#patfw asphodelpaw

[marimichae]

TW BLOOD AND GORE

@barrenclan

[wetwaspwednesday]

Shoutout to Raz 'The Horrors' Merry for making me feel genuine anguish over warrior cats for the first time since like middle school !!!

Blood / Gore ⚠️

[barrenclan]

"The Vaster World"

Well! This is it! The very last epilogue of "Pinepaw and the Forgotten World"!

This epilogue in particular took me awhile to write, because I had to get it exactly how I wanted. Pinewing and Cormorantleaf's relationship is one of the main focuses of the story, and I really felt I needed to explore it the way it deserved. Especially important to me was showing that despite how much they love each other, there's still a ton of baggage and difficulities they needed to work out. I honestly think it would be unrealistic for two characters with so much trauma to just skip off happily together, but I also wanted to emphasize how they could still reconcile in the end. Not all relationships work out, but Pinewing and Cormorantleaf both felt that the other was extremely important to them, and the relationship was something they both wanted. So they were willing to put in the work of building it back up.

I had a ton of fun drawing older Pinewing and Cormorantleaf. I started doodling Pinewing with full facial hair something like a year ago, and I've been so desperate to finally get it into the comic since. It feels so right for him, like his perfect final form. After a life full of pressure and difficulty Pinewing just wants to be a happy old man who gets to kiss his husband every day, and sometimes profesy the future writ flesh. Goodbye, my little blue cat; I'm gonna miss you.

The title of this epilogue comes from "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett: "They would survive, but they would not know how to swim downstream, to the vaster world of the ocean.”

In the end, the whole project wraps up at 64,501 words, 370 pages, and two and a half years of production time. I started this project expecting it to be a minor thing I occasionally drew on the side, something a few people might find interesting. The enormously positive response has absolutely blown me away and continues to do so, and I am forever so grateful that thousands of people can enjoy and meaningfully relate to this story.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has commented, shared, reblogged, theorized, made fanart, made fanfiction, told their friends, liked it, or just read it at all. Though I won't go into the specific details, PATFW is an extremely personal and cathartic creation of mine, so the fact that many of you have also told me that it connected with you on an emotional level is genuinely heart-touching. I appreciate all your readership through these years. It means a lot.

-Raz

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[spotfurfan]

holland, 1945

@barrenclan hi again

[mosshugs-art]

When I remember, I dismember. ---------------------- PATFW nation how we feelin'? @barrenclan

[archiepelago]

- Slay the Princess

@barrenclan

[bindibites]

Sleep in the warm embrace of the sun, little flower.

when you wake up, it’ll all have been a bad dream.

@barrenclan

[lordchickooon]

me when characters fall victim to their environment and lose their sense of selves to the violence in them that feels inherent (they have permanently marked themselves and this is a road they cannot turn back on) @barrenclan

[oriolepaw]

The only girl I’ve ever loved

Was born with roses in her eyes

Asphodelpaw my muse

@barrenclan

[beestripe-and-spines]

your end

my end

@barrenclan

[marimichae]

that image would never stop haunting me ( @barrenclan )

[samstarium]

asphodelpaw aroace icons from patfw (4/?)

[pasturelamb]

Anybody recognize the pattern in the background?

@barrenclan

[barrenclan]

"Farewell, and I Love You"

Here were are; the last proper issue of Pinepaw and the Forgotten World. As I've said before, I have a series of ten epilogues planned which will wrap up all of the main characters' lives, so the comic is not quite done yet. Hence I'll save all the rambly, sappy stuff for that final epilogue.

The epilogues will begin posting on January 7th, and will post twice-weekly on Tuesday and Friday until they're finished. The first three are already available on my Patreon if you're interested.

For now, I just want to say - thank you so much to everyone who has read and shared my comic. It's meant a lot to me. I hope you all liked it.

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[pastamurdercats]

@barrenclan

I DREW THE AROACES!!

Thrasher just reminds me of those videos that are just "How I overcame my aphobia and realised I'm ace in the process" except he never gets that character growth.

Egrettail is teaching her newly adopted child that killing is okay if it is Thrasher

[lunefalls]

pine

attack on @barrenclan :3c

i was very much listening to anti-eulogy by hail the sun on loop while drawing this, yes

anyway, wanna hear the funny story of how i messed up rainhaze's pattern and scars by drawing the wrong side and went back to fix of everything?