Topic: This fandom has the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

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I'm setting up pools for long post chains and I recently ran into this chain (not finished yet due to api limits): post #2391369.

It's a humble work; no upvotes, ignored. The art isn't particularly good. When I was reading it I kept waiting for the sex to start happening. And then I got to the end. And I looked back through, and noticed the little details: the greeting hand sign that the bear gives to the wind, or that the mound in the first image is actually the tree from the last growing over time. This piece makes me sad in a good way. It's very satisfying. It tells a little moving story about growth and friendship and death with no words and 10 scribbles; I'm absolutely charmed.

Now back to work. The last image set I prepped was unbirthing. The next set is cock_vore. Truly the full breadth of sapient experience down here in the porn mines.

I've always liked Alexander Pope's description of humanity in his poem An Essay on Man:

Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest,
In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast;
In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer,
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little, or too much:
Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd;
Still by himself, abus'd, or disabus'd;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

matrixmash said:
It's a humble work; no upvotes, ignored. The art isn't particularly good.

I can't tell if it's good art or not, but it has a lot more personality than the popufur drawings with thousands of upvotes.
Or maybe I just feel that way because I'm not used to non-Western art, so it feels more original than it actually is.

mantikor said:
I can't tell if it's good art or not, but it has a lot more personality than the popufur drawings with thousands of upvotes.
Or maybe I just feel that way because I'm not used to non-Western art, so it feels more original than it actually is.

i feel like i'm the opposite, or explains my interests perfectly. I love kemono stuff over the usual western stuff, maybe because as you said, it's has more personality...

or it's just basic bias.

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