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Munchsized Rants - Seeing Stars!
11 years ago
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Disclaimer needed? Oh by the gods yes x.x
Disclaimer: Please don't take anything said in Munchsized Rants personally. I find myself guilty of most of the things I want to bitch about, so just because someone's guilty of any of them doesn't automatically put an 'I hate you' stamp on their forehead. It just makes me secretly snicker or rant or rave or pester, depending on my relationship with the person. There's a reason I'm posting these on my personal account versus something more popular, like my nitetigrezz account, or something more appropriate yet still with significantly more watchers, like my nitescratches account. I'm not looking to start a flame war. I just need a place to let my little prejudice Ishaan air out. Thank you for your understanding. Now let the rant begin!
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-head desks- Okay, I'm about to date myself a bit here. This is something that has make that muscle under my right eye twitch on countless occasions. It's really kind of stupid of me to have a face palm moment every single time I see it considering the poster girl for my main account is an indigo striped toyger with fiery tipped hair, but this is my journal and I'm allowed to be a hypocrite, damn it!
First, a little bit of history. I had joined yiffy.tk back when it was yiffy.net, had under a hundred members, and had a grand spanking total of six message boards, all rp related. There was no chat, no game boards, no real ooc talk. We were there for the multi-paragraph, at times multi-page posting rp's.
It was also habit that one character suited all your needs. You kept the look and basic personality, but changed history and clothing as needed. It worked out really well for a site that wasn't art-based in the least. And because it wasn't art-based, there was no real need to have outstanding physical attributes to make a character unique. It was far more valuable to have personality quirks that were there own. So the most interesting character could be a simple grey wolf, but have the ability to turn into a spirit form and have true life despite being a familiar. Really, the more true to form the character was physically, the more serious it could be taken. Even having red eyes on a black wolf was a head turner. Leah, my black winged kitty, was mainly okay because I managed to give her an attitude and back story to keep her respectable, not to mention she was a bit more toward the end of that wonderful era.
To sum up, my first real introduction to furry was realistic coloring and markings plus cool character traits made a great character. Unusual features or hybrids could work as long as there was reason and an interesting character to go with it. Unrealistic coloring and markings were simply not taken seriously. At all. Hell, even Nite's original form, a black tigress with midnight blue stripes and black hair - so mellow compared to the face you know today! - only worked because we had such a crazy rp going where both of us were posting multiple paragraphs at a time with such fine detail while keeping things interesting.
So you can imagine the transition my mind had to make when I moved to FA. In all honesty, it still hasn't really made that transition in full. Nite, the way you know her now, was the first time I have myself real permission to ~fully~ go wild. No wings, no multiple tails. Just her coloring alone was me going wild.
Now don't get me wrong. For the most part I'm cool with most colorful creations these days. Just take a quick browse through the scraps of my main account and you'll see as much. For some reason though - I can't even say why - it drives me up the wall when I see characters with gratuitous star markings. I can count on one hand the number of people with these characters who are such wonderful people that I don't even care anymore. For the other 97%, of you, please dear goblins at least have a halfway decent reason than a tattoo that wouldn't even be seen through the fur anyway because oh look, fur! or dye that wouldn't even last a month because fur sheds and the ones that don't shed will be fucking shaggy by the end of the month from lack of trim!
I don't know why stars in particular make me twitch like this. I guess they're just ranking right up there with rainbow fur and multiple cocks and 'let's slap wings on it to make it as unique as the millions of other winged things that shouldn't have wings!'. I just can't take them seriously.
I dunno. I do have one character I rp with sometimes who has three small stars on her person. However, this character has never stepped foot outside of the world Spirit and I built, is mainly a side character/plot mover, and the three stars are mainly used as a game (guess where all three are on my body and you'll get to kiss them). It's silly, done for fun, and the character is all monotone colors to balance it out. So nyah!
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Okay, I feel better now. This has been a MunchSized Rant. If you detested this, then instead of bringing the torches and pitchforks just nuke the damned journal anytime you see 'MunchSized Rant'. Otherwise, open discussion is welcomed in the comments. Thank you!
Disclaimer: Please don't take anything said in Munchsized Rants personally. I find myself guilty of most of the things I want to bitch about, so just because someone's guilty of any of them doesn't automatically put an 'I hate you' stamp on their forehead. It just makes me secretly snicker or rant or rave or pester, depending on my relationship with the person. There's a reason I'm posting these on my personal account versus something more popular, like my nitetigrezz account, or something more appropriate yet still with significantly more watchers, like my nitescratches account. I'm not looking to start a flame war. I just need a place to let my little prejudice Ishaan air out. Thank you for your understanding. Now let the rant begin!
.....
-head desks- Okay, I'm about to date myself a bit here. This is something that has make that muscle under my right eye twitch on countless occasions. It's really kind of stupid of me to have a face palm moment every single time I see it considering the poster girl for my main account is an indigo striped toyger with fiery tipped hair, but this is my journal and I'm allowed to be a hypocrite, damn it!
First, a little bit of history. I had joined yiffy.tk back when it was yiffy.net, had under a hundred members, and had a grand spanking total of six message boards, all rp related. There was no chat, no game boards, no real ooc talk. We were there for the multi-paragraph, at times multi-page posting rp's.
It was also habit that one character suited all your needs. You kept the look and basic personality, but changed history and clothing as needed. It worked out really well for a site that wasn't art-based in the least. And because it wasn't art-based, there was no real need to have outstanding physical attributes to make a character unique. It was far more valuable to have personality quirks that were there own. So the most interesting character could be a simple grey wolf, but have the ability to turn into a spirit form and have true life despite being a familiar. Really, the more true to form the character was physically, the more serious it could be taken. Even having red eyes on a black wolf was a head turner. Leah, my black winged kitty, was mainly okay because I managed to give her an attitude and back story to keep her respectable, not to mention she was a bit more toward the end of that wonderful era.
To sum up, my first real introduction to furry was realistic coloring and markings plus cool character traits made a great character. Unusual features or hybrids could work as long as there was reason and an interesting character to go with it. Unrealistic coloring and markings were simply not taken seriously. At all. Hell, even Nite's original form, a black tigress with midnight blue stripes and black hair - so mellow compared to the face you know today! - only worked because we had such a crazy rp going where both of us were posting multiple paragraphs at a time with such fine detail while keeping things interesting.
So you can imagine the transition my mind had to make when I moved to FA. In all honesty, it still hasn't really made that transition in full. Nite, the way you know her now, was the first time I have myself real permission to ~fully~ go wild. No wings, no multiple tails. Just her coloring alone was me going wild.
Now don't get me wrong. For the most part I'm cool with most colorful creations these days. Just take a quick browse through the scraps of my main account and you'll see as much. For some reason though - I can't even say why - it drives me up the wall when I see characters with gratuitous star markings. I can count on one hand the number of people with these characters who are such wonderful people that I don't even care anymore. For the other 97%, of you, please dear goblins at least have a halfway decent reason than a tattoo that wouldn't even be seen through the fur anyway because oh look, fur! or dye that wouldn't even last a month because fur sheds and the ones that don't shed will be fucking shaggy by the end of the month from lack of trim!
I don't know why stars in particular make me twitch like this. I guess they're just ranking right up there with rainbow fur and multiple cocks and 'let's slap wings on it to make it as unique as the millions of other winged things that shouldn't have wings!'. I just can't take them seriously.
I dunno. I do have one character I rp with sometimes who has three small stars on her person. However, this character has never stepped foot outside of the world Spirit and I built, is mainly a side character/plot mover, and the three stars are mainly used as a game (guess where all three are on my body and you'll get to kiss them). It's silly, done for fun, and the character is all monotone colors to balance it out. So nyah!
.....
Okay, I feel better now. This has been a MunchSized Rant. If you detested this, then instead of bringing the torches and pitchforks just nuke the damned journal anytime you see 'MunchSized Rant'. Otherwise, open discussion is welcomed in the comments. Thank you!
