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cityswarriorkitties:

More OG Warriors! This time Darkstripe and Yellowfang~ 

Greypaw’s line “Now Darkstripe is neither young, nor pretty!” always stuck with me when I think of Darkstripe. I’ve always pictured him rough around the edges and not the most appealing looking guy out there. I decided to make him a classic tabby because I’m a sucker for classic tabbies. While a lot of warriors have scars as signs of experience or bravery, Darkstripe has lots because he’s a trashy warrior who really pales in comparison to his peers. Aka, he gets his ass handed to him a lot lmao

I love the idea of him and Greystripe being brothers. I feel like Dark was always resentful of Willowpelt for taking another mate after Tawnyspots, and looks down on his younger brother Grey. Tigerclaw as his mentor did nothing to set him on the straight and narrow either, and he ends up idolizing him for his strength. I’ve always thought that Dark had a hardcore crush on Tiger too ahaha

Now for Yellowfang~ She’s gruff and ugly and her fangs poke out of her mouth, but she’s a badass and I love her. I haven’t gotten as much to say about her compared to Darkstripe, but she’s one of my favourites, and is my fave medicine cat. I wanted to make her a fluff monster and relatively ugly, so I hop you guys like her~

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esperides:

days of the week;

monday: snoozing your alarm clock, navy, seeing the moon in the morning, vanilla ice cream, writing poetry, blurry photographs, windswept hair, iced coffee

tuesday: seeing a cat on the street, a light rain shower, untied shoelaces, indistinct music from someone else’s earphones, empty coffee shops, denim jackets, long train rides

wednesday: pastel highlighters, drinking water, group laughter, plucking daisy petals, floral scents, counting down to a birthday, peonies

thursday: old books, a downpour, telling the truth, comfortable silence, hand holding, wrapping a gift, the smell of leather, reminiscence

friday: neon lights, sweet cravings, a little bit drunk, falling in love with a stranger, remembering your dreams, cherry red, late night showers, desserts at midnight

saturday: watering plants, childhood cartoons, a bowl of cereal, meeting someone new, waking up early and laying in bed, spontaneous plans, sitting on a rooftop

sunday: strawberry smoothies, golden hour, a soft feeling of wistfulness, lazy afternoons, 4pm naps, lofi mixes, deja vu, long daydreams, lighting sparklers

whetstonefires:

I like all those fantasy setups where dwarves have perfectly reasonable and complex beauty standards of their own which outsiders completely fail to grasp. Those are good, they make perfect sense and are important!

What I want now is an actual wheel of the idealization of the exceptional.

I want to see a setting where the elves consider average dwarvish features to invoke a stark and intense form of beauty. Just. Totally average Bjorn Smith dwarf with his or her average dwarf looks and elvish culture is like How So Handsome, literally all of them, they’re like landscape paintings, it’s Unfair.

Meanwhile dwarves regard perfectly ordinary human faces as models of aristocratic refinement, and humans still think basically every elf is ridiculously pretty.

Aesthetics and genetics being what they are obviously individuals are going to actually live up to, and agree about how much they appreciate, these qualities to wildly varying degrees, but I want those to be the norms.

Humans still tend to see dwarves as sort of coarse and uninspiring to look at, elves generally find human appearances sort of boring, and dwarves mostly think elves seem sort of weedy and ridiculous. But you go around the circle the other way, and everybody’s like Hell Yeah.