#dam project

[alicemccombs]

NOPE

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[soapyakships]

ZERO TALKING

[melonbite]

[bonefall]

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

[nitroish]

one plus two isnt three if you've no value

[mythos-egos]

Good lord I really need to put forth more lore and character backstory,theres just so much to do I dont know where to start x_x girl help

[sugarfortia]

I finally caught up with the dunmeshi anime and let me say if not for 1) fandom propaganda and 2) pretty privilege I would NOT LIKE Kabru by now. He’s not that great of a party leader, I do not like how he treats Rin, and he is an opportunist. “Black magic, this is more interesting than I thought!” BOY YOU’RE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE! (This is a front for all my extra thoughts in the tags btw.)

[quatregats]

Hornblower as a character is like catnip to me but C.S. Forester is so so annoying <3

[rare-prism-s]

gogogogogogogogogogogo

[aisling-saoirse]

Sultartangavirkjun Hydroelectric Plant - October 7th 2023

[rebellum]

People need do start referencing the relevant post in their asks. If I got a ask that just said "salmon behaviour" I would NOT assume that's relevant to anything I've said, I'd take that as a request for facts about salmon behaviour

[setsunaaaicons]

JP GACHA RERUNS !!

[bonefall]

dovewing wakes up a little late and finds a whole saga of every little thing that happened that morning from Heartstar plus various tangents about how much she loves her

The tangents are just drawings of the two of them snuggling or kissing, surrounded by little hearts. Heartstar's improvised signs for them based off the heart-shaped scar on her chest and Dovewing's flopped ears, so they have words for their names that look like <3 and UU.

Dove goes out to the nearby claysource (glepf) and takes back a big ball of raw clay, to see if she can press this one really good doodle into a plate that she can bake and keep forever

[epersonae]

🦝

The Colorado River delta was essentially destroyed by first the Hoover Dam and then the Glen Canyon Dam - only a tiny fraction remains of the original wetlands, and many (most?) years the river doesn't even reach the Gulf of California.

[send me an emoji and I will send you a fun* fact about my special interest(s)] *“fun” is kind of relative here tbh

[girlscience]

Last paper I was going to read has been read... it was the most interesting to me. It was about low-head dam removal and it's effects on the community make up of the fish populations in those streams. It was not a study performed by the guy I am talking to tomorrow, it was actually a grad thesis by a student that worked with him in the aquatic sciences center. Now I just have to figure out the answers to a couple questions I was recommended to have answers to because they seem likely to be asked.

[mellorocket]

damb kandyland's going off the fucking rails, huh