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People obsessing over "original characters" /rant
13 years ago
I'm getting super tired of people saying stuff like I have an "overly simplified character" or "you're so original" (sarcasm) or "your character is boring"and the other elitist type responses to people who have this notion they have "original characters to try to make their character seem better than others.
No I don't care if your character has 17 colors, Crazy wings and two tails. I honestly don't give a fuck.
I developed my character way before I even knew about complicated character design. Jhusky isn't this person I aspire to be. He isn't something I wish I could be and stay awake at night sobbing over the fact I'm not a 7 foot tall muscular winged wolffuskynnycockgon. He's an extension of me. If I was "jhusky" I would act the same, I'd walk the same (well except for digitgrade xD ) and I'd be the same person. inside and out. I wouldn't live some crazy life where I have some high powered job through space or some nonsense people come up with now. I'd be me, living the same life I have now.. just with fur. I worry more about how if I was a husky.. my fingers would be too big or now have enough to play my clarinet. Which is basically one of my biggest fears than worrying about how much my life would be "tremendously better."
If furry was "Real" No one would be like that. We'd probably all look the same and have natural type colors. I mean evolution and genetics wouldn't let us be bright blue or pink or some shit, because we would have died out way before we got anywhere near where we got to today. I mean it's hard to sneak up to hunt something if you're neon pink....
But aside from that whole issue I don't want to go into further. People have this notion that I'm boring because I'm just a blue and white husky.. nothing else. But in my opinion I'm much more "original" than half these people. By aspiring to be so much different than everyone else, I think it makes them even more boring or unoriginal. People obsess so much over the Markings and the crazy lines it makes the characters overdeveloped and strange and by a purely aesthetics standpoint it's unappealing. es some of the characters look cool, most of the developed characters are blegh. adding shit just to add shit isn't cool. developing a character just to make yourself standout just makes you an attention whore. The same reason that dumbass kid in high school wore Neon pants and painted shoes.. or rainbow arm warmers, or those freaky as fuck contacts that make your eyes like cats. Seriously? No. That should not exist.
A lot of people say that if they were their fursona, they'd be more confident with themselves. Hell I'm not in the best shape or look the best, and I'm totally cool with that, because that's just how it works and how I am. I suppose aesthetically my fursona would look better than me, and by a little be in better shape than me, People need to stop using their fursona's as excuses to not be confident with people or themselves, If you really have that much of a problem with your confidence...
Do. Something. About. It.
And what does that even mean "less original" "boring" What makes your character SO much better than mine that I'm just two colors. Hell by a certain standpoint I AM original. I'm so "unoriginal" that I'm original. I mean of course.. there's tons of blue huskies, but They usually have different color hair.. or some type of tattoo or something that sets them apart, and my character being so "unoriginal" this extremely ironically makes me more original, my stereotypical simple design sets me apart from everyone else. I find this extremely amusing
The other standpoint is that some people want others to "recognize" their character. they want everyone to know it's them in art before they see the tag. Why does that even matter?
I would rather be known how I am in person, how awesome I am to hang out with and how I put myself up in real life than people saying I have "nice" art or a "cool character" I have enough standings in real life that people will remember me, they remember who I am through meeting me at cons and at meets. If people think I'm cool to hang with, that means so much more than if they admire or fap to my art. That's why I love my real friends, they don't know about furry, they don't admire me for my character, in fact they'd probably think I'm weird, and that's hwy I love keeping it seperate, because they just think I'm a cool person and it's hella nice to hang out with non-furs once and a while, You people give me such a HEADACHE sometimes :P
I am Jhusky and Jhusky is me, I'm simple, I know it and I'm proud because my simplicity means I'm free to be anyone I wish and not tied down by an online character people expect me to be when they meet me in real life. I designed him based off myself and what ***I*** wanted. So telling me my character is "lame" or "boring" just makes you look like a self absorbed elitist.. and believe me.. I'm a musician, I'm around enough of those people in real life to deal with it online.
Wanting to better yourself is one thing, But do that from the inside.. not the out.
/rant
No I don't care if your character has 17 colors, Crazy wings and two tails. I honestly don't give a fuck.
I developed my character way before I even knew about complicated character design. Jhusky isn't this person I aspire to be. He isn't something I wish I could be and stay awake at night sobbing over the fact I'm not a 7 foot tall muscular winged wolffuskynnycockgon. He's an extension of me. If I was "jhusky" I would act the same, I'd walk the same (well except for digitgrade xD ) and I'd be the same person. inside and out. I wouldn't live some crazy life where I have some high powered job through space or some nonsense people come up with now. I'd be me, living the same life I have now.. just with fur. I worry more about how if I was a husky.. my fingers would be too big or now have enough to play my clarinet. Which is basically one of my biggest fears than worrying about how much my life would be "tremendously better."
If furry was "Real" No one would be like that. We'd probably all look the same and have natural type colors. I mean evolution and genetics wouldn't let us be bright blue or pink or some shit, because we would have died out way before we got anywhere near where we got to today. I mean it's hard to sneak up to hunt something if you're neon pink....
But aside from that whole issue I don't want to go into further. People have this notion that I'm boring because I'm just a blue and white husky.. nothing else. But in my opinion I'm much more "original" than half these people. By aspiring to be so much different than everyone else, I think it makes them even more boring or unoriginal. People obsess so much over the Markings and the crazy lines it makes the characters overdeveloped and strange and by a purely aesthetics standpoint it's unappealing. es some of the characters look cool, most of the developed characters are blegh. adding shit just to add shit isn't cool. developing a character just to make yourself standout just makes you an attention whore. The same reason that dumbass kid in high school wore Neon pants and painted shoes.. or rainbow arm warmers, or those freaky as fuck contacts that make your eyes like cats. Seriously? No. That should not exist.
A lot of people say that if they were their fursona, they'd be more confident with themselves. Hell I'm not in the best shape or look the best, and I'm totally cool with that, because that's just how it works and how I am. I suppose aesthetically my fursona would look better than me, and by a little be in better shape than me, People need to stop using their fursona's as excuses to not be confident with people or themselves, If you really have that much of a problem with your confidence...
Do. Something. About. It.
And what does that even mean "less original" "boring" What makes your character SO much better than mine that I'm just two colors. Hell by a certain standpoint I AM original. I'm so "unoriginal" that I'm original. I mean of course.. there's tons of blue huskies, but They usually have different color hair.. or some type of tattoo or something that sets them apart, and my character being so "unoriginal" this extremely ironically makes me more original, my stereotypical simple design sets me apart from everyone else. I find this extremely amusing
The other standpoint is that some people want others to "recognize" their character. they want everyone to know it's them in art before they see the tag. Why does that even matter?
I would rather be known how I am in person, how awesome I am to hang out with and how I put myself up in real life than people saying I have "nice" art or a "cool character" I have enough standings in real life that people will remember me, they remember who I am through meeting me at cons and at meets. If people think I'm cool to hang with, that means so much more than if they admire or fap to my art. That's why I love my real friends, they don't know about furry, they don't admire me for my character, in fact they'd probably think I'm weird, and that's hwy I love keeping it seperate, because they just think I'm a cool person and it's hella nice to hang out with non-furs once and a while, You people give me such a HEADACHE sometimes :P
I am Jhusky and Jhusky is me, I'm simple, I know it and I'm proud because my simplicity means I'm free to be anyone I wish and not tied down by an online character people expect me to be when they meet me in real life. I designed him based off myself and what ***I*** wanted. So telling me my character is "lame" or "boring" just makes you look like a self absorbed elitist.. and believe me.. I'm a musician, I'm around enough of those people in real life to deal with it online.
Wanting to better yourself is one thing, But do that from the inside.. not the out.
/rant
I just like simple characters.
If a furry is going to give you a hard time for something so little as the way your fursona looks then fuck 'em.
End of story.
I'll be upset over whatever I want.
End of story.
Life is too short to be upset about fursonas but I'm sorry if I upset you now.
Never used enough.