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( reblogging here, but plz direct responses to the yarrowleef blog rather than this one c: )

Hey, so I am (believe it or not) still trying to write Duskpaw/Dawnpaw’s OC fic, and I’ve been re-reading "For Roads Untraveled" for the first time since posting it almost 3 years ago, since I was way to close to it at the time to see any part of it clearly.

But I’m trying to actually absorb now what was good about it as well as what was wrong with it. Some things I think turned out well by accident and I was surprised by the reception to some of it. I don’t want to discredit the things that resonated with people just because I’m a bit jaded about it as a whole, cause, y’know, if I did something right by accident I’d like to see if I can intentionally do it again later. Also vice versa…..

Anyway, I don’t think I have ever received negative critique on that fic---which was very nice of everyone as I wasn’t asking for it back then, and I’m sure i came across as super insecure and nervous about the whole thing (which I was lol). But now I am more distant from it and trying to view it more objectively to like, learn from the experience as much as I can or w/e?

I know all the many things that I think are wrong with it, and when I posted it I never asked for critique because I was thinking “I already know all that, I don’t need other people to also tell me!” but really, I don’t actually know for sure if the things I know are the same things that others notice.

 I know it’s been a couple years, but for those who remember, if there was any kind of critique (or less-than-enthusiastically-positive feedback) you wanted to make at the time, and if you feel like taking the time to type it out, I would be happy to hear it!! 

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a dawnstripe portrait that I missed <3 from 2019

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In the epilogue comic, are those kits Reena's and Jakes? Does Quince y have its? If so, who is their sire?

Yeah, they are Jake and Reena's! I don't know if I decided whether or not they truly become romantic partners or if they just both wanted kits and figured they'd have them together because they got along and were already traveling partners. In my mind this is a pretty common arrangement for cats. It's possible they could have been more romantic though, I do think they have compatible personalities.

Jake and Quince had kits together same as canon before Jake left (there is a couple year time skip between the start of the epilogue and the end of the fic). Based on my foggy recollection of Scourge's manga, in canon Jake had kits with Quince and then they were separated, as Quince talks about him in past tense? unknown if he moved away or if she moved away or what, but in my version of course it's because Jake leaves the houses after his elderly owner passes away. Jake probably didn't even know that Quince was pregnant when he left. I don't think Jake and Quince were ever strongly romantically involved, despite being generally fond of each other. Possible Quince as a bit of a romantic had more feelings then Jake did, but I doubt he ever knew that.

Ruby and Socks are there in a cameo (along with that little rogue cat Roach that appears briefly in the fic--not that I expect anyone to recognize him, he is just a rando I invented not based on any canon cat). I wrote this a little over a year ago but I believe I meant to imply the end of the epilogue was sometime after Scourge sends his starving siblings away. Jake found them and learned about who they were and the other visitors took them along out of the town when they fled

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and some miscellaneous Visitors! from 2019

this is younger Hen and her first two sons Gull and Albatross. I once had notes for a bonus story about her. They were accidentally born on a boat at sea, but she lost them both when a bad storm hit the ship and they were swept away. The stories she made up with her group often involved a mother cat at sea who was able to trick the ocean into letting her save her babies. She used to tell Sparrow about them all the time

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more miscellaneous windclanners from 2017-2019!

Brackenwing, Crowfur and his son Hazelnose, a friend group that crumbled years ago (Plumclaw, Mistmouse, Lilywhisker, and Leafshine), siblings (Fallowspring, Ryewhisker, and Fawnleap), and final references for the HareMouse family

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some brothers (and their dad) from 2018/2019

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pales from 2018

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from 2018-2019, sooo many Tall’s + some Tall family

bonus, a little sister in the stars

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various WindClan guys from around 2018/2019 ~

In order: Hazelnose, Meadowmist, Reedfeather, Hawkheart, two Fennelpelt's, Woollycloud, Hazelnose again with a slightly different design

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from 2019, soft lads in watercolor that I never got around to editing

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I was going through an old hard-drive and found a bunch of old FRU character art that I never posted for whatever reason, so I might queue up some art dumps!

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I read this fic done by @tallstars-rewrite and was overcome by emotion and blacked out. When I came to a week later, this was in my files.

The link to the fic is HERE. Please read it it’s so good.

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Epilogue: Part One (here) || Part Two

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Epilogue: Part One || Part Two (here)

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wait uh i posted that out of order. if u saw it no you didn’t <3

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i conquered drawing the buildings (sort of) so might spontaneously post this tonight

oh right on that note, let it be known I AM still chipping away at that short little epilogue comic slowly but surely

 its just that, frankly, I should be sprayed with water any time I say anything along the lines of “oh im gonna do this thing!!! it will be done around this upcoming date!!” that was me on an productive upswing that wrote that, and they only pop in sporadically for like 2 days every month. I don’t know her, and she isn’t returning my calls.

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Hello I come bearing more fanart of that wonderful Tallstar’s Revenge fanfic I mentioned a while back The chapter for this scene: For Roads Untraveled (a Tallstar’s Revenge rewrite) - Chapter 39 - YarrowLeef - Warriors - Erin Hunter [Archive of Our Own]