#ivyfern

[wandertail]

and i don't think of them often

[harveymooon]

possibly my favorite canon couple in warriors tbh!!

[sageokami]

the ship dynamic of all time

[everybody-loves-purdy]

They’re so cute

[enderautism]

Ivypools Heart Spoilers!

THEY REMEMBERED??? I actually squealed. I love them SO much.

[artaintfart]

Those warriors ship polls on Twitter got me inspired to draw some!!!!! :P

(Ft. Silly evil ppl as well as a new favorite from ASC <3 )

[genderqueertree]

ppl on twitter be talking about ships <3

[corpsezinthecloset]

Hi Ivyfern children

[bearfrosts]

ivypool is just so lesbian to me i cant even fathom her being with a tom. which is why im preemptively headcanoning fernsong as transfem before i even meet her in canon

[jayfeathers-neo-bumbleby]

Their acknowledgement that ivy ISN’T a naturally ferocious angry gal but instead did that as a coping mechanism and defense mechanism, and that fern in fact understands and supports her and he’s not just a lighthearted himbo kind of dude like can we talk about his being like “you are letting your grief consume you” because he ALSO lost bristle and he’s the one who raised her in the nursery BUT HE DOESN’T GUILT IVY OR BE LIKE “cope better like me i also lost her I’m not a mess” he recognizes that grief comes in many forms and he’s trying to balance letting her process in her own way but also not get lost in her grief and I just.

[goldenflowerceo]

hi. do i have permission to speak freely about the ivyfern ship

[selenetic]

Date night!!

[sock-fool]

i have had a sudden change of heart and have decided that ivypool is the best character ever and dovewing is a selfish mary sue who only thinkgs of herself! Ugh i hate her! fernivy is such an interesting ship amirghr? So #girlboss! my favorite scene with them was when fernsong said he would take care of the kits in the nursery after theyre nursed and then never did that visibly in the books.

[acid-waste]

Ivypool: Oh how I wished the writers didn't pair me with someone obviously related to me psst my cousin btw

Thiftear: Mom that's not oh you right dawg I'm paired with my cousin too

[churrorat-art]

poly ivypool + icewing + fernsong maybe?

I'm not too sure, I dont remember icewing too well to really say, but I think maybe it could be cute

[wc-confessions]

Alright I have a feeling this might get some people mad but I think it might need to be said, I think some people in this fandom are getting a little too...I guess "restrictive" (for lack of a better word) on what others ship. I'm all for pointing out a ship is weird or gross but I think people are getting a little silly about it

(Disclaimer: NO, IM NOT A PROSHIPPER, I ACTUALLY THINK THAT STUFF IS PRETTY NASTY)

In any other fandom, doing shit like shipping cousins (of any kind) would be weird, but this is Warrior Cats and literally nobody can keep track of who is who's cousin or aunt or distantly related half-nephew or whatever. It especially gets me when the characters are only related through some family tree bs and most people wouldn't even know they're related in the first place

As for ages, most people apply the logic that if the characters met while one was an adult and the other wasn't, then it's weird. Which I can mostly agree with, but the issue is that it makes a whole lot of ships supposedly weird

(Although I think one thing we can all agree on is that mentor x apprentice ships are odd. Get out of here OneWhite and TinySparrow)

Y'know what here's some examples of ships that would supposedly be weird to ship in the fandom's eyes if we apply all of this:

TawnyFeather (second cousins)

BrackenSorrel (Brackenfur has his warrior name by the time Sorreltail is born)

MothPool (substantially interacted while Leafpool was still young)

IvyFern (like, third cousins?? And Ivypool was a warrior before Fernsong was even born)

BreezeHeather (Second cousins?? Retcons made Ashfoot and Onestar siblings)

BlossomThorn (like a 6 year age gap where they were in the same clan)

WhistleFrost (Whistlepaw got the Whitewing treatment and is around Splashtail's age)

Does anyone see a problem??

My point is that Warriors has such a strange way of doing things and pairing cats together that almost every ship is gonna have something strange going on. I think there are lines to be drawn (for example everyone knows that Cloudtail and Squirrel are cousins so shipping them would be weird), but if not even a character knows who they're related to and ends up marrying their first cousin then how are the fans supposed to care

This also applies to ships that would literally never work out in canon but could have an interesting dynamic, like DarkTiger (yes guys, I know that they're first cousins and Darkstripe was his apprentice-but keep in mind that those are both re-connect as hell and never even mentioned in book. I'm pretty sure most people think of it as a one-sided thing anyways) or HawkMud or fucking OneFire or whatever

I have a lot to say but that's the gist of it. These things have nuance, especially in a series like this where everybody is related and nobody even knows it or characters age kinda weird

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