#remembering leopards

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Two leopards take a drink at the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana, in a stunning photo taken from a new book, Remembering Leopards. Featuring photos donated by wildlife photographers around the world, the book is one in a series that has donated more than £1m to conservation projects

Photograph: Margot Raggett/Remembering Wildlife/PA

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

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[justnoodlefishthings]

got to briefly visit my beautiful baby boy ❤️

[bonefall]

Super interested in how you plan to write Leopardfoot! I feel like both fanon and canon tend to make her into a sweet mom(tm) who’s super sad that Tigerstar is evil, very similar to how Goldenflower is usually treated. What’s her thoughts on Pinestar and him leaving? How did she influence Tigerstar? What are her political beliefs?

Society has progressed past the need for sad moms who stare tearily at their evil sons and boohoo about all the murder. It's MOTHER AGENCY TIME

BB!Leopardfoot was FEROCIOUS. Her father was the indominable Adderfang, and he taught her about the importance of honor and glory. When Tigerpaw was given to Thistleclaw as an apprentice, she was proud of it. It felt perfect to her-- that her father's apprentice was now her son's mentor.

For his brief rule, she supported Sunstar completely. It helped that he came after the disastrous and embarassing exit of Pinestar, which ruined the legacy that she wanted him to give her son. Pinestar was a damn coward and a codebreaker... and she assured Tigerkit that he was more HER son than his.

She even gives him a life, for Legacy, in defiance of StarClan

She was friends with Bluemoon for a time, but after ascending to StarClan, she learned about the Forget-me-nots.

This changed her opinion of her. Leopardfoot supports Thistle Law, STRONGLY so.

She supported THISTLECLAW when he tried to forcefully void the Queen’s Rights. If Bluemoon hadn't broken the code, then what did she have to hide?

She backed off when Thrushpelt leapt to her defense though, "She didn't reveal it because she doesn't love me are you happy now??"

Leopardfoot: *awkwardly turns away feeling like an asshole now, tea SPILLED, her friend's dirty laundry EXPOSED, thought she was crusading for the law but she just dug up drama*

Towards the end of Pinestar’s reign, he was getting exhausted. He wanted peace. Leopardfoot wanted kittens around that time, and figured that there was no better cat than the son of Oakstar, architect of the infamous Crusade Era.

If Pinestar had no children, a glorious bloodline would have died out. She wanted it for her kits. Pinestar agreed on the condition that he would be their Mi, which she happily accepted.

So when Pinestar left, she jumped into the nursery to take over and had to explain to her kits where their Mi went.

She drove it home to them that he abandoned everything, because his weakness took over. They would never be like him, she promised.

Mistkit died very young. Nightpaw made it to apprenticeship before she also succumbed. Tigerclaw remembers very well how hard it was to lose his sisters.

Leopardfoot herself was taken shortly before TPB, in Spottedleaf's Plague. Her death causes Tigerclaw to have a bit of a moment.

After the trial in Bluestar's Flowers, Leopardfoot leaves StarClan along with a bunch of other Thistle Law supporters, including Thistleclaw himself. She joins the BOTTE at the end of OotS, fighting to the end with her son.

She misses him a lot, and remains in the Dark Forest to the current arc. She chose her path; and has the dignity to walk it.

She does miss StarClan sometimes though, and will tell you stories about it if you ask.

In terms of demon friends, she's somewhere in the clique between the harsher and softer spirits.

She dislikes Morningstar, Cloudberry, and Ryewhisker on the softer end, and has come to resent Thistleclaw and Finchflight on the other, but likes Darkstripe, Leopardstar, and Silverhawk.

Gets along with a range of "mid" level demons.

In particular I imagine she hangs out with Darkstripe a lot. Taste test buddy, he asks her to try his experimental recipes because she's honest but not mean. One of the few Thistle Law supporting cats he hangs out with after the double-death of Tigerstar.

He calls her Lefty. Her official nickname is "Left" but he calls her Lefty.

(Clanmew: her name is Saorpwyyar. Others call her Saopr. He calls her Sapyy.)

Her mom and dad Swiftbreeze and Adderfang are here too, following Thistleclaw like she did, but she's been minimizing her contact with her dad. She feels like she is owed an apology somehow but also doesn't have the emotional intelligence to know that it's what she wants.

She just knows that she feels really bitter talking to him, and that's unpleasant.

She used to be VITRIOLIC with Pinestar, who is also here, even going after him physically when he chose to join in with the Dark Forest trainees. But now... honestly so much shit has happened, she just doesn't like seeing him. She wishes he wasn't here.

I write her being very dignified. She doesn't like to admit publically she was ever wrong and speaks with confidence, quietly backing off and not wanting to speak about her mistakes. She loves her children and her family, but explores the world in a very "self-centric" way, trusting her feelings and personal judgement over anything logical.

A reactionary sort of person, if that makes sense.

Her Land Mar has to develop over time because she is an ex-StarClan migrant (damned souls get theirs instantly after judgement), but it's called the Fence Cliff. It's a picket fence that blocks off a sheer drop, making a sharp turn down the cliff face and acting as a walkway. Follow the fence down the slope, and you can access the Dark Forest's town biome.

[matoitech]

bringing another old oc back, basil :-) i was trying to draw more interesting art of him but struggling a bit today so eh

[bonebabbles]

I know a lot of people were happy to see Squilf get Boring Leader syndrome, or at least interested in the idea of her being mature enough to realize that she needs to behave differently as a leader as opposed to a deputy... but I think my distaste here is obvious.

This is a terrible outcome for Squirrelstar as a character. The conflict has just ground to an absolute halt as the RiverClan Occupation resolved itself on its own (no intervention required) and now she's being Very Reasonable and level-headed about something VERY politically motivating. Where is the action?? It's BOOK 5 and there's been one significant battle!

The whole appeal of getting a leader swap in ThunderClan was that she would be impulsive. Characters that don't do anything are boring, come on <:/

[pretty-pink-seaslug]

MADE MYSELF A DESKTOP BACKGROUND USING SOME SUPERGALS PICS AND IM PROUD OF IT 💖 💖 💖

feel free to use too (o´▽`o)

[lucindasthighs]

listen. I HAVE to believe the "Chad is Vlyad's baby daddy" theory, because that means:

a) Zianna, the fucking QUEEN OF OKHASIS and mother of who'll become two of the most powerful people in the world, found some autism-infected scientist and said "this guy is serving absolute cunt, I need some of that"

and b) Chad has MAXIMUM RIZZ to be able to pull the queen of the most powerful kingdom in Ru'aan.

[everywebkin]

Can you do the icy mist leopard or the strawberry cloud leopard??! I love your art btw!!!!

strawberry cloud leopard and icy mist leopard, released october 2009 and december 2012

[sage-does-art-sometimes]

Curse the picture limit. I should be able to put more images in :/

[e-adlirez]

What are your thoughts on Madame No? She's my absolute favourite character in the series, but I haven't seen much talk about her.

I dunno if she's shown up a lot in the books (I don't read the GS books that often), but I personally find her entertaining. Woman's gimmick is to say no to anything that doesn't benefit her exclusively and I find that hilarious, she's literally a pathetic meow meow version of Madame Hu from the TS series and I love it

[dangan-companions]

So uh.....Junko?

Being a model means traveling all sorts of places. Someone's not too happy about that, but at least the sights can be pretty!

[arom-antix]

Help, I got a silly idea

[fistfuloflightning]

digging through my old artwork and found this from Art II

[raspberrybluejeans]

i’ve made posts talking about how i love boring guys and stuff and i just remembered an early example of this behavior is that I was given a Lisa Frank coloring book and I meticulously colored in all the animals to their natural colorations

[mulchergeist]

thinking about the characters in my dream last night. snow leopard boy named tobi (i remember it specifically with the I) and another guy with shoulder length puffy curly ginger hair who was wearing a frog raincoat. I don't remember his name but they were both silly