#aphidasks

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Paradisesky do you believe your a good cat? That you're where you're meant to be?

Been saving this ask for a loooong while, now I finally know what to do with it

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I know this might be a weird Question BUT:

What exactly Is Gravel's Position In the Saint Tines? The cats who Ambushed Her and FireBeetle referred to her as Sister, with Gravel Refering to herself as 'the Reverend's greatest soldier'. Is she like a former military leader of some kind or is it something completely Different?

Just curious!

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Oh oh I have one! Ollie, what's that around your neck? Could you tell us about how you got it? Or perhaps any stories you have that you're willing to share?

oh sweetheart no,,, you poor boy,,,

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omg waittt, can I ask the kittypet that gave us lilacpaw? if so :

how many kits do you have? what are their names? what's YOUR name?? can we meet your partner? your very silly!!!!

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Hello Oleander! If I may ask, who exactly are you?

Ollie uses he/they/fae/fern/wilt pronouns!

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does Rye (or any of the living, for that matter) know where Spiderglade is? It seems that the spirit realm's machinations and functions are unknown to most.

(As for gameplay, is Spiderglade an actual cat within the game, or like the Reverend in function?)

I don’t…think they do? I used to have it written down that Bliss knew where he was, and as a healer, bug could visit her in her dreams, and bug would often pop into rais sleep just to bug her and just be a big, friendly nuisance of an older brother to rainbow. But I’ve since changed that, since it makes more lore and plot sense for Aphidclan to not actually know very much about Spiderglade’s past and the Saint Tines, and I feel like if he could speak to them, he would at least warn them of the threat and tell them what’s up. So no, at this present point in time, they don’t even know that Spiderglade is dead. One day, a looong time ago, like when Bliss was still either a kitten or a young apprentice, he left in the middle of the night and never came back. They have no clue what happened to him, where bug went, whether bugs alive, or where bug rests in the afterlife. Rye and Gravel were former Saint Tines, so they know he’s dead, because they both witnessed his death firsthand. They don’t have any knowledge of the afterlife, though. They grew up with different beliefs for what happens when you die.

I think Paradiseskies’s visits to Pearlstar and Blisswhistle are few and far between, just like in the books. But even then, she’s kept Spiderglade’s fate a secret for a while. Pearlstar doesn’t know.

For gameplay, yes, Spiderglade is indeed a real cat! A dead one, too. He was one of my founder cats from the start of the game, that I killed off before beginning my run. Currently Oleander and the Reverend are the only characters in the cast that don’t exist in the game.

Here he is!

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Sooo considering Shadebreak's new design did Goldshine take his apprentice to hot topic as celebration for the graduation ceremony? Or some cat equivalent ig

big brother Goldshine took them to hot topic for their birthday

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Hi! Happy 2025 :D

You've done an amazing job this past year, Iridis! AphidClan is one of the only clangens I can follow without getting lost or bored within a few updates (including one of my own I tried to start lol); your designs are instantly recognizable and eye-catching, the darker lore is balanced out with enough cute, light moments that it never feels overwhelming or overcomplicated, you express such a wide range of emotions and dynamics so well! Plus the diversity in your character base and your care towards representing a variety of identities, just makes me so happy to see. Everything about this comic is so uniquely creative, it's honestly incredibly impressive.

Obviously nothing against other clangens– just that yours has something special I've been unable to find elsewhere :]

Thank you for everything you've done this year, and I hope the next goes well for you 💞

AWWWW man thank you so much <33 This is so sweet and honestly relieving to hear lol, I often feel like I don’t really know what I’m doing with Aphidclan. Like it’s a constant hazy state of cluelessness that I’ve just grown used to. Im not very aware of like… what my work reads as to others? Man I dunno if you guys even know what’s going on lmao. So it’s really nice to hear an outside perspective and realize that’s probably just a me thing. And that it’s impressive??? Damn, man, thank you lol

I’ve never quite done anything like Aphidclan before. It started at a time in my life when I was…technically my gender exploration journey started months earlier than this, but it was kinda started at the cusp of my own gender identity exploration,,explosion. The first thing I wanted to explore was being xenogender (other folk go from “cisgender —> maybe I’m non-binary or trans…” in their journey like normal people but nah man. before anything else occurred to me I went from “im cisgender” to “maybe I’m a neon rainbow insect with neopronouns actually :)” lmao) and that coincided really well with the rise of the clangen trend, so I figured I’d use some brand new OCs to explore gender identity in a…safe way? In a safe little pocket where it was all,,,nonconsequential and only tangential to my own identity. And I ended up exploring transgender and non-binary identities as well very frequently, which was mostly helped by the game giving me cats with assigned genders/sexes and me squinting at them and going “…nah. that’s a unicorncore trans man if I ever seen one” and reversing it, and then transing half the cast lmao.

I was not transgender going into this comic. I am now coming out of our first year with Aphidclan as a transmasc nonbinary man <3

I never intended it to be a thing for representation points exactly? I was certainly surprised by the lack of xenogender and more complicated/unusual LGBTQ gender identities depicted in all media ever! I still don’t really understand why something like neopronouns aren’t more present? They’re the coolest shit ever. Like- we’ve broken down gender norms and gender roles so much that now gender is not just “feminine” and “masculine,” it’s anything and everything you could ever want it to be. It’s ultimate freedom. It’s not just what it means to be “man” or “woman,” it’s “but what if I was more than that? What if I felt like a bug? Or a rainbow? Or a cloud? Or a connection to nature and the ocean and the stars? What if I felt like I was part of the universe? Or a music genre, or a concept, or a candy bar, an animal, a fairy, a slice of fruit!” You could be anything you’ve ever dreamed of being and more.

And once you get used to the funky grammar of neopronouns, it’s not that polarizingly different from other identities at all, honestly. And plus, it’s really fkin fun lol.

Aphidclan’s helped me explore a lot throughout this year. There were often times where I was struggling with my own femininity as a trans man and I remembered Firebeetle and the support I’ve received for his character, and using “well, if it’s okay for firebeetle to wear dresses and flowers and feminine things, then it’s okay for me to do that too, and it doesn’t invalidate my identity at all” and it really helped. 2024 was a great year for me creatively and exploration-wise, and I’ll certainly never be the same. Thank you guys for all your support, it means a lot <3

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Spiderglade, how many cats are in DarkForest along with you? Or you’re in here alone?

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Hello Ollie! Do you have lots of friends? Who & what do you do together?

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Will we be getting more information about Pearlstar’s past (like before he became leader) in the later moons? I hope this isn’t an annoying question, I just love Pearlstar and would like to know more about him :)

Aww, that’s sweet! Hmm… That’s an interesting idea for me to chew on, I don’t really have anything written for Pearlstar’s past presently but maybe one day! Maybe some late-game or post-ending/epilogue stuff, I’m purely only theorizing because I don’t have anything on that subject rn lmao those shelves are EMPTY but yknow what? That could be fun to work with, I’ll chew on that for a while maybe

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(for nimble kit and berry kit)

1 what are your favorite colors

2. Who’s ur fav clan mate

-🌸 I keep forgetting my emoji XD

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Hey Shadebreak! How are you, hun?

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WAIT GRAVEL YOU DIDNT KNOW?

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Hey Bliss and Gold! Heard about the Pregnancy!! Congrats!

Do you know how many kits you'll have?? IF so,Have you guys though of any names of the kits??

Btw creator your designs are eye candy to me!!!

(thank you!!)

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Paradiseskies it’s mentioned u and Pearlstar had a couple of litters but most (other then Blisswhistle) died from a disease but we haven’t seen them up in starclan with u and Lilacpaw so there they up there and we just haven’t seen them yet or is it something else?