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barrenclan · 2 hours
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there are literally worse things than being in a saw trap like for instance openly expressing that you have wants and needs and are a real person
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barrenclan · 5 hours
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This is a part for @arachnits Whisper Warnings MAP! You can watch it here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPcbmgtILo
First time I've animated in awhile, even if it was really minimal. It made me nervous but I'm pretty happy with how this part turned out!
Also, bonus headshot of The Guy I did
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barrenclan · 10 hours
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I love the pairing of this song with the comic :D It looks great!
I LOVE this comic its so interesting and the way its told is so immersive!
The comic: @barrenclan
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the dream curse got me this morning. in my dream you posted an animated teaser for issue 35 that had this like ghost-like tan and white and brown slugcat with antlers and yellow or blue eyes (i ont remember which) and you captioned it "issue 35 teaser! rainhaze is gonna get his shit rocked! :D" and tagged it as like #elktuft or #elkthrush or #elkhush or something and for some reason you posted it on ur razmerry account instead of this one. so i checiked the patfwcord and saw people were spamming you about it being on the wrong account but you just replied "im making sure the fake fans wont see this" like WHAT?? but no one thought anything of that and then they continued going insane abotu the new character. i also remember you at some point answering an ask that was like "vague summary of issue 35?" with "blue cat gets shit rocked by ghost. send tweet"
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heres my rendition of elkthrush/hush/tuft :)
That is a really cute design and also I'm kind of obsessed with my behavior in this dream. Unhinged Raz moment.
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Bojack Horseman-style PATFW reboot.
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(speaking over a megaphone) put their ass in the rainhaze torture labyrinth boys
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barrenclan · 1 day
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I've begged like Cormorantpaw is doing now, and honestly your writing really hit me in the gut with similar emotions. I've cried his tears before, and it's astonishing how well you captured that feeling of desperation--the feeling that what you are saying is making everything you love slip through your fingers. That feeling of sheer dread but being unable to stop spilling, like someone's cut you open. It may be under completely different circumstance, but I know how he feels and damn. Good job.
Thank you, it means a lot to me that you could connect with that part of the issue. In general I'm very touched by everyone who says that some part of PATFW struck them on a deeper level, that my writing can do something like that.
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barrenclan · 1 day
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whenever you screenshot an ask it's the exact same brown-y yellow color as the panels for PAFTW and I think that's super funny. like. your just sitting there in the dry ass dunes watching over your ill dated kitty cats live blogging
Only real ones use the Canary theme! Everyone else is a coward who likes hurting their eyes!!
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barrenclan · 2 days
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So I sort of have this observation/thought that Deepdark relishes in the idea of his own Defiance members attempting to kill him, actively encouraging it and feeding into bloodthirsty desires with his speeches and teachings.
Maybe this has something to do with him possibly feeling a sense of rush, adrenaline, feeling alive. Deer are the world's food fodder, being seen as nothing but running dinner to animals that eat them. Deepdark horribly twists up the fates of his species, deers can kill too, he's going to be living proof. I wonder, if this is the case, if Deepdark hopes and prays that another one of the members attempts to assassinate him and take power, just so he can feel that horribly sweet rush of life. Each of his kills only demonstrates the pure power that he and deers can hold.
Something something, "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it, and I was really. I was alive"
I can't really describe what I'm trying to say hopefully this suffices lol
I love this insight into Deepdark! He definitely uses any assassination attempts he gets as chances to flex his own power, as he says in Issue 28:
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"Come to challenge me" is his way of saying "tried to fucking murder me."
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barrenclan · 2 days
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im so normal abt sibling relationships in media i swear
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barrenclan · 2 days
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Dune (1984)
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barrenclan · 2 days
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I'm not sure if this was answered before but just out of curiosity, what type of deer is Deepdark? I always assumed mule
Yes, he is a mule deer! You can tell because of his bigass ears.
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That made me make a very undignified snort sound.
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barrenclan · 3 days
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Question, do you enjoy making Slug suffer? /lh
It is a grim duty that I must attend to. But I take no joy in this dread task.
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Slugpelt has earned at least one murder by now.
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Aw hon, she's been dead since November.
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barrenclan · 3 days
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just binge read the entire thing up till the recent update (up till 6 am. Don’t do this) and went nuts looking at things for asphodelpaw bc MM MM I love a well crafted narrative. She reminds me of a character I have as well, whose been affected by generations of trauma, but he deals w it in such an immature, teenager-y way bc well. He is. And so was she. She lashed out at Pinepaw bc she desperately wanted approval, some kind of warm reception from an authority figure, and bc her mother has been so distant, she didn’t seek it from her, instead she looked to her mentor Plumstripe (who, admittedly in very nature of being a mentor, had assumed not just an authority role, but a familiar one, one that was supposed to be close, like family.) and Plumstripe, having internalized the cruelty and generations long self inflicted torture Barrenclan does, began to pass down not just that, but the feelings dredged by a splintered relationship w her sister and family. Plumstripe, who validated her own feelings by passing them down and seeing them repeated. And Asphodelpaw so desperate to be close, to be useful, to feel valuable, gave her everything. And yet none of it was enough. (I noticed that while she didn’t try pursuing Cormorantpaw like Daffodilpaw did, she seemed to try and make up for that by needling her brother, something that Plumstripe, from her constant fights w her sister amd the laugh she gave upon actually being there for some of the sniping, clearly liked. At least to try and catch up w Beenose, who was seen being smug abt Daffodilpaw trying to get Cornorantoaw to open up.) And as time went on, the burden of loneliness, frustration, and despair cracked the walls and mask she had built. And the biggest crack came from Slugpelt trying to reconcile w her children, and Pinepaw coming out and trusting his family w that vulnerable secret. Something that shook her enough that she couldn’t help but look inward, to see that she was unhappy, to look outward, and see that the place and people she had looked up to so blindly were hurting her. And she made the right choice, something that speaks so much abt her character. She didn’t withdraw deeper into herself or double down on this performance for the clan she’d been doing, she said “wait, this is wrong. It shouldn’t be like this. And I have the power to change that.” And she HAULED ASS. She went to Egrettail for advice on her feelings of isolation from the culture and pressure the clans have toward she-cats, and finding her footing in her identity that she had grasped for but never realized she could reach until now. She went to Pinepaw and apologized, something that’s surprisingly hard to do, ESPECIALLY for a kid. Her character arc had hit a new track, and she was building a new, authentic confidence. And then all at once she died. And now she’ll be frozen there, never completing her journey, haunting the world she was ripped from. It’s AWFUL (<- said w a smile) I love deeply flawed characters, they’re just so real. Kind hearted and well-meaning characters like Pinepaw are great too, but to me there’s something so visceral abt characters that do the immature things, the selfish things, etc.
You’ve crafted a very interesting story here, with lots of little lore tidbits that make the world feel so much more real, and you’ve backed it up w characters and narrative w so much passion and thought. You care, not just about the story and characters you are writing, but the narrative it presents, the reaches it has. Thoughtfulness is one of the marks of a good writer, and you’ve got lots of it here. Thanks for making such a cool story. If you ever finish the human version, I think you’d have a solid chance at getting it published as an actual book. But if that’s not something you want, please be proud of your hard work and remember to sit back and admire it sometimes.
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Thank you both for your very kind words on completely opposite ends of the spectrum.
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barrenclan · 3 days
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The Pinepaw Canon Post had me thinking- If BarrenClan was a canon clan in warriors, which clan would it be? (like out of ThunderClan, WindClan, RiverClan, etc.) What territory would their lifestyle fit best in?
Physically, their territory is most like WindClan's. But I think that culturally BarrenClan is more similar to ShadowClan (the mistrust of others, the rigid & traditional social rules, the sins of past leaders).
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barrenclan · 4 days
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barrenclan · 4 days
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Kinda rambly ask but here we go
I think it’s SO interesting how cormorantpaw & rainhaze are kinda indirect inverses of each other. Corm was born in defiance raised in brutality and bloodshed and carried a twisted view of the world passed down to him by his father but in BarrenClan he was able to come into himself. Despite the wasteland of BarrenClan it was no doubt safer than the flourishing forest of defiance and filled w loving cats. His (future) name, Cormorantleaf was given to him by the cat he loves and a reflection of that love
Rainhaze was born smothered in love by his mother and by all accounts grew up loved but through desperation ended up killing his own mother and disappearing into the forest of defiance loosing himself in bloodshed as his mind was further unraveled & twisted by those around him. The first thing he’s done when he’s free of the suffocating atmosphere of defiance, if only briefly, is kill his niece. It doesn’t matter than no one else would witness the murder, there was never any members defiance breathing orders down his neck. At this point rainhaze’s mind is so poisoned with senseless brutalism it comes reflexively. Rainhaze may have kept his name when he stepped into the forest but he died long ago. A Body and a Name remain, but are forever haunted by the ghost that does not belong to either.
This is a story about learning and unlearning rhetoric and the enduring power of love. Among many other things! I like your thoughts on these two characters a lot.
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barrenclan · 4 days
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BREKAIGN NEWS
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they're friends!!!
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barrenclan · 5 days
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Did magpie and partridge make it out alive :(( or did they get caught (unless it’s spoilers)
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They did successfully escape from Defiance, but no one knows what's happened to them since.
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