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i just wanted to see how inbred my tree was.... i did not realize.... how bad it got....

look, i knew there was a handful of cousins okay? and one or two pibling/niblings in there

but i failed to realize how they started to stack on top of each other

i started off trying to do circles inside of circles, before realizing i should have just done tallies...

the final scoring...

Gorsepaw has 1 relation* to George, 1 relation to Bluetail, 3 relations to Onestream, 5 relations to Rattail, 5 relations to Hollystripe

Gravelspeck and Cindershine have 3 relations to Bluetail, 4 relations to Onestream, 4 relations to Hollystripe, 5 relations to Rattail

Falconstrike has 1 relation to Bluetail, 2 relations to Hollystripe, 3 relations to Onestream, 3 relations to Rattail

Waspstar has 3 relations to Bluetail, 4 relations to Onestream, 4 relations to Rattail, 5 relations to Hollystripe

Burrfoot and Timbertail have 2 relations to Thistlesong, 4 relations to Hollystripe, 4 relations to Onestream, 5 relations to Rattail, 6 relations to Bluetail

Stripepaw, Fieldfur, and Streamdawn have 2 relations to Onestream, 2 relations to Hollystripe, 3 relations to Bluetail, 4 relations to Rattail

Chirppaw and Woolflight have 1 relation to Thistlesong, 3 relations to Hollystripe, 3 relations to Onestream, 4 relations to Bluetail, 4 relations to Rattail

Talonwind has 1 relation to George, 1 relation to Onestream, 2 relations to Thistlesong, 3 relations to Rattail, 3 relations to Hollystripe, 5 relations to Bluetail

*relation = how many times this cat would appear as an ancestor on their tree, or, how many times their ancestors bred with a related cat (except 1 = 0 in that scenario. or, 1 = not-related x not-related, 2+ = related x related).

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????? HELLO??????

what are these freaks doing.... make up your minds?

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what are these freaks doing.... make up your minds?

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one of your children will be something extraordinary

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hehehehehehe. hehe. leafash before everything goes horribly wrong 😋

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Goosefather au comic this time brindlepaw reveals her true lineage (no white and brindle dont have kits here in this au dontask LOL)

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shoutout to my two oc's Bouncestar and Maplepad for being the only sibling duo to absolutely downright fucking hate each other guts and yet still have the decency and morality to be like "what no i hate them but i wouldn't kill them tf"

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everyone should draw their interpretation of the tabby queen with distinctive black markings from into the wild chapter 3

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me in the 4th grade asking everyone which clan they wanted to be in

casual warrior cats fans r soooo rare i love you guys. for me and 99% of the people i know it’s a legitmate lifestyle like we were IMMERSED in the world building. larping as cats and breaking into peoples backyards, pretending to sacrifice our friends at 10 yrs old to starclan. i love causal wc fans who r just like “i like firestar :)” and carry on w their lives bc they’re the most chill ppl

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soooo i heard that we currently do not have a full collection of pdfs/epubs, so hello, im blessing this fandom tonight with a link to my mega folder that has every single warriors book released as of april 8, 2025... yes, EVERY book, all for you, go hog wild!! 👏👏

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....what do you mean it was one year ago. huh

happy ravenstar day

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i'm making a big organized attention grabbing post about this because it surprises that so far i seem to be the only one who's thought about this

ok so when moonpaw was first revealed to be a chimera it was speculated the voice she was hearing might be a manifestation of the embryo she absorbed in utero. the preview that was released made it seem like this was the case, but the full book revealed that moonpaw actually had a littermate who passed shortly after being born, which is presumed by moonpaw's parents to be the true identity of her voice

HOWEVER. there are a few things that strike me as odd:

-why is it that the voice itself never tells moonpaw any of this? with it desperately vying for moonpaw's attention, you'd think it would have tried to play that card early on.

-not to mention, having such crucial information about who or what the main villain is be revealed so early into the story is strange, especially when you consider how the mystery of the imposter and the riverclan mutineers were drawn out far longer.

-it makes sense that moonpaw's sibling would look like her, but the text goes out of its way to state that the voice doesn't just look like moonpaw, it looks identical to the orange half of moonpaw's pelt. moonpaw even at one point says that "it looks like [her], but it's not [her]."

-when a kit dies, their spirit remains eternally youthful. moonpaw's voice on the other hand is stated to appear as a cat the same age as her. if she died as a kitten, why is she still aging?

-when moonpaw talks to alderpaw about her voice, he mentions that it sounds a lot like a recent event which was ‘nothing like what happens at the moonpool.’ this is likely referring to the events of the broken code- insinuating whatever is contacting moonpaw does not sound like they’re from starclan

-the way the voice acts is in every way antithetical to how the writers characterize starclan, even dissuading moonpaw from becoming a medicine cat. there's also this scene:

Alderheart had told Moonpaw that when a medicine cat touched their nose to the water, they would find themselves in Starclan's Territory. Maybe if I open my eyes, I'll find that I'm already there. Excitement stirred inside Moonpaw as she let her eyes slip open. But instead of the sunlit slopes where her warriors ancestors lived, all she could see were the shifting waters of the Moonpool… and the reflection of the orange tabby she had seen beside the lake.

once again, the voice seems to exist pointedly in the absence of starclan association.

-why is moonpaw specified as a chimera if such a distinction isn't significant? why is there such strong emphasis on her split markings, and how different and special she looks, if all she's experiencing is a garden variety haunting?

-most importantly: What Did She Mean By This

"I am you, and you are me. We are two halves [...] I'm tied to you, Moonpaw. We are part of each other."

for something that has supposedly nothing to do with the chimera thing that's all VERY ON THE NOSE. i'm always saying "i am you and you are me" to my sibling.

of course the cynical explanation to all of this is that erin hunter isn't a good writer. i know the amount of phoned in decisions and plot threads unceremoniously left hanging in the last arc have really soured the fanbase on speculation, myself included. but i would like to believe that if these writers truly want their audience to engage with what they make then certain small observations will prove rewarding in the future.

here is my theory: the voice moonpaw is hearing is NOT the spirit of moonpaw's late sister who died young as her parents believe it to be, but is in fact the other half of moonpaw's chimera that maintained separate consciousness from its sister after their bodies merged and now dwells as a metaphysical parasite within her body

it's heavily implied that the clans are going to lose contact with starclan for a while this arc, which conveniently makes them unable to verify the origin of moonpaw's voice. imagine how cool it would be if moonpaw were to go through the brunt of the arc believing that the entity invading her mind and body is merely her departed sister unable to pass on after dying, thus giving her a sense of familiarity with it and bringing logic to it being there- only for her actual sister to actually show up and be like yeah i've just been chilling in starclan, no idea who or what that is. imagine if, furthermore, moonpaw's voice had genuinely been under the same impression moonpaw had, and now must grapple with how not only was their entire sense of self unwittingly thieved from the grave of a dead infant, but also that they were never even a 'real' person to begin with.

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it's not gonna happen but I pray that somehow all of the exiled clancats these past few arcs (Sleekwhisker, Breezeheart, Fognose) come back under Sol's leadership because that's be funny as fuck

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tch. you can’t even comprehend what im capable of *teleports another baby out of a nearby infant ward*

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i finally read Stars and (spoilers obvs) i saw so many people complaining about Berryheart being "redeemed" and i was expecting to see that happen and

no???? she literally never was??? in fact when her death scene and her funeral occurred i was THE MOST HYPED for it??? it is literally SO well-written imo, much more compared to a lot of other stuff this arc

like. genuinely. Berryheart and Sunbeam's relationship has been SO interesting and SO complex and it BAFFLES me that people don't like either character. like, okay, i do hate Sunbeam x Nightheart as a REAL "in-love" ship (i like it best when as when Nightheart just fuckin. showed up at her house and said "we're married now" because that was funny fr, misogyny aside), and all of the Sunbeam-in-ThunderClan stuff is EUGH and boring, BUT the saving grace really was her and Berryheart's complex relationship.

Berryheart is SO REALISTIC as a loving, overprotective, overbearing helicopter mother WHO ONLY LOVES THE VERSION OF THE DAUGHTER IN HER HEAD. yes she still loves Sunbeam, but she doesn't love who Sunbeam has become and she handles it poorly and treats Sunbeam poorly!!!! same with Spireclaw, her son. in fact, i love ALL of Sunbeam's family. all of them have distinct personalities and motivations and reasonings that differ from each other!!!!

and Sunbeam just wants her mom back!!! her mom DID love her, her mom DOES love her, but also her mom is doing horrible things to her, her family, her mate, her clan, ALL of the clans, and that's hard to reconcile! so OF COURSE Sunbeam keeps trying to paint her mom in a better light, keeps trying to justify her in her head!!!! is it not obvious that what Sunbeam is CHOOSING to believe about her mother is not what her mother actually was as a person? Sunbeam is choosing to believe that her mom had good and just motivations and that she would have been good in the end, when the reality is that Berryheart WAS NOT GOOD OR JUST.

IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME AS WITH FROSTDAWN AND CURLFEATHER, AND PEOPLE SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT PLENTY BUT NOT WITH SUNBEAM AND BERRYHEART????

literally, Berryheart died trying to usurp Splashtail in the same exact fashion that Curlfeather did for Mistystar. just because she was going against the bigger evil did not "redeem" her, because she still had horrible intentions??? hello???? she just wanted the power for herself, how is that "redeeming" her???

the ONLY way i can see this being fucked up is if the Erins for some reason say she went to StarClan, but as far as im aware, she's in the Dark Forest, which straight up proves that she WASN'T redeemed

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just heard the news. tawnypelt girl im so sorry

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“SquirrelCrow is the worst possible crackship you could make out of a TNP pair!”

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