River Ripple Had A Crush On Gray Wing And No One Can Convince Me Otherwise

I love how almost every cat in the WC fandom has “yes my favorite baby can’t do anything wrong!” and “I fucking hate that cat they suck and should die” dichotomy from the fandom

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

first time i've ever drawn Blackstar after like 14 years

hey guys! i just wanted to share i have a non-warrior art account if you’re interested in checking out some of my other pieces!!! thank you for your support 🩷🩷🩷🩷

redraw of my fursona Paint! I’m liking this style a lot more

Reservation Dogs s03e02 (2023)

made these studying cat genetics over the past 2 weeks!

i felt like there weren't enough visual guides of cat genetics so i went ahead and made some simple ones, my main references were Sparrow's Garden the website, Sparrow's Garden the blog, Messybeast, and The Little Carnivore.

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.

This was gonna be a ClanGen blog but I can’t pick a Clan to focus on lol, so it will probably just be random cat art

Warrior cats brainrot is infecting me for the first time in years. I haven’t actually read it since DotC arc 🥴 are the current books any good? Is it worth picking up again?