#darwin talk

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really need to start yapping here again i miss typing warrior cats and clicking the post button

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went shopping w my coworker and she gets these eye earings and goes "heh.. getting these for the podcast reference..." and i go "which podcast..." and shes like "the magnus archives 🥰!" and i actually put my hands over my mouth and gawked for a moment

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giving a disabled character whos disability was inflicted by a dog attack a dog gf soley because of said event is Weird. Right. im not crazy right. people are just stupid and dont understand how to respect disabled characters and their trauma. Right.

like there are a concerning amount of ppl who see this and go "omggg!! so cute! her dog gf can help her learn how to trust dogs again!" 1. she doesnt need to trust dogs shes a wild cat (yea itd work different in an anthro world but that doesnt excuse the following) 2. this insinuates she is at fault for being affected by her trauma that permanently disabled her. ??????????? is wctwt just Mindless? (i say as if wctwt hasn't been mindless for eons)

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sleekwhisker @ needletail. i make the rules

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twitter said to make a ven diagram of your interests so i did it with specific characters because. i can.

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does this mean anything to anyone

they have a really specific relationship in my brain but i cant put it into words unless its a meme

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not one, not two, not three, but FOUR different people @ 'd me in this. i love being a known hollyleafer

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i need to think more about my hollyleaf au. there are so many fun hcs that ive thought of that i can literally make whatever tf i want

this was supposed to be a thought post but it turned into a hollyleaf ramble. enjoy .

holly has reflective time travel powers; though she cant alter anything. its essentially just being a ghost in another time period than the present. need to think more about How they work, whether it manifests as dreams or waking visions or if its a will sort of thing

yellowfang plays a significant role in her powers; a sort of guide almost though there is resentment. i feel spottedleaf and yellowfang juxtapose eachother, spottedleaf is definitely a sisterly (not motherly. sry. yellowfang is the mom) figure to hollyleaf. they can relate to one another regarding their relationships with starclan but better yet, spottedleaf is gentle and patient.

a less thought out plotpoint is fallen leaves and flametail. unsure if flametail is a reincarnation of sorts or if the two were sort of merged upon flametails death. i need to reread hollyleafs novella and solidify my opinion on fallen leaves but whatever it is i Know fallen leaves and hollyleaf are not romantic; if anything its trauma response attachment . whether or not i keep fallen leaves and his stuff as is, flametail will be relevant. ive thought before of him having involvement with the dark forest, if he has shit with fallen leaves i imagine he "made a deal with the devil" (haha kitty cat satan hawkfrost) in order to be granted some sort of resting place other than the tunnels. this brings him to hollyleaf (whetehr this is related to his jayfeather resentment im not sure) who hes been ordered to recruit. its possible that hollyleaf accepts (—> dark forest trainee under a false identity —> meets ivypaw —> bond forms —> neither of them are evil —> ivy is unaware who she is until she returns for the great battle).

lots of trains of thought but sol could also pose as a dark forest recruiter, he failed to persuade hollyleaf however. the difference is in their tactics; flametail provides emotional connection whereas sol offers power. hollyleaf values one over the other

hollyleaf is very aroace to me . shes experienced crushes and genuine love but nothing that could reach her. willowpaw/shine was her first attachment when she first wanted to be a medicine cat, when she still held such faith in the code. it was moreso an admiration/longing than anything but cinderheart? cinderheart grew up with her, there was always something there though neither of them ever got the chance to directly address it. they both knew, and they knew eachother knew but there was a sort of solace about that silent understanding and connection. it was nice. but with hollyleaf gone cinderhearts only option was to keep going, something hollyleaf had seemingly already done herself

hollyleaf and cinderpelt are very close in starclan. cinderpelt knows hollyleaf better than she would've guessed after all that time living through cinderhearts experiences. she feels for hollyleaf, and shes there whenever hollyleaf is ready to reflect. after some time hollyleaf has begun to know cinderpelt in return and the two form their own bond. cinderpelt helps hollyleaf reach cinderheart when the time comes and the two reconnect often in her dreams.

theres more trust me. leaf and squilf are so so so significant but i cant verbalize that right now. thsi wasnt even supposed to be a Post post it was just one sentence at first.. i will go more into depth with lionblaze and jayfeather as well when the time comes