Um once more, actually read my fucking stories. It's a war story where characters fight and die in wars I have designed. It doesn't matter the source material if canon characters rarely show up and I have a sandbox of OC's that I focus on. It's like saying you cannot make your own Pokemon story, because Pokemon is a series all itself.
No, it’s saying that if you think furries can’t create characters that are essentially a spin-off of real animals without being accused of wanting to bone real animals, it’s damn hypocritical to say you should be free to create characters that are spin-offs of children’s characters (most of whom are minors, as
@Lucyfur points out) without being accused of wanting to bone (or possibly murder, since you like your war stories) children.
Obviously it’s ludicrous to assume that you want to do that, and I don’t. All I’m saying is that that’s where your logic is pointing.
You do not have to like or consume NSFW material. Nobody is saying you’re a lesser person for choosing not to. You, on the other hand, are trying to lord some imagined moral superiority over other users here solely based on consumption of NSFW art and outright libel a large part of the fandom over a small detail of character design.
The whole “murder is morally superior to sex” vibe that permeates much of western society’s mores, especially as concerns media content, is fucking weird, anyway. We should
all stop and think about that, from time to time. It’s pretty objectively fucked up that fictional consensual sex is considered less acceptable than fictional decidedly non-consensual homicide.
People have gone there, and that's the issue. You're acting like there's never been accounts of furries abusing animals, there's been multiple.
Of course there are. But I highly doubt any of them were perfectly “normal” with no paraphilias or attraction to anything but opposite-sex humans (and that only after marriage, with the lights off) until they one day saw a red rocket on a piece of furry art and decided it was time to pound some puppers. Nor are accounts of it happening nearly so common as to suggest that everyone that draws non-human junk on their non-human characters designed their characters that way because they want a taste of Rover some time down the road - the number would be staggering and wildly outstrip all research estimations of incidence of bestiality as a paraphilia.
(Also, your suggestion downthread that furries are generally “shielding the more unsavory individuals” is... not really anchored in fact. What typically happens when news break of someone harming humans or animals,
especially in a sexual context: Some people will stand by their friends while acknowledging that what they did was wrong, a large number of people will fucking dogpile on the offender trying to run them out of the fandom, and relatively few will try to shield the supposed guilty parties (I know there’s been at least one accusation that turned out to be false only after extensive abuse directed at the accused individual). These people get
death wishes. If you think people telling someone to kill themselves and other people seeing no problem with that is “shielding” them... That’s a major you problem.)
(I don't care about errotica. I'm sure there are, but I would call that degeneracy as well. I call that "Dollar store" bargain bin smut. If anyone I knew read that I would seriously consider disassociating myself with it. If some erotica writer rapped a woman, I'd grill them just as well. My genres are warfare, science fiction, and grimdark fantasy.)
Great. So you are happy to take back your implication that only furries who want to bang animals would have any interest in non-human genitalia, then? Acknowledge that maybe a fair number of women (biggest demographic of erotica readers) outside furry fandom do chat about this, at least with each other (considering Cain’s first novel has reviews numbering in the four digits according to NYT)?
You’re also very quick to dismiss a whole genre without reading it for someone who doesn’t want to accept criticism of the words posted on a forum from someone who didn’t first read their body of work. Again, you’re under no obligation to consume NSFW material, but you should probably consider the hypocrisy in your statement demanding I read your work rather than judge it by what you yourself say about it in threads.
Bottom line: Maybe stop trying to pretentiously lecture people about the supposed deviancy of a fandom you’re observing through a lens of puritanism.
