twf #ic_appreciation thread

[✦dreamy]

DELAWARE forever saved <3

[DELAWARE]

im still hungry smh

[DELAWARE]

chill 's tidestar ceremony thread made me cry. loved every part of it but here are some personal standouts

“i know that you don’t, my darling. i’ve been with you every moment of your life.”

this was a version of her mother she was unsure of, one who merely watched her and pulled strings of truth from deep within her (unraveling, unraveling, stop it, stop).

how did her mother know about that little secondary voice in the back of her mind (me)

i love everything about the way you use parentheses with tidestar, really well done. and the acknowledgement here! i was NOT expecting that but masterfully done

“i’m scared.” she could barely whisper the words, but if tornwing insisted, that was all she could think to tell him. all she felt.

my heart my girl!!!!!

“you’re miraculous, you know?" tidebreak had always hated the silly compliments from petalblaze, the praises, but now she drank them all in. “you’ve fought so hard and you’ve finally made it to this point. i would never have expected less of you, not with all your endless determination.”

this part made me cry.


and chill, this is for you specifically: really beautifully done. this was so ambitious and impressive and i know you've put so much time and love into it and trust me, it's paid off. you've matched the emotions so well to the pulse of the story that you're telling, and the strength of tidestar's character comes through in every stylistic and narrative choice you made. the back-and-forth between lives, emotions, meanings and even physical action is one such example - even down to her name, intentional or not, of a tide's pull in two directions... there's so much movement in this post, i love it. even the formatting choice just carries you inexorably forward. and the bookends of approaching carefully in night and then running out smiling into dawn!!! just!!!

ill spare everyone and NOT go through line-by-line like i want to but just know in my heart that's the way i read it (twice for that matter)

anyways everyone go read this masterclass of a post that has also done some major heavy lifting in furthering starclan lore like damn