#i know my fur color names okay it's the warrior cats effect.

[nikoisme]

Heyo!!! :D Some questions for you!

What are some of your fave parts of the Iliad and Odyssey? And then do you have a favorite by Euripides?

How long have you been drawing?

Since your "lovable little bastard" is a lil calico, does she have any neat patches/spots that are cute? Example, Teddy has a big stripe that curves across her neck, so I like imagining her having "necklace" haha. Does your lil lady have any spots that are cutely shaped? 🥺

(Good luck in school! :D Know I'm rooting for you!)

hello hello :DD this is a much needed break from studying oh god thank you.

For The Iliad,, BOOK 6, THE HECTOR, ANDROMACHE AND ASTYANAX SCENE. Book 10 also slaps obviously, night raid my beloved. The laments over Hector in book 24 too :')) It never fails to make me cry. But there's a tiny little specific part of The Iliad that is my absolute favorite - when Menelaus tells Antilochus that Patroclus was killed:

Idk man it feels so real and raw and hngngng. And Antilochus my man.

Now for The Odyssey i'm basic af but it's the reunion wih Telemachus, Penelope and Laertes :') hits right in the feels. The marriage bed story. The orchard. God fuck. Also the several little moments when Telemachus and Odysseus just,, exchange knowing smiles or glances with each other (when Odysseus is disguised as a beggar). It's just so neat i don't know why. Telemachus doesn't even know Odysseus and Odysseus doesn't know who his son is (yet!!), but they just kind of clicked together (when it came to scheming and plotting ofc. It's in their genes).

Tbh I haven't read too much of Euripides, I have quite a few plays sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read. So i should probably, yknow, do that hahaa. But my favorite so far is Iphigenia at Aulis! It's just so heartbreaking and tragic and painful and ahdbagshjj. mannn.

I started drawing since I could hold a colored pencil lmaoo. i just did it sometimes as a kid, i liked it and was seen as the "art kid" in school (now that I think of it, I was actually more the "a pleasure to have in class" kid,, but hey i was the one people ran to during art projects lmaoo). It was 2020 when I really wanted to get into it - especially digital art, since I've been drawing on my phone and the family computer with a mouse in godforsaken Gimp up to that point - and I got my first drawing tablet the same year! Funnily enough I started drawing humans about... 1,5 years ago?? I was actually, lo and behold, a warrior cats artist for a few years :'DD

NOW. SHE HAS SO MANY SPOTS THAT I ABSOLUTELY ADORE. For example, all her paws are white - but only one is black with a single white toe:

And she has some incredible markings on her face if i can say so myself:

Especially since the orange marking goes in a straight line across her face, it's so neat. And her fluffy white neck/throat marking :D

And thank you for school AGJSJSDHHH. I have my last test on Monday so I should be finally free next week! The worst tests are over now, thankfully. This is hell :')

[catsanonymous]

My oc is Stonefin, a light gray tabby tom (afab if that matters) with dark gray stripes. He has long fur on his spine but the rest of his body is short, sleek fur. He has blueish green eyes, almost like mint.

okay first of all i love the name stonefin!! that’s super cute!!!

so the first thing you should know is that i don’t believe stonefin’s particular fur length mutation has ever been found in cats (it has in dogs!) so i won’t be able to provide a genetic basis for it. that absolutely should not discourage you from keeping it as part of his description, because weirder mutations crop up all the time, and i am a firm believer that warrior cats should not abide by the laws of nature. as it stands, i will be treating stonefin as a semi-longhair, genetically

so here’s our stonefin model! i’ll be treating him as a blue mackerel tabby semi-longhair.

you are absolutely right that knowing stonefin is afab will be helpful, because cat base color is actually located on the x chromosome!! just as a refresher, cats (and humans) have two sex chromosomes, x and y. afab cats (and humans) are (usually) going to have xx as their chromosomes, while amab cats (and humans) are (usually) going to have xy as their chromosome. that means that afab cats have two color genes, while amab cats have only one.

so, basically, because stonefin is xx, he needs two copies of black coloration in order to be black-based (blue is a form of black and we’ll get to that in a second). if he were to have the other cat base color, red, on his other x chromosome, he would be a tortoiseshell. that’s the reason almost all tortoiseshell cats are afab, and why people tend to headcanon tortoiseshell male cats in canon as trans.

put this all together and we get that both of stonefin’s parent needed to express black coloration in order to have an all-black xx kit. that means that dad HAD to be black based and mom HAD to be either black or tortoiseshell. now, blue, which is stonefin’s coloration, is the dilute form of black. dilute is a recessive trait that turns black coloration to blue and red coloration to cream. in order for stonefin to inherit dilute coloration, both of his parents needed to carry or express dilute. semi-longhair is a similar concept, since it’s recessive to shorthair.

the other thing we need to look at is the fact that stonefin is a tabby. tabby is dominant over solid, so as long as one of stonefin’s parents is tabby, he can be too.

now we can put it all together.

possible colorations for dad: solid black, solid blue, black mackerel tabby, blue mackerel tabby

possible colorations for mom: solid black, solid blue, black mackerel tabby, blue mackerel tabby, solid tortoiseshell, solid dilute tortoiseshell, tortoiseshell mackerel tabby, dilute tortoiseshell mackerel tabby

keep in mind that xy kittens inherit their one color gene from mom, so stonefin’s amab siblings will be black based if mom is, and can be either black-based or red-based if mom is a tortoiseshell. xx kittens inherit one color from each parent, so stonefin’s afab siblings will be black based if mom is, and can be either black-based or tortoiseshell if mom is tortoiseshell.

also keep in mind with any siblings that if you want them to have dense color (red or black instead of the dilute cream or blue) then at least one parent needs to have dense coloration. also keep in mind that tortoiseshells cannot be both dense and dilute, ie be red-blue or cream-black. dilute effects both colors, so they will only ever be red-black or cream-blue.

eye color is determined by coat color more than it is by genetics but is fairly unpredictable. just keep in mind that blue eyes are very very rare in cats and generally won’t occur unless the cat has a significant amount of white spotting. or disregard that completely, as i do, and do what you want.

i THINK that’s everything!!! feel free to shoot me another ask if you’ve got any more questions.