Talk:Anthropomorfic

Hey, uhm, it it really spelled "AnthropoRmorfic"? / yeeeah I see, sorry. --Lian 00:38, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Is anthropomorfic really always original fiction? I would think Mac/PC or Fanlib qualified as fanfic. --Kyuuketsukirui 08:01, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

That's a good point. Plus, don't people sometimes write fic from the POV of canon objects? I remember at least one SGA fic from the POV of a table, and that one photocomic where John and Rodney were two Girl Scout cookies. I don't know what you'd call that, an anthropomorfic AU, maybe? -- Liviapenn 08:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, there are quite a few of those kind of crack AUs in SGA. I just saw one the other day where John and Rodney were Mr Potatoheads. And in addition to the table one, I know there have been ones from Atlantis or a jumper's POV. --Kyuuketsukirui 08:53, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Does it make sense to distinguish on the page between anthropomorfic crack AUs (like the girl scout cookie one or the potatohead one) and stories which give voice to inanimate objects or concepts without any fandom correlation? (I know there's a great particle/wave slash story out there somewhere, I just can't seem to track it down...) Kass 13:25, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I like that we now make this distinction, but I don't think animal or mythical creature AUs qualify as anthropomorfic, do they? I thought anthropomorfic was just for stories about actual inanimate objects (so the Mr Potatoheads, or the girl scout cookie AU, would count, but John and Rodney as penguins or centaurs wouldn't.)--Penknife 16:14, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

That's my understanding, yes: anthropomorfic by definition has to involve the anthropomorphizing (anthropomorphization?) of inanimate objects. So, girl scout cookies yes; penguins, no. Kass 16:40, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, if you look at the wikipedia entry linked on the page, animals, weather, and mythological creatures are included; anything that isn't 'born human'. So, under that definition, born a penguin stories would count if we could find one, and the Rodney-as-Unicorn story, even if John wasn't a rainbow. Transformation stories are right out. --rache 16:43, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree that's how Wikipedia defines anthropomorphism; I disagree that's how fandom usually defines "anthropomorfic." I really think it's generally applied only to inanimate object fic, so I like the way the page has been revised currently.--Penknife 17:32, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

As long as the Unicorns are in, I am fine with it too. --rache 17:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I think Mac/PC based on the television ads is definitely fanfic. It has existing characters, and the ads form the canon events.--Ratcreature 13:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Sentient Atlantis and Puddlejumpers

Hey Kass, when you reworded the entry, you took out the references to these, and I know Sentient Atlantis has a pretty good amount of fiction written about it. If it's not mentioned in the body of this article, then it needs a see also and an article created in the SGA space. What do you think? --rache 16:58, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Whoops! I didn't actually mean to remove it entirely -- I meant to paste that line back into the page. Mea culpa. That said: I'm open to adding it back in here, or to giving it a see also and its own article in the SGA space, whatever you think is best. Kass 17:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. So we don't eat up the page with SGA specific stuff, we probably do need the See Also link to a Stargate Atlantis/Sentient Atlantis subpage. I'll add the mention of it to this page, but if we want detail, it should be on the see also content. Y/N? --rache 17:07, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

That seems like a good plan. (Feel free also to trim the list of cracktastic McShep anthropomorfic stories if you think that's too much, btw.) I will keep trying to find the particle/wave slash story I know I remember reading... Kass 17:21, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

This article needs a See Also to "people as animals" fic, whatever the heck that's called

I think it would be Transformationfic or something like that, but I can't find it. It would also include stories like "Occasional Table", where Snape's animagous form is a table, right? --rache 17:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

"stories like "Occasional Table", where Snape's animagous form is a table". I have never read this, but my day is better just knowing it exists! --Kyuuketsukirui 11:16, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

For HP there's a handy thematic list for animate object fic that lists both, tranformed and regular: http://marginaliana.livejournal.com/370952.html --Ratcreature 18:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Gijinka

Gijinka is redirected here but this page is entire about fic, while gijinka is typically a fanart phenomenon. Either this page needs to be more inclusive of other types of fanwork involving anthropomorphized things or the redirects should be deleted so gijinka and other visual fanworks can have their own pages. --Baycitybomber (talk) 06:50, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

It's a glossary term. As such, it should have it's own page that explains the term, history, gives examples etc. --Doro (talk) 08:19, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

I feel like gijinka tends to come in two "flavors" - there's the "inanimate object/concept/company/entity as a human" and "monster/animal character as a human, potentially still retaining animal features" i.e. cat ears/tail... the latter doesn't really seem to fit on this page, which primarily talks about the first case, ala hetalia and website mascots. --Mokuroh (talk) 19:02, 14 July 2020 (UTC)