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12 months ago
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This is all my opinion and based on observations, of course, but I feel like talking about it.
There was, or maybe still is, a site called www.lionking.org which hosted all sorts of stuff based on The Lion King. It was quite the hub for fan art and fan fiction. I browsed it many times and found much good quality works.
However, thinking back, there was a common...theme? And that was death.
Yeah, a lot of Lion King art and fiction were obsessed with darkness, grimness, and death. I know the movie itself did not shy away from such topics, but come on! This was still a Disney movie for pity's sake!
Tons of anime do this too. As one review of Godannar eloquently said, it's that jarring uneven mix of broad comedy and abject tragedy that plagues many an anime. I've seen it too many times. One minute we're having a blast; the next, I wanna hang myself!
And I see this way too often in furry comics. Beautiful art, realized characters, but...death abounds. Why this obsession with grimness, furry artists?
Now I'm not saying make cutesy happy sunshine and lollipop art ALL the time. My point if there needs to be a balance. Switching from one extreme tone to another is uncomfortable to say the least. Please find the tone you want to set and keep the needle wavering in that general area.
Kratos telling knock-knock jokes and Sonic dealing with the death of Tails don't work for, hopefully, obvious reasons.
By the way, happy December!
- Chris
There was, or maybe still is, a site called www.lionking.org which hosted all sorts of stuff based on The Lion King. It was quite the hub for fan art and fan fiction. I browsed it many times and found much good quality works.
However, thinking back, there was a common...theme? And that was death.
Yeah, a lot of Lion King art and fiction were obsessed with darkness, grimness, and death. I know the movie itself did not shy away from such topics, but come on! This was still a Disney movie for pity's sake!
Tons of anime do this too. As one review of Godannar eloquently said, it's that jarring uneven mix of broad comedy and abject tragedy that plagues many an anime. I've seen it too many times. One minute we're having a blast; the next, I wanna hang myself!
And I see this way too often in furry comics. Beautiful art, realized characters, but...death abounds. Why this obsession with grimness, furry artists?
Now I'm not saying make cutesy happy sunshine and lollipop art ALL the time. My point if there needs to be a balance. Switching from one extreme tone to another is uncomfortable to say the least. Please find the tone you want to set and keep the needle wavering in that general area.
Kratos telling knock-knock jokes and Sonic dealing with the death of Tails don't work for, hopefully, obvious reasons.
By the way, happy December!
- Chris
an anime named Angel Beats finds a decent balance, in my opinion, but it may not be for everyone
That and also people just like to be edgy for the sake of it sometimes.
So I wouldn't say it comes from a "Hatred Not Important Intro Monologue" level of misanthropy, but more of a "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?" kind of place. Wanting to understand life through the lens of furry characters.