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"Gold Flowers"

Finally, time to talk about Daffodilcloud! I love this girlie real badly, and I was looking forward to writing about her future. In it, I wanted to re-examine some of the insecurities she'd shown early on in the story, and show both how they still existed but also how she's grown outside of them. She's a lot more comfortable in her own skin now, and is finding better ways to cope with disappointment and grief.

I also wanted to focus on how she's been figuring out what she wants from other people, too, and teasing it out of those expectations she drilled into her head to 'have kittens'. Really she wants gentle affection and a guarantee of safety, of somebody who is able to give her as much or more love than she gives away.

I hope you all like Duncan, I think he's a sweetheart. He's named after a cat I had when I was a little kid.

The title for this epilogue is taken from Theodore Sturgeon's story "Baby Is Three": “She made me go ahead of her into a room as big as our swimming hole. It had books all over and leather on top of the tables, with gold flowers drawn into the corners.”

meet the grahams

RABBITCLAN'S JOURNEY 7!

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This moon is a really big one, a revelation about the clans has been.. revealed! Owlpaw and Sunpaw have been spending a lot of time together, and frostpaw seems to care a lot about starlingpaw, though it might just be platonic im not sure yet.. its sweet though hes grumpy but always kinda seems to be thinking about starlingpaw :]

im so glad we finally got to meet Oliver! He's very gorgeous and hard to draw <3 im kinda glad he didnt join <3 lol

in rabbitclan, they have very little precedent for clan roles and their meanings, and so to navigate the fact that my project blends canon places with clangen roles, the rabbitclan canon is that Heroncall came to the cats to introduce the concept of a mediator, which is a cat you talk to about your feelings, either alone or with others. In the game mediators are more literal, solving conflicts and doing inter-clan negotiating but there are no other clans here. So I decided that the mediator is essentially just a clan counsellor/therapist which i think will lead to many good dialogue writing opportunities :3

frost and heron are kinda like when you're 16 working at the gas station and some 55 yr old man kinda becomes your best friend lowkey because you're always on shift. Its like that.

SUNPAWS DAD REVEAL

I wanted to post this separately from moon 7 because he's a ghost so I had to set him to 50% opacity but you couldn't see his design because of that so here. He Is Solidified. Harebreeze the weird guyyy! i have designs for everyone's parents too :p dude no way

“Issue #15: Was It Something I Did?”

Apologies for this issue not being quite as exciting as the last few, but that’s how pacing goes. You need the more contemplative, slower ones to balance it all out. And payoff is nothing without its setup!

I enjoyed getting to draw Dustfeather a lot, anyways. I may not like her as a person, but her design’s very simple and easy. Her big coyote ears are a lot of fun. 

Finally learning a bit more about Slugpelt’s upbringing! You may be saying: “But Slugpelt didn’t do anything by just being born and growing up, why would Dustfeather abuse her for that?" To which I would say: yup, you’re getting it.