All about Anthros - Content Submissions explination

Remember: This rule is flexible. If you are quite happy with your work, submit it regardless and I will discuss with you ways to make it interesting if it is not. This page is simply to highlight one reason I may not accept certain works.

I wanted to address the 'rule' in the content submission page about anthropomorphic characters.

 I'll start by saying I have no contempt twords furries. Zero.
 My only issue with anthro submissions is that I feel that many of them would be too 'tame' to work.

 For example a humanoid dog, that wears human clothing, acts human, and even speaks English (or anything but barks) is unacceptable because it is too tame and, frankly, boring.
 Even with behavioral changes written in there, they would have to be extremely severe for anything like that to ever work.
 I don't want the character to be turned into a creature that could be a playable race you pick at the start of the game (if such an option existed).

 The key word I feel is: Contrast.
 The bigger the contrast the better.

 Many anthropomorphic animals would still be accepted, should they have unique, ideally humiliating or debilitating, afflictions.
 One example I gave elsewhere:

 Declined: "On no I have turned into a Raccoon Girl! I have the body shape of a female human, a big fluffy tail, and a raccoon face!"

 Accepted: "Oh no I have turned into a Tanuki Girl! I have the body shape of a female human, a bit fluffy tail, a raccoon face, a tiny cock, and a large pair of testicles that sway between my legs when I try to move!"

 (If anyone wants to write that in detail it is available by the way. *nudge nudge*)

 One is unique, kinky, humiliating and interesting.
 One is something that could be in a children's cartoon (if they were to put on some clothing)

 It's not a hard and fast rule. It's flexible if the transformation is interesting enough.

 One last important note:

You can change 'parts' of the character multiple times!
This means that you could have them mostly turn antro, then the last two stages turn them feral.
 For example in stage 2:
"Your legs are covered in coarse fur, and end in cloven hooves."
 Then later, in Stag 5:
 "Your legs are covered in coarse fur, and end in cloven hooves. You no longer stand on them alone, as they have shifted to become hind legs."

 Of course that is just a quick example, but I hope it helps people who want to write something but were worried by this rule.