The Patrol Guy™

he/him. adult. i kin thornclaw, harestar, and mapleshade. pro/comship dni. i use #thorn post for my various ramblings.

[anserifelidae]

i will never forget that mallowstep (aka fencesandfrogs/warriors-but-cats-die) called a scenario they had come up with in which stonefur forces himself onto featherpaw (who is both a child and his cousin) sexy. i will also never forget that troutfur (aka jaceladag/aerialjace) was mallowstep's number one cohort through it all. never.

Block me right now of you associate with these individuals. i want absolutely nothing to do with you.

[ruby-thursda7]

no you don't understand i feel faint

[lesbianambermoon]

are you ready for what im cooking

[tigertine]

i understand why the fire scene/po3 ashfur is often depicted this way as ashfur as a character is very easy to make fun of and use comedically and the majority of comparisons that would bring these aspects of him out the best are correlated with younger people but i do feel we are losing awareness of the fact that he was long fully grown in the arc and the scene. he was grown at the start of the arc beforehand! this is a middle aged man! he’s terrifying!

[tigertine]

this is a large part of why red-streaked emo ashfur as always bothered me because if anyone his fear factor is what should be being played up for a faithful reconstruction of the scene. this isn’t akin to you reading a fourteen year old’s bad and melodramatic poetry, it’s you nodding your head along as your abusive father rants to you about his qanon conspiracy theories because you know if you don’t he’ll hurt you. it’s a man who asked you out at a bar following you out and lamenting to you while holding you at knifepoint after you turned him down. he is well into his adulthood and appears entirely normal to those around him - something that explicitly makes him more of a threat to the characters in the text, who doubt anyone would believe them if they came out about his actions. he’s well-liked, conservative, and holds social power over the people he’s threatening.

[fernzwing]

Hollyleaf ran, and ran deeper into the cave. Clanmates will find her no longer.

An unusual noise, and unfamiliar scent caught her attention.

She padded her way into it, lured by the intensity of that scent.

"A twolegs nest - in the caves?" She thought. But no twolegs was seen, not even a single one.

Her curiosity got the best of her, as she padded her way into the strange environment. It was endless, even as she ran deeper. And deeper.

[kiwianacat]

The new prophecy gang, medieval edition. They kind of look like a dnd party, ngl.

I really struggle to design clothes (these will /not/ be accurate to any particular period, or make sense practically I'm sure) and I'm also not too sure about weapon choices yet, but this was more about their dynamic as a group so I'm at peace with it lol. I wrote some fun facts if you want themm, but some might be a little lost in the sauce of the au (lack context, rip)

Crowpaw brings his late father's greyhound Hoprunner with him, who Brambleshoot ends up forming a bond with. It's Brambleshoot who leaves the group early (after Midnight, pre-Feathertail's death) to ride Hoprunner back to the kingdoms, to warn of the incoming storm/flood

((in this au the kingdoms are flooded, which forms the lake within the existing forest territories))

Crow and Squirrel are both unknighted and therefore "unnamed", Crow being a young squire and Squirrel having failed her final test (a trial set by Starclan)

Despite Feathertail's best efforts, the others are initially cautious of the young princess's intentions and its Squirrel's brash honesty and humour that initially brings everyone together as friends.

Stormpath admires these traits as being so unlike the insincerity of the River Kingdom's court and he develops a strong, unreturned crush on her (she's aroace, but doesn't get a chance to realise this until late in life)

Brambleshoot wasn't chosen by Starclan, Squirrel was; his insecurity about this, plus his early departure, holds him back from fully connecting with the others

Tawnypelt fights the hardest against bonding on an emotional level, too aware of their eventual separation and determined to keep things professional. She becomes the unofficial leader, working well with Feathertail who handles the more "personable" aspects of a leadership role.

They form mutual romantic feelings before Feathertail dies as a result of a jointly made plan. This devastates Tawny and she’s the first to pull away from the others upon returning to the kingdoms.

Stormpath is the only of the six Tawnypelt keeps in regular contact with.

[bogcreacher]

dad lore

I’ve nixed most of the murder in my warriors anthro au but Mapleshade remains the same (now with a shlocky movie adaptation!)

[plushflurry]

Remember how in Yellowfang's Secret they had a plot point about a cat who was forced to have a litter she didn't want and every time she tried to get some support or sympathy from others she was met with complete dismissal because 'what kind of woman doesn't want to be a mother'? I do.

Really experimental piece, I've never done any sort of collage thing like this! Lizardstripe, the border swirls, and the 'cherubs' drawn by me, all the cutout pieces come from Mother's Day/baby shower cards or free-to-use PNG tumblr blogs. Black and white text is a direct quote from her in YS.

[sormfur-retorted]

based on this

[wildfane]

more leafhawk slop sorry guys

[sormfur-retorted]

Tigerstar has ears for nothing.

[bowiestarzzz]

like her mother, like her daughter will too

[rookflower]

there at least seems to be a general consensus nowadays, at least in a post squirrelflight's hope world, that squirrelflight and leafpool were not "bad people for lying about the kits" (hooray, whoop tee doo, etc), but i still see a lot of "well it was still kind of shitty of them to not tell brambleclaw at least" and im sorry but i wholeheartedly disagree. even in a generous assesment of brambleclaw's character, from an in character perspective going off of the new prophecy, he is judgmental and insecure and quick to anger. he makes up assumptions about squirrelflight's beliefs in his head and then holds them against her. he does not tell her about training in the dark forest and how that lead to him having to make the decision to kill her father or not. he is very ambitious and proud of his standing. he just became deputy.

considering that this is warrior cats where a good chunk of their community is cruel and conservative, that people are always saying horrible shit about daisy around this time, that just shortly before squirrelflight and leafpool's lifetime (and during brambleclaw's) there was an incident where three cats were put to death for being half clan and two of the major parties involved in that are currently comfortably clan leaders- no i don't think it would have been the wiser kinder and safer move for squirrelflight to put her sister's life in the hands of her insecure and aggressive boyfriend and hoped for him to play along with secretly adopting her half clan medicine cat children as his own at his own risk. even if he'd *maybe* help them out with no issue, i still fully believe that that chance is signiiificantly less than 100%. hell even if he did help them I think he'd be horrible to them about it

[sugardoodle]

BEHOLD, the comic that took me MANY weeks to finish 😅 it was supposed to be shorter, and I actually finished it before I decided I could do a better job and redid the entire thing. @redux-iterum I was so taken by chapter 20 that I had to draw it, so here it is!

Trigger warning: blood, and the final page has some gore.

Enjoy!

[redux-iterum]

Holy SHIT.

[thewisestdino]

In honor of SIX YEAR anniversary of my silversand amv here are some silverstream and sandstorm inspired human designs. Lesbians

[sorreltail]

jayfeather is talking to mousefur when he finds out her brother was sandstorm’s father. he’s like oh fuck kin of firestar’s kin. i was right she IS the fourth cat! then she’s like You ever talk to cats in starclan jayfeather…. you ever see a cat in starclan called spottedleaf? and jayfeathers like lol.unfortunately. would love to see less of her actually. and mousefur’s like you seem like you can keep a secret. Hater to hater. I wifed her the fuck up way back when. and jayfeathers like what. and spottedleafs like jayfeather you wouldn’t know what mousefur looks like but you really got all her looks.and also personality. runningwinds genes held the fuck on. and jayfeathers like when did you get here jesus fuck. and mousefurs like what.who are you talking to

[brackenfur]

another “i love the idea of morningflower adopting hawkfrost + mothwing” kind of day…………..

[brackenfur]

firestar finally confronts her one night, in the middle of their journey to their new home. after the destruction of their forest, being driven out of their home, and having to abruptly find a new start, morningflower almost forgot seeing sasha again.

“you knew the whole time?” firestar asks; morningflower’s ears prick, and she immediately knows exactly what he’s referring to.

she gives her friend a tight smile. “it was hard not to. hawkfrost looks so much like him, and sasha pretty much told me when she was staying with windclan.”

(she saw it so much over the seasons, as hawkfrost and mothwing began to grow - their resemblance to their father was becoming as plain as day.)

firestar is quiet for a long time; morningflower blinks, frowning at the orange-furred tomcat.

“it wasn’t my secret to tell,” morningflower tells him sternly. “and it has no relevance; who their father is, that’s not important. hawkfrost and mothwing have nothing to do with him.”

“it’s not that,” firestar’s voice is strangely soft. morningflower blinks, and he looks at her with a sad gleam in his eyes. “i just….how were you able to do that? to take them in, to raise them as your own. how….”

morningflower feels a twist in her gut, and she can’t look at firestar’s face. it’s the same question that tallstar had asked. onewhisker. ashfoot. every cat who was alive during that time, during the worst day of morningflower’s life, had asked.

how can you look at them? dont they remind you of the cat who murdered your son?

she’s quiet for a very long time; firestar looks worried.

“i’m sorry,” he says quickly, dipping his head. “i shouldn’t- it’s not my place to comment on that, i apologize.”

“it’s okay,” she tells him; she thinks of his question much harder than she has any of the other times she’s been asked it.

“truthfully?” morningflower asks, and firestar nods. “i was - am - able to be their mother because they needed someone. they were all alone, firestar; sasha couldn’t stay in the clans, and they would’ve been alone in windclan. they needed someone to look after them, to take care of them,” she’s quiet again. “to be another mother to them, to love them. i can see tigerstar in their faces every day; it’s hard not to, but…”

she thinks of hawkpaw, running full speed to her just to show her his first catch. mothpaw, curling up against her side because of a thunderstorm. the pair of them bringing her out of the nursery on her worst days, the days when all she could think of was gorsepaw, just because they realized she needed someone, too.

“they saved me,” she feels a weight coming off of her shoulders, just being able to finally say it out loud. “i needed them just as much as they needed me. i wanted….” she smiles as she looks at firestar; it’s pained, but it’s there. “they’re tigerstars children by blood, but i wanted to raise them away from his image. they’re my children, not his.”

she can imagine gorsepaw’s face - but this time, she feels as though she can hear him whispering i want you to be happy, mama.

when she pictures hawkfrost and mothwing, she thinks back i think i’m getting there, baby.

[fiery-alder05]

WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME CRY