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Hilarious in Hindsight... how I dodged certain typecasting.
12 years ago
For those of you who don't know (Which is essentially everyone seeing as I can't count anyone who has known me around that timeframe), in 2003, the closest I had to a fursona was a winged unicorn. He basically was a dark brown horse with a black mane, and wings based off of a hawk. :P
So yeah, I laughed really hard when I was shown
rickgriffin 's Yeshii, because that was almost exactly how I imagined him.
Oh wait, what am I getting at? Well lessee... there's a disc of some of my old work from 2002 - 2005. I found it buried inside my room and found one of the stories on there. That story featured a guy who found a piece of jewelry (Want to take a guess what it was?) that happened to have had the stone made with... an alicorn.
And note that this is the original definition of Alicorn, before Piers Anthony and MLP's fans popularized the term "Alicorn" to refer to a winged unicorn. :P
Also there is a brown jackalope in there.
Anyone else think this is a bit hilarious in hindsight?
Also, regarding this... I think now looking back on it I'm glad that winged equine didn't really stick for several reasons:
1) Wings. Some artists charge extra for them.
2) Equine. Some artists find them difficult to draw.
3) People would probably start looking in my pants for a cutie mark. :|
4) The amount of "lol alicorn" comments, as well as how, in like 2011, I'd have had even more "DUDE! CHECK OUT MLP!!!" messages to the point where they outnumbered the "DUDE!!! WATCH HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN IT!!!" comments I received the year prior. That and I'd have to constantly fend off people saying "Hey who're you related to? Luna and Celestia?" and "Dude get a picture of you drawn with Luna/Celestia comments!"Hooray for typecasting.
5) Inspeaking of typecasting... there happens to be one unfortunate stereotype with equines... and I'm not just talking about the tendency for horse-furs to be into stuff like bondage and pony play. (Seriously, I look up furry art of equines and whenever I'm not digging through hundreds of ponies, every horse is either wearing a bridle, a saddle, a harness, or all of the above.) You know what I'm talking about...
As another bit of hilarious in hindsight... you familiar with the "Werehorse"? :P Well... this disc also has what was left of a series of stories featuring like 19th century European lords who TFed at night and were considered to be some form of were-animals... you can see what I'm getting at now, right?
Much much much different than that werehorse thing on FA that everyone loves. Unless Wyraach was writing about faeries cursing a European lord with an anachronistic name (Dude sounded Dutch) while one of his best friends turned into a bear and another turned into a hawk... I wouldn't know. :P All I just do is make passive aggressive comments about it and how I feel it typecasts equines.
Of course then again though I get typecast already. One downside of being a kangaroo? The number of times I've been groped by people looking for a pouch. Dude, even if I was a female kangaroo and you put your hands in my pouch, you'd get kicked. You don't randomly stick your hands in marsupials' pouches - that's rude. Think of it this way... do you like when random people reach into your pocket or put their hands in your backpack or purse? That's what it's like. So don't do it. :|
Especially if I decided to go with a Thylacine in 2009. Then I would have had a pouch.
So yeah, I laughed really hard when I was shown
rickgriffin 's Yeshii, because that was almost exactly how I imagined him. Oh wait, what am I getting at? Well lessee... there's a disc of some of my old work from 2002 - 2005. I found it buried inside my room and found one of the stories on there. That story featured a guy who found a piece of jewelry (Want to take a guess what it was?) that happened to have had the stone made with... an alicorn.
And note that this is the original definition of Alicorn, before Piers Anthony and MLP's fans popularized the term "Alicorn" to refer to a winged unicorn. :P
Also there is a brown jackalope in there.
Anyone else think this is a bit hilarious in hindsight?
Also, regarding this... I think now looking back on it I'm glad that winged equine didn't really stick for several reasons:
1) Wings. Some artists charge extra for them.
2) Equine. Some artists find them difficult to draw.
3) People would probably start looking in my pants for a cutie mark. :|
4) The amount of "lol alicorn" comments, as well as how, in like 2011, I'd have had even more "DUDE! CHECK OUT MLP!!!" messages to the point where they outnumbered the "DUDE!!! WATCH HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN IT!!!" comments I received the year prior. That and I'd have to constantly fend off people saying "Hey who're you related to? Luna and Celestia?" and "Dude get a picture of you drawn with Luna/Celestia comments!"Hooray for typecasting.
5) Inspeaking of typecasting... there happens to be one unfortunate stereotype with equines... and I'm not just talking about the tendency for horse-furs to be into stuff like bondage and pony play. (Seriously, I look up furry art of equines and whenever I'm not digging through hundreds of ponies, every horse is either wearing a bridle, a saddle, a harness, or all of the above.) You know what I'm talking about...
As another bit of hilarious in hindsight... you familiar with the "Werehorse"? :P Well... this disc also has what was left of a series of stories featuring like 19th century European lords who TFed at night and were considered to be some form of were-animals... you can see what I'm getting at now, right?
Much much much different than that werehorse thing on FA that everyone loves. Unless Wyraach was writing about faeries cursing a European lord with an anachronistic name (Dude sounded Dutch) while one of his best friends turned into a bear and another turned into a hawk... I wouldn't know. :P All I just do is make passive aggressive comments about it and how I feel it typecasts equines.
Of course then again though I get typecast already. One downside of being a kangaroo? The number of times I've been groped by people looking for a pouch. Dude, even if I was a female kangaroo and you put your hands in my pouch, you'd get kicked. You don't randomly stick your hands in marsupials' pouches - that's rude. Think of it this way... do you like when random people reach into your pocket or put their hands in your backpack or purse? That's what it's like. So don't do it. :|
Especially if I decided to go with a Thylacine in 2009. Then I would have had a pouch.
...it's an incredibly goofy thing to have. I mean..really. We're not actually these creatures, and even -if- some of us had animal spirits and what not...it still doesn't mean we should take it too seriously. I mean, I get pouch comments all the time. It's funny. Someone pretend sticking their paws in your pouch might be a bit annoying but it's not like they actually stuck their hands in your pouch.
Let em' know it's rude but try not to let it get to you. Then again, i'm a really overweight guy who has had to spend most of his life learning that it's just not worth letting the fat jokes and stereotypes get you down, you know? Instead of worrying so much about how people perceive you, focus that energy on appreciating the people who take the time to get to know you and who appreciate you for who and what you truly feel you are...you know?
At least, that's how I look at it.
And you know what I do when people like reach for a pouch, or start saying *reaches into your pouch*?
I do stuff like *grabs your wrist* Get out of my pocket dude. :P or if they jump into my pouch, I point out that they just ruined a hoodie, combined with "...how the hell did you fit in there?"
I likes my shinies but your's are probably gonna stay put.
I mean, if someones going to use that logic, it would only make sense to discriminate against other furry creatures, since lions, tigers and bears-oh my! would eat critters like roo's (yipes!), rabbits and other prey species....see how silly this all gets? lol.
Too much >.>
Also, shinies. Shinies are boring. Toys and atomic bombs are much more fun than shinies.