Hello, and welcome to my channel! Here, I focus on longform critical analysis of writing, primarily with regards to western animation and literary xenofiction (stories told from the perspective of animals), but from time to time I will branch out into other subject matter, or even post readings of original short stories. I also write under the name Casimir Laski. _________________________________________________________________________________________
Author and RU-vidr, Armchair Xenofiction Scholar, Canidae Enthusiast, CSH Connoisseur.
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I really enjoyed this. Very in depth. I'd love to see you make one focused on transformation literature. A theme that often runs adjacent to anthro literature. Human becoming something non human or other.
Since everyone is sharing movie facts on this I'd like to throw my hat in the ring. During the battle with the giant in the beginning the bell rings 8 times. When the bell falls on him it rings for the 9th time, his nine lives! And a for whom the bell tolls nod? I love this movie
I want to add (although I am still only 10 minutes into the essay), foxes were also -- at least in the lyric poetry of the trobadors, associated with cowardice, in addition to cunning. My own username, Volpilh, can mean both «foxling»/«little fox», or, as an adjective, «coward» in Occitan, though the latter is barely ever used today, and the root of the word, «volp», has largely been displaced by «renard».
Unsubscribed. Get therapy. "Furry" is not healthy. This is not a personal attack. It's sincere advice, but also just an admittance that I am not going to subject myself to this either. It is a real shame to see the same person who created the Brilliance of Zuko video essay be consumed by something so disgusting. I hope you conquer your demons.
A while ago, I accidentally came upon an anthromorphic series called Chakats Den. It's about taur like felines. Some are modified to have both genders and humanoids. Their species was created by modification of the DNA of big cats. They have advanced space technology. Humans live amongst Them & some have an interspecies relationship.
I feel like each state flag should only be allowed to have a single star or a single symbol to be interpreted as a star. Having 6 stars representing the 6th state is unnecessary. The other state flags already have their own stars and do not need to be shown on another states flag.
This video just so happened to appear in my recommendations and 'thank you'. I admit I haven't read as much anthro-fiction as I would've wanted (I did read Beastars. It was very messy in places, but still great.) but I'm personally working on a couple works of anthro animal fiction 'or related too' that I picture are going to run the gambit of being universally controversial, but they're on subjects I personally really, really needed to be explored. The first one is a series I'm calling Scale-born, of witch is about anthro lizards who are like Native American's/ Celts who are living in a world suppressed by Indo-European Catholic-like bears who are 'on the most part' wrong to mistreat and brutalize the lizard characters on the premise that their the offspring of their devil 'Saurus' while the Scale-born themselves think they were blessed by an evolutionary blessing from their goddess Zubara (Named after that fallen lady lizard general in Pearls of Lutra) who they revere among other things. My issue is not only is my proposed series Waaay not for kids, it paying homage to George RR Martin and Kentaro Miura (Along with refs to C.S Lewis, Tolkien, and Richard Adams to varying extents.) the very fact that its about lizard people could get it into the hot water due to how certain circles view such characters (Its the crap about Reptilian aliens. I don't buy into that nonsense at all.) could make it incredibly hard to pitch, even if I find the mythology/prose and trauma really quite beautiful. The other one while only in its early stages is an Egyptian Mythology story that actually follows Set/Seth as the main protagonist with his appearing offspring Anpu AKA Anubis as an secondary lead. While I know its meant to show Set in his younger more innocent days as an champion of light for Ra, much like the subject of Lizard People I fret said character is too universally despised (Especially with that latest Doctor Who episode coming out. Yikes.) for people to rationalize that he was ever anything other than the God of evil. The point of the book is to show that good vs. evil struggle and to be an father/son story of sorts, the reader not only seeing the best and worst days, the evil and good for Egypt and its gods both, shedding light on obscure facts and diving into the horror that it very may entail. The thing was...I was triggered into writing by both Brian Jacques and Rick Riordan both, for the first author I feel failed at capturing what medieval Europe really was, and at times overly vilified/mispresented reptiles even calling amphibians reptiles basically every time (Don't get me started on the 'vermin' talks.) the later was...me just flat being triggered by how Rick Riordan chose to portray Set and Anubis. Within Kane Chronicles, one he just made an absolute satanic monster with next to zilch redeeming quality's (I personally believe readers should be much more afraid of Sekhmet.) and while Anubis wasn't evil like allot of story's do he made him an basic pedophile flirting with an 13/14 year old girl even allowing that ship to set sail, so you can see how I got incensed. Part of what Rick did I thought right was him applying that it was actions of Osiris and Isis that caused Set to do the wrong that he did even admitting that Osiris has demon minions in the form of 'Shezmu the lion demon god' but Rick applied that Set was just born evil declaring his true name 'Evil Day' when it really should be 'New Day' since he was the one originally brining the light back from Apophisis's shadow. I know Egypt was crazy wacky with its animal headed gods, but I loved that whole idea of blending man with the forces of nature that that embodied, and while that probably makes me an furry, I just shrug that off and say 'whatever'. (I never even knew the Greeks did an Animal Fantasy epic of their own. That's really Interesting!)
Hey thanks for shouting out our Down the Rabbit Hole on Furries! <3 Your work is some of the very best on literary works & prose and I cannot recommend your videos enough! <3
I find Guardiands of Gahoole a good adaptation on avian anthropomorphism because they realistically (while still anthro) use their talons and beaks like real birds and not the common cartoony comical use of their wings or feathers in place of hands.
I know that this video is about furry literature but what are your opinions on furry videogames like Biomutant, Beyond Good And Evil, Sonic The Hedgehog, etc.?
Me and my friends were so excited to see this movie we did a watch party of it on discord on a pirated website it was so much fun. Sadly or happily it was the beginning of a fallout with a friend who was slowly become a worse person or already was and he wound up leaving after problems we didn’t push him out put he left I hope he got better and is a better person now.
Furries shouldn't have ever existed plain and simple. the adjective "Furry" has been ruined by the fandom. as we describe in our beautiful video roasting the community. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_lTWobJf0Cc.html Not happy your video was recommended to us. 🤬
Coming back to this video after a while. Now that I realize it, while they are accountable for their own work, I don't think that the blame for the poor state of this novel should be entirely pinned on the author. This book had to have gone through an agent and a professional editor. Who's to say that they didn't make requests or mandates, perhaps last minute even, that would end up affecting the prose, pacing, tone, and logic of the story? Considering that this is xenofiction fantasy, an often scrutinized genre that's hard to get published let alone sell, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.
so, in summation: not a "subversion" but a truly welcome "return to form" of the storytelling model, whether through animation as a medium or otherwise
There’s two ways you’d want your audience to react to a plot twist of any kind: Having them not expect it at all and being surprised when it happens at all, And the harder one, have it be that they *know* the twist is coming at some point, but for it to be such a good moment that it makes one jump up and yell, “I called it!” In excitement. Deaths reveal is pointedly part of the latter for a lot of people.
I agree with your title-- recent attempts to redesign state flag have yielded boring results. To be frank though, I'm a little confused how your designs are any different. They've got the same over-reliance on obvious symbolism ("a horse for Kentucky!", "put the state bird/flower/tree on there!"), random color selections ("Kentucky should be green... not bluegrass green, just a random green!," "New Hampshire should be purple!"), oversimplified geometry ("let's turn the coolest thing in Oklahoma's flag into basic shapes!", "everyone gets a center circle... but not the seal they used to have!"). I'm starting to think NAVA's "Good Flag" principles are actually bad advice (certainly when taken as gospel).
What is the name of that story that you mentioned at 50:10? I tried finding it on my own online, but am having trouble. Can you clarify that more by also telling the author's name and when it came out?
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How the Lion, King of all the Beasts, sent out his commandments that all Beasts should come to his feast and court. In the time when the forests are lusty with leaves and flourishing trees, and the ground smells sweet with herbs, and is colourfully flowery, and all fowls and birds sound melodious in their harmony, the crowned King of all the Beasts, the noble lion, would hold an open court at state, and send a commandment that all Beasts should attend, so that he might come to know the news of the land. So, then, all Beasts great and small came to court, except Reynard the Fox. Because he knew himself guilty of many a fault and disport against too many Beasts, he dared not show himself. When the Lion, amid the strew of leaves, had gathered the peers of the realm, there were none of them all in the shadow of the wood but deplored all the mayhem perpetrated by Reynard the Fox-indeed, him.
One book that I found years ago is G Howells " The Human Memories" and his " Life of Riley" stories that are still on going today. It could classified as an Isekai set of full length novel.
I'm absolutely outside this fandom, but I enjoyed the video a lot. It's always fun to hear someone talk about something they know deeply. Thank you. I might even give some of there a read!
I’ve been writing a xenofiction story about my own original species, called cerriens, which are basically just demonic-looking cat-like creatures. They live on their own continent called Fintaria where there are four subspecies each adapted to living in certain habitats: The Mountain Kingdom, Desert Kingdom, the Fintarian Tribe (the first civilization to exist that live in forest/moorland habitats), and the Treetop Tribe (which live mostly in trees). When a cerrien dies they go to the Spirit World as a ghost that can visit the Living World occasionally through a portal. No mortals can see the ghosts except for one special cerrien born every century called the Spirit-Watcher. For the actual plot of the story, the Spirit World has been corrupted and is in the process of being destroyed forever by a mysterious evil ghost, and the Spirit-Watcher at the time (named Echo) and some other cerriens have to journey across Fintarian to find a portal to make it to the Spirit World and stop its corruption. (This is way too long lol)
A correction: Coffeeshop Fox stories are actually used quite often in children's literature, particularly those aimed at younger readers, i.e., Marc Brown, Rosemary Wells, and Kevin Henkes, among others. Also, you forgot to mention that sometimes the characters in those types of stories don't even acknowledge that the characters are animals.
