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June Featured Follower Post!

Teddyfluff, how are you settling into the Clan? Have you made any friends?

Oh my god I read the last ask. And now Fiercechasm is mentoring one of Shineivy's kits. It probably feels like absolution to her, but also terrifying. Because on one hand, Riftstar is entrusting her with his son, and it feels like he's saying "I don't blame you for her death, I still trust you, I trust you so much that here is my son to train and teach and guide into adulthood" but on the other hand if anything, ANYTHING ever happens to Icypaw Fiercechasm feels that everything will come crashing down. Her actions led to Shineivy's death, and if that's repeated with Icypaw then it will feel like proof that she couldn't protect anyone, couldn't be trusted with anyone, not with Shineivy and not with her son. I also wonder if Icypaw resents Fiercechasm a little bit? He's still so young, reassurances like "it wasn't her fault, she was just there when it happened" don't mean much when you're a child and Fiercechasm was the last one to go out with your mother...

Ok but what about a suffix that doesn't work with "Ash". I legit can't think of anything. Even Ashtoe sounds fine.

I have a confession to make. When I found this blog (I think it was just after the first or second post), I wasn't a big fan of the real time updates thing. I mean, I certainly thought it was a cool idea, but I figured "it's going to take forever for anything to really happen, and the author will probably lose interest after the first six months." But that's not what happened at all. You've crafted an incredible story that is well paced and exciting, and each of your characters are unique and memorable. This is in large part because the real-time updates allows your readers to really sit with the characters and get to know them, to theorize about their futures. Like I'm more excited for the Oddlets to become warriors than I've been for anything else in any other Clangen blog, because we've watched them grow from kits for almost a year now. It makes everything much more meaningful and exciting. Thank you for crafting such a beautiful story!!

This might be a weird thing to say and I may have said something similar before (recovering from anesthesia so I'm slightly out of it) but I seriously respect and admire how polite but firm you've been with your boundaries in interacting with us. I feel like 99% of the other Clangen blogs out there (and this is by NO MEANS any hate towards them whatsoever, there are some really fantastic stories being told out there) have the tendency to... not pander, exactly, but let their followers have a pretty high level of involvement in terms of confirming headcanons, answering questions in character, or even just making themselves available for consultation on questions like the one you declined to answer about the fanfic. There's nothing wrong with that, it lends itself to building a different kind of story, one that is more collaborative, but not all stories are designed to be told it has definitely given some well-meaning fans Expectations about how they can interact with other Clangen bloggers, and I admire the way you stand your ground on not running your blog or interacting with us in that way. It gives me hope that we can all choose to tell our own stories and succeed at building an audience without having to do things the same way. My own Clangen blog that has been on (unannounced lol) hiatus for a few months now never took off because I didn't get involved in the constant reblogging of other Clangen blogs to encourage like treatment and increase popularity, and it felt a bit discouraging that I wasn't really able to build an audience without running my blog that way. Not to say I was just creating for the sake of others, but it definitely sucked to spend sometimes hours on an art piece and story only to get like. 14 notes. So it's really nice to see that you have in fact been able to tell your story your way without playing that game, without letting your fans cross boundaries that they assumed due to their other experiences you wouldn't have. You are very much an author and storyteller, not a content creator trying to curate a fan base, and I respect that.

Hmmm do I sense the potential for a bit of a love triangle developing between Aldertail, Oscar and Oddstripe? Oscar seems very cool, gallant even! Hoping to see more of her in future.

Maaan this piece... this piece. The interaction between Scorch and Fogpaw. Absolutely phenomenal.