where the jaybird sings

is this gonna get me fired you think

the boys of the phantom thieves

happy mother’s day, leafpool 🌷

they’re my favorite sibling duo and I want to put them under a microscope. I had fun working on this!

mannn when i was a kid i was such a big leafcrow fan... as i got older i began to like more of the modern read of crowf needing a rebound + a place to put his feather feelings and leaf needing someone who loved her the Most as most of her connections in ThunderClan were moving on/getting into romantic relationships. but all that being said i did still like them. i was sort of hoping the nostalgia would be able to get me through the new prophecy and i could come out on the other side still liking them but i got hit with the "hating crowfeather" bomb so. idk. i think it still makes Some sense with the prior reading lens, even if they Barely interact. to meeeee it feels like comphet leafpool tbh. she sees sorrel and squirrel getting into romantic relationships and looks around and just feels very lonely and thinks oh... i must want that to... and takes it in the first person she finds it in. my only hesitation with that reading is like. i do feel like if it was just that then she wouldn't go so far as to leave thunderclan entirely but idk. maybe that's why she turned around so fast lmao. i mean canonically yes of course she and crowfeather did have real romantic feelings for each other and they keep pining even afterward but yeah idk. they dont make me feel much these days beyond sympathy for leaf and unbridled rage for crowf