When it comes to the furry side of things, a lot of the traditional animals you see in these sorts of stories, well, they tend to bore the shit out of me. This isn’t to say there aren’t good stories out there with felines, canines and rabbits, just that I don’t find those forms all that…inspiring.
That said, I don’t think this has to do with those particular animals themselves. See, when it comes to furry stuff, you can go two routes. You can start with animals and then give them human traits, that is, anthropomorphize them into characters for stories, or you can take human characters and make them feral–give them animal qualities until they stop being entirely human, but sit in the middle somewhere. The feral is what I find appealing about these sorts of characters, and that’s where my stories tend to rest.
That said, those are all animals that can be adapted into a feral furry story, but coyote and tiger still feel a little…expected? And sharks go the other way–I’ve seen some furry shark stuff, and I always just kind of walk away scratching my head. This isn’t to say I wouldn’t write them if it felt natural, but I choose the animals in my stories based on plot–I don’t start out saying, “Let’s do a shark TF” and try to retrofit a story to it. Gators work because they are a natural extension of “The Swampmen,” it’s a modern myth which adapts to feral stories easy. It’s a fine line, but if a story misses is, it’ll just be crap.
Sorry, I don’t think that answered your question very well. The answer is yes, I’d write them, but because of how my writing process works, I can’t just sit down, pick a TF, and make it work. It has to be more organic than that.
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