chirasul

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I'm Chirasul!

I'm a mushroom!

I am a storyteller and artist. I will sometimes post NSFW things. This is my main account.
I am working on a cool project called Coelary, which is about about a lot of things but it's mostly about being a queer adult.

 

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    I'm non-binary.

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OTHER ACCOUNTS:

  🎨  @CWF (art account)  🎨

  🐛 @coelary (bug people)  🐝

  🔞 @inkycap (it's porn!)  🔞

 

Please give these accounts a follow if you enjoy the things I make and you want to see more.



CERESUltra
@CERESUltra

I hate the "it's [X] but with [other thing]" description of anything, because 70% of the time it's not even that, it's either more or less original than that, too


chirasul
@chirasul

this problem extends beyond furries, too. it happens a lot in comics (and also to a lesser degree with TV and movies) where the primary marketing is about the "representation", whether within the comic or from the author itself. dont get me wrong; representation is really good and really important, but it needs to be a foregone conclusion within the media. nobody advertises a comic as having "a good representation of lineart and color" because that's just something you expect when you read a comic. media with (for example) queer people having queer experiences NEEDS to be as remarkable as having a red-hair character or a character with long hair. if representation is your main selling point, then the only audience you get for your work are people who are analyzing and judging the work based primarily on how well it accomplishes this nebulous goal of "representation". they'll grade it based on how Good it is at being [demographic], and that's a shitty way to analyze art.

the audience you WANT are people who resonate with the story, which is, guess what: far bigger and beyond your idea of the target representation! like, I make queer comics, i make comics about queer characters, and my primary motivation for making my comics is to represent my experiences and the experiences of my friends. but if I don't make a good story, a story that will reach lots of different kinds of people, then my representation is wasted because it's only reaching people who already expect it. the point of representation is to reach people who are not expecting it or looking for it. people from ALL walks of life will resonate with a Good Story, and then the representation is actually doing some work.

this also applies to furries. by all means, make your furry media all you want. but I think you're gonna find that you make far better art, and that it has far more resonance with Your audience, if you focus more on making a Good Story or making Good Art than if you just try to make Furry story or Furry art. imo "furry" media is only as good as it is received by people who aren't furries. because hey, maybe it'll turn some non-furries into furries. that seems like a way better goal than just giving furries something they already expect. and it'll make you a better creator too.


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