#I don't care about numbers and I actually hate round numbers odd ones are satisfying for me. but figured I'd try to be considerate

[luna-loveboop]

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Sorry guys the account is going down now, you've overloaded me

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Ok fine I'll be serious. Follower milestone time!! Four hundred hehe.

It's been under two years since I've joined tumblr and I don't have a good frame of reference to know if 400 followers in that time is impressive or not. It feels impressive tho, so it counts as a follower milestone for me :))

Its wierd to me cause like. I don't post art. Or writing. Everyone following me is just here because you like my rambles? I make insane rants with a ton of pictures of my favourite characters, and I've never had a group of people I'd rather share my thoughts with. You guys are so cool and every time I get an ask, or an ask game, or tagged I slightly explode inside. Gosh, yall will literally ask just me for my thoughts and opinions and that's. A huge honour for me. I love you and you matter <3 thanks for chilling in this little corner of the world with me.

Here's a more satisfying number of 400 for everyone who likes round numbers, I just wanted to make a joke about 404 XD

Thanks guys <33 keep going because it matters and you matter- yall are some of my favourite people on the planet /gen

:))

[warriors-but-cats-die]

disabilities, gender, and injuries

awkward title bear with me.

so i have three things i desire to fix: disabilities, gender (and sexuality), and injuries. i'm not satisfied with how i handled ANY of those last round.

gender proves...

uncertain. most sources say around 1% of the population identifies as trans. i am going to hesitantly try this number, rolling a d100. actually, it's going to be 2%, because 99 will be nonbinary and 100 will be binary trans.

(yes, this is MASSIVELY simplifying matters.)

i feel happy with this method of handling things, for now. nonbinary cats will be listed simply as "cat" in allegiances. other trans cats...won't be listed?

sorry. i refuse to do single them out. i am a trans person and i enjoy trans cats in warriors as a form of escapism, where transphobia doesn't exist and everyone knows their gender young without any painful periods of questioning. i'm aware that's not representative of real experiences: i do not care.

i have not yet decided if i will answer questions about the gender identity of cats.

but sometimes surrogacy & etc. arrangements will be announced, and i will allow you to draw your conclusions from there.

as for sexuality.

god okay so i hate researching these statistics bc it feels like SUCH a landmine, but the poll wikipedia used really confusingly has trans in the same category as sexualities, which means i don't know how to interpret the results.

buuut working roughly, we'll say roll a d10, with a 10 being queer. i'll then flip a coin over gay or bi.

(yes again this is not representative of the many ways of being queer. please. i am playing a cat simulator with myself using random number generators. i am doing my best.)

last but certainly not least, to get the a-spectrum on here, we'll add another d100. for the purposes of simplification, ace cats will be off the table for having mates, because mates in wbcd are solely for the purposes of having kits.

(yes ace people can and do have children. i am doing my best.)

again, this will not be formally listed anywhere.

okay, next up: disability.

this is related to injury but i want to figure this part out first.

what i want to do here is set-up a framework for disabilities, and as i learn and research more, i can slot more and more specific situations in. i can't pretend to make a good list of every disability a cat could have, and i don't want to. it feels very counterproductive.

so what i've done is research some lists of categories of disabilities, with my plan being to fit specifics into those categories.

first, one in four adults have a disability, so that's one in four cats born in wbcd.

(yes some disabilities are acquired we're getting there, 1 in 4 is an easy number to generate and i'd rather overrepresent than underpreresent.

the list i am MOST happy with, in terms of categories, is: vision, mobility, auditory, neurological, cognitive, medical, and physical.

for right now, we will be selecting off of that list with even odds.

whether or not it gets mentioned in allegiances will be up to fate.

ALRIGHT, last up: injuries (and illnesses). the plan is to use the same list as before for injuries and illnesses with permanent and/or long lasting effects. the two questions are:

how often? and how long?

for how often,

i didn't find any numbers that felt workable, so i decided to do some thinking. i think, and this might sound a little strange, but i think at the beginning of every year, i'm going to roll a d4 for each clan, and that's the total number, and then i'll distribute those throughout the seasons.

for how long,

basically the problem here is some things take time to recover from and i wasn't really handling that at all.

so.

things that are recoverable will be assigned a behind-the-scenes end date. with my new and improved cat tracking system, i feel this is a logical way to handle it.

alright. that was a lot that i had to sort through, but i'm pretty happy with these methods, and i hope they lead to a more representative wbcd.