'White Crusade' - Review

[kmhirosaki]

A very major aspect of the furry fandom involves looking at how things would be different if people were anthropomorphic animals as opposed to humans. Indeed, even outside the context of fandom, this is an idea and a theme that gets explored from time to time. Ben Goodridge's White Crusade very much takes this idea as arguably its central theme,

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Re: Heya!

[kmhirosaki]

Oh, I certainly remember you! Are you still writing?

Thank you for following along with my stuff! Normally, I use this journal to post updates on my new stories, but since I haven't put anything new out lately, in the meantime, I'm leaving reviews of other things I've been reading, just because I am a fan of furry literature, and I hope that folks who read my stuff (which is admittedly adult stuff) still like to read other things, too.

[kesh]

Hm. It sounds like a great concept, but marred a bit by a lack of focus. A lack of character development always bothers me, and the preachyness doesn't appeal either. Still, I might give this one a shot, just to read the author's vision of a post-apocalyptic world.

[kmhirosaki]

If the idea intrigues you, then you may still want to check it out. I'd be interested in hearing someone else's take on it, if nothing else.

[skiprudder]

Hmm, its interesting that you mentioned this just now. I read (an admittedly less ambitious) story on Yiffstar just recently which had a somewhat similar stance on humans that bothered me greatly.

The story was set in the near future in a "hybrid" greyhound racetrack. In this story every human was beyond incredibly vile, malicious, cruel and stupid. In an era where Mike Vic is fired from the NFL, and people are routinely arrested in the news for animal neglect and abuse the sheer outrageous cruelty of the humans being permitted wasn't very believable. The degree and commonality to which it was taken had the effect of making any humans pale caricatures. Despite the fact that they were clearly side characters to in the story the way in which they were all portrayed the same made them unreal. A thing rather than people.

I suppose its a good warning to authors. Villains can often be the most intersting and rewarding characters in a story, but they need to be rounded (if warped) individuals in order to be real.