Just Finished Reading Ivypool's Heart And I Thought It Was Pretty Good! I Actually Think Grief Is Something

"The Vaster World"

Well! This is it! The very last epilogue of "Pinepaw and the Forgotten World"!

This epilogue in particular took me awhile to write, because I had to get it exactly how I wanted. Pinewing and Cormorantleaf's relationship is one of the main focuses of the story, and I really felt I needed to explore it the way it deserved. Especially important to me was showing that despite how much they love each other, there's still a ton of baggage and difficulities they needed to work out. I honestly think it would be unrealistic for two characters with so much trauma to just skip off happily together, but I also wanted to emphasize how they could still reconcile in the end. Not all relationships work out, but Pinewing and Cormorantleaf both felt that the other was extremely important to them, and the relationship was something they both wanted. So they were willing to put in the work of building it back up.

I had a ton of fun drawing older Pinewing and Cormorantleaf. I started doodling Pinewing with full facial hair something like a year ago, and I've been so desperate to finally get it into the comic since. It feels so right for him, like his perfect final form. After a life full of pressure and difficulty Pinewing just wants to be a happy old man who gets to kiss his husband every day, and sometimes profesy the future writ flesh. Goodbye, my little blue cat; I'm gonna miss you.

The title of this epilogue comes from "Mimsy Were The Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett: "They would survive, but they would not know how to swim downstream, to the vaster world of the ocean.”

In the end, the whole project wraps up at 64,501 words, 370 pages, and two and a half years of production time. I started this project expecting it to be a minor thing I occasionally drew on the side, something a few people might find interesting. The enormously positive response has absolutely blown me away and continues to do so, and I am forever so grateful that thousands of people can enjoy and meaningfully relate to this story.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has commented, shared, reblogged, theorized, made fanart, made fanfiction, told their friends, liked it, or just read it at all. Though I won't go into the specific details, PATFW is an extremely personal and cathartic creation of mine, so the fact that many of you have also told me that it connected with you on an emotional level is genuinely heart-touching. I appreciate all your readership through these years. It means a lot.

-Raz

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so I finished kotlc….

"they're releasing the teaser soon!" I say as they drag me off to the asylum

handful of funny warriors wiki edits they doing for aprils fools LOLL thought was funny

hey wouldn't it be fucked up if the bones from darktail's drowned victims sometimes washed up on the shores of the lake or what. and of course, knowing they're the remains of shadowclan cats, shadowclan will bury them. but at each funeral everyone is tense, an unspoken question in the air who's bones are these? Does your loved one still rest in the lake, or have at least some of their bones been brought to the burial grounds?

My entire musical taste revolves around these two. I'm not complaining; I love listening to it with edits

And you can't make this up

WHY DO THE PAGES HAVE A FUR TEXTURE

LITERALLY WHO ASKED FOR THIS

I'm gonna start drawing Warriors characters as humans because I'm WAYYYY better at drawing humans than cats lolll

Feel free to send an ask with a request if you have one! I don't really know how tumblr works yet so lmk if you can't for some reason

Heyo!!

I'm Cicada, and I like to yap about things :D mostly warrior cats, stranger things, and whatever I'm currently hyperfixated on. On my blog I'll probably post the occasional art, rant about warriors, delusionally hope for byler, and talk about anything that comes to mind ✨

I'm autistic+mentally ill so I struggle to interact with people; please keep that in mind. Also I've never been on Tumblr before and I'm sort of terrified 😭

Favorite warriors characters (not in order): Shadowsight, Frostdawn, Dovewing, Ivypool, Squirrelstar, Hollyleaf, Crookedstar

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