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Just a heads up, thought I should let you know, at 47:16 Mary E. Lowd is an AI author.

my baby sister, me and my moms were all watching it while i was just awed by Wolfies introduction my mom just said "is that the Grim Reaper" i was like "nah it's the Big Bad Wolf"

In the end, Zuko was the brave soldier boy who came marching home.

This was very informative! I had never really considered the nuances of anthro xenofiction before. From your selections, it's interesting to see how they all serve as reflections of the human experience in various ways. Obviously, all art is made from a human perspective, but I'm now compelled to read some of these stories which sound very emotionally resonant. Regarding works you didn't mention, I'd recently heard about a comic called "Scurry." I think it falls more under naturalistic xenofiction, but nonetheless, it follows a group of mice who have to navigate a setting uncharacteristically devoid of humans with very limited understanding of why the world is the way it is. Admittedly, I can't speak to its quality, as I haven't yet read it either, but figured I'd just give it a mention to engage.

Someone PLEASE do a Mythic Xenofiction story about invasive species and use it as commentary about colonialism and imperialism.

Someone PLEASE do a Mythic Xenofiction story about invasive species and use it as commentary about colonialism and imperialism.

The intro narrative of Watership Down is unforgettable to me.

Though the one question that probably we'll never know, since Daniel Mannix was still alive at the time of the film's release and production, what did he think of Disney's version? Probably wouldn't like it as much like several authors.

Gotta love the beastars OST playing in the background… good vid!! I’m so sad about the original novels angst, but I love the new information.

Well, we know the problem is mostly because it requires buy-in from the audience since most think treating this medium too seriously equals delusion and pretentiousness. Especially when some beloved artists have been put into question when some of their twisted morals and behavior ended up ruining their reputation. Since we know most people don't like being talked down to if a thinking-type movie was done wrong, That and because of the societal climate we live in as of now; wants something to only conform to their own biases because of our frustration, entitlement problems, and spite.

I didn't realize that The Library is underrated. It's one of my top 5 episodes.

Zuko was right about his father.

This movie literally gave me goosebumps multiple times. I have never seen something as good as this

Renard the fox, literally "Fox the fox"

You really deserve more views, I absolutely love your videos. I'll see if I can get your book :)

Hey that’s funny. That is true, I watched this as a child, favorite show ever funny enough and I’m 19 and in the military! 😂

I just didn’t like the end pacing. Besides that it’s a great episode. Def one of the best the series has to offer

I really enjoyed this. Very in depth. I'd love to see you make one focused on transformation literature. A theme that often runs adjacent to anthro literature. Human becoming something non human or other.

Since everyone is sharing movie facts on this I'd like to throw my hat in the ring. During the battle with the giant in the beginning the bell rings 8 times. When the bell falls on him it rings for the 9th time, his nine lives! And a for whom the bell tolls nod? I love this movie

I want to add (although I am still only 10 minutes into the essay), foxes were also -- at least in the lyric poetry of the trobadors, associated with cowardice, in addition to cunning. My own username, Volpilh, can mean both «foxling»/«little fox», or, as an adjective, «coward» in Occitan, though the latter is barely ever used today, and the root of the word, «volp», has largely been displaced by «renard».

Shrek I think influenced a lot of the animation industry as a subversion of the Disney renaissance I really hope this can have a similar influence

What about Silverwing?

Mus of Kerbridge spotted! Pauli Kidd is an Aussie national freakin' treasure.

Unsubscribed. Get therapy. "Furry" is not healthy. This is not a personal attack. It's sincere advice, but also just an admittance that I am not going to subject myself to this either. It is a real shame to see the same person who created the Brilliance of Zuko video essay be consumed by something so disgusting. I hope you conquer your demons.

A while ago, I accidentally came upon an anthromorphic series called Chakats Den. It's about taur like felines. Some are modified to have both genders and humanoids. Their species was created by modification of the DNA of big cats. They have advanced space technology. Humans live amongst Them & some have an interspecies relationship.

This video just so happened to appear in my recommendations and 'thank you'. I admit I haven't read as much anthro-fiction as I would've wanted (I did read Beastars. It was very messy in places, but still great.) but I'm personally working on a couple works of anthro animal fiction 'or related too' that I picture are going to run the gambit of being universally controversial, but they're on subjects I personally really, really needed to be explored. The first one is a series I'm calling Scale-born, of witch is about anthro lizards who are like Native American's/ Celts who are living in a world suppressed by Indo-European Catholic-like bears who are 'on the most part' wrong to mistreat and brutalize the lizard characters on the premise that their the offspring of their devil 'Saurus' while the Scale-born themselves think they were blessed by an evolutionary blessing from their goddess Zubara (Named after that fallen lady lizard general in Pearls of Lutra) who they revere among other things. My issue is not only is my proposed series Waaay not for kids, it paying homage to George RR Martin and Kentaro Miura (Along with refs to C.S Lewis, Tolkien, and Richard Adams to varying extents.) the very fact that its about lizard people could get it into the hot water due to how certain circles view such characters (Its the crap about Reptilian aliens. I don't buy into that nonsense at all.) could make it incredibly hard to pitch, even if I find the mythology/prose and trauma really quite beautiful. The other one while only in its early stages is an Egyptian Mythology story that actually follows Set/Seth as the main protagonist with his appearing offspring Anpu AKA Anubis as an secondary lead. While I know its meant to show Set in his younger more innocent days as an champion of light for Ra, much like the subject of Lizard People I fret said character is too universally despised (Especially with that latest Doctor Who episode coming out. Yikes.) for people to rationalize that he was ever anything other than the God of evil. The point of the book is to show that good vs. evil struggle and to be an father/son story of sorts, the reader not only seeing the best and worst days, the evil and good for Egypt and its gods both, shedding light on obscure facts and diving into the horror that it very may entail. The thing was...I was triggered into writing by both Brian Jacques and Rick Riordan both, for the first author I feel failed at capturing what medieval Europe really was, and at times overly vilified/mispresented reptiles even calling amphibians reptiles basically every time (Don't get me started on the 'vermin' talks.) the later was...me just flat being triggered by how Rick Riordan chose to portray Set and Anubis. Within Kane Chronicles, one he just made an absolute satanic monster with next to zilch redeeming quality's (I personally believe readers should be much more afraid of Sekhmet.) and while Anubis wasn't evil like allot of story's do he made him an basic pedophile flirting with an 13/14 year old girl even allowing that ship to set sail, so you can see how I got incensed. Part of what Rick did I thought right was him applying that it was actions of Osiris and Isis that caused Set to do the wrong that he did even admitting that Osiris has demon minions in the form of 'Shezmu the lion demon god' but Rick applied that Set was just born evil declaring his true name 'Evil Day' when it really should be 'New Day' since he was the one originally brining the light back from Apophisis's shadow. I know Egypt was crazy wacky with its animal headed gods, but I loved that whole idea of blending man with the forces of nature that that embodied, and while that probably makes me an furry, I just shrug that off and say 'whatever'. (I never even knew the Greeks did an Animal Fantasy epic of their own. That's really Interesting!)

Hey thanks for shouting out our Down the Rabbit Hole on Furries! <3 Your work is some of the very best on literary works & prose and I cannot recommend your videos enough! <3

I find Guardiands of Gahoole a good adaptation on avian anthropomorphism because they realistically (while still anthro) use their talons and beaks like real birds and not the common cartoony comical use of their wings or feathers in place of hands.

Shoutout to Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo as some earlier anthro animal work, started in 1984!

Did you miss the bell rings 8 times before falling on Puss or that you hear a heartbeat 8 times before the candle goes out?

I know that this video is about furry literature but what are your opinions on furry videogames like Biomutant, Beyond Good And Evil, Sonic The Hedgehog, etc.?

Me and my friends were so excited to see this movie we did a watch party of it on discord on a pirated website it was so much fun. Sadly or happily it was the beginning of a fallout with a friend who was slowly become a worse person or already was and he wound up leaving after problems we didn’t push him out put he left I hope he got better and is a better person now.

now are there any furry books written by anyone that's in their right mind? That doesn't say they have a mental illness or isn't a sexual deviant?

Furries shouldn't have ever existed plain and simple. the adjective "Furry" has been ruined by the fandom. as we describe in our beautiful video roasting the community. czcams.com/video/_lTWobJf0Cc/video.html Not happy your video was recommended to us. 🤬

What about furry aliens? I have here my copy of Quozl by Alan Dean Foster.

No Aesop's Fables...?

I can’t even make it past the intro without being impressed by the wondrous effort and talent you have OwO

Coming back to this video after a while. Now that I realize it, while they are accountable for their own work, I don't think that the blame for the poor state of this novel should be entirely pinned on the author. This book had to have gone through an agent and a professional editor. Who's to say that they didn't make requests or mandates, perhaps last minute even, that would end up affecting the prose, pacing, tone, and logic of the story? Considering that this is xenofiction fantasy, an often scrutinized genre that's hard to get published let alone sell, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.

so, in summation: not a "subversion" but a truly welcome "return to form" of the storytelling model, whether through animation as a medium or otherwise