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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Jul 18, 2020 18:09:02 GMT -5
was looking through warriors fan art recently and thought of how weird it was that people draw squirrelflight so small when she's not even described as small. the real cat who is ACTUALLY described as small in canon is leafpool...squirrelflight isnt small at all and it bugs me whenever i see fan art of her size being so exaggerated compared to everyone else.
what are other fandom misconceptions that you see?
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Post by Emberstar 🔥 on Jul 18, 2020 18:12:29 GMT -5
Tigerstar doesn't really look like Bramblestar in a lot of fan art. Remember that in TPB the Erins described them to be almost identical.
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Jul 18, 2020 18:19:09 GMT -5
Tigerstar doesn't really look like Bramblestar in a lot of fan art. Remember that in TPB the Erins described them to be almost identical. an easy way to tell them apart is tigerstar's V scar in one ear and the scar across his nose bridge.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 18:23:41 GMT -5
Some fan art misconceptions I don't like very much, like brown tabby Alderheart, but some I prefer to their canon designs like dilute tortie Bristlefrost, not only does that make her genetically correct, but it also gives us a rare dilute tortie in the series instead of the 800th grey cat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 18:51:54 GMT -5
Munchkin Squirrelflight Longtail/Bumblestripe being this weird cream colour with black stripes.
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Jul 18, 2020 18:54:47 GMT -5
Munchkin Squirrelflight Longtail/Bumblestripe being this weird cream colour with black stripes. munchkin squirrelflight bothers me the most lol and idk about bumblestripe (he's just gray with blakc stripes i guess), but longtail in fan art is really weird...? yellow with weird stripes is what i see often
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Post by Brindlefern on Jul 18, 2020 20:20:10 GMT -5
I thought it was already said in another seperate thread on this exact same topic that short small munchkin Squirrelflight was a HEADCANON, not an misinterpretation. I don't "misinterpret" Squirrel as short and small nowadays, I just like seeing her that way and lots of others do too. We know she isn't short and tiny and we know Leafpool isn't chubby in canon. That's the point. A Headcanon =///= misinterpretation. Because that's like saying making Firestar small compared to the clan cats is a misinterpretation when that's obviously headcanon. :/
Misinterpretations are things like thinking a character's pelt color wrong compared to canon (*Looks at Littlecloud for instance who I thought the entire time was a grey-brown color instead of a dense brown*) or believing the entire time that Bluestar was short-furred.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 18, 2020 20:24:15 GMT -5
not a misconception but that old fad of drawing leaders with stars on their forehead always rubbed me the wrong way
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Jul 18, 2020 20:25:20 GMT -5
not a misconception but that old fad of drawing leaders with stars on their forehead always rubbed me the wrong way oh man that was a huge trend in the 2000's lol
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Post by barley on Jul 18, 2020 20:37:56 GMT -5
clear sky with white splotches, when he's pale gray in canon. it always felt weird to me because he's named after a clear sky, not a cloudy one.
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Post by *Ottersplash* on Jul 18, 2020 21:33:43 GMT -5
clear sky with white splotches, when he's pale gray in canon. it always felt weird to me because he's named after a clear sky, not a cloudy one. That one came purely from Nifty-senpai design, I believe I feel like that gets done because otherwise all the plain cats would be hard to differentiate
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Post by Brindlefern on Jul 18, 2020 21:38:25 GMT -5
clear sky with white splotches, when he's pale gray in canon. it always felt weird to me because he's named after a clear sky, not a cloudy one. That one came purely from Nifty-senpai design, I believe I feel like that gets done because otherwise all the plain cats would be hard to differentiateYeah it's pretty much a conscious choice more than likely a misintrpretation. The series has so many purely plain grey cats that if you DIDN'T do anything to differentiate them whatsoever they would literally all blend together, especially if you're not an artist with a wildly distinctive art style to make characters look different (Like Beffalumps for instance, not everyone can make wildly different toony silhouettes like hers to tell characters apart, some folks (Like me for instance) need designs to do that). With Skystar, you have the issue of him looking like Cloudstar but... that's about it really.
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Post by *Ottersplash* on Jul 18, 2020 21:45:57 GMT -5
That one came purely from Nifty-senpai design, I believe I feel like that gets done because otherwise all the plain cats would be hard to differentiateYeah it's pretty much a conscious choice more than likely a misintrpretation. The series has so many purely plain grey cats that if you DIDN'T do anything to differentiate them whatsoever they would literally all blend together, especially if you're not an artist with a wildly distinctive art style to make characters look different (Like Beffalumps for instance, not everyone can make wildly different toony silhouettes like hers to tell characters apart, some folks (Like me for instance) need designs to do that). With Skystar, you have the issue of him looking like Cloudstar but... that's about it really. I know that's why the Crowfeather family gets quite the variation. Otherwise it's 3 black/gray cats I remember when I first got into the series, Goosefeather and Ashfur looked like twins to me. I don't mind slight variations on character design to make them stand out, though some do bother me (like Bluestar as a snowshoe)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 23:06:23 GMT -5
Ashfur looking like an angsty teenager
DOVEWING'S EYES (hint: they are green)
There's also the fact that I often see Jayfeather drawn as a blue tabby instead of a gray tabby, but I don't really mind because that's kind of how I see him.
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Post by Brindlefern on Jul 18, 2020 23:14:17 GMT -5
really irrelevant detail, but brokenstar is often drawn as solid brown even though he's a tabby in canon. his description in the books is a bit inconsistent, though. Wasn't he described as black at one point too? All these brown tabby toms and for some reason they cannot keep a consistent description for them each book.
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Post by *Ottersplash* on Jul 18, 2020 23:18:32 GMT -5
really irrelevant detail, but brokenstar is often drawn as solid brown even though he's a tabby in canon. his description in the books is a bit inconsistent, though. I also hate how they don't give him a flat face I also hate when people don't give Yellowfang a flat face. They're just defining features. It's even more important for Brokenstar because he's one of 10000 dark brown tabby toms
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 23:41:03 GMT -5
I thought it was already said in another seperate thread on this exact same topic that short small munchkin Squirrelflight was a HEADCANON, not an misinterpretation. I don't "misinterpret" Squirrel as short and small nowadays, I just like seeing her that way and lots of others do too. We know she isn't short and tiny and we know Leafpool isn't chubby in canon. That's the point. A Headcanon =///= misinterpretation. Because that's like saying making Firestar small compared to the clan cats is a misinterpretation when that's obviously headcanon. :/ Misinterpretations are things like thinking a character's pelt color wrong compared to canon ( *Looks at Littlecloud for instance who I thought the entire time was a grey-brown color instead of a dense brown*) or believing the entire time that Bluestar was short-furred. today i learned littlecloud is brown?????????
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 18, 2020 23:53:17 GMT -5
really irrelevant detail, but brokenstar is often drawn as solid brown even though he's a tabby in canon. his description in the books is a bit inconsistent, though. I also hate how they don't give him a flat face I also hate when people don't give Yellowfang a flat face. They're just defining features. It's even more important for Brokenstar because he's one of 10000 dark brown tabby toms to be fair i dont think brokenstar was described as sharing yellowfang's flattened muzzle until YS
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Jul 19, 2020 8:13:11 GMT -5
Cats with too many designs on them that aren't canon.
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Post by Emberstar 🔥 on Jul 19, 2020 8:53:31 GMT -5
Cats with too many designs on them that aren't canon. I know that is the most annoying misconception
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Post by Owl on Jul 19, 2020 11:27:14 GMT -5
really irrelevant detail, but brokenstar is often drawn as solid brown even though he's a tabby in canon. his description in the books is a bit inconsistent, though. Wasn't he described as black at one point too? All these brown tabby toms and for some reason they cannot keep a consistent description for them each book. he was, i think they described him as black a few times. i really don't blame artists for shifting away from canon with brokenstar's design - way too many evil brown tabbies.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Jul 19, 2020 12:02:47 GMT -5
Longtail is often drawn with cream and black stripes because of SSS Warrior Cats, which was a series that was really popular around 2010 that was basically warriors anime. It was one of the first mainstream animated retellings of warrior cats and it was super influential to the community. The trend of drawing Longtail as he is portrayed in the series still persists a LOT today, nearly 10 years later! 🥺 i forgot about SSS Warrior Cats
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Post by Woofzie on Jul 19, 2020 12:50:02 GMT -5
While I don't exactly remember if it was stated in canon, Tigerstar and Bramblestar depicted with thin, short fur always bothered me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 17:23:45 GMT -5
Apprentices being the size of kittens.
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Post by vectoring34 on Jul 25, 2020 18:41:04 GMT -5
I honestly don't care so much about the designs so much as actions. Hollyleaf gets portrayed as cheap slaughter for Hawkfrost far too often, when the fight was more of a Pyrrhic victory with her leaving Hawkfrost heavily weakened thereafter. Scourge suffers this too very often, portrayed as insta-dying when Firestar is revived rather than him quickly shrugging it off and engaging with Firestar a second time.
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Post by shadoww on Jul 25, 2020 19:17:52 GMT -5
Twigbranch being really tall.
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Post by Smokyyy on Jul 25, 2020 19:23:38 GMT -5
Tigerstar doesn't really look like Bramblestar in a lot of fan art. Remember that in TPB the Erins described them to be almost identical. This drives me nuts
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Post by Smokyyy on Jul 25, 2020 19:25:34 GMT -5
For the longest time I always thought Kestrelflight was a light brown tom instead of a gray tom with the white spot/blots.
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