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this is a poll about whether you think the things people say about your birth order are true or not

only children = spoilt, entitled, lonely, etc

eldest children = stand-in parent, takes on too many responsibilities, chronically stressed

middle children = special snowflakes who always have to carve out opposite personalities to their siblings

youngest children = parent’s favourite child, a little bit spoilt, a little bit of a copycat, you know how it is

Dr. Tolkien would love you, lol.

I'd jolkien my rolkien tolkiens if Dr. Tolkien said something nice about me so, jotting down that one as a compliment

7/4/20: On Lilapsophobia

A few days ago, I learned the term "extinction burst." For one thing, it's now on my list of Potential Album Titles Referencing Terminology Used To Describe Grand Dyings, which is a longer list than you might think, especially for someone who doesn't have a band. It's up there with phrases like "Lazarus taxon" and "high place phenomenon." A species turning up after being presumed extinct, the seemingly sourceless urge to jump when faced with a cliff edge. Things disappearing, but not fading. They go out wilder than that.

An extinction burst doesn't, in fact, have to do with the extinction of species at all. I learned it from a video on dog training. I should say I learned the phrase itself that way, because I've known about the concept for awhile, because I am my own bad dog. An extinction burst occurs when you're trying to break an animal of a bad habit and it gets worse before it gets better. At first it only seems to bark louder or pull harder at the leash, trying to use the only way it knows to get what it wants. The first step in training the begging or the braying out of a dog is to break it of the belief that there is no other way.

Today, I paced around the coffee table for twenty minutes and felt my insides stirring with every rumble of thunder. I wished I'd had pointed ears that I could lay back flat and a long tongue that quivered with hot, humid hyperventilation. I wished for a den. But what I did was leave foot-sweat on the living room hardwood and think how, if I heard the tornado sirens, I would have to walk straight and sound level when I faced my roommate to tell him that we should go to the underground laundry room.

I understand dogs better than people, and I'm no exception. I understand myself better as a dog than as a person, and a little dog at that--a Chihuahua or maybe some small terrier, something that shakes for no reason. It doesn't make sense to me that I always feel the urge to take the train north just to avoid an oncoming storm they've seen on the radar. (As I hope everyone knows, just about any form of transport is a death trap in a twister, and you're better off lying down in a ditch than trying to outrun one.) But I don't question it when I hear about pets bolting at the sound of fireworks. No one does. That's the thing about a dog hiding under the bed every Fourth of July until the end of its days. The fact that the noise has never actually hurt the dog will not teach it to fear less. As far as it's concerned, every time it's been worried about the boom, it's ultimately been safe. Worrying, then, is the only way.

The cold front's now just about passed, and there was no tornado. They haven't even issued a warning for the area today--certainly didn't during the couple hours I curled up on the floor of the tub with the Accuweather app and twenty nigh-empty shampoo bottles. Believe it or not, I'm getting better. As a kid, I'd start watching the Weather Channel for a couple hours daily beginning in March and memorize the weekly forecast from their Local on the 8's. That way, if they projected a severe weather event, I'd be able to start stockpiling throw pillows in the basement bathroom as soon as possible, should they be needed for head coverings--most fatal injuries in a tornado occur from flying or falling debris to the head, I internally recited over and over again. I'd also matter-of-factly let my parents know ahead of time to cancel any plans they had for going outside at any point during that day. A supercell could spin up at any time in an unstable atmosphere, I'd inform. But they usually did not see fit to stay home from their jobs.

Now it's not such a process. Sometimes, these days, I can go all the way up until the day of a severe storm before the anxiety starts to make me nauseated. Then I'm happy to sit with my bicycle helmet snug at my side, waiting to bolt into the innermost room of my dwelling.

Besides, I like the tub. We should've never stopped living in tight little dens. I like to curl up with my knees to my chest on the porcelain and wonder if they make ThunderShirts for people.

I refresh the radar map. Dread comes in rainbow blobs. If I'm watching for it, it can't get me, says something that's lived inside me since I knew how to feel fear. It's the same primitive something that used to tell me the shadow in my childhood closet wouldn't come to life if I stayed up all night to stare it down. I worry the way some people pray. There's ritual to it, repeated refrains and lines of thought. There's vigilance. Sometimes I feel like the people around me, Sinners in the Hands of a Mesocyclone, aren't sufficiently aware of the wrath coming their way, so I do their worrying for them, too, watch out for them. These days, I only believe in a Higher Being at my worst moments, and only one who wants retribution. Earlier, during a lull in the thunder, I ventured briefly from the tub in the notably windowless space and pulled out my eyelashes in front of the bathroom mirror with all the solemnity and intention of one saying a decade of the rosary.

Sometimes I train myself, though not as consistently as I should. When the nasty storms come, when I can bear it, sometimes I sit with my back to the windows. I don't even check the radar. I go about my business and ignore the sensation of a gnawing at my ribs, the pacing and panting of my heart behind the bars. I know, and have known for years, that a tiny percentage of storms are supercells, and of those that are, only some drop funnels at all, and of those that do, a small fraction are strong enough to do real damage. If I sit through enough of them like this and nothing happens, then I'll be desensitized to the onset of severe storms altogether. If you can train a hunting dog to not flinch at the sound of a gunshot, then I should at least be able to do this. Right now, though, it's getting worse before it gets better. Something bursting from me.

Some say the thing you fear in this life is the thing that killed you in the last, and "you had an epic death," a friend of mine once told me. I can't deny the romance in it. When an EF5 sweeps anchor-built homes off their foundations, never mind the people inside them, they're said to be taken "aloft," high into the sky. A grand dying indeed, to become weightless in the roaring air. I think anyone who pictures that believes, on some level, that those people taken aloft will never hit the ground again. They might, in fact, not, at least not all in one retrievable piece, since deaths tend to occur through impaling or dismemberment by other flying debris midair. Still, romantic. The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in US history, is so named because it went all the way from Missouri to Indiana but spent most of it's time crossing through Illinois to get there. As a young Illinoian child, I took this to mean that my state was cursed, and by extension, so was I. It happened nearly 40 years before Doppler radar was widely used to forecast the weather, nearly 50 before the Fujita scale was instated. Back in 1925, I don't know what one would have thought upon seeing a wall of cloud and wind a mile wide stripping the very soil from the ground on its way toward you, save that it was armageddon at last. The world erased before your eyes, and the outer wall of your house blown out so you can bear full witness. That's what I'd call an extinction burst.

I once knew a family with dogs that would fetch pillows for guests who came through the door. They used to bark instead, but instead of being trained to simply not make noise, they were trained to do something else. They couldn't, after all, bark with a pillow in their mouths, and they'd be less inclined to anyway, while they were focused on retrieving them. Everyone knows that, given nervous energy, it's much easier to channel it into something else than to try smothering it.

I love dogs better than people, myself included. I know there are no bad dogs. I've been learning to be a storm spotter. If you're registered as one, you can report weather phenomena to your local NOAA office, and those reports are spread through meteorology networks, improving the minute-by-minute forecasting. It's nice, learning just how to spot a wall cloud or report hail size. It's nice, specifically, watching for those things in order to do something rather than to torment myself. I can't not track the weather, I don't think. But I can watch it with purpose. I can hold the clouds nicely between my teeth.

ohh my god ok so i love clangen and the WONDERFUL Nimaereth created a mod that lets you customize and import your own cats into the game and i’m obsessed. i’ve had zero time to draw so i’ve been creating characters from my own personal warrior cats ““worldbuilding”” project (plus my beloved lightningclaw of course).

the folks working on this game are incredibly smart and do all this work for free, and i respect the hell out of them for bringing together such a lovely fan project! definitely show them support if you can!

credits: mod by Nimaereth (linked above), merle and abyssinian coat patterns by MagiBaxter, extra pelt colors by Eragona (no github link but can provide link to her thread in the discord server), just-some-cat for the original sprites, and ofc the clangen team itself!  if any one of you want me to take this down, just lmk! :)

more about these characters:

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Got any,, ClanGen gimmick/theme ideas?

Could I please have a guide on starting clangen on my PC please?

Sure thing! I'm going to link this in my pinned post too bec I get questions abt this a lot!

I'm going to include screenshots, from my computer, so depending on the pc I'm sure it could look a bit different but I'm hoping this helps!

First open this link v

when you open it, it should look something like this v

choose the link that best matches your pc and click it to download! I used the underlined one!

Then once it is downloaded you need to open the zip file v

Inside the file should be a folder labeled Clangen!

You need to move this folder onto your desktop to extract the files (there may be other ways to do this but this is the way I extract the files!)

Once on the desktop/ once the file is extracted, open the file v

scroll down until you see the file labeled Clangen, and open it v

When you open it may bring up this, clangen is not dangerous to your computer, but the computer protections still picks up on it due to some criteria, you need to click on more info to continue! v

you then need to click "run anyway" v

this should run clangen! you can now open clangen through this file!

The clangen file cannot be taken out of the clangen folder or it will not run, so what I do is make a shortcut link, and put that on my desktop instead!

and thats it! you can now play clangen!

soooo i heard that we currently do not have a full collection of pdfs, so hello, im blessing this fandom tonight with a link to my mega folder that has every single warriors book released as of feb 17, 2021... yes, EVERY book, all for you, go hog wild!! 👏👏

Summer Breeze - submitted by @meowstic-seer-of-the-future

#FCC688 #FFF09D #8EDFD8 #8DABDD #9782EB

Everyone pick up your government-assigned fursona, grab your two colors then combine it with this random animal picker. Tell us what you get and no rerolls, I don't make the rules.

the bloodstained lake... audio from the ghost stories dub

soooo i heard that we currently do not have a full collection of pdfs, so hello, im blessing this fandom tonight with a link to my mega folder that has every single warriors book released as of feb 17, 2021... yes, EVERY book, all for you, go hog wild!! 👏👏

Bunch of kitties looking for homes!! This is crossposted on my instagram, but as of now they’re all going for 10 euro each. 1 and 4 remains!

i started making these like months ago and i just finished uhhhh warrior cat oc family trees

Working on updating pretty much all of my characters. Some got very little updated and others got a pretty big redo. Overall I think they’re way more appealing and cohesive, and I’m getting better at drawing tabbies and torties

riverclan name generators!

v1: mistyfall v2: floodfur v3: i can’t pick between the blues, so either wavenose, puddlenose, or mintnose

i’d love to see what names you get!

YOU KNOW WHAT BOTHERS ME

when fantasy books describe the cloth of Quant Farmpeople’s clothing as “homespun” or “rough homespun”

“homespun” as opposed to what??? EVERYTHING WAS SPUN AT HOME

they didn’t have fucking spinning factories, your pseudo-medieval farmwife is lucky if she has a fucking spinning wheel, otherwise she’s spinning every single thread her family wears on a drop spindle NO ONE ELSE WAS DOING THE SPINNING unless you go out of your way to establish a certain baseline of industrialization in your fake medieval fantasy land.

and “rough”??? lol just because it’s farm clothes? bitch cloth was valuable as fuck because of the labor involved ain’t no self-respecting woman gonna waste fiber and ALL THAT FUCKING TIME spinning shitty yarn to weave into shitty cloth she’s gonna make GOOD QUALITY SHIT for her family, and considering that women were doing fiber prep/spinning/weaving for like 80% of their waking time up until very recently in world history, literally every woman has the skills necessary to produce some TERRIFYINGLY GOOD QUALITY THREADS

come to think of it i’ve never read a fantasy novel that talks about textile production at all??? like it’s even worse than the “where are all the farms” problem like where are people getting the cloth if no one’s doing the spinning and weaving??? kmart???

soooo i heard that we currently do not have a full collection of pdfs, so hello, im blessing this fandom tonight with a link to my mega folder that has every single warriors book released as of feb 17, 2021... yes, EVERY book, all for you, go hog wild!! 👏👏

Whats clan legacies? Am i write in guessing that is a wc game? Where can i play it?

oh boy i get to talk about cl more

clan legacies is a fan-made warrior cats dice game.  essentially, you create your own little clan and roll a bunch of dice to see what happens.  you can make your own rules and consequences and junk for each game.

personally, i tend to use a d&d dice system for my game.  i roll a d20 for an event, and some events require me to get out a d4 or d6.

i realize this isn’t really.. explaining? the game?? but there’s so many things to talk about with it that this post is gonna be super duper long, so that’s my simple answer.  rules & junk are under the cut, if you want to know more or play yourself.

Step 1: Create a Clan.

You can create each Clan member individually, or use a generator to get a random bunch.  The members must include 1 leader, 1 deputy, 1 healer, 1 healer app, 5-15 warriors, 2-6 apprentices, 0-3 queens, 0-4 kits for each queen, and 0-3 elders.  Make a list resembling an allegiance to keep track of your Clan.

Step 2: Create a Doc.

A document helps keep track of the events that happen.  Try to include most of the following for each cat: age, gender, rank, appearance, apprentice/mentor, mate/crush, parents/siblings, and kits.

Step 3: Keep up to date.

I like to check in on my Clans at least once a day, so I generally have one day = one moon.

Mates/Kits

If you want to make a couple, generate a number.  If even, then you can pick two cats to become mates.  If odd, you must wait until tomorrow to try again.

If you want a pair of mates to have kits, generate a number.  If even, the she-cat is pregnant.  If odd, you must wait until tomorrow to try again.

New Cats

When the number of cats in your Clan drops below 10, you can generate a number every 7 days to see if any outsiders join.  Odd means now, even means yes.  If you get an even number, roll a d6 to see how many cats will join.

Misc. Info

Kits take 3 - 4 moons to be born from when you’re first expecting.

Kits are 0 - 5 moons.

Apps are 6 - 14 moons, based on a number roll.  Once they’re 11 moons old, you can start rolling to see if they’ll have their warrior ceremony.  An even roll means yes, an odd role means to try again tomorrow.  They automatically earn their warrior name at 14 moons old.

Healer apps are 6 - 15 moons.  Once they’re 15 moons old, you can start rolling to see if they’ll have their healer ceremony.  An even roll means yes, an odd role means to try again tomorrow.  They automatically earn their full name at 20 moons old.

Warriors are 12 - 149 moons (some become warriors sooner than others).

Elders are 150 - 200 moons.  At 200 moons old, start rolling.  If even, they live for another day.  If odd, they die of old age.

Leaders and deputies are considered warriors.

Crushes and mates are decided by you.

1 - A predator attacks your camp!  Roll a die- if  the number is odd, then someone dies (roll to see who).  If even, then everyone is safe.

2 - New arrivals!  Cat/s from outside the Clan are interested in joining.  Roll a d4 to see how many!

3 - Twolegs!  Roll a die- if  the number is odd, a cat is taken (roll to see who).  If even, then everyone is safe.

4 - Love is in the air! Roll to see who the new couple is!

5 - Sickness!  Roll a d6 to see how many cats get sick, then roll a die- if  the number is odd, half the cats die.  If even, then everyone survives!

6 - Rescue mission!  Generate a number depending on how many cats have gone missing in the past 3 moons.  The resulting number is how many cats manage to find their way home.

7 - A rogue kills a cat.  Generate a number!  If it’s between 1 and 4, you’ve lost a kit, between 5 and 30, it’s an apprentice, 31-90, you’ve lost a warrior/deputy/leader life, and 91-100, you’ve lost an elder.

8 - Where’d these kits come from?  Roll a d6 to see how many kits were found during a patrol.

9 - Flood!  Roll a die.  If it’s odd, 2 - 5 cats die (roll to see who and how many).  If it’s even, then everyone survives!

10 - Their training is going great!  Roll to see how many apprentices get to become warriors early.

11 - Prey shortage!  Roll a number.  If odd, 2 - 5 cats die (roll to see who and how many).  If even, then everyone survives! 

12 - What promising kits!  Roll to see how many kits get to become apprentices early.

13 - Enemy Clan attack!  Roll a number between 1 and 9.  That amount of cats will die.

14 - Kits on the way!  Roll to see how many she-cats are pregnant.

15 - A warrior dies of an unknown cause.  Generate a number between 1 and the total amount of warriors in your Clan.  The cat corresponding to the resulting number dies.

16 - What a peaceful day!  No events happen.

17 - A whole patrol goes missing!  Generate four numbers.  The cats corresponding to those numbers are gone.

18 - A gift from StarClan!  For the next two days, the number of lives lost is cut in half.

19 - Accident at the river!  Generate a number between 1 and the total amount of warriors and apprentices in your Clan.  The cat corresponding to the resulting number dies.

20 - Surprise kits!  Pick one of your queens and roll a d4 to see how many kits she has.

VIDEO ESSAYS 5 (4 / 3.2 / 3.1 / 2 / 1)

how to tell a joke (and how stephen chow does it)

the side of scorsese we don't talk about

sing makes me sick

how kingsman pulled off the craziest fight scene in history

the spongehedge theory

how phineas and ferb did the "impossible"

why shark tale is a cinematic disaster

why elsa is a terribly written character

why ralph breaks the internet is a cinematic disaster

why neo noir is important

the ideology of the first order

disney's gay cultural appropriation 1 / disney's gay cultural appropriation 2

why do good directors turn bad?

movie titles: why they matter

color films was built for white people

a love letter to pop punk

the death of melody?

the lost art of album rollouts

it's okay if you're not number 1

the club 27: mental illness and art

the power of album covers

trainwreckords: "passage" by the carpenters

p!nk's 'woman-bashing' anthem

the band everyone thought was the beatles

what is the house of the rising sun?

horror books have lost their identity

the art of sci-fi book covers

why you can't stay organized

art, fashion & the french revolution

how to understand a picasso

carravagio: master of light

when the world became a de chirico painting

why america doesn't watch formula 1

i taught an ai to solve the trolley problem

nas daily - the tale of a narcissistic scumbag

what is the purpose of true crime?

delivery apps screw over everyone

originality is dead and im dacing on it's grave

objectively bad art

we created 'that girl'

what gordon parks saw

im terrified of getting old

lgbt+ and homophobia in the k-pop industry

ben shapiro and the tragedy of political commentary

influencer talk shows aren't working

the john mulaney story got even worse somehow

the over saturation of video essays

the dollhouse of death that changed forensic science