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A well defined fursona

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Runo:

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--- Quote from: Sithy on 28.05.2015, 15:28:31 ---I feel a well defined fursona is....

whatever you damn well please.


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100% agree. People that try to dictate other people's (very personal!) choices kinda piss me off.

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Ok, I see.
Could you elaborate?

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Very simple. "Fursona"s are a very personal concept. It it something everybody has decide for himself, and feel comfortable with.

Thus, if they feel comfortable with Sparkledogs… their choice. Doesn't mean I can't snicker or refuse to draw it, but it's their damn choice and not anyone's place to argue against it.

They like changing their fursona to the cool new species of the month? Who am I to say that's not correct, that's not how they feel? Etc pp.

Trying to dictate what 'is good' and what isn't is presumptuous. Feel free to model your own fursona by those rules, but trying to push others to adhere to your rules… well, that's pissing me off.


Besides that, what Cheetah, and especially Zefiro, said.

Fineas:
I think I understand your collective point.

However, if I understand well what you are saying is that: your are comparing the notion to the freedom to say "that is a pretty flower" to say "that is a flower" and that everyone should accept that it is a flower and that the collective or our individual notion that it is to our liking in any number of attributes is nonsensical and wrong.

If so I am divided in this opinion in that:
I feel any person or collective is also free to say what they want about any one, as long as your goal is NOT just merely to provoke or hurt.
The same goes for your freedom to express yourself in any way you like for the same notion.
Which in essence is what you do when you make a fursona or avatar to present you.

If you have no doubt that what you are doing is/feels right, then you shouldn't let any ones personal opinion sway your resolve.
If you are however doubting, because you might feel new in all this and it's all alien in concepts and that you yearn for that sense of belonging, but do not know how. Then why not let a collective or individual set you up with an idea.
Maybe it fits, maybe it doesn't. It's going to need nurturing to grow (and become what you wanted it to be) anyway, it has to start somewhere.

My goal with this piece is to vent an idea and put it to the test. Even if a collective would (completely) agree or disagree. I still see it as a guideline.
It's on the same level as why we ask an architect to draw our house and an engineer to make the numbers fit so it is structurally sound.
Because if you have the knowledge and guts you can just bypass all that and do it in whichever way you want.

The difference here is that you are right in that it is a very personal thing. Expressing oneself.
And that their not a lot of absolute values you can use to measure any kind of performance or 'fitfulness for a particular job'.

So it has never meant to be a set of strict rules one should abide by, however like with many things if you stray to far from anyones collective understanding or acceptance of something. Then it's going to be harder for you to make it understood to others and after that for people to accept it.

It's just as hard to explain why someone is gay, a furry or why one would drink wine. You can not explain the concept without feeling it, however, people accept it because the concepts got refined over time, we now have the words that can define something and the notion that a whole bunch of people embrace that value make it easier to accept.

So I accept any ones opinion that I might be right or wrong.
To contribute, oppose or be indifferent.
To accept it, to reject it or ignore it completely.

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