furry art grump, military
your kink is still ok but personally i am so weary of seeing anthro my little ponies with firearms
honestly i just feel a little weary any time i see any armed furry
this is not meant to be normative in the least; i have friends with absolutely delightful ex-mil characters and i'm not even that anti-gun in rl
it's a purely hindbrain-level aesthetic reaction and not a moral or objective judgment at all
but come to think of it, i don't think i've ever played a single soldier character, ever, that i can recall
(rez makes a big display of being a conquering empress but really a martian invasion is more just like "your goofy cousin shows up with a ton of sushi, occupies your house for four days, drinks all your booze and eats all your catnip, and goes home." the main volume of martian military doctrine is "the tiger who came to tea.")
(oh and noelle likes to dress up in rainbow pastel camouflage and run around with a paint gun making things pretty against their will, but i don't think that really counts either)
(okay and maybe laika [REDACTED] four mi-6 agents [REDACTED] bratislava [REDACTED] piano wire but come on who hasn't done a little wetwork here and there)
(ok maybe i don't have any room to judge but it's still fucking weird and dissonant seeing rarity with an mp5)
furry art grump, military
Honestly, agreed.
One of the artists I like very much, who does genies VERY well, does an awful lot of "Here's a pony with a gun" pictures - Complete with "Here is obsessive detail about the gun" information in the descrption.
I like the artist, but it still makes me skeeve out a bit.
re: furry art grump, military
@Phorm I know EXACTLY who you're talking about, and yeah, that's the one. Seems like a nice enough guy and, hey, I put up with Rik's military fetish for 15 years (though to be fair, Rik "likes" military imagery the same way I "like" Elder Gods, body horror, and parasitic wasps: morbid awe). But yeah, feels like it's indulging something that the Mane Six and their personalities were intentionally written to NOT represent...
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I know the artist, and I am ever envious of his level of detail... not thrilled with the guns, but I cannot dispute the technical skill in the slightest.
He seems mostly harmless, and I hope I'm not wrong.
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@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm Yeah, I've never seen anything toxic or pathological or hateful about any of his work -- and I can even objectively, sociologically understand how a perfect goodnatured person would be fascinated with guns.
Rik taught me a lot about that: they're admittedly kinda neat in the same way that I find old vending machines super-neat. They're mechanical and fiddly and have a lot of culture around them. I don't think arming Equestrians is necessarily a sign of a bad personality trait or anything, especially since I know Fallout: Equestria is a real and very well-rounded thing, though I've kinda ignored it otherwise.
I even like guns a whole lot when I'm behind my laptop and there are things made of pixels trying to kill me. :) But then, say, Nuclear Throne and Enter the Gungeon arguably have the exact opposite of machismo behind their portrayals of being armed... (And I was always more of a Shovel/Casey/melee kinda gal anyhow.)
I just find them substantially unsexy. Like, a cigar rates something like 1500 milliBuscemis and a gun is maybe 500-800 depending on the context.
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@zebratron2084 @JulieSqveakaroo
That is a fascinating observation that I have to admit agreeing to.
Like, a shotgun is probably ~1200 mBuscemi on my scale. But on the other hand, a girl with a Flechette Gun a la Molly Millions? Wooooo *Fans self uncontrollably*
For some reason, I have always loved unrealistic, absurd, and impossible weapons - while more or less reviling real ones.
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@Phorm @zebratron2084 @JulieSqveakaroo
where does networked orbital gun platform that fires cans of unpleasantly warm soda at people to ruin their meal rank?
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@001zlnv @Phorm @JulieSqveakaroo for me? off the scale sexy.
for the record, the three canonical major Vexalyne soda brands in Parallax are "Warm," "Meh," and "Uncle Fluffy's Tuna* Soda"
* now comes in salmon, herring, and sea urchin!
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@zebratron2084 @Phorm @JulieSqveakaroo
but not "uncle fluffy's squid ink for gamers"
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@001zlnv @Phorm @zebratron2084
... affectionately named "The Pew-Pew Dew Spew"
re: furry art grump, military
Yeah, I have real similar weaknesses.
I mean... rayguns. Even if they do have lethal purpose. Put enough flanges and wibblers on them and they're like 6 kDansons.
Although strangely, now that you mention it, i found Michael Caine wielding a shotgun in Get Carter INCREDIBLY sexy. but it's all about the way he wielded it. subtlety and reserve are much sexier than martial bravado or steely resolve in my whole kinkmath.
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Not going to lie... the more 'TankGirl' the scale of sureality and oversized insanity of the weapons... yeah... that's hot.
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@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm Fascinatingly, a sword or axe is only maybe 250 milliBuscemis' worth of unsexy, even though the people they're used on end up just as dead, further evidence I shouldn't make a moral thing out of this. And a dagger is even less, maybe even running into the 100-150 milliDanson* range.
and of course a woman with a trebuchet, mangonel, catapult, or onager is just sexy as hell. same goes for a nuclear missile (cf. Tetsuo, Arial).
(*this of course is the SI unit of being unexpectedly sexy despite utter antiquation)