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2015-03-22, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-22, 08:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-22, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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One would hope a psychic old enough to date would stop asking questions like that.
Of course, one would also hope that we'd finally shaken that strange cultural disconnect where women hate having large butts when large butts are attractive to gynosexual men and women, if they're also shapely, by the time we'd undergone sufficient alteration to have psychics running around freely.
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2015-03-22, 08:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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I dunno, going into drawing something and thinking "I like this animal so much I'm going to use properties of this animal in my pinup character*" and being ignorant of what those properties actually are is less believable to me than people ignoring them in favour of drawing something they like, which happens to be incompatible with those properties.
* and let's be clear the majority of furry art, male or female, is pinup art.Last edited by GloatingSwine; 2015-03-22 at 08:58 PM.
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2015-03-22, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-22, 09:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-22, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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[stricken].
And crap, you were gonna be my go to. I'm desperate to get Scylla a story with instant gratification happy ending right now or I'm gonna be stuck with this albatross until I can rig somehing together. :(
Good news! Braz wants to write a deus ex machina and adopt Scylla~Last edited by SiuiS; 2015-03-22 at 11:54 PM.
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2015-03-23, 01:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
Very interesting answers here. Like another poster, I don't know what the question is really asking. Beyond that, I suspect my answer would be yes until it would be no.
It's not too hard to picture what functional wings on a humanoid figure would need to look like. Much shorter legs and torso (to raise the center of gravity higher on the body) along with massively exagerrated pectoral muscles and a broad chest. You'd probably also need a tail to provide some kind of stability during flight and the hips would probably be quite different.
The price would probably be not being able to walk or run very well. So you'd be effectively only be superficially humanoid in appearance. The exact details could probably be pretty diverse, but a lot of the requirements would be set by the constraints of needing a lot of muscle for the wings and the center of mass being somewhere close to the middle of where the wingspan covers. And being aerodynamically stable.
But yes, the artwork is mostly ideal human figures with various animal parts sutured on.I write a horror blog in my spare time.
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2015-03-23, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
Perhaps a better way to phrase this is 'methinks thou dost overgeneralize too much. On the other hand one's definitions of 'large' are entirely subjective. 'Large' is simply not an adjective I'd attatch to any butt I found attractive. To stick to the thread topic, in short, I would not date a pony. I also wouldnt want to shame those with smaller butts into thinking they should strive to change it... As goldilocks would say, for each person there is a 'just right'.
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2015-03-23, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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I can't tell if you're doing the colored font as an affectation or if you're using it as per the standard "sarcasm tag."
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2015-03-23, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I may be alone here, but I wouldn't want to date a psychic unless she could promise to stay out of my head.
While I do see the merit in being able to instantly understand and comprehend each other on intensely intimate level, with no chance of possible mis-understanding, it takes the effort out of working at a relationship, getting to know each other and making something worthwhile together.
If you know a person well enough, then your thinking can be so aligned, you can be effectively psychic.
On a personal level, I wouldn't want that level of access into my mind. What happens in my head, stays in my head, especially when it comes to intrusive thoughts.
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2015-03-23, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 06:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
Personally I wouldn't want to date a psychic because I read George RR Martin's A Song for Lya, and am therefore convinced that love between telepaths tends to end end with one partner being crushed by the hideous isolation inherent in being an individual, and feeding themselves to a space parasite that is also heaven. I'd worry, is what I'm saying here.
Otherwise, sure, why not?Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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2015-03-23, 08:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Its a little disappointing, for a board whose members generally consider themselves more enlightened, to see all the "as long as she was attractive" caveats stuck on to responses here.
#GoreMutualarejerks
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2015-03-23, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
In this instance, Vincent is using purple because it pleases him (or her, I am assuming) to do so. I used green for the longest time, still would if I wouldn't get banned for it. It's simply a reflection of how they wish their voice to be "heard".
Like any in-joke, it's only good as an in-joke though. Folks who are insistent you join their club are silly.
That's a silly thought. You realize the reverse is that you want people to be attracted to things they are not attracted to, yes? That doesn't compile.
If anything, this question isn't about dating, it's about the implicit assumptions of attraction. "Would you find other species attractive enough to date" and all.
Reframing th answer to include the question is tacky, because it implies excessive focus on the "shallow" component, but attractiveness is an integral part of things.
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2015-03-23, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't think it's a matter of "as long as she was attractive", as it is "as long as she looks human enough". Maybe even "as long as she has human enough features that I can find pleasing". Physical attraction is an important part of a romantic relationship for some people. That doesn't mean that the other aspects of the relationship are diminished or unimportant. However, if physical attraction is absent altogether (or worse, that one party is repulsed by some aspect of the other's appearance), that can lead to problems in the relationship.
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2015-03-23, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by themaque; 2015-03-23 at 09:28 PM.
“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.” Davis. -Steve Martin- Grand Canyon
Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.
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2015-03-23, 09:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by themaque; 2015-03-23 at 09:57 PM.
“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.” Davis. -Steve Martin- Grand Canyon
Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.
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2015-03-23, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why would an asexual care about what someone else finds desirable in their romantic partners anyways? Or in a romantic relationship for themselves?
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2015-03-23, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
Ayup. I suspect they would have an easier time, even, given that aesthetics and intelligence are, broadly, the remaining factors.
It's amazing how stupid we get sometimes. "Sorry, you're really intelligent and probably a good fit! But she's got better gibblies from an entirely subjective perspective. Sorry." >_<
Erasure. There comes a point where a person Gets tired of hearing questions that could implicitly deny the validity of their existence. That's why the answers shouldn't be phrased in a way that says, even implicitly "real X involves Y". Doesn't matter if it's real men do X or real X involves sex or anything like that. It's basically the No True Scotsman fallacy. "No true relationship doesn't involve sexual attraction" is an easy semantic trap to fall into, and a terrible one.Last edited by SiuiS; 2015-03-23 at 10:05 PM.
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2015-03-23, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-23, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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I know, it should rather be accepted as a given that one would only be considering attractive individuals, although the individual preference as far as what would constitute as attractive will clearly differ and has been demonstrated to do so, and whether any hypothetical individual would constitute attractive given X, Y, or Lord Zedd.
Some people really like those sharp teeth and cranial ridges on ambiguously brown women, for example.
And then once we get into alien psychologies, the other sort of more intangible attractiveness becomes even more of an issue than it is between baseline humans.
Alloromantic and Demiromantic Asexuals still find people attractive in non-sexual ways that attract them to prospective romantical partners even without the capacity for sexual attraction.
And an Aromantic Asexual would basically just acknowledge that the question applies to them a little bit less than others, beyond a no. Unless a non-human would somehow be an exception to their asexual aromanticism.
Language is a bit wonky there, I'll admit.
Because some men just want to be Judgy Januses. Judgy Janii? Judgy Janiei?
Or we could just not want anything to do with either, romantically or sexually for different but equally valid reasons.
Or we could just not want anything to do with either unless we're subjugating them or putting them to the sword because they're inherently treacherous enemies of all humanity for what their masters did to the first man, our lord, Zarus.
Or we could just boink the elf but not return her phone calls while maintaining a platonic interaction with the orc, who I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume is some kind of Rigger. And then when the elf inevitably puts out a hit on us, we can take advantage of the free gear delivered to our doorsteps by the various hoodlums and runners she hires to take us out. Although it probably won't be worthwhile experience or all that much in the way of material that's acquired, it does help one keep on top of one's game as a runner. Might even be a useful way to fake one's own death sequentially a few times just to mess with those trying to keep tabs on who is playing the game.
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2015-03-23, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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All I'm asking is if you're asexual, why care? Or do you not, and are just calling attention to one's self? Nobody is denying their existence simply because they said "people" rather than "most people". What I am saying is that if it is a non-issue for you, it feels like dragging baggage from outside the discussion into a place where it doesn't really matter. Not to say asexual people don't matter or anything like that. I'll be the first to admit however that I have no idea what an asexual romantic relationship looks like. Best buds?
Maybe I just need to be educated on the subject.Last edited by Crow; 2015-03-23 at 10:20 PM.
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2015-03-23, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
This is too reductionist. You're adding value judgements, and assuming the default Orc is ugly but kind (neither of which is given) and that the default elf is going to be bitchy and high maintenance.
The question is out of two equally nice and compatible people, why pick the one you are most physically attracted to, which is less strange.
Also, careful. You could step in toes; you're buying into the idea that an attractive and traditionally feminine person is likely to be "ugly on the inside", which does just as much harm if it's blindly accepted.
This doesn't change the idea that pan-assumption of sex=necessary is wrong. The minority exists, no matter how minority they are.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
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2015-03-23, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Would you date fantasy "demihumans" or sci-fi races
Would I date the "Subjectively cute elf" with horrible attitude? No, not personally.
Would I date the Orc? I dunno. If there was some level of attractiveness to me, than yes.
Could I date the hideous amorphus blob? No.
I'm not the kind for a polyamorous relationship and being with someone I am in no way physically attracted to would not fulfill all the needs I require in a romantic relationship. I've had women turn me down because I'm not their type, and it's disappointing but perfectly fair. Rarely though, for obvious reasons. ;-)“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.” Davis. -Steve Martin- Grand Canyon
Picard management tip: Debate honestly. The goal is to arrive at the truth, not at your preconception.