#leafing-from-view

[leafing-from-view]

let's see if i get any of these but sure!

🌈🌈🌈NON-INVASIVE SYSTEM ASK GAME YIPPEEEEE 🌈🌈🌈

❤️ - What is your system name? How did you choose it?

🧡 - Do different alters have different favorite games? What would you say is the most popular game among your system?

💛- Pick one (or more) alter(s). If they were a cereal, which one would they be and why?

💚 - Do you associate your system with any colors? Why those colors?

🩵 - What’s one thing your grateful to your system for?

💙 - If you had a million dollars, how would each alter spend it?

💜 - what’s something you thought was normal pre-syscovery that you have since realized does not happen to most people? (Can be as silly or deep as you want)

🩷 - Does your system play any sports? Are any alters better at that sport than others?

🌈 Bonus, non system related: Do you have any pets? What’s their name? Show a picture!!

[leafing-from-view]

i think it's important to say for other systems & newer systems out there:

never tell a younger friend (forcibly) that they could be a system, i feel like if people hadn't shoved it down my throat as a 13 year old online, i would've gradually worked into it a bit more smoothly and accepted it a little bit easier. the host had been in denial about it for 2-3 years after this had happened, this is just a shortened version of it.

though experiences range, yeah. i think it's essential that if you think someone could overlap with symptoms of it? just politely bring it up as a cool topic to look into or something. not anything serious? not a thing to sit down and hash out all the details of and tell them they are one because they act like it.

i'm not a doctor, obviously... but a lot of the disorder overlays with other ones and i think it'd be healthier to just encourage them to do research so they can get help if they need it. if they don't want the help immediately? that's okay, too. maybe they just don't have access to the resources, maybe the household isn't the best, etc.

just be there for them while they figure it out. it's the least we can do as friends.

[wollerjoseph]

OH MY GOD IM GONNA THROW UP

[numberonetribble]

Stuck at my mom's house until the 27th, can't finish the comic I was working on until then :( here's a rough Cowboy!pinup sketch of Bumblebee and some Breakbee + Piston angst:

[leafing-from-view]

i think a lot of people in general forget to do stuff like this, it's normal to refer to someone by name and it's alright to acknowledge their source material (you can still enjoy their source or dislike their source without shoving it in their face every given second or chance you get). we've had a lot of people get super weird towards people because of who they are identifying with / as? i think unfortunately that's normal nowadays but come on... (if you read this reblog anyway, /nay)

factives, fictives, inhumans, etc. are all also obligated to be treated with love and respect like everyone else in your lives.

pro tips for interacting with introjects (factives, fictives, whatever i don't care)

treat them like their own people

literally talk to them like any other person

that's it. you did it.

[babygirlspurgeon]

moose going right for spurge after the goal <33333333333

[rookflower]

i like crowpool as a narrative setpiece (less because of what it is and more because of what it sets up) and there's no issue if you are a fan, but i'm honestly confused by HOW many people are genuinely actively invested in it as a romance or make aus where it went well, because out of all the bland forbidden romances in warriors i think that is the one where they have the leeeast chemistry? and where the utter failure of it is the most interesting part?

[autumnmylife]

Book art

By Natasha on Mage

[3416]

no the way people misconstrue the canes trade thing makes me a little bit crazy like can't you read?? the articles AND the room?? *obviously* you take a look at possibly acquiring mikko freaking rantanen (1rw btw). and if mitch was set on leaving, he'd be doing them a courtesy by waiving and letting them do the trade so they got something out of it. the og article basically says this. but even back then it became 'See They Want Him Gone' pretty quickly. long sigh

honestly it didn't even sound like the leafs were THAT invested in it tone-wise in the articles/from brad, but since mitch wasn't negotiating in season, they asked bc they have to... that's the right thing to do if you're trying to explore all options and don't know if your star winger wants to stay, lol. and mitch seemed fine about it after they asked him too so? i've seen the narrative that now his feelings are hurt and he's in it to fuck the leafs over bc of that and i'm like 😭😭😭 bro talked to the media like five hundred times since then and seemed fine, what are we talking about......

so many people view mitch as a villain who's in it to specifically fuck over the team and has no life or opinions or reasoning of his own as a person, it's nuts. yeah, i'm sure he refused to waive just specifically bc he knew the leafs would get nothing in return. surely he does not have anything in his own life to think about here and is not just using the measures he negotiated. can't be that. he certainly doesn't have guys who are basically family to him still on the team either. no ounce of humanity in that guy, for sure.

i think you can automatically tell who does not have a clue how this works if they frame it from the angle of the LEAFS not wanting him... vs the truth of the matter which is that this is all up to mitch

[teamcavota]

I don't get when people act like Gladstone being an asshole foil whatever and him having "depth"/a complicated relationship to luck can't coexist

[fragmentedblade]

It's sort of ironic how fans often link the leaf 🍁 to Dan Heng, considering "Feng" means "maple", but it's also so fitting

[leafing-from-view]

Was there anything about system discovery that just... made sense? and was there anything that scared you at all? I hear that sometimes newly discovered systems become anxious about certain parts of being a system.

see, the problem i've had with discovering being a system at a young age was that, well... nothing made sense. for the first 5 years it was all of us fumbling around as we were perceived and acknowledged for the first time. it felt overwhelming to have individual spotlights on everyone like we were a spectacle to behold in public spaces... unfortunately, that's the only thing we realized had made sense. system's are usually perceived as "rare" in person, and it's a bit unfortunate that there's so many that have to figure it out the hard way through online platforms and things like that.

all of it was scary because all of it was new. every time someone new split we were scared to address the elephant in the room. "who's this supposed to be?", "should we make a new profile for them?", "do they even want to be perceived in this light?", and things like that. it was constantly (and still is) a tug of war battle with our own brain to determine what's for the best at every interval.

though uh, i will say! there's some nice parts about being a system, of course... helping one another cope with certain aspects of day to day life is one of the major pros. especially if something i can't handle comes up, someone else usually comes in to help me out with handling it. grounding has gotten easier especially if a soother comes into front to help work me through the issues or severe dissociation. usually they leave afterwards, but it's gotten easier to process things.

[hearty-an0n]

BERT!!!!!

[yes7erdays-archive]

tag drop

[kiki-strike]

full time job of messing with things

[officialclangen]

CLANGEN UPDATE: CLANCOPHONY

(Download the update here, or via your in-game auto-updater!)

Hello furriends and Clanmates! We hope you have all lined your nests with feathers and moss; leaf-bare is here, and so is our next release!

Our lovely developers have been reinforcing the camp walls with new features for moons now. With the new release, you can direct your warriors' focus, befriend/antagonize the other Clans, invite in outsiders, choose symbols for your Clans, experience our new sound system, and more! ❄️

If you are having issues with your anti-virus flagging ClanGen, please look to this post for a guide on how to fix it.

Our changelog is very long, so it will be below the cut ❤️

Features

CLAN FOCUS: New feature accessed via the Warrior's Den. Direct your warriors' Focus towards specific goals, such as feeding the Clan or sabotaging other neighboring Clans. When the Focus is changed, there is a cooldown of 3 moons before it can be changed again, so choose wisely! Please note that some Focuses aren't accessible in Classic mode and that some Focuses require certain cat ranks to be present.

PRONOUNS: Wow! The cats have pronouns other than they/them? Yes it's true! Cats can now naturally generate with they/them, he/him, or she/her pronouns. Want a cat to have different pronouns than those options? You can do that to! Check out their profile page and the Change Gender option to add any pronoun under the sun. These pronouns will be used in text throughout the game when referring to that cat (give a big hand to our writing team for the monumental amount of work they did to get pronouns integrated into all the text!) Please note a new game setting to revert the game to only generating they/them pronouns for all cats.

LEADER'S DEN: You can now access the Leader's Den to view the other Clans neighboring your Clan as well as the known Outsiders. Decide how you want to interact with these other cats: will you appease the hostile Clans? Or antagonize them further? Will you hunt down that one pesky rogue? Or perhaps you've decided an exiled Clanmate should be allowed a second chance…

CLAN SYMBOLS: You can now choose a Clan symbol during Clan creation. Other Clans also generate with symbols, which you will see in the Leader's Den. There are currently 484 symbols available to choose from, a roster that we plan to continue expanding with each stable update. Please note that old Clan saves will not be able to choose a Clan symbol in-game, though save editing to change the symbol is relatively simple. When loading an old save, the game will attempt to assign a symbol matching with it's prefix, if no symbol exists then it will randomly choose a symbol.

CLASSIC CONDITIONS: Classic mode can now access illnesses, injuries, and permanent conditions! Please note that this still differs in some ways from Expanded mode. In Classic Mode, a single medicine cat can care for the entire Clan, specific herb amounts are not displayed on the med den screen, an herb will treat a condition regardless of the Clan's actual herb amounts, the Clan's herb supply is randomly generated and is not dependent on events.

AUDIO: What in StarClan?? Clangen with sound!? Clangen now comes with shiny new sound effects and one very lovely music track that plays during Clan creation. More music is on the horizon… and don't worry! There is a handy dandy mute button in the corner of the screen and audio settings to control music/ambiance and sound effects volume separately.

QoL

Fullscreen new and improved! Art no longer looks oddly crunched and the black frame has been replaced with pretty background art. This comes with a new setting to turn off anti-aliasing and a setting to ignore fullscreen scaling rules, just in case you want it a little extra large (please note that this setting will come with some visual quirks if enabled)

You can now search cats on the mediator page

More special characters are allowed in user notes

Leaders can now be affected by mass extinction events

Mass extinction events are now limited to affecting 11 cats at most, but they can occur multiple times in a single moon.

When leaders die of starvation, they now revive with enough nutrition to bring them up to malnourished, giving a little extra time to find food before starving once more.

Moon events that previously mentioned an Outsider, but did not generate an Outsider cat, will now generate an Outsider

Moon events that mention an Outsider can now pull an Outsider from the existing list of Outsiders, rather than generating a new one

War events will now match with the affect of the overarching war event for that moon (i.e. if the Clans are having peace talks that moon, no clan relation lowering events will occur at the same time)

More moon events are now recorded in the relationship log if they changed a relationship

"show dead/living" button on cat list is now "view dead/living"

"filtered by" button on cat list is now "sort by"

Last and First page buttons are now available on the cat list screen.

Players can now input a page number on the cat list screen to move to that page immediately

Leader death history now displays as a single sentence for each death, rather than one long run-on sentence

Custom cursor setting now comes with a warning about increased chance of crashes

All text (or at least, the vast majority) can now be copy-pasted!

Buttons on moon events that lead to the profiles of cats involved now generates a horizontal scroll bar if the buttons go off-screen

If a moon event had no cats specifically involved, the involved cat button no longer displays

Alert exclamation marks now persist until the tab is clicked

When keybinds are on, you can now use the arrow keys to move up and down the event tab buttons, and the enter button to switch to the selected tab

Cats can now be quickly added to and removed from patrols via double clicking

Herb moon events no longer destroy herb supplies in their entirety (with the exception of one war event) and any large destruction events no longer occur if herb stores are already low

Herb gained on moonskip and patrols has been slightly buffed

Relationship value changes when cats break up is now dynamic, meaning some break ups have larger impacts than others

Newborn kits are now listed in the involved cat buttons on moon events

Quick start! You can click Quick Start at the beginning of Clan Creation to skip to the end. All choices will be made randomly

Content

100s of new patrol art additions

Many many new patrols! Many requiring specific traits or skills.

New outcomes for existing patrols! Many requiring specific traits or skills.

New Camps! The Mountainous camp, Ruins, and the Beach camp, Fjord.

New moon events, such as murders and new ways to gain accessories.

Literally 1000+ new relationship events

Many many new thoughts, many of which are exclusive to certain traits, ages, conditions, seasons, and skills

New leader ceremony possibilities, many of which are exclusive to cats of certain traits (both the dead cats and the new leader)

Prefix list updated to include new canon names (looking at you, Stretchkit)

Many new loner/kittypet names

Many outcomes for Leader Den events, many of which are specific to certain skills, traits, and ages

New events for pregnancy announcements and speculations

New grief events and thoughts

New accessories!

Bugfixes

Murders will no longer occasionally crash the game

Fixed a bug caused by the training app murder event

You can no longer sort living cats by death date

Players no longer get stuck in the med den backrooms (when accessing the med den through cat profiles, the back button would return you to the cat profile. attempting to back out of the cat profile would take you back to the med den. rinse and repeat, it's a loop)

Buttons now disable/enable properly when closing relationship logs on first and last cats in the cat list

You can no longer enter negative page numbers by clicking the back button very very fast

Leaders now receive appropriate birth event text when dying from childbirth

Outsider kittens can no longer join as warriors

Long term conditions, like wasting disease, will now display in leader's history if they took a life

When leaders are lost on patrol, patrol result text no longer mentions them by their warrior name

Litters can no longer spawn with duplicate names (i.e. two kits named Stonekit)

Medicine cats captured by twolegs no longer have their role erased

Cat history no longer lists cats as murdering themselves

Kicked cats out of the walls (fixed some possible cat positionings on camp screen)

Adolescents can no longer be considered "normal adults" in patrols simply because they graduated to warrior early.

Kits adopted during moon events now receive correct inheritance info and begin with a positive relationship toward new adoptive parent(s)

Mates of adoptive parents now automatically adopt any newly adopted kits received on moonskip

Check added for matching age when assigning random romantic relationship values at Clan creation

When assigning random relationship values at Clan creation, the Guide cat will now only generate relationships with living cats old enough to have known the Guide in life.

Adopted litters now always generate with a bio parent, ensuring their inheritance lists them as littermates

The generation of half-clan litters no longer assumes the birthing parent can only be the (biologically) female parent (this is important for "ignore biology" game setting)

Cats with no romantic interest in each other will no longer receive romance decreasing events

Poly cat love confessions no longer read as though one cat is asking their dead mate for permission before accepting a new cat into the polycule.

Rosemary is no longer applied to the "dead body" of a lost cat

Affair birth events no longer mention nonexistent mates

Fixed mistagging in patrols that would lead to unintended effects

Many small UI issues

Many small sprite fixes

Many typo fixes