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Just wanted to fiddle with the design on this guy a lil longer, see how the design might work and. Since I drew him with furry legs but a not furry belly that must only mean "fur pants". What a nightmare.
I suppose he's a sorta Chimera?
I suppose he's a sorta Chimera?
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See, this is why furry is so very different than any other sci-fi genre.
Every other fandom out there, from Star Trek to Star Wars, D&D to Warhammer, World of Warcraft to Marvel and DC comics, is all manufactured by someone else, for our consumption.
When it gets down to the brass tacks, you aren't allowed to write your own stories, you aren't allowed to create your own characters and you aren't allowed to make your own races. While the artists of those creations might enjoy and appreciate cosplay and fan fiction, their lawyers do not.
And their lawyers make their displeasure known at every opportunity. It can be a fearfully thin line between getting first place at the Comicon Cosplay tournament, and getting served with a C&D. And while there'll be hundreds of slavering fanbois who will bark and froth at the mouth, claiming this right, that right, whatever right; the bottom line is that those lawyers have bottomless wallets, and you are lucky if you even have a wallet these days.
You only get as much justice as you can afford.
But furry doesn't have to deal with that.
For the most part, we aren't consuming the product of someone else, we're making our own.
We make our own characters, our own races, our own worlds, stories, lore and histories that nobody else can say, "Hey, that's mine! Pay me!" or "That's mine, I'm going to sue you!" And in the cases where someone creates a race that becomes popular, most creators just ask for you to give them credit, such as Yinglets and
valsalia
I'm not saying that furry is superior to those other genres? But I am saying that it's much more open and personal.
So when you want to create a new race, you have something that none of those other genres truly have: the true freedom to do so.
Every other fandom out there, from Star Trek to Star Wars, D&D to Warhammer, World of Warcraft to Marvel and DC comics, is all manufactured by someone else, for our consumption.
When it gets down to the brass tacks, you aren't allowed to write your own stories, you aren't allowed to create your own characters and you aren't allowed to make your own races. While the artists of those creations might enjoy and appreciate cosplay and fan fiction, their lawyers do not.
And their lawyers make their displeasure known at every opportunity. It can be a fearfully thin line between getting first place at the Comicon Cosplay tournament, and getting served with a C&D. And while there'll be hundreds of slavering fanbois who will bark and froth at the mouth, claiming this right, that right, whatever right; the bottom line is that those lawyers have bottomless wallets, and you are lucky if you even have a wallet these days.
You only get as much justice as you can afford.
But furry doesn't have to deal with that.
For the most part, we aren't consuming the product of someone else, we're making our own.
We make our own characters, our own races, our own worlds, stories, lore and histories that nobody else can say, "Hey, that's mine! Pay me!" or "That's mine, I'm going to sue you!" And in the cases where someone creates a race that becomes popular, most creators just ask for you to give them credit, such as Yinglets and
valsaliaI'm not saying that furry is superior to those other genres? But I am saying that it's much more open and personal.
So when you want to create a new race, you have something that none of those other genres truly have: the true freedom to do so.
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