Shout Out To All The Black Ppl That Can No Longer Participate Directly In The Fandom They Love Because

I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet. Towards the end of Guardians vol 3, when Rocket sees Lilah, Teefs, and Floor again, they're not "whole." All four of them still have their enhancements. To me, this detail is so important.

As disabled people, we have a history of being told that, when we die, when we go to heaven, all of our illnesses, deformities, ways of being in the world will be gone. We will be cured. But for many of us, we don't want to be cured. If there is an afterlife, and I'm not autistic, I wouldn't even know the first thing about how I would exist as that. More importantly, I wouldn't be myself.

Like disabled people, Rocket, Lilah, Teefs, and Floor didn't get to choose their existence, their bodies, their minds. They were made that way and, very realistically, could not imagine being any other way, despite their pain and suffering. Even in most modern media, disability is a plot device that, when its purpose has been served, gets cured or written out of the narrative. Having all four of them being disabled in the afterlife is so goddamned important.

so I've been thinking about it

and I think

DotC would've been more interesting if it explored more on the family aspect of things

Clear Sky, Jagged Peak, and Gray Wing are brothers who fall apart

Thunder is rejected by his biological father

it would be so cool to see DotC being about found family and what cats defined as family, for cats to choose who they belonged with and the Clans not forming from petty grudges and teaming up against Clear Sky

but by realizing that these were the cats that made them happy to be around

we get so many little tidbits of this, but that's not the overarching theme of the story and I think it'd be so much more fun if it was

Wind Runner, famously abandoned, learning that she's allowed to trust cats again and make her own family with Gorse Fur by her side. That she's allowed to have a family that won't hurt her.

Tall Shadow losing loved ones - namely her brother Moon Shadow - and making her family something safe that she could protect and that could, in turn, learn to protect each other

River Ripple having once known a proper family, but losing and and turning his group into a loving home, one where cats are welcome no matter how their paws brought them there and turning it into a community like that he grew up with

and then getting to the biggest missed opportunities;

Thunder, being torn so many ways, learning that family isn't always blood. Family is who you want to be around, those you want to protect, but also laugh with, learn from, and teach in turn. That just because Clear Sky sired him doesn't mean that he has to be loyal to his father.

And a Clear Sky redemption arc where Clear Sky learns that family isn't something you control. That family doesn't mean you can hurt those you care about, even if you believe it's for the 'greater good'. That all cats are their own person and trying to strip them of that doesn't make you good family and that you can lose the ones you love.

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or at least

those are my feelings

Hello! I absolutley love your art so much! I found your old Satzzzwarriorcats blog and I love your art so much! It looks so realistic, Perhaps you could do Ravenpaw? I love him so much-

Thank you <3 Here's Ravenpaw! Wanted to add Barley too <3

people in the WC fandom will be like like this cat is my favorite character and it’s a cat that shows up for 10 pages as a back ground character with almost no dialogue who exists only to make the world feel more full/plot device

Check out my instagram @larkin_arting for more!

these are my OCs that I’ve been coming up with a story for for a WHILE now but it was nice to spend so long trying to create a visual for them

// minor blood warning

(rough wip) women's rage <3

from an au where tom shows up trying to take the kits and turtle tail intercepts him and nails him where he stands

if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

HE DIED 9 TIMES?!!!! all at once?! i need a detailed description of tigerstar dying the book did not give enough

Title: The Sun Trail

Arc: Dawn of the Clans

Country: Poland

Type: full cover art

Characters: Gray Wing

Artist:  @johisart on Twitter

Source: https://twitter.com/johisart/status/1580886850083749888/photo/2

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