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kodayu · Qualificator Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 2

Hi!
Some time ago I did a little ranking out of curiosity, trying to determine the most prolific writers of furry series. After having read some of the articles, here at CYD I realized that the ranking actually offers a very interesting picture of the fandom at large...
Here is the the short version of the ranking:

1. The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik
Author: Elf Sternberg
XXX-Rated

2. Tanj/ Trouble's tales
Author: Kittiara
XXX-Rated

3.Thorhammer
Author: Ian Schue

4. Identity Crisis
Author: Hikaru Katayamma

5. A fox in the works
Author: Fox Cutter

6. Wulf
Author: Anthony Pryor
X-Rated

7.Blue Horizon
Author: Ted Blasingame

8. Spoontoon Tales- Extracts from a Diary
Author: Simon Barber

9. Zig Zag- the Story
Author: James Bruner

10. The Wilderhom Triology
Author: Cirrel

11. The Chosen few & The Darkness beneath
Author: Paul S. Gibbs

12. Tale of two Sabrinas/ Sabrina Squared/ Sabrina Cubed/Sabrina (4)
Author: Mark (Cheetaur) White

13. Gone Wylde
Author: Clint McInnes

14. From Depths to heights
Author: Shirh Khan
M-Rated

15. Companions
Author: Evoquus
XXX-Rated

16. Light on Shattered Water
Author: Greg Howell

17. The beginning of dreams & Breaking into the Light
Author: Ed Garner

18. Otherworlds
Author: Pflarrian Collifox

19. Taj
Author: jonwI
X-Rated

20. Human Memoirs
Author: Greg Howell

21. Anthropomorphic Foxes in Space
Author: Otrstf

22. Forest Tales
Author: Bernard Doove

23. Road Runner
Author: Simon Barber

24.Migratory Birds
Author: Kodayu
X-Rated

25. Sabrina- The story
Author: Chris Foxx

(Note: I did not link the X and XXX-rated stories due to the restrictions of this site. Further information can be found at the Planetfurry forum.)

Now, what's my point?
Actually I think it tells a lot about a community that is said to be about nothing but sex that out of the 25 largest endeavors there are only 6 that would be considered to be X-rated. And out of these 6 stories only 3 (The journal entires, Tanj, Evoquus) are actually about nothing else but sex thus getting an XXX-label. The majority of these story series are actually pretty ordinary sci-fi stuff with some additions of fantasy and slice-of-life.
On the other hand the two largest series are hanging over the rest of the list like a sword of Damocles. If one keeps in mind that The journal entries are approximately three times longer than The Lord of the Rings, then it's no wonder that everyone considers furries to have a mental deficiency (among others) and that everyone looks down on the fandom in disgust.
What is actually some sort of surprise to me is the total absence of furry life-stylers and beastiality stuff. In the long run they seem to be unable to deliver any larger work, no matter how much fuss they are making about themselves and their "life-style".
I think it's quite comforting to know that the majority of writers is doing non-sexual stuff, but it's depressing that their achievements is over-shadowed and subsequently compromised by notorious pornographers (I have to admit that I could be considered to be one of those), because some of the stuff in this ranking has such a high quality that it had a chance to be published in the mainstream market if the furry fandom did not suffer from its ill reputation.

Dr. Mojo · Prattler Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 180

it's always seemed to me that furry doesn't center around fan fiction, but drawings and art in general. Go scan VCL and see how much sex stuff you find, and how much the most famous authors draw.

LoKi · Coadjutor Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 99

it's always seemed to me that furry doesn't center around fan fiction, but drawings and art in general. Go scan VCL and see how much sex stuff you find, and how much the most famous authors draw.

Or go on furries' websites and look how many of their commisions are nudes/porn... >.>

RailFoxen · Venter Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 251

Here I'm surprised there are so many running furry literary series. Never in my years of IRC, MUCKs, forums, and random browsing have I heard anyone name or recommend even one of these. I'd long ago assumed furries lacked the attention span to read more than one shot spooge scenes, the sorts of which fill the VCL authors' section, Yiffstar, Miavir, Got Fox... Well, what might be really relevant to the discussion at hand are statistics about the reader base of each series. Any unemployed psychopath can hammer out a few megs of bad porn or G-rated soap opera in a month, but that doesn't mean anything if no one reads it.

The lifestyler crowd around ALF has made up some amazingly detailed settings and mythologies around their characters and the 'Homestead', but hell if anyone's ever put it into a serious work... let me know.

Computolio · Vociferator Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 631

Wait, we have restrictions on posting links to stories with porn in them? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN GUYS HELP

RailFoxen · Venter Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 251

We are, you know, a conservative and prudish rabid anti-furry site. We won't stoop to the disgraceful and immature level of the common smut-peddler.

kodayu · Qualificator Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 2

Well, what might be really relevant to the discussion at hand are statistics about the reader base of each series.

Actually that's something that would interest me as well. Some of the guys who have sites of their own, have webcounters: The Blue Horizon main page list approximately 62.000 visitors since 2001, A fox in the works had almost 14.000 since then.
Of course that doesn't mean that all these people actually read the stuff, but even if you assume that only a quarter of these visitors have actually read something that would mean that Blue Horizon had something like 15.000 readers up to now. Of course it is one of the most prominent ones out there... Unfortunately, as far as I can tell myself, you are partly right: Most people don't have the attention span to read such a lengthy series. Although my own series has been around since 2002 it only had about 200 readers at best.
Personally I would really like to know who these people are, because I am certain that it isn't the average "furry".

SquareMoogle · Venter Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 238

Post the links to the X-rated ones, we all need more wank material atrocity links.