#sandgorse wc

[would-you-punt-them]

Sandgorse (Warrior Cats)

#would you punt them #into the sun #tumblr poll #wc #warrior cats #warriors #warriors series #sandgorse #wc sandgorse #sandgorse wc

[marmosetpaw]

#warrior cats #wc designs #sandgorse #windclan #starclan #warrior #tunneler #tallstar’s revenge #my least fav wc character no joke

[vickorydickorydock]

Local dirtbag can't figure out why family won't do everything he says when he says it

#warrior cats #warriors #wc sandgorse #tallstar's revenge #tallstar #the gru plan meme fits this dirtbag so well #i almost wrote sandstone #guess who's reading the tallstar's revenge rewrite for the third time #rip tallpaw #still working on that ability to kinda draw cats #vickyskitties #sandgorse #talltail

[dizzybevvie]

Shut up bc im thinking about Tallstar's Revenge and how wide and wondrous Windclan feels bc Talltail desperately wants to be a moor runner but also desperately wants some form of relationship to his dad AT ALL. Im thinking about how confined and restricting Windclan feels after sandgorse's death and how Talltail's jaded attitude completely reshapes everything around him im thinking about how when he finally leaves after its been built up to for AGES he meets Jake which is such a breath of fresh air for both of them until he goes to kill his father's murderer and just... doesnt. Hes told the truth about Sandgorse's death and he doesnt get the revenge he abandoned his home for, but its not triumphant. Hes now at a standstill. Hes still bitter and angry and grieving and the only difference is now he has to turn back without the satisfaction. And he returns home and begs Jake to come with him, but he doesnt, because thats not who he is. Im thinking about how Talltail returns to Windclan and misses it so much, and the air is sweet and the moor is open and wide but he has still lost so much. Hes lost Sandgorse, Jake, the honour he thought he'd bring his father. But hes a warrior, he'll always be a warrior

#tallstars revenge #GODDDDDDDD THINKING ABT TALLSTARS REVENGE AGAIN. #I love the way the territory is warped to Talltail's outlook because GOD Windclan is so small after sandgorse's death #AND HIS INTERNAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN MOOR RUNNING (his passion) AND TUNNELING (his biggest fear but what is father wanted for him) #and god tall's parents are not great :( #Palebird got over her postnatal depression so good for her but shes so horrible to Tall :( #And Sandgorse constantly putting his pride in front of caring for his son #AND SHREW + BARK BEING SUCH GENUINE CHARACTERS UGHHGUHGHHH #Warriors had one (1) good book and it was tallstars revenge FIGHT ME #this is a ramble i made up as i went along so bare with lmao #tallstar warrior cats #tallstar's revenge #talltail #warrior cats #wc #talljake

[yuridovewing]

Family Tree Base Used

Razorverse!Sandstorm family tree ! I made Tallstar's family sadder. Info/Changes under the cut

Sandgorse:

-Largely the same as he is in canon, except he's held accountable for being a bad father. He does not reconcile with Tallstar, not even in StarClan. Like Rainstar(flower), he doubles down on his actions and refuses to apologize. Tallstar's arc is about realizing he’s never going to win his father’s approval and focusing on the cats who care about him.

-Did make him kinda worse though. He's transphobic to Tallstar. Sorry for putting transphobia in the warriors universe but uhhh. I mean my take on this world is allll about how restrictive and harmful the clans can be and how they need to acknowledge that and change so. Bigotry naturally kinda comes with that.

-Pressures both of his children to be tunnelers and puts their dying legacy on their shoulders. Tallpaw develops claustrophobia, only made worse by Sandgorse. Finchpaw does much better at it and becomes his golden child for a bit, but gives her a perfectionist complex.

-Might have his prefix changed to separate him from Sandstorm more

Palebird:

-Largely the same as in canon, except she doesn't have a litter with Woolytail. She does not want more children.

-She still has ppd and trouble connecting to her children. This is made worse by Sandgorse not being a very good mate to her and dismissing her mental health.

-Taking a page out of For Roads Untraveled's book here, her arc is about how the characters around her, including her mate, dismiss her declining mental health and how that affects her relationship with her kids. She loves them, but she struggles to care for them and be around them. Her only real supports are Brackenwing and Woolytail. Sandgorse holds every favor he does for the family over her head, and to get back at him, asks Heatherstar to make her kits moor runners. This causes a lot of strife for everyone involved, especially when Sandgorse dies on bad terms with them all. Palebird spends years being estranged from her kits, but they finally talk it out and reconcile later in life. She dies peacefully in her sleep.

-Dates Woolytail soon after Sandgorse's death cause she realized that they had more chemistry and respect for one another than she ever had with Sandgorse, who pressured her to give up moor running to be a tunneler with him "if she cared about him".

Tallstar:

-Trans male and gay. Sandgorse is not a fan. Too bad for him. Very briefly T4T with Jake but it doesn't last long- Jake is a kittypet at heart.

-Has claustrophobia and PTSD from the cave in that killed his father.

-More... politically neutral than anything throughout his leadership. He's leery of "outsiders" but doesn't inherently dislike them. He genuinely didn't have much of an issue with Mudclaw's more conservative thinking when he appointed him deputy.

-However, he is more friendly to ThunderClan because of their history. He trusted them enough to allow his niece to be nursed there, and later let his nephew join. He was deeply grateful for their help when they rescued WindClan from exile.

-He had a big change of heart in old age, realizing he has more kin outside of his clan at this point than inside, and the journey especially opens his eyes that the clans bonding together would be more beneficial than not. But by then, it was too late- he ended up hurting more cats than saving by making Onewhisker deputy against the latter's true wishes.

-Has a strained relationship with Onestar in StarClan. Onestar is very bitter over what Tallstar did, and Tallstar wishes he went about his decision differently every day and wants to reconcile with him.

-Misses his ThunderClan kin a lot. His sister's death hit him quite hard as she was his last remaining family.

Finchsong:

-Rescued dead kit... only to die later whoops.

-Very stubborn molly, both a good and bad thing depending on the time. She was always taking risks to do what she thought was right- for example, running into a blocked off tunnel to try and convince Heatherstar to bring back tunneling. Or running away with her brother to find their father's murderer.

-As a kit and apprentice, she was much more insecure. She was briefly Sandgorse's golden child, because she was less "cowardly" than her brother and "more willing to embrace her future". AKA, do what Sandgorse wanted, give up her apprenticeship with no lip, and not complain cause she was afraid of his reaction. She actually did like to tunnel, but Sandgorse took all the joy out of it for her. She just stressed and stressed and stressed over whether she was digging the way Sandgorse wanted her to (even if it didn't suit her) or if Sandgorse was in a bad mood or not. Her relationship with Tallpaw is fractured over this briefly, as she sides with her father and starts begging Tallpaw to "just go with it" so he could be accepted too.

-She doesn't say it, but Sandgorse's death was a relief. She was devastated, she was angry that it happened... but she felt like she could breathe. This made her feel horribly guilty- how could she feel better with her father buried in the earth rather than besides her? It's a big motivator for her joining Talltail on his quest, and when she finally speaks about these feelings to Talltail, it pushes the two of them to process their feelings about their father and helps them reconcile in the long run.

-However, she is still left as a massive perfectionist, to the detriment of herself.

-Bisexual. Sandgorse was not a fan of this either.

-Bonded with Smokemask later in life, and felt very comfortable around him. She felt she could mess up in front of him and not beat herself up over it. She originally wasn't going to have kittens, in fear of restarting the cycle she experienced with her family, but felt confident about having them with Smokemask.

-Unfortunately, Smokemask was slain in a border skirmish with ShadowClan before their second litter was born. The stress of this, as well as the cold season and sickness, left Finchsong weakened, and she didn't survive her kitting, along with two of her kittens.

Smokemask:

-OC character, his parents are filler characters intended to help the gene pool a bit. Born shortly after Tall and Finch, he was mostly just casual friends with them before growing very close to Finchsong later in life.

-He didn't have a lot going on. Go boy give us nothing

-Also bi probably

-Was a more calm and chilled out character than anything to contrast with Finchsong's stressed and stubborn character.

-Was close to his son Longtail.

-Unfortunately died before meeting his second litter in a border skirmish.

Longtail:

-Finch and Smoke's firstborn, he was a single-kit litter. He's only about seven moons older than Sandstorm.

-Might have been in the skirmish that killed his dad. Whoops!

-More trans swag, also aro ace.

-Was devastated when his mother died, as he was very close to her. He was a worrywart over his baby sister, to the point where he was allowed to visit her in ThunderClan and build a relationship with her. He spent a lot of time in the nursery because of this and ended up becoming very good with children. (Minus Firepaw oops)

-When Sandkit wanted to stay in ThunderClan, he was torn. Deciding that he wanted his sister to be happy, but not wanting to be apart from her, he left WindClan so that she'd have some kin over there.

-This does become a point of insecurity for him, however. ThunderClan doubts his loyalty and the older warriors constantly question him when they're at conflict with WindClan. This makes it very easy for him to get sucked up into Tigerclaw's friend group, where he adapts their harmful mindset. He decides that to be a true ThunderClan warrior, he and Sandkit have to renounce their WindClan relation and prove himself by protecting ThunderClan from treacherous outsiders.

-This is part of why he's so antagonistic to Firepaw. He lashes out because this is his chance to prove that he's not like those outsiders. Plus, he feels pretty humiliated being on equal standing with a kittypet. At least HE'S clanborn.

-This gets worse when Sandstorm gets close to Fireheart, he doubles down, but after Tigerclaw's exile, he's thrown head first into what his life will be like if he keeps up his xenophobic beliefs. Slowly, but surely, he tries to patch things up with Fireheart and really empathize with him, realizing they're not so different and opening up to him. Xenophobia loss.

-He gets put through the wringer hard. It's canon compliant from here on out til Swiftpaw's death, which he takes extremely hard. Fireheart, despite their terrible past, is a shoulder for him to lean on during this time. At this point, Sandstorm is pregnant, and Longtail decides to put his faith in Fireheart and follow him.

-After Whitestorm's death, Fireheart makes Longtail deputy. He makes for a good deputy for most of the year, but steps down when he's blinded in the first book of TNP (there's a smaller time gap between TPB and TNP)

-Dotes on Sandstorm's descendants pretty hard

Sandstorm:

-Was the only surviving kit in Finchsong's second litter.

-There were no other queens in the nursery when Sandkit was born, so no one could feed her. Thinking fast, Barkface remembered that one of ThunderClan's mollies had had a litter very recently, and said that Sandkit should be taken there to be fed.

-Her foster siblings were Dustkit and Ravenkit. She grew very close to Dustkit in particular. Dust and Raven's parents are unnamed ThunderClan cats that also happen to die pretty early in their lives.

-Bluestar had agreed to give her back to WindClan when she was weaned, but Sandkit cried and cried and clung to her foster mother when the time came. She didn't want to leave the forest, not her mother or Dustkit. Tallstar tried to make her come back... but quickly realized that he would just be making her miserable, thinking back to his brief romance with Jake, where the latter was clearly miserable living as a wild cat full time. Knowing that ThunderClan's numbers had been cut down harshly after their recent plague and that Bluestar was worried about their population, Tallstar agreed to allow Sandkit to be a ThunderClan cat.

-Growing up, however, she definitely felt her clanmates' judgement for not being born in ThunderClan. Even her best friend Dustpaw seemed to agree that while she was a good friend, it made sense that not everyone trusted her for not being born there. Similar to Longtail, her hostility to other clan cats and Firepaw stemmed from this insecurity.

-Loved her older brother a lot and admired him. She was very offended that he lost to Firepaw, which made her resent him even more as an apprentice.

-She was horrified when WindClan was driven out, however.

-When Fireheart, Graystripe, Whitestorm, and Tigerclaw are sent to find WindClan, Sandpaw follows them, outraged that the kittypet was sent to find them instead of her. Fireheart and Graystripe bicker with her, asking why she was bothering with the journey. At first, she refuses to tell them the real reason, embarrassed at what Fireheart may say about her heritage. But when Sandpaw nearly gets hit by a monster on the large thunderpath, Fireheart saves her, hurting himself in the process.

-As he's nursed back to health, Sandpaw stiffly thanks him for saving her. The two of them nearly bicker again, but it actually ends up being a nice enough conversation. Sandpaw finally tells Fireheart about her WindClan family, and how she felt out of place in ThunderClan sometimes because of it. And Fireheart... actually finds a bit of comfort in that, knowing that someone else felt the same pressure he did to prove themself. The two of them realize they have far more in common and Sandpaw gives him a thorough apology for how she treated him when he was an apprentice.

-When they find WindClan, she feels very awkward, but Uncle Tallstar is exceedingly happy to see her. He immediately trusts the ThunderClan patrol because of her presence. The two of them bond throughout the journey back home, Sandpaw feeling encouraged by Fireheart to reach out to her uncle and not renounce a relationship with him entirely.

-Despite running away, Whitestorm encourages Bluestar to make Sandpaw a warrior after the journey.

-There's a pretty big shift in the original five apprentice group dynamic after this. Graystripe pulls away due to his relationship with Silverstream, and Fireheart ends up leaning more on Sandstorm. Sandstorm ends up feeling more comfortable around Fireheart than around Dustpelt, who spends more time parroting Tigerstar these days and making her feel like there are strings attached to their friendship. Fireheart never made her feel like she had to pretend to be someone she wasn't, and she ended up loving his thoughtful and determined nature. Her friendship with Dustpelt implodes when she snaps at him for making a cruel joke about WindClan, and though they reconcile later when Dustpelt gets better, they are never that close ever again.

-She and Fireheart get together in Rising Storm, and their first litter (Squirrelkit/Leafkit) is born in The Darkest Hour. A couple of moons after The Last Hope, Sandstorm has their second litter (Sparkkit/Dandelionkit)

#razorverse #wc rewrite #sandgorse #palebird #tallstar #finchkit #longtail #sandstorm #family tree redux #< might do more of these so this is the tag for that #sorry if some of this is a bit incomprehensible. i've been kinda lightheaded all day

[clanslist]

#Sandgorse #Warrior Cats #WindClan #wc #Tunnelers #Tunneler

[bonefall]

Snowbird Ann here: x_x I have Fennel growing in my front yard. That stuff...it tastes like black licorice and it's stringy like celery. But when it goes dormant, it leaves stalks that would be great building materials. Med cat/builders could get a fresh stalk, soak it in water to make it bendy and shape it into whatever. If I remember I'll go out and snap a picture of the dormant Fennel tomorrow.

Fennel is actually suuuuuuuuper useful for dozens of reasons. It's related to parsley and has been naturalized all over the world because humans find it so useful.

The cats could use it for:

-Funerals This herb can be STINKY. This could absolutely be one of the funeral herbs that elders rub onto the deceased, especially since it's non-toxic.

-Cooking It's full of fiber meaning it can be a good supplement even for cats, if not consumed in excess. It's also got potassium, manganese, calcium... They can't taste sweet but that licorice-y flavor would come across just fine. It's actually used in sausages a lot.

-Alcohol If your Warriors drink responsibly. And know how to distill. Mead made from honey would still be easier but fennel was used for health tonics in the middle ages... and then eventually got used to make absinthe.

-Insect repellent This one's actually huge because the OTHER big bad bug buster is mint... and all mint is toxic to cats. This is a really good non-toxic insect repellent for warriors next to lavender.

-"Toothpaste" Not like, a PASTE but, a sort of... sticky mouthwash poultice. Fennel's actually super good for oral health, eliminates bad breath, and fights plaque buildup; and remember, Our Friends Mint & Co is toxic to cats. You can make it into an oil and help a warrior with a gum problem. It's especially good at fighting streptococcus, which is one of the most common infectious bacteria in wild cats.

-General medicinal purposes Helping clean eye infections is just one medicinal use, fennel is useful for all sorts of ailments. It's anti-inflammatory, it's antibacterial (but not as good as honey), can help with digestion...

Historically it's also been associated with helping to treat colic in babies and estrogen-related issues like menopause and milk production, which is actually NOT proven with modern studies... but I think the idea is just cool enough to hand wave the science away, I would use it just to have an herb for colicky kits. It's weird that colic has never shown up in canonical kits before!

But...

Building use?

Probably not. You've noticed it's stringy-- that's actually where fennel gets its name. Fennel = Foenum = Latin for Hay. It's more like hay in consistency than twine and would be too soft to build with.

For strong material, you're just gonna want plain old wood. Twigs, branches, anywhere you can find fennel you're also going to find bushes or trees that'll make better beams.

For twine? Skip the fennel entirely with its short stalks and just get some tall grass. Or, if you've got long-haired cats, they can make yarn out of shed fur if they collect enough of it. Better yet, if you've got access to flax? Then you're REALLY cooking with fire, that bad boy can be made into fabric, rope, clothing... Don't even get me STARTED on industrial hemp, you could weave reality itself out of that popstar. Paper, clothes, canvas, shampoo, lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's YOURS my friend--

Anyway

TL;DR stick to the herbal uses for fennel. You're better letting dormant fennel re-grow because it's better in the paws of your medcats than your warriors.

#gonna get me monologuing about fennel over here #fennel #fennel uses #Clan Culture #Warrior Cats #Clan Herbs #Medicine cats #BY THE WAY I always tag stuff like this as Clan Culture #Anything I do that's a sort of ''Here's how Warrior Cats could use this thing'' post I tag it as clan culture #I do have other posts like this if you guys ever want references for fanclans #Also this is absolutely why my favorite parts of warriors are always problem solving segments #Yessss Sandgorse talk to me about digging #I want to know about how you shore up the walls of your tunnels and about the benefits of hitting a clay seam #My ideal WC super edition is me being beamed between Brackenfur and Dustpelt as they reinforce the nursery for the 100th time #The rest of the fanbase would be in hell but I would be in heaven #I could ascend to StarClan happy #I would reinforce their nursery up there

[peppermint-moss]

tallstar w/ 257 :)

I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue just thinking about you Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me

And when those blue snowflakes start falling That's when those blue memories start calling - (Blue Christmas, cover by Louie Zong)

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first leafbare without sandgorse...

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#warrior cats #wc #tallstar #talltail #sandgorse #tallstar's revenge #i should re read tallstars revenge its been a long time #also yes those yellow flowers are gorse :> #number music ask #digital #my art #ask #anon #blue christmas

[the-owl-tree]

Thoughts on Tallstar’s Revenge?

i think i've talked about it before but i find tallstar's revenge to be an unsatisfying mess of ideaa. the plot really feels like a train track of just uuhh this needs to happen don't think about why

why does tunneling need to go? to cause conflict! who are the strangers why is windclan so chill with them? because tallstar needs to go elsewhere that's why! why is shadowclan is so weirdly aggressive the entire time??? who gives a fuck, we need conflict! what are they even fighting about? who gives a fuck, the book sure doesn't

sandgorse is a shining example of fathers who can literally abuse their sons throughout a book only to be redeemed at the end as a stand up guy who meant well and literally no one holds as much venom against him as they do similar characters or even characters who don't deserve it.

the book was hyped up on its release, i remember at the time i wasn't sure if i wanted to buy it and the OG forums said yeah it's sooo different and good than the others and it SUCKED ASS!!!! didn't like when i first read it and i still don't!!!!!! jake and tallstar's relationship is hyped up as if they don't know each other for a WEEK then literally fuck off from one another so jake can go make some protag/antag babies. what a romance!

the entire book is devoid of any real thought than The Plot Needs This To Happen. it's bad and it sucks because there's so much potential! literally just gimme a windclan civil war between moor runners and tunnelers, it literally fits so well in tallstar thinking he's united his clan only to cause ANOTHER civil war after he dies.

#warrior cats #wc ask game #deer rambles #sandgorse does not get enough hate btw #shrewclaw or whatever ur name is....idk what ur deal is i cant believe the erins wrote him telling tallpaw to kill himself then went teehee #i thought we were just playing :3c

[wc-wild-rewrite]

Jake meeting sandgorse: I may not have fighting abilities but I’m going to fuck you up! Attacks sandgorse

Lmao yeah, sandgorse has like 30 cats to answer to when he meets jake

#warrior cats #wc #sandgorse #jake #wc jake #tbh i havent read tallstar's book #but i just read sandgorse's wiki page and wow he was kind of a dick huh

[rosemist50]

Crystal and her kits Ferris, Whiskers, and Jake, and one of his mates, Nutmeg. Firestar is Jake and Nutmeg's son, Sandstorm is his mate. Palebird and Sandgorse were mates, they had Finchkit and Tallstar (another of Jake's lovers), and later on Palebird took Woollytail as her mate, and they had Flytail, Rabbitear, Bristlebark, and Wrenflight, who took Stagleap as her mate.

Originally posted on IG July 2021 and September 2022 for Flytail, Rabbitear, and Bristlebark

#warriors #warrior cats #wc designs #canon #kittypet #thunderclan #windclan #crystal wc #nutmeg wc #jake wc #ferris wc #whiskers wc #fireheart #firestar #sandstorm #finchkit #palebird #woollytail #sandgorse #talltail #tallstar #stagleap #wrenflight #rabbitear #flytail #bristlebark

[laserkatz]

New Leaders

Firestar

Tallstar

#warrior cats #wc #firestar #leafkit #leafpool #tallstar #jake #sandgorse #bluestar #doodles #doodle #doodlysketch #wc designs

[yumequeenbr]

195#sandgorse

#warriorscats #wc designs #warriors #wcdesigns #wc art #digital ilustration #tallstar's revenge #sandgorse

[zaneswarriors]

#warrior cats #wc #windclan #warriors designs #sandgorse #scruffy old man

[gigas-warriors-stuff]

Sandgorse

#sandgorse #Warriors #Warrior Cats #wc #wc designs #warrior cats designs #warriors designs #WindClan

[wc-confessions]

I honestly find it quite irritating that (in the past) within the WC fandom-

I heard a lot of people hating Palebird for neglecting Tallstar as a kit, while Palebird was dealing with postpartum depression from giving birth that worser from her grief of losing Finchkit-

While barely hearing a peep about how Sandgorse was $h!tty (and possibly even abusive) towards Tallpaw and hated him, due to Tallpaw becoming a moor runner and NOT wanting to be within the career that Sandgorse expected his son to be in.

Sandgorse cared more about the legacy of his career continuing with Tallpaw, than Tallpaw’s - Sandgorse’s own son’s - wants, preferences, and/or needs about what Tallpaw decides to be in life.

I suppose that there’s slight possibility that was because of the misogyny in some parts of the Warrior Cats fandom that resulted in those parts of the fandom to be more harsher and/or critical towards mothers than fathers within the series, although I probably and/or possibly could be wrong and/or thinking too much about that though.

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#text #anonymous #confession #warrior cats