FUN + ART = FART

The 'don't take inspiration from my art' thing is ridiculous and sad no matter what, but I kind of appreciate the just, absolute boldness of people who operate on that kinda mindset while only doing fanworks. Like I can understand how a furry on toyhouse manages to convince themself that their proprietary sharkdog closed species emerged fully formed in their mind palace without any external influence, but how do you like. Get There when your entire artistic output revolves around transformative work that lifts Directly and Openly from preexisting media. Like do you just Not Realize or

My girlfriend is annoyed that I insist our lesbian sheep roleplay is zoologically accurate and thus we can't have sex, we just face away from each other and wait for the other to top

Thanks for explaining