#dove berry

[irish-newzealand-idian-dutch]

Winter went into labor after they got promoted to All Star at their job. They arrived at the hospital and immediately hugged their sister and thanked her for being there for them.

"Stop being so dramatic, I'm always here for you now let's go get jerk face's kid out of you so we can show the baby the right way to treat others".

They weren't there that long, when the doctor exclaimed:

"Congratulations, Winter, it's a healthy bouncing baby boy".

Meet Winter's second child and second son

Burgundy Berry

[pigeonplaysgod]

Merlot went back to San Myushuno to give his moms the good news about graduating, and spend some time with his brothers, too! <3

(and to get his ass magically handed to him by his baby brother...)

[nsbcountesskaru]

[cowplant-pizza]

first meal in the new house!

[bonefall]

hi! just discovered this blog from your hearing loss post, which i ADORE. throughout it you mentioned pawspeak, and i was wondering if you had any sources/posts about it, or could describe its fundamentals very simply? sorry if youve already answered this!!! youre very cool

There's not too many fundamentals to share, really! Pawspeak is just the fandom term for a Clan cat sign language. Most people have their own takes on it.

Some people like to make it use two paws, other like to do a single paw in tandem with ear flicks and tail movements, some have omitted paw movements entirely and just use ear and tail signs. Most people aren't my queer ass who worked with a friend to ACTUALLY create a full Clan cat language with its own grammatical structure; so likewise, they're just making a cat approximation of a sign language.

So there's no rules! Do as you please! You can just adapt ASL or BSL for cat paws if you want, the same way no one bats an eye when people animate the cats lipsynching to English.

I would just try to remind you, and recommend, that your sign languages evolve from deaf people.

It's both a misconception, and insultingly common for media to show hearing people inventing sign language for the benefit of their deaf friends and family, when that's not how that happens. Deaf people have agency, theyre not just waiting for an abled person to bestow language on them. Deaf communities, and communities with high rates of hearing impaired people, come up with unique sign languages if they don't already have one!

These languages are often studied by linguists as examples of "isolate" language families, which mean they evolved without ANY genetic 'relation' to another language. Nicaraguan Sign Language is a neat example of that!

(The "hearing people invent sign" thing is perpetuated by the myth that Francosign, the language family containing ASL, was invented by one really nice philanthropist. It wasn't. The man took a bunch of words from an existing deaf community in Paris, which was likely a language under the BANZSL family, didn't care to record or learn what they were ALREADY speaking, and made up his own clunky system called "methodical signs" to make a "signed version" of French. This was practically useless for casual use. Actual deaf people mixed this with the languages they were ALREADY using to talk to each other to make new ones; one famous example of this is actually ASL.)

For BB I actually plan to show Pawspeak evolving as an isolate language after the Clan's move to the Lake. It's going to be born out of Gatherings and Aftergatherings-- while Clan cooperation has actually lead to a period so peaceful that it's allowed a proper community to form. Now with a stable population of hearing-impaired cats of all Clans, each of them bringing new signs and phrases home, it can standardize into a true language around the lake.

So then I can show how most of the signs come from RiverClan, mix with the signals WindClan uses to communicate across the moor, show how violent signs tend to be tail-based because they come from battle commands, etc.

It fits the themes of BB, and gives me a chance to show how fascinating sign languages really are. Even though it'd make sense for them to already have one, tbh, I think it's worth it. (Or maybe have Lake Pawspeak basically be a language that combined the several 'pawspeaks' of the various clans.)

[clay-pidgeon]

im an apple i think but idk if i really like.am fpr real kind of apple orthe fact its top 5 favorite foods ever messing with me

[sophapop]

Clive shipping anyone?

Ah yes, yet another oc x canon. This time it’s with Marié Baptiste, my new pl oc. I’ll give her a proper intro hopefully soon

[askmindhms]

Berry: Oo really?, YIPPEE I wanna know what it is!!

Here it is!

[dykrophone]

go your own way is a top ten gcv and 100% rachel's best solo fight me. oh also she was singing it to quinn and only quinn btw

[janeelyakiri]

Outcodes

Starling- starling!nightmare, ref castle info Dove- dove!dream alt forms (both are 5'8" basic forms)

Seagull (Gull)- seagull!killer ref Pigeon- pigeon!dust (shares ref with gull) Dire- dire!papyrus (shares ref with gull)

Decoy- decoy!ink, ref ref (3') Ducky- ducky!error, ref (to be created) (5'8")

Shrike- shrike!cross ref Dalmatian- dalmatian!papyrus (heights changed 6'10" and 7'5")

Ibis- ibis!reaper -ref (5'5") Cerberus (Ber)- ber!papyrus -ref (8') Bug- bug!gen (shares ref with ibis)

Phoenix- phoenix!dream, ref (7'5") Nightingale (Gale)- gale!nightmare, ref (6')

Berries- berry!fresh / berries!fresh, ref

Chimera- jan oc chimera, story/ref

Painted- painted!papyrus, ref

[sachikohitsujiyama]

Oh hello there, it’s G2 ponies redesigns!

[irish-newzealand-idian-dutch]

Party Pt.2: Birthday Party

All 3 of Winter's kids age up with their own specially made birthday cakes from Aunt Dove. Our little genius Prince has added the dance machine trait and he is a renaissance sim. Burgundy is a creative self-assured kid and Wisteria is a rambunctious perfectionist.

While everyone is eating cake, Dove takes Winter into the living room for a serious conversation.

"Look, Winter I know Mt. Komorebi and Diamonds were your dream and look you have achieved them, but you're running out of room here for these kids". "I was thinking since you're at the top of your career why not see if you can get traded to the Copperdale Copperheads".

"I don't know Dove it would take a lot to move over there and I'm extremely pregnant right now". "I also really do love this house even if it is too small".

"Winter, I think for both yours and Wisteria's sake it would be best to leave here and move on". "How about I contact the family contractor and they build the same house but bigger in Copperdale and I help you move".

"You're right, ok with your help Dove I will contact my boss and be ready to go beside it would be nice for Prince to be closer to his new school".

[pigeonplaysgod]

the Plum gen has officially been born! Dove and Aubrie had TWINS, and hilariously, one turned out to be an alien, and the other a spellcaster? since i've had two seperate alien gens, it looks like spellcaster wins out! so welcome to the challenge ranks, Merlot and Amaranth Berry!

[nsbcountesskaru]

Reid and Dove's Wedding

[cowplant-pizza]

just a girl and her really weird cat 🐱

[buckleberry4ever]

Huckleberry: Merry Christmas Eve!😃🎄 Here’s a special Huckleberry Pie & Blueberry Muffin comic artwork.❄️

Blueberry: It’s based on the ending of Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.🏙️ Huck gave me a beautiful turtledove.😍