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[ID: A digital drawing of Firestar, a cat from the Warriors series. He is an orange cat with darker orange legs, tail, chest, and ears. He has a yellow belly, muzzle, and five-pointed star on his chest. He has green and yellow eyes and pink scars. The colors palette is in the top right corner of the drawing.]

Firestar! I'm going to try and complete the 100 Warrior Cats Design Challenge. (Don't worry, I already have the next 2 drawn out on paper).

However, I think I'm going to be moving from Krita to Firealpaca, and I'm going to be pretty busy soon, so they might take a little while. (Hopefully exporting from Firealpaca won't destroy the colors as much as Krita does.)

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One thing I noticed in Hazbin Hotel is that Vaggie's music features chimes. Her part of "Whatever It Takes" and "More Than Anything (Reprise)" both have chimes in the music. In fact, in "More Than Anything (Reprise)" the music only gains instrumentation other than chimes when Charlie starts singing. I hope the chimes are brought back for Vaggie's singing roles in the future.

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Does anyone else have nightmares that turn out good? Like, a lot of my nightmares are about trying to escape a place, and them turning out good is the times where I can escape before I wake up. I had a dream like that a few nights ago. I was trying to escape a building that was like a weird mash-up of a building from my high school and a building from a nearby high school. I was at a balcony on the 2nd or 3rd floor, talking to some friends outside who had graduated from school already (and I just realized why they were outside the building, it's because they had graduated ahead of me). And then my friends and I had to escape. Some escaped by going out the balcony, and some of us went down the elevator. The elevator started malfunctioning in a really scary way as I was trying to get down to the ground floor, and in the dream I was worried I was going to die, but we got to the bottom safely. And then I got out of the building and was free. I woke up just after that, heart pounding, but at least the dream got a good ending.

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Thank you! (We need to put eyelashes on all the toms.)

Firestar! I'm going to try and complete the 100 Warrior Cats Design Challenge. (Don't worry, I already have the next 2 drawn out on paper).

However, I think I'm going to be moving from Krita to Firealpaca, and I'm going to be pretty busy soon, so they might take a little while. (Hopefully exporting from Firealpaca won't destroy the colors as much as Krita does.)

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you never truly leave a fandom. some day down the road you’re gonna remember the blorbo you were obsessed with when you were ten and never recover the brainrot that’ll attack you out of nowhere

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[ID: A digital drawing of Firestar, a cat from the Warriors series. He is an orange cat with darker orange legs, tail, chest, and ears. He has a yellow belly, muzzle, and five-pointed star on his chest. He has green and yellow eyes and pink scars. The colors palette is in the top right corner of the drawing.]

Firestar! I'm going to try and complete the 100 Warrior Cats Design Challenge. (Don't worry, I already have the next 2 drawn out on paper).

However, I think I'm going to be moving from Krita to Firealpaca, and I'm going to be pretty busy soon, so they might take a little while. (Hopefully exporting from Firealpaca won't destroy the colors as much as Krita does.)

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[ID: A digital drawing of Sparkpelt, a character from the Warrior Cats series. She is a light yellow-orange cat with some darker orange markings and a white face, belly, legs, and tail tip. She has light green eyes. The color palette is in the bottom right corner.]

Sparkpelt design! She doesn't have her dog attack scars because I have other art I want to work on instead.

I know people hate designs that are just a flat side view with no personality, but I already had this drawn up in my notebook so I decided to digitize it.

Also, the colors in all of my art are more vivid on the Krita document, but they get dulled down a bit when they get exported, and I hate it.

One detail I wanna point out is how her limbs taper and get thinner towards the bottom. It's not how I usually draw them, that's unique to Sparkpelt!

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I'm rewatching parts of Star Trek TNG's "Family", and I'm reminded of the fact that not only do all members of the Picard family have English accents, they all speak with different English accents. Now, I personally don't like those headcanons that say the Picard family is fake French and only have French names, because we do hear Jean-Luc speak a little French in the show. (And yes I know the pronunciation is very English, that's because Patrick Stewart is English and does not speak French. You have to suspend your disbelief a little bit.) So I headcanon that the Picards all speak French as their first language and had to learn English in school. And in France, it's the cool thing to do to learn English with an English accent rather than speak it in their normal French accent. And there is no consistency on which specific English accent people will choose. (And then you also get people like Jean-Luc's mother who decided to be different and use her normal accent and never learn and English one. And then you get people who decide to be different and learn English in a non-English accent.)

(Also, I remember seeing some writer's notes from really early in TNG's writing, where it said that Picard's French accent slips out a bit when he's experiencing intense emotions. This is never seen in the show at all, because it's best that we don't hear Patrick Stewart's French accent, but it's an interesting concept.)

Also, this was supposed to just be a post about the fun accent nonsense going on in Star Trek, but it actually got me thinking about some things. We know that the characters speak Standard English, but we have no idea what Standard English actually is. It sounds like modern American English (or whatever language you're watching Star Trek in), but there's no way that's what it is. Because language evolves over time and there's no way the English spoken in the 23rd century is the same English spoken in the 1990s. It's also called Standard English, implying there's some difference from more colloquial English of the 22nd/23rd century.

It reminds me of a post I saw from back when I first started watching Star Trek (which is why it's so foundational to my understanding of Star Trek) about why the Klingons look different in different series (and it's not the weird genetic answer we got in canon).

It's that what we're seeing in the shows is not the literal reality of the Star Trek universe. It's like in theater. Yes, that "house" is actually just a wall with a door and windows painted on it, but it's a house don't worry about it. The Klingons didn't actually change their cranial formation within 100 years, Worf's ridges didn't actually change between seasons 2 and 3. The characters aren't actually speaking late 20th century English. It's all just how it has to be represented to us because of budget contraints (for the alien costumes) and because we wouldn't understand if the characters were speaking a completely different English all the time, or speaking French when in France, or speaking in Romulan or Klingon or any other alien language (aside from the times they are speaking it and we have subtitles, which isn't as common as just hearing them speak English).

And this being fundamental to my understanding of Star Trek is probably why it's so frustrating seeing people say Picard isn't actually French/doesn't speak French because he speaks English with an English accent. Because it isn't entirely literal. Because there are constraints regarding the actors and how they have to present information to the audience.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Warriors AU

I have a habit of trying to take something not related to Warriors and trying to place Warriors characters in them. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) has fallen victim to that. You are absolutely wondering how this works. Well, I'll explain that.

It's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but with The New Prophecy characters.

Stormfur is Augustus Gloop, who is seemingly dragged to the bottom of a river by an unknown force and swept into an underground river.

Tawnypelt is Violet Beauregarde, who eats deathberries to cure her hunger, as the group doesn't have enough food.

Feathertail is Veruca Salt, who is made paranoid and resentful by the horrible deaths the StarClan cats have brought on the group. Crowpaw, Squirrelpaw, and Brambleclaw try to calm her down, and she rashly, without thinking about the danger, jumps on a stalactite to get away from them. It breaks away from the cave roof and she falls to her death.

Crowpaw is Mike Teevee, who is broken by the losses he's experienced and wishes to join StarClan to be with his dead friends. He dies on the Thunderpath like he intended to in canon.

Squirrelpaw and Brambleclaw are Charlie Bucket collectively. The only survivors of the journey back from the Sun-Drown-Place. They almost get themselves killed when they try to escape Midnight by climbing up a steep cliff. The cliff is crumbly and if they fall, they fall onto sharp stone spires. They avoid death by climbing back down and going back to Midnignt.

Midnight is Willy Wonka, who accompanies them back from the Sun-Drown-Place. The Oompa Loopmas are StarClan cats.

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How much would you pay to see real life paintings (or photographs) recreated with Warriors characters? (said with the tone of someone who has made a sketch of one already and is obsessed)

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One thing that's a shame about the French dub of TNG is that there is no way to distinguish between calling someone an "it" and calling someone a "he". So there's no moment in The Measure of a Man where there's a noticeable switch between someone calling Data "it" and calling Data "he". It just removes a little bit of detail and flavor to the story, and it's no fault of the French dub itself, it's just how French works as a language.

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I see this post has resonated with some people. Good.

Manifesting Chaggie wedding.

Guys, I just had the best idea, and now I really wanna see it in season 2/3.

Chaggie. Wedding.

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Guys, I just had the best idea, and now I really wanna see it in season 2/3.

Chaggie. Wedding.

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Okay, so mulling over this a bit more, I think I have an interpretation for Ivor's "Somebody pinch me." It's too good to be true.

When someone says, "Pinch me," it's usually because whatever is going on is so good that it surely must be a dream. I think Ivor saw Gabriel losing his memory, and therefore his anger towards him, as too good to be true. Gabriel losing his memory could have given Ivor a chance to redo their relationship. He never took this opportunity because there were way more pressing things going on, and then Gabriel got his memories back. And I don't think Ivor would have tried to restart any relationship with Gabriel at that time because he was still to hurt and too bitter, even if Gabriel would have no idea what Ivor is hurt over because he doesn't remember.

MCSM Gabriel x Ivor

Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, but I never see anything for my second favorite MCSM ship: Gabrivor. I see things for Harpvor (which is third favorite, I love it) and Ivoren (Soren x Ivor, which I completely see and understand, but am painfully ambivalent towards), but never this. So I'm going to scream my reasons for shipping it into the void for the stars to not hear.

So, a common piece of (for lack of a better word) evidence for Soren x Ivor is that, in playthroughs where you choose to save Gabriel from the Witherstorm and Petra is the one with memory loss, in the final battle, Soren runs away. And Ivor chases after him saying, "I can't let that idio get himself killed!" However, if you choose to save Petra and Gabriel is the one that loses his memory, then Gabriel will run off and Ivor will follow him, saying "I can't let that idiot get himself killed!" So if it's a piece of evidence for Ivoren, then it's a piece of evidence for Gabrivor as well.

But I want to go back a bit. To Ivor confronting Gabriel at EnderCon and creating the Witherstorm. This is honestly what made me ship them, because they seemed like such bitter exes. And they are bitter exes: bitter ex-friends. (Also, people use Ivor and Soren's bitter ex-ness as evidence, so I can too.)

It for some reason always stuck out to me that it was Gabriel that Ivor went after. Soren was in hiding, so he obviously couldn't choose him. Magnus was a public figure, but he stayed locked up in his castle constantly fending off competitors, so it would have been more difficult. However, Ellegaard was a public figure and, sure, maybe she was harder to get to than Gabriel, but she wasn't that hard for the main characters to get to. And she does make public appearances at least every once in a while, the citizens of Redstonia know who she is. He could have easily had his Witherstorm spawning there.

Now perhaps this is because Gabriel was the Warrior, the fighter. If you want to prove the Order is a bunch of frauds, you would want to show that someone is bad at the thing they claim they're the best at. But it's not like Ellegaard is portrayed as a bad fighter in the stories, so people would probably believe that she could take down a wither(storm).

I think the real, in-universe reason is the amulet. Ivor said that he programed the Witherstorm to follow the amulet, and Gabriel was the one with the amulet, not Ellegaard or anyone else. However, the amulet wasn't necessary to Ivor's original plan. The original plan, before the Witherstorm went haywire and stopped listening to his commands, was just to spawn the wither, have it attack a bit, have everyone see that Gabriel couldn't defeat it, and then defeat it himself by either calling it back or using the potion. He didn't plan for the Witherstorm to become out of his control and cause so much destruction. So, given what we can piece together of his original plan, he could have done that with Ellegaard, and maybe Magnus as well. So why would he choose Gabriel, specifically? Did he have a particularly close relationship with him and felt more betrayed when Gabriel sided with Soren and lied than he did when the others agreed to the same thing?

Also, I want to focus on the amulet a bit more. Why is it in Gabriel's possession? Gabriel doesn't really seem to do all that much magic, that seems to be Ivor's thing. It's also unlikely that any Order member other than Ivor made the amulet. Soren calls it "the Order's amulet", but Ivor calls it "Gabriel's amulet". Considering Gabriel almost definitely didn't make it and Ivor almost definitely did, why would Ivor call it Gabriel's? Ivor doesn't like the rest of the Old Order, so if Gabriel took the amulet when or after Ivor left, then Ivor likely wouldn't respect Gabriel's claim to it and would instead say it's his. But Ivor respects Gabriel's claim to the amulet. The only way I can see Ivor respecting Gabriel's claim is if Ivor, before the big falling out, gave it to Gabriel. Perhaps he even made it for Gabriel so he could find the rest of them better. Or maybe he made it for the whole Order but at some point trusted Gabriel with its ownership. Either way, it would suggest that Gabriel and Ivor had some special relationship. It doesn't have to be romantic, but it could say something about just how close they were.

Some miscellaneous things: if you choose to save Petra and Gabriel loses his memory, he will greet Ivor with "Hello, my name is Gabriel". And Ivor says "Somebody pinch me" with an odd expression on his face. I honestly don't know what this means, but it means something.

No matter whether you tell Gabriel to lie or tell the truth, after speaking, he will look back at Ivor. If you tell Gabriel to keep the truth about the Old Order a secret, Ivor shakes his head very disapprovingly and disappointedly at him. And Gabriel looks very guilty and sorry. And quite possibly a bit hurt/sad at Ivor's reaction. And if you tell him to tell everyone the truth, Ivor will silently nod approvingly at him. He doesn't smile, he's not smug, and he's not angry. In fact, he looks almost... encouraging and apologetic (for a split second before we cut back to Gabriel). Gabriel looks sad, but not at Ivor's reaction like he is if he lies. Either way, Ivor's reaction seems to have an impact on and mean a great deal to Gabriel. No matter what, he will look back at Ivor to see his reaction and possibly communicate that he's sorry.

All of this to say: there are some peculiar things that, in conjunction with each other, hint at Gabriel and Ivor having had a particularly close relationship while they were still part of the Order together. And I now ship these two idiots. Tragic.

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My first ever fanfiction! And it's for Star Trek: The Next Generation! Slight canon divergence regarding the long-term consequences of Picard's assimilation into the Borg. I kinda wish there were physical/visible reminders of these events.

I started this thing over a year ago, with tiny handwriting in the margins of my Biology notebook.

If you like my writing style, or are just desperate for very specific things in TNG fanfics, please send me your ideas, and I'd be happy to think of a fanfiction to never complete!