#Deepdark

[barrenclan]

"The Vaster World"

Well! This is it! The very last epilogue of "Pinepaw and the Forgotten World"!

This epilogue in particular took me awhile to write, because I had to get it exactly how I wanted. Pinewing and Cormorantleaf's relationship is one of the main focuses of the story, and I really felt I needed to explore it the way it deserved. Especially important to me was showing that despite how much they love each other, there's still a ton of baggage and difficulities they needed to work out. I honestly think it would be unrealistic for two characters with so much trauma to just skip off happily together, but I also wanted to emphasize how they could still reconcile in the end. Not all relationships work out, but Pinewing and Cormorantleaf both felt that the other was extremely important to them, and the relationship was something they both wanted. So they were willing to put in the work of building it back up.

I had a ton of fun drawing older Pinewing and Cormorantleaf. I started doodling Pinewing with full facial hair something like a year ago, and I've been so desperate to finally get it into the comic since. It feels so right for him, like his perfect final form. After a life full of pressure and difficulty Pinewing just wants to be a happy old man who gets to kiss his husband every day, and sometimes profesy the future writ flesh. Goodbye, my little blue cat; I'm gonna miss you.

The title of this epilogue comes from "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett: "They would survive, but they would not know how to swim downstream, to the vaster world of the ocean.”

In the end, the whole project wraps up at 64,501 words, 370 pages, and two and a half years of production time. I started this project expecting it to be a minor thing I occasionally drew on the side, something a few people might find interesting. The enormously positive response has absolutely blown me away and continues to do so, and I am forever so grateful that thousands of people can enjoy and meaningfully relate to this story.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has commented, shared, reblogged, theorized, made fanart, made fanfiction, told their friends, liked it, or just read it at all. Though I won't go into the specific details, PATFW is an extremely personal and cathartic creation of mine, so the fact that many of you have also told me that it connected with you on an emotional level is genuinely heart-touching. I appreciate all your readership through these years. It means a lot.

-Raz

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[lynxbriight]

Great character arc. Loved the murderous gay deer part. Deer are much more carnivorous than most people think, they’ll often eat baby birds. Can’t blame them, I myself enjoy snatching up a baby chickadee every now and then. Protein.

@barrenclan, I love this man so I made him a small Chinese water deer. But worry you not! He can still get some action with those teeth. 

[domoshdom]

A couple of fanart for @barrenclan, because I'm still impressed! And I think I'll draw more

[greedy-little-gremlin-0w0]

old man yuri am i right?

anyways deepdark & prowl for @barrenclan , @razmerry for that twitter trend lol

[bohne-bohne]

My first ever artfight! For @razmerry and their comic @barrenclan !! Deepdark is so fun to draw.

This was actually inspired by a tweet that trended for awhile on twitter! Tweet and background below v v

[stickstone]

I Saw A Deer

(fanart of the big bad guy himself @barrenclan)

[marimichae]

We show no mercy to the outcasts

@barrenclan

[jiquil]

an affiliation dark and deep

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@barrenclan

[barrenclan]

"Farewell, and I Love You"

Here were are; the last proper issue of Pinepaw and the Forgotten World. As I've said before, I have a series of ten epilogues planned which will wrap up all of the main characters' lives, so the comic is not quite done yet. Hence I'll save all the rambly, sappy stuff for that final epilogue.

The epilogues will begin posting on January 7th, and will post twice-weekly on Tuesday and Friday until they're finished. The first three are already available on my Patreon if you're interested.

For now, I just want to say - thank you so much to everyone who has read and shared my comic. It's meant a lot to me. I hope you all liked it.

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[madamudeeaaarr]

I aM dEEPdORk

sorry i can´t take his expressions seriously

since deepdark is not a cat i figure it would be more appropriated if i posted here instead of my warrior cats blog

deepdark belongs to @barrenclan

[u-happened-2-me]

CHRISTMAS ISNT SAFE FOR ANIMALS

gift for @barrenclan :3

Im gonna be honest I forgot about PaTFW because I was so fixated on The Dog Star for awhile but I recently remembered it after making this account and I am… so so happy I read it all, the characters just feel so unique, the story too. I hope everyone who reads TDS will also give this comic a chance because is it so fucking GOOD dude

[thlayyli]

MAP part for the @barrenclan fan project which you can apply for here!

Really not sure why the entire thing seems jpeg compressed, it may just be bc i exported on the wrong settings bc im not used to davinci resolve yet. it also seems to have turned it from 24fps to 12fps so a lot of my animation was lost. but nothing i can do abt it now so

[sophswritingthings]

the brainrot is so real 😭

poor pinepaw :( he had to grow up so fast and experience all of the horrors. the comic is so good go and read it guys!!!!

@barrenclan

[kaliido-s]

Unraveling Mysteries Not Meant for You

artfight attack for @barrenclan hell yeahhhh

patfw is honestly one of the best webcomics I’ve ever read, can’t wait to see how it ends 🫡

[blimbo-buddy]

Guys nobody tell the creator this but I just got my hands on Deepdark's death, don't get me in trouble

character belongs to @barrenclan

[jaspalicous]

hello TUMBLR FOLLOWERS!!!!! i havent shown a recent refrence for my mcsm oc Julian SO HERE IS MY BABY BOY THE WARDEN WATCHER!!!!!!!

quick summary i guess is just a guy who lived in a village then got hired by a hot fat man to study the deep dark. Hot guy was then like “ok GROSS youre sick and im leaving” then FAKES HIS DEATH!!!!!!!! Julian is sooooo sad hes like “im gonna devote the rest of my life to this stupid deep dark” AND NOW HES LIKE 50% PERCENT WARDEN!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!