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sparrowminder · 2 months

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Back from my little unannounced break! I deleted the app off my phone just to break the habit of automatically opening tumblr all the time and I feel like I succeeded.

I've been taking it easy after how hectic the end of January was for me, I'll make a little update post and go through my asks and messages soonish!

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sparrowminder · 4 months

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wait I haven’t read into the wild in a hot second how do they write queens

Idk its just like they are all the same character. And that character is a bad stereotype of a mother.

They are all made to seem frantic and worried, easy to manipulate, and kinda dumb and cruel bec of that.

Any part with a queen can often just be boiled down to "my kits! But what about my kits!"

They were SO easily turned against both Yellowfang and Ravenpaw with the dumbest evidence possible. And because of this they are often made to be the over dramatic and dumb woman stereotype.

It makes me so mad. They have no character beyond worrying about their babies.

Tbh this doesn't even just go for Queens in this book bec the singular female warrior in ThunderClan is Mousefur and she hasn't gotten any character either. No snarky comments or speaking her mind. The only thing she does outside of the prologue is her CARING FOR KITS. Literally she is in the fight to get the kits back from ShadowClan and her only scene is her scooping the kits up and licking them frantically like a worried mother.

Basically the only woman with a actual personality is Yellowfang in this book.

#yeah it is legitimately bizarre #basically every character in itw is extremely flat but the queens really do not have a single distinguishing trait

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sparrowminder · 4 months

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just wanted to come on and say I really appreciated the transparency and clarity, i really enjoy reading all your responses while we all try to understand the system. it's super neat by the way! like a little gacha surprise ^^ Will you be using sparrow's garden for genetics? asking out of curiosity since i adore how complex cat genetics can be :D

Hi!

I do value transparency - lots of people have fumbled good things because they were afraid of being direct, upfront and hard-footed. I understand the fear, I feel it rather often, but it's a great disservice to assume the other person can't handle it! (btw, the recurring kitten anon is really cool behind the scenes and we love them. GOOD vibes, i look forward to their membership!)

I do know a good chunk of cat genetics due to the raw power of autism but yes, Sparrow's Garden will make an appearance! Especially if people go hogwild with their genetics. I'm not gonna argue but I'm gonna sweat a lot. (And so are all the artists drawing all those bengal spots......)

#the gardener sparrow has also submitted an application so let this be a plug for anyone interested #deadline is the 25th so get on that if you're interested!

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sparrowminder · 5 months

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[grabs your shoulders and shakes you] something being widely accepted fanon does not actually make it "basically canon" and it doesn't mean people who don't incorporate it into their fics or acknowledge it are doing something wrong

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sparrowminder · 5 months

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#warrior cats #wc scourge #made this like a week ago and promptly forgot about it

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sparrowminder · 6 months

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cinders

#sparrow art #warrior cats #cinderpelt #wc cinderpelt #realized i always end up drawing the same few kitties so here's to one of my favorite girls of all time

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sparrowminder · 6 months

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a brand of fire

#its been ten million years...#sparrow art #i have no idea if that's the art tag here or if i have an art tag here #warrior cats #firestar #wc firestar

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sparrowminder · 7 months

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dovewing and ivypool

#wowow! love those colored lines!

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sparrowminder · 8 months

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Cat & Clan Generator Masterlist

I don't know of an existing masterlist of cat generators, so here's all of the ones I know of! Please feel free to tell me about any not here, and I'll add them.

Image Based Cats

Sparrow's Kittygen

‎Pixel WC OC Generator ‎

Tiny Warrior Cats Sprite

Mambastar's Warrior Cats Character Generator 2.0

Blorbo-Gen (image only)

Muxa's Generators

Image Based Clans

BuffSpud/infernalCherub

Text Based Cats

Blorbo-Gen (now with text!)

big warriors generator

Genetically Accurate Cat Parents

the warriors generator

Kiri's Warrior Cats Name Generator

Sparrow's Cat Generator

Dreamer's Warrior Cat Gen

Unnamed gen

Text Based Clans

Warrior Cats Detailed Clan Generator by Raggedflight

Allegiances Generator by Raggedflight

Warrior Cats Name Generator by Raggedflight

Kiri's Warrior Cat Allegiance Generator

make a clan

ultra detailed clan

Chinch allegiance generator

Misc.

Warriors Plot Maker

#oh hi!#neither of mine are done but i should finish them at some point!#got multiple friends on here too!

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sparrowminder · 9 months

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This may be a bit of a silly question but I’m trying to research this for a fanclan and I cannot make a fox’s tail out of the non twoleg workings

So how would you/Windclan go about reinforcing the tunnels? Used to think it was just ‘put a thick branch up there and every few fox lengths, it’ll support all that’ and that doesn’t seem quite right anymore. Please and thank you 🐈‍⬛

I'm gonna try and keep this reply simple and not get into the in-depth mechanics of digging holes, that's a post for some other time and I'd have to talk about depth and learn math and shit

So very simply putting it, usually, you would naturally dig square tunnels, and this is where all the tension of digging comes from. See, a square tunnel is really bad for physically holding things up, so beams are there to help.

Think about a tunnel kind of like building a bridge. The tunnel is a structure that needs to hold up the dirt above it. Really, functionally think about how many bridges are truly flat; it's not many! You want Arches.

And, it just so happens, a tunnel ALSO wants to be an arch. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this well so I drew a little diagram of a cave-in;

[ID: A drawing of a square tunnel with a dotted line showing the arch of where the dirt will collapse. It progresses into the second drawing of a rock fall, revealing the arch of the first drawing.]

Most cave-ins aren't the ENTIRE tunnel collapsing, it's the part of the tunnel that WANTS to be arch. Arches good. Arches are physically the best way for holding things up. Problem is that you can't dig like that without dropping however many pounds of earth on yourself.

So really, what you want is a beam, not just a stick in the middle of the hole. You want to put a beam from wall to wall, supported by two columns beneath. Like minecraft.

Other various things;

Older tunnels are, actually, usually more structurally sound. There's been more time for them to "stabilize."

The deeper the tunnel, the more stable. This is because the earth above the tunnel is packed in better. You do NOT want to open up a staircase downwards like minecraft, the entrance will COLLAPSE.

However, naturally, a collapse in a deeper tunnel is more deadly and severe for obvious reasons.

Just to state the obvious, sand bad. You do not want to dig in sand. Sand Bad.

Canon vastly overstates the severity of shallow tunnel collapses. Cats will die in less than a foot of dirt :/ There's this part in DOTC where Jagged Peak activates a quicktime event and a burrow collapses on him and it was so profoundly stupid it's been in my head ever since

suffocating in an old animal burrow... girl... do you think rabbits are constantly dying in collapses? genuinely? In soft soil?

Gray Wing is like, "you almost out bro?" and Jaggy-P is like, "ya im coming" and then WHOMP. DIRT. thats not how this works thats not how any of this works

And as a final note... the problems with WC's portrayals of shitty parents aside, it actually makes perfect sense that Tallpaw would think his father Sandgorse is a lunatic for feeling safe with going right back in after a collapse. Tallpaw doesn't know that some kinds of cave-ins actually make the tunnel more safe, but Sandgorse, an experienced digger, would.

(unfortunately the writers don't know this. but i do.)

#ooh...rolls this around in my brain

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sparrowminder · 9 months

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I'm glad to find another Autistic person who has read Warrior Cats! There is a very small pool of those who are autistic and have read Warrior Cats and we are in a desert compared to those who aren't-

Really?? I think these books are actually catnip to autistic people, this fandom's chock-full of us

RB if you're also Autistic and read WC

#famous for being so autistic about warrior cats i made a cat genetics website lol

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sparrowminder · 10 months

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Don't think this has to be said for the vast majority of my followers but I got a weird reply on one of my reblogs so:

I am queer, neurodivergent, and multiply disabled, so if you think it's ok to be a dick to people unprompted for those reasons or, in fact, for any reason, this blog is not for you and I'm frankly baffled as to how you ended up here.

(I'm also white in all the ways that matter and areligious but if you're a dick to people unprompted on the basis of race or religion, I wish you a very get better quickly or die by my blade.)

#puts this here also bc i suspect the person got here from this blog #i am capable of being an extremely patient educator and will happily answer any genuine question i can #but if you are a jerk you're getting blocked and i will not feel bad about it

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sparrowminder · 10 months

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pride flags colourpicked from the og the prophecies begin covers

rainbow / gay / lesbian / trans

bi / nonbinary / pansexual / polyamorous

asexual / aromantic / agender / aroace

bigender / demiboy / demigender / demigirl

demiromantic / demisexual / greyromantic / intersex this is all i'm going to put in this post but i will keep adding more flags in batches in the reblogs! if there's a flag you want that i haven't done feel free to ask for it!!! (in asks or in the replies)!

#oh these are so aesthetically pleasing

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sparrowminder · 1 year

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The narrator is also not the same as the pov character - occasionally in third-person limited writing the narrator has a character of their own, but more often (such as in warriors) the third person narrator is a non-entity who is implied to be a relatively objective descriptor of what the pov character is witnessing and thinking.

This may not be an objective reflection of the reality of the story, but there isn't the opportunity for the character to actively lie to you about what they experienced, as in a true case of unreliable narrator, because they are not actually in control of how their story is presented. The description is implicitly true to their experience (and this assumption is why real unreliable narrators can make for such a great twist).

"Bluestar is an unreliable narrator" bud she is literally not even the narrator.

Unreliable narrator means the narration is misleading the reader either on purpose or by accident. It is not:

A retcon

A character thinking something contradictory to the narration

A character saying something that is contradicted by the narration

Most dialogue honestly

#thank you yam for reminding me of one of my biggest current pet peeves

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sparrowminder · 1 year

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WOOO GENETICS VIDEO FINALLY UP

#sparrow approved! nice job op #i like the explanation for allele/locus in particular #i always learned that gene properly means locus but this is much more accurate to the way people use the term

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sparrowminder · 1 year

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What’re you going to do about Barley and Ravenpaw? Given age gaps and timing.. what’re you going to do with their relationship/friendship?

Barley is two cats now! There's Barley Senior, and Barley Junior.

Barley Senior is an old friend of Bluestar's, part of her group, the Forget-Me-Nots. They were the first group of friends from the different Clans in generations. He is old.

His nephew, Barley Junior, is the son of Violet. Violet was executed by BloodClan, and Barley Senior fled with his two nespring to the barn, about a year before the events of TPB.

Violet Junior becomes the mother of Rileypool and Bellaleaf later. Barley Junior is the mate of Ravenpaw.

Ravenpaw actually asks Mr. Barley Senior for his nephew's paw in mateship, as is customary of barn cats. This is explicitly a gay couple.

#rb bc i also do this #and bc the bonefall rewrite is fun and you should all be following it!

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sparrowminder · 1 year

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Uhh so how -do- you keep all of the gene symbols straight? I'm pretty good with the actual genes but once people start shortening them I get easily confused. I'm guessing it's just practice?

Practice helps, but there's also a particular format to learn that makes things easier.

If we have a dominant/recessive pair of alleles, we always make the dominant allele capital and the recessive allele lowercase. Ideally we pick a letter for the gene symbol that makes sense with what it does, and is harmonious with the symbols used for similar traits in other animals. One example is that in mammals, if you have a single gene that causes grey dilution, it's represented as D, even though a few genes can have this effect. We can do multiple letters for a base symbol but it's not preferred - in this case, only the first gets capitalized.

Then, if we want more dominant alleles, we use the capital letter with superscripts, and for more recessives we use the lowercase with subscripts. I, and many others, write all superscripts and subscripts with lowercase letters when converting symbols to plaintext, leaving only the first letter to tell whether it's dominant or recessive.

The extra stuff should always describe the effects somehow, even if the proper name for the color or pattern gets off kilter from the gene symbol. For example, the pattern caused by cscs is colorpoint, but the allele comes from "Siamese", the breed famous for that pattern. Similarly, cb is from "Burmese".

Usually, when genes previously considered to be separate are found to be the same, we want to rewrite them to follow these conventions. An example is white spotting, previously S, and dominant white, previously W. We folded them both into the W symbol, so now they're Wd and Ws - properly written with superscripts. Sometimes this doesn't happen, though. Maybe I should start a trend of rewriting the rex/hairless alleles to be nicer.

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