Happy Dubya Shoe Sunday slash 9/11 Eve to those who celebrate!! Remember to leave some sandals and milk outside your door so when Dubya comes he'll know if you've been a good little American this year <3
If you’ve already answered this then no worries, but what would the typical clan cat lifespan be then (assuming they don’t die prematurely from injury/illness). Just curious as to how many generations have passed since the clan’s founding in the 80 or so years.
Clan cat lifespans can be pretty variable! They're considered senior warriors at 5, but if all works out their lifespan is often 16 years. Kittens usually enter the picture for a parent who is 2 to 8 years old, but they COULD have them anywhere between 1 to 15.
Clan cats play less attention to raw age than to EXPERIENCE, though. It is socially discouraged for a fresh warrior to become a parent, and you are NOT an adult until you're out of apprenticeship. They see age like this;
Child: Less than 6 full moons SEEN. If a kitten's eyes were not opened when the first moon of their life passed over them, that is not a month they were alive.
Adolescent: The amount of time you are an apprentice. Flamepaw was considered a child while his sister was an adult.
Young Adult: The first full year out of apprenticeship, when you've handled a full year on your own. A warrior is only eligible for an apprentice after this length of time, so by extension a cat COULD be a mentor around age 2 (BUT that's considered young. 3 is a better bet.)
Adulthood is even more variable, because you're usually not considered "aged" until you've had an apprentice or a litter and you're around 5 years old. Without either of those things, you often won't be considered a "senior warrior" until you're as old as 8.
So to answer your question directly, you can comfortably estimate a new crop of warriors about every 5 years, and full population turnover every 15. Between the numbers, 8 is a good estimation of how long it takes for a generation to pass
(Though I'm more partial to historic events and time periods than crunching numbers like that)
Elders can hang on for a LOOONG time though-- One-eye over in ThunderClan was a personal friend of Pinestar and witnessed the Crusades before passing away at the tender age of 20-something.
Where's that post about it being good that 9 and Rose kissed because otherwise people would've been ridiculously obtuse about their relationship.
Thats just what its like being an irl twelveclara shipper. People truly have 0 brain cells to rub together regarding them, because they didn't mouth to mouth kiss on screen.
And I'm saying this as someone who loves the ambiguity of twelveclara and isn't a massive fan of the 9rose kiss. But alas when you are given ambiguity, people act stupid. So i can't help but wonder about the alternate timeline where 12 and Clara did have a snog
look I LOVE the trapped in a tv show theory and season 14 DID break the 4th wall in a lot of fun ways. but I need everyone to stop acting like it's never been done on the show before. Peter Capaldi was not out there looking directly into the camera every chance he got for this erasure. does that scene where he was finding a books clit mean NOTHING to you people
following the events of "the day of the doctor" the eleventh doctor remembers, he remembers what happened, what he went through. he most likely also remembers: the bad wolf was the moment, he had memories of seeing rose tyler locked away.
sure, it had been a long time, but those memories probably came back.
then we go to "the time of the doctor" where the doctor had been traveling alone, avoiding and trying to run from his fate, when he gets a call from clara, asking him to come to christmas with her. he agrees, and while we never see the scene, he steps out of the tardis for christmas with clara to:
the powell estate. he same place where his new life started all those years ago.
he had all these new memories of rose that he hadn't before, and then had to go have christmas in the very place he met her.
(for extra angst i like to believe he didn't know that that's where clara's family lived, and stepped out of the tardis only to stare up at the building that changed his life).
After some delay with bank information and international wires, yesterday i was finally able to send over $1,500 dollars over for Khawla. I will be able to make another large money transfer likely sometime next week.
Thank you so much if you've donated before. and if you haven't even just $5 can go a long way! otherwise keep reblogging and sharing the campaign. It truly means a lot.
If we can get about 800 people to donate $20 we'll complete the goal as soon as possible!
Help me get the campaign a 4th of the way there and reach $5,000!
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