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jekkal — How to Classify Anthro
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Because I'm sick of arguing about this in the forums.Let's get some things straight here: All Furry is Anthro, but not all Anthro is Furry. The Chart breaks everything down thusly:
Anthro covers every possible thing you could turn into a humanoid, from superintelligent shades of blue to your pencil, and even covers various things like your tattoos coming to life. Machines, Animals, and Plants, in non-anthro form, are all what they sound like. Anthro machines are Droids, anthro plants are Treants, and Anthro Animals are Furries. Combining Droids and Furries gives us Cyborgs, while the same combination outside of the Anthro spectrum gives us virtual pets like Aibo. Plants don't really merge with Machines or Animals too well.
So, there you have it, in nifty Venn Diagram form: All Furry is Anthro, but not all Anthro is Furry. If you insist on telling me your cartoon kitties are Anthro but not Furry, I'll be directing you to this.
If you're drawing animals with human traits, it's Furry regardless of how cartoony or sexualized it is. GET OVER IT.
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Won't listen? Just because I don't blindly agree with you doesn't mean I'm not listening. If you don't want to debate that's fine, just don't reply back.
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Ha! That makes so much sense. Thanks!
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please explain the main diference of furry and anthro XDXDXD
to me it's the same thing!!!---love both ^^@@
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Anthro includes more than animals.
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I still think there is a fundamental difference between anthro and furry. I understand the diagram, but within that, there are differences. For insance, furry styles and fetishes differ from anthro art. Anthro art doesn't really have those problems, and keep it simple.
Plus there is the therian type of anthro which is clearly not clasified as furry.
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FINALLY!! The answer!
Thanks for this one ... kudos
(Also, 
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I still refuse the term Furry, because it only reminds me to the sick side of the fandom and I know the fandom, for which I was a member for almost 8 years.
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Indeed. I didn't think each kind had it's own name though. Never heard of the term petting zoo people either. I like to say anthromals to clear things up ^-^
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So according to this chart, this ([link] ) is a cyborg. But the word "cyborg" gives me completely different images.
I like the chart, though 
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I like this chart. It's a nice find.. I just wrote a journal the other day about some of this topic. If I'd found this first, I probably would've been satisfied enough to not write about it. XD
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"All anthro animals are furry."
Is that pretty much a summary of what you are saying?
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Congrats, man. You are a genius.
Go to Harvard, go directly to Harvard, do not pass go, do not collect $200. :-p
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wait, what about animal tree machines O.O I must know what those are called.
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that is a reasonable name for such a creature
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THANK YOU! Finally I've found somebody else who actually understands the difference between furry and anthro. Dear God, you'd think more people would understand, it's such a simple concept... x_x
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You'd be surprised how many people continue to fight me over it, after all this time... at one point 4chan went and found the graph and argued over it. >_>
Someone came and picked out the choice bits to try and get a response out of me, but once I saw the full thread I just lol'd at them arguing whether TMNT was furry or not, among other things. I wish I'd saved the thread, but the comments to this piece probably resemble it more than I want to admit anyway.
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Eh, I guess not everybody can have their fair share of common sense. XD We're a couple of the few lucky ones who got there early enough to get second dibs. X3
Besides, 4chan is full of egotistical tards(for the most part).
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After about twenty or so minutes, I FINALLY get this. lmao.
And werewolves basically equal furries, yes?
old deviation is old but oh well UB
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Yyyyeah.
So sorry to disappoint you.
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Lmao, you didn't disappoint me. But okay.
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Wow, I didn't know anyone actually didn't agree with this or understand they were the same thing. o.O
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This is very helpful 
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I have never heard of an aibo in my life o_o
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Those robotic doggies Sony was selling in Japan and tried to sell here... except they cost more than most purebred doggies. >_> [link]
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hmmm, there are combination's of plant and animal, and plant and machine.....I guess it's just that there's not really an official name for them.
Simpler to leave them out then, I guess.
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The confusing thing is the "anthro" term itself.
Most people, regardless of their artwork or fandom, consider anthros to be anthropomorphic animals.
While yes, anthro is just short for anthropomorphic (meaning giving something human traits), most people think of "animal".
That might need some clarification in the chart :3
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Which is why I prefer using "Furry" over "Anthro". Far less confusion.
... it's all a branding game to avoid the supposed stigma behind furries. I'd rather call it all "Furry" than let people perpetuate garbage while hiding behind the "Anthro" label like it makes a difference.
Seriously, if someone's going to react badly to furry art regardless, why the fuck do they care WHAT the artist calls their work?
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This is true >>
But I think in either the desc. or the deviation itself you should put that anthro does not just apply to animals in this case. :B Just to avoid confusion. x_x
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I LOVE you for making this.
LOVE YOU TO FRIKKIN' PIECES.
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So according to your chart, mickey mouse, donald duck and turtles are furry? Then you have no idea what Furry is.
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At last I know what "tree furries" are called!
But suppose someone wanted to draw, say, anthro appliances? What if those aren't "robotic enough" to be considered droids?
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Just plain anthro is fine. How complex a machine ends up is up to you.
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Cyborg == robotic qualities on an organic creature (who acts human).
Apologies for the confusion; for simplicity's sake, humans were left off the chart (The same way I forgot to overlap plants with anything else).
Old Art is Old.
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Though that's pretty much as it is, I can't help it but that chart gives somewhat closed minded feeling to me.
And personally I couldn't concider Inspector Rex (or harpies) as "furry" even though he has almost human-like deduction ability that allows him to be a good police, since he's just a normal dog otherwise.
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Old Art is Old. (I made the whole mess when I was rather "young" on FA, in my weak defense.)
Inspector Rex I'm not familar with, but Harpies? Really depends on the artist and how heavily they lean on the bird-parts. Charlotte, for example, is a harpy (from Fred Perry's "Gold Digger") and I'd dub her pretty furry. [link] Also, some of the earliest depictions of harpies are as birds that happen to have human heads and tits, which seems far more animal than human.
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And young on DA obviously.
But the problem with harpies is that they aren't animals or humans in the same way the general "furry" (which causes another problem since the term furry is usually related to the people in furry culture and not in the art as much unless as a theme "this is furry themed art, the subject is an anthropomorphised animal [though who are we kidding, most furries usually draw zoomorphism, not anthropomorphism], this is anthropomorphic art, the subject is therianthropic wolf") but spirits ("sisters of Iris, daughters of Thaumas and Electra" as Wiki tells us) with the resemblance of a human/bird. Nor do they (the old versions) actually even have characteristics in a certain way; if you take the human part, it doesn't have animal traits in it, nor does the bird part have human traits in it. And with general furry art it's usually always an animal, not something that looks something without being what it is.
Then again, internet and popular culture has mixed definitions and appearances making people think that zoomorphic art is the same as anthropomorphized (the harpy example you linked would be that, just a human with animal characteristics, not an animal with human characteristics, though personally I'd call that manga) and since terms can overlap it confuses everyone.
And with other mythological creatures, such as dragons (though this is partly about the comment ~YokoNeko made) I fail to see how old school dragons would be furries or anthro, since they basically were rabid beasts that liked treasures and just because someone draws talking dragons in FA, it doesn't automatically make all dragons anthropomorphic.
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hey you forgot talking toasters and appliances
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No I didn't!
They're under "Machines".
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So what IS anthro?(sorry for posting another comment)
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Anthro -- anything that doesn't have human qualities IRL, but is given human qualities. "Toy Story" is a good example of anthro-but-not-furry; the toys come to life, and while there are animal-styled toys like T-Rex and Slinky, they're toys-made-human first and foremost. (Bullseye is debatable, but again, still a toy with animal traits as an aside.)
Furry -- also anthro, but specifically with animals as opposed to plants or nonliving items. Ergo, "Furry" is a subsection of Anthro.
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Lemme get this straight.So anthro is the main category and the rest,furry,etc. are subcategories?So ANY animals that have human like qualities(walking,talking,etc.) is furry?
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