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So this is a thing - a morsel, a vignette, an off-the-cuff - that I wrote because I've been out of writing practice. Terrible. But it takes practice and invested time and effort, and these thing I haven't always given to my writing - so I need to get back into the habit of giving them. Fortunately, a friend gave me a place to start. When you try to explain this "postfurry" thing to people who aren't into it, half the time the weird-ass things that they speculate about while trying to grasp it, are entertaining and charming ideas to adapt into it. So this story is based off of such an idea from my friend "J", plus a hefty teaspoonful of tropes from helpful dragons 
thecrypto and 
icewhisper. Thanks dragons!
Since this is a context-light vignette, I have a couple of questions for you! What requires the most suspension of disbelief? What piece of the story would you most like to know more about? What do you think that the gorgon is planning to do after the events we see in the story?
~1700 words.
thecrypto and 
icewhisper. Thanks dragons! Since this is a context-light vignette, I have a couple of questions for you! What requires the most suspension of disbelief? What piece of the story would you most like to know more about? What do you think that the gorgon is planning to do after the events we see in the story?
~1700 words.
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It's certainly rather an interesting vignette, and rather an unexpected form for a TF to take. That said, turning a dragon into the matter of a large sensory network like this does present a few intriguing possibilities - perhaps as both a symbol and her eyes, they'll form the delineation of her own little empire? A white-patterned realm where all may become part of her investigations into alternate forms.
"perhaps as both a symbol and her eyes, they'll form the delineation of her own little empire?"
Ooh, that is an interesting thought. Form as boundary: body is a boundary between Self and Other anyhow, so what if you make someone else's body into that boundary? What if a configuration of senses is what distinguishes Self and Other?
Ooh, that is an interesting thought. Form as boundary: body is a boundary between Self and Other anyhow, so what if you make someone else's body into that boundary? What if a configuration of senses is what distinguishes Self and Other?
It'd be an interesting approach to a hive mind-like set-up, I think. Many minds in one body, extending out in seemingly random fashion guided only by necessity and opportunity. A bit like one of those huge fungal networks you hear about sometimes.
And one could probably argue that a configuration of senses is the line between Self and Other, in accordance with the classic Descartesian maxim "I think therefore I am". What is thought without data to process, after all? And where does that data come from? The senses, of course.
And one could probably argue that a configuration of senses is the line between Self and Other, in accordance with the classic Descartesian maxim "I think therefore I am". What is thought without data to process, after all? And where does that data come from? The senses, of course.
Well, on Wikimapedia's page of largest organisms, they mention a type of fungus known as Armillaria solidipes - a specimen in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon was "found to be the largest fungal colony in the world, spanning 8.9 km2 (2,200 acres) of area". Apparently that's about 605 tons of fungus. Quite a lot of 'shroom, I'm sure you'll agree.
What requires the most suspension of disbelief?
The dragon driving a car. The Gorgon is a great big magical thing, excreted by a street, and it's making up its own rules as it goes along. The dragon is Joe Everyguy, except he's also a dragon. Making the normal guy a dragon requires the most suspension of disbelief. It's a normal thing among furry authors to just plop in any anthropomorphic guy as if he was just a normal human who happened to be a wolf/bird/dragon/whatever. But that's not normal at all. Playing off a magical creature like a dragon as normal while this Asphault Gorgon is the strange and magical is really weird.
When you introduced the dragon my first thought was how an anthro dragon's wings would fit in a regular car. Our world is not made for people who aren't humans; an anthro dragon isn't anthro enough to put in the same role as a human. They would make things differently, their whole world would be different, to accomodate dragons. So, when the normal guy is a dragon, that requires the greatest suspension of disbelief.
What piece of the story would you most like to know more about?
Why did the street make a gorgon pop out? Is it a manifestation of the street, or is it something else merely taking the form of an asphault-elemental?
What do you think that the gorgon is planning to do after the events we see in the story?
More experiments in different forms of existance! XD
They do seem to be marking out their territory. Maybe integrate more people into the framework of the city? Put people into the traffic lights so that it can control the flows of mankind?
The dragon driving a car. The Gorgon is a great big magical thing, excreted by a street, and it's making up its own rules as it goes along. The dragon is Joe Everyguy, except he's also a dragon. Making the normal guy a dragon requires the most suspension of disbelief. It's a normal thing among furry authors to just plop in any anthropomorphic guy as if he was just a normal human who happened to be a wolf/bird/dragon/whatever. But that's not normal at all. Playing off a magical creature like a dragon as normal while this Asphault Gorgon is the strange and magical is really weird.
When you introduced the dragon my first thought was how an anthro dragon's wings would fit in a regular car. Our world is not made for people who aren't humans; an anthro dragon isn't anthro enough to put in the same role as a human. They would make things differently, their whole world would be different, to accomodate dragons. So, when the normal guy is a dragon, that requires the greatest suspension of disbelief.
What piece of the story would you most like to know more about?
Why did the street make a gorgon pop out? Is it a manifestation of the street, or is it something else merely taking the form of an asphault-elemental?
What do you think that the gorgon is planning to do after the events we see in the story?
More experiments in different forms of existance! XD
They do seem to be marking out their territory. Maybe integrate more people into the framework of the city? Put people into the traffic lights so that it can control the flows of mankind?
Now that you mention it, yes, the random dude being a dragon is a pretty big flaw. I'm not upset about it because this was written in a hurry and in a teleological way - it was written from destination to beginning. But it's definitely a flaw and the more I think about it, the more dissatisfied I am about it. Thanks for raising that issue.
Why did the street make a gorgon pop out? Is it a manifestation of the street, or is it something else merely taking the form of an asphault-elemental?
I can answer that here: it's not the street, it's the gorgon. She's a creature of earth and stone, like she says, and she just happens to pick up some tar and gravel when she comes up from deep chthonic places to the surface.
Thanks for the feedback. :)
Why did the street make a gorgon pop out? Is it a manifestation of the street, or is it something else merely taking the form of an asphault-elemental?
I can answer that here: it's not the street, it's the gorgon. She's a creature of earth and stone, like she says, and she just happens to pick up some tar and gravel when she comes up from deep chthonic places to the surface.
Thanks for the feedback. :)
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