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[morningmask27]

You seem like a good person to ask this, and I’ve enjoyed your Warrior Cats posts.

I’ve never read them.

Is there a preferred order to read the books?

warrior cats is a monstruously huge series; (like really a lot a lot). nobody even expects you to own all of these and if you don't find them in your library, here's a link to all the pdfs

the first book in the series is "into the wild" and it's basically the best starting point for any warrior cats adventure. then reading the entirety of the 6 books of the prophecy's begin to have the full story if this arc. (warrior cats is split in arcs, all of whom have 6 books, we are currently at arc 8 right now...)

after TPB you have a few books that kinda open themselves to you; Firestar's quest is the first super edition (longer books than the main arc books at a difference of about 300 vs 500) or you can immediately jump into the next arc: The New Prophecy and read how the adventures continue. the first book there is called Midnight (also book five is called Twilight, do not get confused by it's more famous counterpart, this one has nothing to do with it).

(if you do read firestar's quest two other books kinda tie into them: SkyClan's destiny (another se), Cloudstar's Journey (a novella, they are smaller than the main series books) and Skyclan and the stranger (a graphic novel/manga/comic, whatever you want to call it)

the arcs go as follow: Power of Three -> Omen Of The Stars -> A Vision of Shadows -> The Broken Code -> A Starless Clan (there is also Dawn of the Clans: it's a prequel arc about how the clans were made, you can technically read it whenever you please, but it's suggested to keep it for after oots as it was written after that arc and a few things from that previous arc connect to this new series).

I'd say you at least read the four first arcs as they really have a lot of supplemental material attached to them, which would get confusing if you don't know what's happening in these arcs.

but from then on there are suggested reading lists, here's a somewhat outdated one, but it still does the job quite well. honestly you can just pick and choose whatever interests you most. some additional (SE's, Novella's, graphic novels...) books have ties to the main arcs (which are the main thing to read if you want to get into warriors), but they're not always needed, so pick and choose; this series is very vast and you'll probably find something that piques your interest!

if you do want to check up on a few things about the books or others, there is a warrior cats fandom wiki that will normally answer any question you have

[sbalich]

Fricilone Calls On Newman To Disavow ‘Defund the Police’ Movement

Fricilone Calls On Newman To Disavow ‘Defund the Police’ Movement

Home#crime  Fricilone Calls On Newman To Disavow ‘Defund the Police’ Movement

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Defending the American Dream

Illinois

Marxism

Fricilone Calls On Newman To Disavow ‘Defund the Police’ Movement

By Steve Balich -August 18, 202001

Politics & Government

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It's a Brobdingnagian task to acquire a vocabulary commensurate with mine but this will get you started. #WordsWithProft @MorningAnswer Order here: 560TheAnswer.com/WordsWithProft http://bit.ly/2RVekZq

[morningmask27]

Oh , sorry ! I don't have many ships. Pigeonfoot and Eaglewing?

yeah, I might have procrastinated on posting this one a bit... whoops.

now, say hello to Falconswing, a happy-go-lucky and wonderfully funny SkyClan cat! in asc Eaglewing booked it to SkyClan and they had this wonderful daughter of theirs and everything is oh so wonderful with no drama whatsoever.

(Falcon is based on a merlin (or pigeon hawk) and she's very cute and I love her)

[morningmask27]

trick or treat! :3

howdy partner, here's your Squilf dressed up as a cowboy

[morningmask27]

Happy Halloween!! :3 Trick or treat!

have a little Squirrelpaw and Leafpaw having fun with falling leaves

[morningmask27]

trick or treat :3

treat! have a little ravenbarley drawing

[morningmask27]

Karkki vai kepponen!! (trick or treat) :3

recieve a Pesticinger with a lot of candy

[morningmask27]

boop! >:)

BOOP!!!!!!! >:)))

[morningmask27]

Trick or treat! (Forgot if i already asked hjshkdh)

here's a spooked Scooby for you!

[morningmask27]

Hiii I was just curious but what are your favorite Pokémon? You're one of my few mutuals who's also really into Pokémon so. I wanted to talk about it wi you! No pressure tho

heyyyy, you are very courageous to activate this topic since I've been currently busy with the scarvi dlc, but my all time fave's

NOIVERN

I don't even remember when I used it for the first time and how I fell so in love with it (it definitely wasn't the anime tho, I barely watched it). I just know I saw this funny bat and I fell in love.

Usually when thinking about Noivern I think about my Noivern oc Wydra, who's just a little chaotic berry thief of a threat. Very silly, bery casual. but i did a flying-type only run of pokemon Y not so long ago and Cloudburst the noivern I used there was also a fun one to play with (alongside Acerbus my beloved (mega)aerodactyl)

Noivern might not be on the same level as many other dragon-flying types, but it's the best one in my heard, and with a very good speed, decent special attack and a powerful boomburts, plus stabs, and fire coverage, it does hit quite well. And thus I often want to include one in my playthroughs of games, but I try to moderate it since I want to diversify the pokemon I use (that's the reason I did the flying run in Y; perfect excuse to have both Noivern AND aerodactyl and other pokemon in my team).

A few of my other all-time favs are the delphox and primarina line (I do have a weakness for the furbaits, sorry not sorry). Swampert was also my first pokemon and i'll always carry some special fondness for it.

alolan ninetales and togekiss also have a special place in my heart, for oc and playthrough reasons. Togekiss is very fun to use on an adventure team and I have one old alolan ninetales oc (I will probably never talk about them here because it's not something i'm too proud of, but maybe if I revamp them fully?). Also a shiny Eevee I randomly got in pokemon legends arceus is The Shiny Eevee for me. It's level 100, but I refuse to evolve it. it'll be my wonderful little baby eevee forever <3. ALSO Giratina. I shiny hunted one in ultra sun and this little baby is my beloved

Paldea right now is also making me have a lot of fun with the new pokemon.

I LOVE Meowscarada, Glimmora, Chi-Yu and Walking Wake. these four are setpieces of my ultimate team in scarlet. they're my little blorbo's. Chamomille the silly Meowscarada, Erebos my calm and competent (aka ruthless) Glimmora, Tyche the max spe-att, full ev-iv trained, beads of ruin, flamethrower, maxxed metronome, tera fire Chi-Yu (nothing survives this, they made a goldfish so murderous) and Walking Wake, the goofy dino-suicune

[morningmask27]

Trick or treat!

treat!

a lil Jiggy for you

[morningmask27]

Thoughts on the new excerpt ?

it seems promising.

the chapters all had their good moments. FrostWhistle is basically becoming canon (sad that Whis isn't the cat that accompanies Frost on the journey), but Whis was so kind and it was so fun to see Whis In the text instead of in my head constantly. I have to admit I squealed in delight when Whis appeared. my little whiw has speaking lines! finally! (ok yeah Whis appeared briefly in River, but that was all)

the lack of buildup was a bit sad. I don't really believe Frost has spent a lot of time with Whis in the books as very little time passes between them atm. but in a magical otherworld (daily whis verse), they're spending a lot of time just having fun! I like that Frost trusts Whis so much, even when she has no reason to do so. She has to Trust Nobody, but Whis is an exception (is Whis Nodoby?) and it's so cute to see

Nightheart is Nightheart, he's ok. it's a bit annoying that the narrative makes it seem like he was actually wronged instead of him being an ass, but whatever, can't change that. but at least the female characters aren't portrayed as vile anymore. honestly my first thoughts when reading his chapter was that Myrtlebloom was going to steal his girl, and then Finchlight had that one line "Finchlight was heading toward Sunbeam. “Don’t worry,” she told Nightheart as she passed him. “I’ll make sure she doesn’t feel lonely.”" like damn girl, you're stealing your brother's gf almost immeditately there.

the rest of that chapter was a bit grating. i liked Myrtlebloom and Bayshine being sillies (and pulling out the Nightheart cringe comp) and Spark, Lily and Finch getting positive spotlight was fun, but the bigger clan stuff was fun to see finally, but annoying. Why Are So Many Cats Against Squirrelflight Becoming Leader? i mean yeah, it could be seen as them being weaker than before, or some other political stuff, but the total dislike of Squirrelflight by a grand part of the clan irks me. Twigbranch is an mvp for truly believing in Squilf. Lionblaze please stfu, you have done enough dumb things.

and i'm not that big a fan of deputy Ivypool. I know why she was chosen, both in a watsonian(in universe) and a doylist(our world) explanation, but it's a bit annoying. If they make the drama between dove and ivy good, While Also portraying Ivy in the wrong (because she is!) then maybe i'll allow it.

and then Sunbeam. it was an interesting chapter to end on, but if the Erins make Sunny fret over Night for a whole book I will riot. it will probably not 100% be the case because Berryheart has very clearly proven herself to be A Problem, but damn hell if she spends all her chapters thinking about her dumb boyfriend. Sun had some great moments in that chapter, being a bit awkward now that she's on her own (kinda) in a camp she barely knows, but luckily she has her two girlfriends Myrtle and Finch (plus Bay and Spark) who love and support her.

Berry's whole spiel was also a sight to beckon. Really well done, and Spark was having her "i'm the mom who steps up" moment and using it like a champ. I also Loved how Finch implied that Berry might be the reason Sun bailed. Finch is right, Berry is excruciating. The worries she planted in Sun's head better develop in Sun discovering she's in a wonderful environment now, surrounded by cats she loves and that love her, romantically or not. that she finds value and joy in living in this clan

just please, Erin Hunter. You made Bristlefrost so bland in the latter half of tbc, that was already enough, please don't do this again.

so yeah, I liked this preview. I can't buy it because i'm not shipping this bastard over from america to read, but maybe i'll grab the pdf and buy it once it gets translated in dutch (in many, many years, we're only at darkest night (avos book 4) atm)

[morningmask27]

Slithers in here 2 electric boogaloo but here you go: Brokenstar Tigerstar Pinestar and Jake. And Brambleberry if that's not too many

that's going to be a fucking party, let's get going because this post is going to be long

tigerstar

honestly everything you imagined about him is just *chef's kiss*

did genuinely love Sasha (somehow but he was still a fucking abusive asshole to her), but do not mention her name or you will get killed in an even worse way than he did.

he likes to pretend that hawkfrost was also goldenflower's kit and not Sasha's, just to not have to believe that he has a half-kittypet kit

vastly prefers brambleclaw because that's a pure thunderclanner if I've ever seen one (also proud of how abusive he is to his mate. he's like pappa)

and thus, treats hawkfrost like pure shit most of the time. hawk also hates him so it's mutual at least <3

never had a single thought about tadpole in his entire life and felt like mothwing was perfectly placed where she was; in hawkfrost's claws, he didn't have to interact with her personally to have her do things for his benefit so why would he try anyways

pissed that tawnypelt didn't want to train with him though. after tawny gave birth to her kits and named a kit tigerkit he tried to recruit her again, but she again turned him down and told him to not bother her anymore; he trained tigerheart partially to spite her.

he was a momma's boy as a kit and was spoiled rotten by leopardfoot.

when he first got ravenpaw as an apprentice he genuinely hoped to make him a good warrior (that'd be such good pr for him), but the longer tiger was mentoring raven the more he began detecting the black apprentice

if I can pretend my personal family tree is a thing and leopardfoot is the mother of raven, dust, and thorn he actually always hated raven no matter what. dust was tolerable, albeit mentored by a garbage weakling (redtail) at first and then by his idiot follower (darkstripe), and isn't always the smartest.

thornclaw, on the other hand, he latched onto. leopardfoot died not so long after thorn died so in a mix of genuine care for his little brother and hope that he'd be able to raise the kit to be like him he took thorn under his wing and did everything he could to show thorn that being xenophobic and ambitious was good. this is why thornclaw is an asshole

in the dark forest spent 90% of his time having personal plots against Firestar in his head, he wasn't really the most active dark forest leader.

he genuinely wanted to murder Deerfoot, and after he became leader he began by only assigning him shitty tasks and eventually just killed him one day

he also finds darkstripe exhausting. dark is literally his annoying little cousin and he hates him.

he feels like a shadowclanner but he's still someone that pushes his ideas onto other cats and thus made shadowclan diurnal like the other clans

brokenstar

he/it unlabeled in both gender and sexuality

anger. all of it is anger and rage and resentment. if he had been taken care of in a good way if it had been shown love he might have been a more decent cat.

in the dark forest, it still feels the burn of the death berries yellowfang used to kill it. and sometimes just starts coughing and wheezing intensely because of the burns. this has traumatized many dark forest trainees.

yearned for violence, wanted to kill. in my headcanons cedarstar wasn't really the guy for launching raids on windclan, that was houndstar's main thing, but multiple generations of shadowclan cats yearned back for their time of glory when windclan knew who the stronger clan was and the other clans also feared them

raggedstar began the wars again, but broken wanted to make it bigger. he wanted more, always more, and wouldn't stop before all four clans were destroyed or under its rule, and he felt like ragged was being too soft so he killed him

it did have affection for raggedstar (in its own way), but he was in its way.

likes vole, that's its favorite prey.

it was huge, bigger than raggedstar, bigger than tigerstar even. being in its presence was always very awkward because it was just looming over the other cats.

choose blackfoot as a deputy because he lacks braincells.

took two of Tallstar's lives in one blow one time =)

never, but oh never groomed its fur. lizardstripe wasn't going to do it either. its fur is so matted and should just be shaved clean. but it still looks clean and sleek for some reason.

also, it has a mustache. that's a very important detail and it twirls its mustache like a cartoon villain

master manipulator and liar; a better liar than tigerstar.

he sometimes makes weird, squeaky, kit-like sounds when nobody's around. Blackfoot once heard it and was threatened into silence.

personally killed mintkit and marigoldkit specifically to hurt yellowfang because that's her baby siblings and it knew that.

exactly saw its baby siblings once before being cast down to the dark forest. they led it there.

as it entered the dark forest an alternate world where it was loved and cared for (and its littermates survived) flashed in front of its eyes and it became even more resentful about everything that had happened and vowed to destroy starclan.

was actually the dark forest leader in the background. it just let tigerstar get the spotlight because it didn't want to deal with stupid trainees

never trained any other cat than breezepelt and even then only took over his training after tigerstar swore up and down that he was worth it

pinestar

his mother not being an entity in mapleshade's vengeance is a bit awkward, so; sweetbriar as far as I am concerned existed in mv and is also the mom of frecklewish and birchface.

fucking admired Crystal more than anyone else; sweetbriar was nice, but a bit of a pushover and he was honestly a bit scared of oakstar all his life.

as a kittypet sometimes had nightmares about tigerkit or shanty.

pitied Blue in every possible way and rooted for her constantly; he wanted her to succeed and be happy.

chronic pain from a nasty scar he got on his shoulder

was afraid of goosefeather. he knew goose was judging him at all times

I cannot not address the elephant in the room; leopardfoot. he was never romantically interested in her. he just wanted to have his own kits and she accepted to carry them. without the prophecy, he would've been a pretty decent father (not the best, but still somewhat present), but starclan had other plans.

oh and by the way, they knew pinestar would never kill tigerkit. they just needed him to leave to let tigerstar be resentful and angry

heard stories about birchface, frecklewish, and mapleshade. albeit twisted into making oakstar not look like a fucking bastard (they pretended maple took her kits of her own volition instead of them also being banished).

he feared mapleshade above all else and was always worried that she'd try to kill him.

he met appledusk's other kits and they became good friends despite everything. oakstar never knew about it, but if he had he would've been furious

met henry when the old kittypet and their twolegs joined the neighborhood. pine told them some things about clan life that wasn't the best to dissuade henry (who was a bit adventurous at the time) to explore. those rumors were then spread everywhere in the twolegplace

he never wanted to be leader, but oakstar kinda forced doestar to make his son deputy, or else so there he is.

jake

funny guy

regularly visited his kits and told them crazy stories about the clans.

he sometimes visited windclan to see his boyfriend Tallstar and it made for a fun family reunion when Jake learned that his son was now ThunderClan's leader and basically Tallstar's adopted son

very proud that his son became leader of a clan

was killed by a meteor obviously

he wasn't a kit when Pinestar was Pinepaw thank you very much. he is from a way later litter (he's around Tallstar's age)

very proud of hit nicked ear and shows it off to anyone who is willing to listen (and even to who isn't willing)

he honestly rambles about a lot of things very often

tried to convince tiny/scourge to not become leader of a cult of evil murder cats, but kinda failed.

he sometimes visits the group of cats led by that old ca Jay and just vibes with them. he is an honorary member of their group too

brambleberry

she was originally a kittypet alongside her brother shellheart.

yes we have 3 consecutive riverclan healers that weren't born in the clan (mudfur was also a kittypet, but him becoming a warrior was tolerated and when he became a healer he was such an established member of the clan that nobody bat an eye)

she decorates the medicine den with little plants everywhere, there are so many different types of flowers in the den (it's a nightmare for cats with allergies).

she especially loves lavender and always had an entire stash of it ready for any purpose. she also has lavender plants tucked in her fur.

often hums little songs, she taught many of these songs to Crookedstar (whom she always called Storm-) no matter what.

such a floofy gal. she's fairly small and soft, and so is shellheart.

she never outright yelled at rainflower, but she made it very clear that she disliked rain in every possible way. she sometimes stalled in treating any wounds rainflower got just to be mean (because rain deserved it)

fucking adored her mentor milkfur. found the fact that milkfur's mother was also named milkfur very funny.

milkfur (the second) was actually the first cat to be genuinely open and supportive of shell and bramble.

she and echomist were in a gray area between a QPR and a romantic relationship (echo and hail are wlw mlm solidarity and both wanted kits, no romantic feelings involved) and they were basically the new moms of stormkit and oakkit

bramble also cared for oakkit because rainflower shouldn't be allowed any kit.

she was also always supportive of oakheart and never treated him any different than she did storm. they are both her kits in her mind.

autism? yeah, autism! medicinal herbs are her special interest. very ready to just ramble about them 24/7

gave some lavender stems to stormstar to wear in his fur. she is extremely proud of him.

I know in canon she never addressed mapleshade until storm becomes leader, but I own canon now and she actually tried to help storm with the mapleshade situation even since she knew maple was training storm and not just weirdly staring at him and saying vague shit

she died because of greencough. a bit before into the wild.

in starclan she aided in taking care of mosskit, willowkit, and minnowkit because they are all her grandchildren damnit

[morningmask27]

do u by any chance have a bristlefrost design??

well, I don't have a set one because bris is one of those cats I am cursed to not be able to encapsulate fully ever, but I do have a little design i did that's not too bad

both sides are mostly simmetrical, expect the white spots. I tried to inspire myself from a more dovewing vibe with maybe a bit of ivypool. I forgot to add the tabby-esque markings on her face, but they are the same on both sides. bris has wing markings on her back, followed by a white spot that looks kinda like a feather to end in white pants. the pants cover her legs in the same way on both sides