#silverfeather

[hunterbahamut]

Revisiting an old character that has a...complicated history with me. I’m not sure how much I'm ready or willing to reveal at this moment, so I’m just going to share the art at least.  Original art was done back in 2010.. His last name was Silverfeather, though that may change now but I’m not sure yet.

[fontyk]

The feather blessings continue with a Tuesday feather greeting me on the way to the office this morning. #featherdreaming #silverfeather #spiritguides #blessings #changes #peace #signs 🪶 https://www.instagram.com/p/Co65MEap3gD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kozzax-draws]

One man. Many faces.

[The many rens missing from this are casualties of 'i ran out of room for more dogs']

[wr3n-th3-4n1m4t0r]

help i can’t stop drawing this stupid template 😭

[shiroselia]

Equestrian festival cancelled I’m now out of horses to level on my main (a sentence I haven’t been able to say for almost a year because I haven’t been here since June 2022 because we all know that I was Beefing with this game July forward until Basically this week)

[blitzbabysits]

Huh?

Wait, how??-

Uh Blitzi Is tinks da oder cargibers ars gunna needs somes hewps. Somebodys gabe da oder liddles enewgy dwinks & sents dem to cweate caos 4s da caregibers!

-🍪🍫💙

Oh no-

Aye!

@duckciferthecg , @cannibal-auntie , @cg-sir-pentious , and any other caregiver that needs help, ya can send some kiddos my way ^^

[lampette]

VERY rough sketch for a potential story concept: a 'knight slaying dragon' tale set in the Cretaceous period. Silverfeather, a Deinonychus, lives in a lush valley where a giant pterosaur that claims the sun god's incarnation demands tribute in the form of young and prey. She goes on a quest to slay the dragon after her mate and chicks are killed by him. Along the way she meets all sorts of interesting characters.

The tone is that of a dark, mystical fantasy, inspired by stuff like The Secret of NIMH, Warrior Cats, Berserk, and Primal.

[themissinglynx]

I will say that Daisy named her kittens before joining the Clans, so Mousewhisker arrived as Mouse before they just slapped a -kit on him and called it a day.

A different situation just happened now where Fernstripe of Windclan joined Thunderclan and Fernsong is still kicking. The same as that situation happened back in TPB where Graystripe joined Riverclan while Graypool was right there.

Cats who dance on the edge of this are a bunch of Riverclan cats: Mossyfoot and Mosspelt were both alive in OotS, and more recently Mistystar and Mistpaw were both alive at the same time. Not quite the same, but enough to be confusing.

Also in AVOS, there were two Mintfurs kicking around at the same time; Mintfur daughter of Petalnose of Skyclan, and Mintfur the conspicuously absent probably-mate of Icewing. If Robinwing of Windclan existed beyond the allegiances of Dawn, she might've been able to meet Robinwing of Riverclan an arc or two later.

I'll start over lol, legacy naming can be fine if done well but i don't think it has. Hollytuft + Sibs appeared to us as adults so we don't get to know about them. Cinderheart was cute until we had the whole "shes actually cinderpelt lmao" moment. The two Mouses and Leafs just had no excuse to be there. And if I was Ivypool and my kid died I would NOT want some random cat immediately naming their daughter after her. Isn't that kind of traumatizing? I got rid of all legacy namings that occur -

in cats younger than Holly in my AVOS/TBC allegiances and in my rewriting exercise I'm making Sparkpaw just be really obsessed with being Firestar's kin so her eventual naming of Flamekit makes a bit more sense. At least I can excuse 4 Robinwings to the Erin's forgetting they all existing(not a valid excuse tho imo), having two Frecklewishes is just insane. Was literally nothing else an option? Frecklesong, Freckletuft, Frecklemint? I've also noticed stuff from the beginning like having a semi - prominent Ashfur in Into The Wild's ShadowClan then immediately having Ashkit/(fur) in Fire and Ice's ThunderClan. At the very least, literary-wise, it feels like too much repeating too quickly. I'm not against two Bobs existing at the same time but still…I've actually put down a good fic because they named literally everyone in TC after a dead cat and I got annoyed lol. Names were like, Ferndust Bluestorm Frostheart etc

TV Tropes has a trope relevant to this: One-Steve Limit. While it's very common for people to share names in the real world, in fiction it's avoided to make things easier on your readers/viewers and prevent repetitiveness. The point of not sharing names is for each character to stand out on their own; often when there are multiples of one name (for example, Heather in "Heathers"), there's a reason to it, usually to mock the hivemind-nature of the characters or establish a theme of putting people in boxes they can't escape from (such as in Steven Universe where every gem of one type shares the same name and remains stuck in one role for their entire existence).

In the case of Warriors, I feel that "rule" rings truest. To be entirely fair to the writers, they have hundreds of characters to name, most of them never even showing up in the books beyond being mentioned in the allegiances. A prefix or suffix is going to appear multiple times - that's just unavoidable, especially if you have rules in place for what names are allowed that limits your options. I can't blame them for that issue coming up a few times accidentally.

What I can blame them for is deliberately using names that have important characters attached to them barely a generation later. In a setting where you have to keep track of every name, even as a reader, it's going to cause nothing but trouble if Greystripe dies and in the next book there's a Greykit in the very same Clan. It creates a constant stream of Grey-, which can accidentally confuse readers, or at the very least trip them up for a few seconds - something you DO NOT want in a story, especially one aimed at kids, where things need to be clear and concise.

[brightlycloudy]

Silverfeather reflects on a moment from her past

[corvuskcorvus]

AH. I FINISHED THE ARTWORK FOR MY FIRST CLAN OF CATS.

Heres the entirety of the Colony of Thunder Strike! A group of cats from a warrior cats fanfic im working on!!!!!

under the. Read more thing

Theres a bunch of them.. so this is like. part1.

I did not know about the image limit......

So i will need to do like 4 posts for all of them. Pretty big clans huh.

Leader of TS colony, Shiningstar

Deputy Nightstalk

Healer (<-medcat) Crowsong

Healer's app Logpaw

Commander (<- theres a bunch of explaining but theyre basically deputy number2) Silverfeather

Patroller (<- warrior that does patrols) Wolfhowl

Patroller Blazespot

Patroller Curlberry

Patroller Lightwing

Patroller Sparrowclaw

[trainerlynda]

https://www.tumblr.com/trainerlynda/738816484492640256/maxie-and-silverfeathers-redheads-wanted-by-the

OH and they both have connections to warm colored legendaries.

FUCK

THE

HELL

OFF-

[strelles-universe]

Rogue Speech - the Sky/Skulk Pidgin

One of the most common trade-speaks used before the Great Connection and one of the few tongues that intriguingly remained un-touched by the Connection, Rogue-Speech is the pidgin created between the Sky Kingdoms and the Skulks near them. With the forest clans being even more isolationist in the past (often refusing business with non-cats before the connection) and the tribes living on parts of the mountains that are difficult to reach (and often had isolation tendencies themselves); the Skies were the near sole progenitors of feline-speech within the pidgin. 

Being that this variant of trade-speech originated from the Rising Moon and the Old Kingdom of the Shining Sun, much of the canine influence came of the Silverfeathers skulk. The modern version has long since created a minor dialectal difference of Eastern vs. Western where the Western version of the tongue contains more vocabulary and quirks from the Grand Packs while the Eastern holds the Skulks’ influence.

The sounds and the written expressions of them adhere closest to Sivake as it was the skies who reached out first and held onto the information though it was the Skulks who introduced the concept of formal writing to them. Here are the consonants;

And the standard vowels;

As is standard for any pidgin, the hardest sound clusters from both languages were dropped. Because I’m still a bit new at this, I’m choosing to make that mean that the sounds that are either forbidden or are very different from the others are barred.

Phonetic Summary

Onset: m n p t k b d g h l ch sh f v s z x y ny

L Clusters: nl pl ml tl sl hl shl

K Clusters: nk mk lk pk sk

R Clusters: dr vr gr nr kr fr shr xr pr br lr

Nucleus: a e i o u

Coda: l n k sh s v g

A Cluster: aa ao

U Cluster: ue ua uo

I Cluster: ia

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Part 2: Noun Class

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Being that the pidgin is built from languages that all have noun classes, some are kept in this simplified version of it; the semi-animate is dropped from the skulks’ language, migrating everything important into the main two categories of animate and inanimate.

The markers from Sivake are used to confirm or deny animacy of a noun.

Animate - (i)he(m)

Inanimate - (i)hi(m)

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Part 3: Grammatical Number

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The paucal wasn’t necessary for understandings to be made and it was easier to merely convey “one of a thing” vs. “many of a thing” before fluid communication was developed and so; only a singular/plural distinction exists now.

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Part 4: Tense, Aspect and Mood

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As talks became more fluid and grammar straightened out, tense and aspect became to be addressed within the pidgin. For once, it is the kingdoms whose system is a tad simpler; having mostly only a past/non-past distinction with one additional tense commonly called the historical added to it. One the skulks’ side of things, not only do they have a recent and distal past tense but they also have one dedicated to the future.

When the tenses were straightened out; the language adopted three tenses - past, present and future with both languages dropping their distal tenses. 

As for the aspects, the kingdoms gracefully traded their iterative aspect (which they use more or less to mean “again” or “a lot”) for the skulks’ habitual while also retaining their momentane aspect. On the skulks’ end, they dropped their resumptive aspect.

It’s not a complex system - which is the goal - but the momentane is important to me. Anyway, let’s borrow sky-word for “to talk.”

And for my own entertainment, here’s the skulk’s word for “to talk, speak” in the chart.

Tacking onwards, the imperative mood is kept from Sivake -ro. 

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Part 5: Pronouns

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This is where the most simplification comes in. The Skies were made to relinquish their grasp on their dependent pronouns; sticking only to the independent forms to smooth out communication. In addition; the divine pronouns never made to this pidgin as there was never any reason to use it in casual conversation and would only serve to make future communication more confusion and difficult if they were forcefully inserted. On top of that; Sivake also gave up their paucal pronouns to match the fact that they dropped it as a grammatical number leaving a rather concise handful of pronouns as a base:

The only moderately complex thing about this wonderfully concise collection of pronouns is that the skulks’ inclusion of animacy on their own pronouns invaded these. When not speaking in first person, it’s common for the animacy agreement markers to be tagged to the ends of pronouns. While not exactly expected for second person, it’s considered mandatory on third-person pronouns.

Animate Second | Yahe, Hihe

Inanimate Second | Yahi, Hihi

Animate Third | Xihe, Elihe

Inanimate Third | Xihi, Elihi

The Skies weren’t the only ones making sacrifices regarding their referrals to others - the titles of the Skulks were imported but they were drastically condensed with some of their sounds changed to better fit the current sound-bank.

Haltun - leader, king/queen, crest

Fetun - deputy, prince/princess

Kel - hunter

Vera - healer

Tora - fighter, gladiator

Keshuma - matron, patron, nurse

Kiva - kit, youngling

Iten - elder

The speakers of the Skies are known to modify these terms with gender based attachments to add specification.

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Part 6: Articles and Demonstratives

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The articles and demonstratives are exempt from noun class agreement. The articles follow the Sky Kingdom’s association with only having a definite articles while leaving any indefinite articles unmarked.

Singular Definite - Ta

Plural Definite - Ba

The demonstratives on the other hand come from Kujhikoslan which has only a near/far distinction.

Near Demonstrative - Yel

Far Demonstrative - Sul

Final Note

Given that a vast majority of the talking was done by the Skies, the majority of the vocabulary for this pidgin turned creole is from Sivake albeit sometimes important words were replaced by the Kujhikoslan words when the Sky translation left them as unimportant. This is mostly apparent in words for birds and things related to them given their spiritual significance in the religion of the marrowed skulks.

[officialeoj]

Case 2 Director's Commentary Finale

It's time for the final Director's Commentary of Case 2! Episode 9 of Case 2 will feature the likes of:

TheAljavis (Creator)

Jarvy Jared (Team Leader of Musicians & PR + Writer)

Overgrowth (VA of Fair Devotion and Sugar Stamp)

Pretty-Pegasus-Wings (VA of Coco, DT, and Zecora)

SilverFeathers (VA for Scoots & Team Lead of Background Artists)

Brunosky (Team Lead for Video Editors)

Pat Brown (Video Editor)

James (Writer)

You can check it out here now that the livestream is over! Be sure to have a packet of tissues with you before watching, cuz this is gonna be a wild ride!

[wr3n-th3-4n1m4t0r]

aita for baking my dead mate (34m) into a cookie because i miss him

(chen by @flapcakess)

[shiroselia]

Claudine Silverfeather, 2021 vs 2023 (My lifetime alt, had since 2021)

Amanda Silverlord, 2021 vs 2023 (My lifetime main, had since 2011)

[sekkaifractures]

Celestial Nyima

Nyima is a huge stately lad owned by Silverfeather! His power lies in creating scorching beams of sunlight to absolutely toast anything that’s causing trouble

- Balu