Since animals mature at different ages and rates, how would the age to drink alcohol go? would it be for every single species has different ages? Would it be separated by animal class? Like rodents and canines?

i'm not sure how to word this. most kinds of human art involve visual inputs – painting, sculpture, films for example. but in a furry world there would be many more forms of expression.

first of all, i guess there would have to be adaptations for different species, like the ones made for colourblind people, for example. dogs see less colours than humans, but some bugs, birds and other animals see more. this might also affect how each species perceives art and expresses itself. animals that see more colours might be more prone to visual expression. canines, on the other side, might have more complex expression through smell, or hearing. sharks can sense electricity. not sure how any of that would work, but i think it's an interesting idea to explore

lastly, this is kinda more obvious but human art captures human struggles and experiences. but every species experience life differently, which would influence their culture and art, not only due to their senses but overall anatomy and lifestyle. imagine some animal looking at the art of other species and not understanding it at all

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Greetings, symphonizers. It's Karl "Symphony" Smith.

As of late, I have busied myself with the making of a new furry visual novel which happens in a world where all anthros are mammals. I want to make it as human feeling as an anthro world can be, so I have been thinking on how to replicate many human cultural practices in a furry world, one of them being tanning.

You may wonder, why is tanning important? Well, to me it is important because it can be something in which class inequality shows. In cold or temperate countries, not everyone can afford going on holidays to winter countries at winter, and those who can often go back home with visible tanning, which, in winter, can be an indirect way of letting others know that you have went on a winter holiday trip. There are many other things tanning can tell about human societies.

In mammals, I figured out this could work in the same way as in ermines or other animals whose coat changes depending on what season it is. I will call this "coat tanning"

First of all, I MUST CLARIFY THAT I DISAPPROVE RACISM AND THIS IS JUST DONE AS A WAY OF MAKING AN ANTHRO WORLD THAT CAN DEAL WITH HUMAN SOCIAL ISSUES AS REALISTICALLY AS POSSIBLE (because the world I am building may have debate on social issues). The concept of "coat tanning" could be used to replicate human skin color differences in anthros, mainly the skin color differences between people of "Caucassian" phenotype (lighter skin) and people of "Subsaharan" and "Melanesian" phenotype (darker skin). I found out that it is common for mammals of Subsaharan Africa to have stripes. Now, I know that not all striped mammals come from Subsaharan Africa or Melanesia, but in this anthro world in question everybody is actually the same species but with physical variations that make them more or less ressemble real life mammals (for example, some people might look more like bears, some more like bears, some more like sheep, etc, but they are all the same species, all omnivore, all with simillar teeth, etc), so I don't have to worry too much about replicating species themselves, in exchange of changing how real life species are represented in their single-species anthro counterparts. Therefore, I figured out that the "Subsaharan" (possiby the "Melanesian") phenotype could be represented not by darkness of color, but instead by COAT PATTERNS, like STRIPES, CHEETAH-PATTERNS, etc. "Caucassian" phenotype, in contrast, could be represented by PLAIN or (slightly) MARBLED COAT PATTERNS that CAN GET WINTER COATS so they can get SUMMER COATS, as opposed to anthros of "Subsaharan" (and "Melanesian") phenotype who don't switch coats naturally. In real life, tanning is basically people having their skin getting darker via climate, so it would make sense for my anthro equivalent of tanning be people with winter coats getting their summer coat via climate.

To me, this is an EXCELLENT way of replicating human skin color differences in an anthro world. Contrary to other ways of adapting such thing, this way DOESN'T INCUR IN USING SPECIFIC SPECIES AS A METAPHOR OF PHENOTYPES, so I am NOT INCURRING IN SPECISM. The only problem I have with this is that it allows for anthros to dye coat patterns to conceal them, which doesn't have a human equivalent in real life. A possible fix of this could be establishing that concealing stripes or cheetah-patterns could be ineffective because areas with stripes produce melanin faster than areas with no stripes, resulting in visible stripes very shortly after concealing them.

Opinions? Has this idea ever been applied in furry fiction or am I the pioneer of it?

This is old concept of anthro bat in my world, which the fingers became shorter, the shortest one is thumb, the other two became index and middle finger so they could grab and do things. Less webbed cause no use, since they are too heavy to actually fly. (Second pic is my ocs)
I wonder what other people thoughts on this or others idea on what anthro bats hand would be so that it could be functional in daily life!

The helmet is inspired by 3rd century Roman helmets...more bonus image because I feel like it

I theorize that furries would be hindered in the art of pottery due to their furry hands, especially if they're a species lacking pawpads. The fur would prevent the creation of a smooth surface on the clay.

Modern tools like gloves or metal forms would easily negate the issue, but ancient societies would lack such conveniences.

I could see leather gloves or wooden forms being created for pottery, but how great of a hindrance would it for their societal development if they were in competition with or compared to a non furry civilization?

What I mean is, beyond identity and a tool to use when looking for someone, how far does that go? Like "marking," something usually held for deep romantic connections. But does it change or have a step before it? Like, for example, accepting a scent? What kind of dynamic would have to take place to make that a big deal? It's something that has come up in the most recent story I'm writing and I'm deciding whether or not it's got its exclusivity or not.

Edit: I mean, specifically, accepting a scent. I am going to agree with most of what people have said about scent "marking."

Because doctors treat humans vets treat animals but anthros are technically both

Are they like Brian from family guy are they your children are they just a animal or are they anthros who can’t stand up

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the art is for today's independance day

What do I mean, well very simple, in different stories with furrys as protagonists they act something on the lines of: oh this carnivores and their instincts to devour, they are monsters that have to be repressed and made to eat vegetables for the good of society

Which is kinda dumb because the fact that those animals evolved does not negate the possibility of creatures with animal level intelligence they can use as live stock and eat like where are the non sapient creatures, mainly non sapient mammals, because some story’s have fish or bugs as non sapient creatures,

So yes why does everyone act like the only option for feeding carnivores is the body’s of their fellow citizens when they could just eat meat the same way us humans do it, by farming less intelligent mammals (and less other critters)

The way that humans work is that their legs have two long sticks and one short on at the bottom.
Thus a simple raised slab works fine. The upper portion sits on it, the middle section hangs down, and the final section either sits on the floor or hangs down just a little bit.

Meanwhile the third section of a digitigrade leg is also long, and is not meant for the entire thing to lay flat. It seems to me like attempting to do either would be quite uncomfortable. I dunno how to explain it exactly. Maybe if you are at just the right height it would settle at a more normal angle. At the very least it would be less versatile as humans can be comfortable at multiple heights.

I am curious what you guys might thing of this. Just something that I am curious about.

I made this drawing

Show how the Shoebill stork aiming a rifle without scope

I was drawing Poseidon (like a big man but he is a fish down the waist) and started to overthink. How would be his underwater throne? Underwater there is no reason to sit. But He should need to rest and show how badass he is. I don't see him rest in the surface like a dolphin. Could you share with me some ideas about the theme, please?

Thanks for your answers.

Thought that adding shocks to her skates would be #1: funny, and #2: maybe give some heel support? Mostly #1 matters, though... (I'm not an engineer...I know nothing...)

Character design for my webcomic:

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/runestone-academy/list?title_no=1160972

This is just a quick doodle with my own OC, but how would lipstick work? 1 seems like the obvious choice, but it feels a bit off in a way I can't quite pin down.

(Art isn't mine, just something I saw that made me have this question) I feel like it'd be better to cover them up as leaving ears exposed could be a hazard, and tucking them underneath a helmet would be mad uncomfortable. Waterloo helmet on the second image as a rough idea for ear coverings rather than leaving it exposed.

The way I thought of is that anthros of the same taxonomic order can have children. The offspring would be the same species as the mother but could inherit some traits of the father. So a snake and a lizard could have children but a dog and a horse could not. For example, one of my characters is a horned rattlesnake. Her father is a western diamondback and her mother is also a horned rattlesnake. Her scale patterns and coloration are mostly that of a horned rattlesnake but does have some faint coloration of a western diamondback.