pretty good stuff here

Its good. I let my elder sister read it (she ain't a furry) and she said its interesting, she had no problem understanding what a furry or what anthropomorphs are from how you explained it. Although she says anthropomorphs makes her want to tilt her head in confusion.

I hope you plan to continue.

Thanks very much for that, it's exactly what I'm after. Others could do this as well, if applicable.

Is the headtilting because of the inherent pronunciation problems with the word anthropomorphs?

And I have currently written around 340,000 words with this novel, so you could say I'm continuing. :D

The head tilting wasn't about to incorrect spelling. It was more on the whole anthropomorphic thing in general.
Having my sister tilt her head at the screen and then look at me, head still tilted.

She asked me some very serious questions about being having a fur-sona afterwords. She says its kinda cool, but also kinda wierd. in a different way. but interesting :)

Next thing you know she'll be a furry too.

*bangs his hands on a table and sings in a monotone*

We accept her, one of us! We accept her, one of us! Gooble gobble! Gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!

Awesome intro.
I’d say the confusion is probably just because the defintion of anthropomorphism is probably not widely known outside of the fandom.

Agreed. Funny really, since it's been around since, oh say, the Egyptians, more then likely before that.

I had no idea furry was around before that . . . I thought it was only recently, because the world is getting kinda dull, and people want that hope of magic in there lives. Being a furry included :)

My sister however has found a secret weapon against me. Specifically "I'll tell mom that your a . . ."
If she does, I hope that my family is open enough to accept me.

Well its interesting. Anthropomorphism is common in a great deal of works since humanities ninth beginnings. Although, this fandom tipped off of the Scifi fandom in the 1980's and suffered a massive cultural shift in the late 90's early 2000's. Confusion all depends on your rhetorical audience. You do a good job defining your used terms in the work, so I believe a audience not part of the furry fandom will understand, despite not familiar with the terms. However, to that understandment perhaps using your own terms might build your world more to that audience. People fall to definitions to build and accommodate their schema. Understanding a fox person as a fox person and not a fox is easily defined from description which you handled well. However, defining a fox person from a human and fox based on sentience form in general becomes a conflict for your work that you must address for your audiences understatement. Something, that your work is going to be having a lot of from the presentation itself.

So I think, they'll understand, you just got to build it up to be conveyed to your rhetoric.
Best of luck with the rest.

Thanks for this detailed reply, but I'm afraid you're going to have to rephrase it for me. What do you think will be an issue for the audience as the novel progresses? I may have already covered it, but I'd like to hear your opinion.

I apologize, I am often hard to understand I will do my best to translate and simplify.
Issues depends on your audience. As long as you handle situations of concept definition conflict through the work, there should be little issue. That would be defining furrie or furry and Macro and other terms that come with it to your world. As to one of the comments below, it appears you have such a situation handled. so it should not be an issue for a common audience.

Thank you.

Liked it a lot. Very clean and well written as well.

I did as you requested, reading from outside the fandom, and the only thing I thought would be a problem was the use of the terms "furry" and "macro." I try not to use either of these terms (even though I've never written something that I'd show to, say, my friends), although I occasionally slip up. Good read though, really can't wait for the rest.

-Six out

Well, macro comes from the Greek word Makros, meaning long, or big. As for Furry, I have an explanation for that that comes up a lot later in the novel. They developed it as a nickname for themselves, since anthropomorphs was far too long for everyday conversation. It stuck, and it became self-refferential. It didn't occur to them to simply shorten to Anthro.

Hope that helps.

Loved it when I first read it, and I still enjoy reading it today. Nice job!

heya Mriya have seen your work in awhile good to see more detail intro to your novel I reread it. ive seen this prolog few times but never as a better detailed ending to it. great work man.