#ALSO WCS AT THE END !

[skuffypaw]

please stop drawing chubby cats like this

ok, you can draw chubby cats like this, but not all the time and especially not for fat cats

tumblr isn’t letting me post more than 1 image at a time so i’ll reblog this with the ways i personally draw chubby cats

#warrior cats #wc #anyways i haven’t seen this as much on tumblr than say tiktok but i still see it #also i don’t care if you don’t draw fat cats. it’s fine #i’m not saying this is an end of the world issue #just tips for people who want / are trying to draw chubby cats

[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun

#so anon I am very sorry #Uou are going to the Shadow Realm #I am the patron saint of every woman in wc #but especially the ones in dotc #because that arc does them so fucking dirty #Wind Runner can be as mean as she wants I support her #The Settlers deserve it actually #Wind Runner #Windstar #Warrior Cats Analysis #also again everything wind runner has ever done that was mean was done worse by clear sky #but clear gets off with a slap on the wrist. IF that. #while Wind Runner gets her leg sickeningly snapped on screen as several paragraphs detail her growing fever and horrible agony #before the magic of JesusClan heals her and bestows her lives upon her #Guys getting hurt in WC: ''owie'' #Girls getting hurt in WC: (you can hear the writer breathing heavily through the 6 paragraphs of prose they use to describe her injury) #..........also. to put into perspective just how fucking bad the misogyny in this arc is; #there are only 4 female characters in Book 1 who survive to the end of Book 6. Besides some cameo cats who exist in the tribe #Wind Runner is one of them. The other three are Settlers. #I won't even say their names lol. Can you even remember who all three of the other ones are #warrior cats analysis

[shummthechumm]

ommgg fallen leaves being possessive and slightly unhinged is so good. like, over the course of holly's stay in the tunnels there are signs--but holly also refusing to move on and be with her loved ones.

then hollyleaf realizes: "wait he's a little crazy, actually" . like, an omen of what could happen to her if she doesn't leave the tunnels and confront her past mistakes.

so in the end, fallen leaves' own self-destructive behavior further pushes the first friend he's had in decades away--and hollyleaf's decision to amend for what she's done/learning to live with her identity directly contrast's fallen's.

living in denial for what, a century? just exacerbates fallen leaves' fixation on isolating himself. he refuses to move on because doing so would mean he has to acknowledge that he made a mistake in his own ambition to become a sharpclaw. him impatiently going into the tunnels for his assessment ultimately resulted in a world of pain for his mother and groupmates--which also led to them leaving the lake and going to the mountains. (you could also rewrite his backstory and he still serves as a decent parallel to holly.)

plus it's deliciously dark to have fallen want to keep holly in the tunnels so she can die (and stay dead in the eyes of her loved ones) so he doesn't have to be alone anymore. alone with your mistakes for possibly eternity OR project yourself onto the next living thing within a 5 mile radius so you can BOTH live with your mistakes. TOGETHER.

#credit to skinwretch's post that i just rb'd for inspo #cause i love unhinged fallen leaves actually #shummy screaming into the void #wc #the never-ending cycle of self-torture fallen has locked himself into #is what could happen to holly if she also chooses to never confront her past.

[marblerose-rue]

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lionkit/hollykit/jaykit

big, big plans

#my art #do not copy trace or steal #lionblaze #hollyleaf #jayfeather #warriors #warrior cats #wc art #MIXED FEELINGS ABT THIS but at the end of the day i like it . i wish i made the stars a little bit whiter but my back is super achey #I ALSO FOUND OUT THE LAST UNICORN IS ON YOUTUBE FREE WITH ADS after i got my autism diagnosis my mom was like #and i was like (TO MYSELF I DIDNT SAY IT TO HER) that #wouldve been nice to know but at the end of the day i dont think it wouldve added much bc my psychiatrist knew off the bat so AKHBFDKJHBDFH #ANYWAY ENOUGH UNICORN SPEAK they r so so small . and so so... baby #i hope the symbolism is like . there and Obvious but not the kind of 'im holding your hand and showing it to you' obvious #OH MY GOD THE TAGS GOT FUCKED UP NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #MY MOM SAID I USED TO MAKE OTHERS WATCH THE LAST UNICORN WITH ME A *LOT* IDK WHY THE TAGS GOT MIXED UP im crying profusely this is such an #expected betrayal from tumblr

[eeveekitti]

WC/RW DAY 2: SURVIVOR

their name is raincloud, a loyal warrior of the now-named drizzleclan!! funfact, the dogwood petals in their fur come from their sibling flowerheart, so they could match :3

and here are their adopted kits, puddlekit and mosskit!

another funfact..... raincloud is albino, which is how they can be pure white while their family is not

this is what they'd look like without the albino covering, a cream mackerel tabby with low white [just like flowerheart!]

#rain world #warrior cats #warriors x rainworld #wc x rw art month #rw survivor #survivor rw #the kits actually come from the pups in surv and monk's OE endings! #hence why theyre pure white [though the gene to make THEM white is obviously not albino like rain] #also i 100% forgot theres a real mosskit in warriors. oops #ANYWAYS im actually going for some genetic accuracy in my kitty cats oooooooo #monk/flowerheart is genetically a dilute ginger mackerel tabby with low white #the spots on her come from another gene breaking up the pattern but surv didnt get that #and survivor/raincloud's albinism was a random genetic mutation

[bybdolan]

MIDNIGHT SONGS AS BOOKS [1/?] inspired by LitHub and @carlytayjepsen; ”Vigilante Shit” photograph by Szilveszter Mako for Vogue Hong Kong folklore, evermore

#mine #tswiftedit #graphic design #taylorswiftedit #usercruellesummer #tsuserclaire #usercellphonehippie #useraprilh #midnightsbooks #anti hero is the shining star of this collection #and booy did i struggle with wcs but i am happy with what i ended up with #anyway. my ranking is: anti hero > vigshit > mastermind > dear reader > wcs #which funnily enough is also the order these ended up in #but the reason for that was color matching

[ja3yun]

heeseungs chapter hitting 15k as if anyone is gonna read all that 😮‍💨

#i'll shorten it as much as i can #but theres just so much plot and ends to tie up its just becoming a mountain #i'm finishing up his chapter officially today though! so i will add warnings and wc to tge masterlist #i also have a slight hangover so i might need to reedit it </3 #aj talks

[warriors-ideas]

au where instead of ivypool and hawkfrost, its dovewing and mapleshade who take their place

🍁🕊️

#warriors #warrior cats #wc #mapleshade #dovewing #ivypool #hawkfrost #warriors au #warrior cats au #wc au #au ideas #other’s ideas #ideas #i really like this idea because i feel like you could make a connection with mapleshade and dovewing since they both #get into crossclan relationships #give birth to three kits and then they have to leave their birth clans #except one turned into a tragedy and the other turned into a much happier ending #also hi folks i’m back! i don’t know how often i’ll post but here’s some in the meantime!

[a-dumbo-octopus]

Follow your heart

#Thought id do something a bit more ambitious than i usually end up doing #especially with warrior cats #this is the best lighting i could manage. i hope it's alright #also I'm back at it AGAIN with the halo imagery 😎 #warrior cats #warrior cats fanart #warriors fanart #leafpool #leafpool fanart #leafpool warrior cats #leafpool wc #octo's art #the new prophecy

[bluebellhairpin]

“All of you have become very dear to me and I do not wish to lose you.” 

Behold my TGWKTE Reader! Take her with a grain of salt though, the only part of her looks that are canon is her height and her clothing (the latter of which, really, I'm not even settled on yet lol). Really I just wanted an excuse to draw myself and Thorin together, and TGWKTE is a major self insert of mine that's been watered down so others can enjoy it too.

Also if you read the series and have been imagining our beloved reader differently, have a go at putting together some fanart too! (or even a good picrew) - There's nothing better than seeing yourself in the stories you love <3

Series Masterlist

(Colored and full-body versions below - tried some new shading today, so that was interesting <3)

#nemo draws #the hobbit #fanart #the hobbit oc #self insert #thorin oakenshield #the hobbit fanart #thorin oakenshield x reader #thorin x oc #the girl who knew the end #shoutout to anyone who recodnises her bracers lol big lotr nerd over here #anyway i'm working on a new chapter. i'm just a little stuck getting the wc up bc i need to watch tbofa again lol #also i'm not used to writing in kili's pov

[bonefall]

can fallenleaf die? if yes, does her spirit become the new god of autumn?

I'm honestly not sure yet, both because I like to keep my magical systems vague until I need them due to the "nature" of needing to fit canon's events, and also because Fallenleaf is doing something never seen before!

Right now though, I think it's working in the sense that the two of them are slowly merging. Come back in a few hundred years, and Fallenleaf and Sol are going to be essentially the same person, one personality just more dominant than the other. But it's also important to note that people change. Even gods.

Not only are they going to merge, but they're also going to grow into someone new. It'll call itself Fallenleaf, or perhaps have new titles, but it's not just going to just be one of its components. Kinda like Steven Universe, y'know? Only a lot slower, less "equal," and irreversible. Garnet isn't just Ruby + Sapphire. She is a person in and of herself.

If it's interrupted though, I think it would depend on where in that "process" it's halted. Likeeee... if you took the bone out of a stew before its marrow fully dissolved. You can't remove the broth that remains. Sol would be altered in some way, and so would Fallenleaf.

But eventually, if Fallenleaf's mortal vessel falters in several hundred years and she dies, there won't really be a Sol Soul to "trap" anymore. It's going to be part of her.

#Or maybe it'll be like a bone that gets spit out #And there will be a husk of Sol that remains #Bones: ''yeah starclan's pretty fucked up in canon and heres a bunch of fixes to address that'' #Also Bones: ''Just got done making the WC magic even MORE fucked up!'' #I always prefer keeping my magic systems open-ended though because I LIKE when magic isn't like... super predictable yknow? #That's the fun of it. Maybe Sol would get fully dissolved into Fallen and maybe it's because he doesn't entirely hate the idea of that #He is a god of change after all #But maybe Lion's Roar didn't get fully absorbed because it's not what he wanted. Maybe the God of Summer couldn't break him #It's more fun that way! #And you can say a lot more about the characters involved #Better Bones AU #Spirituality Overhauls #BB!Sol #BB!Hollyleaf #Fallenleaf #Hollyleaf's Century #Cinderheart's Travels

[jaeyunverse]

google doc was open for an hour and all i wrote was this am i approaching the end of my fanfiction era stay tuned to find out fr

#jk im not approaching the end of anything #but the writing and creativity juices just aren’t flowing 😖 #also i check the wc and why am i 9k in but jaemin and y/n aren’t even on the roommates part of the roommates to lovers fic #SLOWBURN OR WASTE OF TIME 🔥🔥🔥 stay tuned to find that out too

[marblerose-rue]

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wctober day six - family

i think abt them a normal amount

#my art #do not copy trace or steal #wctober #scourge #tiny #quince #socks #ruby #warrior cats #waca #wc art #HIII i ended up not redrawing it but i also dont want to redraw it so . better late than never AKBDFJHKGBGF #im typing this and im supposed to be leaving in 5 minutes ish to run an errand so if i miss something im sorryAHBDKJFHB #scourge is my scrunkly hes still my favorite villain after like one million years

[amethyst-halo]

no but legitimately i hope frostpaw leans on shadowsight while processing all of this and i hope shadowsight can help her realize none of this was her fault, that the things that happened to her weren’t deserved and in the process realize that for themself too

#warrior cats #warrior cats spoilers #wc spoilers #asc spoilers #asc thunder #shadowsight #frostpaw #this idea is eating my brain i want them to bond abt this so bad #they both were manipulated into believing they were speaking to starclan and a bad situation rose from it #and at the end of it all none of it was their faults but the faults of trhe manipulators #i really hope curlfeather turns out to regret what she did and apologize but also frostpaw deserves to be angry with her bc she still hurt #her. and even if frostpaw can forgive it doesn’t take away the pain she was caused by someone who should have protected her #sketch speaks

[yuridovewing]

no seriously wtf was up with that in moth flights vision. clear sky denies his kid medical help and lets him die slowly and painfully over his pride. and the other clans’s reaction is not “holy shit this guy is a monster” but “awww hes so sad :((( wtf WINDSTAR“ and moth flight is personally like “for being the saddest and goodest boy ever who did nothing wrong, please take my infant son as a replacement for the one you killed <3” like hes a cup of sugar

#look i like it when pride is a primary character flaw but i dont think they see it as a flaw. they see it as a virtue #anyways this is also more of moth being one of the worst characters in wc lmao #her children at the end feel so… objectified. theyre… ‘’gifts’’ #it almost reads like shes putting em on the market. at least from what i remember #‘’putting up my kids on ebay!! first come first serve per clan!’’

[windfur]

you know, something i’ve noticed is how a lot of people in the fandom (on tumblr anyways) seem to have really… performative? opinions on the books. like, a lot of “progressive” opinions seem to be lifted from other people who do believe and understand what they’re saying. like for example, i see people reblogging a post about the misogyny surrounding nightheart and those people will put in the tags “yeah i agree! he sucks and i hate him!” when they rb. but then i’ll see that when a new preview comes out, those same people immediately change their minds going “omg i think i love nightheart him and sunbeam are so cute together!” because they had one singular non-negative interaction together or they’ll say something like “aww i love nightheart and frostpaw they have such a good sibling relationship!” and it’s just. A very interesting phenomenon, that’s what i’ll say

#warriors #warrior cats #wc #nightheart #<- sorry to the people who do like him but im tagging him for filtering’s sake #i think i can leave sunbeam and frostpaw out since i talk more about nightheart #also time to ramble on even more in the tags! #don’t take this as me trying to sound Superior to these Plebs Who Can’t Read Books because i definitely am not trying to sound like that #i guess im just thinking about how easily people’s opinions change. but also how people can’t actually recognize the faults that are there #they seem to ingest these opinions but like #at surface level if that makes any sense. they don’t actually seem to think about what’s wrong besides what other people are saying is wrong #i just think the best advice i could give to any fan is to listen to people’s criticisms and think about why they have those criticisms #like really think about it and how that applies to other things. because the problems with warrior cats don’t start and end there