#baby u.u

[fcaruana]

— How do you mentally prepare for the competition, to make decisions at such high speed? What do you do to prepare yourself? — [sarcastic] Mentally I'm great, you must have seen my social media, mentally I'm great. 10/10! — Don't listen to them. You don't have to explain anything to anybody, do what you want with your life... — Well, I have a psychologist since I was very little, he has helped me very much and still helps me nowadays. I think that in sports in general it's very important to be mentally well, to be a little bit firmer in your head. So it's something that helps me a lot. I won't tell you what I do because everyone will copy me, it's a little secret! — You do therapy now- — I do therapy all the time. I'm always doing therapy. Doing therapy is really good! Some people are still a bit in the past and dislike it or think it doesn't work, but I do therapy all the time and that's what works for me a lot.

[bonefall]

while i do agree with the sentiment that bloodclan should be more nuanced as an entity i still believe it is wrong to portray them as the necessary "response" to clan injustice (haven't read the books in years but i am pretty sure that bloodclan started with no connection to the clans) / an opposition to the clan's flaws. some of the thing scourge did was out of selfishness and bloodclan isn't the other colour of the black and white debacle with the clans. the clans are heavily flawed yes, but it isn't realistic to completely say that their structure had no redeeming qualities altogether and that all outsider groups is fundamentally better than the clans.

all clans and groups are flawed in their own way and i believe we shouldnt brush past the things that other groups (the sisters and what they do with their toms *cough cough*) did solely to be able to degrade the clans and their culture.

Buddy, you're setting up a strawman. I promise you that if you look into the reduxes I've made of BloodClan, Guardians, The Sisters, and the Tribe, you will see that I don't make any of them a "flawless" alternative to Clan life.

Nor do I say that the Clans have no redeeming qualities. In fact, you can browse the "Clan Culture" tag to see the various expansions I've made to show how these traditions, values, and technological advances make Clan life so alluring.

The overarching theme of BB is that the nature of culture is change. For better AND for worse.

With respect, I think there's something insidious in the wording of "the things the other groups did." We're talking about fan responses to a work that consistently demonizes and degrades foreigners to make the Clans look like the "best way to live," justifying xenophobia. These are not real groups, they are writing choices.

In the franchise with some pretty extreme examples of misogyny, the authors said "What if bizarro world where women rule and have no men... woag..." and only includes a single Clan-alligned member of this culture, with a BAD opinion of them, who can't even do his diplomatic job because he HATES them so much.

In the same franchise that shows Fireheart getting bullied, facing prejudice, and fighting a murderous tyrant who publically executes a mixed-race character, their endgame villain is an outsider, like him, but this one IS a godless heathen who HATES love and friendship and banned families.

In the VERY same franchise which made its first non-malicious group barely able to get through an arc without needing to be saved by Clan cats, totally unable to defend themselves, framed as "whiny" for not wanting their clearly 'inferior' culture to be forcefully changed.

And I'm re-stating all this because, again, no offense to you in particular Anon, but I've been seeing a few people with a sentiment like yours lately. Complaints into a vacuum that don't make targeted critique of anyone's fanworks, gesturing at this broad "woobification" which is apparently out there somewhere over the rainbow, saying things like "well Scourge is selfish" or "well Moonlight abandoned her 13 year old" as if we haven't BEEN knew.

As if we're not all directly responding to these choices. As if I haven't written ESSAYS on this topic.

Since this was about BloodClan in particular though, and you admit you haven't read the books in years, please go back and actually read Rise of Scourge before trying to make critique of the ways fanon rewrites its origin. It's EXPLICITLY a response to the Clans, in the text, that the Erins wrote, it is canon that fanon is working with.

And you want people to take that out and approach it a different way... why? Because it's so incredulous to you that a nation forms in response to a threatening neighbor? That a common enemy through invasions is a way that people might choose to unite, and encourage their new culture to value brutality? Because you don't like the idea of Clan Culture's XENOPHOBIC BATTLE CULTURE affecting surrounding communities??

Could YOU, maybe, be doing this "woobification" thing I keep hearing about? Can I play this stupid game too? What's our stupid prize? Can it be a lollipop? Do we get stickers

TL;DR, ok.

[lalunanne]

[naivesilver]

when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch

Joan Tierney (@filmnoirsbian) / Paul And Storm / Daughter / Nick Cave / Eric LaRocca / Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet)

(Merry Christmas, @lysgiovedi 💗💗💗)

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

also, the more i play the younger Ylva gets in my head xd

[of-elitiism]

Bandit's kids and all their quirks

@banditborn @pandateddyclaws @thewanderingchika @demon-slayer-kaiden @asabxve

[pokemonkidsdaily]

day 104

hitmontop #237

[hoodies-n-cola]

[redhairedgirl95]

I'm just curious, will we get to see brandon crying in front of stella and she has to comfort him? I would love to see him crying ngl

Something major would have to happen for Brandon to break down in front of her ... but it will happen. What, you may ask ... I don't know, I will answer xD

Still, you anons feeding me with suggestions is the best things ever!

love you all!

[lanthegreatarts]

Gotta say that this last year has been super crazy and busy for me so I've had really really bad art block for most of it lol BUT, a few months ago I finally got my first apartment!! And things have been doing good so far since then!

So hopefully next year I can get out of this art funk, draw some silly skeletons and self ship stuff, and just be more active on here in general :3

[bonefall]

I don't do a lot of vocal input into the warriors fandom (aside from the chunk of Bumble propaganda I submitted for the character profile for the misogyny poll) but I do agree with what you said about Sagewhisker. Even as a kid first reading the book I didn't like her that much for basically forcing Yellowfang to be a Med Cat.

And you're right. It is kinda surprising that of all the characters to get zeroed on by the fandom as Worst Women in the book, it's Lizardfang and not Ms. Barely does anything beyond the bare minimum and Guilt Trips the protag into a life she Does Not Want and Judge her for her actions and does little to nothing to help Yellowfang (honestly, if any Med Cat /had/ to be on Leaf and Squirrel's trial into Starclan, it should have been Sagewhisker and not Yellowfang)

It's surprising but also makes sense. Framing is a very powerful tool, and the cold hard reality is that we live in a misogynistic society. It's not hard to make whip people into emotional override over a Bad Mom character, enough to completely ignore and excuse the deliberate writer choice to tie Child Abuse to Woman Not Wanting Kids.

Mix that with the target audience being young adults (specifically tweens) and it's obvious how Lizardstripe (evil mom who hates babies) is more easily demonized than Sagewhisker (manipulates the POV by making Yellow feel bad about herself, which Yellow herself accepts)

But however it happens, I still find it very disappointing. I wish the fandom was generally better at engaging critically with the text, and could take a step back when the Erins roll out Bitch Mom Villain 4 and acknowledge the double standard in WC

[radio-charlie]

Apathetic about that account but socmed For Girls always posting this sort of shit makes me want to bitchslap the lot of you into shutting the fuck up

[ner0ticmemories]

▎ ▎ ▎ ▎* " it's never really stopped .. " – —– —– —–— – —– —– —–— 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝟎𝟎𝟏 : ↳ ft. RAFE CAMERON — —– —– ——––

[msbunnat]

Zeus want a hug from his favorite babies u.u

[of-elitiism]

“That’s a lot of swelling.” For Terry

high pain tolerance starters - accepting

...He's kinda right, but God she doesn't wanna admit to it. It's not even about her own pride anymore, she just doesn't want this beautiful bastard to get even more cocky with the 'i-told-you-so's. Because, yes, in retrospect, picking flowers when there's a nest of buzzing bees near by isn't a good idea. And kudos to him for figuring it out and telling her that. But noooo Terry simply had to try to live her Disney princess dream and pick up a bouquet for back home, at the bar. And now she might have a nice colorful bunch of flowers stuffed in a tall glass, but she also had a hand the size of a baseball glove from all the bee stings she had to endure.

The young woman kinda pursed her lips together as she looked at her chubby hand and winced lightly when she attempted to bend her pinky finger. Shit.

"....Can i just---- stick it in the ice bucket please? It's not like ya get the kind of customers who'd know the ice cubes in their drinks were slightly marinated with swollen hand juice..."

[tezzbot]

Baby Brozone headcanons bc I was feeling sillyyyy :P Some are based on stuff we see in backgrounds in the movie and some are just some personal headcanons for me smile

I def have more ideas but I got! tired U.U

EDIT: I got untired heres the continuation LOL