I was explaining some stuff about Fluffies to a friend of mine, and about how all Fluffy content exists on a Dark Comedy Sliding scale, but that also sometimes some people’s reactions to some comics or stories surprises me. They might find something funny that I found sad, or vice versa. Maybe it’s just because I have a sadbox mentality.
So I wanted to ask… on average, how much do YOU sympathize with Fluffies? Do you care about their plights? Do you think they should all be chucked in a fire? Do you only care about some, but smarties and BMS mares should be stomped? Would love to see everyone’s opinions about how MUCH fluffies deserve what happens to them, and why.
There are no wrong answers of course. The coolest thing about fluffies is the different ways people can approach and interpret the idea of Stupid Talking Fat Horses Who Face Grave Misfortune.
Fluffies are (mostly) meant to be sympathetic. If 95% of the fluffies you write aren’t sympathetic in one way or another, you either suck or have no soul. People have tried so hard to turn fluffies into hateworthy shit-demons but the whole point is that hurting them shouldn’t be easy to justify.
Rant over, anyway I think sympathy is important and I sympathize with fluffies a lot. I intentionally write stories that make you sympathize with the character(s).
You should always feel some level of sympathy for a fluffy, regardless of what they may have done. If you feel nothing for a fluffy then you’ll feel nothing for its death, and at which point you might as well have never read the story.
Sympathy shouldn’t override contempt, nor vice versa.
Alex from A Clockwork Orange is a good example of a contemptuous character that you can sympathize with. That book is a masterclass on how to endear the reader to an otherwise repugnant protagonist.
I generally don’t sympathize with fluffies. Concepts like justified abuse, revenge abuse, and karmic retribution are all (to me) poor justifications. I am all for merely punting the little sucker across a field. The more stories that embrace that aspect of abuse, the better.
But, I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t write my short segments and stories on my images without any kind of sympathy. I do try to make it more like a third party informing you, the viewer, and then you can choose whether to feel bad. But in my heart of hearts, I don’t find any sympathy for them.
I sympathize with some fluffies and not with others in the same way I do or don’t with humans. Since they’re sapient beings with individual personalities, some are going to be sympathetic and some are going to be just awful and make me happy when someone runs them over with a steam roller. I cheer when a human rapist/baby-killer dies, too.
Fluffies should be cute, adorable and, basically, a lovely creature, but their behaviornis annoying as hell (starting their chirping foals). Racists, entitled, shit bags, manipulators, fluffies are just mutants garbage and even worst, apparently they are a plague that no one is able to control for some reason.
Abd fucking funny how people is too creative in the ways their torture and kill those pieces of crap.
But back to your question, nop, I have 0 empathy for those things.
Generally, it depends on how the fluffy is written. If it’s written in a way that makes you wanna fistfight anyone who tries hurting it, then I’ll sympathize. If it’s a dickwad that treats its brethren like garbage, then I will happily launch it out of a cannon. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I sympathize with fluffys in the same way I sympathize with Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein monster. Or the dinosaurs in jurassic park. They being a consequence of man trying to play god and while the mad scientist may have achieved making an artificial talking animal. At what cost? Never stopping to think if they should or shouldn’t. Fluffys are a mirror reflection of the best and worst traits in humanity.
On the one hand, they should be cute and convey an ‘AWWW’ response. As a creator, I work in the frame of : These are designed to be appealing to children and the parents that would buy them." So I tend to make my fluffies sympathetic but stupid when they come from a good breeder or shop.
Feral fluffies are asshole if that what kept them alive.
Me personally?
It is a talking pet! I’d god damn love the thing, it shits too much to bring in my house but best believe I’d have one as an outside pet. I’d spoil em rotten. I’ve taken care of incontinent dogs before and while it is a pain, I didn’t hate them at all. I’d love them and be a total hugboxer sorta guy.
Not at all. But rare cases when they survive against all odds, they go against their shitty pre programming (poopy baby racism, alicornphobia and voiding their bowels every other minute, trying to manipulate humans by their dancie babbeh antics,etc), then, maybe then I can sympathise with them and deem them worthy to carry on their short lives.
Most fluffies would be fine doing shelter and food finding, normal animal stuff, problem is that they can voice their needs, wants and grievances.
Imagine a small retarded looking neon pink horse-pig-rat-thing whining in a child-like voice into your legs as you pass by a alleyway, and the chorus of it’s spawn chirping and peeping incessantly harasses your ears and call for your attention:
“Huhuuu Fwuffee hungwe, nu smew pwetty, nee nummies an wawm howsie an toysies an saef-woom tu make babbehs gwow bi’ an’ stwon’, be nyu daddeh? Wiw be gud fwuffe an’ maek gud poopies!”
You’d feel sorry because of it’s voice and it’s defenceless foals, then you remember that this is a manmade being, it lies, begs, steals and cheats at any chance it gets for getting a better life for itself, it likely ran away to have this litter, it would kill its own children if it was promissed a bowlful of pasta.
Then abuse ensues.
But whenever you see a poopy baby, you feel sorry for it’s situation, which it had no control over, it was born into a shit life because corporate programming in its parents said it’s colors are unmarketable, and mistreat it because of it.
TL;DR: I feel sympathy for Fluffies that didn’t make their life completely shit because they wanted stuff they weren’t ready or mature enough to have, or their owners didn’t want to give them because they didn’t shit on the floor.
,but i living in México i’m not a illegal.