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sHAPES AND COLORS

Been trying to do some more varied face/body shapes (I've been falling back into old habits recently blehhh) and wanted to mess around with Verity's party. Also some Lapis/Laz for morale. Have I mentioned here that we know Larry's real name now?? I forget lmao

I do this "bashing out the silhouette" thing in digital art a lot for poses but never liked doing it in my sketchbooks- something about the highlighters I like to sketch with turning out patchy and disagreeing with the paper texture. But now I've got some brush markers that don't bleed thru the paper and I'm having fuuuuuun <3

(I actually have a bigger set of these markers coming in the mail tomorrow so I'm hoping some lighter colors will be fun to mess with :>)

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Marion reads “The Darkest Hour”

This post was brought to you by: the dread I feel before opening this book knowing it is the first time I’m opening a warriors book since starting this years nanowrimo project -It hits me that like, its really ironic to specify “Toms and She-cats without kits” like there are 100% some fathers in there -Like all of shadowclan is ex rogues now huh - BLOODCLAN?????????????? -I get why the names of bloodclan aren’t all listed, I knew about scourge but nothing could have prepared me for what actually reading him would be like this is not what I expected his entrance to be okay -Bluestar :( -The recaps, Good God, the recaps, I know, I KNOW it makes the emotional moments hit less when you recape everything, if it was just Fireheart remembering the big shit it’d hit so much harder despite how early in the book it is

-Getting the word out about their mistyfoot and stonefur’s lineage really does make the most sense as a defense against any plan Tigerstar may have but it still does feel weird huh -Uh oh! -”You’re young” yeah no shit,

-Fireheart being scared by the dog and Cinderpelt by the road, these cats are so traumatized :( -I wonder if windclan is more likely to visit the moonstone with regularity given how close to it they are -I complain about these books a lot and with good reason, but I do think some of the rituals and traditions are interesting -LIONHEART....... -How can having a partner prove unfaithfulnes to a cat you had a crush on, fireheart, c’mon, -FIRESTAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Love the visuals that show up in the dreams, am not very found of vague prophecy trope

-it was interrupted??? by who the fuck?

-I love Barley, he’s got this shit figured out, good for him -MORE FUCKING RECAPS I KNOW WHO RAVENPAW IS!!! I KNOW HIM!!!!! I KNOW THIS CAT ALREADY -Finally whitestorm as deputy, I stand by he should be leader right now -Okay....Okay this conversation with bramblepaw is cute, I want Bramblepaw to be a good cat, please, let him be good. -DID THEY GIVE A KITTEN FUCKING RABIES???? -NOOOOOO THATS ALMOST WORSE -WHO THE FUCK POISONS A KITTEN WHY WAS THIS SCENE NECESSARY -THANK FUCK, WHAT THE FUCK -Okay I know why the scene is here now but s t i l l -Thornclaw!!! -Brightheart!!! -storytime -Bastard Darkstripe, there really was a part of me that hoped he’d be innocent, I wanted to see how that would be handled -if Sandstorm gets mad again that it wasnt her ill lose my mind, it hasnt happened but im worried -recaps. all the recaps.

-”Of course I’m loyal! as I give another leader the ins and outs of our politics” -I mean it tracks she wouldn't trust Tigerstar but still, there's a hint of irony here -I get where he’s coming from but does it not occur to him or Whitestorm to ask Tawnypaw and Bramblepaw what they’d like

-The bastard man has arrived to yell about his war crimes -”MAKE IT GREAT AGAIN” IM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND I know this book is several years old but still that fucking strikes a nerve of COURSE it comes from Tigerstar! -Cloudtail continues to be resident cat atheist -He’s an apprentice asking a question Firestar :(

-I would commit Arson for Brightheart

-Is he asleep now?? -no okay just a special occasion

-Poor Tawnypaw -So he’ll let Featherpaw and Stormpaw choose but not Tawnypaw and Bramblepaw

-Hi Ravenpaw! -well shit -stonefur nooo -please tell me its fight time don’t let these cats die here

-There is something that feels almost too convenient about them choosing now to investigate but still please don’t let them die if we’re getting convoluted at least let the cats live -Convenient time for a speech, perfect for drowning out a scuffle -”We can’t tolerate half clan cats but merging the clans is the perfect thing to do” -Stonefur I love you so much -NOOOO -This is a children’s book huh, children’s books get away with so much violence when it’s animals -no lie if Ravenpaw rejoins the clan after this I’ll be kinda mad, like its cool that he’s helping but some cat should be able to just vibe in a safe place damn -Ravenpaw I love you -”The prisoners have escaped” is not a yowl you freeze to, fucking run -TAWNYPAW NO -OKAY I will give these books that, the set up and eventual hit of making at least Firestar focus his distrust towards Bramblepaw and then have Tawnypaw be the one that leaves, interesting but also :( -Genuinely taking notes, there’s a lot I can say against these books but there is something to be said for the balance in this particular book of maintaining tension by means of offering brief moments of respite from the action, and taking the time to do simple things like Stormpaw’s ritual becoming Graystripe’s apprentice, and the talk about the smaller things like Sandstorm helping Mistyfoot mentor. -Damn. -I knew Thunderclan and Windclan would join, it was pretty obvious but, hey its a kids book, I wasn’t expecting this much blood behind it -it worries me how deep into this I am and I haven’t seen anything of bloodclan yet -It’s weird knowing a sparse handful of spoilers, there’s only a couple cats I’m relatively confident will survive this -speaking of which, if Whitestorm dosen’t survive to retirement I’m suing -Tawnypaw :( -Bramblepaw should get to commit patricide I think -aaaaand there’s bloodclan!

-BYE TIGERSTAR

-Of course it couldn’t be that easy, see I knew Scourge was a villain, but I didn’t know what he wanted -Okay it is very much so a power move to spend several books building up an antagonist and building towards his fight with the main character only to have said antagonist brutally murdered in an instant leaving the lead to face off with said murderer. It seems like the kind of thing that can easily feel cheap if done wrong but I think it works here, not sure how much that stance is skewed by the fact I knew the murder was coming but not the aftermath. -Bramblepaw..... -the people who own that farm just kinda have barn cats show up huh -I adore Barley -Princess!! -”It can’t be what starclan wants” hey maybe talk to Cinderpelt, hey maybe remember that whole “blood will rule the forest” thing, hey maybe don’t pretend you didn’t see Tigerstar get cut down so brutally -y’know the way to save the absolute most members of your clan? fucking booking it, Bluestar said it herself, you got the choices. -Bramblepaw is going to leave to be with his sister isn’t he -Yeah it sucks but you can also just fucking leave -if you think you can form a fighting force surely you have enough strength to help kittens and elders through a journey to safety -Now would be a good time to console your apprentice -”Bloodclan has no respect for the Geneva convention healing out in the open puts not only you but your patients at risk hiding where only our side knows you are will be better for every cat” might be more effective than that Firestar. -If brightheart dies I’m suing -Whitestorm is gonna fucking die and im not ready -”If you’ll have us” as though he didn’t already agree to accept their help earlier -They are putting a lot of trust in the youngest leader there -Prediction: Firestar is gonna lose the first of his lives here -Darkstripe you fucking indiot -WHITESTORM :( -There it is, the first death, I knew it -Title drop -”YOU KILLED ME BUT I GOT BETTER” -Victory -I THOUGHT SHE MEANT MORE BLOODCLAN CATS FUCK -”No longer Allies” ok but what if you were though. you can be separate clans and like...be friends about it -Another book done.

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Reading “A Dangerous Path” for the first time as an adult

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It is genuinely sad seeing cats missing from the clan roster because of deaths -in the previous book

Tigerstar, my loathed,

Oof shadowclan is so much smaller now, yeah.

oooh prologue time, has every book had one? I don’t remember

oh a dog perspective, that’s new! don’t love where it’s going but its new!

ah the recaps

poor fireheart

“Nothing to fear from shadowclan” fuck off tigerstar

Bluestar’s decline continues to be legitimately painful to watch :( 

Fireheart dismayed by Cloudpaw’s refusal to wait permission yet still considering recommending him for a warrior position 

hello graystripe!

I know there’s a lot of books in this series, and I worry given how far back these recaps reach that at one point the books would inevitably just become entirely made out of recaping info. why am I being reminded of main events that happened in book one.

I dislike the way the cats get full language and dogs get....whatever the fuck they have going on

so many impending new warriors

You’d think fireheart would have some empathy for bramblekit given the way he was treated while new to the clan

is Snowkit deaf?

Bluestar :( thats not gonna go over well! 

at least Fireheart is smart enough to have cloudpaw not be the only one promoted

“No one get sick or hurt in any clan as every fucking medicine cat is going to be far as fuck away”

travel buddies!

“I won’t ask your clan secrets but here, have some of ours.”

oh hello princess!!

my guess is they’re looking for the dogs, you’d think the clans would have seen more than a few of them by now

Sandstorm is having one hell of a day

Tigerstar, perish, no I don’t know why you want to talk to graypool no I don’t care.

noooo graypool :(

Fireheart he is a baby leave him alone

Gotta love the abelism in these books!

NOOOO SNOWKIT :(

the fuck kinda beef do these two have, Sandstorm and Cinderpelt both, chill.

Cloudpaw really said “fuck it im an atheist”

is this what the kids call, the calm before the storm? I don’t trust this

there’s the storm, I get why, but it is genuinely very hard to watch Bluestar only trust Fireheart until he counters her paranoia

It does feel weird how much shorter the dream conversations go, like what the fuck, why did he get so much more to go off of in the earlier books.

“He had never imagined he would disobey bluestar” you sure about that???? you sure, this, the cat who fed other clans, who kept investigating the deputy against the leader’s wishes, never thought he’d disobey.

aaah maybe should have had that talk with those kits sooner

Fireheart king of timing

more recaps!

Ravenpaw...

Whitestorm would have made so much more sense as deputy and I’m never fully going to be over that

Bold to insult the fucking deputy about his history as a pet

yay! love avoiding bloodshed

is he about to get demoted

Well that’s one fucking way to go about discipline I guess

oh no I think I’ve seen this in the MAPS

I knew her death was impending but also oh no

okay not yet but oh no graystripe :(

well, graystripe is safe, big f for the clan’s trust in bluestar

Sandstorm calm the fuck down

That won’t go over well, poor swiftpaw

Longtail go talk to Bluestar yourself, asshole

Cloudtail!

see yes I’ve never read these but I’ve seen some of the music videos I knew swiftpaw was gonna pull some shit, here it is

swiftpaw :(

I will not acknowledge this name change i don’t care I’ll figure out something else to call her between now and her getting a better one because it feels wrong to use what she gets later yet but also fuck this, fuck the ablism in these books.

aww cloudpaw...

“They can’t stay hostile forever” fireheart have they ever been kind to you

apprentice time

story time!

Probably the best way he could have told that, big f for these apprentices though

Big Oof

Part of me wants to appreciate every cat acknowledging how cruel it was, what Brightpaw’s name became, but it also rubs salt in the wounds of all the elders with the abelest names.

Fuck yeah Cloudtail

if he was setting a trap why the fuck would he tell you he scented tigerstar

Thank you cinderpelt

Sandstorm and Fireheart really are either at 0 or 100 always

NOOO BRINDLEFACE :(

Fuck off Tigerstar 

Bluestar :(

I knew it was coming, I was Not expecting to cry over it this is fine, Im fine.

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Reading “Rising Storm” for the first time as an adult

This post was brought to you by: the knowledge that another library trip will be needed soon

How many books until I stop reading through the entirety of the clan list section? 4 in and I’m still reading this entire section. Is this similar to someone reading the star wars scrolling text every time?

It hits hard, seeing Graystripe in the riverclan list. I knew I would, but ouch.

Another prologue, let’s see if I can figure this one out faster than the last

I want to guess that this is...shadowclan??? it could be any of them but that sounds right I think

Fireheart always seems to get the rowdy apprentices, I don’t look forward to whatever bullshit cloudpaw is going to get into, he’s gonna get attacked by tigerclaw isn’t he

all these recaps. it was helpful to an extent when it had been a few months between books but oof, a little more grating reading back to back.

Lots of new apprentices lately, I wonder if these kittens will be named this book or the next one

It’s nice to see Fireheart get some support, Whitestorm hasn’t had much page time until now but he seems like a good cat

Poor Fireheart, I know it’s protagonist reasons but he shouldn’t be having to deal with this, all the elders talking shit when he’s trying so hard

oooh Bramblekit......

It feels like something is not going to go great when Fireheart visits Bluestar, either this will go badly, or, more recaps

Yep. This isn’t going great. I vaguely get why she’s putting all of this on Fireheart but oof. No punches are being pulled she is going through it.

“For the 30th time, because you probably forgot, Fireheart feels guilty for Cinderpaw’s injuury”

oh how did it take me this long to realize her name was Cinderpelt now? I must have missed that

I know it probably won’t because drama, but it sure would be nice if these mentor decisions just went well.

Getting more and more worried about Cloudpaw though he’s probably just visiting his mom

yaaay he’s safe, but big f for Bluestar

I do love the dream sequences of this series

Yellowfang I love you please don’t be mean to Cinderpelt

Awww reminiscing about his days in training <3

Okay now it makes more sense why she chose him as deputy but it was still a wild choice, especially with whitestorm Right There

Bluestar if you could put as much trust into Fireheart’s attempts at reasoning with you as you put in him for stuff he is barely equipped for.

Cloudpaw  p l e a s e

Bluestar not trusting these warriors is like, fair enough, but you’d think that’d give her more reason not to let them fester at the camp alone while those she is the closest to trusting are where she can see them

Furball season

Also Graystripe is okay! but mostly. Furball season.

So the prologue was definitely ShadowClan and something is going to go horribly wrong with the other clans not being warned about Tigerclaw, cool

“recoiling from him as if he were an owl of ill omen flying through a forest of shadows.” YEAH THAT PROLOGUE SURE WAS SHADOWCLAN AND ERIN REALLY WANTS YOU TO KNOW IT WITHOUT JUST OUTRIGHT SAYING IT.

Are they trying to make thunderclan sick or are they seeking asylum, I could see it going either way but I can’t see it going well

“Thunderclan would be left without a leader” Fireheart are you not grasping the order of events that would take place or are you too overwhelmed by the prospect to acknowledge it because thunderclan sure as hell would not be without a leader for long

Did they go down a storm drain? these books are confusing, that had to be it right?

I don’t know what Fireheart hopes to accomplish by making the tunnel known

Cloudpaw is being fed by people isn’t he

Cloudpaw is not particularly smart

Sandstorm arriving right as Fireheart is longing for Graystripe to confide in, these books and the subtleties of the narrative

Kittens!

tigerclaw jr im sorry buddy

Fireheart  know you miss Graystripe but you’re being as smart as Cloudpaw

I was really expecting that to be Graystripe, but Cinderpelt does make more sense there huh

ah big f for Cloudpaw

Is he like, ever coming back? big f

It’s protagonist syndrome I’m sure but like can Fireheart get a solid apprentice that dosent get a tragic exit from warriorhood big fucking f

Fireheart have you completely forgotten Tigerclaw

They’ve called this kitten Bramblekit and given him pronouns already why is this book using ‘It’ now?????

Graystripe!

Runningwind :(

Tigerclaw >:(

Fireheart shouldn’t be deputy but like at least he’s doing well,

You’d think they’d want cats to be solidly rested in case of another Tigerclaw attack

Ravenpaw my beloved

They know what a window is but not a house

Bluestar will rely on Fireheart’s judgement for so much until it comes to the stuff he’s actually qualified to handle

I should not be surprised by fire, but here i am, surprised by fire

Gotta love that calm that comes with managing a crisis

Yes its obvious yes its corny yes i love the moment that is Fireheart without hesitation risking his life for the one kitten he’s been most weary of, sidenote we’re back to he/him for Bramblekit

nooo Patchpelt :(

If Yellowfang is dead I’m suing

Yellowfang!

Yellowfang :(

poor Graystripe

I did not go into this series expecting it to hurt like this, It is genuinely hard watching Bluestar go through these things

Oh God Tell me this isn’t Tigerstar’s introduction tell me it isn’t please

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Reading “Forest Of Secrets” for the first time as an adult

This post was brought to you by: this is the last twitter thread to archive then I am free thank God

Who's ready for another warrior cats   thread? I'm reading forest of secrets now, here we go. Let's see how quickly I catch up it's been awhile since the last book.

I kind of forgot his name is still fireheart because when I talk warriors with my friends we just skip ahead as far as names go because there's so many fucking name changes

3 books and I still really love how there's the cat map and the human map I have to give these books credit for that

It can be really hard to turn off Cat Knowledge reading these sometimes.

Tigerclaw has no subtlety

Me: will I be able to keep up or should I find a summary of book 2 Book 3: here have several pages of fireheart remembering all the major plot points of book 2

Cats have such good hearing how are any of these conversations safe inside the den

I wonder how old these elders actually are, I don't remember if specific ages were given in the last couple books.

My first thought was the prologue wouldn't be that long before the start of the story but like stonefur was definitely one of those kittens right

Cinderpaw my beloved

How did I forget how many recaps this series does

Fireheart can think through the threat of bringing back well fed mice in the dead of winter, but fails to see how big of a risk it'd be to explain that he went and spoke with the riverclan cats?

"In case you forgot any of the past 5 times fireheart has reiterated that he hates lying, he is going to say it again, because you probably forgot"

I feel like the truce should extend outside the four trees during the gathering

Nightstar: I've come to make an announcement.

Picking this up again and continuing the thread from my phone so I don't accidentally reply to previous posts when trying to add things. Sidenote you get really used to these names until you read a lot of them at once.

Brackenfur!!!

Kids books really do contain so much tragedy and violence, also, cloudpaw!

So what happens if a cat gets hurt or sick when an apprentice is going through the ceremony. This seems poorly thought out

Deputy time, poor fireheart

Ok that makes sense but Ow. Graystripe :(  finished book 3

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Reading “Fire And Ice” for the first time as an adult

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Warrior cats live tweet thread...2!

Fireheart has an apprentice already?? How much of a timeskip was this i haven't even got to the story yet

Ok so i guess he's just getting one this book??

I enjoy the transition or, lack thereof into fireheart's dreams, it feels like a good way to show how vivid they are to him.

There's a lot of repeating of information in this book. I wonder if this was to refresh reader's who'd read book one when it came out or to clear things up for anyone that started with this.

Nightstar is a good name

It still feels weird they included a name of fireheart's eventual apprentice but still gave the name nightpelt for the one cat. So like either this cat is going to die before becoming nightstar or I have no understanding of the pre-story roster rules

This is a big mission for such new warriors

Ravenpaw!!

I love cinderpaw

Yes i should be asleep don't @ me i can understand it happening once or twice but what are the odds every kit in that litter would have been adopted by people who kept the intial names

Fuck everything else this is the accuracy hill i will d1e on

I didn't tweet about it when it happened but i just remembered the throw away line about graystripe swearing. What did he say, i need to know the forbidden cat swearwords

You'd think graystripe would care enough about riverclan's struggle to, you know, not risk sending sickness back to them via silverstream

Is tigerclaw trying to pull bluestar into a trap

This seems like it will end poorly

I kinda expected fireheart to name the kitten but like could have gone worse

Cinderpaw is very good

Where the fuck is brackenpaw

Yaaay friendship...i can't even be mad at myself for not picking up book 3 because the library didn't have it.

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Reading “Into The Wild” for the first time as an adult

The following post brought to you by: the grueling act of copy pasting an entire twitter thread.

Ok fuck it warrior cats reaction thread

Why is redtail a tortie yes okay i know calico males do exist but if he's not sterile I'm going to lose my mind a whole lot

I already knew this but it is still kinda jarring to be reminded there sure are cats in this book named for their disabilities huh thats an uh, interesting choice for sure

Maps are good and fun so some points for that

Is this another piece of media that pretends the narrow pupils mean focus or am I misreading

I don't know what I expected from the dialogue but it wasn't this

If food is so scarce you'd think they'd want him with at least one paw in the door so things aren't stretched even thinner as he's learning.

No piece of media will fail to get me with symbolic name changes fuck yeah firepaw

Sister: don't nitpick this too much you'll drive yourself insane Me, internally: have you ever seen me interact with a piece of media before (which is to say I will pick the smallest thing to get caught up on letting so much else slide)

Yellowfang is just a little horrible and so far I kind of love her

I know tigerstar like...exists is tigerclaw he, no one answer this I'll get to it, still a murderous bastard huh.

Firepaw wondering what could possibly be bothering Ravenpaw so much after witnessing Tigerclaw try to murder him several times. I

I love yellowfang so much. Finished the first book, yes I'll be picking up more next library trip im valid