On Monday 28 December 2009 18:57, jmhcustomart2004 wrote:
> I can agree that the fandom does seem to have attracted a larger-than-usual
> number of oddballs over the past 10 years or so. As Rick stated,
> everything's probably relevant.
That's just it: The relative levels of the fringe groups has been going
_down_, it's just that the total population is getting bigger faster than the
rates are getting smaller.
Yes there are more of them, but only for the same reason Toronto has more
murders than Winnipeg even though Toronto is the safer of the two cities.
> I think some of this recent stuff is why I've been working on changing my
> style and art direction. The fandom used to have a lot of interesting
> sci-fi stories and shit like that.
It still does, I read some of them. Any descent in furry SF is linked to
similar trends in SF generally.
> Now it's nothing but
> video-game-playing-bi-curious-college-roomates-fucking-pokemon-while-having
>-emotional-outbursts bullshit.
That sort of thing has been there all along, just replacing Pokemon with
whatever the currently popular fandom target was.
Sturgeon's law applies to furry works as much as it does anything else. The
reason the old times look better is because you don't remember things
like "Petworks v.s. WildK.A.T.S" or just how bad much of Donna Barr's furry
work was.
> I don't want to be associated with any of
> that crap, and that's why I think I'm changing my work. Guilty by
> association and all that (something I want to avoid).
If you are going to do anthro work, you have three real choices: Do work for
children's cartoons and comics, be linked to the fandom or be a nobody.
Frankly, almost no one outside of furry fandom even knows about the internal
fringes. The attacks that do occur aren't based on "you're linked to those
people who do vore/hypertrophic/plush/cub/whatever" it's "you're a furfag".
Heck, outside of fandom in general, it's "what's a furry?"
> There are still good folks in the fandom, but most of them tend to be the
> old-timers, before all the high-schoolers jumped from the anime bandwagon
> onto the furry flotilla. Look around; you'll find some decent folks who
> aren't nutjobs and still retain a pretty good grip on reality. They just
> tend to stick to the shadows these days and likely aren't as vocal as the
> screaming mimis are.
I think you're spending too much time looking at the guy ranting on the corner
while ignoring the store behind him.
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Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
Received on Tue Dec 29 2009 - 08:27:29 CST