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Two for one, Speckletail and Snowkit! Loved Speckletail being a good mom to him. They both deserved better

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daily sketch 2023 || sep 2nd

some more goosefeather nonsense. this mans really said a baby can be evil

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flarepelt - named for his bushy fur, a mark of pride for him as it makes him look more like his father raggedstar. he wouldn't know until much later that his birth mother would name him for the warmth in her she felt seeing him alive at her belly, much like his brother brokentail being named for the following heartbreak of knowing they would never know how much she cared for them.

inspired by @sootslash's post on reimagining characters with other parents, this was the first thing that came to mind

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Lately there’s a fly in my room, I never knew they lived so long

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To be clear- Cinderpelt finding a new sense of purpose and direction as a medicine cat OF HER OWN FREE WILL after suffering a life-changing injury is not ableism. Firestar constantly feeling sorry for her when she's clearly happy and lamenting the fact that she never got to be a Warrior every time she so much as crosses his line of sight is ableism.

Briarlight being physically unable to preform traditional Warrior duties and finding other things that she can do around camp that make her feel good about herself as a contributing member of her community is not ableism (though they really should've explored it more). Millie explicitly saying that Jayfeather keeping her daughter alive is only prolonging her suffering and that she will always have an "incomplete" life is ableism.

Longtail choosing to retire to the elders den early because he feels unable to comfortably preform his Warrior duties after the loss of his sight is not ableism. Jayfeather being told his blindness means he has no other choice but to become a medicine cat and then being bullied into it by the adults in his life and even his ancestors, despite the fact that he states again and again that he wants to be a Warrior, is ableism.

Disabled characters existing, and not being able to do all of the things that fully abled characters can do is not the problem, and rewriting them to be able to do everything able bodied warriors can is not the solution. The problem is denying disabled characters agency, refusing to accept that they can find happiness and fulfillment in non-traditional roles in Clan life, and treating their lives as though they are somehow diminished by their disabilities.

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needletail’s demise, heavily inspired by junji ito’s uzumaki

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gods of vengeance

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la llorona

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looked better in my head

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Nothing is revealed au

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jay keeps it real

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Not exactly an original idea, but these are all the general Clan’s characteristics in my mind, ordered from the largest cats to the smallest!

I didn’t include SkyClan because they’re not valid <3

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click for better quality!

c'mon, sleepyhead / crookedstar and silverkit

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Here's my annual reminder that I'm still emotionally invested in maybe the most irritating and inconsistent character of the 7th arc.

I feel like Mistystar is one of the most unexplored characters in Warriors, especially in regards to how her various traumas affected her perceptions of clan loyalty.

I mean, being given up by a parent for a deputy position and then returning to the clan that publicly executed your brother for that same position suggests some pretty unhealthy ideals, hopefully this illustration communicates this in some ways!

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thinking about how the only thing to bring joy to Yellowfang's life was fire and cinder and how that's also the last thing she ever saw

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all eyes on you