#i hate drawing tortoiseshells

[mongo-the-liensis]

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[sunnysam-my]

Hazbin Hotel redesign ideas p. 2

I am a bit of fashion, especially men's, history nerd, and I'm also a bit of radio nerd, so here I go, biblically accurate Alastor.

ALASTOR:

Alastor was a radio host (a radio star?) who lived and died in Louisiana. He was shot during a hunting accident, in the head, somewhere in the 1933, during radio's golden era. He cares greatly about his image and always smiles to show no weaknesses. He hates modern technology and doesn't allow his face to be captured by video recording or non black and white camera. His is mixed-race Creole.

Nothing about Alastor design make sense and it pisses me off. Not only it doesn't fit the time, it also doesn't fit his character! Besides, he is too red. He disappears into the background, especially walls of the Hotel.

Alastor cares about his image greatly, yet his clothes are torn. He is supposed to be like Hannibal, yet he looks like an edgelord wannabe. It's awful. I learned nothing about him from his design, other than "he's and old-time radio deer guy", and that's really bad.

Fashion in 30s was inspired by Hollywood, and sport and movies celebrities.

Back and white fashion in this period wasn't that different, at least for men, as long as you weren't poor, but here are some photos of specifically black fashion in 30s. In general I recommend that website if you want to look more into the fashion of this period.

His hair is completely wrong. And it's also really ugly lol. For richer black men a shiny straightening hairstyle was the go to since 1920s. One such style was "the conk" where one would chemically straighten their hair. It left hair shiny, but the process was painful and expensive. It literally could burn your scalp.

Another popular style was the brush wave. It's creating narrow waves rolling on top of head with the sides cut short and smooth. This hairstyle is still present to this day, but nowadays it's done on the whole head.

Other than that, men just wore their hair naturally, but short.

There is no focus on trousers or vest in Alastor's outfit. (Which is wild considering zipper fly was introduced in the early 30s, but was got popular by the mid ’30s). This was time of experimenting a bit with vests. If you wanted to look fancy and/or formal, you would wear a vest. Pants were wide legged, had a high waist and a single pressed line down the center of the leg. Some trouser waistbands were unique in the 1930s, for example a Hollywood waistband trouser. It had an extra wide band with a double row of buttons. They fit very high, overlapping the ribs. they often had netal ring tabs on the sides to tighten the pant to the correct fit without the need for belts or suspenders.

Also, monocle? Really? …Really? Here you go, read this if you're curious. Lots of pictures of glasses included. Glasses stayed essentially the same in 30s as they were in 20s. They were "round with a center bridge in the early years and an upper bridge in the later years. Frames could be tortoiseshell, black plastic, or thin metal." 

Moving on from fashion, because I could never shut up, microphones!

The most probabale one that everyone who is redesigning Al is drawing is a good old classic Carbon mic. It looks like a ring with a metal star and the microphone inside. It can be hand held or a staff.

But, if you wanna draw something different!

Other than Carbon mic there is also a Ribbon microphone (first row) and Moving Coil mic (second row). Unfortunately, they killed Alastor in the best part of the radio golden age, so the mics are still a bit ugly, not gonna lie.

How would I design him:

First things firsts, either he is mixed or he is white, because right now it just feels like a cheep excuse to have an "evil voodoo" character without getting too much backlash. Let's be honest, nobody thought he was a POC and that white face doesn't help. Again, just like I mentioned with Vel, when you're drawing a character with human like skin tone you have to be careful and think how it ties to their race.

Second - fashion. His outfit and hairstyle is a disaster. He has always tried to 'dress to impress', so obviously I would give him well maintained clothing and that 'high quality', formal style. I would give him the dark brown Hollywood trouser with buttons and dark crimson shirt, like dried blood almost. Under a coat or jacket he would have a brow vest, both the same colour as the pants. Highlights would be golden and green or purple. I for one would love to see him start out with a jacket/coat which he stops wearing inside the hotel after he bonds with the people inside it more, but he would still wear it outside and in the finale would put it on again, after his breakdown in the tower. This would show he began to trust the hotel residents a bit before he 'realises his mistake' after the battle. I would give him short haircut, because not even white people wore hair like that. (What in the Karen-core is it supposed to be?). Say goodbye to that monocle. Why is it even there there? Because he is old-timely? What is he, a children's cartoon villain? His design doesn't need more soulless clutter. Give me something that tells me about him as a character. I've seen people give him old radio as teeth or chest and I love it! When it's not too detailed, it's a great idea to make Alastor less like a living human but also less of… just a deer. He just looks like a deer demon. I would keep his shoes, hands and antlers, and give him ears that would fit the hairstyle I would go with.

[Edit: I forgot to mention, I would give him a time accurate hat or a free wavy lock of hair to cover the mark on his forehead where he was shot]

Thirdly, the microphone! My love. I remember the microphone used to be able to talk, but now it doesn't, unless I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure. Now it's just a weird look staff microphone with an eye and that's about it. But imagine something like a moving coil with the metal sign on top of it were the letters on it change. It could be a way it's communicating, in a simple way. This was it could still have a unique shape. That would have been fun to see. I can certainly imagine it being something of an 'unfiltered voice' of Alastor, where it would change it's writing into "Shut up", "Die" or something like that and he would hit it in a reprimanding way to reverse it to "Smile!". I'm just saying, that's a cool idea.

Well, this took forever to make, I actually forgot about this, so it just sat in my drafts. Anyway, if you want to see brilliant use of costumes and detailed, accurate depiction of fashion (especially black and queer) through history in New Orleans I recommend "Interview With The Vampire" (2022). It's also a great show.

[doublydaring]

can you explain the michael psychosomatic kittens curse to me please it's been bothering me for upwards of a week

it would be an honor. it's kind of a long story but luckily I'm at work.

1. I was drawing pictures of Mike and Peter on zoom with my bestest friend Cal and I was drawing their beautiful 70s long hair as I am wont to do. A thought occurred in my head that the color of their hairs together would make a beautiful tortoiseshell cat. This prompted me to say aloud: "They would have beautiful kittens." Which of course raised questions. I wasn't even really thinking about kitten pregnancy at this point I was just thinking about their hair. But kitten pregnancy sprung forth none the less.

2. The household has been on kind of a Phyllis kick lately because I have a 73 slide long PowerPoint on the Monkees that I have been workshopping into a sort of combination stand up comedy/performance art piece. Our second focus group (the cast of rocky horror) said that they liked it but wanted more interpersonal drama. So I added Peter and Davy's fight and a "wife timeline" so we've been thinking about Monkee wives and I recently read Mike's book and Phyllis I think we can all agree is one of the most interesting and under-examined people in the whole Monkee cluster fuck.

3. So Mike is pregnant with Kittens. Because he and Peter would have beautiful kittens. And we all agree that being pregnant would be a good thing for Mike Nesmith. On a physical level it would suit him but also from a sort of pseudo feminist perspective where he is forced to take on the burden of """"womanhood"""" we feel it could help to facilitate understanding to what he's putting these women through.

4. So it becomes sort of body horror, where he is forced to confront the physical and emotional labor that he has been foisting on Phyllis and then neglecting her but in becoming pregnant he understands her and their relationship blossoms. We decide that Phyllis sort of has a mental break and convinces herself that she's going to trick Mike into thinking he's pregnant so that he understands just for a moment what she's going through. We try to come up with ways you could try to convince a man he is pregnant (this is difficult).

5. We realize we have lost the kitten plot. But Riley (who has been here the whole time because we share a room but I didn't want to introduce to many characters into this) has been taking a class on monsters and the monstrous and there is this medieval medical belief called "the maternal imagination" which is basically the idea that if you are pregnant and get scared by a mouse your baby will be born mouselike. Or if you are looking at a picture of a man who is not your husband while you conceive a baby the baby will look like the man in the picture, not it's actual father. It's a very interesting sort of belief.

6. So we decide that Mike stumbles upon a sick kitten one day and brings it home and is positively doting. Phyllis and his real life children remain secondary. He's about work and this fucking kitten. And so of course it becomes the object of Phyllis’s ire. And she hates that right? Because it's a sick and tiny kitten. And really she should hate Mike (but she cannot hate Mike this is a fundamental truth of her character). But she decides that she can make him understand. By making him think he's pregnant. And she goes to bed that night and has a dream that she gives birth to kittens.

7. Of course this is totally delusional he's never going to think he's pregnant but weirdly, he starts to ... act pregnant? In ways that she would have absolutely no control over. He's got that glow and he's gaining weight and most of all he's happy and is spending a lot more time at home hanging around. And she starts to get all doting excited husband on him. And their relationship is a lot more tenable now that their roles have subtly shifted. Because she is the responsible one right? But previously she'd have to defer to him and he had to perform this masculine patriarch role and neither of them are brave enough to challenge it but they both feel wrong fulfilling those roles. This is just right. But it's also very fucking wrong. Because Mike is pregnant??? And it's getting pretty undeniable. It is also clear that whatever is in there is not a baby. Phyllis has had babies and this is four little squirmy things. And so eventually Mike has kittens and it is not clarified how physically this happens but it does and it fixes him.

Sorry. I know this is pretty much batshit insane but it is the story.

[katlover14]

Jump scare waring! Old art!

Eek! What did I DO to her?! Oh, geez. It's not awful, but definitely makes me cringe when I remember I drew this February 23rd of 2022, only two years ago.

If you don't know who this is, congratulations!

.... Kidding, kidding!

It's supposed to be my fluffy princess, Serafina, as a human. Only, at the time, I hated drawing bodies, so I only did her head. This is what my actual cat looks like (pictures sent to me by my lovely YOUNGER, but taller, brother):

(Where the hell is her tail in both these photos-)

She's... actually, I don't know what type of cat she is. I think she's a tabby with a Tortoiseshell pattern, but idk. Can you see the resemblance?

Yeah, me neither.

It took me 1-2 hours to draw the older version of my cat as a human. But I updated her look today and I'm really proud of how far I've come in just two years!

Ah- whoops. Wrong picture.

Hold on, I found the right one.

There's my fluffy-tailed, short haired, green eyed, short fur baby! Look at the improvement from the first image! I've even started doing different eye shapes! Again!

Ahem- so you may notice she's got nothing on her neck. I mean, she's MY cat. Shouldn't she has something on that has my number on it in case she gets lost? Well, about that... my actual cat lost her collar with her ID years ago, so I don't draw her with any because of that.

Y'all might be wondering what's up with her look. My actual cat looks so sophisticated compared to the drawing with a ripped shirt, right?

She does. But, alas, she's a cat. An outdoor-indoor cat to be exact! And the third wildest cat I remember owning (I don't wanna talk about Charlie and Ziggy here). She acts like she's a starving stray cat, so I dressed her like one.

There are hearts throughout her design because I love her and she loves me. Proof? She ignored my brother (not the one that took those beautiful pics) when he was calling for her two days ago. But I -- two-ish minutes later -- went outside, said "Serafina!" in an exaggerated way and she came right up to me. Really showed my bro who she loves more.

Extra stuff I drew:

Close-up of her tattoo.

She gets extra fluffy in the winter.

I wanted to draw her pants (I like giving characters cargo pants), but then drew a foot to show that she doesn't wear shoes. And, yeah, my cat really doesn't wear shoes. They don't match with her tortitude (Tortoiseshell-attitude. They all have it).

She has a small part in Eynx's design, but I didn't comment on it because it doesn't resemble any part of her human design right now. If you think I'm weird for drawing my cat as a human, just know I wasn't the first to draw my pet humanized and I won't be the last! Thanks for the compliment, though!!!

(This post was brought to you by M. Lover, the only twin with enough braincells to write coherent sentences)

(The jokes were brought to you by Kat Lover, who laughed for three minutes at her own jokes while her twin shook her head in disappointment)

[mapleleafsunset]

newsies warrior cats. im insane

i'm bored and tired so i'm going to type up every single bit of world building and concepts i have for the newsies warrior cats au ive been creating so far. why have i talked more about newsies on here than like half of my interests. ive watched this once. anyway The strike is replaced with an apprentices rebellion, which means that all of the newsies are apprentices across all five clans (so they're at the lake territories at this time. This is key to the plot with WindClan) But anyway, around this time, the clans are facing a severe lack of food due to a drought, as well just general difficulties. Because of this, the warrior code is officially amended so that apprentice's eat last- and that anyone who isn't an apprentice gets to eat until full. This means that essentially the apprentices are starving, and so the adult cats have enough, leaders across the clans are being slow to promote apprentices to warriors, and appointing kits to be apprentices earlier than they should. As a result of mass starvation and illness amongst apprentices, a rebellion breaks out, starting in ThunderClan (taking the place of Manhattan newsies). The rebellion initially consists primarily of non-violent actions such as refusing to do any apprentice chores, and taking enough prey to feed the apprentices. In protest for the fact that no apprentices are becoming warriors anyone involved in the rebellion choses their own warrior name to go by. There is some escalation to violent action as more clans get involved, the warriors in the clans try and bring the apprentices back to the clan by force etc etc. The other clan cats begin to use an abandoned twoleg house as a sort of prison for some cats. Just a detail so I have somewhere for Crutchie to go that makes sense. Now, journalists. The journalists are replaced as a concept by medicine cats, a young medicine cat apprentice (taking the role of Katherine) gets a sign from StarClan that the change to the code is wrong, and all of the plot with the medicine cats is focused around her trying to get her sign listened to, and she's somewhat helped in interpreting signs by her mentor (Byran Denton. im merging the versions), but eventually gets her sign from StarClan noticed by the clans on her own merit. WindClan is the Brooklyn newsies, I don't care enough to assign any other borough to specific clans other than WindClan being brooklyn purely because theyre small. and spots small. so spots in WindClan. I considered placing Brooklyn as ShadowClan for the intimidation factor but I really hate the whole ShadowClan is intimidating thing so I'm just pretending that's not real. Also WindClan apprentices are mainly girls bc I'm bringing the brooklyn girls into this Scabbing from the strike is replaced by Jack, ive forgotten his warrior cat name I gave him so i'm just calling him Jack, leaving the clans temporarily to become a kittypet, which is where he gets the bandana I draw on his design. He's told if he ends the rebellion and goes to become a kittypet then he can take Crutchie with him, and the other cat will be able to live a better life than they are having trapped in the abandoned twoleg house or in the horrible situation in the clans. I think that's most of my thoughts. Race is a tortoiseshell cat and hes transgender bc most tortoiseshell cats are female. just making this note bc i like it and i havent been bothered to draw him yet. Crutchie is nonbinary, because of the stuff that ive heard about junior newsies where they don't have a gender specified. The StarClan cats who are communicating with the medicine cats are going to be a range of canon characters who I think are suitable. Thinking Swiftpaw, Badgerfang, and whatever the name of the cat who was involved in creating the rule of apprentices not being trained before 6 moons is (i could move and get the book to check but I can't be bothered).

[amphiptere-art]

So this is a reblog talk but without the reblog.

I want to talk about these pieces I did for a ask.

_First and foremost I love my art of Eclipse/Blue Moon in a hammock staring at the stars. The proportions were hard to do. Especially with the hammock but it worked out. The stars in the sky were actually just a rush that was in the library. I just created a space-like background and draged that said brush around. Although without dark it is it's not until now that I realize how hard is to read his words. But it says

"hoping from place to place. Never time for work, play, or sorrow but when the world fades and silence fills it's shadow. That always stays the same."

I will admit Eclipse/blue moon is supposed to talk like blood moon but due to my inability to write that sort of stuff It turns into the haiku's and poems that I am more used to writing. Which in a strange way mixes well with the whole lunar + blood moon.

The words vaguely translate to- due to being a sporadic dimensional traveler he doesn't really get too enjoy things for long. But the silence of night time is always the same in every dimension. It's the one thing he gets to enjoy daily.

_Second. For sun's image I gives all creedence to my brother. The pose is an exact copy of what my brother does with his cat. He Even posed for me as I drew. Meaning that despite the complicated look of the hands and arms it was actually quite easy to draw. Unfortunately the pillows in the room were an afterthought. But they surprisingly blended in well. Frankie also just kept his coloring from the first illustration I did with these guys. Despite the fact that he is supposed to be a tortoiseshell I decided "whatever he's going to be a brown cat it makes it simpler to draw."

Sun states that he doesn't have time to enjoy things. At the end of the post though eclipse/blue moon gives a more concrete answer. Of course the eclipse/ Blue Moon is talking in rhyme/poem talk but it's clear that sun likes to paint. Although the way eclipse/blue moon says it, it's supposed to sound like he's only ever seen Sun paint once or twice. Which as sad as it is, gives Credence to suns own answer.

_Third. Moose panel and words was rather simple. In my AU I lean more into his engineering personality. And moons answer is rather straightforward. He enjoys tinkering, he hates computer work. Moon is technically working on a firework launcher. I was running off of memory but I'm pretty sure it looks close to what was used by Monty.

Moon's pose was rather simple for me although hard in other ways. I have experience with working with tools but I was running off of my own hands. And while I knew the poses the hands need be in in was hard to do so without a reference. I knew exactly how the hand should be shaped but not how it interacted with the object. Eventually I just asked my mom to take a picture of my hand in the poses required.

[emilythedog661]

My ideas for Tomodachi Life 2

So here are some ideas i have if they ever make a sequel to tomodachi life as it's one of my favorite 3DS game and i do also like miitopia but tomodachi life need to be remade for the switch as it's a good nintendo version of the sims franchise (i do also like the sims mainly sims 3 and 4)

Make people chose their own islands and let them place where the buildings go like animal crossing new horizons - i think this was great in animal crossing so why not put it in tomodachi life? the island in tomodachi life confuses me as it's one big island then another island with the fair, park, cafe and photo area on it and it looks like the mini can't reach that island due to it not showing a train station or anything so choosing your own island and then placing where the building go will make it a little more tidy.

Same sex marriage and raising babies - this was kinda fixed in miitopia but in that game, you couldn't get married and have children so in the sequel, have same sex couples, let them get married and let them have babies by making them say they adopted a child but you can edit the baby so it looks like the couple, this would probably fill out of lot of same sex fictional ship and i'm here for it.

change some items - when you reward you mini for a level up, you'll see in the gifts that there's a wii u and a 3DS in there, they need to be changed into a Switch and maybe a retro console as people like the older consoles like a GBA, a nintendo 64 or a SNES, also another idea i have is have more hobbie items as gifts like a drawing pad with a pencil and colouring tools to make your mii a artist , a sewing needle with thread to make your mii a sewer, knitting needles to make your mii a knitter, a crochet hook to make your mii do chochet and etc.

makes cats and dogs perminate to the miis and have breeds to the pets - i don't like that the cats and dogs are part of a pass and then when you give either a shiba inu or a different colour of the same cat, instead when you give your mii a pass, you then help your mii choose a dog breed like a labrador, a yorkshire terrier, a shiba inu, a chihuahua, a shih tzu, a collie, a golden retriever or a cat colour like black, white, orange, gray tabby, double colours, calico, tortoiseshell and etc with different shapes like a chunky cat or a skinny cat, the pet then be chilling in the apartment with the mii and then move to the house when the mii gets married, it will have its own bed, a box of toys, a litter box for the cat, a leash and collar hanging near the door for the mii to take the dog out and when your mii is at location like the beach or park, you'll see them walking their dog on their own or with a friend or a partner.

get rid of the marriage mini game - i hate it, it stresses me out everytime it happens and i just don't like it so instead, when the mii is telling you that they want to get married to another mii, give them a wedding ring from the treasures part and you can watch as the mii proposes to the other mii while you get to either control the fireworks or prepare the food.

decorate the house like what you can do in animal crossing - the apartments look so bare without furniture so why have a furniture shop added to the apartment design shop and use it to design the mii's apartment or house.

Add the editing feature from miitopia - this was a great feature in miitopia so i would love to see it in in this sequel.

That's all i got but if you have more ideas, put it in the comments and i will edit this if i have more ideas 😁

[amethyst-halo]

I love it when people make Nightheart a tortoiseshell or put fire-resembling spots on him. He would hate it if he saw that. He is one of the few cats that I draw to have different fur-colors than canon. And it is out of SPITE

nightheart: ohhh flame doesnt fit me im a black cat me, drawing him with flame markings: huh

[sapphireskies15]

Warrior Cats Original Character | Eclipse

Hello!! I wanted to come on here and share my progress in my art style over the years. Now I haven’t been on here that long, nor have I honestly shared any art on here up until sometime this year, but I really wanted to share my progress as an artist to really show how far I have come.

I’ve been into the Warriors fandom for a little over 8 to 9 years now, I have created many many characters of my own because I had loved this series so much and cats are also one of my top favorite animals. I believe from elementary to middle school, cats were what I primarily drew. I had sketchbook full of Warriors fan art. I was constantly playing Roblox, any cat game that I could find on there I would find others who also enjoyed these books and would play out these wild stories as if we were in these books. Using our own characters and choosing what clan we were in. This was honestly the peak of my art.

I’m not too sure when the beta for Warrior Cats: Ultimate Edition came out, but around the time it did I was on there constantly, every second of the day I was just glued to this cat game. And since you could customize the model to look like your very own character, I had decided I wanted to make a tortoiseshell because they are honestly so pretty. This character had been my first ever OC to actually get a character sheet. But he’s the only character I have drawn over and over again and he is the only one I have that really shows my progression in a characters design.

Eclipse’s Design

His first deign was either in 2019 or 2020, I’m not too sure when WCUE beta came out or when I started playing, but his design was overall just a copy of what his model looked like since I didn’t originally have any drawings of him up until the game.

Around this time I was obsessed with artwork of MapleShade and Sol, his inspiration had come from any fan art I had seen and loved.

His second design was more of an attempt at a “turn around sheet.” I didn’t really grasp how to make one so I just slapped down whatever I thought makes sense.

Sometime in 2021, I decided I wanted to play around with art styles since I hated how I was drawing before. Semi-realism was my choice! Now I wasn’t smart when drawing at all! I had never once in my life studied how to draw in certain styles, I hadn’t taken the time to really learn. I usually just stared at a picture and tried to replicate what it looked like. That was a hot mess. Not my best era.

His last and final design is more of a “Disney” inspired look. Recently I have been experimenting with styles, studying how to replicate them, experimenting and expanding my skill. Disney has been a huge part of my childhood as I’m sure it has been for many others! I’ve always been in love with the way things were drawn, and I had decided that this was the style I would use.

I’m generally really comfortable with this style and I am really proud with how far I have come.

[ciaossu-imagines]

Admin prompt 12

“Describe yourself how you would describe a character you’re introducing”

I am extremely curious 👀👀

Also I hope no one is bullying you in the asks box! Haven't asked for a bit because I was worried you got overwhelmed.

Att. Saiyuki boys person

Thank you so much for checking on me! You’re so incredibly sweet, my Saiyuki boys anon! (Also, like, bless you and the one other Saiyuki follower I have for helping keep this fandom alive!) I actually only had one more rude message after those first couple I complained about, so I lucked out there. I think, because I addressed them publicly in a separate post, without naming them or publishing their words, they didn’t quite get the attention I’m sure they were after and moved on, which I’m very happy for and I had so many supportive readers, so thank you all once again. And thank you for this really interesting, surprising request, though Goddamn, I admit it’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever written because when asked to describe myself, I tend to just give basic stats – height, eye and hair colour, visible markings…basically, whatever you’d note down when conducting an autopsy, haha! I have rewritten this countless times and am just saying fuck it, and I’m just going to bore everyone by narrating the last ten to fifteen minutes of my life as if I was writing a scene in a book.

A sudden gust of wind whipped by, blowing her hair all over the place. Oh well, it was messy anyway, hastily whipped up into a bun held in place by a pen when an elastic couldn’t be found quickly enough for her liking. Taking one last draw off her cigarette, eyes taking in the gorgeous blue of the sky as her thoughts wandered, she half-turned and tossed the cigarette into the butt can, dousing it with the bottle of water she kept outside for just that reason. She sighed and allowed herself to bask just a bit longer in the warmth and atmosphere of the day outside as she pulled out her phone and scrolled through the to-do list she’d made for the day yet again. Ticking off the latest completed task, she shook her head and, half-smiling that crooked smile of hers, stood and stretched before heading back inside.

Her feet padded audibly across the floors of her apartment and though she tried to avoid the creaky spot in the floor, she hit it once again, not quite used to her new place enough to have guessed the correct spot. Damn…she hoped she didn’t have neighbours trying to sleep underneath her. Though she was surprisingly light on her feet and quick for both her size and height, she always worried she was making just a bit too much noise when it came to disturbing her neighbours.

Making her way quickly into her  kitchen, with the click of a button she set the coffee going into her favourite mug (chipping now, but she hated to throw it out – who knew when she’d find another Inigo Montoya mug, after all?). Her thoughts seemed to be going a million miles a minute, so many ideas and plots and stories whooshing around without rhyme or reason, and she groaned, lifting a hand to rub at her tired eyes, pushing her glasses up into her mess of dark hair. She should probably clean those while she waited, honestly, and she reached up to pull the thick-rimmed tortoiseshell frames from their perch before giving them an almost thoughtless, habitual wipe with the bottom edge of the baggy, stained, ripped but incredibly comfortable Nirvana hoodie that was always her go-to on writing days.

The coffee shut off and she prepared to add in the usual, swinging herself up on the little pink stool in the kitchen to reach the cupboard where she kept the creamer and sugar. It seemed that no matter where she lived, kitchens just really weren’t built for short people. Even standing on tiptoes, she was just barely able to reach the second shelf of the upper cupboards…God, someday, she swore she’d have enough money to buy a place and have the kitchen custom built for people five feet and under. See how all those tall people struggled then!

Her feet knew just where to go though, after she tossed the spoon in the sink, and with coffee in hand, she headed back to her desk and the computer. A click of the mouse brought the word document back up onto the screen and her brown eyes scanned the sentences already typed onto the page. Small, broad hands, stubby fingered, with nails kept almost brutally short but brightly polished (chipping – she’d have to redo that before work tomorrow) settled onto the keyboard. Please let me find all the words this time, all the sentences to get my thoughts properly to all of them, she prayed before the air was filled with the sound of keystrokes, fast and forceful.

[legionairemutt]

TNP REWRITE REFS: Rowanclaw a dark ginger tabby cat with paler forepaws, underbelly and chin. They have black patches of fur scattered across their tail, mid-back, left shoulder, and left portion of their face. They have gold eyes and a speckled pink and black nose.  Rowanclaw is the child of Darkflower and Scorchwind and is a well-respected young warrior of Shadowclan. They were mentored by Jaggedtooth and have served under Brokenstar, Nightstar, Tigerstar, and now currenlty Blackstar. Their brother is Cedarheart and their close friend is Tawnyshade

[spottyissleepwalking]

LEAF REDESIGN!!! Bc the old one was old and sucky and I hate it

Low key obsessed with my new one,, she’s so pretty and Shaped

Design notes:

The flowers + fronds in her fur are respectively are pink azaleas (for passion, love, friendship and joviality), and ferns (for new life, family, secret love, magic, humility and sincerity).

Lots of tiny heart shapes across her design. At her chest, her muzzle, her tail, her right hind leg, left foreleg, right hip and left hind paw!

The only thing this lady got from her momma was her pale fur; she’s Round and Fluffy and Sweet, the prettiest kitty!!

Sectoral heterochromia; mostly green, with yellow flecks. (Bonus for the little heart in yellow!)

From my past Leaf designs, I kept her little behind-the-ear fronds; I’m not sure what to call them, but I really like them. They give her an air of being even softer, evenly as “augur” as “doctor”!

LGBT+ headcanon: Disaster poly-bisexual with a fem lean; genderfae (she/they pronouns).

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Leafpool, standing upright and left-facing, eyes heavy and away from the “camera”; the entire image is outlined in white. She is a somewhat stocky, fluffy, very rounded light cinnamon-brown marbled tabby cat with reddish-ginger tortoiseshell patches at the left side of her face, left muzzle spot, right shoulder, and along her legs and tail; she has a thick v-stripe across her throat, with a small heart-shaped patch at the dip; she has short, small, rounded ears; her tail is long, fluffy, and rounded, with heavy cream-colored patches all along it; more cream is spread across the right side of her face, her mane, her belly and along the back sides of her legs and paws. All across her pelt are small leaves and pink azalea petals; behind each of her ears are two long, fern fronds and pink azalea petals. Her eyes are somewhat rounded and mostly light green, with a flash of yellow-amber in her left eye; her lashes are dark red. Beneath her belly is her color palette, and beneath her paws is the word “LEAFPOOL” written in white all-caps. Across her chest and right shoulder is the stylized artist signature of “spottyissleepwalking” written in faded lavender. / End ID.]

[beachbabey]

Enoch I desperately need some random Miles and Rhett headcanons PLEASE-

OFC BESTIEEEEEE, I'LL NEVER SAY NO TO HEADCANONS FOR RHETT AND MILES

Rhett:

Perry and Cecilia love camping, but Rhett cannot stand it. They go away for a couple of weeks and 'rough it' by sleeping in a couple of battered tents under the stars and eating from cans around a campfire. It always takes Rhett a who;e year to recover from the trauma before he agrees to go again.

Rhett volunteered for his local pet shelter for his entire senior year. His favourite animal was an old tortoiseshell street cat who didn't have a name, he eventually named him Vin after the character from The Magnificent Seven (His favourite movie when he was a kid). He cried a lot when he eventually died

Both loves and hates rainy days, he doesn't have much work to do so he can nap as much as he wants, but he also has a guilty conscience because he's not working, he feels lazy and struggles to fully relax on rainy days, It applies to sick days too, this man works until he can't stand up straight.

Carrie Underwood will forever be his favourite singer, you can argue with me all you want, the man will belt out all of her songs at a wedding party.

He stole one of Royal's cigars when he was 20 and he got so sick after he tried smoking it. Cecilia and Royal had to hold back laughter when he insisted it was just a stomach bug

Miles

Miles was a super creative kid. Was always doodling and drawing in class. His parents would never approve of him being an artist and so he signed up for the army as soon as he graduated from school. It took all the imagination out of him

Miles talks to himself whenever he does tasks. (“Alrighty... dishes are done, and that's a point for Miller! Just two more hours and then you can take a nap for a couple minutes.....god I fucking hate this job")

He taught himself to dance for his homecoming, (his date cancelled on him just as he was getting in his car to go pick them up)

Kept all the storybooks his Ma used to read to him for his future kids

He gets so scared at the thought of having a PTSD episode in front of his significant other, he doesn't wanna be seen as a coward.

[fallowpaws]

@hideyspot i didn't realize how cute featherfern really was until i started drawing them so thank you ajgkdsl

stonekit (stoneleap) - gray tom with dark gray flecks on his back, a lighter belly/tailtip, and green eyes

fogkit (fogtail) - pale gray molly with a darker stripe on her forehead, a dark tail, lighter paws/tailtip and blue eyes

brindlekit (brindlewhisker) - gray-brown tortoiseshell cat with a lighter chest/paws/muzzle and green eyes

backstory/au idea under the cut!

canon is pretty much the same up until the end of a shadow in riverclan. this is a minor detail but i headcanon that whitestorm isn't the sire of fern and ash; brindleface had a little fling with a kittypet from twolegplace instead but HEY that's an au for another day

just a note: feathertail is a bi trans girl and ferncloud is a lesbian :)

instead of randomly turning on ferncloud because it's "the right thing to do" to hate your neighbors or w/e. feather actually faked the argument at the border to resolve any suspicion her clanmates might have about her and fern

ferncloud was in on the 'fight' but she's a good actress and everybody buys it

featherfern start meeting up at sunningrocks at night and gradually take the steps from girl friends to girlfriends :)

but whoops! feathertail is getting called to go on the journey to the sun-drown-place. she doesn't tell fern the whole story, mostly because she doesn't really know why she's doing this yet. she just tells her that starclan is calling her and she has to go

fern understands but misses her gf :(

just to clarify, feathercrow isn't a thing. maybe crow had a crush on her after she helped him to warm up to the group but it was probably short-lived and definitely one-sided

since they deserve a happy ending (plus i haven't even gotten to the kits yet lmao), feathertail doesn't die saving the tribe! she does hurt one of her back legs pretty badly though, and the travelers have to stay in the mountains longer than they'd like until she's better enough to travel

feather does walk with a limp on that leg for the rest of her life, but she doesn't want to wait in the mountains any longer because she knows the clans must be suffering at home

and they are

in canon, there's a lot around this part of the series where ferndust's kits are pretty much dying left and right. but since ferndust didn't happen in this au, i'm gonna say that dustpelt just. found some orphaned kittens on the edge of thunderclan territory and ferncloud volunteered to take care of them. those kits end up being spiderleg and shrewpaw.

the birchfall/hollykit/larchkit litter doesn't exist in this au whoops

shrewpaw still chases after the pheasant, but dustpelt shoves him out of the way just in time, sacrificing himself. shrew and spider take it really hard bc he was basically their father figure, and fern takes it hard too because dustpelt was not only her uncle but also her friend

the travelers return home and everything proceeds somewhat according to canon (besides the fact that ferndust wasn't a thing and feathertail is still alive)

feathertail is heartbroken when graystripe is taken by the twolegs, but she does believe that if there's a way for him to return to them, then he will. it's just the kind of cat she is

ferncloud is still grieving dustpelt but she's very glad feathertail came back and they spend a lot of time together on the journey to the lake. like. a LOT of time

stormfur does end up staying in the mountains with brook as per canon, not bc feathertail is buried there (she's still alive), but bc he loves brook and the mountains and he never really felt at home in riverclan.

by the time they find their new home, cats are starting to notice that ferncloud is pregnant.

y'know that meeting in the marsh where squirrelflight gets her warrior name? right after, feathertail goes up to leopardstar and tells her to her face that ferncloud is her mate and expecting her kittens. to her Face.

leopard literally stood there and allowed tigerstar to tell stonefur to kill feather and her brother, and she does still feel guilty about that even though they're mostly on a truce. so when feather tells her she wants to join thunderclan to be with fern, she's not really surprised or angry, she just. gives her blessing and lets her go

feathertail and ferncloud tell firestar together. he's impressed by their honesty, plus he's not a little bitch about half-clan relationships. not to mention he'd do anything for graystripe's kits! so he accepts feather into the clan

squirrelflight is probably excited that her time with her friend won't be coming to an end, but brambleclaw is getting into his "hawkfrost isn't evil" phase and they're not real close at this point

fern gives birth a little before sorreltail, and she has three kits: stonekit (named after stonefur, who feather credits with saving her life), fogkit (sorta after mistyfoot, her former mentor, but also cause she just looks like a fogkit lol), and brindlekit (after fern's mom)

featherfern fight like lions to protect the kittens when the badgers attack, and their little family manages to come out intact

stonepaw is apprenticed to cloudtail, fogpaw is apprenticed to thornclaw, and brindlepaw is apprenticed to brightheart!

at this point featherfern is fully open about their relationship for obvious reasons. spiderpaw becomes spiderleg and shrewpaw becomes shrewnose and over time they both come to view feathertail as their mother alongside ferncloud

ferncloud decides to stay in the nursery full time and feather supports her wife <3

as a permaqueen who's raised 2 litters, fern's experienced with kittens and she knows leafpool's pregnant when she sees it. she doesn't call her out though and she doesn't tell anyone, but she's not shocked when feathertail confronts her about it

squirrelflight privately pulled feather aside earlier and told her leaf was pregnant with crowfeather's kittens. she'd volunteered to take them but since she's aroace and not in any relationships the clan might not buy it

feather catches on and tells squirrel she'll tell fern. which she does. after some discussion featherfern agree to raise the kittens

leaf and squirrel return with the kittens on the way back from their 'journey' and say that starclan led them to them so they wouldn't starve/freeze to death. fern immediately tells firestar she'll take them and he figures it was all part of starclan's plan so he buys it

the three grow up knowing that featherfern aren't their bio parents, but they do see them as their moms and they grow up happy and loved

graystripe returns!! woo!!! and he has a new wife

feathertail is thrilled to see her father again and he's thrilled to have grandbabies :)

feather doesn't see millie as her mom and millie doesn't see feather as her daughter, but they generally get along up until briarlight's accident, at which point feather steps in to fill millie's role as a mother figure to her half sister. she also probably knocks some sense into graystripe and he visits briar often

ashfur does threaten to kill holly, lion, and jay in the fire, not because he believes they're squirrelflight's kits, but because she helped rescue them in the first place and she loves them

when the truth comes out about their parentage, they're shocked and hurt that leaf, squirrel, fern, and feather never told them. holly runs away/is presumed dead in the tunnels and featherfern grieve for her.

the foxleap/icecloud litter still happens but probably a little later than in canon! foxleap is dark gray (think gray fox instead of red!) and icecloud is super pale gray

since birchfall was never born, he and whitewing don't become mates. ashfur starts paying attention to her out of nowhere and unfortunately she's charmed by him. once she finds out he was only trying to make squirrelflight jealous, she drops him like a hot rock. but she's already pregnant with dovewing and ivypool. she raises them without ashfur and only tells her daughters the truth once they're warriors

ferncloud ultimately dies as in canon, defending the nursery from brokenstar :(

feathertail is heartbroken and blames herself for not being there, but she carries on for her kin and her clan

she eventually drowns in bramblestar's storm, helping briarlight escape the camp. silverstream is the one to fetch her to starclan, where she reunites with ferncloud again :)

here's some notes specifically on the hypokits i designed:

stoneleap is a huge ladies' man but for both toms and mollies (he's bisexual)

his mentor was cloudtail and he picks up a lot of cloud's traits, including his religious feelings, though he's probably more agnostic than atheist

he's pretty laid back and chill. i really get a stoner-that-skips-class-but-still-aces-every-test vibe from him. he follows the warrior code unless he thinks it's dumb (he doesn't attack anyone who obviously crossed the border by accident)

he definitely has a lot of little flings but ends up falling hard for a riverclan molly and leaving thunderclan to be with her. i don't know who the molly is but she's definitely riverclan

mistystar lets him stay because feathertail used to be her apprentice and stoneleap is feather's son. also bc he's a skilled fighter and the clan could use more of those

fogtail is sassy and doesn't take anybody's shit. she's bisexual and grayromantic; i can see her having some flings but she never does take a mate of have kittens

her mentor is thornclaw and she gets her loud mouth from him lmao. she's definitely not afraid to speak her mind at all

she likes to help out in leafpool's den (kinda like brightheart) but never trains as a medic. she's just helping

she and stoneleap bickered a lot as kits but it never really evolved into serious fighting, they just have different personalities that tend to clash sometimes

she follows the code to a T, but when stoneleap goes to riverclan she supports him and doesn't let anybody from anywhere talk shit about him for following his heart

brindlewhisker is born as a molly but later comes out as nonbinary. she uses she/they pronouns and she likes mollies :)

they loved training under brightheart and when it's clear jaypaw isn't going to be her apprentice anymore, they vouch for her mentoring skills. firestar ends up letting brightheart mentor hollypaw due in part to this

they think a lot about the cat they were named for, brindleface, and see her as a role model despite never knowing her in life

she loves flowers but is tragically allergic

not sure if i can see her having kittens, but she slowly falls in love with hazeltail and they become mates later on

that was. a lot and i'm so sorry but i hope you liked it! i really had a lot of fun with it :)

tldr; featherfern happens, it's gay

[greekstar]

For hypokits, could you do one of my rewrite pairings? Newtspeck x Brokenstar, or, Runningwind x Redtail? - Bonefall

I will edit them in IBSpaint I swear to god. I just don’t have time I don’t want to keep you guys waiting!

Anyways. I had fun drawing these ones. Very nice lol.

BrokenNewt-

Newtspeck fell in love with Brokentail when he became a devoted warrior. Loving him for some odd reason (I can’t think of any reasons why a she-cat would love hat ugly mother-f’er)

Brokentail returned those interests and soon became mates.

When Brokenstar became leader, they had their first litter. Newtspeck hated Brokenstar after 3 moons of him leading. At this time she was expecting and didn’t want him to put the kits in danger so acted like she still loved him.

After the kits were born and Brokenstar was chased out Newtspeck was devastated as everyone looked at her kits with pure hatred, which made her run away. Leaving her kits without a mother. (She couldn’t bring herself to taking them with her as she joined Windclan.)

Shadowclan ended up giving the kits to Thunderclan after Sapplingkit died (Newtspeck didn’t name her kits before she left because she didn’t know if they deserved it. She was confused at the time with so many emotions)

Larchthistle- Larchthistle was born weak along with her siblings. She grew up stronger when Yellowfang took her and Cinder in. She named them and raised them. Larchthistle ended up looking like Brokenstar with a bent tail though acted nothing like him. Being fair and genuine. She loved taking care of the elders and often sat in the elders den listening to every story they had to the point she knew every single one to the point she could re-sight them without a problem. She ended up with amber eyes like her father too and often hated it. As Yellowfang told them everything about their father when they were old enough to understand.

Sapplingkit- Named after a Sappling by Raggedstar as he felt the small she-kit was never given a chance and remained a Sappling like a seed that barely sprouted. She ended up being a diluted grayish brown tabby with yellow eyes. She ended up dying as a kit. Warrior name would have been Sapplingheart or if Yellowfang named her - Would have named her Marigoldkit after her dead sister, Marigoldeyes.

Cinderface- Named after Cinderpaw (who died to the monster) he often knew how much he looked like Brokenstar with his broad-smushed face and big, fluffy body. Though it didn’t stop him from being a great warrior. He ended up being kind, wise, and often was the cat to go to when you had a problem. He became mates with a loner who joins and had kits. (Hehehe cause I can) And he loved them to death. He later dies with his sister in the elders den around the time Bramblestar becomes corrupted by Ashfur. (They weren’t really being fed a lot and were already super old so ya)- he is a Dark gray tom with dark ginger spark like markings on his face and chest.

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RunningRed

Runningwind and Redtail became mates around the time Runningwind became a warrior. Having their first kit, Sandkit(storm) and then their second litter!

Applepatch- Lively, swift, quick-minded and very funny. This Tom is a light brown tom with calico patches along with a darker tail. He has dark green eyes and often gets into trouble for pulling pranks. He was the first born.

Bushkit— Died when a owl spotted him outside the nursery at night and took him. He was a pure red bushy kit with pale green eyes.

Hollytail- Grayish-brown tabby-sleek tom with a red tail and green eyes. He is a fun tom to hang out with but also takes his duties seriously. He loves his siblings and is happy he had so many to be around.

Bunnyhop- a lively diluted Standish-reds tortoiseshell with half her tail missing (from a branch crushing it) she also has pale green eyes and often teases her siblings. She’s very understanding and forgiving and often ends up being the nursery guard when the clan knows that the other clan cats may attack due to one reason or another. She does have her own kits.

Lowpaw- Red-diluted tabby tom with a pure red tail and dark green eyes. He was clear-mind and often stayed on task. He was very ambitious and often got into fights with his siblings. Stating that if they wanted to serve their clan that they need to stay focused. Which Lowpaw was. He was sadly murdered by Tigerstar as an apprentice which left his siblings heart-broken and his parents.

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That’s it! Hope you like them and again I’ll come back and update this when I do the digital art.

[eire-cant-write]

Blooming Out of Death

Chapter 10

Word count: 816

Something was different that night. The field was slightly less saturated, the flowers had less color. Clouds, puffy and white, drifted across the sky, whereas before, the blue expanse had been empty. Squirrelflight narrowed her eyes. This proved it; she was not simply having strange dreams. 

“Why do you keep bringing me here,” the ginger she-cat demanded, not bothering to look in Mapleshade’s direction. 

The huge tortoiseshell warrior padded forward, brushing against the smaller cat. “What happened to ‘hello’? Not even a ‘hi’? How rude,” she responded smoothly. “I thought dear old Firestar and Sandstorm raised you better.” Mapleshade turned around to face Squirrelflight. 

“Oh,” she purred with a devious smile. “I’m not the one bringing you here. No one is bringing you here.” The tortoiseshell’s words hung in the air for a moment, confused silence suspended between them. 

“That’s ridiculous, someone had to have brought me here,” Squirrelflight denied, finally. “You’re making no sense.” She shook her head, refusing to believe what Mapleshade was telling her. But she remembered- before the Great Battle, Ivypool had managed to dream her way into the Dark Forest when she wanted to. The clarity the memory had brought showed on Squirrelflight’s face, causing Mapleshade’s grin to grow wider. “You came here because you wanted to. No, you needed to. You need my help, and deep down, you know it.” 

Her grin dropped, and the mischief disappeared from her demeanor. “So,” Mapleshade hissed in a low voice, “you really should consider my plan. All your troubles would be over in a heartbeat.” She paused, leaning closer. “It wouldn’t be that hard, really. After all, if you hurt him badly enough; well, there goes all nine lives.” 

Squirrelflight gave the murderous she cat a look of horror. “No!” She scrambled back away from Mapleshade, fear in her eyes. “You’re asking me to kill my leader! My-” She cut herself off. He wasn’t her mate anymore, he’d made it perfectly clear. 

“Yes, yes, I know,” the low growl interrupted her thoughts. “He’s your leader, you love him, or whatever excuse you plan to give me. But think about it. What has he done for you? He’s mistreated you, taken his anger out on you, hated you for helping you sister. All while he was training with Tigerstar and Hawkfrost behind your back, or thinking himself too important to be tarnished by your lie and three half-clan kits. He didn’t care about you! He didn’t love you! He loved your attention. He loved feeling like he owned you.” She paused, drawing herself up to her full height and glaring down at the other she-cat. “In fact, if the roles were reversed… I doubt he’d turn away an opportunity like this.”

A chill went through Squirrelflight. Surely I can’t believe her, she thought. She’d say anything to get me to agree. Bramblestar isn’t evil…. 

She opened her mouth to give a retort- perhaps defend Bramblestar- to say anything at all. But no words came out. A thin, choked wail escaped her, half caught in her throat. She crouched low to the ground, letting all the misery and anguish she had pushed to the back of her mind for moons on end consume her. Is this Starclan’s punishment for my lies, she wondered, unable to think of any other reason this would be happening to her.

For a moment, Mapleshade’s expression softened, flickering from cruelty to concern. Then the glare returned. “You’re pathetic, letting him ruin your life like this.” The huge tortoiseshell stood, circling Squirrelflight, scrutinizing her. “I am offering you a solution, and you can’t even take it. He’s turned you into a coward.” She raised a paw, unsheathing her claws. Bringing the paw down, she scored her claws on the muzzle of the smaller she-cat. “You can’t fight back. Not against me, and certainly not against him. Not without my help.”

Squirrelflight felt a surge of fear alongside the newfound pain searing into her face. Looking up at Mapleshade, she saw anger blazing in her yellow eyes. Fear caused her chest to tighten. She braced herself for whatever the villainess might do next, shutting her eyes tight.

No blows nor words came. Slowly, the deputy opened one eye. She was back in the warrior’s den, the watery grey light of dawn barely breaking through the dense foliage that created the shelter. 

The nest of moss she had slept on had been torn to shreds. She could only guess fitful thrashing was the cause. In the dim light, she could just barely make out a few scattered drops of blood. Pain still scorched her muzzle, even more so as she licked a paw and dragged it over her face to clean it, smearing her own blood on the white patch of fur that covered her paw. 

She sighed, not bothering to continue cleaning herself. She knew no one would ask about it anyways.