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Sorry for the delay, on top of The Horrors I got concussed u-u

Not sure when the next page will be bc I only have 1 buffer left aaaaa

Me: Kindred will have a simplified style so i can be fast

Also me: *slowly drawing closer and closer to White Cat Gold Plains level of detail bc i can't control myself*

.... also this page Literally has two white cats in gold plains oh my god art imitates art

Oh yeah, Smilodon time!

I have been having fun working out ways to differentiate the Fleet Fangs and Ice Fangs, besides just "one has bigger teeth". So they get more bearlike shapes and lips + the hypothesized extended gumline down the sabers (they also use boar and sow like bears rather than tom and molly like cats)

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How come Quiver looks different than the others?

A combination of being young (I stylise the babies a bit more than adults to try make them look younger in ways besides just being small) and she has a curly/wooly coat!

Also I am still struggling a bit with how much I want to stylise characters, so Quiver and Pounce will probably look a bit anomalous until I get that sorted more c':

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@ Lilac: Why the long face?

Rude!! Rude Question to this poor horse man!! he could also have said "my whole family was killed by ice fangs but that would be depressing

Invasive like... 6/10? it's kinda just mildly annoying (i imagine the same level of annoyance as i have with people asking about my birthmark bc it's on my knee and NO it's not an injury have you people Never seen a port wine stain before???)

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△ @ Burnet: Is there something going on between Lilac and Poppy?

invasive?? mby 5/10 just bc she has to contemplate if she's been third wheeling this whole time unknowingly...

Be kind to her she's queer and a bit dumb cx

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invasive ask time:

hey. Hey pounce. Hey Pounce, why’d your mom leave you 🤨

Hm... interesting...

invasive level 11/10, never ask this again or Pounce is gonna cry c':

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Hey all sorry for the lack of updates, I haven't been home for more than 2 days in a row since mid august and won't be until mid September

Also today has been... hard. I had to have two of my dear old quails put to sleep, which was a long time coming but still hit me. And ive just heard now our family dog has just had to join them due to congestive heart failure. That was sudden and I'm honestly still not comphending I

Sorry for lack of coherence, I have queued some asks for the next few days but after than I'll just do my best for a bit

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△ △ △ Snakespots. Snakespots can u hear me in there? Snakespots r u single? 👉👈

Is he ok with Ghosts? bc that's kinda the deciding factor here XD

(1/10, not invasive or uncomfortable bc Snake is a shameless flirt too and probably misses that in the afterlife rfhbrgf)

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i am absolutely OBSESSED w snakespots’s design i just wanna say that <3 the pink eyes w the one wonky pupil, the mane, the colors n pattern, the weird (/pos) vibes that their cheek fluffs gives off, theyre so. just. Mwah

also, in-game are they the StarClan guide?

Thank you! They're actually a pretty old character of mine who I drag into every new headword cx

Yes, they are the Starclan guide in game!

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These are so cuuuute!!! Quiver's little blep is killing me 🥺

Go read Duskclan right now their characters and dynamics are so well written!

cats cats cats cats!!

But other cats! @aspenclann's Parsleypurr @heritagecolony's Echofreckle @heartkitties Plumwing NyokoArts's Sandstar @mammoth-clangen's Quiver And my own Loonflip!

New page tomorrow! See ya then!

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Im so torn on how I feel about these colours. They're very bright and I can't decide if it's pretty or garish cx

Poppy and Lilac get to have a chill moment though, I think that's nice c:

I wish I had foreshadowed this better but yeah Poppy was always planning on leaving once she was well and the cubs were big enough. Now she's not, which is good bc I like drawing her uvu

Begging people to teach me how they draw characters interacting with each other. I feel like mine always look like they're clipping through each other's mesh and bouncing off, rather than being organically close >:/

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No update this week bc I'm driving across the entire country 🦘 (or at least a solid 30% in a straight line)

Take this Sturt desert pea as compensation

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Bat, you are an adorable lil lad! And also, your fur kinda reminds me of a ribcage-

Ty anon! People seem to love this little lad so enjoy him being a goober uvu

Idk if this is intended to be an invasive question but Bat doesn't find it invasive at all so 1/10 cx

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this is a very unique concept… I love how creative all these clangen inspired blogs are ❤️ very fun

for this one specifically though. Do the “cats” (I will call them that for simplicity’s sake) have designated roles similar to a Clan structure? Any real defined leader, or second in command, or healer? or are the responsibilities all sort of split/shared? do apprentices or their equivalent get assigned to specific mentors? also what should their group be referred to as? Clan? Colony? Pack?

This was asked a long while ago, but I feel like I can happily summarise now bc most of this has been revealed in story uvu

Lore dump!

The "cats" call themselves Fleet Fangs! This is because Homotherium was very cursorial (especially compared to other, typically very stocky, sabercats) and likely adapted for long distance travel. Ice Fangs (Smilodon fatalis) and Tuft Tails (Panthera leo atrox) both have saying that boil down to "once Fleets are running, you can't catch them" lmao

A group of Fleet Fangs is called a Kindred! It's partly based on sounding similar to "a kindle of kittens" and partially on how both clan and kindred mean "family and likeness", at least to me c:

They do sometimes use "pack" but that specifically refers to a small hunting party, not a group living together

Kindred of the Mammoth (and their neighbours we haven't met yet) are odd in that they're very strict in their traditions and territories. Only a few Kindreds have Holdfast names, and it's rare for them to be made up of as many non-relatives as Mammoth Kindred and Neighbour!Kindred. They're also usually nomadic!

Solitary Nomads who don't call themselves a kindred are also very common; it's easier to get by on smaller prey and move on if there's just 1 or 2 of you.

At 6 months, Mammoth Kindred cubs become tyros, and start learning from a mentor. As mentioned in Moon 5, they normally get their own mentor, but sharing definitely isn't unheard of. Even a tyro with one specific mentor will often spend time with another, because everyone has different skills and teaching methods!

There are also roles within a Kindred, such as scout, hunter, herbalist, wounder, clerc, etc. But they're not rigid like in the warriors universe. A herbalist will still hunt if they see prey and a scout will come back with a bundle of herbs if they recognise them while looking for prey or intruders. Also /Everyone/ helps hunt large game, because megafauna don't go down easy.

Leaders don't have 9 lives and often there is two of them! A typical kindred is more like a wolf pack with a partnered pair(ish) and their kids, rather than the unrelated amalgam dedicating their lives to hunting mammoths along one migration route cx

Tysm for your kind words btw! I really enjoy reading other's unique clangens and was inspired to make my own to basically just RNG my own world and lore cx

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I was bored in geography and thinking about your kitties so I tried drawing Burnet from memory and thought I might as well send it here 😊 (ignore the page lines I definitely don't draw in my schoolbooks)

From memory!? That's so good omg, she looks so Chonky, as nature intended uvu

I love margin doodles sm, I used to fill the back cardboard of my books with doodles too cx

Tysm for sharing!! 🥺

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Absolutely wheezing over this, Burnet's expression is Killing Me XD

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Sorry for the @ but I couldn’t not make this real quick

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Next Previous First Tyro Quiver and Flashback guys! The old tom is Thicketberry btw, he was the leader when Burnet was 2 seasons old c: (he's also a trans tom and comes from a different clangen playthrough I did for fun cx ) Lilac and Pine have a really fun dynamic tbh, I think they're cute uvu The last panel was added as an afterthought but i think it was a good one bc Important I like the colours on this page, pink good uvu-b

Omg hello all 7466435 new people!? ty Moons of Dewclan for reblogging me so i could steal your followers rjhbrhbrh

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hi :3

to lilac: how do you feel about poppy?

(I only have that triangle JSJSH)

maybe ~4 discomfort max It's not uncomfortable for him to answer, but he knows most nomads/loners live that way for a reason!