Macrophilia
12 years ago
Ok. I admit it. I like pictures of giant animal girls. You've probably seen one or two in my favorites. I'm a little odd I suppose, but in a fandom full of interesting, odd, creative and imaginative people, perhaps I can be forgiven a quirk or three.
You will note a lack of the violent or overtly sexual examples of this particular genre, simply because it's not for me. Macrophilia for me has always been more about awe and wonder anyway; there's nothing attractive to me about gigantic psychopaths destroying cities to satisfy primal urges. Perhaps unless the art or story is a metaphor or allegory for something more profound.
There are some terrific artists in the genre. Both Ken Sample (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/cougr) and Scream ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/scream/ ) are good artists, but with every new art post my appreciation of whatever technical prowess that is shown is tempered with the knowledge that within the context of the art someone is in pain or dying, there are war crimes being committed and the main character(s) are obviously psychopathic.
There have been many times I wanted to type "Nice art. Too bad he or she's a psychopath." Wrrf.
And I am just going to throw this out here; If an artist puts out the same thematic, violent material time and time again... what does this say about them or their audience? No I don't know the answer to that one.... I would really like to hear opinions!
You will note a lack of the violent or overtly sexual examples of this particular genre, simply because it's not for me. Macrophilia for me has always been more about awe and wonder anyway; there's nothing attractive to me about gigantic psychopaths destroying cities to satisfy primal urges. Perhaps unless the art or story is a metaphor or allegory for something more profound.
There are some terrific artists in the genre. Both Ken Sample (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/cougr) and Scream ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/scream/ ) are good artists, but with every new art post my appreciation of whatever technical prowess that is shown is tempered with the knowledge that within the context of the art someone is in pain or dying, there are war crimes being committed and the main character(s) are obviously psychopathic.
There have been many times I wanted to type "Nice art. Too bad he or she's a psychopath." Wrrf.
And I am just going to throw this out here; If an artist puts out the same thematic, violent material time and time again... what does this say about them or their audience? No I don't know the answer to that one.... I would really like to hear opinions!

ThatDratini
~thatdratini
I have that same issue as of late. But having met and hung with some of the artists of macro bent, my conclusion is art does not = who they truly are. If that were the case, people like Stephen King and Junji Ito would be out chopping up cheerleaders. Its just a matter of separating and focusing on the things you want to see (And ignoring the side of the fandom that goes I wish that were me, or cheering for the body counts)