Moon 3 - Part 3

Moon 3 - Part 3

A collage-style comic. A panel shows Gutterrat, a tortoiseshell cat with large ears, walking towards Longpaw, a fluffy grey cat, who is looking away from her.

The background is decorated with cartoony pink clouds.

Text reads: 
Moon 3 - The forgotten house - Dusk

Outside, the day was cooling; sliding towards evening, in the long, bruised way of late springtime. Gutterrat thought, absently, that the clans had other names, to call the seasons– another thing that she should get to. Her eyes, misted by thought, did not catch the gold and purple colours of the clouds, in full display.

Gutterrat says: “Longpaw.”

Longpaw says: “Mm.”
A collage-style comic.
Text reads:
“Hey–” One day the words would come to Gutterrat, easier. She'd know what to say, instead of always guessing. “You did the right thing, you know. Coming to me. Even if Babyleg wasn’t… breaking the rules, or anything. It’s– I’m glad you told me.”

Longpaw shrugged. After a moment, Gutterrat paced closer, so their sides were touching, in the cooling dark. 

“I hope– if something’s wrong- something other, I mean, than Babyleg…”

The silence stretches out. Thins. Breaks.

Two closeups show Longpaw and Gutterrat's faces.
Longpaw says: "Do you remember what you said. About bad luck?”
Gutterrat says: “Oh! Yes– of course.” Arrows pointing to her say "Doesn't. Has been making shit up as she goes."

Longpaw says: “Is it real? Like with the names. You can get bad luck… out of the way? It makes things okay, later?”

Gutterrat paused. There was a lump, all of a sudden, in her throat. Hard to talk around it– she didn’t want to talk, around it. “Sure– yeah, of course it’s true. Of course it is.”

Longpaw says: “Then. What happened…”
Bursting through the panel borders is a large, full-colour drawing of Gutterrat clinging to a rafter, her fur bristling. One of her legs is slipping from the rafter, and her tail is dangling. She's carrying Longpaw- shown here as a kitten- by the scruff of her neck. Gutterrat's face is splashed in blood.

Partially covered by this drawing, Longpaw says: "–good luck from now on? Since…”

Two panels of Gutterrat's face follow- one is partially covered by the dangling tail from the previous panel. Her eyes are blank, and her face is splashed with blood. She says "I..."

In the following  panel, her eyes are more focused. She smiles. "Yes. Yeah! Longpaw. Is that what you’re worried about? Things are– we had our share. The bad stuff’s all behind us, now. I promise. ”

Text reads: “Okay. I think…” Longpaw’s voice was soft, in the soft night. “I’m glad it was you, Gutterrat. And we’re here, now. I’m glad.”
A final panel, all in greyscale, shows Gutterrat- her eyes cut off by the top of the panel- with a blank expression. Longpaw is nuzzled up under her chin, smiling.

Text reads: "It should feel warm. It should feel like something, as Longpaw snuggles up against her side, sighing happily. Anything at all, except a weight. "

you take a load off, annie (and you put the load right on me)

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Refs For The Recently Introduced StarClan Cats!
Refs For The Recently Introduced StarClan Cats!

Refs for the recently introduced StarClan cats!

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Who's gonna tell him......... The Sequel


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1 month ago

THIS IS THE COOLEST FANART EVER!!!!!!! 🤩 FOGFRECKLE EXISTS IN THE PHYSICAL REALM!!!!

A Smattering Of Other Ppl's Clangen Kitties :3
A Smattering Of Other Ppl's Clangen Kitties :3
A Smattering Of Other Ppl's Clangen Kitties :3
A Smattering Of Other Ppl's Clangen Kitties :3
A Smattering Of Other Ppl's Clangen Kitties :3
A Smattering Of Other Ppl's Clangen Kitties :3

a smattering of other ppl's clangen kitties :3

Olive from @forestclan-clangen Baykit from @aspenclann Gingerfall from @direclan Fogfreckle from @nimbusclan (only wrote his prefix down. for some reason) Sootsight from @boughclan-clangen Wheatburn from @ranchclan


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3 weeks ago
Moon 0: Unshackled
Moon 0: Unshackled
Moon 0: Unshackled
Moon 0: Unshackled
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Moon 0: Unshackled

It's started. I'm officially committed to drawing these silly kitties. Love that for me :)

There's still a second part to moon 0 (got some more guys to introduce) and then we'll get to like actual plot. I prommy.


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2 months ago

Moon 6

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Moon 6
Moon 6

Cold wind whistles through the rocks Moonstar and Fogfreckle are hunched under, bringing the crisp scents of first leaf-fall. With a shiver, Moonstar presses closer to Fogfreckle for warmth, but startles back as he lets out a pained hiss. She rests her gaze on her brother for a moment, eyeing the bristled, spiky fur of his pelt that sticks up around the cobwebs she did her best to wrap him with, stiff with dried blood.

The talon marks that are sunk into his back worry Moonstar. She wishes she had listened better when she was an apprentice, when their old medicine cat, Loudtalon, had been rambling on about herbs. She doesn’t want to try mixing a poultice for her brother in case she gets it wrong; she wouldn't even know where to begin. The most she can do is change his cobwebs when the blood starts to soak through and pray to StarClan that infection doesn’t set in.

She’s been doing her best to keep his wounds clean, but he’ll need new cobwebs soon. With a heavy sigh, she rises to her paws as much as the rocks crushing in around them will allow, her shoulders brushing the ceiling. Her ears have been pinned to her head for so long now that she thinks they may get stuck that way.

Moonstar moves towards Fogfreckle to give his ear an affectionate lick before she leaves, but he ducks away from her, wincing at the movement.

Moonstar halts and pulls back, chin wobbling.

Puffing her fur against the biting wind, unseasonable for this early in leaf-fall, she squeezes her way out of their makeshift den in search of three thing: cobwebs for her brother, fresh-kill for the both of them, and someplace they can finally call home.

With Fogfreckle injured, her search is limited.

Moonstar pads across the mountain, eyes sharp for the movement of prey but mind elsewhere. Before Fogfreckle was confined to his nest to heal from the eagle attack, they were constantly on the move. So far, they haven’t found anywhere that would make for a good camp. They’ve slept in abandoned dens, up in the branches of trees, tucked under scrubbly, thorny bushes – but a place big enough for two cats to sleep is nowhere near large enough for a camp.

They will rebuild NimbusClan. StarClan decreed it – StarClan chose her as leader. It has to be for something, she has to have something, some trait or destiny or something that StarClan can see that she can’t, or they wouldn’t have chosen her. Her stomach churns uncomfortably at the thought.

Her mind strays to worse thoughts, the sharp glide of golden wings slicing through the air a constant in her mind this past moon. She can’t shake how odd it was – sure, it’s not strange that a mother would want to protect her eggs – but the way it shifted its beady black glare from Moonstar to her brother seemed tainted with something more than just a mother’s protection.

With effort, she shakes the subject from her mind and sets to canvassing this section of mountain. She doesn’t want to stray too far from where Fogfreckle is, so she’s been going out in a different direction each day in the hopes she’ll find something suitable. Today, she pokes her head into a shaded clearing of pine trees, only to be met with the blinking eyes of several racoons peering through the needles – sniffs around the opening of a fox den that smells very clearly occupied (hurrying away as quickly and silently as her paws with allow) – and shrinks back into the shadows of a leafy bush when a pair of twolegs turn a corner onto a twolegtrail, speaking loudly in their foreign tongue and likely scaring away all the prey in the area.

She only manages to catch one meager mouse – but that’s fine, because it’s Fogfreckle’s favorite, and with a cobweb-coated twig cradled carefully between her teeth, she doesn’t think she’d be able to carry more than one piece of fresh-kill at the same time, anyways.

Fogfreckle stirs as she presses back into their den, her head angled awkwardly so she can get through with the stick clamped in her jaws. He glances at her as she pushes the mouse towards him, and then looks down at his paws as she sets to working clearing the old cobwebs from his fur. She tries to be gentle, but she’s no good at this medicine cat stuff. Fogfreckle grimaces the entire time and lets his mouse go cold, not sharing a single word with his sister as she rasps a tongue over his wounds, cleaning the dried blood from his fur.

Moonstar goes to sleep when she’s done, stomach rumbling, and tries not to cry.

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5 months ago

Howdy! Just wanted to say hi and say I’m a huge fan of your work! The like incredibly clean lined style with the soft rendering is so pretty and dreamlike

Waaaah, thank you so much!! What a nice thing to say!! Lineart is, like, my favorite part of the drawing process, so it's fun to hear that it comes across to others as well.

Thanks for saying hi!!


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