furry culture babbling: the phenomenon of 'closed species' OCs absolutely baffles me. imagine if you had to make a down payment to somebody for the right to make a chakat

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@hystericempress Right? I've kinda always thought of imagination as a cheap-as-free kinda resource, you know?</coach_z>

And I mean, if you spot a "closed" species that has features you really like... how freakin' difficult is it, really, to come up with a new one that's got those features but is just different enough to be original?

It just makes my free-culture hackles raise, yanno? I'm not proud of much these days, but I ACTIVELY encouraged people to "rip off" Puzzlebox and I'm glad...

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