You mis-typed aokimaidu's icon.
And I'm probably crazy too, but also aware that every aspect of social-, artistic-, and entertainment-related media features the same thing. It's something you appreciate on different levels or it's something you can tolerate/try to fight.

Oh god that was embarrassing.

I'm just reviewing why im here, and the reason I come up with is literally communicating with one person.

You misunderstand, Dalb. The most lauded art works in the furry community are those of the fetish/pornography variety. I sound like a broken tape at this point.

It's different to feature, rather than to borderline be the same.
I saw this very observational response on furry art, which I'll paraphrase:

Most artists here just recycle the same ideas over and over. It's just the question of what skin it'll take.
If youve looked at one piece of porn on this site youve seen them all. There's no creativity involved, because there is only so many time you can reinvent a phallus or a fat fetish.

It's the complacency with mediocrity thats getting to me. A lot of the porn here is just an erect penis stuck on a character that doesnt even look aroused, like the erection is some afterthought.
Or either it's just a character, drawn through photo shop, with his clothes peeled off by layers.

It becomes meaningless. I could just draw two circles on top of each other, and then id be a fat furry artist.

Oh wait, first i have to draw animal ears and a tail.

Seems like we're stuck on different sides of the issue. I can see how most art on the site is pornographic in nature, but then again it is a fetish site and it's not like you're gonna be granted creative leaps in the porn world. It's the same in all fields.

This isnt a porn site dalb.

Statistically it contains only 21% adult/mature submissions from the last 2014 survey.
There is a large emphasis on more risque elements so its understandable you would think that.

It's not just this site, its a grand overarching problem with the 'furry' culture itself!

And for a community that says it so open and welcoming, thats a grand issue.

Interesting stat. And my question in response is: What're you going to do to change it? You don't seem like the type to wallow in self-pity, and these journals aren't going to induce much change. It might start a dialogue among artists if we're lucky, but what you're calling for is a movement among the art community that could take years to accomplish and end up short-ending a lot of popular artists whose incomes rely on the popularity of generating said smut. It's a grand issue but also one that's grounded by reality.

I was just venting, but thanks for calling me out. These journals are becoming an annoyance, it's forseeable to me.

Short ending porn artists? There is no such thing. There will always be some market for their wares.
It's just that if the community wasnt as sex-crazed they wouldnt pull in so much revenue.
As it is, its an extremely unbalanced system. I'm all for short ending the black marketers for the benefit of the those who have to get by on actual talent.

Sure thing. And unfortunately, a lot of those black marketers are also ones with talent. It's a blurred issue, with no definable answer. Venting is nice, but it won't change anything.

It is interesting, truly, to browse through his journals.

To see his transformation from a naive child to a bitter self hating youngman.

Perhaps there is nothing that could be done about the nature of this culture.
Its addicted to its own vices. Not much you can do against the pull of carnal libido.

You begin to open your eyes when you see the quality of humanity reflects the quality of furry because EVERYONE is let in. There are no standards, so furry can be no greater than the standard jetsam and flotsam that washed in through the wide open doors.

I think the disenchantment and the disillusionment with furry comes from a false hopeful perception that this place was supposed to be better than the standard jetsam and flotsam. After all, a hidden safe grove is what geeky nerds in the 90s created furry to be during the era of the early user-unfriendly Internet. And those geeky nerds relied on the user-unfriendliness of that early Internet to protect them from their own over-tolerant attitudes.

As someone who was in the fandom long enough to remember those days, I can most definitely tell you that the geeks were their own undoing. And cliche as it sounds, the Geek Social Fallacies really came out in flying colors to drive this place into the ground.

As for eroticism, man's nature to protect and provide and woman's nature to nourish and create have more to do with sexuality than troglodyte humanity is willing to explore or experience. Ever. In their entire lifetimes. Great swaths of humanity are primitive Neanderthals too stupid to realize such lofty ideals that their libidos are connected to the core of their minds and what they feed one, they automatically feed to the other.

Furry is no exception. Here, there's lots of attractive shapes, but no reason behind them. Our caveman ancestors drew on cave walls with more thought than modern man, estranged from engaging with the environment, paints in an ephemeral digital environment.

If humans were sexually attracted to the masculine drive to protect and provide for family, and the feminine drive to nurture and create for family, there'd be no need to separate lust and love. A great variety of positive functional family configurations would blossom under such a utopia.

Unfortunately, humans and furries are primitive beasts -- slaves to aching shapes, dopamine impulses, while anti-life, asexual, immaculate, eternal, false-spiritualities hovering over, taunting, and tempting their mortalities like unreachable stars. There are exactly ZERO degrees of separation between furry and humanity because they both share the same and only prerequisite to belong: HUMAN DNA.

What is a furry? A furry is a human. And, scarier, a human is a furry.