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Can Nate like….NOT? First they delete their apology and then posts a video about me. This is absolute mouse dung! They’re meant to stay out of the fandom or something.

Grrgh!

#WOW this is old !!#I think this was from our legit Mapleshade fictive.#of course this is about draikinator back when they were fresh in hot water.

artaintfart

I rly enjoy design challenges, and had an idea!

Warrior Cat Prefix Design Challenge [part 1]

Pls tag me if u do any! I'd love to see ur designs :3

artaintfart

Warrior Cat Prefix Design Challenge [part 2]

Pls tag me if u do any! I'd love to see ur designs :3

waiako

I think I'm gonna make a whole serie of arc 1 elders !! I've designed him several times and it's always one of my favorites. He's just so fun to draw. Though PLEASE don't look at my older design, this man was CRUSTY !!! Speckletail also deserves a somewhat good looking husband !! High value man right there, I tell ya !!

It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

One year of stupid cats. >:]c

#1 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

harriertail

"My quarrel is with you, Squirrelflight. It always has been" but, why? you have no quarrel with the son of the tyrant who murdered your mother? that same son who vanished from the clans while your family starved to death? the cat who was given the deputy role without even having an apprentice like you did? the cat who stole your mate? the cat and his kin who took everything from you? why not take something from him?

doomedcousins

ravenbarley yuri for pride month. god bless farm butches

fishwife-hiwaaranit

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☺️👍

Edit: can’t believe I gotta say this but yes other cultures utilize feathers, if people are using feathers that are used in their culture then don’t harass them. That’s weird have some common sense. Ostrich feathers, peacock feathers it’s actually so interesting how native birds to an area affect the culture there.