Hey. Just a quick question that I haven't spotted on your FAQ. You say anti-anthropomorphic. Do you mean only when attributed to actual real life animals or even in the sense of anthropomorphized fictional characters (think furries)? Honestly this is mostly just curiosity.
Ahahaha, only when youāre attributing it to real life animals. Anthropomorphized fictional characters are totes fine, because itās the authorās fiction to write as pleases them, and to take it to your extreme, isnāt it the whole point of furry characters is that theyāre anthropomorphized animals?
Does it sometimes make me personally grumpy when fictional animal characters - think like, a rangerās animal companions - are portrayed as acting in aĀ ānaturalā way orĀ āon instinctā and itās just flat out wrong, but like... Iām here to teach folk science about actual animals. If someone came and saidĀ āI encountered this passage about X animal and thought it was interesting, is it accurateā then we could have a discussion about how that animal was behaving in relation to itās IRL counterparts. But otherwise Iām not going to go out of my way to yuck some personās yum, even if itās the type of thing that might make me not want to finish the book myself. For all that I joke about being a professional buzzkill, it matters a lot to me to let people enjoy things, as long thereās not something actively harmful involved,












