Warriors Tpb - Blog Posts
“Dramatic Irony Should Have Limits: Why The First Arc is the Most Infuriating Piece of Media Ever Created” - an essay on why reading the first arc makes me want to rip my hair out and roll around on the floor
The Prophesies Begin
Sketches of TPB cats! I love these little guys
Did you know they were in a sewer? cause I didn't
Does anyone ever think about how the clans used to actually have differences in culture and lifestyle and how all of that got erased in the newer books?
Imagine how cool it would have been if the Erins had explored these cultural differences between the clans even FURTHER because that would have given the series so much potential.
Here are some examples of just how cool cultural differences can be:
RiverClan
I want to see RiverClan using their skills in swimming way more than they do currently, let them swim to the gathering island every full moon, let them attack other clans from the depths of the lake and drag cats down into the water to drown them. Let them still have their easygoing and relaxed attitude but show how formidable they can be in a fight and make it clear that they are not to be messed with.
Give them their own traditions too, let them celebrate the coming of spring each year because of ice melting and the river thawing so that they can fish again. Let them collect pretty flower petals on this day to decorate their dens and have them celebrate it by all going down to the river to fish.
Show their clan’s love for pretty trinkets and have them gather pretty shells and pebbles from the river. Let the apprentices play games this way by seeing who can find the prettiest shell for their den and boasting about it later. I imagine the other clans would view them as relaxed and easygoing, always having a ready source of food thanks to the river but at the same time they know to fear them for their almost unnatural fighting skills in the water.
WindClan
Imagine WindClan still keeping their old tradition of tunnelling even at the lake territory, imagine WindClan tunnellers accidentally discovering the old forgotten tunnels that run under the forest and finding out pieces of their history this way, possibly even before Jayfeather does. I wish they had kept the tunnelling tradition alive because that was what made WindClan so unique.
Show just how fast WindClan can be, let them use the tunnels to invade other territories and let them be almost impossible for the others to catch up to. They might be considered scrawny but show that they have an advantage in battle because of their uncanny speed.
In general let them have a closed off and cold approach to the other clans. Show that they think they are closer to StarClan than the others because they live and sleep under open skies. They might seem almost mysterious to the other clans and deeply rooted in their traditions. Let them have oral storytelling nights and let them chart constellations in the night sky, keeping alive the tales of their ancestors.
The could even believe that the wind which blows over the moors is holy, the echo of the voices of their ancestors. I picture them as a religious clan, even more than the others. Perhaps they pray by listening to the wind and leaving offerings to be blown away in the breeze (usually the feathers of birds of prey)
ShadowClan
Next up is ShadowClan, the stereotypical bad guys. I would have loved if ShadowClan had been shown to follow a more nocturnal lifestyle, being active mostly at night. They would be masters of stealth, blending into the shadows and coating themselves with mud and leaves for camouflage due to their territories limited undergrowth. This might be what gives them their stereotypical bad smell, that ThunderClan always complains about.
Their territory is very marshy and due to little undergrowth it would be harder for them to stalk prey. This has caused them to be the stealthiest out of all the clans and the best hunters. But they are also able to use this stealth to their advantage in a fight. They attack without warning from the shadows and rely on surprise, always striking at night when it’s hardest to see them.
Their tradition could be the celebration of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year.
ThunderClan
And finally we have the main protagonists ThunderClan. This clan has always felt bland to me in terms of tradition because they don’t seem to have anything that really makes them stand out. I imagine they are probably the best trackers due to having to hunt and track prey in thick bushy undergrowth.
But honestly I would have loved if they had been given something to make them special and unique. Any ideas?
The atheist mom and the gay dude with big ears (Some small paintings for button pins I am testing rn)
she blues on my star til i lose all nine lives. is this something?
when u like a character for their potential to be interesting and complex more than how they’re actually written
This is the best MAP I’ve ever seen so I have to share it on this blog so I can always find it
Starting the new year with some kitty cat nonsense huhuh
Firepaw,Ravenpaw,and Greypaw.😼👍
“Yellowfang the Terrible…”
Based on the painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” by Ilya Repin shown below
Dawn of the Clans was such a cool concept for a wc book series! It’s so sad that female characters and certain plot points were just so weak; idk if it’s just that arc but it seems like later arcs just don’t have the best writing :,( like so much could have been done with family dynamics and everything but they were so determined to get from point A (no clans) to point B (the beginning of clans) they forgot characters are more than plot devices. Reading The Prophecies Begin after DOTC causes whiplash LIKEYOURE TRYING TO TELL ME ITS THE SAME SERIES?!!! there is so much fan made content i’ve read and seen that just blow DOTC out of the water with quality. Wish it could have a do over
This is all to say you should read DOTC if you haven’t
congrats on escaping the narrative and then getting a boyfriend
WindClan's Forest Camp
Extremely hard to visualize and populate, but settled with who would be in the camp in Forest of Secrets. Onewhisker is playing with Gorsekit, Tallstar and Deadfoot are in charge, and I snuck in a baby Nightcloud!
oh my god the grass looks like cat ears IT LOOKS LIKE CAT EARSSSS
my final for this semester was a book jacket redesign !! i did the first warrior cats book of course since i am very fond of this series
AU where Mickey Mouse gets caught by a warrior cat and acts like fucking Jiminy Cricket but evil. The warrior cat clans proceed to become capitalist corporations that fund wars and slowly destroy StarClan through the bastardization of the morals they claim to stand for.
I had to post this before I thought it wasn't funny anymore.
Fireheart Is Dumb(tm)
Meow Meow Meow meow meow MEOW
me and the girlies on our way to win back sunningrocks
And They Were Boyfriends - Barely and Ravenpaw
A Startled Bluestar
Y'all animating is so hard. Why can't the things I see in my brain just be projected on to paper in the form of animation? Why do I actually need to learnnnn UUGHHHH
From a Graystripe AMV I will likely never actually finish.
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….
The noble Fireheart and his majestic kin
this happened probably