#cryptid answers

[whispering-clan]

What were the warrior names of the leaders? 👀

Scorchstar = Scorchghost

Petuniastar = Petuniagleam

Tempeststar = Tempestwhorl

Crestedstar =Crestedfur

Hollowstar = Hollowshiver

Myrtlestar = Myrtleberry

[cryptidclaw]

Opinions on Cattails if you've played it? Not directly WC, but it's WC inspired!

I have not played it, but I want to!! It sounds like a lot of fun!!!

[clowncryptids]

Out of all your kings you have.

Which cubs from them has the weirdest name you feel was given to a pretty lion?

Pretty much all cubs I keep from my kings are named after their parents so nothing weird there but sometimes I find hilarious ones when looking at cubs they have sired in other prides... my favorites are-

"Impulse is a crazy thing" a beautiful eyeless fiery colored lioness

"Dumbass" a gray-blue clouded piebald submale

And a series of lions who are all named with a star wars theme ... I love their owner for that

[the-hawthorns-ocs]

how does your creative process work? i always struggle to have ideas and create worlds that still have cats but are unique with unique roles. any advice?

Ok so the biggest piece of advice I can give is don't get caught up worrying about if your story/world is unique enough! Everyone gets inspiration from somewhere, especially in fandom spaces! Plus with so many of us making silly little cat worlds, our ideas are bound to overlap!

Tbh I think some of the best ways to make your world come across as unique is to take inspo from lots of different sources and just mix them together in your own fun ways! Just think about different things that you like the world building for and make a world building soup out of them!

For the Kinship world I took a lot of inspo from The Guardians of Ga'hoole, I love the owl society in those books, I liked the idea of multiple roles that one could train to become a part of, I liked the more advanced tools, materials and weapons, I liked that the world took place in a post human extinction that is just never explained. I took all of these things and made them my own for the Kinships! I mixed together ideas from Warriors with TGoG and then customized it to fit the vibes and setting/environment of the Kinships!

Also speaking of environment, the setting of your story can really help make your world your own. Coming up with a cool place or just a place that you like a lot can really help in giving you ideas for your world and story! I love Yosemite National Park and California's Pacific Northwest in general so I decided to set the Kinships in a territory that is very similar to that area! Deciding this really helped me come up with more ideas, how would this society interact with the environment? How would they need to adapt to the seasons and world around them? What sorts of things would they eat? Ehat plants could they use for healing? What objects from their territory would they use as names? Idk.. it just really helps get the creativity flowing!

[local-cryptid-2000]

WOAH COOL NEW PROFILE PICTURE O:!!!!

Yeah! Made it myself, 1st time doing digital art!

The quality totally died :( I'm too lazy to fix it tho

[cryptid-paint]

People are giving rook cat allegations like purring and stuff.

Good afternoon Anon, I have heard of the allegations, I don't think Rook isn't even close to beating them tbh, he's just a huge cat man in my very humble opinion lmao

[cryptidhyrst]

assuming i am asking the correct person, I saw a post you made that repeatedly reinforced the point that the tv show Danny phantom was not in the superhero genre. I mean this in the LEAST confrontational way, and i am simply CURIOUS about the reasoning behind your ideas, and i have nothing personally against you. i just want to know about why you said that Danny Phantom wasn't a superhero. i am merely curious, nothing more. I don't agree nor disagree, i just want to know.

I'm sorry if this was weird, or if i got the wrong person.

If i DID get the right person, only answer if you want to, or if it's convenient.

Have a nice day!

I don't think I've made a post about Danny Phantom and how it's not a show that can be classified as belonging to the superhero genre, but I did reblog gilly-moon's post about Danny Phantom redesigns and briefly touched upon the topic there.

I'm always happy to expand on my thoughts, especially when it comes to Danny Phantom! (I hope you're okay with me answering this publicly).

Now to get this out of the way: Danny Phantom isn't a superhero show; nor does it belong to the superhero genre.

"But, Cryptid. Danny fights ghosts. He has powers. He saves Amity Park from calamity and destruction from time to time. Surely that counts for something."

And yes, normally these things would, except, well at its core Danny Phantom just isn't a superhero. But before diving deep into my thoughts about why it isn't, I think we need to establish what exactly makes something/someone a superhero?

I once read a paper that defined a superhero story and a superhero as having four things: a mission, powers, a (secret) identity, and a costume. And Danny Phantom should be all of these things, right? He has the powers, the secret identity that he keeps hidden (unless you're of the rare persuasion that Phantom Planet is canon), he has a costume, and debatedly he has a mission (keep his friends/family/Amity Park safe from ghosts). All of this should make it a superhero show, right? It should be no different from Teen Titans, Miraculous Ladybug, or the numerous Marvel and DC animated shows that exist.

Believing that Danny Phantom is a superhero show is contingent on one thing and one thing alone: whether or not you take Butch Hartman's statements as canon or not.

Now it's no secret past season 1 of the show, that Hartman was remarked as saying that:

[...] the ghosts [in Danny Phantom] are in fact otherworldly monsters and creatures that came from the Ghost Zone, with no connection to human spirits.

He gives this explanation as a way for letting the audience create the backstories for the ghosts that do appear in the show

Which has worked in the favor of Phandom; after all, I can't even count on both hands the number of posts or projects that I've seen that have attempted to give some or all of the ghosts in the show their own backstories. Hell, even my own project gives many of the ghosts their own backstories as well.

Now Hartman's no stranger to modifying or adding onto DP canon as he pleases *coughtenyearslatercough*. Much of what he adds, tends to be rejected by the Phandom for various reasons. And I think that Hartman's evangelical Christian leanings and beliefs tend to bleed through in the way that he approaches the way ghosts exist within the DP universe. (I say this because fringe Christian ideologies tend to be really really fucking weird about paranormal entities such as ghosts).

Now, if you think that what Hartman says about the ghosts in DP being monsters from a different plane of existence. Then you're going to be more inclined to believe that the show fits within the superhero genre. After all the whole plot of: young kid gets electrocuted in parent's machine, gains powers, and fights ghosts fits within that system.

But if you're like me and disregard 100% of what Hartman says and believes that ghosts are well...ghosts (and that death exists within the DP universe, because what are ghosts, if they aren't the remnants of dead people?) then the plot of the show is: young kid gets electrocuted in parent's machine, dies, comes back to life with powers, fights ghosts.

One scenario treats Danny Phantom as a superhero show because the caveat is that ghosts are interdimensional monsters that traverse into Danny's plane of existence to wreak havoc. That would make it a superhero show. The other scenario treats Danny as a cosmic horror nightmare tale that it is, except it's trapped by the limitations of being a kid's animated show.

So yes, while Danny does have nifty powers, a secret identity, a costume and the whole shebang. It just doesn't make him a superhero. He's fighting ghosts (regardless of the fact that Butch Hartman would argue this point); at best this makes him a kid version of a ghostbuster.

Tl;dr: Danny Phantom is a superhero show if you believe Butch Hartman's stance about ghosts being interdimensional monsters. It isn't if you think Butch Hartman tries to skirt around the concept of paranormal entities because he's an evangelical.

Edited to add a closing statement.

[kindasleepycryptid]

when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your followers (positivity is cool)

oooh thank you for the ask!! Ill put what ive been shuffling through today (yes... its a sad day lmao)

Only - NF

Seul au monde - Corneille

Upside - Mothica

Paralyzed - NF

Je vole - Louane

[thatweirdocryptid]

I am going on a quest to find and befriend Misunderstood Beast Sun and there is nothing you can do to change my mind.

Safe travels dear friend! Here!

-gives a fluffy coat and large gaurd dog for protection and sword!-

You don't know what lies in those mountains

[whispering-clan]

For the tempest X blizzard kits! How do you feel about your parents? Do you admire them or think they're cruel? Who are you closest to in your family? Outside of it?

[OoC] I have gotten a ton of questions for the TempestBlizzard kits so imma have them all answer this list of Qs!

How do you feel about your moms?

How do you feel about your siblings? Do you have a favorite?

Are you worried about Tempeststar being hurt?

If you are close to anyone outside your family who are they? (pretty much just for Snow)

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[if there are spelling or grammar mistakes- no there are not]

[OOC] lots of text for this one sorry T-T

Note! I tried to write these answers how I think the characters would answer! which means they can be unreliable! for example in truth Sleet and Hail do deep down know that their family is not all sunshine and rainbows and their parents are kinda fucked up... they just don't want to admit that.

anywaysss I might rb this with a essay about this family later bec I'm obsessed with them assfasfsa

[cryptidclaw]

Here’s all 6 of the Tigerspawn sketches from my ask requests together <3

[clowncryptids]

Shattered Sunstone :((

I knoooo he dieddddd T-T

I need to draw a character design for himb now

Tbh still unsure abt my decision to not keep his look for my new king but oh well can’t go back on it now lol

My new king is even more of a near rl clone tho :3

[the-hawthorns-ocs]

do you have any links to the clangen cat creator? i can’t have discord and was curious if there’s a possibility to do it w/o discord? sorry for bothering i didn’t know where else to ask

I do! Here is the link to the Github; and here is the link to the download page!

[cryptidclaw]

How about Goldenflower and Mapleshade? The dead wives 😔

NO BECAUSE IM OBSESSED WITH THEM

(old ghost woman yuri my beloved)

[cryptidclaw]

Can u draw Dovewing? I really wanna see how you do her

I drew my RoC design and a more canon accurate design <3

[cryptidclaw]

if you're still doing these, can we get some mothwing? I love your art!!

I drew the siblings together <333

These are based on my face designs I did for my RoC Tiger family tree :3