Yourself, silly.
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Since you are all rambling cunts I think I understand the propose of this post , it all comes down to the artist needs to grow a skin not a thick skin just a skin
Once you creat something and release it to the world you loose control over it no one will see your creation the same way you see it , every once in a while post a comment counter to your view , I know I understand how dare this subhuman filth dare to think they are worthy of contradicting you .
You the artist must always remember you are the dumb ass buffoon that went looking for attention, and now you have it and that subhuman filth is actually just a person like you and like you he seeks the comradery of a community more over you have stirred a emotion in the poster what you sought to do when posting your art , why would you throw that all away by not being able to keep your ego in check,
Joke whit your posters give none committal response tell them you choose to go a different way then the one the would choose, but don’t act like there post invalidates your work don’t scream that they have no right to a opinion and don’t run to the mods demanding they be silenced just because your no skinned ass can not take the slightest bit of disagreement whit your work have some fucking humility you did not hang the stars
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he is saying that artists should accept that people will see their art differently no matter what they do, to the point of seeing the opposite of what was intended. if there is room for interpretation, there will be a conflict of opinions. it’s an absolute constant. and if it’s a constant, there is no reason to rage and cry for mods when it happens. TLDR people should grow some skin
at least, that’s what i think he means
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like I said, i could be wrong
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I appreciate the effort
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I remember Aichi once told me that the whole Fluffies shitting didn’t used to be a thing. He said that once it became a thing, quite a few people left the fandom because they didn’t like it. By the time I found Fluffies in 2016, it was pretty well established hivecanon.
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I just enjoy the mental image of something bodily reacting to violence in the form of violent, uncontrollable shitting and pissing.
Blood and organs are part and parcel for any other creature. In this way, fluffies have one notable attribute I must acknowledge.
Poopy attribute.
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I kinda see it as one of their few defense mechanisms.
The other they have is possibly high pitched screeching.
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There is always something new whit fluffies you either roll with it or leave
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So, being someone who is mildly ADHD (no diagnosis, but I know myself), I tend to get bored really easily.
This eventually led me to one of the pits at the bottom of the internet, known as 4chan/b. On there, I saw Fluffies for the first time, about 90% of which was abuse threads. This was early 2016.
At first, I was like What the Actual Fuck? And skipped those threads. People kept posting them though, and something about is was morbidly fascinating. You could call it cute aggression, and I do think that’s part of it, but there’s also something that’s analogous to porn, it’s a fantasy of selfish desire in which no real being is hurt, but in this case the outlet is sadism rather than sexuality.
Being an experienced story teller from decades of running games of D&D, and having some experience of writing deviant BDSM type sex stories, I knew that at some point I’d like to write fluffy stories myself. (No I won’t link you to my sex stories).
Of course, hugbox is the Yin to Abuse’s Yang, and I realised that I didn’t want to be limited to just one genre. I do write hugbox but it’s almost never pure hugbox, there’s normally some sadbox in the mix to make the happy ending all the sweeter. If you want to read some of my hugbox/sadbox you could start with Abandoned or Jelly and Snowflake.
Of course, I’ve also written pure abuser stories, such as Psychopathy, but even in these I’ve tried to tell something a bit bigger than just 1000 ways to skin a fluffy.
My sense is that exploring both genres makes for a much richer story telling experience. Claire in Jelly and Snowflake and the stories that follow is a hugboxer, but she lives in the real world which is also very sad at times and contains abusers and smarties and selfish Fluffies and humans. How does a hugboxer cope in such a world? Claire being 12 at the start of the story is a critical age. She grows up out of the naïveté of childhood and learns how the world can actually be.
The essence of the contrast is that hugbox is empathy and compassion, realising that other beings have feelings, and caring about them, essentially realising the the universe is bigger than one’s self. This is why compassion is one of the key factors of transcending the self in the form of spiritual enlightenment, in various traditions that have arisen.
Of course, the emptiness of the universe also means that abusers can arise, and abuse is fundamentally selfish. This lack of empathy for others reaches its extremes in Psychopaths, hence me writing Psychopathy. The lack of a singular universal self is what enables smaller chunks of the universe to form senses of “my own self” and to perceive other chunks of the universe as “other”. Through the myopia of our own senses, we can’t directly feel other beings pain, and as a result can eat or destroy them. Selfishness vs transcendence of the self is the fundamental story of our universe, and Fluffies enable story telling about sadism, which wouldn’t be tolerated if it were about humans. In turn, the sadism contrasts so strongly with compassion that it enables stories about far greater feats of compassion than one could tell in a purely hugbox setting. Think about the end of Schindler’s List where he takes off the gold Swastika collar pin and realises that if he had sold it he could have saved one more person. When Schindler started to cry about that it was what finally made me cry in that movie.
So, I find all aspects of the fluffy fandom interesting and don’t begrudge anyone writing or drawing any aspect. I also love my comedy and Weirdbox as any reader of Red Conan and the Snake Daddy can tell.
One note on filters. If you filter out hugbox or abuse, you will miss some of my stories, which contain elements of both. It would be a shame to miss out on Claire’s story which is ultimately hugbox, simply because it contains elements of abuse.
I’ll post some hyperlinks to my stories mentioned here later when I can edit this post on my laptop.
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I don’t filter hugbox out because I actually regularly follow the work of @Booperino and collaborate with him. I find that our works complement each other, and he has drawn approved endings to my writings. In this way, while as creators we do not delve into the inverse genres, there is still balance to be found between us.
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Hard weirdbox ,soft hugbox.
I’m afraid I’ve flown too close to the Sun with it though. I’m not sure if any of the longer story’s Im working on are welcome here.
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Why would you think so?
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Virgil said no to the beginning of the story.
My definition of fluffy is to broad I think.
So I’m gonna go ahead and post the things I’m not sure about to derpiebooru.
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Or you could adjust tact and tweak the idea until it’s greenlit here?
Can’t just give up after the first bit of resistance.
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I’m curious what your definition of a fluffy is, if your story ended up being vetoed. Must be interesting!
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@SqueakyFriend
Depends on the story.
But the big one I’m putting the most effort in to has a weird box breed.
They’re intelligents Max’s out at 20 year old. (They still have to get to the age if 20 to get that intelligent)
And they have magic, but nothing to OP.
And there mostly alicorns.
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@Oculusfluffy has written enough stories with weirdbox concepts to set a staggeringly lenient precedent as to what constitutes a fluffy.
If you are outside of this realm, dial it back a tad and you should be fine. Unless you insist on being obtuse about it and writing for an audience without the context of the base available here.
In which case I can do nothing more than wish you the best of luck.
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