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nsfw sideblogs r so funny. my friend we can't talk here it isn't safe.. we have to go to sex world together

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The full thing for anyone who wants it!

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the furry fandom is mostly concerned with literal representation

theres tons of symbolism and intention applied but its usually just in character design and to a lesser extent stylization (u can only go so far w it before it steps on character design)

bc the purpose of the art is v specific - its exploring sensory experiences and desires, its often not just a standalone piece but an imagination aid to make something with only an abstract internal existence more concrete and real.

past a point its hard to project urself into abstract art

theres nothing wrong with this, a lot of rly lovely art comes out of these ways of thinking. i do a lot of this kind of art myself

and of course there *are* other artists doing furry abstraction! im far from alone. paul peng does some next level shit that continues to inspire me, scribblechicken makes glorious surreal works w fields of repeated images, teddywitchs recent abstract sketchbook work has been rly inspiring to me, mariken has been playing with abstraction in ways tht make it feel rly accessible

and of course there are alternate models of furry besides patricia taxxons autistic model (from the "ethics of boinking animal people" video) which while rly useful for understanding the bulk of furry culture leaves out other types of brainweirdness that draw ppl to anthro animal imagery in different ways. pawberri posited an additional schizotypal model that seems v useful and made some of my favorite artists work click in a way it never did before

anyway i think on the scale of the fandom this results in the de-emphasis of non illustrative artforms. there are furry sculptors and painters and ceramicists doing incredible work but it doesnt seem to get the same love (with the exception of fursuit makers bc theyre making a v literally representational form of wearable sculpture)

i could go on abt material conditions, economic motivations, art literacy, etc but instead i just wanna make my case

we can all agree that postfurry is where the most interesting stuff in furry is being made right. i saw yall gushing abt sinkdog i saw the fanart i see my sog painting still getting notes years later. but postfurry is still limiting the furry toolkit to character design i think we can go deeper

u can apply that toolkit to pure abstraction and leave characters and backgrounds behind. u can plant it into the intentionality behind not obviously furry work. patricia taxxon used a term in the video i mentioned earlier, "transcendental furriness" tht i think gets at this a little. u can make pure abstraction furry. u can make furry food if u rly lean into animalistic eating experiences and evocative flavor combinations. furry doesnt have to just be a character design trope it can be so much more. it can be layered fractally into the process and intentionality of a work, if that makes sense. twisted into every fiber and woven in

*thats* the kind of art i wanna make

anyway thank u for reading my manifesto

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Nothing more awesome than seeing a trans woman with big boobs like hell yes you did it!

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If the autistic model of furry is a highly sensory experience, one focused on the flesh and blood experience of having fur, fangs, ears, etc, the schizotypic experience is one of abstraction. The schizotypic furry is almost anti-sensory. It is anti-reality, constantly shifting and transforming. It's form focuses on fur where convenient, but may have sections of fur that are so smooth they seem more like skin. There is less focus on anatomy. The schizotypic furry is an amalgamation of traits preferred by the creator and combined so as to remove the furry from the confines of "animal." The autistic fursona may have distinctly non-human facial structure, defined fur, something that tethers it to a sensory reality that can accommodate the uniquely sensory experience and feelings of non-humanness that is characteristic of the autistic experience. The schizotypic fursona may be flat faced, reflecting neither human nor animal, and a gelatinous smoothness.

The schizotypic and autistic furry both share a fantasy of escaping from the human form, but the schizotypic furry shows a desire for an escape from any physical existence at all. The schizotypic furry is non-representational because all representation is a burden to the schizotypic individual. All sensory reality seeks to deny the fragile self of the schizotypic, and so all sensory reality must be softened or denied. This nebulousness may extend to imagining the fursona without organs or underlying anatomy, perhaps substituting "candy gore"-meat or creating a shape-shifting creature that is purely malleable slime. The shizotypic may enjoy toons, chibis, or mascots precisely for their impossibility, the way that each part of their visual vocabulary is an iteration of an iteration, no longer echoing it's extent inspiration.

^ i saw this in my notes app

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