Twilight rambles on about fighting cats and also attempts to draw most (if not all) the cats from the Warriors series! You may use them for MAPs! However, please do not attempt to claim these designs as your own or sell them. COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN -- dm for info!
My partner started his new job today. We're not quite out of the woods yet, since we're not planning for him to stay at this job for too long, but we didn't have to move and he's working remote. Anything can happen between now and then, too, and we're planning for me to finally start college next year.
As far as my work on the TB AU goes, Patreon will be getting access to Shadepool's Sorrow at the top of next month. The story will stay Patreon exclusive for the forseeable future, and I do intend to start working on Arc 3 - though it might be slower going what with next year's school plans. Still not entirely sure how that's going to work out.
If you want to read Shadepool's Sorrow and see my development work for Arc 3, including maps, art, and other things, please consider supporting me on Patreon. As always, Patrons will see these things first and may be the only ones to see certain content for a long time.
I'm hoping to use the upcoming Novel November to hash out the arc more and work on my original stories.
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Added a new commission option over on Ko-Fi! These little sticker/emoji-style headshots are $25 each and are designed to be quick and simple! Animals other than cats are also accepted, lol
regarding the previous rb, yeah i still think that every single queen in thunderclan knew that leafpool was pregnant. how could they not know. how could ferncloud and daisy, cats who have had their own kittens and been around pregnancy, not know?
how could they not think it weird that both leafpool and squirrelflight left and came back with kittens? that squirrelflight had absolutely no milk and no physical signs of having given birth?
Requesting more Ashfur Ferncloud swap au RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really want to know what the swapped fire scene would even be.. maybe Fern found out about Leafs kits and was yowling about how if Leaf just TOLD her that she had kits they could have raised them TOGETHER as a family. and Leaf didn't need her sister to take over or get support from that Moth bitch [I think Leaf probably told Moth about her kits 🤷]. she could have had HER. and she could have done SUCH A BETTER JOB.
I really like these figures, I wish they weren't blind bag. I love how each one is it's own character, not just a mold like the vinyl ones. These feel like kids can play with them! I would've loved something like this as a kid
i know ive been pretty mum over here but im still in school lol
rest assured the tb au is on my mind. april is my last month of school! so hopefully when that's over ill be able to get back into it (and my other works. school has been so distracting lol)
if you've got any questions about the au, id be happy to answer! so long as its not spoilers lol
How do you plan for family trees for later arcs? I need advice and all trying to sort out the damn wreath tgat is canon. I feel like when I do I get prick by thorns
The first arc's canon family tree is vague and loose, and it was a good jumping-off point. Obviously, I had to move some stuff around to make things work, but I approached it as if the supplemental material didn't exist, so a lot of the problems that material made didn't exist. I think I made my TB tree either toward the end of the first arc or between Arcs 1 and 2.
I use a free program called draw.io to map out a lot of stuff because I enjoy it, and my family tree is one of those things:
(this isn't the full tree! its not even close to done! there's no way to actually show the entire thing easily. when its done ill put it up on patreon or something lol)
But essentially, I started with the cast of the first book and then fanned them out from there. My main goal was to ensure incest didn't happen, so I did everything I could to prevent it. That means that I filled in gaps with OCs or rearranged canon relationships - and because I already had a pretty good idea of what I wanted for the future (I knew who the parents of the Four would be from the start, for example), I could plan around that.
The other major thing I did to try to keep things organized was to work family by family. For example:
Okay, so when I was trying to see whether or not Ferncloud/Snowstep was a problem, here's what I did:
I began with Brindleface's tree. Brindleface's parents weren't necessary to the story of the first arc, so I didn't go any further back than her. I can fill in those details later (and in fact, i have a whoooole prequel tree above this one. its just largely unfinished). I added Ashfur and Ferncloud as her kits, then attached Snowstep to Ferncloud because they're mates - that means I carry over Snowstep's family tree from a different place in the tree and see if there's an overlap. Which there isn't! So they're clear.
The kits are just listed as 'kits because they're not really part of the story, but they will exist, and I need to know if they'll conflict with anyone else in the future.
Like Brindleface, Dappletail's parents aren't mentioned, so they're excluded - but they do exist in the prequel tree, and only there, because that's way further back than is necessary for this section of the tree. Dappletail is one of the eldest cats in the Clan, and we don't need to know who her parents were!
Brightheart shows up again, but as part of Swiftfoot's tree, and I don't bother repeating all this information about her (or Cloudtail) because then the tree would be a monster to organize:
Dustpelt's tree extends out to the left because there's room for it over there. Could I have arranged it better? Probably, lol.
I then slot this into the Arc 1 tree and mess around with it to make it fit. It's important, I think, to see it all visually. That way, you can keep track of who is where, whether there are any repeats, and if there's someone without any connections at all, like these two:
Patchpelt and Smallear had some problematic relationships in canon, so I chose not to mention any of their families until I figured out their relationships.
I also try to group characters generationally. This doesn't always work, especially as stories go on longer and the tree expands, but I tried to keep characters in similar age groups in the same imaginary horizontal line. Does that make sense? No idea. It does to me, and that's all that matters in this case! Arrange things so that it makes sense to you!
There's not really much else to say, honestly. I think it's hard to make a concrete family tree unless you've already got a good idea of where the story is heading and which characters will be related to who - sometimes that just comes up while you're writing and changes your plans. They're always going to be pretty messy affairs, but I think starting slow and using a program to help you figure it out visually can make it much easier!
i know ive been pretty mum over here but im still in school lol
rest assured the tb au is on my mind. april is my last month of school! so hopefully when that's over ill be able to get back into it (and my other works. school has been so distracting lol)
if you've got any questions about the au, id be happy to answer! so long as its not spoilers lol
I don't know if I've ever posted all these at once (or even individually), but here's all the couples art I've done for the TB AU so far! I had a lot of fun drawing cats cuddling over the years lol
If you like my work, please consider commissioning me! Also, consider supporting me on Patreon or buying me a Ko-fi! Patrons get to see these before anyone else, not to mention they have access to an exclusive novella, get any Arc 3 news before anyone else, and they get to yell at me over Discord!
I don't know if I've ever posted all these at once (or even individually), but here's all the couples art I've done for the TB AU so far! I had a lot of fun drawing cats cuddling over the years lol
If you like my work, please consider commissioning me! Also, consider supporting me on Patreon or buying me a Ko-fi! Patrons get to see these before anyone else, not to mention they have access to an exclusive novella, get any Arc 3 news before anyone else, and they get to yell at me over Discord!
