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 you’re attributing it to real life animals. Anthropomorphized fictional characters are totes fine, because it’s the author’s fiction to write as pleases them, and to take it to your extreme, isn’t it the whole point of furry characters is that they’re anthropomorphized animals?
Does it sometimes make me personally grumpy when fictional animal characters - think like, a ranger’s animal companions - are portrayed as acting in a “natural” way or “on instinct” and it’s just flat out wrong, but like... I’m here to teach folk science about actual animals. If someone came and said “I encountered this passage about X animal and thought it was interesting, is it accurate” then we could have a discussion about how that animal was behaving in relation to it’s IRL counterparts. But otherwise I’m not going to go out of my way to yuck some person’s yum, even if it’s 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 there’s not something actively harmful involved,
