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The immensely advanced Commonweath of Worlds has finally found Earth, and as is their habit they are studying humanity before making contact. Even the most vile -- arguably -- of men might attract their attention, though interviews of this nature don't always end well for the interviewee.
The rare story by me with no vore and no sex. There is implied hard vore, but mainly just character interactions. For those who know a bit about my worlds, Laura is a mrish, Shrilka is of course a falan (and Strega's daughter, incidentally) and Vak is a Xsir, a member of a "more equal than other equals" race. (Technically all major races in the Commonwealth are equal. The Xsir are more equal than anyone else.) This story takes place after the awful Commonwealth-Ylesh war, known as the Great War. Stories like this -- humans meeting Strega or other Commonwealth sorts -- were among the first furry stories I ever wrote. The Commonwealth arose from my old "Techno" AD&D campaign, which was badly planned and executed but occasionally popular with the players.
The rare story by me with no vore and no sex. There is implied hard vore, but mainly just character interactions. For those who know a bit about my worlds, Laura is a mrish, Shrilka is of course a falan (and Strega's daughter, incidentally) and Vak is a Xsir, a member of a "more equal than other equals" race. (Technically all major races in the Commonwealth are equal. The Xsir are more equal than anyone else.) This story takes place after the awful Commonwealth-Ylesh war, known as the Great War. Stories like this -- humans meeting Strega or other Commonwealth sorts -- were among the first furry stories I ever wrote. The Commonwealth arose from my old "Techno" AD&D campaign, which was badly planned and executed but occasionally popular with the players.
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...NO.
I am sorry. But NO.
Knowing the type of work you do...the type of protagonist you typically write for...in fact, ALMOST ALWAYS write for...no.
You do NOT get to write a story about people talking about how AWFUL the loss of innocent life is and how tragic it is and cruel it is to murder others-this is...this is an AFFRONT. This is like Cruella talking about how animals don't seem to like her, or Chris Brown singing about how women are so bad to him! YOU DO NOT GET TO WRITE STORIES LIKE THIS. You need to work your way up to something like this. This comes off as BEYOND contradictory and into the realm of outright hypocrisy. I can't think of a SINGLE one of your stories that EVER involved a remotely decent individual being anything other than a meal. This is just beyond hypocritical.
Oh, but I know what you're gonna say. "It's just a story, I'm writing from the perspective of these bad guys, I'm not a bad guy myself", y'know, I don't buy that. Stephen King is ALWAYS using horrible, FOUL bully characters, but his main protagonists are usually decent people with VERY messed up pasts. Taking all that together, the only picture you can come up with is that Stephen King had a horrid childhood in which he was viciously beat up, which bleeds out into his work. The same goes for you. NOTHING you write about or draw would indicate you're a remotely decent person. When you keep writing from the perspective of evil as fuck characters, you start to look less like you're writing from some kind of alter ego and more like you're just plain NASTY.
What possible excuse is there for this?!
I am sorry. But NO.
Knowing the type of work you do...the type of protagonist you typically write for...in fact, ALMOST ALWAYS write for...no.
You do NOT get to write a story about people talking about how AWFUL the loss of innocent life is and how tragic it is and cruel it is to murder others-this is...this is an AFFRONT. This is like Cruella talking about how animals don't seem to like her, or Chris Brown singing about how women are so bad to him! YOU DO NOT GET TO WRITE STORIES LIKE THIS. You need to work your way up to something like this. This comes off as BEYOND contradictory and into the realm of outright hypocrisy. I can't think of a SINGLE one of your stories that EVER involved a remotely decent individual being anything other than a meal. This is just beyond hypocritical.
Oh, but I know what you're gonna say. "It's just a story, I'm writing from the perspective of these bad guys, I'm not a bad guy myself", y'know, I don't buy that. Stephen King is ALWAYS using horrible, FOUL bully characters, but his main protagonists are usually decent people with VERY messed up pasts. Taking all that together, the only picture you can come up with is that Stephen King had a horrid childhood in which he was viciously beat up, which bleeds out into his work. The same goes for you. NOTHING you write about or draw would indicate you're a remotely decent person. When you keep writing from the perspective of evil as fuck characters, you start to look less like you're writing from some kind of alter ego and more like you're just plain NASTY.
What possible excuse is there for this?!
I can only assume you are trolling me, as the point you seem to advance is that a writer is never allowed to change writing styles or present a character whose opinions conflict with the writer's long established writing habits. Clearly the situation presented in this story is very different from most of the stories I've written. Sure, the characters are arguably evil, but for a vore artist and writer that comes with the territory except in the case of reforming prey.
I too have a complaint about this story: It's much too short. One of these days I will revisit it and add some more dialogue before Alan meets his inevitable end at Shrilka's claws.
I too have a complaint about this story: It's much too short. One of these days I will revisit it and add some more dialogue before Alan meets his inevitable end at Shrilka's claws.
It isn't THAT, it's that this is so vastly different from what you write that it seems almost...farcical. Like YOU were trolling your writers. And the idea that "it comes with the territory" to me...that's just a cop out. An excuse to write evil as fuck characters. "I wanna be this creature that feasts in the darkness and kills because I can, not because I must" blah blah blah. It's so overdone it isn't even funny or edgy or interesting anymore. I prefer more...y'know...protagonistic characters. Like what you're SUPPOSED to have for a story: likable people to identify with or relate to.
I mean, this is just SO radically different from what you write that it seems RIDICULOUS to take it REMOTELY serious. It's like when Enrique Inglesias came out with that song "Tonight I'm Fucking You". He went from "smooth Latin lover" to "Tonight. YOU." That is just not who he's always been. It's so RADICALLY and DISTURBINGLY out of character it makes us go what the fuck, the same way this story, to me, makes me go what the fuck. It's like when Alan Moore wrote for a porn comic, "Lost Girls". He admitted he wanted to try and elevate porn to the level of real art, but it still came off as a major "wtf" moment.
I mean, this is just SO radically different from what you write that it seems RIDICULOUS to take it REMOTELY serious. It's like when Enrique Inglesias came out with that song "Tonight I'm Fucking You". He went from "smooth Latin lover" to "Tonight. YOU." That is just not who he's always been. It's so RADICALLY and DISTURBINGLY out of character it makes us go what the fuck, the same way this story, to me, makes me go what the fuck. It's like when Alan Moore wrote for a porn comic, "Lost Girls". He admitted he wanted to try and elevate porn to the level of real art, but it still came off as a major "wtf" moment.
You really don't understand that even writers who write in a narrow genre can write different things, do you? Before I started writing horrible vore stories and smut I had quite a few stories like this one. Furry aliens meeting humans has been an interest of mine since I was a teenager. I don't update and post them because they aren't what people expect from me.
The majority of the characters I write about are indeed "evil as fuck," because they HAVE to be to be willing to murder people for food. Fetishes as extreme as vore necessarily require sacrifices, in this case the presentation of the pred as a positive character is very difficult. I've been trying to move in that direction a bit by present characters such as Savage the tiger (arguably "good"), Hialfi the foxtaur (at worst neutral) and now the tiger pred (neutral). Most of my others preds are mustache-twirlingly evil.
You didn't like the story, fine. Write off the five minutes it took to read it and move on. Posting it was an experiment that did not work for you. Shrug, it happens.
The majority of the characters I write about are indeed "evil as fuck," because they HAVE to be to be willing to murder people for food. Fetishes as extreme as vore necessarily require sacrifices, in this case the presentation of the pred as a positive character is very difficult. I've been trying to move in that direction a bit by present characters such as Savage the tiger (arguably "good"), Hialfi the foxtaur (at worst neutral) and now the tiger pred (neutral). Most of my others preds are mustache-twirlingly evil.
You didn't like the story, fine. Write off the five minutes it took to read it and move on. Posting it was an experiment that did not work for you. Shrug, it happens.
I guess then that you're showing much better signs of being "varied" in your writing style and that definitely shows improvement and more depth and artistic integrity to your writing. It just was a knee-jerk reaction...and an unfair one. I apologize.
But what you said does kinda surprise me. "What people expect from me". That's the big issue I have with sites like this. The idea that things HAVE to be a certain way, that you HAVE to write dark as hell characters in vore work. I don't mind them OCCASIONALLY in a story. Take the infamous movie "Riki-Oh". That movie is dark as ALL hell, but it's so RIDICULOUS and the villains so CARTOONISH that you can't help but laugh at every bit of ultraviolence. But if you kept seeing the director doing that over and over again, you'd just get bored, and even start to wonder a bit if the director was capable of producing anything else. The whole "villain protagonist" or "anti-hero" or "dark ending/downer ending/bittersweet ending" thing has, in my mind, become the new...well, STANDARD in popular storytelling culture. It's no longer edgy, no longer interesting, no longer a "twist", it's just...well, SAD. Depressing, overdone, and (like with Mass Effect 3) even annoying to the point of infuriating the player/reader.
But I want to apologize for coming off as something of a jackass. Actually, scratch that. "Something", nothing. I went off the handle. I'm really sorry. It can just be hard to gauge how an author really is when all you see is them writing really dark work almost all the time. You become scared to even want to ask what they're really like.
But what you said does kinda surprise me. "What people expect from me". That's the big issue I have with sites like this. The idea that things HAVE to be a certain way, that you HAVE to write dark as hell characters in vore work. I don't mind them OCCASIONALLY in a story. Take the infamous movie "Riki-Oh". That movie is dark as ALL hell, but it's so RIDICULOUS and the villains so CARTOONISH that you can't help but laugh at every bit of ultraviolence. But if you kept seeing the director doing that over and over again, you'd just get bored, and even start to wonder a bit if the director was capable of producing anything else. The whole "villain protagonist" or "anti-hero" or "dark ending/downer ending/bittersweet ending" thing has, in my mind, become the new...well, STANDARD in popular storytelling culture. It's no longer edgy, no longer interesting, no longer a "twist", it's just...well, SAD. Depressing, overdone, and (like with Mass Effect 3) even annoying to the point of infuriating the player/reader.
But I want to apologize for coming off as something of a jackass. Actually, scratch that. "Something", nothing. I went off the handle. I'm really sorry. It can just be hard to gauge how an author really is when all you see is them writing really dark work almost all the time. You become scared to even want to ask what they're really like.
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