Not really, I guess (?). My tendency is to take any subculture or group and make it as sick and evil as possible for satiric effect. So far comic book artists, podcasters and TTRPGers have had the same treatment.
I’m having some furry pushback in my DMs so I think they’re a bit irked at me. The D&D guys were never that way…
I’m a writer of anthropomorphic fiction, and that is sometimes incorrectly associated with furry stuff, so I don’t want to people to get the wrong idea about me. Or other people who write that stuff in print and other media.
Any thoughts on Kafka’s animal tales “The Burrow”, “Investigations of a Dog” and “Josephine, or The Mouse Folk”? I’m fascinated by the way they are both anthropomorphic and anti-anthropomorphic at the same time.
His last ever story in fact - but I believe it’s much too enigmatic and ambivalent to be an Aesopian thing. For one thing everyone still argues about its allegorical application if it even has one.
What’s kind of amazing about it is that nearly every sentence contradicts or cancels out the one before it: Josephine is an incredible singer, she’s rather ordinary, her squeaking is just like everyone else’s, it’s absolutely unique and inspiring, so on fo forth.
The man became an adjective for certain types of fictional effects (Kafkaesque) in part for that particularly pointed use of irony few others have come to close to copying.
You obscene cad. I downright snorted when you deemed FurFur a signpost of occult lineage.
Clue’s in the name, right? Where demonology and millennial subcultures meet, there is truth…
Words will never be sufficient to praise these dark works. Deeds must follow if worthiness is to be earned.
Samael, the Severity of God, proclaims it thus.
Words of portent indeed, sufficient as a warning to be heeded by all those who would dare mingle demonogical meddlings with lovely fluffy fur...
Your language choices in this were exquisite. Felt deeply interwoven into the character and world. Great work!
Sincerely wowed by your very kind words, NIck… Thanks so much for the comment!
My God, furrydom is darker than I thought...
Not really, I guess (?). My tendency is to take any subculture or group and make it as sick and evil as possible for satiric effect. So far comic book artists, podcasters and TTRPGers have had the same treatment.
I’m having some furry pushback in my DMs so I think they’re a bit irked at me. The D&D guys were never that way…
Okay, they’re not REALLY that dark. Thank God.
I’m a writer of anthropomorphic fiction, and that is sometimes incorrectly associated with furry stuff, so I don’t want to people to get the wrong idea about me. Or other people who write that stuff in print and other media.
Any thoughts on Kafka’s animal tales “The Burrow”, “Investigations of a Dog” and “Josephine, or The Mouse Folk”? I’m fascinated by the way they are both anthropomorphic and anti-anthropomorphic at the same time.
Kafka was very good at doing Aesopian fables like that- “Josephine” in particular impressed me.
His last ever story in fact - but I believe it’s much too enigmatic and ambivalent to be an Aesopian thing. For one thing everyone still argues about its allegorical application if it even has one.
What’s kind of amazing about it is that nearly every sentence contradicts or cancels out the one before it: Josephine is an incredible singer, she’s rather ordinary, her squeaking is just like everyone else’s, it’s absolutely unique and inspiring, so on fo forth.
The man became an adjective for certain types of fictional effects (Kafkaesque) in part for that particularly pointed use of irony few others have come to close to copying.