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the new prophecy : ⋆ ｡˚ ────★────˚｡☾ + themed spotify playlist (for funsies)▼

Midnight 𖥔 ● https://open.spotify.com/track/5Pd4Pj26uWQ8oxEI3IIgoi?si=73776b6c2c2c4b6a Moonrise ⏾ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/4U1yw4DNtAZq4oSCGTOJ2s?si=9346aa15bb4249d0 Dawn ✹ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/5VPQEeFjXpxwWDuznn7Xos?si=0d4a560949184ddf Starlight ᯓ☆ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/5sxFzOn4lA1KItCN8h2OOm?si=d730a477c79f4629

Twilight ⟡ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/1ksPtYtb7SLZU0qEeIubkG?si=d4c6ff32b9124de2 Sunset 🌤 ● https://open.spotify.com/track/2URECzkADcKkpq8pBbCpQI?si=01893bc38db641bb

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the prophecies begin : ⋆ ｡˚ ────★────˚｡☾ + themed spotify playlist (for funsies) ▼

Into The Wild ฅ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/5Pd4Pj26uWQ8oxEI3IIgoi?si=73776b6c2c2c4b6a Fire And Ice ☼ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/4U1yw4DNtAZq4oSCGTOJ2s?si=9346aa15bb4249d0 Forest Of Secrets ↟ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/5VPQEeFjXpxwWDuznn7Xos?si=0d4a560949184ddf Rising Storm 🗲 ● https://open.spotify.com/track/5sxFzOn4lA1KItCN8h2OOm?si=d730a477c79f4629

A Dangerous Path 🗡 ● https://open.spotify.com/track/1ksPtYtb7SLZU0qEeIubkG?si=d4c6ff32b9124de2 The Darkest Hour ★ ● https://open.spotify.com/track/2URECzkADcKkpq8pBbCpQI?si=01893bc38db641bb

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playing with some expression sketches for best boy Jack cus I need practice and he needs more attention <3 ya'll sleepin on jack fr • no shit .. :| • eat shit >:) • oh shit o_o • awww shit :D

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Ya know,, after watching all the Final Destination movies for the first time, and then finally seeing the new one in theaters last night, I couldn't help but reflect on a particular phrase from a specific internet experience long since past,,

" Memento Mori " Remember that you must die.

But don't let the certainly of Death keep you from living and experiencing your life to the fullest.

Go do shit. Go watch Bloodlines or smth cus damn,, what a good movie 👌

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as a human, I just can't stop pack bonding to things,, sometimes I forget that the whole "pack bonding to Roombas" thing isn't just a trope in specific human-centric fandoms. Roombas do in fact actually exist in real life and are not only on spaceships for human crewmates to gawk and coo at to the befuddlement of their alien peers. I do in fact have a roomba, secondhand from my parents cus they never used it. I kept mentioning that I'd take it off their hands IF they ever decided to get ride of it (it was inevitable. It was gathering dust. All I had to do was wait) I assumed that Roomba technology advanced since like 2009 when my family first had one, but I think I overestimated whoever's in charge of programming them in the modern day ,, cus roombas still be dumb as fucck like lil bumble bees or accident prone hamsters

According to all known laws of vacuuming, there is no way a Roomba should be able to clean. Its microchip brain is too small to get its fat circular body across the ground efficiently. The roomba, of course, cleans anyway... His name is Shanks, or Shankies, and honestly, he just does whatever he wants in his own sweet time, and sometimes will leave messes, but...I kinda love the lil dum dum... Even my cat has learned to tolerate him zooming by an inch from her paws when she used to TAKE OFF anytime it rotated slightly in her direction lmao The amount of times where I just casually talk to him like "watch out", "be careful", or "don't forget that corner pls," and then thanking him after a good hour of cleanin, is absurd. He's just a lil part of the household now I guess. There'd be a lot more cat hair and crumbs on the floor if he wasn't around, so I'm not complaining

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Warrior Catifies your toxic old man supervillain yaoi ⁠(ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Kittypet Robotnik named Dr. Egg. Wants to take over the forest with science and spirit cat magic Farm cat Stone. Can't make lattes, but knows how to milk goats n that's good enough lil speedpaint below if thats your thing ⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪

the recording cropped itself so its kinda nasty to look at, but whatever,, it took 2 hours so im sharing it ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

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my step-by-step rundown of being a new ship enjoyer in the early hours of the morning

I wake up

I go to the bathroom

I scroll through the Stobotnik tag for 30-45 minutes on the toilet

My legs go numb

I go back to bed

repeat

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i have to wake up for work in 5 hours but i made this anyway,, original pic under the cut 🌈💎🌠

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Swooping down to catch my skeleton before he could crumble to the floor in a pile of mangled bones, a gasp escaping my lips, and my hand resting under his slender, bony spine as I gaze deeply into piercing black sockets, has been the most romantic thing I've ever done,,

your faves could never,,

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jacky boi doodle at 4 am ,,

I almost didn't watch tfp cus the first time jack came into frame i was dying,, lmao the humans just ain't look right,, but jack haunted me with his dead eyes

somehow he's my favorite character he's so emo,,

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OKAY, after rewatching Teen Wolf after like 10 years, and being as obsessed as I am with Transformers Prime, it's come to my attention just how wildly similar these four characters' relationships and situations are,,, and I LOVE it

This has to be one of my fav parent/child dynamics, next to "man worn down by the world accidently adopts a girl and becomes their dad" trope- aka Joel/Ellie - aka Lee/Clementine. Bonus points if the dad dies horribly.

But onto the point-

We have Melissa McCall- a divorced single mom, raising a teenage son in high-school, who is a hardworking, overworked nurse struggling to make ends meet at home.

And we have June Darby- a divorced single mom, raising a teenage son in high-school, who is a hardworking, overworked nurse struggling to make ends meet at home.

Both remain in the dark about what their sons are truly involved in, and worry about their recent behavior.

NOW, the sons.

Scott McCall- an awkward teenage boy with an average life who works a part-time job to help cover the bills at home.

Jack Darby- an awkward teenage boy with an average life who works a part-time job to help cover the bills at home.

(They also both have crushes on a girl at school that they want to impress- but unlike Sierra, Allison is actually a part of the main cast and plotline)

Both of their lives are overturned when accidentally encountering something extraordinary, and it changes them forever.

For Scott, it was being turned into a werewolf, becoming part of this secret world, and finding out who he is and rising to something he never thought possible. He becomes a leader and a True Alpha.

For Jack it was discovering an alien race marooned on Earth fighting an age-old war, becoming part of this secret world and finding out who he is and rising to something he never thought possible.

He becomes a protector and an Honorary Prime.

Both Melissa and June are introduced to the main events of the show by being put in danger and being saved by their sons. Of course they don't react to everything well at first, scared and afraid for their kids' safety, but eventually coming to terms with the importance of the roles their sons now play, supporting them and becoming healers for the teams.

The relationships between the moms and sons only grow stronger, and the love they have for each-other is always present on screen, even in times when they are at odds with each-other in difficult situations.

I just think this is so sweet. I feel like typically with shows about teenagers and crazy drama, they're fighting with their parents and don't get along at all. But Melissa and June are such great mom characters, and Scott and Jack have close bonds with them.

When Team Prime was in hiding, Jack breaks down and calls his mom, despite knowing how dangerous it would be to open that line of communication cus of the Cons hunting them. Miko and Raf didn't even consider calling their families during that time to let them know they were alive after disappearing.

Obviously, Teen Wolf had way more seasons and time to flesh out their relationships, while TFP didn't, which is a big shame. There was still so much untapped potential for TFP- especially for the humans, before it was canned.

Scott got to reunite with his estranged father (who is funnily named Rafael), and there was a lot of strife there, but eventually the trust was rebuilt between them.

I would've loved a family arc with the Darbys! The only time Jack's father is mentioned is in that one ep with June and Fowler dealing with Knock Out- and BOY I would've liked to see more of that explored upon.

Also another funny comparison I'm just now realizing...

Melissa was friends with a law enforcement character- Sheriff Stilinski, who both got involved with the supernatural elements of the show. And June became friends with a law enforcement character- William Fowler, after being exposed to the Cybertronian War. Both of these guys are awesome and loveable too. Fowler is rough around the edges, but he's easily one of the best human ally characters ever in TF.

Idk,,, i just think this comparison is neat and I had to talk about it. Jack is my favorite of the Trio kids, and anytime I can yap about him in any interesting way, I gotta!

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I don't have to voice that the new era of warrior books are,,, struggling creatively,,, to put it nicely, cus everyone's who has been here for a minute already knows. But A Starless Clan is already coming to an end,, and I just feel like it was all REALLY short. The final book drops in November before we immediately move onto Changing Skies in January, but I feel like we should still be in the middle of THIS arc. The conflict is so short-lived.

Maybe it's just me, but when comparing TBC to ASC, the former felt it had a much longer, drawn out and more involved story and plot, with all the POV characters going through plenty of experiences that impacted them before the final endgame.

Rootspring dealing with Bramblestar's spirit. Direct involvement. Shadowsight being manipulated by Ashfur. Direct involvement. Bristlefrost and her complicated involvement with the imposter, the Rebels, and ThunderClan. Direct involvement.

That's not been the case for half of our protags in A Starless Clan. Not that Nightheart and Sunbeam don't do anything at all, but compared to Frostpaw, who is literally carrying everything, they might as well be background characters. Damn near the entire plot has been carried on this poor girl's shoulders, and it shows, because Nightheart and Sunbeam are suffering from lack of important character progression and main plot relevance.

Nightheart's most prominent arc was his angst phase and temporarily switching clans for his crush. Even when he and Frostpaw were traveling and met the park cats, he took a major backseat compared to Frostpaw. The book told us that Nightheart and Frostpaw grew closer on their journey together, but it really doesn't feel that way. It would've made more sense for a banished Frostpaw to stay with Thunderclan rather than ShadowClan. We'd get more Night and Frost interaction, and now all our protags are together as well.

And Sunbeam, don't get me wrong, I like her, and I've been much more invested in her emotional journey then Nightheart's, post his ShadowClan arc. Breaking up with her best friend, crush rejection, her overbearing and phobic mother, leaving her birth-clan, being abandoned by Nightheart more than once, and her family (aside from Spireclaw) living in exile. However, Sunbeam has little affect on the overarching plot, compared to Frostpaw. Sunbeam's chapters in Wind basically consisted of her worrying about her mother and crossing the border to check up on her family. As for Nightheart, all that he was really doin' was trainin' Waffle (our precious waffle boi) and being his girl's yes-man for the majority of the book. It also seems like Sunbeam's and Nightheart's romantic arc is just finished now i guess. We'll probably see their kits in Changing Skies, and Sun and Night will be put on the backburner of obscurity.

I just wish Nightheart and Sunbeam took a more pressing role in the plot and were more emotionally invested in the main conflict. Their personal stakes aren't nearly as high as Frostpaw's, who is truly burdened by the weight of so many responsibilities, on top of having damn near no one that supports her. A Starless Clan is truly Frostpaw's series- and ya can't tell me otherwise.

Nightheart quite literally has nothing to lose if Splashtail takes over RiverClan completely. He has Sunbeam, and that's all he wants.

Sunbeam has an emotional investment now with BerryHeart being Splashtail's cohort, (and now deputy), but her focus is less set on RiverClan's wellbeing, and more so directly on her family's. If Berryheart wasn't involved with Splashtail, I feel Sunbeam wouldn't have gotten herself up in RiverClan's business after the ShadowClan warriors left.

Frostpaw is carrying an absurd level of trauma and personal involvement with what's going on, as she's entangled in everything that's important within the plot from every single angle.

ASC just feels really, really short and underwhelming, in terms of it's supporting cast and main villain. Part of me kinda likes that Splashtail is a sleezy snake, but he's still just sooo,,, boring, especially when putting him up against other villains like Ashfur and Darktail. Curlfeather didn't even get a chance, and she's by FAR, a much more interesting choice for an antagonist.

Off the top of my head, a better plot could've been Curlfeather successfully pretending to be Curlstar, and Splashtail being discontent with only being deputy, and stirring up chaos and plotting to overthrow Curlstar. The endgame could've been Splashtail trying to kill Frostpaw (again), but Curlstar refusing to let her daughter be murdered, and in the end, sacrifices herself to take down Splashtail for good. And then, like what a lot of us are expecting will happen at the end of ASC, Frostpaw becomes Froststar (i love frost so much this better happen dont let the flame die out!!)

The theme of this season has 100% been family issues/trauma, as every protag has stuff goin' on with their moms, but we get Splashtail as a main villain, with no prominent ties to anyone except Curlfeather (tho we don't rlly see much of it)

but anywayy,,, enough rambling and GIVE IT UP FOR ARC 9 EVERYBODYYYY!! ARC 9 COMING SOON LETS GOO !! WE'RE GONNA BE READING CAT BOOKS TILL WE'RE 90 :)

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Me planning to write up another longwinded warrior cats analysis post or a spontaneously thought-up AU concept, and madly shuffling over to my weathered bookcase of 80+ cat books for much needed references like it's some revered library of ancient scripture like,,,

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Having a dream about Optimus Prime smiling and talking to you, but everything that comes out of his precious metal face is completely unintelligible, is a new kind of fucked up torture,, I see his face,, but what was he saying ?? ; _ ;

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Washing dishes for a livin' when I'd rather be going on the dawn patrol and hunting at Sunningrocks to support my clan's livelyhood (⁠^⁠.⁠_⁠.⁠^⁠)⁠ﾉ

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You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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DON'T CRY, CRAFT

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I love this shirt,, its so cozy kinda wanted the pentagram one, but I would NOT be able to wear it around certain family members,, big oof