Melancholia

That's a good question. Some anime styles, definitely not. Other anime styles, maybe. But it definitely doesn't feel "childish" to me in the same way anthropomorphic animals do. It may be my personal experience. I associate anthropomorphic animals, and the particular art style of furries, to media I consumed between the ages of like 2 and 8. I wasn't exposed to anime until I was a young teenager, so it doesn't really have that association with childhood for me.

I really do find it fascinating to analyze these biases, because I do consider it an irrational bias that I have. I can analyze the reasons for it, but it isn't really a logic, just a feeling.

I find the anthropomorphic children's cartoon aesthetic of furries to be extremely cringe. Its juvenile and ugly, and then when its sexualized or people are making fursuits, it becomes exponentially more cringe.

I think if furries had a better art style and less weirdly anthropomorphized, I might even be on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
"Mephitidae is a family of mammals comprising the skunks and stink badgers. " I propose our goal is broadening the name stink badgers to include the entire family Mephitidae and we can still proceed as planned.

You can create it and we co-moderate.
I'm thinking plural, one word, and either all lowercase or just the first letter capital. stinkbadgers or Stinkbadgers
Friendship always comes before the stink badger agenda.

I will begin collecting and producing stink badger content immediately

Okay here are my ideas.

1. Create a community about stink badgers. Post pictures, facts, memes, and videos everyday until it catches on.
2. Get someone with a lovely British accent to narrate a video about the wonders of the stink badger. Made the video extremely entertaining so it goes viral. I'm thinking something like the famous honey badger video, but a totally different vibe.

Let's make it happen. The name "trash pandas" has caught on for raccoons. We can do the same for skunks, which will henceforth be known as stink badgers

So do you think infinite monkeys using infinite typewriters over infinite time, wouldn't necessarily produce the works of Shakespeare? I've always been suspicious of that idea.

I really think I'd just want junk food... I doubt I could stomach a proper meal anyways if I'm about to die. I think some homemade chocolate chip cookies with a salty snack like cheez-its.

Thigh highs don't enslave, they support and embrace the legs

Pants enslave your legs. Free yourself.

This will be a great example to discuss with my statistics students. Thanks for sharing.

I used to dream about my teeth falling out pretty often, and then those dreams stopped. I think its because as I've gotten older, the idea of losing my teeth doesn't freak me out anymore. My subconscious has removed that nightmare from the regular rotation since its no longer effective.