#catlore

[failsquirrel]

breed of cat that is able to glide like a flying squirrel. they tend to be small compared to the average cat with flat tails. they tend to mostly be ticked tabbies and fur on the underside is much lighter than the fur on top. traditionally, they live in tree houses

[the-curse-wizard]

Quick Question: What if a cat Wants to be cursed? Will you curse it then?

Just curious.

-definitely not @fattocatto-wizard

Obvious troll, cats are immune to curses. Because of Bast

[patricia-ariel]

"Catlore and Other Superstitions", coming up soon at @the_inverarity_gallery, is the first show I will be participating under the "House of Mirrors" name. Here's a peak of my contribution for this show, "Deva", inspired on the relationship of the Feminine with the symbolism of the cat. Graphite and ink and paper. . . #patriciaarielart #houseofmirrorsstudio #creatingwithspirit #illustration #drawing #artoninstagram #inkdrawing #graphitedrawing #catlore #catmagic #catart #bastet #sacredfeminine #cats #catgoddess #moon #paganart #paganism https://www.instagram.com/p/CF0V0xxjRz-/?igshid=wufjhbd3qfa4

[tos-fanart]

Star Trek - The Menagerie by Catlore

[failsquirrel]

cats bred to resemble foxes. the high rufousing in abyssinians was added to mink (as well as colorpoint and sepia) and refined to resemble a fox's coat. the foxlike look of oriental longhairs were added in as well, and over many years the breed grew to look very close to a fox with long muzzles, large size and bushy tails.

[failsquirrel]

i based the whole concept of my oc world a lot on this specific roblox warrior cats game i used to play as a kid, back in like 2011-2014 (gonna read more this cause it ended up getting long and no one probably gaf's)

it was a small game and there was a group of regulars including me, who mostly all knew each other. it was bigger at first, but the creator made a new version of their warrior cats game, so a lot of ppl moved there but the regulars were the only ones that stayed so it became very tight knit. there were people that were on a lot and them some people that came on less often but were still known.... we were all young teenagers for the most part so we were really silly about it and there was liek a lore built around the game. hardly anyone was even rping warrior cats anymore it was something else entirely people would just hang out or do whatever weird stories they wanted.

the original idea for cat world came from the fact that everyone in the game (you could create a cat like in the modern warrior cats but the cats were much more basic looking and you could go crazy with the colors) had their own signature cat design they always used, so everyone saw each other as their cat oc. and for the ones of us who used deviantart as well we'd draw each other as those cat ocs, basically fursonas before most of them even knew what that was. so cat world was supposed to be like "what if the people on this sparklecat community ACTUALLY WERE THEIR SPARKLECAT CHARACTERS IRL!!!" which is why each one is based on some sort of internet user archetype or online community, in some way or another. cause like in the game there was the person who was really into anime, the one who really liked youtube poops, the one who was always trolling and playing pranks on people, the edgy mysterious one etc.

so i was likeee i would base the community itself on roblox and have them all have a rare ability go to visit some digital world to hang out and play together but the whole "omg were entering a VIDEO GAME/INTERNET" is a cliche trope and i also wanna flesh out cat world itself more... especially with digital circus so popular now i had the idea before I watched it but now its kinda taken over the whole omg were in an old video game idea. i think right now the most of the characters are magical girls(cats) and are going to like a secret school where they learn magic or just a place where only magical cats know about and normal cats dont and they just live and hang out there. like the cat kingdom in the cat returns if anyone's seen that. idk.... I need to post more of my lore at least for my own reference

[failsquirrel]

some of my ocs were slightly inspired for different internet subcultures. micha the pink cat is the main character of sorts and is just a typical dumb sparklecat type oc, like starkkt from starkits prophecy which idk if anyone else even remembers lol. the cream cat i just posted is 2012 based on deviantart anime fans...fun fact her pins represent stamps/blinkes (she doesn't have a name yet)

[failsquirrel]

i have so much lore for my story ngl i never post it all. basically it's heavily based on the online culture i grew up in being in warrior cats fan groups and other places (sparklecat ocs, 2000s-early 2010s internet culture) and may be a bit esoteric to people who wasn't really a part of it but ill try my best for it to be easier to understand but basically

in an alternate universe 2000s, an earthlike planet that could sustain earth life was discovered. much 2000s era tech was brought there but as years passed and earth tech advanced and aesthetic changed, those on the new planet had been mostly isolated and had developed its own culture. new tech that was brought over such as smartphones were modified to fit what they were used to, for example, flipphones with all of the smartphone capabilities.

genetic technology had gotten better in the 2030s, and a trend of genetically modifying animals (that started from examples you see today such as glow fish) was in a boom. it was found that the methods they used were especially effective on domestic cats. in the process of both scientific experimentation as well as a financial incentive to create designer pets, they were able to create a vast new amount of fur colorings, splice genes to give them small traits of other animals, and make them more intelligent. creatures such as rats and dogs etc. were also experimented on but never reached the level that the cats did. these genetically modified cats were brought to the new planet in an experiment to see how they would function living in a new ecosystem.

as years went on, the human settlement on the planet got smaller as the cats evolved at a rapid rate. eventually over the process of many years humans went extinct there and cats had become as sapient as humans. they took over as the dominant species; forming their own society and inheriting the technology left by humans and living lives much like theirs... (these cats actually don't know about the existence of earth and humans are only seen as a long lost species that some don't even believe really existed)

for now idk what to call it other than Cat World eventually ill come up with something lol. but that's the main setting, the story itself is a whole other thing ill prob post more about it later