• sibachian
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    4 years ago

    the problem with non-human-centric plots is selling them. few want to read about non-humans.

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        4 years ago

        But these are essentially humans dressed up in fur suits. They have human attributes, human voices, even humanoid shapes.

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      4 years ago

      I mean, there are entire book series about sapient cats (Warriors by Erin Hunter), rabbits (Watership Down), forest creatures in general (Redwall) etc. The spinoff game series Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (which is where my profile picture comes from), focuses entirely on a world inhabited only by Pokemon, and it’s massively popular.

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        But even then all of these beings have human problems and human like personalities, and voices. I think this is the difficulty in writing non human tales, is that the tales that most people empathize with, no matter how alien their premise or characters may be, still end up centering around human like traits and problems.