Okay, first of all, your sexual plan ... that should work keeping it non-mainstream.
But, also, I mean, you've got the "we've been mainstream since Egypt" guys, who are wrong, but if there's a grain of truth in their pearl of ignorance, it's that we're not exactly re-inventing the wheel, here. Complain about Disney ripping us off all you want, but you can't tell me furry hasn't ripped off Disney. It's pretty hard to be the "anti-corporate" fandom when your entire shtick is cribbed from a corporation. We've always been doing Disney's dirty work on the cheap.
There's a furry self-aggrandizing myth that we're a very creative fandom, and we like to compare ourselves to Star Wars fandom or bronies or Trekkies or whatever as long as it's a fandom based around one single corporate owned property. But when some furries jerking themselves off about how inventive furries are, do they ever compare themselves to another genre, like, say, I don't know, the science fiction or fantasy fandoms? No, of course not, because they are creatively kicking our ass, and have been since we started. We like to brag about our literary achievements, when its usually just ganking a pretty rote plot from another genre and spray-painting a few animals over the characters.
Okay, I'll grant you "fursuiting>cosplay" as creative, on one hand, as most of the characters are technically "originals", but, but on the other hand, how "original" we talking, here? It's still basically just the same old corporate mascot costume, and the main improvements to that are mechanical, rather than creative. Our art is basically the same, just mechanical improvements to what is essentially the same cartoon animals that you can find pretty much everywhere. How creative, really, is throwing a bunch of random colors, wings, horns onto nature-be-damned hybridizations without any thought to justification? Oh, and maybe we added boobs, but they've made sexy cartoon insurance commercials and moved on from them at this point, so how "creative" is that really?
Obviously, this does gloss over plenty of furry artists who do work creatively, and totally undersells the creativity involved in pure mechanical improvement of pre-existing skillsets. But that's the problem; it's not that I disagree that corporations are bad and can have a net negative affect on furry if we were to "sell out". My argument is that we've developed a skillset perfectly suited to selling out to a corporation.
Okay, first of all, your sexual plan ... that should work keeping it non-mainstream.
But, also, I mean, you've got the "we've been mainstream since Egypt" guys, who are wrong, but if there's a grain of truth in their pearl of ignorance, it's that we're not exactly re-inventing the wheel, here. Complain about Disney ripping us off all you want, but you can't tell me furry hasn't ripped off Disney. It's pretty hard to be the "anti-corporate" fandom when your entire shtick is cribbed from a corporation. We've always been doing Disney's dirty work on the cheap.
There's a furry self-aggrandizing myth that we're a very creative fandom, and we like to compare ourselves to Star Wars fandom or bronies or Trekkies or whatever as long as it's a fandom based around one single corporate owned property. But when some furries jerking themselves off about how inventive furries are, do they ever compare themselves to another genre, like, say, I don't know, the science fiction or fantasy fandoms? No, of course not, because they are creatively kicking our ass, and have been since we started. We like to brag about our literary achievements, when its usually just ganking a pretty rote plot from another genre and spray-painting a few animals over the characters.
Okay, I'll grant you "fursuiting>cosplay" as creative, on one hand, as most of the characters are technically "originals", but, but on the other hand, how "original" we talking, here? It's still basically just the same old corporate mascot costume, and the main improvements to that are mechanical, rather than creative. Our art is basically the same, just mechanical improvements to what is essentially the same cartoon animals that you can find pretty much everywhere. How creative, really, is throwing a bunch of random colors, wings, horns onto nature-be-damned hybridizations without any thought to justification? Oh, and maybe we added boobs, but they've made sexy cartoon insurance commercials and moved on from them at this point, so how "creative" is that really?
Obviously, this does gloss over plenty of furry artists who do work creatively, and totally undersells the creativity involved in pure mechanical improvement of pre-existing skillsets. But that's the problem; it's not that I disagree that corporations are bad and can have a net negative affect on furry if we were to "sell out". My argument is that we've developed a skillset perfectly suited to selling out to a corporation.