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Prev || Next Read on Comicfury (better reading experience + updates sooner) Read 1-2 moons ahead on patreon (paid) ALRIGHT let's get this show on the road!! Also UH, HI!! There's like A WHOLE LOT OF YOU, especially considering only the teaser was up for weeks wow

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Characters (left to right)

Spring from @puma-clan

Redpaw from @seaclangen

Softkiss from @harkhills

Fleettumble from Colony of the Lost

Mousepaw from @webbedclan

Ermineleaf from @trashclangen

Antpaw from @redwallclan

I just wanted to highlight some little guys I thought were neat, the text bubbles aren't specific to any cat

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Happy trans day of visibility!! Did a quick lil thing for both my comics c: Neither of them really focus on being trans specifically but these characters are all canonically cisn't. As am I! I've talked about the Dragon's gender a bit before but basically it doesn't have a flag because... it doesn't subscribe to any particular label! Maybe it hasn't decided, maybe it never will. Idk!! Shout out to people that are definitely not cis, but aren't using any label in particular. Whether that's because you're still figuring it out, find labels too stressful, or aren't in a position to be visible right now

Read Don't Slay the Dragon | Read Trashclan

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Prev || Next (not public yet) Read on Comicfury (better reading experience + updates sooner) Read 1-2 moons ahead on patreon (paid) So, haha, had to pump the breaks on art a little because fun fact: I have a repetitive strain injury from drawing too many birds. It flares up if I draw too much, especially in summer when heat makes any inherent swelling worse lmfao. I've done this song and dance plenty of times before so I know the drill and it'll be fine, it's just ANNOYING to have to DRAW LESS when I have so much energy to draw, boo!!

The good news is I need to tell silly stories like I need oxygen, and Trashclan is unserious AND stylistically simple enough that I can just… start working on it with my non-dominant hand. I've wanted to get passable at drawing with my left hand ever since my drawing arm started giving me issues years ago and here's hoping Trashclan is the perfect excuse to keep me from immediately giving up because it's hard lol

Right now I'm only doing backgrounds and colours with my left hand, but the goal is to work towards making them entirely that way, at which point I'll be unstoppable!!

June edit: So yeah on top of markets + DStD ending I was also dealing with That back when this page went up for patrons lol. Trashclan ilu but if anything needs to be shoved onto the backburner, it will always be you </3 BUT! Because I'm now Between Comics, Trashclan will be updating weekly so ppl who give me money to get comics in advanced… actually get weekly comics… while I'm prepping to get Foxbird up and running!

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Moon 0

Now that the first moon is up I can post the refs of the starting cast, yippee!! I included Orangesky's moon 1 ref as well bc after the first few pages, that's what she looks like anyway lol

Disclaimer: PLEASE do not think about the genetics at play here lmfao. The nitty gritty of colour genetics is super cool, but I am NOT thinking about them in my silly clangen side project, don't come for me. The notes on their colours are mine and for me, so I can easily look up references. If characters kids are genetically possible that's super cool, but I will largely be going with what suits the character and what's a pigeonified approximation of their in-game sprite

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Prev || Next (not public yet) Read on Comicfury (better reading experience + updates sooner) Read 1-2 moons ahead on patreon (paid) I'm legally only allowing myself to post 4 pages at once so moons that get extra long like this are gonna get split instead of being an 8 page monster update lmao

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What do their cat sprites look like? Curious to compare them with the refs!!!

I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED!! Now I have an excuse to talk about My Design Process!! (Also take their game-given names as an added bonus bc idk when else this would come up lol)

In general, my design philosophy for Trashclan is "find the closest morph I can and then take liberty with the markings". Thankfully this is pretty easy because as long-time domestic animals... pigeons come in lots of colours!!

Orangesky:

I thought her sprite looked super striking so I tried very very hard to match it to a pigeon as close as I could!! Translating the hearts was easy (keeping them consistently shaped is another story, but I'm willing to suffer for her <3), 90% of the work was in me digging around searching for the closest brown pigeon morph I could manage... and some weird recessive dilute situation came through for me!! I'm honestly surprised I managed to find something with both the browns and the grey lmao

Her name I was also pretty attached to by the time I put the run of the game down, but orioles uh... do not exist in this country c': I briefly considered changing it to "Blackbird" or "Thrush" because those are birds in the same family, but pretty much immediately settled on "Orange" because it just kinda looked similar enough for me to be really happy with it! I always knew I was gonna ditch the whole "star" suffix thing for worldbuilding reasons, shoutout to Pav who suggested "sky" bc it 100% keeps the energy of her game-given name and is in general just a rlly good name fhbefr

Ermineleaf:

Ermineleaf was a no-brainer, I took one look at their sprite and went "oh, that's a standard blue bar pigeon" lmao I think I briefly debated changing their prefix to "stoat" because while we have those there (invasive), idk if they moult into their white winter coat and officially earn ermine status... but it was another name I was pretty attached to so I decided to let it slide lol

Bitternfleck:

Straight up, he's just based on my real life pigeon but old and droopifed lmao. My pigeon has pearl eyes, aka she looks haunted by the knowledge of the wilds at all times and I thought that was a perfect translation for the bright cyan

Buttercupfledge:

This design was also a pretty easy 1:1 translation! The majority of the decisions here were just simplifying the pied spotting, aka something I would have done even if she was a cat lol. I also made the call to give her no wing-barring even tho her sprite is striped, also for simplifying reasons.

Settling on "fledge" as the suffix for apprentices was also a no-brainer bc it's... simply the age at which they're fledging! Easy!

Bonus Fringeclaw bc yes he was a real character in the game that I real killed in the first moon:

Fringeclaw is a perfect example of a totally standard cat name that I changed to be bird-applicable! Pigeons don't have teeth but they do have claws, easy swap!

His design is the furthest I departed from the sprite, I genuinely don't think I looked at it when I coloured him in the moon he's in, I just knew he was brown and I wanted him to share colours with Orangesky lmao