The Miracle Of Flight

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

why cant it be socially acceptable to just start fucking screaming

Art trade with @hannyatiger !

This one took me 6 hours and 22 minutes, the second longest time of all the art trades I've done this year. I don't really know why it took that long. I guess I was just really slow at it.

It was an interesting challenge because I rarely work with really brightly coloured characters, so I had a bit of an experience trying to find a way to make it look a little less intense on the eyes.

hi! i was wondering what kind of problems you’re talking about in your last post about the warriors books? i stopped reading after the Great Battle and honestly i haven’t picked up a warriors book since middle school, but im trying to get back into the fandom and would love to hear what you have to say!

there are kind of a lot, some more rampant than others. you've actually read further than I have (I stopped at sunrise), but I know a bit about the books after it because I frequent the analysis side of the Warriors fandom and I don't listen to spoiler warnings. The most common issue in the books is how not much happens in them. power of three and omen of the stars easily could have been one arc, but because the authors didn't plan the books properly they ended up as two.

some other things have been pointed out more recently. the series doesn't give disabled cats all that much respect (consider Snowkit's death, for example, or how Jayfeather was pressured by Leafpool to become a medicine cat because he was blind).

a few years ago, spottedleaf got her own novella which contained some very problematic aspects that I don't want to get into here.

there's also a lot of implicit sexism in the books; she-cats get fewer lines (i.e. less focus) and usually settle down and have kits no matter how little it seems to fit their characterisation. it's especially bad in dawn of the clans IMO; I haven't read it since 2020 but I'm pretty sure gray wing has like three girlfriends in two books? I never finished dotc but I've heard the sexism continues all the way through it.

the tribe of rushing water is also in a bit of a weird spot. i think some people claim cultural appropriation, but I don't know enough about that to verify it.

that's all that comes to mind at the moment, but I'm sure there's more. and i also haven't read any of the books in almost four years, so i might misremember things or misrepresent points originally made by people who actually did read the books properly.

Edit: @smewduck reminded me of the WC racism doc, which is as far as I can remember where I heard about the Tribe thing. here's the link to the doc in case people haven't read it, but just know it's really long: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnCCD4TfR-5MZie9hQgpDfEE4mYpCtjNXQpD9VqOkxs/edit

made this for oomf but you can have it too. a little breakdown of my process with bird wings if anyone finds it useful

Custom! For TempestTossed!! On Toyhouse!!!

Uhh bark bark doggy boy. This took too long lmfao

The person I drew this for is great and deserves some love so!! Here's the character's page!

https://toyhou.se/29660097.nero

And it's back to the void for me. Farewell, Tschüss, etc (I will be back soon, maybe)

And much like showering I frequently hate the thought of it and then when I do it I wonder why on earth I didn't want to do it. And much like during a shower, drawing is an excuse to do something with my hands while idly thinking. But my hands don't get wrinkly when I draw so therefore they are Completely Different

making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

HI CIN! i just moved over from DA and HI if u need any help navigating the site lmk :D

Alright! I'll hit you up if anything confuses me too much lol. Nice to see another person I already know here, and gl on Tumblr!

Yesterday (maybe the day before) Hibiscus_Cove on TH just kind of. Gave me a character. And this is the character's new ref!

This one isn't quite as refined as my usual art because it wasn't supposed to be a full thing at first. By the time I decided to finish it up I was too far along to redo the lines lol. I still like it though.

One of the main design changes was adding more colours and patterns. I tried to stay true to the OG though, and I think it worked? I also gave them a bit of an outfit and I changed their species. They were originally just a dragon, but I've got a species I'm developing and I'm looking for more OCs to add to it, so yeah. This guy got hit by the species beam.

Likes and reblogs are greatly appreciated! But don't feel obligated of course :3

Restless.

I never post here so I have crafted some mysterious OC ship art for you. Congratulations

Urmmmm I don't remember whether I've posted stuff about these guys at all in the last few months, but these are the two OCs I brainrot about the most: Ice (lighter one) and Pip (darker one). I've been working on their story lately which is a huge W for me because I'm allergic to actually working on my stories

The context for this is that they are sort of in love but the relationship is toxic. I'd say more but I don't want to give away spoilers (also because the details tend to change since I'm very indecisive).