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Bonefall’s Clan Culture Expansions Masterpost

Last update: 4/21/2023

What is this?

I’m making open-source guides that expand on the culture of the warrior cat clans, staying within the capability of cats with human-level intelligence living in Northwestern England. To do this, I research a lot of bushcraft, stone age technology, the flora and fauna of the British Isles, and the effects of different plants on cats.

The regions I model are Clwyd, Cheshire, Manchester, Merseyside, and Lancashire.

Can I use these for my projects?

Yes! I make these guides exactly to help and inspire those looking to make their own warriors projects. I love being @’d so I can see what you create with my stuff.

Yes, it’s still okay to use these if your project is original or diverges very far from WC. These guides are all open source.

Mr. Bonefall, do you use these for YOUR projects?

Yes! I use these for the Better Bones AU, a project that rewrites warrior cats to give the series a conclusive theme, consistent individual politics, and a more fleshed out culture.

You will probably notice references to my AU’s changes in some entries, such as Sorreltail becoming head of ThunderClan’s kitchen patrol, or Birchfall being a co-inventor of Paw Soup!

The List of Running Clan Culture Projects

Clanmew, a Warrior Cats Conlanguage

Warrior Bites, expanded food culture and meal guides

Herb Guides, how to treat and medicate everything from Color Coughs to Epilepsy to HRT.

Cat Customs, miscellaneous entries on folklore, law, and traditions.

Tribe and Beyond, overhauls of the surrounding groups to give them full cultures and specialty powers all their own.

Each section will be sorted into the ‘big posts‘ I’ve made, plus a second list of answered questions and such.

Clanmew

This project is so large it has its own MASTERPOST!

Glyphic writing system

Warrior Bites

BIG BOYS;

The Rules

The Tools

Dried Minnows

Tunnelbuns

Lesser List;

What’s the advantage of cooking, anyway?

Baconization

“Bones did you know you can make flour out of (strange non-grain object)“ I’m sorry to tell you that you can’t.

Paw Soup

Who makes the most soup?

The value of eggs

Why milk, cheese, and butter won’t be in Warrior Bites entries

Dipping sauces

But SkyClan loves to steal a butter snack

The TNP journey and its impacts on diet

Mushrooms.

Grubcakes

The importance of fat supplement in a WindClan diet

3. Herb Guides, how to treat and medicate beyond the color coughs

Hormone Replacement Therapy for Transgender Warriors

Epilepsy (includes non-medicinal treatments)

Hygiene 101

All About Fennel

Treating eye infections

What sorts of physical changes would a trans warrior experience?

Medicinal marijuana. Specifically for a person who wanted a Smokeweed.

On Neurodivergency

Health concerns of hygiene

How to do a deep cleaning

Nightshade poisoning vs Yew poisoning, trivia about TPB

Medicinal maggots

On cat diabetes; why any future Herb Guide on it will closely resemble human diabetes instead of the feline type.

Chronic pain

Gastrointestinal problems

Abortion

The 4 types of Color Cough I use

Chewsticks/toothbrushes

Joint pain

“Skincare routine“ but it’s actually about glossy fur

Funeral herbs

4. Cat Customs

BIG BOYS

Broad guide to how I approach each Clan culturally

Fading Kits

Stashes

Secondary Apprenticeship

Patrolling, Trinary Gender

New jobs and the role of leaders and deputies

Parenting and Honor Siring

Shellfur’s Lake Gathering (In fic style)

The Historical Evolution of the Aftergathering

LeopardClan

Kitten Stealing

Lesser list;

yes the leaders know about aftergatherings

It is not the debauchery fest that some cats think it is

Why Clerics are the only cat who interpret omens

Stash Etiquette

Age

Traps

On currency; I don’t use this but here are suggestions for good coins.

Meewa-ness

A single kit litter with a fading kit

How aware the cats are of humans

Leeches

Building materials

String

Scars and the Forest Four’s reverence of them

Beauty Standards: Ugliness

SkyClan Beauty Standards

Brightheart is the singular most beautiful cat by Forest Four standards now

Makeup

Pearl necklace

SkyClan’s oddness

SkyClan vs ShadowClan sense of humor

SkyClan’s politeness demonstrated with tunnelbuns

A huge dump on killings, maulings, the sharpness of claws, etc

Light pollution

Leather

Harbor Porpoises, the only cetacean they know about

Guy Fawkes Night

Some parables

5. Tribe and Beyond

A Plan for WarriorClan

BloodClan REDUX

BloodClan’s Claw Extenders

(The Tribe has been left out for now because I want to make a new post for them)

And here’s some more stuff I’ve done that’s cool but unorganized because they were done before I was actually running a series.

Beekeeping: The utility of honey and wax

Domestication (insects, goldfish, and the practicality of keeping mice)

Speculative evolution for Clan cats, if you fancy that

WIP Bio survey of ThunderClan

If you like anything I’m running here, feel free to drop me a suggestion or ask me a question!

revisiting some old concepts of mine

you can pay for what you did to me

I gotta script it out but I'd love to make a pmv to hansel by SODIKKEN for blossomfall so have some rough designs

"The Sight" cover redesign concept sketch for a class project! Gonna be making this all shiny and professional looking next!

Bonus: full sketch page of 10 thumbnails below!

I made this art to advertise this Shaker Charm Concept:

Bro I’ve only just heard of your Silverpool AU and I’m already in love with it- Yes! Let Leaf/Silver say “fuck you Starclan”!

I’m curious though- Sorreltail was friends with Leafpool before the Erins forgot- is she also a Silverpool supporter?

Leafpool and Sorreltail grew apart due to Leafpool's work as a medicine cat.

But now, after the whole reveal fiasco, Sorreltail no longer recognizes the cat that is Silverpool. This cat is bitter and quick to bite back, nothing like the Leafpool that she knew before. What did Starclan do to cause such a shift in her former best friend?

Leader marks idea, so instead of like a star/stars or whatelse — what if leaders get characteristics from the cats that gave them their lives? Like a marking, color splash, eye color, scar-like marking ect ect! So like let's take Fire boy, a classic lil man— his lives, in order, he'd get something from them and then a new one form the next cat once he looses the previous life,,

So based on my own designs it's be something like

Lionheart: mustache n beard

Redtail: straight up gets his tail

Silverstream: the red in his eyes go blue

Runningwing: eye markings or mullet

Brindleface: grey freckles and grey gradient

Swiftpaw: death scars in the form of black patches

Yellowfang: underbite!

Spottedleaf: her chest markings

Bluestar: his har gets more of a blue tint (not the fire parts)

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

LEAFPOOL!!!!! MY BLORBO!!! 

this is a redesign, but I barely changed anything, I just redrew her with my improved style, made her proportions even chonkier, and made her stripes more simple!  I LOBE HER SO MUCH U DONT UNDERSTAND

here is her prev. design!

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Leafpool from Warrior Cats. She is standing with her left side facing us, and she has a happy but unsure expression on her face, she is smiling and blushing. She is a short, round, fat, torbie molly. She is mostly brown with dull orange on the right half of her face, on a round patch on her back, a spot on her leg and from the middle of her tail to the end. She has white from between her eyebrows, around her eyes, and down her cheeks, and she has freckles across her cheeks as well. Her eyes are orange, and her nose and inner ears are light pink. She has a yellow flower and two green leaves behind her ears as well as two leaves at her tail base and pale blue purple and pink flowers on her flank./End ID]

Info about her in my au! I warn you, it is very long v

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