#pinepaw and the forgotten world

[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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[nanistar]

congrats on a great comic!!! @barrenclan @razmerry what a blast. i can't believe they went to visit saltburn. wow and they both have mullets

(+something i drew a year ago but apparently never posted to tumblr?! lol)

[denverdust]

blackmallowegret this is so them :,)

[leahk76]

PATFW is over now and I couldn't resist to draw a little sketch of old Pinewing. And Pinepaw for compare. My favourite character Asphodelshine for sure, but his design just spokes to me.

I been seeing a lot of PATFW content last year, but for some reason I only decided to check it out when almost all issues were done? And I still baffled by it, it's amaze me that's whole concept of warriors and clans still can manage such interesting themes and topics. And style for issues is genius in it simplicity, finally something that you can believe is possible to do in spare time and finish eventually.

So yeah, thanks to @barrenclan for great comic, I enjoyed it more than I ever could have expected!

[spotfurfan]

me vs the 3 minute long cormorantpaw animatic in my head

@barrenclan

[watchlpspopular]

it's a dead man's party who could ask for more?

[please rb!]

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fanart for @razmerry 's comic, @barrenclan, which literally just keeps getting better with every issue

shoutout to my girlfriend @ hippiedogs for helping with inks bc my wrist hurt !!! she is not mentioned bc im still showing her the comic so i dont want her to get spoilered ahah

[juniipaws]

quick pinepaw sketch i did on my phone :3

the saddest cat ever

@barrenclan

[newtid]

and I screamed.

started scribbling immediately after i read the latest issue oh my god

featuring pinepaw from 'Pinepaw and the Forgotten World' by @barrenclan

[maademadeer]

meet the grahams

for @barrenclan

[moonlit-mask]

defiance on june 1st @barrenclan

[lynxbriight]

Great character arc. Loved the murderous gay deer part. Deer are much more carnivorous than most people think, they’ll often eat baby birds. Can’t blame them, I myself enjoy snatching up a baby chickadee every now and then. Protein.

@barrenclan, I love this man so I made him a small Chinese water deer. But worry you not! He can still get some action with those teeth. 

[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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[restless-sea-dry-stalks]

but I told you

there are parts you’ll never see

and they’re aligning in the stars

- crywolf, "far light"

"Pinepaw and the Forgotten World" @barrenclan

[aleadom]

”You are the darkness before the storm.”

Fanart for @barrenclan of Pinepaw! I have been following the comic since the beginning and absolutely adore it, all the characters are so well written imo and the way its formatted is super inspiring

[mosshugs-art]

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

[spotfurfan]

holland, 1945

@barrenclan hi again