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@pulau-harimau

With profound respect, we mourn the passing of Arrowhead, the 11-year-old tigress whose arrow-shaped forehead blaze made her the most recognisable face of Rajasthan’s Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. Born in 2014 to Krishna (T-19) and granddaughter of the legendary Machhli (T-16), Arrowhead inherited a dynasty of resilience, grace and fearless hunting prowess. Even in her twilight months, while silently battling an aggressive bone cancer, she astonished visitors one last time—ambushing and overpowering a full-grown marsh crocodile at Padam Talab on 16 June 2025, a scene that instantly went viral and echoed her grandmother’s famed exploits. Forest officials confirmed that Arrowhead succumbed to her illness on 19 June 2025, just hours after one of her daughters was shifted for safekeeping—an end befitting a matriarch who always placed her lineage first. Arrowhead’s legacy lives on through her cubs and through the countless photographers, guides and travellers she inspired to champion tiger conservation. The lakes and bamboo thickets of Zones 2 & 3—once her dominion—will feel quieter now, but every rustle in the grass will remind us of a sovereign who reigned with dignity until her final breath.

Bengal Tiger | Jayanth Sharma

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Love these two homos

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"Hey, maybe things took a weird route right now..."

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a funny thing about having a Problematic Blorbo is that you'll periodically come across a post along the lines of "um let's not forget that [Blorbo] is a bad person..." listing their various crimes, and if you have a modicum of intellectual honesty you find yourself nodding along and saying yeah it's true... but it's the greyness of their character that makes them so compelling... At the same time though you have a little Saul Goodman in your ear going "your honor in their defense: who cares like omfgggg who caresssssss like come onnnnnn"

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Peak romance

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Deadfoot + Ashfoot

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TW:BLOOD more stuff from that hollystar au i had a while back!!

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okay leafpool we get it

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Cloudtail: ough my old bones hurt

Thornclaw, who is six moons older than cloudtail: sorry about that old fellow want me to bench press some rocks to your den

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bad fucking news from the local animal shelter guys. they caught firestar and he was so feral they had to euthanize him he couldn’t be habituated to indoor life. yeah they had to try 9 times but they got him

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It kinda just snowballed from there.

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Squirrelflight, exasperated: Is there any cat in this clan who hasn't slept with my dad???

Mousefur, lapping at one paw: I've only slept with your mom.

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Squirrelflight: Did you two sleep together???

Brambleclaw: Um, well...

Firestar: I can assure you, Kindling, we didn't sleep one wink.

Squirrelflight: 😡

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Firestar: hmm.

Graystripe: hmm?

Firestar: hmm. hm.

Graystripe: hmm.

Firestar and Graystripe: *nodding at each other*

Bramblepaw: did they… understand each other?

Sandstorm: they share the same braincell, of course they understood each other.

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Anyways canon ravenbarley *is* a win and people who act like they’re too cool and edgy to be happy about it piss me off.

“He didn’t even say his mate was barely” in the kindest way possible, literally how else do you interpret that?? The graphic novels have always been more progressive and I get having low expectations for warriors but genuinely the graphic novels tackle a lot of subjects a lot better than the originals and trying to argue that ravenpaw saying he has a mate at the barn now and then telling them to visit him and barley whenever they want leaves possibility for anything else is. Honestly. Weird as hell. (Also this ravenpaw and barley post by the artist that makes me think they would have said something if the fandom was misinterpreting it en masse but that’s just me idk)

“The graphic novels are different than the originals so it doesn’t really count as a win” oh I’m sorry! Did you want us to hop in our Time Machine and go back to change the originals? There’s quite literally nothing we can do to change that. This is a win

“It’s embarrassing it took this long to get canon gay warriors” yeah it is. Are you gonna make it even more embarrassing by sulking about it when the rest of your community are celebrating

“We probably won’t get any more gay cats though” honestly you’re right. It’s sad. But knowing this, genuinely if you want more representation, if that’s something that’s super important to you, consume different media. If all this happened and you’re still just unhappy, I don’t know what to tell you. I’m not going to pretend like canon ravenbarley is going to change the world, I’m not acting like this is the most revolutionary thing any fandom has ever done, I’m simply saying that you need to stop shitting on people who are happy about it. People have been hoping for this for twenty years and honestly getting to see ANY ship canonized after two decades is super fun and cool, but make that the first gay ship in a fandom ever and that’s honestly just super cool okay!!! And it makes me sad to see people act like people who are happy about it are stupid or “””aren’t progressive enough””” or whatever is just. Ugh.

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"whatever happens, we'll face it together"

just wanted to post this separately as well — you can see it compared to the version i drew in 2017 here :)

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If dating between mentors and apprentices is taboo in the clans I can imagine Cinderpaw cursing Bluestar for choosing the only single not-related tom close to her in age who also happens to be canonically handsome as her mentor

"Hi Bluestar I was wondering if you could give me a less hot mentor please?"