Ok. So I'm going to go on a LOOOONG rant about a topic I feel very passionate about. The Redwall fandom and Warriors fandom. So here goes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many different communities or groups of people I should say on scratch. I'm talking interest wise. These are people that gather together on scratch with the same interests and ideas. They make projects and studios about these topics and fandoms. For example warriors. You can find thousands or even millions of studios and projects about the warriors fandom. People even post maps about ocs related to the warriors fandom or maps with canon characters in them. Every time I go into a map studio I can at least find 5 warriors maps in there somewhere. And warriors is not a bad fandom at all, it's just that sometimes I feel like some fandoms are overly popular. If you asked 10 people if they knew what warrior cats was, 9/10 of them would probably say yes. Some of them may even show an interest in the series or even read it. And on top of that, you can find a warriors map to basically every song on the planet. And sadly, a lot of those songs in the maps contain explicit things. WARRIORS IS A CHILDRENS BOOK SERIES. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE MAKING MAPS ABOUT WARRIORS WITH EXPLICIT LYRICS AND CONTENT IN THEM! It's just not very appropriate in my opinion, especially since kids are probably looking at these maps and seeing their favorite characters lip-syncing bad words... I feel if you don't like warriors some people will get angry at you. I've had it happen to me several times. If you just say "Warriors isn't my favorite book series, but it seems kinda cool!", some people will get outraged and start bad mouthing you because you don't like their favorite fandom. Of course, not all people are like this. A lot of people aren't like this. But, some are. I'm not saying that if you like warriors you're prone to do that. So don't hate me on this. Also, it's really annoying to me when people claim that warriors is a violent young adult book series. IT IS NOT OK?! I hear many people on youtube saying that "Viewer discretion is advised because warriors is a very violent young adult books series.". The rating is 8 plus. 8 PLUS PEOPLE. IT IS NOT A YOUNG ADULT BOOK SERIES. Young adults can read it of course, but it's not intended for them. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think warriors is way to popular. --------------------------------------------------------------------- So about Redwall... There is a very tiny community of Redwall lovers. Many of the rps are dead, and many creators of the projects about it are no longer on scratch. The only active rp is the one that I'm in sadly. It's just really sad that small fandoms like this don't get a chance on scratch and are hardly known about. I just feel that we should give some smaller fanbases a chance to shine instead of warriors and other overly popular fandoms having the spotlight all the time. I know that this isn't really possible, but I just wish that small fandoms like Redwall were more common. The Redwall community and fandom has just died in the past few years. You no longer see posts on the Fandom Wikis, or people talking about it. It just makes me really sad to see a fandom that was so loved die. So I guess that what I'm saying is that there isn't much of a Redwall community on scratch, or anywhere for that much. And if there is, the communities have pretty much died. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ So yeah that basically ends my rant. PLEASE DO NOT HATE ME ON THAT WARRIORS PART UP THERE. That is just my opinion on the whole thing and you are free to have yours. I'm not saying that my opinion is right, I just feel very strongly about it. And Warriors is a great series. I like warriors and even I had some negative opinions on it. So any hate comments will be reported and deleted, and if it gets out of hand I will close the comments so you can vent to me about how I was wrong and how evil my opinion was somewhere else. And again, I love warriors! It's not a bad fandom! This is just my opinion and I'm not saying its right or wrong! And I congratulate you if you got to the end of this Mariel rant. Oh and btw the beautiful art is by moi. Some of my best work actually.
