Ramblings of a Mad BirchClan Writer

this is the blog for a Warriors fancomic I (Pengu; They/She) am making based on me and my friend's random.org-based (mostly) randomly generated clan, BirchClan! please don't ask for an update schedule, all you will get in return are tears. banner is by the friend who's working on the clan with me personal art sideblog is @pengu54324

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BirchClan Info Post

ComicFury Link: https://birchclan.webcomic.ws/comics/1

hello there, welcome to the blog! I am Pengu (They/She) and this is a blog meant to hold comic pages, character info and discussions surrounding the Warriors fancomic I'm making based on me and my friend's RNG-based clan, BirchClan!

the idea for the clan itself came from a moderator in the ClanGen Discord server who gave me a clan generator google doc (which has no ties to ClanGen itself) that they sometimes use to host server-wide events.

at the beginning of the comic, BirchClan is a small clan who has recently been hit by a devastating plague that killed most of their members. BirchClan was only established a few years prior to the comic, at the edge of the large territory of their sole neighbouring clan, WillowClan. it was founded by Birchstar (the current leader's father), who died during the plague. the once decently-sized clan has now been reduced to only six members:

Froststar (She/Her), the clan leader and the daughter of the previous leader and clan founder, Birchstar

Palefire (They/Them), a strong warrior and longtime member of the clan

Tumbleweed (He/They), a nervous young cat who is just trying his best, and the son of Palefire

Graymoon (She/Her), the clan's only surviving warrior, a cat who's doing her best to help the clan rebuild both physically and emotionally, and the older sister of Fernpaw

Fernpaw (He/Him), the clan's only surviving apprentice who has just started his training at the tail end of the plague

Sandytoes (She/Her), a wise elder who helps out where she can despite her age, and the mother of Palefire and the grandmother of Tumbleweed

I hope you enjoy the comic! this is where it begins:

First Page

#not a comic page and #comic page will be used to distinguish between those two types of post; #reference will be used to signify a character reference, so feel free to go through those specific tags to find what you want. every character who has shown up so far also has their own tag for every post they show up in

#TW: death will be used to tag comic parts containing any on-screen death. I can't remember if this applies to any part of the story yet, but mentioned/off-screen death will be tagged with #TW: mention of death

personal art sideblog is @pengu54324

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dumping some art ive done for CCC challenges because i keep forgetting to post them LOL, the first 2 images are for the Tumblebug design challenge and the last image is for the species swap challenge that happened a while ago! the species swap is the reason im posting the art on this account

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CCC DISCORD!!!

If you didn't see, the Clangen Creator Community celebrated it's 1st birthday on March 23rd, so we thought we would run the same event that we ran the first month that the server was open - a banner event!

The original event featured 38 cats, but this time we were able to have a gathering of 60! Each cat was drawn and submitted by a different creator in our server in their own unique style, meaning we also have over 60 art styles represented here, which is so incredibly cool.

HUGE SPECIAL THANKS TO @bristleclanismissing, whom we commissioned to make the background but graciously assembled and FULLY SHADED the whole piece! Thank you so much, Coffee <3

We mention it a lot, but we are truly so grateful for this community, and hopefully the immense amount of love put into this project by our participants is easily felt. Here's to another year of creation!

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WAAHHHH THIS LOOKS SO GOOD PUT TOGETHER IM SO HAPPY TO HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS!!!!

ferneyes is in the middle of the very bottom of the photo :3

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thundertwirl visiting his loner boyfriend sylvester........ these guys are everything to me

as i was thinking of making this drawing i realized 1) im pretty sure ive literally never drawn birchstar and thundertwirl together LOLL and 2) BIRCHSTAR HAS NEVER. IN THE YEAR AND A HALF BIRCHCLAN HAS EXISTED. GOTTEN A FULLBODY RERFERENCE OR DRAWING OF ANY KIND FROM EITHER ME OR MY FRIEND

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some doodles of what my friend and i are calling "old birchclan" (i.e. birchclan before the plague)!

first image is baby frostkit and palepaw, and the second image is fernkit (~3-ish moons) with his friends rushpaw (the cream cat) and splinterpaw (the brown cat)

palefire joined birchclan pretty close to when froststar was born, because her birth is basically what started the clan in the first place (i might elaborate a bit more on that lore later) -- they were there at the beginning because sandytoes (who was their mother) was an old friend of birchstar's

idk how many drawings i'll do for these guys but there are definitely some more characters from old birchclan that i want to draw together!

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happy 1 year of birchclan (in comic form)!!!!!!!!!!!!! i honestly cant believe the comic has been able to go on this long LOL, it's been so much fun writing and drawing about these silly gay cats and being able to share them with people

tysm again to my friend @citrixesoda who made everything happen, first by being the only person willing to play this clan with me, then by helping with plotlines and characters, and now by helping me colour all the pages

and thank you to everyone who has supported birchclan!!! whether by following/subscribing, liking, reblogging or even just reading it, it always makes me so happy to see people enjoying something i make and put a lot of effort into :]

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birchclan allegiances as of the end of part 16 (which takes place during moon 24)

all pixel headshots were created by me using a base i made, and all the other headshots were created by my friend @citrixesoda

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Part 16

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Part 15

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Part 14.5

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Panel 1: Sandytoes passed away in the night. Lynx determines that the cause of death was old age; it was simply her time.

Panel 2: Ferneyes is passing by the nursery when Sandwhistle spots him from inside, dragging him in to play with Loudkit with her. Ferneyes, being put on the spot, agrees, and ends up having a weirdly good time.

Panel 3: Sandwhistle goes to the medicine cat den to check up on Ferneyes after he gained a small injury, but Ferneyes, very much not wanting to see her while already in pain, snaps at him to go away.

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credit goes to songdog for the template!! go check them out, they just finished a cat comic that's really good :)

i cant believe it's been a year of birchclan..............

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CW: Death

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thank you so much to my friend @citrixesoda for doing all the flat colours and backgrounds for this part!! they will be helping me with that part of the process in the future to make creating pages faster :]

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one and a half of the next comic parts are done (gonna finish 3 in full before beginning to post again) so have some new refs while you wait! planning on making refs for most if not all the birchclan cats cause my friend is helping me with flat colours

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this is never touched on in the comic but i want everyone to know that we accidentally made tumbleweed the worst possible medicine cat in the world

because whenever cats find herbs there's a chance they lose it. UNLESS THEY ARE A MEDICINE CAT. we did not read that rule. you can imagine what kept happening to them.

new pages soon-ish btw since my friend is helping me with colouring ^_^

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First post! Some art I did for @birchclancomic :3

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i think i posted some of these near the start of the birchclan blog but im reblogging because my friend dorian who runs birchclan with me finally made a tumblr account!!!!!! go follow xem RIGHT NOW !!!

also sorry about the full name spoilers for the kits that ive been avoiding showing anywhere LOL i have comic making burnout and cant post the next chapter until i have one or two more ready to post as well because i cant just throw the most depressing chapter of birchclan at you guys and leave again for 6 months. and i dont want you to wait a year to see their warrior names