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jekkal — How to Classify Anthro
Published: 2007-04-10 02:05:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 38340; Favourites: 390; Downloads: 355
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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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But if I draw things that classifies as "furry" am I automatically a Furrie?
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I think that refers to people who actually like to see pornographic materials with furry charecters. Not sure tho.
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nonono please find better definitions before you go telling people things, a Furry is a person who draw Anthro animals. ofcourse there is some sexual aspects to it not all people do such things ;w;
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Hahaha i wrote that a long time ago...
bit of a furvert now
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Thanks! I had I've been researching about it for some time, but now this really took out my doubts
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I COMPLETELY agree with this! And of course with you .D.
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hmm this cleared up everything and anything 
I guess I'm the "all furry is anthro" part xD
Well, I guess I'm a furry xD. This helped cause people keep telling me something else >>
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Basicly what the whole furry and anthro argument
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Thank you so much for the clear cut explanation (I don't care is it's 4 years later, I'm still thanking you D8<) I've always reffered to humanized animals as furry, and then attempted to explain "That doesn't mean they bang."
The same with the over-used anthro term XD
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Lol gives me a good explenation ^^
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Thank you for the inspiration to do a cyborg tree!
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lets say you have like a lizard anthro or something, does it still count as a furry?
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Yes, it does. Maybe lizards desn't have any fur, but they are animals anyway.
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k. just wondering. there was a person arguing with me a while ago that insisted their dragon anthro wasn't a furry
THATS why i fav'd this!
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An anthro plant...
Doesn't really sound very nice, does it?
Well, yeah.
Pretty well pointed out that "anthro" doesn't have to be furry.
If anyone asks me, I'd say "anthro" as "あんすろ" for some reason.
Oh, and OMG FURRIES!
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actually Anthro plants don't sound bad to me.
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One of my friends has some kind of OC based on that idea.
It's sorta weird, though.
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A great chart. Found it randomly while looking up some anthro stuff, and I have to say that you make a lot of sense, especialy compared to others I've seen =_=''' So, bravo, kudos, all that jazz. And thanks for clearing it up for me ^o^
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between animals and plants.
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Interesting viewpoint. However, I agree with some of the earlier comments on two matters.
First, how the term "anthro" is applied. As you point out, "Anthro covers every possible thing you could turn into a humanoid." Unfortunately, this means that it can only exist as a subset of all other categories, and therefore it can never exist on its own.
Secondly, cyborgs - they're either biological organisms augmented with technology (amputees with prosthetics counting) or hybrid biomechanical organisms. If accepted that humans are anthropomorphic animals by default, then I'll accept that animal/machine anthros are cyborgs (otherwise, that will need to be corrected). This is heavily tied in to the first point.
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I love how you added Aibo to this. I own two Aibos and they're awesome!
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This is so off...
Cyborgs are things that have artificial and biological parts, not half-furry half-machine.
Also what is Anthro doing with a giant part of the circle to itself? Anthro is adding human qualities to a non-human object, not an object itself.
Good concept, but please redo this.
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I would think 4+ years later and changing accounts means the artist doesn't really give two shits what people think about their old, outdated chart describing Anthro and all of it's parts.
Just saying.
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She should have fricken removed the deviations from her gallery then. Who is going to go to her journal to notice otherwise?
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Whoa, calm down. lol
It really isn't my issue if you don't at least glance over their main page. People abandon accounts all the time and leave their deviations up.
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one question can a furry be a mix between 2 or more animals?
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Soo...My avatar is a anthro corn pop? Does food go in too?
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My avatar has changed.
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Thank you. It's pretty intresting. I AM PISSED OFF. FURRY STUFF KEEPS COMING UP IN EVERYTHING I SEARCH!
STAR TREK=FURRIES
SCI FI=FURRIES
AIRCRAFT=FURRIES!
CARS=FURRIES!
RANDOM STUFF=FURRIES
STOP THIS MADDNESS! IT"S KILLING ME
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Finally hard proof to what I tell my friends, who are furry fans that I draw for sometimes. Thank you for making the chart.
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I don't really get it. You say not all anthro is furry, but then say the opposite of what you mean in the next sentence.
"All Furry is Anthro, but not all Anthro is Furry."
"If you're drawing animals with human traits, it's Furry regardless of how cartoony or sexualized it is."
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Her chart is really off thats why.
Furry + Droid does not equal Cyborg. A cyborg is something that has artifical and biological parts.
She's not saying the opposite of herself though. It's the same as the sentence "All insects are bugs, but not all bugs are insects." A bug is basically any creepy crawly, but insects only have 6 legs, etc.
Something can have human traits(anthro) without being part-animal, but any part-animal part-human is a anthro.
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I couldn't help but to disagree with this you said: Furry + Droid does not equal Cyborg. A cyborg is something that has artifical and biological parts.
Ok, it's true that A cyborg is a machine with biological parts, no matter what part that is (Terminator is mainly a robot, but just with a synthetic skin over him). But the fact is that a lot of people surely are familiarized with images like a droid wolf, a droid dragon...
As we are talking about things with human characteristics, it's obvious to this that the sume of furry (animals with human characteristics) and droids (Human like machines) can make perfectly a Cyborg.
The author of this deviant wanted people to ease peoples troubles seeing the diference betwen all posible anthros. This will never be off but be always usefull. At least for me. Don't flame just because you don't like it.
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Furry + Droid CAN = Cyborg, but it's not the definition of it. Anthro + Droid = Cyborg.
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No, you are wrong again. Droid is ALREALY anthro. Droid is a machine with human characteristics. Imagine, even if it's weird, a humanized freezer (With mechanical legs, thinking, even eyes...). THAT is droid.
A cyborg is a DROID that has biological parts (Skin, organs, muscules, bones...). Inside the anthro there is a mixure of both furry and droid that, following the same rule, make a cyborg.
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furry = animal with human characteristics
not 'skin, organs, muscles, bones'
so, once again, a cyborg CAN be furry, but is not Always.
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This is absurd. Do you even read what I write? I'll copy and paste it:
"A cyborg is a DROID that has biological parts (Skin, organs, muscules, bones...)". Think about Terminator, for example. THAT is a Cyborg. I didn't mention in there nothing about furry. What I said is that the mix of DROID and FURRY make Cyborg.
Personaly, this is going too far to discuss it in here. If you want I have no problem in continue on private.
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No, mix of Droid and HUMAN OR ANIMAL make Cyborg.
I think you are the one having trouble reading.
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Look, I'm tired of this. Think whatever you want, say whatever you want and do whatever you want. You won't listen no matter what I say, so why fighting? Let people deciced for themself what is right.
I'm not replying you again, it's not worth it.
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