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Unseen concept art from The Prophecies Begin graphic novel #3.

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Breaking Benjamin has posted a TikTok asking where their Warriors fanbase is! 👀

They used "I Will Not Bow" as the post's audio as they are aware of its iconic status in the fandom.

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clan logo concepts

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i need to see the next warrior cat graphic novel because i'm desperate to know how they are going to render tigerstar's death in that cutesy art style

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yipeee i'm here to attack cats (and maybe other things)

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is this a safe space to admit i'm rly not a fan of real curse-words in warrior cat fic??

it's certainly not some kind of distaste for cursing b/c I will write multiple essays on the unique and irreplaceable value of the word "fuck" in most stories and i'm only kind of exaggerating.

but I've never found a warrior cats fic where it didn't feel really jarring and forced. It always immediately takes me out of the scene lmao.

it's not that big of a deal ig, I can learn to ignore and get over it....but I do have to like, get used to it all over again every time.

i rly do sympathize with the feeling that canon's silly "mouse-dung" curses don't have the same punch... but I still can't help thinking there are other potential words/phrases one could come up with that feel a bit more like a real curses, while also...feeling like they belong in this setting.

has anyone ever made a master list of warrior cat curse word ideas? that feels like something that probably exists 😂

I don't think I ever realized that the effectiveness of curse words was so heavily setting dependent to me until I started noticing this....so that's interesting.

(also don't take this post seriously, if you want your cats to say fuck then they should say it 1,000 times it truly doesn't matter)

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oh sh*t i need to update my artfight characters.....unfortunately i keep messing with my warrior cat oc details lmao..

i have no idea how many i'll actually be able to do, they'll probably be notebook doodles. i fear i must accept my attack/defense ratio likely won't recover but i want to do at least SOME doodles cause i dont draw as much anymore unless there is an external Reason 🥲

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just had the sobering realization that in less than 2 years i will have been in* this awful cat fandom for 20 years

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What's gonna be left of the world if you're not in it?

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once again thinking about my various pepe-sylvia-red-string-board StarClan theories trying to come up with a canon compliant way to interpret them.

I'm getting on this because StormClan's Folly is going to come out soon, and i'm sure it will imply StarClan """sent""" that storm as punishment for their transgressions (the same way they """"sent"""" one in "The Raging Storm." and when this inevitably happens I WILL be calling their bluff again.)

Look, all i'm saying is every time we have seen a starclan POV they are never controlling things on that scale. they are usually sitting around fretfully looking at visions.

anyway, recently I came across this passage in yellowfang's secret's prologue that i've been thinking about because....what the hell is this.

So....Here we have StarClan cats. fearing divine punishment on behalf of the clans.....

punishment from who?????

not from StarClan, apparently! not with how it's phrased here! This is not a threat that StarClan is making, it's a warning they're trying to decipher. It's coming from somewhere else, and it's not some other spirit in starclan or else Molepelt and Hollowbelly would be able to ask them. These dipshits don't know anything about it.

maybe I shouldn't say that StarClan cats are lying per se when they let the clans believe that all disasters are punishments. i think StarClan also believes it, that the world is controlled by some predetermined force of fate and everything that happens must happen for a reason. a reason that will ultimately favor them in the end so long as they follow The Rules.

it's just insane how this supposed great inevitable punishment for driving out SkyClan took ages and ages to happen, and it's been insinuated that everything from Brokenstar to Tigerstar to the dark forest to the twolegs destroying the territory (which they were already doing, hence what caused SkyClan to leave in the first place??) to Darktail to the stupid storm that ended that arc ties back to this one crime. Every bad thing that happened in a decade+ time span is blamed on this long-time-coming punishment over there not being the divinely mandated 5 clans. It took a long time for the self-fulfilling paranoia to justify itself, but I guess they technically got there eventually! fascinating.

if the reason doesn't make sense, StarClan will invent an interpretation and pass it on to the medicine cat as truth. It's not like, a choice in the typical sense, it's a religious belief. 

Let me clarify that I am not advocating that a god or god equivalent exists in this world. I hope desperately that they never try to have real deities, it would suck so bad. If Erin Hunter ever introduces the god of the stars as some fuck ass discount-bargain-bin Aslan Lion who appears in ProtaginistPelt's dream one night like "be not afraid, it is I, Starmane, god of all prophecy and creator of StarClan" rest assured I will be VERY UPSET.

 dont get me wrong, I like pantheons and fictional deities as much as the next guy, I even like them in wc fanfic! but as far as canon warrior cats goes, it is too late to introduce gods in this world and i'm confident they would make it worse.

I'm just saying that StarClan acts as if there is one, and that they must answer to it Or Else. not in the form of a being, but at least in the form of some divine ineffable will. StarClan is a lot easier to make sense of when you stop viewing them like gods, and start viewing them as worshippers of their own religion. i cant view them as a separate being from the clans, they ARE the clans. they interpret the world the same as when they were alive. i wish I could find more starclan-villain fanfics that approached them like that (more paranoid then in control) rather than as a powerful outside oppressive force (aka framing them as something akin to like...old testament Christian god. i get it, it's cathartic! it's fine, but I don't think it always works in this setting, at least not in an exact 1-to-1 way.)

StarClans actions make no sense because they also don't know why things need to happen a certain way. They are just higher ranking messengers passing on interpretations of what they see, fully believing they need to follow the will of "fate" the same way the clans believe they need to follow StarClan. And tbh I like this interpretation of the world. i LIKE the idea of StarClan trying to make divine sense out of bullshit. It's the only way to make sense of their pointlessly cryptic actions.

this is why trying to introduce deities would be a bad idea. Because you just can't put a conscious "wisdom" behind when they claim they can and cannot meddle with the living world's politics. Sometimes they can reject a chosen leader, sometimes they apparently have no choice but to let tyrants do what they want unchallenged, sometimes they send passive aggressive omens, sometimes they yell at you directly in your dreams or straight up appear in the living world, sometimes (like last arc) they opt for complete radio silence for moons and moons for no reason!

why does starclan choose to intervene here and not there? because they aren't choosing. they are waiting for something they could interpret as permission. When StarClan feels that Fate(tm) is bidding them to directly intervene with the living is as inconsistent and irrational as say....random violent weather patterns.

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‘Cat Baiyun’ by Georgii Zubkovsky, 1951

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fading echoes

for @harriertail 's cover zine

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stoneflower please don't let your gender get retconned by editing errors later down the line, you have to be strong

huge win today for ME and huge L for that person i once got into a youtube comments argument with when i was a kid bc they kept insisting that toms "weren't allowed to have the -flower suffix"

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huge win today for ME and huge L for that person i once got into a youtube comments argument with when i was a kid bc they kept insisting that toms "weren't allowed to have the -flower suffix"