#watership down strawberry

[cinder-starlight]

Watership down fandom, settle something for me

I’ve been trying to watch the Netflix adaptation for a while—I’ve only really made it to episode 2 but even then I’ve seen a bit of discussion here and there about strawberry.

Before I continue—really quick: I’m not very word savvy so I just wanna give an FYI that I’d like for this to be a genuine discussion, I’d like to hear other peoples’ takes on the matter especially since there will always be different ways to see things.

Continuing: I don’t have any solid thoughts on Strawberry yet, design wise she is very cute but what absolutely grinds my gears is the fact she is only really there to be a romantic interest between hawkbit, dandelion and bigwig.

I usually don’t have a big problem with love triangles (or squares in this case) and think they can be pretty entertaining but after learning strawberry was male through other variants such as the graphic novel (if I’m correct), book and TV series—which is the majority. It kinda has me confused, why change Strawberry into a doe for the sake of romance?

I’ve seen people argue that strawberry works better as a doe or that strawberry isn’t a male name—which I’m well aware the series doesn’t exactly do female characters much justice since the majority of the story is about bucks. But also Strawberry totally works as a male name! It’s a fruit, by that logic, blackberry should also be a doe.

I still have yet to finish the Netflix miniseries and look into one of the books but Personally: I think it would’ve been nice to see male strawberry in the miniseries, especially to be there to prove the group wrong on their “bucks don’t dig” statements. It would’ve been nice to see a chipper and eager strawberry look to help out with the warren and sort of just be a fresh perspective to them all from his time in cowslip’s warren.

Again this is just my take, but I’m also curious as to what others think or wish could’ve happened.

[augment-techs]

Watership Down graphic novel reaction/icon images: PART I

[saturncoyote]

Started missing drawing rabbits so here’s a bunch of em

[blueylovesssanimating]

THE PLAGUE DOGS!! + some Watership Down doodles!

[dandyreads]

Watership Down memes. As a coping mechanism for what this book did to me

[blimbo-buddy]

Wanted to try drawing some Watership Down characters just to get used to drawing rabbits differently

[blackbirds-song]

Watership Down 1999 + makeupaguy

bonus:

[cyberphuck]

Holly had finally finished speaking, and the other rabbits stared at one another in shocked and horrified silence. "I can't imagine," Hazel began to say. "You can't," Blueberry said gruffly. "I can," said the little mouse. "Like the Station Nightclub Fire." Bigwig peered at him. "The wot?" "Station Nightclub Fire," the mouse said again. "A lot of Men were in a nightclub, and then a fire broke out and they all tried to get away at once, but there weren't enough exits, see, so they all sort of clogged up in the entryway and they was screamin' and screamin' to get out but there weren't no shiftin' em, and they died." "Well. Good riddance," Bigwig said after a pause. "Erm," Hazel said, "what's a nayit-kloob?" The mouse shrugged. "Search me, I got the story off me cousin." Strawberry raised one of his front paws, slowly and a little awkwardly; Hazel recognized it as one of the strange little dances he did, this being the one asking permission to speak. "I know what a nightclub is," said Strawberry. "Of course you fucking do," snarled Bigwig.

[spinnysocks]

wanted to make a (probably final) addition to my reblog

considering the quiz is about to reach 100 TAKERS!

this honestly means so much to me. if you've taken the quiz, thank you! <3

anyways, the results!

as i said before, looks like everyone is hazel lmao

and also strawberry

and a concerning amount of people got hyzenthlay...

i made a watership down personality quiz based on the 2018 miniseries!!

this is one of my favourite shows ever, and it gets so little love and attention compared to the book, tv series and the original movie. i saw there were very little personality quizzes for wd on uquiz, so i decided to analyze some of the characters from the miniseries and create one myself!

all feedback is appreciated and i'd love more people to talk to about watership down and especially the miniseries!!

[willowbirds]

Watership Down part 2: Electric Boogaloo 🐇

Colour/Pattern palettes below

[hazel-jane]

Strawberry

[augment-techs]

Watership Down graphic novel reaction/icon images: PART II

[lavscavv]

interest check !!!!

[ big text: interest check !!!! ]

further info :

strawberry and bigwig will both be presented as trans, please gtfo if u dont like trans people <3

there will be other characters presented as LGBT+ as well !! again gtfo if u dont like

while inspired by the 2018 adaptation, it will be focused on either the book or 1999 series.

dont care how good u r at animating u r welcome to join either way !!!

[end-poem-art]

Been thinking about Watership Down a lot recently, both from a literature perspective and from a xenofiction perspective! It has it's clear biases and flaws but I still love it all the same! Had to draw some of the main crew while they were in my head! In order: Bigwig, Hazel, Fiver, Strawberry, Blueberry, Holly, and Dandelion ! Almost the entire Sandleford crew but not quiet!

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If you like this design it’s up on my Redbubble !

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Berries Bracket !

Round 2 Poll 1

[fantasywatershipdown]

Strawberry and Nildro-hain doodle!! Love these two. Wish Nildro-hain had wayyy more screentime though 😔I think I know why Adams did that but. Still. 💀