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Originally Posted by grandeweasel
I'd like to bring the "move the furry pics to a different thread" issue back to the table. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that seeing boobs on Spongebob's squirrel friend comes dangerously close to spoiling boobs for me.
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If we're doing this, can I also propose splitting up some of the pictures by style? For example, I think the Biker and Cartoon Joe pictures are abundant enough they can each have their own thread (we might already have a thread for Biker pictures, come to think about it).* CGI should also have its own thread (technically a separate medium altogether). And also the more realistic "comic-book" style pictures VS the detailed caricatures VS the ultra simple styles should probably be split into separate threads, since they can be jarring to see side by side. Black and white VS colored has the same issue. The Disney stuff also kinda weirds me out sometimes, so I'd definitely appreciate that being given its own thread (actually, fan-works as a whole can do that, depending...).
I'm... honestly not sure if I'm being sincere or not here XD. [To clarify: I can see the value in keeping stuff separate so that fans of one thing don't have to be subjected to another, but if you honestly try to separate every little niche within the tooniphile fetish (even ignoring lolicon, since that's against the rules here), you'd probably wind up with too many threads to count, and I see no reason to believe the "furries" is a particularly more deserving element to recieve its own thread than some of the other things I've mentioned. Also, to be clear, I AM sincere with my above examples, since many of them DO contrast and the Disney stuff DOES genuinely bother me most of the time (as do some of the "ultra-simple" cartoons)... but then again, this is weighed against the point that I also know those threads would be less prosperous if separate, and would also clutter up the ENF board a lot more that way. On the other other hand, I do have to acknowledge that we do already have a separate thread for anime VS this one, although we seem to still be getting quite a bit of animesque drawings in here, so... I dunno XD.]
[Also, as a side question: Just how "furry" does something have to be to qualify as a "furry?" Technically speaking the term can be applied to ANY person with "animal like traits" (even purely psychological ones, such as cat like manerisms, or normal human traits that just happen to bare a passing aesthetic resemblance to those associated with an animal, such as the "fox face" associated with some Asian people), but it could also be being used only to refer to "full furries" (those actually covered completely in fur). I have seen people that will object even to the iconic "catgirl," though, so I can't honestly say which it is. Also, do mythical creatures count? Like, if we were to split things up, would a centaur go in the furry thread, or in this one. What about a minotaur? Mermaids? Where's the line drawn, and why?)
*: Also, since I know at the very least that CJ will be reading this (as well as many of his fans), I do wanna make 110% sure that people understand I'm not saying anything against his or Biker's works. On the contrary, I've rather enjoyed their stuff at times. But I do think they're sufficiently self standing (and sufficiently stylistic/different from the majority of the stuff on here) that if we're going to be splitting things up, they can and probably should get their own threads, instead of being lumped in with everything else.
04-17-2011, 08:01 PM
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