#i'm the sky child

[onionowt]

Sky sketch dump without any context (I'm trying to warm up sorry)

[spacebubblehomebase]

A happy Winter Solstice to all!!! ☃️ Here's an art I've been holding on to for awhile. A present for two of my Sky friends who surprised me by buying me a Season Pass when they heard about my love for the Moomins! They really didn't have to and one of them literally just met me at that very same day, yet they still did, so I'm very grateful. 🥹✨ Have a safe and happy holidays everyone! Whether you celebrate the season or not, enjoy it anyways! 💙 ^v^ -Bubbly

[micc0ro]

I bought a skyfest wireframe cape! It's fantastic!🤩💗💞✨

[bonefall]

So, your Clear Sky post is absolutely horrifying, but it was very needed, so thank you. What are your general thoughts on tackling his abuse for the AU? Like you've said, pretending he's a good guy is not the way to go, but are you planning on toning down *some* of the situations, just to give some of the cats a break? Clear Sky is a very realistic depiction of abusers, but that seems to come across even without victim number 25, yknow? I'm very curious about how you'd like to go about this.

My most recent big change was bringing Slash back into the fold, because I realized that it was actually a disservice to not address where DOTC's themes dip into Colonialism. It's a hard topic, and I'm still trying to work out the details, but I realized it was important.

With how BB!DOTC is such a MASSIVE overhaul, to properly address abuse and the ways it impacts you, ableism and its violence, and xenophobia broadly, a huge reworking of Slash belonged here too. He's one of the greatest examples of how badly WC demonizes non-Clanborn cats. I shouldn't dance around it.

That's what I need to do with Skystar.

MANY of his victims have happier endings than canon, though. Bumble is one of the most famous, bumped up into a major character and directly responsible for the formation of ThunderClan. Bright Storm is taking most of Gray Wing's roles. Birch and Alder are getting examined, with either a father who wants his kids back or Milkweed as the mate of Misty.

A lot of people will die because of him, even more will be hurt, but I see BB!DOTC as a story about victims and survivors.

Others might grab POVs here and there, but as a response to canon which I feel is Clear Sky's story told in many parts, I center this rewrite around Thunder Storm. The path of kindness he marches down, with love and with anger, and the people he helps.

So BB!Star Flower...

Previously I was playing her as ENTIRELY just manipulating Clear Sky. She was loyal to One Eye and trying to get at Skystar to bleed him dry for 8 lives to sacrifice; but connected to Thunderstar over recognizing him as a victim who deserves her idea of justice. So, she offers Thunderstar the final kill, so her father will be grateful to him and he'll get power AND the death of his abuser.

(When Thunderstar looks upon Skystar, pathetic and neutralized down to one life, he thinks about the collateral damage that will descend upon the forest if he accepts the deal. He decides that he has found the line between Justice and Justification. Of course he wants the power to make his enemies cower, protect his people, and eliminate Clear Sky so he never threatens them again; that's not the problem.

He can still do these things. He wouldn't NEED the power of a war god to do so.

But if One Eye returns, he will be endlessly hungry, ruthlessly dedicated to revenge, and set out to devour the whole forest. Everything would get worse, and even more people he loves would die. It's where his desire to destroy a monster would lead to him BECOMING one.)

Even on its face, it was previously missing an element. There's a step between "Starf decides to bring One Eye back" and "Starf offers Thunderstar the final kill" that was bare. This is the piece that was missing-- That she, herself, is trying to reach out to the only person who's ever really understood her.

But more importantly... I do feel this topic belongs here, in BB!DOTC. Abuse is a MAJOR theme. SKYSTAR is a monster already. He's harmed two wives in BB (Bright Storm and Falling Cry) and played toxic games with all three kits (Thunder Storm, Pale Sky, Tiger Sky).

And I'd avoid Star Flower being abused... why? Because it's uncomfortable to confront the pattern that Clear Sky displays? That in-canon, he tries to cut all his victims into the same ideal shape, from Storm to Thunder to Star Flower? ...it should be uncomfortable. Everything that I described in Clear Sky Is A Monster is rooted in the same desire for control, power, and punishment most abusive people share, he just happens to be a severe example.

Yes. That includes how he treats his child and romantic partners. The parallels that are drawn between Starf and Thunder are there because he wants power in the form of obedience. Starf replaces the son as a narrative award for his "growth" of not killing random people anymore for a while.

A cookie cutter is an effective tool because IT ONLY MAKES ONE SHAPE.

You know what's more uncomfortable? Reading canon!DOTC and seeing someone who hurt you reflected almost perfectly in the character the writers think did nothing wrong. Because of "good intentions" that were not there.

I will say though, just to be clear; I don't see a purpose in being more than PG-13 about serious topics for this project. I promise none of my intentions have changed. Nothing will be more graphic or gorey than canon WC-- just more intentional.

I'm keeping the sacrifice because it's dope. No one is taking this from me. Girl Moment: Killed her awful husband 8 times to count as 8 sacrifices and offered the last life to her buddy as a show of good will. How else do you make friends outside of high school

But I know now that Star Flower NEEDS to keep the canon fact she has very little agency, UNTIL that moment she snaps.

She's sacrificing one abuser to try and bring back a bigger, badder one, because in spite of everything, her father One Eye always made her feel safe. Even though he promised her off to Skystar, and expected her to be willing to die for him. She's followed every command, every order, past the death of his mortal vessel.

The first, and only, selfish choice she's ever made was in reaching out to Thunderstar to offer him the power of her father.

Thunderstar's Justice is a story about a Thunder Storm at the pinnacle of his arc, how the survivors of his Clan are settling into the new normal after the carnage of The First Battle, how Skystar's arrogance brings a violent god to the Forest... and the connection Thunderstar makes with the daughter of a monster.

[luimagines]

Oh gosh. Feeding the chain modern food. I've actually thought about this a lot.

I think it's a fun idea to give them all these weird and new recipes/food items, but I also think it would probably make most of them sick

Like, (speaking as an American) so much food is processed. Even some of the stuff you think you're getting healthy has been processed or is riddled with additives/pesticides/gmo's

So just. unadulterated junk food? On boys that have never in their lives eaten anything but the cleanest, as organic as it gets, nutritional meals? McDonald's? Some sour candy? I wouldn't be surprised if they puked it up

(I can just imagine Wind or Wild wanting to try some of Reader's "weird" food so badly, and then getting immediately sick. The chain then regards them as having an iron stomach for all the weird stuff they eat without batting an eye.

...maybe not Wild though actually. He eats rocks.)

Don't even get me started on the nutritional adaptation. Like a reader that doesn't ever eat fruits/veggies/drink water?? They'd wonder how they're alive 😭😭

Hyrule and Wild are the only ones who can stomach it.

Twilight and Warrior are wiling to try even if they get stomach aches afterwards. Twilight drinks chuchu jelly. So I'm sure he'd fine in the end. And I'm willing to bet that Warrior had to et some weird things during the war when ration ran low so he can tough it out.

Legend can go one of two ways. He can either tolerate like no big deal or he's taken out of commission for the week. There's no in-between. He's traveled a lot so I'm sure he's been exposed to a lot of different things and can thus handle more- but it's a Russian Roulette of what can take and can't take.

Wind and Four don't last long. They eat bologna and are out for the rest of the day with tummy aches.

Don't even try with Time or Sky. They're the most sensitive. I'm willing to bet the smell alone can make them feel sick.

[angrybatart]

Some veteran Sky Kid is screaming like a banshee while frantically searching for their moth.

[ebi-skycotl]

It took me so long to realize why you looked so sad when we sat here to enjoy the breeze and flowers.

You were watching your home, fighting back the memories of everything you lost everytime your gaze landed on the distant Eden, so far away.

You never said anything. You just suffered, because you knew it helped me to have a father come sit with me when I was sad.

I want to thank you. I want to hug you. I want to tell you that you made my life worth living when I was child.

And I'm never going to get the chance to say these words...so I will just hope that you can hear me, somewhere beyond death, and that you know you were loved.

[bonebabbles]

Clear Sky dances around all the murder he did

Their mother had been killed, you say? I wonder how that happened? I wonder how that happened Clear Sky? How did their mother get killed I wonder? Can you spare any details as to how she got killed i'm so curious.

That's a real cute way of phrasing that he's happy he didn't murder them as infants. PLEASE remember this. Petal ARGUED against him and said she would adopt them after he slaughtered their mother and wanted to kill them too.

slimy book, just DRIPPING with ooze. To open up with the first time a character has ever been harsh with him, a spirit no less, and conveniently leave out every legitimate reason she had to be fucking furious at him. The amount of passive voice being used here is dizzying.

Anyway, then we find out he DOES still enforce those borders that we had a WHOLE SERIES about criticizing. But it's fine now because instead of chasing away good, superior Tribe cats, he regularly chases away possibly evil, inferior rogues. Since only foreigners can be born evil.

Also: The lesson here with Pink Eyes is, "I would have turned him away for being disabled, but I'm glad I didn't because I've learned that disabled people have superpowers in their other senses, so it balances out."

Good thing Pink Eyes is Daredevil, else it would be totally cool to turn him away I guess.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Okay but forreal, now more than ever I desperately NEED Aya to eventually wreck Fyodor's shit somehow. I already wanted her to get her revenge before, but I didn't think Fyodor would even remember or know who she was, and would massively underestimate her for that reason (just like Jouno knew that Fukuchi would underestimate her). But now the story has instead created this twisted, fucked-up dynamic between them, where Fyodor not only knows her, but is protective of her for reasons that are not his own: he has taken the pure, noble, kind, fatherly love motivating Bram to protect Aya and warped it into something horrific, vowing to protect her body only while not caring how much her heart and mind has been scarred, and claiming to be doing it for her own salvation, when he cannot possibly understand the selfless feelings Bram had that made him want to protect her and care for her — feelings that he does not have. He may genuinely have some sort of affection for children (the way he treated Karma, "blessings for the children", this), but it is twisted and hollow and is quite possibly only him unconsciously acting out the motions due to behavior instilled in him from the feelings of all the people he's subsumed in the past.

All this is to say that, now the narrative has specifically pitted Aya and Fyodor together as direct enemies: she not only had reason already to hate him because he killed Bram, but because he's also taken Bram's love for her and defiled it, dishonored it and him and all that he was; meanwhile, Fyodor has given himself an arch nemesis that he no doubt takes great pleasure in seeing how much she hates him/how much despair he's brought her, but paradoxically at the same time feels a compulsion to "protect" her that draws himself to her and that he can't ignore. Aya has to defeat him somehow (not permanently, mind you; Dazai will undoubtedly be his final end), and the setup for Bram being able to fight back enough to stop Fyodor from the inside with her help is all right there, too. Their love for each other is still enduring, stronger than ever, Fyodor is proof of that right now, and they will be able to defeat him together, at least enough that Bram can be freed and come back to Aya. Dazai told Fyodor that he would lose because he doesn't understand and underestimates the power of friendship bonds and love, and there is no better a time for that to happen than here, when he is literally using someone's strong love for and connection with someone (acting as that person and claiming to know how they feel and to be the same as them) in a way that he cannot understand, which will be his undoing.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Lovelies, I am happy to say that after months of holding the story hostage, Time's finally actually helping it progress for once. What a lad.

[reneesbooks]

last lines of 2024

@oh-no-another-idea my beloved tagged me and i have been doing some writing and lurking while on my tumblr hiatus. some salt and brine for y'all--meja meets a strange child in the morbhard market.

minor cw for mentions of child abuse/mistreatment

The boy skips along the gutter until he reaches the next section of the marker, trying his luck with the wealthier booths. Meja bites her lip as the third merchant turns the little boy away with a hissed curse, always calling the same strange word after him: mallaithe.

The boy tugs at the sleeve of a portly man in a fine coat. Meja feels a shiver go down her spine and starts walking quickly towards the two of them. The man turns and, sneering that same word, backhands the boy across the face.

Meja freezes, feeling a flush of anger crawling up her cheeks. That a child was unwanted in such a place as this, with so much abundance, is already unthinkable. That a child would be so brazenly mistreated by so many is unconscionable. Her feet move again, carrying her across the street to the man and the boy.

The boy is picking himself up from the street when Meja reaches him, and looks up at her with watery brown eyes that remind her of Kamon’s. The portly man in the fine coat smiles widely at her, chattering and gesturing at the table of wares behind him. She ignores him and crouches down to help the boy up from the street. The portly man’s voice silences with a strangled gasp.

Meja brushes the dirt and dried mud off the boy’s clothes, inspecting the new mark on his face. It’s only a dark smudge on his amber skin now; by sunset half his chubby face will be black and blue. She glares up at the portly man, who scoffs something about Hass barbarians and pointedly turns away from them both. Meja turns back to the boy, smiling kindly at him. Up close, she can see he’s no older than five, all missing teeth and bright eyes. There’s a strange scar on the side of his neck, perfectly round. His black hair is thick and messy, hanging into his wide brown eyes. He could be Kamon’s baby brother, or their little son.

She offers the boy her hand and he takes it, staring up at her with those big brown eyes. She throws one last glare at the portly merchant and leads the boy away, down the street towards Joni’s tent.

tagging @akindofmagictoo @zmwrites @serenanymph @avrablake and anyone else who wants to join in and share some lines <3

[huh-1260]

doot doot

:D

[thesexydancingcrepe]

SIX-YEAR-OLD YELLS AT CLOUD ☁️

Referencing childhood au and meme

[astral-herald]

more about episode 8

trust that i am the first person to (lovingly) clown on jayce but i must admit...he kinda ate here.

too bad it was followed up by some reckless manslaughter!

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I honestly find it so funny when people start having intricate fandom discourse and analysis and stuff to defend their favorite side character- especially if it's like a side side character- 'cause like, mate: your're defending 2 minutes of screentime and 4 spoken words rn, there is no hill to die on bestie 💀