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ꙮ|I hope you have a nice day🔅| I am a strange individual with a paranormal adoration for lagomorphs. 🐇| I long to someday make stories, many of them about various colorful characters 🐉| For now I just do ugly drawings and silly writings 🦜| Aspiring Biologist and animator🦖| |I have a particular taste for many things🐋 👾🎷|A little bit of everything🌸| I speak broken English and fluent Spanish.| 🌌 (Idk how to organize a blog, for now) 🦇🦔🐈‍⬛🐿️🐡🦤🦂🐏🦌🦘🦫🦧🦡🦭 (Not enough animal emojis)

[lepurcinus]

I finally finished this family tree of my Spanish lagomorph OCs, yay!

I decided to redesign a couple of them. I also changed Lilium's name to Martagón because I wanted a less generic name, plus it sounds more fitting. All characters have their names in spanish.

I've been thinking about this idea since 2022, but I haven't done much art of them since then. So this is something.

(I know the final edit is crap, but I got tired of trying to make it better. I also included the drawings on their own so you can review them better).

If you want to ask anything about these characters, feel free. Or not, I don't know lol.

I also want to clarify again that these characters have no connection to Watership Down beyond inspiration. This is a world of its own that I want to be its own thing.

[lepurcinus]

It kind of creeps me out that some people interpret the rabbits’ more artistic behavior as if it were something purely supernatural and “evil” because of what happens in Cowslip’s warren. And in general, I also get that vibe of people going out of their way to make that artistic aspect (and the visions, to a certain extent) seem “creepy.”

We completely overlook the fact that Hyzenthlay at Efrafa also told poetry, and far from being treated with contempt, it’s used to emphasize her sadness.

It’s as if rabbits can create art as a way to find comfort and express their feelings when they find themselves in difficult situations, to cope/vent with it in some way. You know that people have also created art for that very same reasons, right?

And while yes, it is treated as a response to being removed from their “natural state,” the fact that the book tells you the protagonists haven’t acted “normally” either doesn’t mean, in my opinion, that going beyond the standards set by society is inherently bad—especially if that change actually means something good for those who make it...

Maybe it’s partly because they never show us that part in the adaptations.

Not even the graphic novel included the part about the poem.

[tempo-takoyaki]

Bunch of Toph screenshots redraw I made recently because I got back into ATLA and I love Toph so much.

[lepurcinus]

Ever since I saw that video, I haven't stopped thinking about the fact that Pipkin is in the film. But like almost all the other characters, you never really understand why he's there or why he does what he does.

Why does he suddenly start trusting Hazel? Why did Hazel need him specifically to go to the farm?and why does he later have the courage to lure Woundwort?

Add to that the fact that they include him as one of the rabbits complaining to Hazel, which adds to the confusion because then he had no reason to be so loyal to Hazel then. We neither have some "apology" scene to justify that.

I’ve never stopped thinking about how the characters here aren’t really characters—they’re just pawns used to move the plot along, and nothing more.

[lepurcinus]

Being a fan of the miniseries means we embody the concept of “All the world will be your enemy” better than anyone else, because it’s literally impossible to even suggest to someone new that they watch it without some annoying jerk coming along to say, “Um, this adaptation is actually bad—I don’t recommend it.” But ironically, the fact that we’re the least capable of even defending it made me realize that most of the fandom usually speaks only from a subjective standpoint when criticizing adaptations, but they’ll be hypocritical enough to ignore, forgive, or even justify similar changes made in other adaptations (usually the movie, since the TV series is often ignored or dismissed as well) based mostly on it being their favorite—and that’s it. Because if we’re objective, you can take the same magnifying glass they use to analyze the miniseries and pick apart a ton of errors and terrible changes made in the other adaptations. But of course, the movie is the “classic” and is perfect just because it does the basic job of following the story. And the TV series is at least entertaining and is something different, so that doesn’t matter. And suddenly, staying true to the book or thoroughly respecting all the elements it covers is no longer worth mentioning.

This is especially noticeable if you read reviews from people who not only read and analyzed the book but also discuss the other adaptations through the same lens.

I don’t know, I guess it’s just me speaking from my own experiences, but it’s a pattern I see happening all the time.

Even when compared to other book-to-screen fandoms where the movies or series aren’t actually very good, things don’t get as heated as they do here.

I mean, a lot of people hate The Rings of Power for not staying true to The Lord of the Rings, but the criticism I’ve seen isn’t limited to just comparing it to the original work—they also criticize it on its own merits as a standalone piece, saying that it doesn’t even hold up in that regard. And that’s the thing: a lot of people might say that many movies adapted from books are bad as adaptations, but they can still have the decency to critique them as the standalone stories they are—and from there, point out what’s good or bad about them without sounding so whiny, like “They made this character a woman” or “The characters look like hares, even though I’ve probably never seen a hare in my life.”

If the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is bad, it’s because it’s bad—not just only because it screws up the book’s vision. The Wizard of Oz from the 1930s may be a very half-baked adaptation of the book, but it’s still a classic in its own right.

[lepurcinus]

What I'm getting at here isn't so much whether staying true to the original material actually matters (I think it DOES matter, because otherwise you're just creating something else that could have had a different name, but I think it matters more whether you're staying true to understanding what the original work meant and capturing that, rather than how faithful you are to the exact wording).

Rather, if you’re going to trash something for a reason, then don’t be a hypocrite and acknowledge that your favorite can also be criticized for that same reason.

[lepurcinus]

Being a fan of the miniseries means we embody the concept of “All the world will be your enemy” better than anyone else, because it’s literally impossible to even suggest to someone new that they watch it without some annoying jerk coming along to say, “Um, this adaptation is actually bad—I don’t recommend it.” But ironically, the fact that we’re the least capable of even defending it made me realize that most of the fandom usually speaks only from a subjective standpoint when criticizing adaptations, but they’ll be hypocritical enough to ignore, forgive, or even justify similar changes made in other adaptations (usually the movie, since the TV series is often ignored or dismissed as well) based mostly on it being their favorite—and that’s it. Because if we’re objective, you can take the same magnifying glass they use to analyze the miniseries and pick apart a ton of errors and terrible changes made in the other adaptations. But of course, the movie is the “classic” and is perfect just because it does the basic job of following the story. And the TV series is at least entertaining and is something different, so that doesn’t matter. And suddenly, staying true to the book or thoroughly respecting all the elements it covers is no longer worth mentioning.

This is especially noticeable if you read reviews from people who not only read and analyzed the book but also discuss the other adaptations through the same lens.

I don’t know, I guess it’s just me speaking from my own experiences, but it’s a pattern I see happening all the time.

Even when compared to other book-to-screen fandoms where the movies or series aren’t actually very good, things don’t get as heated as they do here.

I mean, a lot of people hate The Rings of Power for not staying true to The Lord of the Rings, but the criticism I’ve seen isn’t limited to just comparing it to the original work—they also criticize it on its own merits as a standalone piece, saying that it doesn’t even hold up in that regard. And that’s the thing: a lot of people might say that many movies adapted from books are bad as adaptations, but they can still have the decency to critique them as the standalone stories they are—and from there, point out what’s good or bad about them without sounding so whiny, like “They made this character a woman” or “The characters look like hares, even though I’ve probably never seen a hare in my life.”

If the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is bad, it’s because it’s bad—not just only because it screws up the book’s vision. The Wizard of Oz from the 1930s may be a very half-baked adaptation of the book, but it’s still a classic in its own right.

[lepurcinus]

When we're laughing at poorly portrayals of Bigwig in the adaptations, but the TV series fan starts to laugh too much:

[lepurcinus]

I don't like when people like to hoard ocs like a lot specially when those are from "adopts" or gifts because at the end of the day they don't do anything with them and it's so frustrating bc some of them are really cool designs and ughhshsh please use them for something instead of keeping dust in a carpet.

Also because I tend to create a lot of characters and don't using them for something put me very anxious like yeah I want 50 text about this guy's life. I'm also frustrated about not working on them rn due my late laziness and sadness rip.

[raine-art-backup]

Reupload from my previous account which was terminated without any given reason

Some more Watership Down OC's, non-specific to various WSD media (meaning these OC's exist in the original book and any adaptations)

First pic is a full Owsla, second pic is a Dutch rabbit doe named Boysenberry

[lepurcinus]

I saw some people conversations about disabled characters in xenofiction stories while I was reading about this and i think it's important

The Blind Lioness Who Was Protected By Her Daughters Lived To An Old Age

An example from nature of family, love, and loyalty

[raine-art-backup]

Reupload from my previous account which was terminated without any given reason

Some random Watership Down 1999 OC's. On the left is Blackavar and his mate Scarlet. On the right is Reed and Cattail (redraws of old ugly art from 2013)

[raine-art-backup]

Reupload from my previous account which was terminated without any given reason

More 1999 Watership Down OC's- fankids for some of the main canon couples. The last image is Campion and Blackberry's daughter Blueberry, who I created much later after Zen, Cobalt, and Nutmeg.

[lujinarchive]

Katara and Sokka

[lepurcinus]

Forever sad that lately the concept of "adult" stories resumes to

>Be corny edgy and be as "irreverent" as you can

>Hazbin Hotel

Yeah I would never expect any adult animal related thing lately.

[lepurcinus]

I reread the character introduction scene again. (Thinking more about this hypothetical “adaptation”).

Buckthorn actually appeared alongside Blackberry and Acorn and Speedwell. Bigwig only took Silver with him.

On the other hand Hazel already knew him and is the one who was happy for his accompaniment.

Well, it does do some good to restructure things. Blackberry, being the smart rabbit that he is I guess he knew about Speedwell, Acorn and Buckthorn's position in the burrow. He also points out that he finds the burrow boring because there are too many males, might take that into this new interaction. He knows there are does in good position but few pale because they are “outskitters”. He actually appreciates their company not just because he likes to “have girls” but as good friends who are also sensible and intelligent as any buck. He finds their situation unfair e including what happens to doe Buckthorn considers the idea of taking her too.

Hazel on the other hand knew “Doe Buckthorn” (Bigwig too, but here he is no longer the one to tell her about it as she is not a member of the Owsla and prefers to talk to them first. Although it could might consider that he could have suggested Buckthorn to Blackberry as well) and just as the original work he knows she is a great potential, here he laments that she will never be a member of the Owsla because of gender rules but knows he doesn't judge her for that, he still sees her as a valuable and useful member like any other, even in preference because he recognizes her good judgment and fighting skills he also recognices that it is unfair that she can't be a part of the Owsla even if she has all the good capabilities of any other Buck.

(i think this also add more to the fact that, was Buckthorn one of the first (if not the first) rabbits to directly refer to Hazel as "Hazel-rah" this add about more about how they appreciate each other's capabilities he was also said to be one of the most "Loyal")

Is this narrative working well? I don't want it to look like some “feminist retelling” where they are getting taller and therefore the rest of the characters pale.

Now I'm thinking about what Acorn's personality would be like, so I'm looking for their interactions. Checking Hawkbit's stuff (this for something else I don't plan to change the sex of him).

Also with this new narrative I'm thinking about how to rewrite the “bucks don't dig” thing, Honeycomb's construction and the rabbits' kind of reasoning about the value of the does and their reason for looking for more of them. (Seriously, I want to get rid once and for all of that pathetic excuse they use to justify not having does prior to Efrafa because “is enough for them”).

[lepurcinus]

Ngl I want to try to rewrite the scene of Blackberry saying Hazel that bucks can dig holes but they don't want to in this new narrative where Acorn, Buckthorn and Speedwell are does.

Because, it can be easy to say "oh it lost the point because with does now they are the ones who will do the task". But the idea Is a about rabbits changing their ways of living, not only because in search of a better way of living if not also because those things wheren't bring up or justified by rabbit's biology per se, it Is because their society make it in that way. The same society that oppresed their lives at first and don't let them achieve better.

In this sense, the idea remains. Because it is not the “duty” or "privilegie" of the female rabbits to do so (especially since none of the three currently have a real reason to dig a burrow for themselves, given that two are still young and none have had or are about to have offspring), nor is it a task that should be forced upon them alone. It is a collaborative effort.

The females are not needed solely because they are mothers or good diggers, but because, like everyone else, they are also rabbits who matter in their own right. And the males must collaborate because such a large and complex task cannot be left to the three females solely because their society has said that this is their role due to their sex. It is not that they cannot do it, or that they do not want to, again. Because even so, everyone needs a burrow to survive, and three rabbits cannot build one for so many on their own.

There is no discrimination based on privilege, role, or gender. Their society is perfect because everyone collaborates with each other, giving their best and supporting each other, because they are all equal in the same Warren.

[lepurcinus]

Forever sad that I don't have any official design for Avens and Speedwell.

But at least I have Buckthorn and Groundsel

[shinelikedew]

We sorta got a Speedwell in the graphic novel concept art:

But it's unfortunate he didn't make it into the finished GN.

[lepurcinus]

I know but

This feels like crumbs because the pic it's neither full quality 😭