#oh and if there are tags for triggers yall would prefer please let me know!

[in-memoriam-tgwk]

Amberfuzz is not the type of cat to cry. Or smile. Or… Well, any sort of emoting, really. She’s been this way since kithood; when her father stood shaking over the frozen frail body of her littermate, she sat by his side and observed his grief in silence. Catching her first prey only brought a calm reverence over her face as she quietly thanked her teacher for her exuberant praise. When Glowstar appointed her as his second-in-command, she was truly honored to be considered! But she didn’t jump around like an excitable fawn. It’s simply isn’t her nature.

Meeting Shinefreckle was like getting caught in a flash rainstorm. It left Amberfuzz befuddled and uncomfortable, and soaked to the bone. It made her irritable and snappy, and wishing for better days.

But it was also eye-opening for Amberfuzz. The older molly was everything she isn’t. Shinefreckle was bubbly, and naive, and she felt everything at an eleven. She’d squeal at the sight of lady bugs, she’d weep during the sad tales Heatherdash would regail over the evening meal, she’d loudly berate the apprentices for grabbing moss littered with pine needles. She was a whirlwind of sunlight and storms and she could grab attention without having to lift a paw.

Amberfuzz hated her for it, just as much as she envied her for it.

She never expected to get close to Shinefreckle, but it wasn’t long before they were sharing meals and sharing tongues on the regular. Shinefreckle was good at conversation in ways that Amberfuzz lacked; she could chitter on about the littlest things, investing in mostly one-sided conversations and pausing every so often for Amberfuzz to offer commentary. When Amberfuzz’s turn came to speak, she’d sit and listen with full attention, nodding when needed, gasping and smiling and giggling like anything she said was the single best thing Shinefreckle had heard all day.

She’d never admit it, but Amberfuzz preened under the attention. She’d even started smiling more, much to the confusion of the other Colony cats.

Losing Cliffclaw destroyed Shinefreckle, in more ways than could be seen. Eating was no longer a priority. She grew thin and unsteady as her frame became more bone than muscle. She couldn’t leave camp without an escort, and she rarely left at all at that point. When bathing took too much energy, her fur grew matted and dirty. Eventually Amberfuzz set about doing it all for her; she’d force her to nibble on her prey, she’d take her on small walks along the cliffs, she’d pick the tangled twigs from her fur. Despite her best efforts, however, Shinefreckle looked worse and worse as the days rolled on.

And then, Shinefreckle developed a cough. It was manageable at first, but despite a moon of treatment she just couldn’t seem to get better. She eventually had to be carried to the medicine den.

Amberfuzz doesn’t cry, but her eyes stung as her ears tuned into the rasp of her friend’s breathing, the only sound in a dusty room. Her own air hitched in her lungs— and what a foreign feeling to her— as the stench of sickness flooded her senses. Her nose burned as she tucked her face into Shinefreckle’s neck, pressing close enough to feel her heartbeat lightly tap in a withered rhythm.

She doesn’t cry. She never cries. She will not cry—

“Fuzzy…?”

Shinefreckle’s voice rattled where it caught on her cough, her head raising just enough for Amberfuzz to see her tired eyes. They crinkled at the corners from a weak smile.

“I’m here, Shinefreckle. You’re in the medicine den.”

Shinefreckle’s gaze flitted about before coming back to rest on the other. “It seems I am,” she croaks.

“Don’t move too much,” Amberfuzz said, and pressed a paw to her flank. “Heatherdash says you’re very sick. You need to rest, to get your strength up.”

She expected Shinefreckle to scoff, or to whine, or to make a fuss like she usually would. Instead, the molly’s eyes drifted to the side, like her thoughts were leading her somewhere else entirely. It took quite some time for her to float back.

“I’m tired, Fuzzy. I don’t want to fight anymore.”

Amberfuzz frowned at her. “Don’t say that. You’ll see, you just need a few days of proper rest. You’ll be well in no time—“

Shinefreckle shook her head, and her body shuddered through a series of coughs. “N-No. I won’t be.”

“Shinefreckle.”

“But it’s okay,” Shinefreckle said, and bumped her head gently against Amberfuzz’s temple. “It’s alright, Fuzzy. Just sit with me a moment. Can we please sit together?”

She smiled a soft smile, the kind that a mother would use to ease her wailing kit. It filled Amberfuzz with a sadness she couldn’t describe, one that she could only feel her way through, hanging heavy and wet in her chest. She flexed her jaw, scowling through the tears that dampened her cheeks. “Okay,” she said with a tremble in her voice. “Okay.”

She held Shinefreckle until her rattling chest finally stilled, until her eyes fluttered shut, until the first streaks of dawn tickled at the medicine den’s entrance. She held her on her final descent down the cliff, refusing anyone who offered to help carry the load. She only let go when it was time to lay Shinefreckle on her bed of rosemary, right next to Cliffclaw’s grave. Only then did Amberfuzz let go.

Amberfuzz doesn’t cry. But the buzz of a lady bug’s wing is sure to stop her in her tracks. She talks more to the rest of the Colony, and even shares stories of her own in the evening time. And if you’re lucky, on the right kind of day, her stone face will crack at its edges in a smile.

#tw ed mention #cw animal death #tw mental health #tgwk lore #clangen art #clangen #warrior cats #I PROMISE one of these times it will be happy writing! but i had two deaths close together ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ rip my girl shinefreckle #i will miss you but not your design holy shit #oh and if there are tags for triggers yall would prefer please let me know!

[fictionkinfessionsarchived]

​mod responses! Finally!

anonymous asked: Hello, friends!! That ask you tagged under "beautyandthebeastkin", I'm fairly certain was actually Timpani from Super Paper Mario, missing Blumiere. I could be wrong, but! /post/160297278124 -Mario

anonymous asked: hey you tagged post/160275704149 as dangaronpa but kaneki and hide come from tokyo ghoul i think ! take care

Oh no! It’s fixed! Lollerskates! thank you both!

anonymous asked: @ mods; I'm pretty sure /post/160264378153/ is actually WtNVkin! Kevin is the radio host from Desert Bluffs, and Cecil's Double—Diego is the fanon for Carlos' Double in Desert Bluffs, who many Kevins (including my own, actually) talk about. ~ Cecil Palmer

Oh Maude! You’re been starstrucked lollerskates! *hugs*! Thanks anon let me go smoosh those tags around! XD

Anonymous said: hey uh this post: post/160245949956/my-name-is-izumi-sena-and-everyone-that-misgenders is tagged incorrectly !! its izumi sena from Ensemble Stars not Love Stage !! sorry to be a bother jgkldg

*boops your nose* Not a bother! Better to have it in the proper tag, right? Sometimes google points us in the wrongish direction and we just don’t know any better! XD Thanks anon, it’s fixed!

Anonymous said: Can you please tag posts with Brock Rumlow as #rumlow? otherwise our blacklist doesn't always pick it up

We tag mentions of nazis with #nazism cw if that helps?

Maude

Anonymous said: i'm /post/160077049570 and i am very definitely not ron weasley, though i can understand why you'd tag it as that. (you don't have to publish this, or change the tags on that post if you don't want to; it's fine. i'm just very amused and felt like sharing, i guess.)

I’m yelling omg Maude! Sorry anon I’ll take those tags off! I guess they were feeling very HP when they queued that!

anonymous asked: I sent an ask in with the name of my blog in, url, please can you delete it? I’d prefer to contact directly. Thank you

Ok! For what it’s worth, it’s best to simply reply to a post or reblog it with a shout out to the submitter! That way the submitter knows you’re talking about contacting them and not someone else! :O

Anonymous said: Hi i was just wondering if yall blocked [url], and if so why?

While I appreciate the blog’s purpose and agree with most of it, I don’t think it’s appropriate to reblog with such commentary. The purpose of this blog is simply venting or sharing. If a submitter wanted feedback or an open ear to discuss something, we would encourage them to go to a blog like yours or one on our help blogs list. As these confessions are not particularly open questions or requests for advice, we tend to blanket block blogs who give unrequested advice.

Maude

Anonymous said: Q (re: specific tags for our kinfessions) what about for (Anon) kinfessions we'd already had posted? Would we be able to get them tagged with a specific tag? Personally, I reblog most of them to my kin blogs, but it's more of a curiosity.

I kind of feel like this falls under the ‘can’t delete bc we don’t know this anon confession is yours’. But if you have already reblogged it, and you really want a tag on it, sure we’ll throw a particular tag on it. Just note two things:

Retro tagging, e.g. adding a tag after something is posted, does not cause the post to appear in the search index/tag search results.

Having a unique tag does not necessarily ensure that your posted anonymous confessions can potentially be requested for deletion. Just because, again, we don’t know if it’s actually the same person on anon, or someone playing around.

Maude

anonymous asked: Psst @ mods; Don't Starve is a survival game, hence the name; probably doesn't need the eating disorder tag

Oh ha I just stuck it on for safety’s sake! Because it might be trigger-ish? But yeah ok I’ll leave that tag off! Best to over tag than not tag enough, you know!

Anonymous said: mods, hi! the asoue kin at /post/160041479943/ is kit snicket i believe?

I edited the tag in.

-Vagabond

Anonymous said: Hello Mods! I actually have a question & sorry if you answered this already,I'm quite dim & I don't pay that much attention but what is bluetext?

http://fictionkinfessions.tumblr.com/b

Bluetext

A tag applied to submissions which contain excessively unusual formatting which may be difficult for some to parse and understand. Particularly for when submissions are written unusually, with or including: spacey letters, excessive punctuation, mixed capitalization in some combination Derived from the use of bluetext from the book House of Leaves.

Anonymous said: Hi, did my confession ever go through? It was about my kinlist featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series. I'm not finding it in the queue! If it was a list of your kintypes it may have been deleted as per the submission guidelines!

anonymous asked: * have you gotten any asks from a galaxy man lately? tumblr's been eating up my asks again so idk if they went through

I think there was one on the queue that’s been posted by now, and maybe on in the inbox still! Also I’m sorry, I can’t private reply to anons! [because the asterisk means private reply, unless that’s an undertale thing! Xp]

Anonymous said: Can you unblock me i didn't do anything wrong, i don't understand why i was blocked

I'm sorry but I can't tell you why you were blocked and I cannot even unblock you because idk who you are!

Mod Party Cat! [with some Maude]

#not confessions #mod responses #mod party cat! #mod maude #this is scheduled sorry #i gotta sleep im so #zzz