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"My quarrel is with you, Squirrelflight. It always has been" but, why? you have no quarrel with the son of the tyrant who murdered your mother? that same son who vanished from the clans while your family starved to death? the cat who was given the deputy role without even having an apprentice like you did? the cat who stole your mate? the cat and his kin who took everything from you? why not take something from him?

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ravenbarley yuri for pride month. god bless farm butches

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I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

Edit: can’t believe I gotta say this but yes other cultures utilize feathers, if people are using feathers that are used in their culture then don’t harass them. That’s weird have some common sense. Ostrich feathers, peacock feathers it’s actually so interesting how native birds to an area affect the culture there.

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Warrior cats my beloved

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I will always love this mother-son duo, too bad the Erins seldom went to explore it

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Human Yellowfang!

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cmon baby, don't fear the reaper

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So save your prayers / For when we’re really gonna need ‘em…

Drew this almost a year ago now! Time passes

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hihi your style is ADORABLE,,, could I request my pathetic son darkstripe

yeassss.. the stinkerrr

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And there it is. Almost as if we don't have two beloved pathetic fucks in Pokemon who fit the ticket. lol

MEAN TO HIM ????

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MEAN TO HIM ????

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spin this wheel for a prefix, and then spin this wheel for a suffix

as a bonus you can spin this wheel to find ur role in the clan (note: spin twice if you get apprentice)

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it took 10+ years of not liking him but... I think Breezepelt is starting to grow on me chat

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“we need more complex wc villains who’s motives arent just power or being born evil or both” my brother in christ you couldnt even handle breezepelt

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breezpelt more like butchpelt

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First art post…. breezepelt is one of my favorite characters who isn’t hollyleaf and feathertail so naturally I hit him with the lesbian beam. No cat is safe