I mean, yeah, to an extent. This fandom seems a lot more focused on drawing art. Photographers and writers like myself are generally only acknowledged as a mention on people's feeds when we take pictures of people at cons.

Nobody asks about our fursona's backstory or lore and there haven't been any attempts to promote those who write backstories or lore for other people's fursonas.

Photography and writing are forms of art just like drawing. I don't know why only drawing arts is promoted and not all the other types of art.

It's discouraging. The furry fandom isn't even the only one with this issue. I write. It's my only real outlet; but it's like people see more than a Twitter post worth of words and go "awe man.. I gotta read that? Shit I'd rather not." and move on to some art thst was drawn of a guy with big feet...

Yeah. I get that a lot. I post a picture of a fursuiter at a con, and get almost no feedback on it, but some artist posts a drawing of that person's fursona and it gets dozens of likes and just as many reposts. Make it make sense.

I think part of it is attention span (I have no basis for this, just a hunch). They see something they have to actually focus on and their brain short circuits and avoids it like a toxic mushroom in the woods. Unless its a neon sign, they think it'll be bad for them.

I don't really have an honest answer either way, but it is discouraging.

Yeah. Makes me feel like the world is turning into an anti-writer society

It's been like that for a hot minute, surprisingly. As early as 2002, people were hesitant to read anything more than a paragraph of stuff, and there was even a derogatory acronym created in response.

Remember tl/dr? It stands for "too long, didn't read" and was used mainly in a derogatory way to say people talk too much.

With no disrespect to our -fic colleagues, there are plenty of sff, lit-fic, poetry (especially) and nonfiction writers in the fountain pen world.

Unfortunately for me I suck with calligraphy

It depends on the people and feeds you follow. Just in the last 3 days, there's been almost a hundred posted links about furry stories here in bluesky, and while I'm certainly not counting them, would not be surprised if Huskyteer's furry writer's starter pack has over a hundred people so far.

Maybe a small number compared to visual artists, true, but I wouldn't call it small or quiet.

"furry writer's starter pack"...what is it, a word processor?

My "writer's starter pack" is a pen, a piece of paper, and a stick candle.

Once they prove they can write more than a single paragraph in one pass without wasting paper, I then step things up a notch and introduce them to the art of the fountain pen.

Thats gate-keepy. Please remain respectful in my.comment sections and don't be an elitist

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Yeah, there's almost nothing on there about writing. It's just random people posting grievances about their convention experiences or about politics.

And the starter pack link in the dude's profile is broken.

The dude himself doesn't even post anything about writing. His entire feed is full of random pictures, news articles, or reposts of other people's convention experiences