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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

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Me with Lottienat I fear

a ship where i see what people see but it is simply not very interesting to me personally it’s like

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Bonefall’s Clan Culture Expansions Masterpost

Last update: 4/21/2023

What is this?

I’m making open-source guides that expand on the culture of the warrior cat clans, staying within the capability of cats with human-level intelligence living in Northwestern England. To do this, I research a lot of bushcraft, stone age technology, the flora and fauna of the British Isles, and the effects of different plants on cats.

The regions I model are Clwyd, Cheshire, Manchester, Merseyside, and Lancashire.

Can I use these for my projects?

Yes! I make these guides exactly to help and inspire those looking to make their own warriors projects. I love being @’d so I can see what you create with my stuff.

Yes, it’s still okay to use these if your project is original or diverges very far from WC. These guides are all open source.

Mr. Bonefall, do you use these for YOUR projects?

Yes! I use these for the Better Bones AU, a project that rewrites warrior cats to give the series a conclusive theme, consistent individual politics, and a more fleshed out culture.

You will probably notice references to my AU’s changes in some entries, such as Sorreltail becoming head of ThunderClan’s kitchen patrol, or Birchfall being a co-inventor of Paw Soup!

The List of Running Clan Culture Projects

Clanmew, a Warrior Cats Conlanguage

Warrior Bites, expanded food culture and meal guides

Herb Guides, how to treat and medicate everything from Color Coughs to Epilepsy to HRT.

Cat Customs, miscellaneous entries on folklore, law, and traditions.

Tribe and Beyond, overhauls of the surrounding groups to give them full cultures and specialty powers all their own.

Each section will be sorted into the ‘big posts‘ I’ve made, plus a second list of answered questions and such.

Clanmew

This project is so large it has its own MASTERPOST!

Glyphic writing system

Warrior Bites

BIG BOYS;

The Rules

The Tools

Dried Minnows

Tunnelbuns

Lesser List;

What’s the advantage of cooking, anyway?

Baconization

“Bones did you know you can make flour out of (strange non-grain object)“ I’m sorry to tell you that you can’t.

Paw Soup

Who makes the most soup?

The value of eggs

Why milk, cheese, and butter won’t be in Warrior Bites entries

Dipping sauces

But SkyClan loves to steal a butter snack

The TNP journey and its impacts on diet

Mushrooms.

Grubcakes

The importance of fat supplement in a WindClan diet

3. Herb Guides, how to treat and medicate beyond the color coughs

Hormone Replacement Therapy for Transgender Warriors

Epilepsy (includes non-medicinal treatments)

Hygiene 101

All About Fennel

Treating eye infections

What sorts of physical changes would a trans warrior experience?

Medicinal marijuana. Specifically for a person who wanted a Smokeweed.

On Neurodivergency

Health concerns of hygiene

How to do a deep cleaning

Nightshade poisoning vs Yew poisoning, trivia about TPB

Medicinal maggots

On cat diabetes; why any future Herb Guide on it will closely resemble human diabetes instead of the feline type.

Chronic pain

Gastrointestinal problems

Abortion

The 4 types of Color Cough I use

Chewsticks/toothbrushes

Joint pain

“Skincare routine“ but it’s actually about glossy fur

Funeral herbs

4. Cat Customs

BIG BOYS

Broad guide to how I approach each Clan culturally

Fading Kits

Stashes

Secondary Apprenticeship

Patrolling, Trinary Gender

New jobs and the role of leaders and deputies

Parenting and Honor Siring

Shellfur’s Lake Gathering (In fic style)

The Historical Evolution of the Aftergathering

LeopardClan

Kitten Stealing

Lesser list;

yes the leaders know about aftergatherings

It is not the debauchery fest that some cats think it is

Why Clerics are the only cat who interpret omens

Stash Etiquette

Age

Traps

On currency; I don’t use this but here are suggestions for good coins.

Meewa-ness

A single kit litter with a fading kit

How aware the cats are of humans

Leeches

Building materials

String

Scars and the Forest Four’s reverence of them

Beauty Standards: Ugliness

SkyClan Beauty Standards

Brightheart is the singular most beautiful cat by Forest Four standards now

Makeup

Pearl necklace

SkyClan’s oddness

SkyClan vs ShadowClan sense of humor

SkyClan’s politeness demonstrated with tunnelbuns

A huge dump on killings, maulings, the sharpness of claws, etc

Light pollution

Leather

Harbor Porpoises, the only cetacean they know about

Guy Fawkes Night

Some parables

5. Tribe and Beyond

A Plan for WarriorClan

BloodClan REDUX

BloodClan’s Claw Extenders

(The Tribe has been left out for now because I want to make a new post for them)

And here’s some more stuff I’ve done that’s cool but unorganized because they were done before I was actually running a series.

Beekeeping: The utility of honey and wax

Domestication (insects, goldfish, and the practicality of keeping mice)

Speculative evolution for Clan cats, if you fancy that

WIP Bio survey of ThunderClan

If you like anything I’m running here, feel free to drop me a suggestion or ask me a question!

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Perhaps the wilderness in Yellowjackets is not just a symbol of death. Perhaps it is also—in its own way—freedom.

In the wilderness, Lottie didn’t have to hide her visions for fear of being called crazy. She was exalted as a leader and a prophet. But when she returned, they called her crazy and locked her up.

In the wilderness, Misty didn’t have to be ashamed of her intensity and eccentricity. She was helpful, she was needed, she was important. But when she returned, they called her a freak and exiled her once again.

In the wilderness, Tai didn’t have to pretend to be something she’s not. Her other self was not a weakness but a strength, it gave her power, and kept her alive. But when she returned she had to suppress her urges and hide her other self, or lose everything.

In the wilderness, Shauna didn’t have to be small, and hide the fire inside her. She was angry, and violent, and powerful. But when she returned, she was forced back into a supporting role, forced to contain her darkness and her drive in order to fit a role she never wanted to play.

In the wilderness, Travis didn’t have to put on an act to fit the societal expectations of masculinity. He was feminine, and emotional, and soft—not the man of the group, but just another Yellowjacket in the hive. But when he returned, he was forced back into the cage—back into the closet—isolated, hardened, closed off and separated from the girls once more.

In the wilderness, Natalie didn’t have to feel guilty for surviving. She was the hunter, the provider, and the gun in her hands made her a savior, and a leader, not a killer. But when she returned, she was a killer once again, haunted by guilt, and outcast by society for the things she did to stay alive.

The wilderness gave them the freedom to be their truest and most authentic selves, but the cost was the blood spilled. The cost was their old selves. The cost was a place in the world upon their return.

Maybe the wilderness did not destroy them; it simply changed them into something new, something irrevocably different, something that would never—could never—fit back inside the narrow box of their old lives, and because they could no longer fit, society called them broken.

The wilderness freed them, but it never let them go. Because once you’ve tasted flesh and blood, once you’ve stared death in the face and overcame, once you’ve been to the very brink and seen the true depth of your own capacity for violence, once all the former markers of morality and success have become meaningless, in a world where survival at all costs is the only law, how can you ever go back to a world ruled by pointless, hollow, conventions? Once you’ve shed every remnant of your humanity, once you’ve run with the wolves, and howled at the moon, and become one with the ancient wild gods, how can you ever be a human again? Once you’ve had a taste of complete freedom, how can you ever be satisfied with a fake, insignificant, half-life, made up entirely of half-truths and haunting?

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Gravity Falls and Yellowjackets.

I saw a post saying that Gravity Falls girls grow up to be Yellowjackets girls and I can attest to that

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

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This is a long shot and I doubt anyone will see this but I may as well ask, does anyone have that post with a collage of four characters labeled "characters/villains who felt entitled to a girl" with Ashfur from Warrior Cats as one of them?

Someone reblogged it ranting about why Ashfur is there among the anime characters and I just need this post

The photo of Ashfur used was this one specifically

I love that post sm if someone knows where to find it that'd be awesome

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Amazing source for FanClans!!!

This site lets you search up locations and they will give you a database of all plants, animals and more that are in that location!

I've been using this site for my warriors stuff for a while and i love it so much!!!

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They got freak in their blood

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where r those memes of the stick people or crudely drawn people going absolutely feral n just biting ppl n ripping off arms

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Rogue & Gambit (2018) + Tropes

Belligerent Sexual Tension

2. Working with the Ex

3. There is Only One Bed

4. Undercover as lovers

5. Love at First Punch

6. Relationship Revolving Door

7. Seeing Through Another's Eyes

8. Battle Couple

9. The Big Damn Kiss

10. Earn Your Happy Ending

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bathtub roguegambit moment😋🫠

“I signed up to live this life with you” & “this body here’s all yours” they’re so in love 😫💕

Rogue & Gambit Excalibur 2019 #6

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the sketches are shit but you get the vision

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My fnaf friends and I were talking and we created a fun au where Henry and Mike are there for Security Breach, but Mike chooses to possess Helpy for some fucking reason and is having a great time doing it.

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Each Yellowjackets character’s greatest strength (and why it is also their greatest weakness)

Natalie: Empathy/Selflessness

Despite her abusive home life and edgy, intimidating exterior, Nat is one of the kindest and softest characters on the show. She has a deeper understanding of other’s trauma and pain than most due to her own experiences. Nat was the only one to show empathy towards Travis when his father died, even when he was an absolute asshole to her (and pointed a loaded gun at her!). She helped Travis cut the ring off of his dad’s finger because she knew Javi needed it. She faces her trauma and becomes a hunter to provide food for the group. When Jackie tells Travis about Bobby Farleigh and Travis breaks up with Nat as a result, Nat still helps Jackie on the night of Doomcoming. She also doesn’t hold a grudge against Travis for sleeping with Jackie and even wakes up at the crack of dawn everyday for months and trudges through snow for miles to help him look for Javi. She helps Lisa steal back her goldfish, defends her against her mother, and even dies for her (literally!).

This is also why her selflessness is her greatest weakness, she gives too much of herself and does not believe she herself is worth the care she gives to others, resulting in self-destructive tendencies. Her one act of selfishness (letting Javi die in her place) completely destroys her. Her empathy results in intense guilt and shame when she has to hurt others in the Wilderness, resulting in her spiraling into a life of drugs in order to cope and keeping people at arm’s length to avoid harming them.

Taissa: Ambition/Drive

Taissa is driven and successful in pretty much anything she sets her mind to. Before the crash, she’s a straight A student and an exceptional athlete. In the Wilderness, she takes the lead on leaving the plane wreck, finding the lake, and forges her own expedition to find civilization. Post-rescue, Taissa is arguably the most successful survivor. She’s a lawyer and burgeoning politician with a prestigious academic background and a picturesque family. Tai’s determination and drive for success ensures not only her survival after the plane crash but also the survival of her teammates.

However, Tai’s ambition is also one of her greatest faults. Her tunnel vision towards success can result in herself and those around her getting hurt. She accidentally breaks Allie’s leg trying to get her to improve her soccer abilities. She sets out on her expedition despite Lottie’s warnings, resulting in Van nearly getting killed. And, as an adult, she (literally) drives herself mad trying to win her political campaign, pushing her entire family away in the process. Tai is fierce and accomplished, but always at a cost.

Misty: Devotion/Loyalty

When Misty finds someone she views as her ‘person,’ she latches on and does not let go. We see this in the Wilderness with Coach Ben and Crystal; and in the adult timeline with Natalie. Misty desperately wants to be loved, and therefore she will do anything for the people she cares about, hoping that this will gain their affection. She nurses Coach Ben back to health, she shares all of her secrets with Crystal and does everything in her power to ensure that the others don’t eat her body when she dies. For Nat, she not only gets arrested trying to help her, but also snorts her cocaine to prevent her from relapsing (my favorite scene in the whole show ngl), sets up a whole interrogation with Randy, and travels to a compound in the middle of nowhere to find her after she was kidnapped.

This unconditional devotion, however, definitely comes with its flaws. Misty is obsessive about the people she loves, and this obsession often leads to people getting hurt and/or killed. She kills Jessica Roberts in order to save her fellow survivors from blackmail. She drugs Coach Ben with shrooms (and accidentally the whole team) in order to win his affection, which results in Travis nearly getting killed and Javi going missing. She intimidates Crystal off of a cliff to her death when she rejects Misty and kills Nat when she had been trying to protect her. Misty is loyal, but her loyalty results in sociopathic tendencies and the loss of the very same people she is devoting herself to.

Lottie: Spirituality/Open-Mindedness

Lottie’s spirituality and open-mindedness has been key to the group’s survival in the Wilderness. Her ability to see, hear, and sense what other’s cannot (whether you think it’s real or not) gives her teammates in the teen timeline and her cult (intentional community) members in the adult timeline hope and purpose. Without Lottie, the girls likely would have given up on survival long ago. She has an other-worldly, healing presence that those around her are naturally drawn to, and she helps a lot of people as a result.

Lottie’s spirituality can also be dangerous and even deadly, though. Her time as the Wilderness’s prophet causes the group to spiral into ritualistic sacrifices and cannibalism. In the adult timeline, her spirituality gets her locked up in a psych ward for years. Even after she has healed and moved on, Lottie’s belief in supernatural forces catches up with her again and results in her reinstating The Hunt, ultimately causing Nat’s death.

Van: Perseverance/Resilience

This poor butch goalie has almost died a ridiculous amount of times. She gets in a plane crash and is ditched by Jackie and Shauna in the wreckage, narrowly avoiding burning to death. Then, she’s nearly chopped into bits by a plane propeller. Then, she gets brutally and almost fatally mauled by a wolf. Then, she’s nearly burnt to death again on a funeral pyre (while still actively bleeding to death from the wolf attack). Then, her face is stitched up with a sewing needle by a 16 year-old (with no drugs to numb the pain). Then, her girlfriend starts losing control of herself and trying to run off of cliffs in the middle of the night so she has to regularly tie her down and keep watch of her all night. Then, she gets terminal cancer and only has a few months left to live. And that’s not even considering her life before the crash, living with an alcoholic mother that she has to take care of. Needless to say, Van has been through it. And through it all, she maintains her strength and witty sense of humor. She’s a light out in the Wilderness, keeping her team uplifted and laughing even in their worst moments (this girl is literally cracking jokes with her face torn to shreds). Her perseverance through hardship is next level.

However, this perseverance seems to have created a numbness in Van. Over time in the Wilderness, Van becomes more numb and reaction-less to the tragedy and trauma occurring around her. When the group eats Jackie, she bluntly tells Tai “we ate her” with little emotion. When they kill and eat Javi, Van tells Travis she has no regrets because she’s grateful to be alive. In the adult timeline, Van calls off the psych team for Lottie and goes through with the card ritual, knowing that this will likely result in the someone getting killed. Van is resilient and driven to survive through hardships, but her way of surviving means losing a little bit of her heart and humanity in the process.

Jackie: Influence

Before the crash, Jackie is undoubtedly a leader. She’s the Yellowjackets’ team captain and has an almost magnetic force around her that seems to captivate the whole school. She’s pretty, popular, and excels in everything she does. Shauna especially is completely caught in her orbit. When her teammates are fighting at the party, she single-handedly manages to calm them all down and help them mend their conflicts with each other.

The downside to this influence, however, is that it does not transfer to the Wilderness. High school rules don’t apply to trying to survive in the Canadian Rockies, and Jackie’s influence lies in civilization and traditional society. Jackie struggles to have the same power that she did before, and those who are more unconventional (such as Lottie and Nat) have more influence in their new living situation.

Shauna: Intensity/Passion

Shauna is completely driven by her emotions. She feels things strongly and loves people intensely. We see this first with Jackie, who Shauna has an all-consuming (pun-intended) love for. Her world revolves around Jackie, she doesn’t know where she ends and Jackie begins. In the Wilderness, this intensity of emotions translates to a ferocity that keeps her and her teammates alive. Shauna is unafraid to become the butcher of the group or to take the first bite. On the surface, Shauna appears timid, reserved, and gentle. As a teen, she’s invisible at school, hiding in Jackie’s shadow. As an adult, she’s an unassuming, soft-spoken housewife. But underneath is a darkness and fierceness that catches people by surprise and serves as her secret weapon.

The downside to Shauna’s intensity and passion, however, is that she does not have control over it. Her emotions spiral until she or someone close to her gets hurt. She loves Jackie and feels jealous of her, so she sleeps with her boyfriend, gets pregnant with his child, and implodes their friendship. She is deeply mourning Jackie’s death, so she eats a part of her to feel close to her again. She’s grieving the loss of her baby and doesn’t know what to do with that feeling so she nearly beats Lottie to death. She has a feeling Jeff might be cheating so she starts an affair with Adam. Someone stole her minivan? She’s gonna track them down, hold them at gunpoint, and nearly kill them. When she begins to feel unsafe and suspicious of Adam, this feeling, too, spirals out of control and she ends up murdering him. Shauna’s emotions are powerful, and while they do serve an important purpose of keeping her alive in the Wilderness, she doesn’t know how to express them in healthy ways and ends up lashing out as a result. I have a feeling they’re going to play an important role in Season 3, as well, as we can see that Shauna’s jealousy of Nat’s leadership is already beginning to make itself known.

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Gravity Falls girls grow up to be Yellowjackets girls (I have no proof but also no doubt)