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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

Moon 19: no kits yet

Moon 20: no kits yet

Moon 21: Kits on the way!

Moon 22: Kits on the way!

Moon 23: 2/100 kits

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

Moon 13: no kits yet

Moon 14: no kits yet

Moon 15: no kits yet

Moon 16: no kits yet

I swear, at this rate, I might have to restart before I can get this cat to have kits.

Moon 17: no kits yet

Moon 18: no kits yet

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

Moon 7: no kits yet

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

Moon 5: no kits yet, no events

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar):Gen 1

Moon 1: no kits yet

Potential future second parents for the challenge have joined.

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100 Kittens(Lynxstar): Gen 1

Mate #1: Mousespeckle

Moon 0

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100 kitten challenge

inspired by the 100 baby challenge on the sims, as popularized by simtubers like the buzzfeed girl (kelsey impicciche)

you have a parent cat, and your goal is to have that parent (matriarch/patriarch/whatever you want) have 100 kittens!

repeated pairings are not allowed (aka aside from same-litter kittens, all the kittens should have a different other parent)

what you need

a parent cat

allow same sex kittens

don't allow unmated cats to have offspring

don't allow affairs (ty theo for the catch!)

no mass extinction :<

all other options are up to you :3

how to start

create your clan

make your parent cat the leader

pick a mate for the leader

wait for them to have kits

once kits are born, break them up with their mate, and pick another mate

if your leader dies, choose one of their kits as the new parent cat/leader

rinse and repeat until you reach 100 kittens!

notes

feel free to pick up outsider cats to join

if needed, you can change the leader's age to be younger so they can have More Kits

you're also allowed to modify your game/increase kit chances etc!

if a kit dies before reaching 12 moons, then they don't count towards the total

if the selected parent cat/leader dies without any kits, start over from square 1

last but not least… have fun!

Here's the first challenge I'm gonna try to do to fill out the queue between work on some writing and family trees.

Here's the first leader/parent cat for the challenge.

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Update

Sorry I haven't been posting too often... again...

I'm in the middle of working on a writing project, which I may start posting here at some point.

There's also a few clangen challenges that I may start adding to the queue so there's at least some content for people to consume while they wait.

The family tree stuff will return... once I finally figure out how to deal with the genetic disaster that is Whiteear's children.

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Redesigning Dapplemist's Family pt. 2

According to the poll, next up is Dapplemist's branch of the tree.

I've already gone over Dapplemist herself in part 1. She's a ticked torbie with low white and brown eyes.

Her mate is Swarmfur, a dark grey spotted tabby with green eyes. He doesn't have any white in his original design, but Birchbug has high white on one of their genotypes, so their father has to have at least a little white. That's pretty much it for him, appearance-wise.

For the sake of cats further down the line, he's also carrying for cinnamon, solid, classic, longhair, and colorpoint(aka siamese point, but I hate calling it that).

Dapplemist and Swarmfur have 3 kits. Just like Whiteear, funnily enough.

The most well-known of their kits, by which I mean they have shown up in multiple posts, is Birchbug. They were originally designed as a Dappleswarm hypokit by @lurking-in-windclan-camp. Because the original design was not made by me or the sims game, Birchbug was the only exception to my "no mutations" rule for these redesigns. Birchbug's original design can be completely possible, as long as they are a chimera.

A chimera is the result of two embryos fusing in the womb, the resulting child having two genotypes instead of one, and different areas can express one genotype or the other. This is why I said "one of Birchbug's genotypes" while talking about Swarmfur.

The first genotype gives them black fur and high white, while the second genotype gives them blue fur and low white. Both are solid, Dapplemist is carrying "a" solid from Stumpyripple, and Swarmfur can also be carry "a". Dapplemist has to be carrying "d" dilution from one of her parents(doesn't matter which) in order for one of Birchbug's genotypes to be "d/d" on the dilution allele. Both genotypes are shorthair, which could get the "L" from either parent. one genotype is carrying for classic, and one is carrying Swarmfur's "cs" for colorpoint for future reference.

Next is Paledust, she was from my sims 4 warriors destiny series that never got finished after the third child got taken away due to lag on my old computer. Paledust is a trans girl, as well as a lesbian. The sims 4 character had pale blonde hair and green eyes, so I gave her cat version cream fur. She also has low white, and long fur.

That "d" from Dapplemist makes a return, so even if Birchbug had been a fully black cat, she'd have still needed to carry for dilution to give to Paledust. Since Paledust was born X/Y, she can only receive a single "O" or "o" depending on what Dapplemist can give her, since Swarmfur gave her his "Y". Dapplemist is a tortie, so has a "O" to give her daughter to make her ginger.

She is also a heterozygous ticked tabby, so "Ta" from Dapplemist and "ta" from Swarmfur.

Both parents are carrying "l" for longhair now so that Paledust can be "l/l".

The last child is Blossomwind. Just like Paledust, she's originally from my sims 4 Warriors Destiny series. She was the child that got taken away, I believe. I drew her as a cat awhile back, where I had decided to make her mink and a torbie. I don't think she was ticked at the time, but she is now. This is also where the point genes get to come out.

Just like Dapplemist, she's a chocolate torbie. So she gets her mother's "b" for chocolate and "O" for ginger. Swarmfur can only give his "o", which makes her a tortie. She also gets a "A" from either parent to make her a tabby, and "Ta" from Dapplemist to make her ticked. She's the only Dappleswarm child without white on her, so she gets each parent's "w" instead of either's "S".

For her mink, she gets "cs" from Swarmfur and "cb" from Dapplemist. One colorpoint and one sepia point allele makes mink point, which I personally find really cool.

Hope you enjoyed my redesigns and rambling about genetics. The next part will come after a few polls and random cat designing posts.

picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats

Anything seen in these cats that's not in the picrew(like Dapplemist's white speckles or Birchbug's whole chimerism thing) are alterations I made in MSpaint and, in my opinion, are relatively easy to replicate yourself in any art program that can paint or copy and paste.

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Creating Random Cats #3: Marigoldstream

After rolling dice, Gorsestar and Waxwhisker have a single child for me to make.

MARIGOLDSTREAM—a black and red, mackerel tortoiseshell-tabby she-cat, with short fur, and amber eyes.

B/?,O/o,D/d,S/w,A/?,Mc/mc,sp/sp,L/?

First thing, colors. Marigoldstream is a tortie, so grab Waxwhisker's "O" and Gorsestar's "o". She's also, specifically, a black tortie, not chocolate/lilac like Gorsestar. "B" for black is dominant over "b" for chocolate, so she can't get that "B" from her mother. However, we have no idea what Waxwhisker has under his ginger, so we can give him a "B" on that locus, allowing him to pass that allele to his daughter. We don't know what allele Marigoldstream inherited from her mother, since Gorsestar could be carrying for cinnamon. So that second allele will stay blank for now.

Marigoldstream is non-dilute, which is easy. "D" from Waxwhisker and "d" from Gorsestar, who only has "d" to give.

Gorsestar is "S/S", so her daughter has to have at least a little white, and Waxwhisker is "w/w", keeping Marigoldstream from being high white. Making Marigoldstream "S/w".

She can get her "A" from either parent, "Mc" from Gorsestar, and "mc" from Waxwhisker. She's not spotted, so "sp/sp", Gorsestar and Waxwhisker are both carrying for non-spotted now. She could also get her shorthair "L" from either parent.

Hope you enjoy the gene breakdown.

Picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats

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Creating Random Cats #2: Waxwhisker

I plan to follow Gorsestar's tree in these randomized cat creations. So the next cat is Gorsestar's mate. If you'd like to submit cats to join a specific tree, or start a whole new tree, feel free to ask, my inbox is always open. You're also free to leave a comment on these posts, if you'd rather do that.

WAXWHISKER—a short haired, red classic tabby tom, with hazel eyes.

O/Y,D/?,w/w,A/?,mc/mc,L/?

Waxwhisker is pretty simple, genetics-wise. "O" for ginger, which is sex-linked, leaving the "Y" as a marker that this cat was born male. I tend to mark in parenthesis if the cat's gender does not align with the genetics I've written out, so I know the correct pronouns and if a pairing needs a surrogate or not. As a ginger cat, we have no idea what he has on the black-based locus, which is why it's not written here. Then we have "D" for non-dilute, leaving space for a potential recessive "d" for dilution if his kids need it, "w/w" for no white on him at all, "A" for tabby, leaving space for potential recessive solid like with dilution, "mc/mc" for classic, and finally "L" for shorthair, once again leaving space for recessive longhair.

Anything not displayed does not currently matter for Waxwhisker's appearance on its own. I will make a separate post for his kids with Gorsestar, at which point any genes needed will be written out or plugged into place.

Hope you enjoy!

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Redesigning Dapplemist's Family pt. 1

As part of my love of cat genetics, I have been trying to challenge myself to recreate the cats of my favorite oc family tree using more realistic genetics than what Sims 3 uses without using certain mutations to just explain away just how many male torties are in the sims 3 made cats. There's also some newer characters I apparently made last time I attempted to map out genes. So you all will get to see them further down the line(might decide to make a new series involving some of those characters, but no guarantee.

Anyway, first up is Stumpyripple.

He looks a bit different from his original design. That's because the Sims 3 Japanese bobtail preset defaults to a calico. Since his mate is black-based, and both his daughters are torties, I decided to get rid of his black patches and make him red-based. He's still mostly white, giving him S/S homozygosity, and he's genetically solid since his patches were soild in the original sims 3 design. Red-based cats, even when genetically solid, always display stripes. I gave him spotted tabby markings on his ginger spots, mostly because I was debating if I wanted to make Dapplemist ticked like her sims 3 design or spotted. For the sake of later down the line, he's also carrying for sepia point, so keep that in mind.

Next is his lovely mate Fawnpond.

This is as red as I can get her in the picrew rn. She's a ruddy(black based with high rufousing that makes her look more red) abyssinian. I have to look up breed standards for her to see how close to purebred I could make her. I think the only part of her genetics that's outside of the standard for Abyssinian was her agouti locus. Abyssinians tend to always be ticked tabbies from what I found, and Fawnpond has to carry an allele for solid in order for Whiteear to be solid like her father.

She is homozygous for everything else, except her white spotting(S/w for low white) and where there are gaps because breed standards and future generations haven't filled them in yet. She could be "b/b,D/D" or "b/bl,D/d", but we don't have to know unless a recessive is need further down the line. Which is the perks of leaving these gaps to slot recessives in when needed.

Now, time for the only children this couple had. Personally, I would love to make a third child just to see if we can fill Fawnpond's blanks or not, but I will probably leave that to a poll.

Anyway...

Dapplemist is a mostly ruddy tortie. In the end, I decided to make her ticked so her mother could stay homozygous ticked. The picrew doesn't have an option for the little white speckles, so I drew them on myself. There will be moments where I alter the final picture from the picrew to better fit the design of the character. Now, the white speckles could be vitiligo, but I know nothing about how that inherits, so I'm just gonna say these are a part of her white spotting. Also, for future reference, she's carrying that allele for sepia point from Stumpyripple.

The picrew didn't have big asymmetrical white patches on the face, so I made a separate version where all the black patches were white and just added the white by her ear that way. I don't know if this is a possible white spotting option, but it gives her her namesake. Just like with Stumpyripple, she's genetically solid because her original design was, and her ginger fur displays tabby markings despite that.

I fear when I get to her children... two male torties and a black and white molly... the daughter is the most genetically possible due to her mother being a tortie and her father being a black and white tom.

Hope you guys enjoy these designs.

picrew by @littlehungrywarriorcats