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sent kate this post and she said it was lovely loll

Kate Cary when writing The First Battle

#wc #fr sometimes i think i overestimated how good warriors writing was when i was a kid #then i see this and im like yeah no this was fr

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fyi pompompurin has a canon crush on snoopy (bi icon status?)

#pompompurin

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hey these r open bc i need to pay for a plane ticket lol. pls dm if interested! reblogs appreciated

(edited to include my other options)

#wc #warriors #commissions open

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mm hello are u open for comms? if yes could you please tell me where your comm info is available? your art is awesome :3

hi!! thank you!! yes i have commissions passively open rn. here's the sheet: link

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not to be dramatic but you should be the warrior cats official cover artist. your art is beyond amazing but it’s also dynamic, interesting, BEAUTIFUL, and is just generally way more thoughtful and well done lol.

thank you so so so much that is so so so kind :)))))))) i wish i could fr.

#ask

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[image description: digital art cover for ivypool's heart. text: warriors, below says "ivypool's heart" and the bottom text reads "Erin Hunter #1 New York Times Bestselling Author." The image is a silver tabby cat with white fur and dark blue eyes. the cat looks very tired and very scarred. the background is a dark purple and blue night sky]

did my own ivypools heart :) tried to make her look a lil old, super scarred, and super tired.

#wc #warriors #ivypool #ivypool's heart

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:)

dropping some collab adopts i did with the lovely @magic-pistachio tonight on deviantart :)

#blessed be #incredible colors :) #i love just making lineart n poses < 3333

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stay tuned <3333

dropping some collab adopts i did with the lovely @magic-pistachio tonight on deviantart :)

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all who sleep below

#stunning

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[image description: two cartoon-style cats standing next to each other. one is an angry-looking fluffy red tabby, and the right is a kind-looking silver tabby with white]

drawing ocs u had since u were 16 >>>>>>>>

(plus an illustration i did of them when i was 19 below) (i am 23 now)

[image description: a drawing of the same two characters, where the silver tabby is lying on top of the red tabby with a silly expression on her face]

#wc #why does the older one look better

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(image description: a doodle sketch of ivypool of the warrior cats universe. it is just her face and she has a pessimistic expression)

ivypool wip. also if i opened commissions again would anyone be incherested (eye emoji)

#wc #warriors #ivypool

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I'm even sort of named after Firestar, which is weird, because I'm not at all fire-colored.

#stunning

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[digital painting of a fluffy ginger tabby cat with green eyes, tufted ears, and a white spot on her forehead. the drawing is from her torso above. the background is a starry galaxy. at the top reads title text: WARRIORS, subtitle text: SUPER EDITION, and underneath SQUIRRELFLIGHT'S HOPE]

squirrelflight's hope cover after a year hiatus

#wc #warriors #squirrelflight #squirrelflight's hope

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[image description: the same ginger tabby cat drawing but there is more fur detail and the background is a galaxy with many stars]

squirrel continued

[image description: a realistic-style sketch drawing of a cat with fluffy fur, tabby markings, and a white spot on its forehead]

squilf sketch

concept: i never color my paintings and someone else just does it or gives me a palette <3

#wc

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[image description: realistic painting of ginger tabby cat with green eyes and long fur]

continuing squirrelflight drawing <3 i get home home in a month and can start up some more commissions again for my transitionary period into a new job so if youre interested in a spot stay tuned!

[image description: a realistic-style sketch drawing of a cat with fluffy fur, tabby markings, and a white spot on its forehead]

squilf sketch

concept: i never color my paintings and someone else just does it or gives me a palette <3

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[image description: a realistic-style sketch drawing of a cat with fluffy fur, tabby markings, and a white spot on its forehead]

squilf sketch

concept: i never color my paintings and someone else just does it or gives me a palette <3

#squirrelflight #squilf

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incoming random text post about my dog's loss from afar.

i have been very privileged in the past to do a lot of pet memorial art. like, painting commissions of past animals. i always take it really seriously. and every client i've had has been so kind about it--they readily send me so many pictures if they have them, describe the tiny details in their appearances and nuances to their expressions. after i finish up, those clients are also always the most emphatically happy and appreciative ones, to which i always remind them that i so enjoy the work they gave me the opportunity to do.

i knew of grief for pets before, but not so rawly and recently. as a middle schooler, my principal's dog, and one of my closest friends at the time, died. i remember crying awfully, mourning something i can't really connect with anymore. and then my parakeet died; i cared for him as deeply as a nine-year-old would for a bird that wouldn't stand on your finger.

but as well as those pets, i had another. at first a long-awaited puppy for my dog-obsessed self, and then the steady curly-haired family boy who'd sometimes ignore you unless you had food, but whine if you weren't in the same room as him. he saw me through middle school, then high school, then college; steadfastly sleeping on the couch next to me, or looking out the window for me when i was away. he was a shaggy-haired puppy and an occasionally pathetically lamb-shaved adult, then a crotchety old man and Price is Right viewing companion. he was there. i was obsessed with him.

i went to work in another country this year. the family dog, of course, stayed home. i couldn't say goodbye to him or my other dog because i knew i'd cry. and unlike some of the other truths i'd come to terms with before leaving--what might change as i got on the plane--i, for some reason, couldn't even consider that that dog might not be waiting for me when i got home. it was not in my head. he was only thirteen.

two months ago came the phone call that he wasn't doing well, then that he was doing better, then that he wasn't going to be around much longer (i awkwardly cried in front of my students), then that he might stick it out, then that he was gone. it was the strangest thing. i'd go between open-mouthed crying at the sight of another dog to staring at photos of him, trying so hard to. as my family wept on the other line of the videocall, i couldn't. i could talk about him easily, explain what happened to my close friends. then i'd talk to my coworker about it and lose it.

it's still strange. i still look at the stars above the river and think about him, cry. then go about my day, the same thoughts passing over me like water. i wake up from a dream in which he is alive and cry onto my pillow, but fall back asleep as if i've just gotten up to drink water. i remember him lightly. and then, as i'm imagining seeing my younger dog when i get home, i am overcome. the old boy will not be there. i will come home expecting to hear him whining at the door, shaking, the longest he's ever gone without seeing me, and he will not be there. he never will. and i didn't say goodbye when i left.

all i want right now is to see him. to talk about him and picture him and see him. i'm trying to draw him. i've done it so many times with others. but it's hard, not for the reasons i wish--that it would be too emotional, too packed. it is because i am tired.

#tw pet death #tw pet loss