redrew the asc protags because i finally read sky
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I think I finally have words to describe why TNP is such a disappointing arc to me. Tigerstar’s politics don’t actually have a lasting impact on the culture of the clans.
There are individual cats who have reckonings with allowing him to take and exert power (in special editions, years after TNP ended), but ShadowClan as a culture that gleefully supported TWO dictators is not the focus. There are no lingering supporters who saw the ‘value’ in Tigerclan.
Riverclan has no division between cats who built the bonehill, cheered a deputy’s execution, and almost watched Crookedstar’s grandkids die; they just welcome Misty, Storm, and Feather back in.
Tigerstar was a fascist, and fascism is a disease of a society, but everything we saw in TPB is more like an isolated nightmare of individual bad guys in the eyes of TNP onward. He didn’t INVENT hating half-clan cats, xenophobia, and the cult of strength, they were issues present through the whole arc. Issues he had even exploited in Thunderclan, to the clan’s shock and horror, before his failed coup.
We haven’t gotten to ACTUALLY changing and questioning clan culture and the warrior code until this current arc.
And that really sucks because, re-reading TPB, you get to see how much of it WAS about politics, divided clans, and alliances both between whole clans as well as the ones Fireheart personally made. TNP abandons this, in favor of an arc almost entirely constructed to frame Brambleclaw’s ‘growth‘.
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Softfur is a long-furred brown-and-white molly. She has a large white mane and round ears. Her fur is bushed up in the drawing, due to something off-camera. She has wide amber eyes and large paws.
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for day 11 REPOSTOBER (i feel like a crack addict doing this block caps shit but i'm committed now ) i give you the reason i met one of my oldest online friends (who isn't @ mike-wazowskis-cloaca or from that friend group)
two system of a down album art redraws featuring blackstone plus three other warriors OCs: stormfrost, the silver tabby; shadefang, the brown guy; and frostfall, the white one
posted on dA on the 29th of march and the 4th of april 2015 respectively
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