DarrenTheFoxcoon

Though the artist themself marked this as General on FA, I did indeed spend an inordinate amount of time staring at that thar plumpy dumpy, examining every penstroke for the slightest trace of genitalia. Having found none, I decided to leave this post unmarked, racy though the art undoubtedly is.

Part of me agrees with your assessment, and wonders whether the line on questionable content is indeed stricter on Pawb than FA or E621.

The other half of me views asserts that such a shamelessly uncovered hind is not out of question for general-audiences content (e.g. cartoons), views such nudity-dissonance to be an unavoidable part of the Anthro-version experience and its accompanying jokes ("chicken breasts" is another obvious one of the same vein), and fully insists that the general public needs to see dat ass for their Furry exposure therapy.

Truly, I am torn.

Synth Orca? Duuude that's so cool 💖

Good on you for personally commissioning art, SolarPunk is awesome 💚💛

Hey, it was a fresh new Lemmy community, just waiting to be Konquered

Very good analysis of Furry from the outside, nicely done 👍 Some thoughts I had as I watched it:

• Most of the pearl-clutching about Furries seems to come from Puritan countries, esp. USA & UK. Other countries? Quite the opposite. Examples off the top of my head:

  • Orangina citrus soda (French ad agency FFL Paris)
  • German beer Füchschen (literally, "Foxy")
  • Mexican baseball mascot lapdancing in the crowd

• Notions of "children"'s mascots almost never occur to any of us Furs, except for the obvious Rule 34 moments. It more feels like, without consciously thinking about it, my childhood interests grew up with me. Does nostalgia play a role? Perhaps some unstated rebellion against squeaky-clean Puritan and Corpo media?

• Xenophilia & neophilia are probably the strongest drivers, conscious or not. Every day in this fandom, someone comes up with something both strange and wonderful.

• Accordingly, Furry art is a wondrous baptism-by-fire of Queer acceptance (also conscious or not), especially regarding body-positivity. As one gets used to seeing an 8-foot fox with 3 pairs of watermelon-size breasts & multiple tentacle dicks, the discomfort of trans and intersex bodies falls away. (I admit to my shame that transmen once made me uncomfortable; Furry art slowly slapped me out of it.)

• It's both flattering and amusing to have "deeper meaning" / "deep sense of self" ascribed to our silly cartoon animals. Most days it feels like Furry simply is, no hidden depths needed. Is all art like this?   "Just shat out this portrait of some lady over the weekend, it's whatever" ~Leonardo da Vinci, probably

Art.

Put a tiny Mindstorms chip in the minifig's head, and I'm sold 🤑💰

Ah yes, I remember this news from months ago.

TL;DR for peeps in a hurry: Dirty emissions from cheap fuel-oil were making/seeding extra clouds over the ocean, enough to reflect a measurable amount of incoming sunlight.

New cleaner fuels (or electric power?) = no more extra clouds = slight uptick in global temp. Oopsie whoopsie.