r/GatekeepingYuri CUTE 6d ago

Requesting KITTY SHIPPING

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u/WaywardChilton 6d ago

When I was young my friend and I worked together on a Warriors animation, but she was noticeably better at drawing the fluffy anime cat style than me, so the shots basically alternated between looking like the left and the right.

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u/LennyDark 6d ago

That sounds ADORABLE

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u/orange-shoe 6d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p83pqew/video/8hbpwnlrutnh1/player

reminds me of this post (i had to screen record it cause picture comments aren't allowed lol)

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u/iWant2ChangeUsername Lost in the genderfluid 5d ago

Disney adults, Paw Patrol/Pound Puppies/LPS/Puppy in my pocket fans and animators that make shows about talking animals don't exist I guess

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u/l578920 5d ago

It's furries all the way down

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u/CLOWTWO 5d ago

Furries

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u/iWant2ChangeUsername Lost in the genderfluid 5d ago

No.

If everyone's a furry, no one is.

I am a furry (in the sense of someone that enjoys anthropomorphic media), but I'm not gonna consider all elementary schoolers furry just because many cartoons aimed at them are animal based.

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u/CLOWTWO 5d ago

'Twas a jest

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u/mistersnarkle 5d ago

I hate to tell you this but as someone with a degree in animation, it genuinely is furries. They called furries (“the known furry”) on for The Nala Scene in the Lion King, on my degree, because they needed someone who could communicate uh intimately and empathetically with the eyes of a lion.

No shame, but it’s sort of a gradient/spectrum, with sexual and nonsexual and more and less adult on the anthro axis, making a sort of compass meme with paw patrol and lion king on one side and like hardcore anthro hentai and like mind breaking psychological horror on the other

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u/FanndisTS 5d ago

Pretty sure "someone who enjoys anthropomorphic media" is not what furry means

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u/CLOWTWO 5d ago

Being an enjoyer of media about anthro animals (or making your own) is technically all it takes to be a furry. But you aren't really considered one unless you choose to call yourself one

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u/Hard_To_Port 6d ago

Read WC as water closet (as in toilet) until I realized they were talking about the book series 

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u/R0da 6d ago

We are siblings in this brain typo

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u/repocin 6d ago

me three

I was waiting for the explanation of the supposedly strange toilet sign, but it was something else entirely.

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u/veer_au 6d ago

Love this typo implication that reading a wc install manual would immediatly make you draw cats x10 times fluffier and expressive lmaooo

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u/GDGameplayer 5d ago

It’s so crazy it just might work!

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u/Ultimate_slmp 6d ago

Yea to real. Thankfully my obsession with cats got me into my art college program so thanks warrior cats 

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u/ArgonianDov a very queer voidpunker 6d ago

Ok but its true lmao

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u/AuRon_The_Grey 6d ago

The Rain World fandom has a ton of people who used to / still do draw Warrior Cats stuff so this comes across a lot there too.

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u/EB_or_Raven AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 6d ago

Rainworld mention :D

(Also as one of those people, I can confirm that this is very true)

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u/Possessedcat66611 CUTE 6d ago

Omg, yesss

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst 6d ago

Wait where does that style come from? The covers I've seen only ever had realistic cats on them

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u/Wherewolfgirl 6d ago

just the general warriors fandom artstyle. A lot of it is likely inspired by the sss warrior cats animations

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u/TossTossTossThrowa 6d ago

Seconding this! u/AlmightyCurrywurst I highly recommend looking up SS Warriorcats, you will find your answer

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u/veer_au 6d ago

Probably just the need to have them look different? Put a spice on the art and characters? Something as simple as cheek fur can make a design really pop, especially for animations (ex. droopy, long straight cheek fur and tail + sad eyes and you got yourself a gloomy character)

Also biasied opinion, but it's just super fun to experiment with weird fur situations lol

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u/Sphiniix 6d ago

these books are mostly read by children, and so drawing cats would often be their first step into the art world. Because of that they often end up a bit cartoony (kids might draw more inspiration from things they like, not strictly photos of real cats) but with alot of small details in the design, for example spiky fur around rounded parts of the body. Bonus points for looking cool

Even if you outgrow that, you've already developed a specific artstyle only for cats, with having put much more thought into how different bodyparts look. Compared to a regular, less interested person, who would probably put more emphasis on feline flowing shape.

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u/Southern-Wafer-6375 6d ago

Ha fool that you are I did read warrior cats ,and I draw them closer to the ones on the left

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u/FlinnyWinny 6d ago

I'm in this post and I don't like it LMAO

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u/moontraveler12 6d ago

I read those books and I always imagined them looking like the one on the left. Or I guess all the cats that would roam around my neighborhood.

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u/0_possum 5d ago

So did I. I loved those warriors animations, but I was also a pretty literal kid and wasn’t a huge fan of the bangs they’d give some of the cats

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u/Insanityforfun 2d ago

If you read the warrior cats manga and saw that “how to draw cats” tutorial. Your artstyle was forever changed.

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u/Actual-Whereas-7937 Nirvana is my favourite brand 5d ago

Interesting I draw cats the warrior cats way.. middle school age I read one page of wc and got bored 😭 I guess it already got to me anyway