BrandonSP wrote:
I liked anthropomorphic animal heroes like the Ninja Turtles, Street Sharks, and Extreme Dinosaurs when I was a kid, but that's the closest I get to being a furry. I appreciate animals in their wild (or "feral") form too much to want to anthropomorphize them.
The furry fandom isn't just total anthro. A lot of it is devoted feral animals too. I know that you're into dinosaurs(I'm friends with you on DA). Any book that features dinosaurs as the main characters is of interest to the scaly portion of the fandom. For instance Raptor Red(my best friend's favorite book). You my or may have not heard of. It is by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. The main character is a female Utahraptor(Robert is the one who named the species, I believe) and the dialogue is quite sparse, but it's there. However, all of the animals are feral. By the virtue of making them sentient in a sense, Robert anthropomorphizes the animals in the book, but not by very much.
It is this part of the fandom in which I mostly dwell. I am a fan of this book and books like Watership Down, Dragon Outcast, The Plague Dogs, Pride of Baghdad, and Call of The Wild. Total anthropomorphization doesn't appeal to me very much. And also, I find the people in this particular section of the fandom to be more tolerable.