#not the warrior cats thing. the everything

[the-owl-tree]

Squirrelstar stood at the head of the clearing. The ThunderClan leader watched the RiverClan warriors through narrowed eyes. Sparkpelt was beside her with Violetshine and Emberfoot, their gazes hard, their pelts twitching angrily. Gorseclaw glared at them. “Stop judging us,” he snapped. “You would have done the same.” Sparkpelt’s tail flicked. “I never would have followed a cat like Splashtail.” “He was our leader!” Brackenpelt growled. “What else could we do?” Violetshine stared at him. “You could have stood up to him.” Minnowtail stared back. “He would have killed us! He killed Harelight just for questioning him.” “He was just one cat,” Sparkpelt argued. “You outnumbered him.” Owlnose met her angry gaze, his eyes dark. “We thought he was going to fix everything.” The tom’s pelt was ragged and bloody. “It wasn’t until later that we knew he was dangerous,” he mewed. “By then it was too late.” “We were scared,” Minnowtail added. “We’d lost Mistystar and Reedwhisker and then found out we had no connection with StarClan. And then Tigerstar brought warriors into our camp.” “We just wanted to feel safe,” Owlnose mewed. “We thought Splashtail would protect us.” “He got Tigerstar’s warriors out of the camp,” Minnowtail reminded them. “He was okay to start with.” Graysludge’s eyes glittered anxiously. “Then he started to make us train with our claws unsheathed.” “Then he killed Harelight.” Minnowtail’s mew caught in her throat. “After that, he threatened to kill the kits, and we had to protect them.” “We wanted to stop things from getting worse,” Graysludge mewed. Nightheart looked around at the RiverClan cats, who were beaten and miserable. They’d been through a nightmare. And now they were going to have to earn the respect and trust of the other Clans as though they were nothing but rogues. He felt a jab of pity. “Perhaps they really had no choice,” he told Squirrelstar. The ThunderClan leader hadn’t spoken, but her gaze was the hardest of all. She growled. “Warriors always have a choice.”

SQUIRRELSTAR CORRECT AND REAL DO NOT BUY ANY OF THESE EXCUSEEEESSS

i like whenever the book tries to interrogate its own logic, it ends up making realize that yeah. hey wait. this doesn't really make sense.

Why do they go along with it? Nightheart felt bewildered. Then he remembered Lizardtail’s words: If we don’t fight, he says he’ll kill them one by one. Surely they didn’t really believe Splashtail would kill the queen and her kits. It must be an empty threat. If they really wanted to, Splashtail’s warriors could stop him from hurting anyone. Couldn’t they?

I think they've at least done the bare minimum and given Splashtail more supporters...but this behavior tagged along with "once Splashtail is gone, RC will go back to normal" is....meh. RiverClan should've wanted this, they had enough set up in the first half to justify them wanting to show off their strength after being seen as weak for so long. The idea that RiverClan are poor hapless victims to their one leader is Not Great, this could've been a "clan culture creates and encourages cruelty against the outsider" arc but nooope, Splashtail is Just Bad.

[moomeecore]

Its officially official! I have a store now!!

Very excited to announce that I'm finally selling some of my art! People have asked about it before, and I began my "start selling art online" project in....early 2022. Its taken a while....

My store includes prints, magnets, and stickers!

I built my own site, partially because I just wanted a website anyway, so I'd have a portfolio to showcase my art - since previously the only place I had my art online was my tumblr (not great for showing real life people) and partially because etsy pissed me off when i tried to use it

Check out my store here!!

[lesbikill]

being so honest right now heathertail should’ve taken every plotline given to harestar and then built on them & it’s a disservice to the po3-oots arcs that she didn’t. she has a disregard for the parts of the code she disagrees with, and she’s been turned away by a member of the three as a result, first with compassion but then viciously, with him swearing her as his enemy and threatening her straight after nearly murdering her mentor. he comes close to killing her and the book tells us she *knows* it.

seeing the dark forest pick up on this rivalry, on the way she’s been unfairly treated by lionblaze, and taking advantage of it would have been really interesting. it would have given way more set-up to her relationship with breezepelt and given her more agency in it then being the wife who fixes him later on. it would’ve given her an arc of her own. it would have given her a long-lasting and present relationship with lionblaze, making his chapters significantly stronger. seeing this rebellious little apprentice go from a friendly presence to a serious threat created by the flaws of the main character & the clan system would be fun.

and then eventually, after lionblaze has lost his powers and is struggling, we would see heathertail grow behind the scenes and eventually ascend to leadership of windclan. maybe they would reconcile, maybe they would remain a bitter reminder to each other of the past and what could have been, of childhood friendship tarnished with clan patriotism and needless violence. who knows. but id love to read about it.

[thewisestdino]

Thank you to this funky cat series for getting me into art!! I genuinely don’t know where I would be without these guys :o

Happy 20th birthday  🥳

[marblerose-rue]

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are you gonna start climbing, or what? / needletail

[crow-quet]

been seeing these little design challenges on twitter re: warrior cats so i decided to try my hand at it with the tigerclones !!! :3

[cacw]

you know i still love you right

[goofy-clan]

The lamb who herds the sheep.

[dustwatcher]

[ID: An image of a black and white cat with yellow eyes on a monochrome background. The right half of the cat's face is covered by a black and white moon, which has some craters abstracted to look like a feline. The cat's right eye is visible through the moon, and this pupil is stylized to appear like a simple sun or compass. The background of the image is also black, with swirling white lines framing the cat, moon, and a diamond-shaped star in the lower left of the image. /End ID.]

moonpaw???

[museofthepyre]

your art really fits your appearance... are you the real life sydney sargent? i'd be freaking out if you were sydney sargent ahh

Well, yes.

I could explain my multi-year spanning selfhood/ ID situation in depth… buuuut we would be here for hours. Short answer for all intents and purposes is: yes.

[camellcat]

it's irritatingly funny that I can find books for almost any other series like it's nothing and yet somehow doctor who continues to evade me. I just. can't??? none of my usual sites have them, and looking online brings me nothing, and I ??? where are they ?????

[the-owl-tree]

leafpool my friend leafpool 👉👈

do you think leafpool resents spottedleaf after everything that happened

[guromaws]

(id in alt - do not repost - Addersnap: he/him)

"I'm not a good person I'm sure you're not surprised It must be pouring out my sweat glands It must be someplace in my eyes"

"I'm not a good person" - Pat the Bunny

[aspenicus-is-learning]

anybody else feel underqualified to like the things they like?

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

sandpaw gets adopted by rusty's housefolk before rusty decides to join thunderclan au

[marblerose-rue]

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if only / snowkit and speckletail