we’ll clean up your fur. Does that sound good?”

Lionblaze shook his head. 

“What happened to Hollykit?” He wasn’t moving until he got an answer “Mom, what… wh-what did I... did I-I do to her?”

Leafpool hugged him tighter.

[iamhereinthebg]

｡Anemoia ｡

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[beaulesbian]

how it feels playing da4 tbh

[jaggybot3000]

soul gets sick of heart and minds bullshit and puts them in a saw trap, their goal is to not kill each other for six hours straight(they barely make it)

lineart+nonfiltered below:3

sawney jash

[sipsoftea]

Since I did one for my first farmer, I obviously had to do one for my second. We don’t play favorites in this house (except we totally do, I love her sm)

Her name is Jeannie, and she’s a half vampire on her dad’s side. Other than her appearance, vampirism hasn’t really affected her life that much, she just has to deal with a mild garlic allergy and getting sunburnt real easy. She also ages a tad slower than a normal person, but she does still age

[zxal]

3 extra people in your head = 4x the hairstyle opportunities

[smoothshine]

𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: This project is not over and I’ll do everything necessary to strengthen it day by day. It is a process. Step by step, and it will take time. But I’m taking care of it. [...] I have a personal conviction with this project and I’ll keep working to improve it.

This video is also available on Quackity's VOD YouTube channel, and will include English translations very soon. Please take a moment to read through the transcript of his stream in the meantime; I think it will help a lot of people feel a little bit better.

Translations provided by @QuackitySubs.

[ Full Transcript ↓ ]

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Quackity: I turned on stream to give an announcement regarding what’s happening with the QSMP structure. I know there’s people with many doubts about lots of things so I hope this helps you all understand a little bit more. I’ll be saying all of this in Spanish because I find it easier to express myself in it since it’s my first language. I wanted to make that clear.

I want to give, and explain, a little bit of the context of everything, ok? These past three weeks have been very turbulent regarding many aspects. The restructuring process that’s going on for the project has not been easy at all. Before I involved myself, and I said it before, there was people who damaged the project in very harmful ways, administrative and financially wise. I addressed this before. But I haven’t given any updates or anything of that nature because the only updates I’ve had are all inner and of legal matter. Therefore, there are no visible changes, but they’re important ones that need to be done.

I’m telling you: people with ill intent have been removed from the project, and I’m still in the process with people that have caused a lot of this harm since the beginning. That has been one of the main focuses of this restructuring that’s being carried out. Guys, I want to make something very clear: during this process, the actions that are being made have to be done with extreme care.

Recently, I’ve wanted to give many updates both inside and outside, but we’re facing a very critical issue that’s leaked information. I don’t know if the people who leaked information and announcements from the inside knew this was going on. But when I gave inside information and it leaked where it shouldn’t have; that affected the process that was needed to take care of many things. And the people who affected me administratively and financially, which I already talked about in a past stream, found out about matters that they shouldn’t have known about and used this information to twist it and affect the process. This complicated to a great extent many things. This is why I haven’t given any announcements. This is why I’m not able to talk freely as much I’d like to, and I’m not ignoring or evading but a very, very delicate process is being carried out.

Since the beginning it was known, within my involvement, that to achieve a complete change we had to start with the people who affected me, the project, and that were the cause of many issues that have been going on this whole year. With that being said, what happened was we started looking for a financial strategy for the project because the costs are very high. The project was going to shut down, I already talked about this. And as soon as I could define through different strategies, if there was a way to support the project, the next step was going to reestablish the many QSMP parts that did not longer exist. And I want to make something very clear; given the financial circumstances of the server, I did not want to make anybody a promise that not even I knew could be fulfilled. For this reason, this element was still present- the financial element, and I could not give any more inner updates because I was working on a very important part of the financial element of the server.

It is my understanding that the lack of communication has been notorious, and I reiterate, it’s not on purpose. There are many matters behind the scenes that I’ve been meaning to address, but I’ve had to be very, very careful. I understand if there are people who do not agree with the approach of the process, and if you don’t trust the project neither the process that’s being carried out, don’t worry. I don’t have an issue if you stop consuming the project. I understand that completely. I said I had a personal conviction with the project and it will stay that way.

I’ve been working arduously, and I’m going to do everything in my power for the project to continue but with the best conditions possible, and something I want to make very clear is that this process takes time. That is something I want to make very clear. This process takes time.

Guys, there’s people who have parted ways with the project and that will continue leaving on their own will and I understand that fully. I don’t have a problem with whoever took or will take this decision and I wish them the absolute best. In fact, I made an inner announcement where I let them know that a restructure would take time to be implemented. And there’s people that, for reasons, no longer want to be a part of this project, and I completely understand it because it’s not easy to be in adjustment stages, so I understand. Something I announced from the beginning was that my main goal would be that the project would go back to normal, but with the best conditions possible. This can be achieved following the right dynamics and the right setting for every person contributing to the project and this cannot be done within three weeks. This entire process continues.

Having given a little bit of context behind many aspects regarding the project, I ask of everyone that would like to stay, their utmost patient. I don’t want to make any promises and I don’t want to sugarcoat it. I want to make concrete actions. And that’s what I’ve been doing, whether you can see it or not, that’s what I’ve been doing step by step.

Guys, the changes that I’m doing are in the project’s best interest and I’ll say this openly: These changes are in the project’s best interest and for the people who love it, people who have been impacted by it, people who follow and love what this project means. These people are my motivation and the inspiration for which I started the project, for which I’m still doing the project and for which I’ll keep doing the QSMP. I am not doing this, and I want to make it very clear, I am not doing this for the people who, for a very long time, want to see the project torn down through efforts that show the complete opposite of having love for the project. Be it non-constructive comments, malicious actions, ill intentions wishes upon me, the team, and any community that consumes the QSMP, and the project in general. To me, that all of these ill-intentioned people stop consuming the project does not bother me in the slightest. I want that very, very clear.

Guys, let’s not forget about something very important: it is very difficult to build something but it very easy to destroy it. To everyone who would like to join us in this building process, you’re welcome. For those who seek to destroy it maliciously… this project, since the beginning, wasn’t and it is not made for you.

Lastly, I’d like to say that these past days I’ve been getting many calls, emails and messages from people all around the world expressing what QSMP means for them. This is why, and I’m saying it as it is, this project is not over and I’ll do everything necessary to strengthen it day by day. It is a process. Step by step, and it will take time. But I’m taking care of it.

I want to thank everyone for putting their trust in me beforehand, and I reiterate my personal commitment to strengthen this project. I hope this clarified some doubts and gave context that to many people it was necessary. I reiterate, I have a personal conviction with this project and I’ll keep working to improve it.

[almondpiglet]

heyo thank you for all the followers i got recently, ive been trying to open up for some lil requests since i got over 1k (did the same on twitter a while ago) also i am struggling to think of stuff to draw so...

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[fl0ralsxgar]

I think the craziest thing ive ever done is have crushes on analog horror characters. Uhm

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

not me immediately getting jude from this

who did you guys get? 👀

[elisedonut]

Marcus: I think I got your lunch. *Holds up a note that reads: ‘I am very proud of you. Love, Percy’* Oliver: Oh yeah. I didn’t think this was for me. *Holds up a note that reads: ‘I love you but for the love of merlin, Please behave.’*

[vounoura]

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