kasoukai:

are you the young man who is here to read furry webcomics with my daughter? excellent. welcome to the family. have a coors

I played pinball with a TV actor who got hired once to do a table read. For an audience. At a convention. A furry convention. It was a play called Fursona non Grata, and the premise is a girl taking her fiance to meet, for the first time, her family. Who are all furries.

I tracked down the script online and read it because obviously I did. It's… subpar. It’s like Borscht Belt humor, with furries in place of Jews.

The author’s not some nobody, either. He worked on the Duck Dodgers cartoon, and created another series, American Dragon, that ran two years on Disney. (He also wrote the pilot for Undressed, that weird JV Skinemax anthology series on MTV, which okay.)

First, in retrospect it should be the exact opposite of surprise that someone who contributes to a funny animal series and then makes a show about a teenager who’s secretly a dragon is a furry. On the other hand, at some level I guess I always assumed that the fandom’s relation to mainstream anthro product was parasitic on creators who had some, you know, non-furry reason to be all about furry stuff.

Second, how the fuck did this guy get a TV show made and I didn’t? That’s an actual question. In LA I wrote a pilot, and it’s awfully 2008 (It starts with two brothers, one who wants to become a pirate but doesn’t, one who doesn’t but does; and ends with zombie redcoats fighting steampunk freemasons) but if this thing was representative of that guy’s work, wow. By a mile.

I mean maybe one answers two, the industry’s about who you know, and funny animal animation’s dominated by a Furry Mafia. Hahahahahahathat'sactuallyentirelyplausiblefuck.

I hope the sequel is called The Fursuit of Happiness.