#naming your warriors

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

This is my aunt's cat, Apis! She has 2 kittens here because this is the only photo I have of her lol.

I am Swedish and Apa is Monkey and the -is suffix is kinda like adding an y at the end of a word to make it cute (doggy, Foxy, Kitty)

She has had like a billion litters of kits and is like 13 years old. Very kind and sweet, an inside/outside cat but is also really cool. Once we found a claw in my dog (who hates cats) nose because she bothered Apis. She cuddled my hand even though I was like right by her kits, so very trusting to humans.

Apis -> Siltbrook

Role: Queen (permanent)

Siltbrook, while nowadays prickly with most cats, is gentle as a feather with the clan's kits. Although she may not show it most of the time, she trusts all of her clanmates as if they were her family. She chose to stay in the nursery permanently after she had her second litter, as she figured it would be a lot more convenient for her. She's old enough to be an elder, but refused to retire, even when the leader gently encouraged her to take even just a little break from watching over the clan's kits. She says that she would 'sooner stick her head in a badger's den' than retire. Her favorite prey is newts!

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

Volerunner

Rank: Warrior

hey, can my cat stay on your blog for a little while?

i'm going out of town for the night and could use someone to watch her

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

My mom's cat named slash and his sister elvira

Slash -> Orangewhisker

Rank: Warrior

Orangewhisker is maybe not the brightest of warriors, but he gets the job done okay. He is surprisingly good at fighting. One of his favorite past-times is to help Tansylight gather herbs, even though he almost always gets the wrong ones. Tansylight seems to appreciate the help anyways. His favorite prey is gophers!

Elvira -> Tansylight

Rank: Medicine cat

Tansylight is a social medicine cat, and likes to spend time around her clanmates more than anything. She always brings someone to help her herb gather, not because she needs the help, but because she'll explode if she isn't around others for as long as it takes to gather herbs. She'll often try to make small talk with her patients, which doesn't always go well, especially if their ailments are more serious... her favorite prey is mockingbirds!

Bonus doodle!!! (Click for better quality)

[zillychu]

"hey can you draw TTB fam as cats" <- Kei unaware I'm about to be unwell for 2 nights

extras under the cut!

[py-dreamer]

@furornocturna, @swkbiggestdefender

So about that post about Mac being down bad for wukong...

So I noticed one of my most popular posts is hating on the half fried KFC so here we go again!

I do agree that a lot of the time, peeps underestimate just how down bad Mac is for the king, glad to see the bird brain is good for something and calling him out on it

So here's a little something for those who enjoy Macadoodle simping caring for once

Also I learned how to use gaussian blurs! Nice!

(And yes I did use the will smith meme format)

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

Marigoldkit(flight)

Rank: Kit (future Warrior Apprentice)

[demaparbat-hp]

Oh, Lala...

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

My round son boy, Dirtbean, aka Dirt/Ryan Lewis

Dirt/Dirtbean/Ryan Lewis -> Dockpelt

Rank: Warrior

Dockpelt is often described by his clanmates as having 'one paw in starclan', due to the fact that he is 1) Usually spacing out, and 2) Due to this spacing out, he's come close to death way too many times. Half of the time, he doesn't even notice until he's told by a clanmate after the fact. His favorite task is to help the medicine cats gather herbs, since it doesn't require too much fast-paced thinking, and he enjoys the repetitive nature of the task. He simply gets to pick plants out of the ground, one after another, after another...

Defying his clanmate's initial impressions of him, he's quite good at coming up with practical solutions to clan problems. He's quite resourceful, in the way that he knows how to use nature's resources in a way to help the clan. Using dried mud to reinforce den walls, finding a way to weave together branches in a way that's most secure, etc. His favorite prey is shrews!

[phoenix-rises-again]

We went from “Bury Your Gays” to “Just Cancel the Show Instead” real quick and I honestly can’t say which is fucking worse at this point.

Honestly, finally giving the queer community good, wholesome, and non-toxic content only to have it ripped away for no articulable reason (WN has the highest critic score of any Netflix show ever) is feeling worse than outright killing queer characters.

At least we knew not to get attached when they were shooting us.

Disrespectfully, fuck you, Netflix.

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

Since I've already done Pangur, I have to do these two. It's an obligation.

Grim -> Cocoaflower

Rank: Mediator

Belphegor -> Adderpaw(bounce)

Rank: Warrior Apprentice

Mentor: Ferretslink/Pangur

watching him climb.....

[airocats]

[starry-bi-sky]

okay a few more danyal al ghul au memes because i think they're funny to make. with bonus yaelokre danyal memes!

yaelokre! danyal 🤝 threes! danyal: being five years older than damian

yaelokre danyal comes from my oneshot right here. however, i would frankly recommend reading the version i put on ao3 because it's been edited and includes more content! shout out to my boy, he's got amnesia </3

Do i think that the LOA has technology in it? Absolutely I do. LED lights but in 3000k warm white instead of the jarring bright sterile white, if they've got glass windows they're those solar panel glass panes my college natural science building uses that detects sunlight position, which in term controls the lights, which in turn saves energy. Amber lights for outside, solar panels. Just. anything environmentally sound and friendly, they've got it, they use it.

Do i think they've got computers and tvs lying around for casual recreational use? ....that i'm not so sure about. For this au? I'm gonna say nooooottt really. That stuff is typically reserved for like, mission planning, debriefing, research, etc. Frankly danny probably does know how to use a computer, however i thought it was funny if he didn't. so the meme is staying in lmao.

If they're not training, they've probably like, got a greenhouse or two somewhere on base they can help with. The LoA's whole thing is balance, harmony, restoring the natural world with extreme environmentalism. All that jazz. Probably plenty of ponds, recreational areas outside, gardens, just, stuff to do that's not technology based. My most basic understanding is that these people are the world's deadliest hippies. They can't be training all the time, that's neither good for morale nor for their bodies, so when they're not training... they're off doing shit. If Ras has kept this thing running for thousands of years then it’s gotta be pretty lit enough that nobody’s revolted lmao.

[what-if-it-was-a-warrior-cat]

Eclipsestar(tuft)

Role: Leader

Special kitty needs a special role!!

[aerithisms]

i think my problem with this dw season arc accusing the audience of fanbrain for theorising about ruby is that it both feels deceitful and isn't actually that compelling from a character perspective. the season goes out of its way to build up supernatural mystery around ruby and even invokes susan more heavily than ever before in a way that is deliberately trying to get the audience to make those connections. and then it turns around and says you stupid idiot why would you ever try to connect these dots i have deliberately tried to get you to connect.

building up a mystery only for the character to be ordinary is an impossible girl arc redux only this time accusing the viewer of failing to see the humanity of the companion, whereas the impossible girl arc was turning that accusation on the doctor. 7b didn't really blame the audience for viewing clara as a puzzle and in fact several times spells out the fact that clara is perfectly ordinary before the big reveal to give the audience a chance to catch on. as 7b goes on, instead of laying the mystery on thicker, the audience just gets more and more affirmations that clara is a normal human being (rings of akhaten, journey to the centre of the tardis, hide). i found this approach compelling because it was rooted in character, focusing on the doctor's disconnection from humanity/the gendered dynamic of a man treating a woman as his manic pixie mystery to pull him out of grief. s14's meta approach of accusing the viewer feels both unfair, given it has deliberately led the viewer towards theorising, and personally less compelling to me because it wasn't tied into character in any way.

the thing about rey's parentage in tlj is that the reason rian johnson chose to go for that reveal was that it was the only answer that was interesting. none of the theories - rey is a skywalker, rey is a kenobi, and even the eventually canonical rey is a palpatine - were interesting or satisfying because they brought nothing compelling to the table for the story being told. the only satisfaction to be gained from those answers was a fanbrained "omg rey is important because she's related to that guy from the other movie." on top of that, rey desperately wants her parents to have been important, to give her life and her abandonment some kind of significance. so them being ordinary provided the most compelling trajectory for her character because it was the thing she least wanted to hear. it forced her to do the most introspection and growth, as well as tying into the film's themes about the capacity of ordinary people to be special. it wasn't just a choice made to "gotcha" the viewer, it was rooted in character.

i don't think ruby's mother being ordinary accomplishes the same thing. by invoking susan, s14 is engaging with the most egregious example of the doctor's streak of abandonment, which has potential to be very compelling in relation to ruby (and now also the doctor's) own abandonment issues. theories that ruby might be susan, or be somehow related to susan, or somehow related to the doctor, weren't just fanbrained "omg she's related to that guy i know from the classic series." they were theories genuinely rooted in character and the potential to explore both the doctor and ruby's issues with abandonment. and this is something the show willingly led fans towards by invoking susan so much in the first place. so for the show to turn around and act like they were shallow out of nowhere ideas when they were not shallow and were based on potential character conflicts the show itself deliberately invoked, feels misguided.

as well as that, ruby's mother being ordinary does not require that same growth from ruby as it did for rey because it is exactly what ruby wanted to hear. she never wanted her mother to be important, she just wanted to know who her mother was and have a connection with her. so finding out she was a normal woman who still loves her and wants to be a part of her life is everything she's ever wanted. it doesn't introduce interesting conflict for her the way rey's parents being ordinary did for her, because they were written as different characters with different hangups over their abandonment.

tl;dr i don't necessarily dislike ruby's mother being ordinary as an idea but compared to the things it was inspired by - 7b and star wars - it is not nearly as compelling in terms of how it relates to the characters or themes. and the meta angle, while conceptually interesting, doesn't quite work for me because it feels a little manipulative of the audience.

[fallenclan]

pinefrost and dawnshine voted world's most autistic nephew and uncle

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[spinostarz]

i believe everyone should have a fursona, everyone should have a warrior cats clan they think theyd belong to, and everyone should assign themself a wings of fire tribe