"The Vaster World"

"I wish I could talk with you, like we used to."

Happy 22nd birthday warriors! Here's some of Leafstar's depression, as a treat

tawnycrow is truly the funniest thing, I hope they become canon idec

can we talk about the potential of hollytuft as a character. like imagine being named after your aunt who murdered someone, told your grandma to commit suicide, then ran off into a cave and died but didn't actually die, came back in the dark forest battle and sacrificed herself for your dad's prophecy friend's sister. oh, also your dad was in a prophecy and your mom used to have the reincarnated soul of another cat in her body. like how would you even process that

i want the teaser to be dropped extremely randomly. like no announcement or anything, just drop. i want it to drop at 4 AM and wake up to the byler tag having 1000+ recent posts because the teaser dropped and everyone is freaking out. i want to be shocked. i dont want to wait for a specific day or time.

curlfeather spends her childhood pretending not to fear the elders tales of tigerstars reign over riverclan, about how noble riverclan was left with no other choice but to submit or die. what else could they do? these stories are heard less frequently as she gets older, and by the time she has her full name the stories about tigerclan are replaced by those of the great battle. reedwhisker trains her to put her clan above all else. the good of the clan always comes first. your clan are your kin. in their rare moments alone, she listens to an aging mistyfar wistfully recall her brothers bravery at bonehill, a sacrifice not many are old enough to remember. curlfeather has never heard anyone mention stonefur before, so she sits in silence as mistystar mourns, and at her young age decides that this is how she wants to be remembered. this is what a riverclan cat is supposed to be. curlfeather was raised to believe that riverclan is something to be proud of, something to fight for. your clanmates come first. riverclan is virtuous. riverclan is selfless. riverclan is pure. her father tells her as much. talks of tigerclan resurface when darktail comes around, spoken in hushed voices inside cramped dens. curlfeather wonders why no one seems to be doing anything about it until her father finally stands up to darktail himself. and he loses. days pass, more cats give in, and curlfeather is silent as an emaciated reedwhisker finally concedes and pledges his loyalty. she can only watch as he repeats himself, louder, again and again and again. she watches him slink away, head down, and she thinks of stonefur

Hollypaw asks Brackenfur about the warrior code.

St as out of context Danny Gonzalez clips

(this is so unbelievably niche lmao)

i dedicated my life to you and all you've ever done is punish me for it

legit obsessed with how cloudkit is drawn

warrior cats wasn’t planned in advance so i know this scene wouldn’t have been possible when dangerous path was written but god fucking damn would i have killed for a scene where tigerstar is standing over bluestar, murderous and heaving, and bluestar is looking back up at him wild-eyed and angry, before a moment of clarity hits her and she says in a very low voice, so quiet that tigerstar can barely hear it: i’m sorry that i didn’t protect you from thistleclaw. i kept everyone else safe from him but you.