I don't really want to make this a big deal and I hate talking about myself (I've written more about what's happening in my personal life elsewhere) so we'll go with bullet points.

I am officially transitioning this blog from Warrior Cats-specific to a more general audience. I miss having a main Tumblr and I'm not doing enough fandom stuff at the moment. I do not anticipate this changing anytime soon.

I don't hate WC. I don't plan on never drawing it again, just significantly less than I have been.

I will continue to draw copious amounts of felines, though.

I do not think I'll be continuing any WC-related comics. Sorry! I may explore some AUs in smaller, more contained projects. I simply do not want to work on a comic where the IP is owned by someone else.

I currently have a sale on Toyhouse liquidating all remaining cat design concepts I have, that will continue to be updated until I'm finished. The ones currently up for grabs are here. I'll be branching out to new stuff after these.

Obviously the majority/most(?) of my audience is WC-related so no hard feelings if you decide to unfollow.

I think to accept Starclan is to also accept impermanence, too. A cat who wants to “live forever” is incentivized to be good and noble according to their clan custom, so that they are inevitably remembered. A memory sustains a cat after death, but not forever. A selfish cat who did nothing but serve themselves or an “evil” cat who sought power and mayhem but still believed in the Code won’t have their names or memory passed down, leading to premature fading into the unknowable.

Also I want more… stakes. Like Starclan’s realm can technically pass “through” the living world randomly which is how prophecy happens, or cats experience weird dreams, or may have an off-chance to communicate with a Starclan cat. But a resident of Starclan slipping from their home and onto the living world is considered a great and unspeakable taboo, PARTICULARLY after the discovery/revelation/creation of the Dark Forest.

Before the DF, though, I think Starclan would simply have the suspicion that if someone spent too long around the living, they’d desperately yearn for life again and eventually turn into a ghost unable to pass onto any other world forever. I feel like Starclan has a lot of suspicions.

In that newfound immortality, they sever the tie they have to their ancestors and security of passing on their life to another. Whether this severing lasts forever is ambiguous — I think “redemption” is possible, but no one has. Not that it’s necessarily even difficult, but because the Dark Forest’s powers are intoxicating.

Alternatively, I also enjoy Starclan as less of a “Cat Heaven” as in those who go there are fairly righteous and good. No… I think even cats who did terrible things still go there, so long as they followed the Code (or even BELIEVED that they were). I also think rivalries and disputes would carry on after death. Without territory to squabble over, though, things tend to lack a lot of threat or weight. But otherwise it’s kind of just like. An untouched, picturesque paradise but not without its issues.

I also only think medcats would be “qualified” to make prophecies and pick out those most appropriate to give their life to eventual clan leaders. In this it’s also possible that a hopeful leader is denied their chance to ascend, if they simply aren’t the “right one”.