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OH MY GOD ??????? THIS IS SO SWEET AWWWWWWW OMG

Flintpaw looks SO SO SO CUTE!?!?!?!?? And the little bug AWWWWWW 😭🤍🤍🤍🤍 tysm for drawing her and for all your kind words aaaaa it means so much that you’re invested in the story

Part 2 of the 300 Follower Special

Again, under the cut cause loooong post :3

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Shardpaw from @stoneclangen! Shardpaw is such a sweetie pie, I wish all the best for her! When I saw she had gotten a little butterfly accessory I was so sold. Awohhhhh sweetest gal :3

Sandwhistle from @birchclancomic! Speaking of sweet gals, Sand is another sweetie pie! I love your writing/art style so much, such a compelling storytelling method. Tbh I may intersperse some writing in Direclan now cause I liked your comic so much! Anyway Sandwhistle's design is darling, brown and white cats with green eyes are everything to me.

Flintpaw from @runeclangen! MY SHAYLAAAAAA PART 2 AUGHHH I WANT THE BEST FOR FLINTPAWWWW!! God I cannot wait to see where this story is going, and Flintpaw is such a good character I'm so invested in wtf is wrong with her. Also as you can see her little fact that silkworms are her favorite really got to me <3

Pumpkinleaf from @ranchclan! Selkie clocked me fr xe knows Pumpkin is my big favorite. I'm a big fan of her jock energy and her design with the little flower bulbs is everything!! I picked this pose cause I felt like it matched her energy but then realized that I wouldn't be able to draw her awesome markings very well :( but I did my best to include them! I hope every good thing happens to her.

Fogfreckle from @nimbusclan! Yippee yay my boy!! Your style is so amazing Froggie I hope I did him justice. He is so headstrong and I relate to him so bad, wanting to be able to help the people you love so much and being frustrated when you can't/are too weak. I'm glad he is feeling better and I look forward to the return of nimbusclan!

Shiverpaw & The Audience from @forestclan-clangen! Yeah there was no way I could draw only Shiver without her, uhhh, ghost. I am, of course, obsessed with this nervous gal and am so curious to see her relationship with Windfur and with her own powers evolve and grow. Her struggles are so real and her pelt is so striking, she's the perfect storm <3

Cherryspring from @gardenergulfie! Cherryspring is so sassy I loved his little smirk in the reference you sent. We love a smug guy with Issues and Problems. These colors are so gorgeous btw, the peaches go so well with the grays!

Poisonstar from @malrido! Tbh I'm afraid of him, the way he is staring into my soul with those luscious lashes is getting me! Such a pretty design, I think my favorite part is the little butterfly wings around the eyes. I support him and his wrongs <3

Foxblaze from @boughclan-clangen! Ok I know you didn't request anyone Selkie but I really wanted to draw Foxblaze :3 She is so well-meaning, poor girl, these damn apprentices aren't appreciating her. You made such a wonderful design for a singlestripe cat, still distinct and recognizable!

Mulberry Wine from @heavensgaze! I love this guy, he's just a little bit bumbling but also caring and also the chosen cat or something?? He is very intriguing to me. Chosen to take care of these two lil guys <3 The heterochromia also makes for a very interesting design.

Mulberrypaw from @the-lostclan! Silly little guy, I love that I got two mulberries in a row. Of course as we all know the heart pelt is the king of white spots and I love the way you've designed the spots to really show off all the colors underneath! Can't wait to see where your comic is going!

Lavendersnap from @cirrusskyanimations! As a fellow manx oc-haver I love the little tail on Lavender <3 I also really love how it looks like she's wearing a little gray cardigan? Maybe that's just me though. Wonderful gray and lavender combo, big fan of the colors on her!

Scalestar from @hillclan-ruins! She is tragic yuri to me /silly... Tbh I love this tuxedo design she has going on and I hope things work out with her and Frost eventually! Old women stay winning <3

Rowanbark & Thornshadow from @cutieclangen! OUGH Rowanbark my son... we love haunted cats here. I think Rowan and Talonburn should be friends :3 Also I really love Thorn's little pompadour? It was kinda hard to make out from his appearances but I'm pretty sure I spied it!

Sootkit from @tallclan! Froodyie I did NOT know you had a comic and such a cool one at that! Your art style is very whimsical and your use of color is wonderful. Sootkit is my bug #mybug and all my friends are in love with her now. Her little ears make me spin in circles I love her!!!

Silknewt from @mourningclan! Ok this pose was so iconic though. Your art style is so lovely and flowing, I can't wait to see what happens to Silk going forward!!

Heartpaw from @noteclan! Sassy gal yass we love a Starclan sweetheart <3 Her color scheme is so nice and pastel and I WISH SHE HAD A BETTER LIFFFEEEE I think she and Mintpaw should be friends. :3

Last but not least, Swanstar from @rorys-regular-blog! My friends and I are obsessed with this old man, I respect the eyebags so hard. Also yayyy mustache cats!!! His luscious lashes were cracking me up, what a slay!

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Foalkit core

i saw a very important tiktok recently and knew i immediately needed it as a gif so here it is in case y’all want it as well

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Implied suicide‼️

I’m not sure. I was looking back at old Disney and her death reminded me of Snow White. Or maybe it was an excuse to draw a prettyyy Snake…

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lol this blog starts the exact way mine did! maybe revel from @clangen-revelinblood and flint could be buddies in leader murder lol

!!! Revel is such a cool prefix, I love that! And man 😭😭 maybe cats with Flint and Revel’s pelt pattern are just destined to have dead cats make them kill people lmaooo (I was so surprised when I went to check out your comic and saw how similar Revel looks to Flint— 🤝 for the half white face+blue-grey fur combo)

For Flint, it wasn’t the leader though! It was their medicine cat :D

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Hiatus !!

TLDR; Gonna put Runeclan pages on hiatus until August to give myself time to plan for and enjoy artfight fully! Asks will still be open + drawn during this time (And encouraged!) I'll also be making a bit of fanart for other clangen artists who are on artfight :D

Detailed explanation ( + my artfight link) under the cut!

I realised how soon artfight is and how few of my refs I've actually worked on,,, I think about Runeclan so so so often but artfight has always been such a big part of my life and I'm super excited for this year, so I'm putting Runeclan on pause for the time being! This'll also give me time to script things properly and focus on responding to asks (Which are still open!!).

The last thing I want to do is burn out and abandon this story, because I'm having a lot of fun working on it, but I've been noticing a tiny creeping of "aw man i have to draw another page" which I want to squash! I want to enjoy working on this, and the way my priorities are rn (artfight first <3) my brain is looking at Runeclan as an obstacle. So !!!! Hiatus :D

Might even give myself time to work on the fanart WIP I've had for a few weeks now,,,

Runeclan WILL return in August! I swear!

Speaking of artfight,,, pspspspsp https://artfight.net/~princebeetle Flintpaw's there,,, and Foalkit,,, I might even get around to making them proper refs because Flintpaw's tail being blocked by Foalkit has been the bane of my art existence. I have no object permanence.

Probably gonna be posting my new artfight refs over on my main blog ( 'main' is a strong word considering it is a ghost town over there) if anyone's interested! @prince-beetle

Excited to attack some of the other people in this community! And also get into the spirit of the fight because when I say this event means a lot to me, I mean that it has been the highlight of my year since 2019. I go so hard for artfight it makes me so so so happy

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Mother’s Return

To be mended you must be condemned.

After many weeks of tinkering and drawing and editing, I did it! It’s finished!!! I’m so thrilled to finally see the finished outcome :)

The story and explanation will be under the cut

Way back then in Pineclan, Moththorn had a young kit, Snakekit, who she loved deeply. But around this time, horrible thoughts and visions festered in her head that put her down, so she’d often isolate herself from the clan. Snakekit spent the rest of her kithood with her mother absent and wondering why she no longer smiles at her or plays with her. Even in Vespidclan she wonders why her mom ‘left’ her family so abruptly… It is why Snakevalley decided to become the mother she wished for. She fostered an abandoned kit, Fallenkit. (now grown and named Fallenfox) And has now taken two more under her care, Vinekit and Stonekit.

Something terrible would happen to her sister, Heartflicker, the only Vespidclan healer, which left her injured and unable to work. In need of a cat to quickly take over her duties, Heartflicker picks Stonekit as her apprentice to take her role. This was fine, Stonekit had been taught about some herbs and remedies prior… but Stonekit was only 4 moons old. It made Snakevalley furious, and much more on the next moon, she’d have to see her young daughter become so stressed with her new duties. She tried to reason with Heartflicker. And she’d argue with the leader, Iciclestar, her other sister, to put a stop to it. But neither of them agreed to follow through. Snakevalley ran off in a fit of anger.

She was still crossed, but she realized that she can’t do anything to stop it. The only thing she can do was to be there for Stonepaw through and through. After all, she can’t abandon Stonepaw on this. Not like Moththorn did. Before she returned to camp, she heard a loud crash, coming from the thunderpath. A cat had been crushed by a monster, and he was still breathing! She rushed over to rescue him- and was stopped by some force. Suddenly, the world changed around her. Like she was in a completely different area.

And then she saw it. A strange, flat version of… herself. It didn’t move. It wasn’t alive. But it was definitely her. It felt like she shouldn’t have seen this, and she really shouldn’t have. But she made sure that she did. And she made sure that Snakevalley will not recover from the things she learned and saw from that experience.

Snakevalley awoke back in her clan… Broken. After everything she’s worked for, everything she’s put her faith in, doing what she can to have the best life she always wanted… It didn’t matter. It wasn’t real. She wasn’t real. She was just a flat object. All these thoughts made her go into isolation, and no one understood why. Even though they wanted to, it felt too awkward and tense for her family to check on her. They thought leaving her alone would give her some peace.

It gave her the exact opposite.

404 wanted her mentality to dwindle to no return, just like hers did. It wasn’t just because Snakevalley was an obstacle- Snakevalley had everything she wanted. She was blessed with kits. She was blessed with a clan who respected her. Blessed with love. It was everything she wanted to have. And seeing a cat so close to her have all of these things, seeing her dazzle and shine, it was a disgrace to everything she went through. It was indignation. She hated Snakevalley. It was hatred. And she was plagued by these malicious voices of hate, she gave into them. 404 made her decision and she was keen on fulfilling it.

And fulfilled it she did. 404 was relentless to her. She made sure the negative thoughts never ceased. And once the time arrived, when she saw that Snakevalley was at her most vulnerability… she gave Snakevalley death berries. She wanted her to eat them. But watching Snakevalley gaze upon her dark predicament made 404 feel… remorseful. A ‘human’ feeling, finally, after all this agony of anger. But not a good one. She saw herself in Snakevalley, yes. How she hated seeing that memory. But behind that reflection, from the cracked mirror, there was the daughter she left behind. The one who believed she hated her in kithood. The one who was put into the same anguish she experienced. In the same situation, as the two both held the same plant in their paw… But 404 made her decision and Snakevalley made hers.

Neither can undo what’s been done.

Snakevalley believed that her family hated her. She thought that she didn’t deserve to live alongside them, knowing what their true existence is. Snakevalley… believed that she was better off dying with this knowledge. She didn’t want to die. And yet, 404’s influence had done enough.

Snakevalley ate the death berries. 404 hoped that perhaps a part of Snakevalley recognized her during her final moments… That was wishful thinking. Nonetheless, Snakevalley died. Her plan worked. And she would have to join her in Out Of Bounds just like the others.

…But this time, 404 has other intentions for her.

She needed to fix her.

And 404 remembered… why mercy was not worth pursuing.

The corruption festers.

I had such a blast working on this. I’m very happy to draw my beloved Snakevalley again. Maybe I could do something like this again in the future, but for now I’ll resume the comics! Once again I hope you all liked what the video offered and the thorough explanation I gave for the events :’)

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What is your favorite bug Flintpaw?

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Moon 2-2

Breaking news!!! Flintpaw... smiles????

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Trying out a thing with the prey– I put a tapestry texture over them but I'm not sure how well it came out? I think I have to do some proper style studies of animals in medieval tapestries instead of just referencing a real photo like I did here.

I'm learning new things every day! Woah !!

Going to be taking a hiatus soon, as a reminder! Artfight is coming up and I gotta prepare a ton of refs

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The next page is gonna be a little late because I have been plagued with headaches for a day or two </3

Flintpaw will return!

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Ohhhh you just know he eated a geen

i HAVE to ask, why is whispstar green?

he's just a silly looking guy

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Moon 32 of Tinyclan

Subtle foreshadowing…

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Are the flowers you draw inspired by this old unicorn tapestry? If so that's so cool, and even if not the flowers you draw are so pretty! They always get my attention

Also a follow up question, what time period does this comic take place?

YES YES YES :D they are!! You can even match a few of the flowers on this tapestry to the ones in Runeclan! I used a mix of references from other French tapestries from a similar time period, but "The Unicorn Rests in a Garden/The Unicorn in Captivity" was absolutely my main inspiration! I have a woven blanket replica of it,, I like this set of tapestries so much. I'm not 100% satisfied with my ability to recreate the style (holy shit did they put so much effort into filling the tapestries with flora) but I can only improve!

Also it ends up fitting pretty well with the spider/web themes I already have going on because like,,, spiders,,, webs,,, string,,, tapestries,,, weaving,,,, the lore,,, the lore,,,

As for the time period– it's set around the same time these tapestries are theorised to have been created! So between 1495-1505, in France specifically. Twolegs aren't going to play a huge role in the story, but the few times they're brought up (former kittypets, etc.) they'll be from this time period!

Reading @/fog-clan absolutely opened up my eyes to the idea that– oh yeah, my story doesn't have to take place in modern day. Huh! Originally, Runeclan's backgrounds were going to be monochromatic in the clangen UI colour scheme (Like how it is in the prologue), but I'm having a lot more fun leaning into the aesthetic I love even if it means it doesn't look perfect. I really feel like I'm learning something new every time I draw a page!

Thank you so much for the question– I'm so glad to have the opportunity to ramble a lil about my artistic choices. And thank you for your kind words aaaaa

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Moon 2-1

Joy and Whimsy! Brought to you by: Foalkit! The first page in a while where Flintpaw isn't actively on the brink of breaking down.

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Every time I draw Flintpaw she gets a little more off-model lmao– I'm gonna,,, work on improving that. Ended up resketching this page entirely because the old layout I had bored me so much I almost considered taking another hiatus. I think it was worth it in the end to redo it!!

I also gotta,,, make a proper ref for Foalkit because her design has changed from the first post I made

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each in their own time.

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