#springdancer

seatimeless replied to your post “im salivating with the prospect of designing this rave flyer but i...”

Cairne is obviously extremely dead (ooh Ghost Rave Cairne) but he's sans headress and generally has a good amount of official art with minimal, uh, culturally insensitive gear to draw inspiration from. Excited to see what you end up making :D

lycisca replied to your post “im salivating with the prospect of designing this rave flyer but i...”

What about Hamuul Runetotem!... Or maybe a certain druid friend who may also be a tauren :3

springdancer replied to your post “Maybe you can pick a minor tauren character, or if you feel up to it...”

What about Hamuul? He's the best! He's also pretty recognized between Horde/Alliance!

firstarcanist sent you a message

Saw your post about designing a rave flyer, and maybe lasan skyhorn would work as a Tauren? He’s been decently visible in Legion and BFA, and his most recognizable identifier is Aviash the eagle (rather than a headdress which could potentially be appropriative) who you could also include? He is a highmountain Tauren rather than mainland though Also Ebonhorn, Huln Highmountain (with the spear?) and Mayla Highmountain might be other options for a decently-recognizable tauren character Aponi Brightmane, the sunwalker could be an option too?

mograine sent you a message

re: baine at a rave, i know this wont really solve the recognizability of him, but something cool is changing his (i think they are tails) earrings with those fuzzy string worms. also i think if he were with other lore characters, ppl would be able to gather that he was baine. and maybe (idk the details of what the rave is about) on the poster it could said “join baine & xyz at abc” somewhere to make the message come across that he is baine too.  i dont know if that’s weird or out of place to have on a rave poster but yeah. i dunno

also mayla highmountain is cute

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these are all good ideas!! i think im going to study their designs and see what i can do about portraying them tactfully. i’ve written before too about how a lot of the character design in WoW relies on their armor rather than their facial features; before jaina got her new ‘do, do you think you could recognize her from any of the other blond haired blue eyed human ladies in WoW if she were standalone in plain clothes (or raver clothes)?

it's tough because the tauren are already pretty racist and emblematic of cultural appropriation by being an amalgam of different first nations tribes' aesthetics etc. but i feel like combining anything distinctly first nations (like face paint, headdresses, feathers) with rave gear will just be read as inappropriate, even if it is integral to their designs.