#lots of new cats

[honeys-clangen]

FNAFClan - Moon Seven

Season: Leaf-bare

Freddy Quickbear was seen taking food from a twoleg!

Patrols:

One - Marionettefang and Endopaws go out herb hunting, but Endopaws stops them to explain why they volunteered to go again. They talk about a vision they think they received from StarClan. Dark, dingy rooms, flickering lights, camera static and mechanical buzzing....Marionettefang cannot make sense of it.

Two - Shadowbunny takes Shinypaw out to train, but they come across a strange sight. A motionless twoleg standing stock-still in a field. Shadowbunny orders Shinypaw to stay back, and approaches the twoleg with bristling fur. Upon inspection, they find it completely unmoving, and they wonder...is it even alive? They find hay poking from it's scratchy fur, and turn away, getting a strange, unsettled feeling. Shinypaw tells everyone in the clan about this twoleg when they get back.

FNAFClan - Moon Eight

Season: Leaf-bare

Bunnysong has gotten a stomachache.

Foxthrift has gotten a stomachache. He bristles at the thought of being put out of work, even temporarily, by such a minor thing.

Chickenfoot was seen arguing, and borderline fighting, with a loner.

Patrols:

One - Following one of the worst storms of the season, Marionettefang has been left considerably grumpy. Herbs strewn about and fresh-kill pile in shambles. Endopaws tries to find a way to cheer her up. They splash water from a puddle onto Marionettefang's fur. The healer fluffs up like a bottlebrush, turning around to quickly send a wave of water back towards Endopaws! The two engage in a small water fight, neither minding the chill of the water, and when they resume patrol, Endopaws is glad to see Marionettefang looks much happier.

Two - Endotail goes out on patrol, and they come across a kittypet interested in their clan. The kittypet decides to join!

let us spin the wheel!

Alright! well then, say hi to-

FNAFClan - Moon Nine

Season: Newleaf

Chickenpaw has been made a warrior!

Chickenfoot sits in the crowd, chest puffed out in pride as she watches Chickenpaw be named Chickenjaw, and honored for their passion. She considers herself lucky to have been to have been able to train such an amazing young cat, and look forward to seeing the warrior she becomes.

Bunnysong no longer has a stomachache.

Foxthrift no longer has a stomachache.

Foxthrift fought a fox, and was barely even hurt! He's a bit bruised, but bruises are better than clawmarks. When he returns to camp and his clanmate all crowd around him, he smiles and recalls the tale with pride. He exaggerates a bit, if for nothing but to see the eyes of Bearpaw, Chickenjaw, and Shinypaw shine in awe.

Freddy Quickbear thinks about their last few moons with Foxthrift, mulling over the time they've spent with the tom. He mulls about his feelings for the tom, and by the time he feels like he's spent all afternoon in his den, he decides to just get it over with. he confesses his newfound feelings to Foxthrift, and they become mates.

(Uhm. gay cats real. when did this happen.)

Shinypaw finds oak leaves while out on a walk and decides to keep them.

{Sprite Update!: Shinypaw has Oak Leaves}

Patrols:

One - Chickenfoot and Endotail head out, but on their patrol, they notice the sound of pawsteps nearby, in their territory. When they go to check it out, they find a kittypet. The kittypet flees upon being spotted, not giving any cat the chance to get a word out.

(I will be marking this cat as lost so they have the option of coming to the clan)

"Uh, hello, hello.."

Two - Marionettefang heads out, alone, for once. Though she doesn't mind Endopaws company, a bit of peace and quiet can be nice, yknow? Thyme, Thyme, Thyme, there's never enough Thyme. Marionettefang snorts at his joke, cramming as much thyme in his mouth as he can fit. This'll be good for the clan, he thinks.

Three - Chickenjaw comes across a loner who is interested in joining the clan. Chickenjaw convinces them, and brings them back to camp!

[peachebo]

I remember I had a concept about alternative ending of sl where michael brings ennard home and jus lives very normal life with a killing machine...

also here's ennard with da cat

[thatnununguy]

Rosecat (she doesn't like being held)

[djkinski]

the prophecy gang again

[obsob]

once more around the sun!! :3

[ghoopyghoo]

alternatively, this is Mouse and she is a fucking delight. absolute perfect angel

[drac0line1nn1t]

Logan: You wanna fuckin treat me like a cat? Fine.

Wade: Peanut please don't do this- you don't have to do this-

*Logan pushes Wade's lucky red mug off the counter*

*Wade falls to his knees dramatically weeping over his favourite mug*

[cubbihue]

Hey if Hazel, Dev, and the gang play DnD, what do you think they would play as.... and how who would be the fortunate(or unfortunate) DM?

When I was 10, my older brother would play massive D&D campaigns in the living room. He tried teaching me the mechanics but it was too much and too boring for my small brain. Instead, I was far more fascinated with things like Warrior Cats.

Apparently Warrior Cats has a d&d game though. So. The kids would all play that instead!

Dev would eventually be roped into joining. Mainly because when you're sitting with a table of kids doing storytelling, you end up getting very invested, and very frustrated when they make the very wrong choices!!!

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Year of the Dragon!

[raiiny-bay]

Love, Dhes

Parker,

It's unfair how time with you feels so short. How the last 10 years have felt like no time at all. I like to think there are other versions of us out there, somewhere. Maybe in another timeline, another universe. I like to think we find each other no matter where we are or what we're doing. That we're together and happy and I get to love you in a dozen different lifetimes. That's what I hope, anyway. And I hope when this lifetime ends, we get to start over and do it all again. Because once just isn't enough. Not for me. Not with you.

I hope the next 10 years pass slower.

Love, Dhes

[boonanaghost]

Finally got around to drawing these two idiots

Two bonuses from doodle boards:

[golbiey]

my sonic charms are now on both my bigcartel and etsy!

[duskfel]

Happy birthday to the most boy of all time

[keeps-ache]

overgrowth and languor

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[bonefall]

I was thinking about your tags, and while I understand the caution, it feels like it would still be a stretch to baseline equate common traits among the clans with eugenics. I know that humans can rly quickly go from everyone has biological differences = there are innate qualities that are "good" and "bad", and there's a quality of fascism in that, but when the clans are fairly isolationist, it seems like it'd be natural for there to be trends among its members.

this is also just me prompting for your thoughts on biology and politics surrounding that, since i appreciate your thoughts on fascism in warriors overall.

I think you're missing a piece in your takeaway that I'm more conscious of-- it's not that I'm wary of population genetics and natural trends; it's that the Clans have an obsession with "blood purity" paired with that.

When you introduce "subspecies" Clans to that, cats who are truly biologically suited to a particular environment, you are inevitably narratively connecting the rhetoric to this worldbuilding fact. Unless you're going to massively overhaul the theme and setting of Warrior Cats, to me it's like looking at xenophobic characters that say "mingling with out-groups is bad" and announcing, "I AM GOING TO GIVE THEM PHRENOLOGY BUT REAL."

Even canon is wise enough to not do this-- Graystripe shows in TPB that it's the oily diet that makes RiverClan's fur so water-resistant. WindClan's lanky legs never get more extreme than a general population trend; enough Clans have skinny warriors that you wouldn't "clock" mixed cats like Jayfeather and his siblings.

But in making those Clan differences MEGA extreme, suddenly, you have taken the irrational social bigotry and turned it into a potentially legitimate practical concern about adeptness in an environment. Not just against an individual, but against that individual's population.

As an example of what I mean, imagine if RiverClan had special, extreme adaptations to living in water. Let's say they're webbed-foot cats who can close their orifices like seals and their coat is twice as thick to keep the water out.

Outcrossing to another Clan means hybrid kittens display the opposite of hybrid vigor-- hybrid depression.

Without webbed feet, other cats are always slower swimmers than their counterparts

Hybrids have thinner fur, making them lose heat in cold water much faster, requiring them to eat more to stay healthy or get sick more often.

They may not have the same muscles to close their orifices, meaning they're more likely to damage their senses by swimming in dirty water.

You can reduce disadvantages with accessibility technology in a more advanced setting like BB, but... they are still born significantly disadvantaged, compared to a ""pure blood"" RiverClan cat.

Doing this also says something you might not have realized you've said at all; Your population is proof of evolutionary pressure. Highly specialized genetics like this (not just trends but HIGHLY specialized) implies there's been something preventing the genetics of other Clans from intermixing with RiverClan.

Which has two implications;

The hypothetical RiverClan cats achieved a positive goal by self-inflicting a selective breeding program onto themselves. (...eugenics. that's eugenics.)

The hypothetical RiverClan environment is so harsh and demanding that it will naturally, swiftly eliminate unfit phenotypes. (The river totally cancels out any secret outcrossing)

(as a side note, ppl tend to misunderstand evolution. Darwin wasn't totally right with "survival of the fittest," I prefer Bill Nye's description of "survival of the good enough." But that's a topic for another time)

Either way, I find those implications DEEPLY unfitting for BB. This is a project which has major themes of exploring bigotry, showcasing its irrationality and digging into how it's perpetuated and exploited in spite of that.

I think BB's themes have a better clarity of purpose if the physical differences between Clans are kept subtle. Never more extreme than what you'd see between ethnic groups-- with frequent reminders about how culture, environment, and politics shape behaviors more than genetics do.

Don't misunderstand me-- I'm not saying that every setting with physical differences between races/sapient species is doomed to this. I actually have good things to say about certain artworks that lean into it (Steven Universe, Beastars, Oren's Forge). I'm saying this specifically about WC and my work within that context.

If you're curious though, I actually have a loose set of "rules" in my head to try and keep my Clans' population differences within my own critiques! I've given a lot more thought to this than I've shared.

There are no "unique" Clan mutations, any trait could appear within any hypothetical kitten.

It's a matter of prevalence. ThunderClan is like 80% Sweetness Tolerant and the other clans are between like 15% - 60%. It's not a sign your mate cheated on you if your kitten likes honey.

But it is something that an accusation can be based on, if your mate is insecure or the Clan's politics are going sour. A "pedigree" RiverClan cat could still have a mane, and it can get used against them.

Some traits do help or hinder ability slightly (ex; thick tails making RiverClan cats better at steering in water), but typically not significantly. I Just Keep It Reasonable.

Most importantly, I just make an effort to have most traits be based on social behavior. Reflect enough and eventually you sorta train your brain to think differently. As a bonus, it helps with cultural worldbuilding.

Related: If you found this insightful, I also dove into fascism and TigerClan in a way that's relevant to this.

[obsob]

one small step for. kitties