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Requests are open for book cats! Feel free to use designs with credit!

[fishycatdesigns]

Hi I’m fishy. These are my warrior cat designs (+probably other wc stuff lmao)

(CANON CHARACTER) REQUESTS ARE OPEN!

Main: FishyArtist

[fishycatdesigns]

For a request, could I please have Jay (Yellowfang's Secret/Tallstar's Revenge)? (sorry if this is a repeat)

[rookflower]

explicitly stated ravenbarley in the graphic novel adaptation after 2 decades is kind of the bare minimum for canon wc queer rep and I do think people are giving the erins too much credit for finally allowing it, but also it is unquestionably a good thing and I'm happy it's there. line officially crossed for the better yknow

[fishycatdesigns]

Famously transgender coded book series warrior cats

[wc-confessions]

It makes me really uncomfy when people hc heavily transmasc coded characters as transfem...

Like whenever I see transfem Rowanstar and Nightheart hcs it makes me wonder how those people feel about transmascs since both of them are blatantly transmasc coded. Idk how you read the books and got transfem vibes from them but I wish people would stop

anon, i mean this in the nicest possible sense i can, but none of these characters are coded to be transgender. the writers did not intend any of them to be either transmasc or transfem. you need to understand that "coding" means a character was deliberately written to be something without overtly being labelled as such.

if you see a character as transmasc, that's great! but that is your headcanon. just like someone seeing that character as transfem is also a headcanon. just because you see a character as "coded" for something does not make it canon. it is an interpretation you may have made based on evidence you've read in the books, but it still just an interpretation.

someone not seeing rowanstar or nightheart as transmasc does not mean they dislike transmasc people. i personally don't see nightheart as a trans allegory but i can understand why people do and that's fine, you're allowed to do that. but people headcanoning him as transfem does not mean they have something against transmasc people like you seem to be implying.

idk i know this is a bit of a rant but this is not the first time someone has been like "if you see a character as x it means you hate y group of people/are xyz-ist" in the inbox.

~ mod lichenbark

[fishycatdesigns]

sketched various brightheart stages

[fishycatdesigns]

(re)Drew some dotc guys

[fishycatdesigns]

Oh for that last post here’s the crow feather design I threw together.

[fishycatdesigns]

Kind of a trendfollower

[paradiseshards]

She wants off Riverstar’s Wild Ride. And can she unsee the horrors, while she’s at it?

I haven’t drawn cats in a good while, so she may look a bit scuffed, but oooh i had a fun time designing her. I took some inspiration for the face markings from @fishycatdesigns, and the body stripe wiggles are kinda supposed to look like water ripples! No idea if it came across at all, but the intent’s in there somewhere!!

Now lets talk about those stitches because Oh My I’ve been thinking about them way more than any normal person should. The text never specifies if they are the kind that kinda dissolves(?) on their own, and cats continue to mention them way after the injuries are healed, so I’m inclined to think that they are permanent. Babygirl is just stuck with weird twoleg stuff in her neck.

(And are we going to forget that Frostpaw wanted to learn how to do stitches on her clanmates for a hot minute there??)

[fishycatdesigns]

[fishycatdesigns]

Also did an edit of that cover 4 fun…

[fishycatdesigns]

🔅❤️

[rozentias-deactivated20240103]

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

[charaznablescanontoyota]

cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.

[catmad57]

The Demon and the Angel

[fishycatdesigns]

[fishycatdesigns]

Poppycloud and Mottlepaw