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Notes on personal style regarding the representation of f...
a year ago
I found a quote from an author's highlight on Sofurry ( https://www.sofurry.com/groups/news.....mp;newsId=2251 ), which eloquently expresses this opinion i've found:
> It does afford us a lot of fun things to play around with when it comes to expression and body language: flicking tails and whisker position in felines, canines with their ears, horses with they way they stamp and pad at the ground... and there's more fun to be had in playing around with senses as well.
I've been PM'd a little while ago by someone who had some genuine advice for me, too. It boiled down to "use more animalistic traits and embrase the non-human in our anthro characters". I was thankful for the intent behind the gesture but i disagreed with the opinion. It set me spinning in a bad way at first (what with me accidentally souring the message thread and running away in a self-preservative silence).
I'd like to offer full disclosure here and say i do none of this and will continue doing none of this (unless money comes into the question). I prefer it when my characters are human or, as i like to call them "humans in weird bodies". One thing people notice when they read my stories is that the werewolves aren't so much werewolves as humans labelled as "werewolves". Sure, the have claws and "hair" (which is the word i use instead of "fur"), but other then that, they're very much written like humans
Every writer, i believe, should have a distinctive voice. And i've found mine. It sits in these cold buisnesslike infomation-giving texts for nonfiction and in my silly little wordplay and easy-reading of my fiction work. And i found that my voice also lies in writing anthropormorphic characters in a very human way.
I much prefer to sit on the boundary between furry and mainstream work, and part of that is my characterisation. I prefer to lean onto surface-level things which hardly matter when we dive deep into the character (yes, double-meaning intended :p). These surface-level things might be derived from the stereotypical representations of the species, but aren't really stressed as much as what i do enjoy; the characters personality and way they express it in dialouge.
To use an example, the werewolves do like to stay up late, but i don't find joy in implementing this little quirk; it just makes sense and presents a little obstacle for the protagonist, not that they aren't a nightbird too. I don't "play around" in this way because it dosen't help me express myself. I prefer to play around with the plot, the words, the characters' dialouge.
So, this is how i write and how i will continue to write, full disclosure. Thanks for reading.
Somewhat related, there's the fact my first entry into the furry fandom was through porn. That has been my only relationship with this fandom for quite some time, and still continues to be; all my stories are primarily NSFW. In fact, i'll go so far as saying that the SFW section of the furry fandom lies in the region that causes me repulsion. Seeing fursuits, particularily, activates a flight-fight response in me for whatever reason.
I am, indeed, a strange person. And i've found that what "furry" erotica now provides to me is a helpful outlet to set my niche desires on a burning boat to valhalla. I'll still set my stories afloat, of course, but the stories i set afloat are getting less unmainstream, and i like that.
_The Lost Birdwatcher_, for example, is a story i decided to toss into the public domain because i no longer felt i wanted to have responsibility for such a thing. There was once a time i liked the fantasies i was writing about in it (like being kidnapped and becoming slave to a king, the as-yet unwritten part 4 harbouring a transformation-through-sex scene). But i've found that i'm finally going back to the more mainstream desires.
So, if i reduce my desires through releasing them in erotica, i will find myself less inclined to write furry porn.
And that, i think, helps explain the cause of all this.
So, TL;DR: I write human porn where some humans are caught in werewolf bodies and i prefer the inner human.
> It does afford us a lot of fun things to play around with when it comes to expression and body language: flicking tails and whisker position in felines, canines with their ears, horses with they way they stamp and pad at the ground... and there's more fun to be had in playing around with senses as well.
I've been PM'd a little while ago by someone who had some genuine advice for me, too. It boiled down to "use more animalistic traits and embrase the non-human in our anthro characters". I was thankful for the intent behind the gesture but i disagreed with the opinion. It set me spinning in a bad way at first (what with me accidentally souring the message thread and running away in a self-preservative silence).
I'd like to offer full disclosure here and say i do none of this and will continue doing none of this (unless money comes into the question). I prefer it when my characters are human or, as i like to call them "humans in weird bodies". One thing people notice when they read my stories is that the werewolves aren't so much werewolves as humans labelled as "werewolves". Sure, the have claws and "hair" (which is the word i use instead of "fur"), but other then that, they're very much written like humans
Every writer, i believe, should have a distinctive voice. And i've found mine. It sits in these cold buisnesslike infomation-giving texts for nonfiction and in my silly little wordplay and easy-reading of my fiction work. And i found that my voice also lies in writing anthropormorphic characters in a very human way.
I much prefer to sit on the boundary between furry and mainstream work, and part of that is my characterisation. I prefer to lean onto surface-level things which hardly matter when we dive deep into the character (yes, double-meaning intended :p). These surface-level things might be derived from the stereotypical representations of the species, but aren't really stressed as much as what i do enjoy; the characters personality and way they express it in dialouge.
To use an example, the werewolves do like to stay up late, but i don't find joy in implementing this little quirk; it just makes sense and presents a little obstacle for the protagonist, not that they aren't a nightbird too. I don't "play around" in this way because it dosen't help me express myself. I prefer to play around with the plot, the words, the characters' dialouge.
So, this is how i write and how i will continue to write, full disclosure. Thanks for reading.
Somewhat related, there's the fact my first entry into the furry fandom was through porn. That has been my only relationship with this fandom for quite some time, and still continues to be; all my stories are primarily NSFW. In fact, i'll go so far as saying that the SFW section of the furry fandom lies in the region that causes me repulsion. Seeing fursuits, particularily, activates a flight-fight response in me for whatever reason.
I am, indeed, a strange person. And i've found that what "furry" erotica now provides to me is a helpful outlet to set my niche desires on a burning boat to valhalla. I'll still set my stories afloat, of course, but the stories i set afloat are getting less unmainstream, and i like that.
_The Lost Birdwatcher_, for example, is a story i decided to toss into the public domain because i no longer felt i wanted to have responsibility for such a thing. There was once a time i liked the fantasies i was writing about in it (like being kidnapped and becoming slave to a king, the as-yet unwritten part 4 harbouring a transformation-through-sex scene). But i've found that i'm finally going back to the more mainstream desires.
So, if i reduce my desires through releasing them in erotica, i will find myself less inclined to write furry porn.
And that, i think, helps explain the cause of all this.
So, TL;DR: I write human porn where some humans are caught in werewolf bodies and i prefer the inner human.
