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Post by Basement Cat on Jul 24, 2017 11:07:02 GMT -5
This was spurred from Bramia's excellent post on tumblr about how cringe culture in Warriors is stupid. (Oh yes Bramia, this is a callout post - I'm calling u out, u deserve recognition <3).
And so, I would like to take a moment to talk about things you love about the fandom. Sure, we say this fandom is awful and terrible, but if that's the case, why do we still stay?
Bear with me. It's going to get sappy and overly-emotional and god I'm already regurgitating friendship rainbows.
What I love most about the fandom is its sheer creativity. This fandom inspired me to think outside the box and come up with my own thoughts and ideas, which have been challenged and countered. So I had to learn how to think critically and cover my bases while learning more about how to be more tactful, sociable, and ingenuitive. So all this creativity I see is inspiring, and makes me want to give my best thoughts so I can hopefully inspire people myself.
So, what is it that you love about this fandom?
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Post by Moonblazer on Jul 24, 2017 12:00:22 GMT -5
The art and animations. Oh god, such talented people. Also, the sheer dedication to the moments in the books that some people have and their good memories. How in depth we can make characters that we first see as background or shallow in personality. This fandom is great with rping, and I've made great friends too.
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Post by Amber on Jul 24, 2017 13:30:43 GMT -5
The art and animations are always great.
I also really love roleplays and fanfictions. You can tell people put their heart and soul into them and just have all around fun roleplaying and writing. For roleplay, people create characters they become attached to and develop as they RP. As for fanfiction, some that take place away from the normal Clans have such a creative world and ideas. Others that involve Thunder, Shadow, River, Wind and maybe Sky Clans are creative and may add something new or interesting to what we already know of their world. AUs are always fun and I've seen a few rewrites here and there which were fun to read.
When fans make the cats genetically accurate. As someone who is interested in either being a vet or geneticist when I'm older, I always find it cool when people do that sort of thing. They also turn out really interesting and recognizable
Despite what some people think of the fandom, there are actually many friendly and nice people. I have made many friends through Warriors and will talk with them about the books. Meanwhile, I have talked to others that I don't know as well about the books and we have become friends from it.
I really love reading about people's headcanons. It's always fun to see what people have come up with or have ideas about. Whether it's about family trees or traditions, I just really like hearing about them. Same with AUs, I really like to read what people believe could change and see what they do with their AU.
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Post by wadevvilson on Jul 24, 2017 16:04:36 GMT -5
I like seeing what ideas everyone comes up with. Yeah, it's not entirely an original work because you're basing it in someone else's sandbox, but the things that people write out and draw are still cool.
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Post by 𝕡𝕖𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕥 on Jul 24, 2017 17:16:16 GMT -5
All of the fanwork generated by this fandom, even so-called "cringy" works, are so inspirational to aspiring young artists. In fac, this fandom is the one that helped me discover my passion for writing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 6:22:52 GMT -5
☁︎ out of character ☁︎ pretty neat art
☁︎ roleplay ☁︎
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Genderfluid
gannetstorm
Lost in the light, I don't know what night it is
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Post by gannetstorm on Jul 25, 2017 6:29:08 GMT -5
The headcanons and the fanart and just the sheer amount of effort that goes into the fandoms worldbuilding ideas?
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Post by Tas on Jul 25, 2017 9:33:12 GMT -5
This forum.
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Post by Jei-Dinofelini on Jul 25, 2017 16:44:33 GMT -5
Here is my 2 cents: The art (illustration and animation) are the best part. Seeing them really is inspiring and we'll.. just makes you do the same and keep reading the series. Many times it was the fan art which helped me go through many art blocks I had in the past.
Fanfic play a great road for me too in the fantom. I love reading about what other people come up with. Their ideas of the story of this or that character. I have spend in all many months reading thousands of fanfics.
The only thing which I am not a fan of is how sensitive some fans are. You disagree with them or you like this character instead of the other, flame war starts... at least from my experience... i also seem to see quite a lot of hate between others on YouTube especially on some videos which rather saddens me... but aren't haters everywhere? Nobody is perfect I get it. Everyone has their own opinion. That is OK.
In general Warriors fantom is great. I enjoy being part of it as an artist (illustration only as animation... well I haven't got the patience and time for it) I enjoy drawing the characters and seeing that many people like it a lot.
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Post by Jei-Dinofelini on Jul 25, 2017 16:45:51 GMT -5
Ugh.. excuse my weird autocorrect typos... It makes up weird words...
I hope it's understandable what I have said.
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me
Why did I name Me ?
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Post by me on Jul 27, 2017 14:55:00 GMT -5
I love their fanfics , art and animations !They have an amazing creativity <333
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Post by Rainstorm1026 on Jul 29, 2017 16:32:15 GMT -5
I love the potential for creating new cats and whole new clans and other cool stuff like that :3 WingClan, WolfClan, etc. :3
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Post by indecisive on Jul 29, 2017 16:38:59 GMT -5
The artwork, definitely. I no longer consider myself "in the fandom" because I've lost all interest in the books and haven't touched one in three years. But I still like to watch the animations and MAPs on YouTube; there are some seriously talented animators in this fanbase.
And, alright, I'll admit it, when I was involved in Fan Clans, the roleplays were pretty good too. Every now and then you'd really find a gem.
I guess I just really appreciate the creativity in fandom, but that's about it. Everything else I lowkey despise. The only reason I'm on this forum now is for OTRP, the Art Forum and OTD.
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