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Do you have a YouTube channel I could subscribe to? You’ve mentioned videos so I’m just curious! 😊

oh i do have one! although i still haven't posted much in it yet because of school n stuff, it's @wan1one2

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OMAIGAD

HELLO EVERYNYAN!

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are we rocking with femme gay barley based on dolly parton

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sometimes I will hate a warrior cats character and keep hating them until I see a cute drawing of them and my mind goes "kittycat :3" but then I remember that's graywing and I hate graywing

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If you would like, please give me some warrior cats characters to make fanart of! :D

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lesbian mapleshade?

HELL YEAH

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Attempting to worm my way back into the fandom of my childhood by drawing some characters that I like.

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save me gay cats save me

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Hand over your Artfight users 🫴

This is a robbery 🔫

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at this point i wish i could obliterate harry potter from cultural consciousness i hate hearing positive and even neutral references to it. find a new thing

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don't try to get cute with your designs thats how they hurt you.

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the thing is, yeah, I guess warrior cats having one (1) canon gay couple is... A win I guess, but a win against what even? He didn't even say his mate was barley, he just said he had a mate, and this is something just happening in the graphic novels not even main series. I understand wanting to be happy about something but actively choosing to ignore how much of a bait this is is just covering your ears and eyes and going lalalalala.

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no warrior cats tumblr user i don't think i'm going to 'just be happy they canonized something queer instead of being negative all the time'. i don't think that's something we should be doing. this is misogyny cats this isn't a good book series

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I need to consciously stop myself from making text post because most WC blogs are already 99% complaining 1% anything else, and I don't want to fall into that but everyday it gets harder

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since u rlly like transfer breezepelt how do you feel about her and Heathertail being absolute lesbians

Do you even need to ask.....

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how would you describe/characterize splashfrost before the whole leadership nightmare?

i got a little carried away but somehow i doubt anyone will mind

in my beautiful miracle world frostkit is born an only child and splashkit immediately takes a liking to her. hes like wow its so weird that you dont have any siblings oh and your dad is dead lol wow and shes staring at him with her big amber eyes and shes like like um ok and she trails behind him like a lost duckling for the remainder of their childhoods. he ends up closer with her than even his own sister fognose the forgotten. theyre very attached from a young age and hardly ever bother with anyone else... id imagine that splashtail was always a little more outgoing than her endlessly charismatic as he is but he never truly connects with anyone outside frostpaw and his family to a certain extent. kin and blood are paramount in riverclan and i think he understands that sentiment well enough though its pretty much all the same to him. his relationship with curlfeather is something else to touch on entirely but its important to note that he is relatively close with her as well (she handled the latter half of his appenticeship) which is why the riverclan power grab goes down the way it does

splashtails family is the epitome of the nuclear archetype with sneezecloud being older than havenpelt by a fair margin and havenpelt feeling a bit pressured in her later youth to seek out the riverclan dream with him that so many fantasize about... they courted for a short while before tying the knot and eventually trying for kits and i would think theyre both fairly conservative as is a large chunk of riverclan. for all their faults they hardly ever argue and truly do love each other and are moderately supportive of their children (said generously) which is both good and bad for splashtail. he is his mothers favorite and she only feels a little guilty about showing it. he doesnt really care

splashtail is a little more violent than the average kit in his youth, a little cold and aggressive, but he never really means anything by it. its not so much about not knowing his own strength and more so just how his brain works. hell draw a little blood on accidental occasion and then call frostkit lame for complaining about it do you see what i mean. he can be mean but hes always been kinder to frostpaw than the majority of their peers and isnt usually out to hurt her. he takes to clan lifestyle exceptionally well so no one ever really cares what their charming little up-and-coming boy wonder is thinking or feeling or getting up to in his spare time as long as he does right by them in the end; no one expected his turn to apostasy! and he clearly takes his role incredibly seriously as its what he lives for. hes very polite he says all the right things and he knows how to act to get people on his side. i do have a general idea about how his thoughts and actions could be translated into the real world, and i mean it very genuinely when i say his behavior could be read as sociopathic as he matures into adulthood. this does not make him "evil" and isnt necessarily what makes him a bad person; it would be way too easy to go down that route and i want to make it clear that thats not what im saying or doing. hes not always unkind but he lacks a lot of empathy. splashtail is absolutely a product of his environment but he has his own unique issues that make him who he is. lets not forget the time the writers called him crazy 11.5 times. heres a post i like

on that note i find it relevant to bring up splashtails early days of apprenticeship and his first mentor softpelts death in battle; i like to imagine he was there to watch her go down and is consequently introduced to real bloodshed and death far before frostpaw ever has the chance to see such a thing (i think this would serve as a good parallel to frostpaw witnessing curlfeathers death up close as well). frostpaw is apprenticed less than a couple of moons after him, but its long enough to establish a notable gap in experience, especially since she began training right around when the imposter fiasco was coming to a close. a very key difference between them is that splashpaw got to see the imposter up close while frostkit was still curled up next to her mother in the nursery. i think seeing ashfur on the great oak inspired something buried deep inside him that he was never fully capable of understanding before his own untimely death. its not that he agreed with ashfurs methods or ideals, but he was fascinated by the way cats followed after him, as it was a stark contrast to riverclans fixed loyalty to mistystar

and while im talking about this i want to say upfront that im not particularly fond of the idea that he enjoys killing. i cant imagine splashtail really getting anything from it at all or at least not in the way people seem to think he does, which i tend to say about everything. taking someones life shouldnt make him feel anything too terrible in particular you know what i mean he just believes its something he has to do to get to where he wants to be. this is how they live this is what hes seen and been taught all his life; he has taken those teachings to heart! its just another hurdle to cross. all these people were in the way. he thinks everyone is in his way. i dont think hes haunted by the blood on his hands and he definitely isnt afraid of dying (or at least not in the beginning). this is what he believes he was made for. the only times hes ever concerned over what hes done are the moments he realizes he didnt properly rid of the bodies which is as funny as it is horrible. all that being said i do think he killed small bugs as a child

frostpaw on the other hand is the quiet intelligent and somewhat neurotic child of a single mother (who i envision to be just a bit younger than she is canonically, at least more so than splashtails parents). jayclaw still dies before she can get attached, and so the ever-idealized authoritative male role model is completely absent from her life; she does not know reedwhisker, and podlight becomes distant shortly before shes apprenticed. this doesnt ever seem to bother her regardless of how disappointed riverclan is by the fact, because her mother is (for the most part) all she could ever need. splashtail has always been the only other rock in her life and she really wont ever manage to find another who meets all of her needs... im lying im sorry rapidsplash is right there. frostpaw just finds that weird and uncomfortable so she tries not to think about it too hard

this would be the perfect time to mention this but im saving it for something else

and let us not forget that he has three sisters

they start training together soon enough and it is absolutely crucial that frostpaw works as a warrior apprentice first. and she does it because she wants to! and splashpaw wants it too; splashpaw wants frostpaw to be powerful and successful because he sees something in her that no one else does. he knows deep in his bones she has the potential to be the greatest thing riverclan has ever seen. splashtail has seen more than enough blood at this point; splashpaw envisions a better and stronger riverclan, a clan that isnt walked on, isnt looked over, and hell do anything to see it get to that point. he kills her mother/his mentor for it. splashtail kills curlfeather because he truly believes he would do a better job, but if frostpaw had asked for the title instead then he gladly would have given it to her. splashtail believes he was born to serve his clan. splashtail always knew she was special. shes just like him. she could be better than all of them. shes the only one he would ever approve of. he was determined early on to make sure she got what he knew she deserved. it didnt have to be him taking the top spot on the podium but he got a little too wound up and felt like he had no other choice!

contrary to popular belief splashtail did genuinely care about frostpaw for a long time, and im inclined to believe he still did after everything that happened. splashtail knew about her role in curlfeathers plans, knew how badly she wanted to keep frostpaw safe, and he was obviously trying hard to make it work. he tries to keep frostpaw in the game for as long as possible, whether its for his benefit or hers, but eventually she goes too far and says too much and he figures his safest bet is to get rid of her. he and curlfeather simply had very different visions regarding frostpaws future. ultimately his own paranoia was always bound to be his undoing but i think he should have been proud of her in his own way toward the end, which is what shes wanted all along

have you seen taps 1981 yet because tom cruises character is pretty much exactly what i envision splashtail to be. major moreland hes our man. i saw my duty and i did it. its beautiful man

splashtail loves riverclan and he would die a thousand times to keep it safe but he loved frostpaw first and he had no intention of dying anytime soon. bonds have always been prominent in the clans whether familial platonic or romantic but i doubt he ever could have put a real name to the way he feels about her. frostpaw obviously cares a lot more about labels than he does but at the end of the day their relationship is something neither of them could even begin to imagine living without. nevertheless splashtail loves riverclan to death and he ends up putting it above everything else in the way he sees fit, though i wouldnt exactly call his later attempt on frostpaws life an act of choosing their clan over her. it was a pure moment of weakness for him; his increasing annoyance and paranoia left him feeling helpless. he is more disappointed than he is angry at her (and its never so much a genuine anger as it is pure unadulterated frustration) and he was never the same afterward! everything means something! it has to! frostpaw youre REALLY not acting like my idealized version of you!

frostpaw has always been capable of the same things as splashtail. she is filled with indignation fueled early on by her clanmates cold and patronizing tones and she is sick of being treated like a child and she is angry and frustrated with the state of the world and she lashes out and she knows how to hurt people and she has blood on her hands too. they are two sides of the same coin and she knows it and this will continue to keep frostpaw up at night for the rest of her life