#also I've tried to make a CJ the x style video like 8 times but instead I opted to lean into what patricia did with her dog sona pngs

[highlandkall]

Ok I just watched @patricia-taxxon's new video [On the Ethics of Boinking Animal People] and I noticed that most of what she discussed were ideas I both understood and had assumed were intuitive with furry art.

So 3 years ago I made a video review of the manga Beastars (it's not public, wanna make a better version) and what I thought was so interesting about that story was the implication of a world where the animal aspect wasn't just symbolic in nature but a genuine attempt to present a "realistic" interpretation without compromising the symbology of the characters. Like having a YMCA for animals who get the zoomies is adorable. Or the way a seal reacted to watching someone trip in the same way a russian painter I worked with reacted to me saying "ope" here in the midwest. We even both made the exact same point about the infrastructure of Zootopia overcomplicating that story's world too!

At the time I had assumed folks understood that the appeal of furries was the abstraction and fantasy in the same way no one questions the animal people in a cartoon. The main appeal is aesthetic with the added bonus of imagining what it'd be like to be a fluffy little guy. As a result I figured the logic of that appeal could be transferred to adult content without causing any issues. So Beastars introducing anything that acknowledged them being animals without going too far like Zootopia, toeing that line between fantasy and "reality" felt novel. But now that I know I'm trans, autistic, and a furry I guess I shouldn't be too shocked there... idk, watching an impassioned defense of something I was already on the same page with, even before I had the words to describe it myself, was surreal in a fun way ^^