Good things -have- come out of the fandom before, though. And from outside it, that involve furries, like Watership Down, Tailchaser's Song... heck, even Finding Nemo.
No one in the fandom talks about those anymore, though.
What irritates me the most about furry fandom is how it ghettoizes itself. People no longer seem to look outside the fandom for inspiration or for their fiction, their movies, their pictures, whatever. It used to be I could talk to "furries" about Egyptian gods, Aesop's Fables, the Chanur novels, Decision at Doona and Anne McCaffrey's dragons, and movies that involved talking animals that aren't by Disney or animated.
Now I mention those things to people who claim to be diehard furries and they look confused. They want their homegrown comics. They want to buy from people inside the fandom. And the moment you leave the fandom, some people insist on treating you as if you've betrayed them. You've gone "mainstream?" Oh no! Avoid, avoid!
I have some anger about this, yes. There's no making a living in furry fandom. It's become too narrow.
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Date: 2003-11-06 05:25 (UTC)No one in the fandom talks about those anymore, though.
What irritates me the most about furry fandom is how it ghettoizes itself. People no longer seem to look outside the fandom for inspiration or for their fiction, their movies, their pictures, whatever. It used to be I could talk to "furries" about Egyptian gods, Aesop's Fables, the Chanur novels, Decision at Doona and Anne McCaffrey's dragons, and movies that involved talking animals that aren't by Disney or animated.
Now I mention those things to people who claim to be diehard furries and they look confused. They want their homegrown comics. They want to buy from people inside the fandom. And the moment you leave the fandom, some people insist on treating you as if you've betrayed them. You've gone "mainstream?" Oh no! Avoid, avoid!
I have some anger about this, yes. There's no making a living in furry fandom. It's become too narrow.