What is the point of anthropomorphism? I know there are books like Watership Down and The Wind in the Willows, but what about straight up funny animals? Like if I wanted to write about anthropomorphic ducks, would anyone raise an eyebrow?
What is the point of anthropomorphism? I know there are books like Watership Down and The Wind in the Willows...
Isaac Cox
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Thomas Wood
i don't get it
Charles Collins
Just do it, why do you even care what other people think? Make a good product, tell a good story, and people will like it. Nobody else knows what is in your head, so they will have trouble seeing your vision until you show it to them with a finished product
Christian Roberts
Anthropomorphism in general?
Nicholas Parker
Not OP, but the joke is he's greedy, and while they take a shower (all at the same time, which is pretty fucking weird), he takes their clothes and sells them back to them
Xavier Hernandez
Thanks!
Ryan Ramirez
>he takes their clothes and sells them back to them
Or to anyone else.
Joseph Butler
I also want this to be adult fiction.
Levi Barnes
People already have mental associations with animals, they’ve got an idea of how they act already, and what kind of interactions they’ll have with other animals. It’s a very clever plot device that allows you too characterize without too much exposition. Also animals are cute and funny
Austin Brown
not the image, that's clear as glass.
i don't get the joke--op's joke.
Jaxson Hughes
Watership Down isn't really anthropomorphic. They're just rabbits.
I think you're thinking of the Redwall series.
Chase Gomez
Anthropomorphism is propaganda to shill for humanism for the liberal ideologies. The progressive notion of unshackling the minorities and so on require sympathy for humanism, whereas the rational capitalism doesn't give any fucks about anything other than the amount of net profit.
Chase Ortiz
>autism
It's just for fun you dingus.
Joshua Hernandez
Antropomorphism works best with illustration.
Justin Martinez
found the humanist shill
Kevin Fisher
>NO FUN ALLOWED
Michael White
why do you think that animals and machines can't have fun? why is fun only privileged to humans?
Hudson Lewis
There is no joke.
Connor Sanders
I honestly don't understand what you're on about. This is a weird strawman.
Josiah Cruz
There will be a book cover.
Jose Wilson
people project their images and emotions on animals because they are unable to empathize with them otherwise.
Liam Stewart
Cooper Cooper
Yeah but illustrations work best to depict anthropomorphs and make it more fun. I've got a soft spot for anthropomorphism ever since I read the Redwall series as a kid, but comics like Usagi Yojimbo pull the concept off better.
Noah Rodriguez
Dude. I work at an animal shelter. I can empathize with animals and I understand their nature as animals. Anthropomorphism is just for fun. You're taking it way too seriously
Justin Morris
Maybe there can be illustrations like the Dickens books.
Jeremiah Jackson
That'd be cool. Victorian illustrations are neat. Anthropomorphism is largely children's genre too, outside of the furry community anyway.
Mason Williams
can you do anthropomorphic characters outside of magical realism and YA/childrens literature?
Andrew Thompson
I want the illustrations to be cartoony, like Italian Donald Duck.
And I really want anthro ducks for adults.
Anthony Adams
Yes, adult anthro is definitely a thing but you're main appeal is going to be towards the furry community just FYI.
Brody Nelson
Gonna publish a respectable literary book, and then do literary ducks.
Aiden Hall
that's the joke
Ryder Stewart
There being no joke IS THE JOKE???!!!
IS THIS A JOKE?!?!
Austin Jackson
Just do the ducks. Anthro is cool and hope it eventually gains broader appeal, but people like you need to make stuff for that to happen. Tell us more about your duck idea. Who's the main character? Setting? Plot?
Blake Harris
Incel autistic bitch go back to pol inbred MAGAcel whore
Cooper Morales
I have another compelling novel I want to write first, sorry.
Anyways, about the duck idea.
Inspired by John Ashbery's Daffy Duck in Hollywood. poets.org
The setting is an idealized Los Angeles with robust public transport. The main characters are a duck couple and their three boys, and their neighbors, a single father duck with his two duck girls. There is also a lesbian teenage duck.
I'll probably change some details to avoid being sued by Disney.
Main themes include romantic crushes, burgeoning sexuality and gender roles. I haven't thought of a good plot, I just have some scenes in mind.
Evan Richardson
Sounds cute. Any particular reason you're choosing ducks? Will other animals be used?
Charles Russell
Aww, I'm surprised you didn't roast me.
I don't know if there will be other animals. Maybe it will be like the duck comics. I dunno.
Jordan Edwards
>you're main appeal is going to be towards the furry community just FYI.
oh......
Jose Allen
Ducks have a rich history of being kino.
Luis Wood
Them's the facts. I like anthro and am not a furry, but I'm well aware of who else reads anthro.
Jace Clark
I'd recommend using other animals, or even just other birds. The variety makes illustrations more interesting and establishes characters without much exposition like said.
Dylan Reyes
Ah. I'll add parrots and chickens.
Isaiah Richardson
Bump
Easton King
>implying toad is not hilarious
Smh
Samuel Smith
Who said that?
Adam Young
Based duck fetishist
Not a furry or anything but that rabbit has some thicc toes
Luke Allen
I am based. Also, why didn't you chose the post that has setting and characters?