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I just wanted to say that as someone who's been in the warriors fandom for a long time, I adore Clangen. Seeing people come up with challenges reminds me of when people would make challenges for Warrior Cats: Untold Tales, and it's wonderful seeing people come up with stories just like they did for that game. Keep up the awesome work dev team!

Aww thank you so much! We are so glad to hear that you are enjoying the game ❤️

Happy playing!

~Chase

blackstar: one of your daughters took a frog from our territory. she told us she wasnt going to eat it but was just going to let it live here

sandstorm: …..that doesnt sound like MY girls but okay. thank you for telling me. we’ll be on the look out for a frog i guess??

blackstar: …

sandstorm: they’ll get a stern talking to. we’ll make it hop back in your territory when we find it

blackstar: ….alright.

sandstorm, as soon as he leaves: alright you two give me the frog.

leafpaw: we named him jumppaw.

sandstorm: he needs to go back home

squirrelpaw: firestar promised he’d give him a warrior name and everything mom you cant get rid of thunderclans newest and bravest apprentice….

Rusty: hey you're Tigerstar's daughter right? Tawnypaw was it-

Tawnypaw: did you fuck my dad

Rusty: wait what

Tawnypaw: My dad would never allow some kittypet rouge to chill in his clan. So answer me. Now.

God I love the idea of cats in position of power being decorated with herbs, flowers, etc to show their statues from everyday wear to gatherings.

But the specific intimate aspect of their closest clanmates/kin helping them get ready is what really appeals to me like thinking about

Yellowfang braiding specific flowers and trinkets into Cinderpaws fur before going to the moonstone to gain her medcat name.

Bluestar gifting Redtail some feathers after his promotion to Deputy

Mudfur naively weaving a moth wing into Mothwings fur before giving her name.

And so on

Idk I'm just thinking out loud :p

I know I mostly pair Fireheart up with men but that doesn't mean I don't love some m/f pairings

Like someone once mentioned Brindleface/Fireheart and i find it extremely amusing in the context of the kits pushing it like Fire shows up nearly constantly showing up to play and spend time with Cloudkit and by extension Ashkit and Fernkit too and in their little kitten brains this could either mean they are his kits and Cloutkit is from a different mom or Cloudkit is his and thats makes him their stepdad

Either way Fireheart is the closest thing to a father figure so they shrug and lach onto the idea and pursed to giving Fire twenty heart attacks in a span of a minute when they casual call him dad.

Brindleface finds it funny meanwhile Fireheart is just shaking her in a panic "They are calling me dad! What do I do!?"

“Stop!! You can’t ship that!! It would be toxic!! :(“

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The best thing about the fandom is the goofy-ass ships. They're so funny, especially the really weird ones (not pedophilia or abuse, obviously). I love how people will make up a ship that makes absolutely no sense because it gives more room for imagination and stuff. And I think it’s pretty shitty that there are way too many people who will attack and harass somebody over it. Like, why? Please don’t do that. Just let people have fun. If it makes them happy, then leave them alone. The block button is free. This also goes for headcanons! I've seen some really nice HCS / interesting ships get hated on, usually because someone hates one of the characters. And I think it's weird. Like, just leave people alone and let them be. 

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Vicky Holmes writing a side character named Crippleface into her little contract cat story

the ghostwriter 10 years later who has to write the naming ceremony in the prequel book Crippleface's Winter Vacation

Not to get political or anything but I discovered Hamilton through Warrior Cats amv's

"we want more mental illness rep!" usually means "i want my favorite woobified characters to wax poetic about their trauma". If they made a character have ocd, bpd, or a non-glorified version of ptsd (underdogs) most of y'all would hate those characters for being 'mean', 'morally corrupt', 'abusive', or 'whiny'. the larger fandom despises most characters who mildly resonate with mentally ill folk, there's no way y'all could handle an accurately written depiction of stigmatized conditions lol (1)

it is your sworn duty, as a warrior cat artist, to draw your favorite characters as warrior cats. you must. you vowed to.

I'm getting tired of the sly remarks to Cinderpelt becoming a medicine cat instead of a warrior. Fifth book in and I'm still getting the usual line, Fireheart couldn't shake off how Cinderpelt could no longer be a warrior or have a mate or have kits. SHE CLEARLY IS A GREAT MEDICINE CAT. So yea, maybe she was a fail queen two books ago when she had to learn to live with this disability, but she did learn! Yellowfang was a mean ol' granny, but clearly understood how well she adapted to the new role. It's not the worst depiction of becoming disabled, since you know in warrior cats society every able cat aspires to be a warrior and to lose that is everything and to find a new role that aids the entire clan in more ways than one is a great success story. Fireheart stays whiny for too long about Cinderpelt, imo.

im not saying “don’t criticize the content you consume” but i am saying to have reasonable expectations

guys will see a location and think wow thats a great place for a clan of warrior cats

spottedleaf: how’s your life been in the few weeks i haven’t seen you? how’s training? your friends?

firepaw: well i reported someone to admin for sexual harassment! :D

Horizonshine lives to run.

Working as a Brookclan courier, Horizonshine finds their purpose in racing across the mountains and joining the distant cats of the bay clans together. In the constantly changing landscape of the Alaskan wilderness, their job represents stability, knowing there will always be another package to carry, another report to send, another task to run to. With every new day, the young cat charges forward, eager to forge connections in her community.

But old connections are racing up to meet her, and when cosmic forces set paw in the mortal realm, the troubled courier suddenly finds herself with a message she can’t seem to deliver, and a past she can no longer run from.

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If the primary colors were to get into a fight, which would win and why?

good question would this include the additive and subtractive models? red vs blue vs yellow vs green vs cyan vs magenta

The Prophecies Begin book 1 is so good for so many reasons but oh my god that plot with Tigerclaw…

There is absolutely no reason to keep putting off letting the leader know that the current deputy killed another deputy and possibly helped plot the death of Lionheart!! Like why would that make sense Firepaw? WHY WOULD BLUESTAR NOT WANT TO KNOW?!!! AND WHY WOULD HIDING RAVENOAW AND PRETENDING HES DEAD BE EASIER THAN WARNING BLUESTAR?!!!

people in the WC fandom will be like like this cat is my favorite character and it’s a cat that shows up for 10 pages as a back ground character with almost no dialogue who exists only to make the world feel more full/plot device

dawn of the clans is not nearly as good a people make it out to be.

so I've been thinking about it

and I think

DotC would've been more interesting if it explored more on the family aspect of things

Clear Sky, Jagged Peak, and Gray Wing are brothers who fall apart

Thunder is rejected by his biological father

it would be so cool to see DotC being about found family and what cats defined as family, for cats to choose who they belonged with and the Clans not forming from petty grudges and teaming up against Clear Sky

but by realizing that these were the cats that made them happy to be around

we get so many little tidbits of this, but that's not the overarching theme of the story and I think it'd be so much more fun if it was

Wind Runner, famously abandoned, learning that she's allowed to trust cats again and make her own family with Gorse Fur by her side. That she's allowed to have a family that won't hurt her.

Tall Shadow losing loved ones - namely her brother Moon Shadow - and making her family something safe that she could protect and that could, in turn, learn to protect each other

River Ripple having once known a proper family, but losing and and turning his group into a loving home, one where cats are welcome no matter how their paws brought them there and turning it into a community like that he grew up with

and then getting to the biggest missed opportunities;

Thunder, being torn so many ways, learning that family isn't always blood. Family is who you want to be around, those you want to protect, but also laugh with, learn from, and teach in turn. That just because Clear Sky sired him doesn't mean that he has to be loyal to his father.

And a Clear Sky redemption arc where Clear Sky learns that family isn't something you control. That family doesn't mean you can hurt those you care about, even if you believe it's for the 'greater good'. That all cats are their own person and trying to strip them of that doesn't make you good family and that you can lose the ones you love.

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or at least

those are my feelings

potentially unpopular opinion but it would've been nice to have thunder and star flower actually get together and have a DEVELOPED relationship as opposed to shoving in the weird love triangle with clear sky and giving thunder a LITERAL last minute love interest just because clear sky needed a third and final girlfriend after he indirectly got the last two he knocked up killed and because thunder needed a girlfriend

like we could have had two young characters at odds after star flower's betrayal learning to open up to each other and gain each other's trust once more and bonding over the fact that they both had shitty dads who did shitty things and creating a group for themselves away from clear sky

like i have never felt closer to vomiting than reading through the clear sky/star flower romance chapters it made me so uncomfortable

I really wanna see a spayed/neutered warrior one day in the series and I wanna see how the clans will react, I think it would be really interesting

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Dotc is awful and I think its fans have never actually read it

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River Ripple had a crush on Gray Wing and no one can convince me otherwise

I feel like I don't see enough conversation about how they had Star Flower be pursued by Thunder and Clear Sky who are explicitly father and son

so I'm finishing up The First Battle and like. yeah gray wings "tell the stars you won" line fucks hard but where did this come from. u spent like 3 books doing nothing but whining over everyone hating ur brother for being a power hungry dictator. where did this change of mind come from. ESPECIALLY SINCE MINUTES AFTER U GO BACK TO CODDLING HIM.

this chapter should've been from his pov. like I wouldn't hate this nearly as much if we saw his thought process; the brutal realization thar he can't keep denying that clear sky is a shitty person and everyone was right about him. idk. either that or give the line to thunder.

For how much (rightful) criticism Dawn Of The Clans gets I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention the inaccurate characterizations that happen from The First Battle to The Blazing Star.

The First Battle ends with relegations of how bad Clear Sky is, how mislead he was, how much hes hurt everyone around him and then all the characters become aware of why he was acting the way he was and Thunder opens his heart to Clear Sky. He’s like ‘oh that’s why my dads like that. He’ll have to work hard to right the wrongs he’s done but I believe he can do it. It’ll take me a while to forgive him though’. But then The Blazing Star begins with them forgetting how they all were feeling about Clear Sky and creating conflict because they go back to being unsympathetic and that he’ll never change again.

I read these books back to back so it might be more noticeable just because there wasn’t a year between me reading the two (also I swear you can tell when a new Erin begins writing in the series), but my point still stands.

I think people hate Clear Sky because the books themselves didn’t properly justify his redemption. They needed conflict, they had understanding and acceptance of him too early and then they back tracked to prolong it. It’s like whiplash the way Thunder goes from hating his father to understanding him and having hope for him back to hating if him and then liking him at the end of the series.

That’s one thing that sucks about this Warrior Cat series (and i wouldn’t be surprised about the others once I get to them), the Erins don’t always create coherent stories and characters. And maybe it’s just this book but all the characters are very static as well and when they try to have dynamic characters it just seems forced for plot. Which really sucks because this is a great concept for a series and it wasn’t all terrible.

Support the younger/local actors in Reservation Dogs! This summer I met the father of the actress who plays the younger Deer Lady. We're part of a museum fellowship. He was so excited for her to be on Rez Dogs. She's Assiniboine/Nakoda/Creek/Seminole and honestly so talented.

This was an important episode. Please deliver justice to those who did and didn't survive residential schools.