Here’s one of those media events where a story catches on and gets a lot of coverage at once. That used to happen very rarely. Now it’s happening every month or so in 2016, “The Year of Furry.” The director, Dominic (Video Wolf) is killing it with interviews and promotion.
Newport Beach Film Fest: “A Furry Flick: The Beauty & Complexity of the Furry Fandom
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: ‘Fursonas’ explores Furry fandom and the media
Radio podcast – Dominic on The Kevin & Bean Show
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Black Angel, by Kyell Gold. Illustrated by Rukis.
St. Paul, MN, Sofawolf Press, March 2016, trade paperback $19.95 (vii + 379 pages).
Black Angel is the conclusion of Kyell Gold’s Dangerous Spirits trilogy that began with Green Fairy (March 2012) and continued with Red Devil (January 2014). The three novels are a powerful mixture of spiritualism, drugs, and adolescent angst, shifting between centuries and societies. They are a
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There was a hunt for a missing giraffe…
Zarafa is a furry superstar lately. But he didn’t go looking for notoriety. It happened one night after a show when his treasured purple giraffe fursuit was stolen from his car. It led to community-wide support, and miraculous recovery of the suit. Now people recognize him on the street.
Credit is due to Neonbunny, the show DJ, for pounding the sidewalk to spread flyers. How many promoters would do it for one show goer? Dedication li
There’s a vast community of writers within the Furry Fandom. From building community sites like SoFurry, to their own Furry Writers Guild, they come together to explore the anthropomorphic writing arts with novels, comics, and anthologies. Many anthologies are being made in the fandom, and they’re always looking for new talent. Keep your ears perked for announcements about anthologies open for submission, and you may find one with a vision that inspires you to get involved.
Did you like Zoot
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DreamKeepers, volume 4, Descent to the Archives, by David & Liz Lille
Monroe, MI, Vivid Independent Publishing, July 2015, trade paperback $24.99 (117 [+ 11] pages).
“Dreamkeepers is a supernatural fantasy adventure series for teens and up.” (publishers’ advisory)
After two years and an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign, here is DreamKeepers, volume 4, Descent to the Archives, containing Chapters 10 through 12. B
Last Sunday I went to a different zoo than the one I usually visit. They opened their new lemur enclosure for the first time and I had to be there.
Before the enclosure was opened at 11am I went to see their Barbary macaque enclosure though. It is open as well, so you can go in there to hang out with some stinking, disgusting and slightly dangerous monkeys.
monkey by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr
There was a sign at the entrance that said that they know how to get into bags and backpa
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Children of Steel, by John Van Stry.
North Charleston, SC, CreateSpace, February 2012, trade paperback $12.99 (350 pages), Kindle $3.99.
Interregnum, by John Van Stry.
North Charleston, SC, CreateSpace, May 2015, trade paperback $9.99 (198 pages), Kindle $2.99.
John Van Stry first came to the notice of furry fandom with the story “Changes” in Yarf! #51, December 1997. But he began writing before that under the pen name of Ba
I don't follow or listen to what critics have to say about movies, but I think they have been getting harsher on movies, have any of you other guys and gals
noticed this?
I didn't even see this before.
Anyway, might as well post about some of my photographic antics here.
The griffon vultures had chicks recently. It's amazing how baby birds look so much like freaky aliens! It's also pretty amazing how quickly they grow up.
vulture by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr
And here are the proud parents. Don't they look happy? :3
vulture by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr
No, they don't. Griffon vultures are incapable of looking happy. They can only look ex
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Learning to Go, by Friday Donnelly.
Capalaba, Queensland, Australia, Jaffa Books, May 2015, trade paperback $15.00 ([2] + 191 pages), Kindle $5.00.
Learning to Go was published by Jaffa Books in Australia for FurDU 2015 in Gold Coast, Queensland on May 1-3. It is also sold by AnthroAquatic in the U.S; hence the price in U.S. dollars and the Amazon Kindle edition.
Readers had better consider Learning to Go to be R- or NC-17-ra
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The Forges of Dawn, by E. M. Kinsey
Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, September 2014, trade paperback $18.50 ([3] + 480 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $9.99.
“In a world where lions evolved and man did not… An epic adventure begins” (blurb)
“The stories are focused around the felines of our world, but mostly around Lyons of Afriik. It takes place on an alternate world where humans have been hunted to extinction, allowing other animals to thriv
At The Company we are evaluated each half-year on our performance and assigned a value up to a max of 5. We also recieve an annual compensation adjustment (raise) and bonus, based on our assigned performance band for the year. This year, for the first time in the ~6 years I've been with them, I've managed a > 4.00 for both half-year performance assessments!
Sadly, this actually has no impact on our performance band assignment. So this means that, for the 3rd year in a row, I have recieve
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Anubis: Dark Desire
St. Paul, MN, Sofawolf Press, September 2015, hardcover $59.95, softcover $39.95 (189 pages).
Anubis: Dark Desire is intended for an adult audience only and contains explicit sexual material. It will not be for sale to persons under the age of 18. (publisher’s advisory)
Anubis: Dark Desire began as an adults-only comic book published by Radio Comix under its Sin Factory label in June 2002. It contained sto
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Krazy Kat: A Novel in Five Panels, by Jay Cantor. Illustrated by George Herriman.
NYC, A. A. Knopf, January 1988, hardcover $16.95 ([x] + 245 + [viii] pages).
The reviews for this unauthorized (since it was written long after Herriman’s death) sequel to George Herriman’s classic Krazy Kat comic strip, all praise how imaginative it is. But they use terminology like “an elaborate intellectual game”, “post-narrative techniques”,
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Boston Globe: Furries are finally having their moment.
It was originally titled “Revenge of the furries.” The revenge is on haters who should accept Furry as something that’s always been around, and not exotic weirdness. “Finally” is a good word to see about one of the most genuinely loveable subcultures of the internet age.
At FWA- photo by Maura Friedman.
Furry Weekend Atlanta: Journalist gets it.
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Fursonas Documentary gets great press.
“Fursonas Takes On the Secretive World of Furries—and the Movement’s Furrious Fuhrer”. It’s sensational sounding, but some of the best furry news I’ve read! The article’s thoroughly on point and the movie is the best kind of documentary. Don’t miss it on Video On Demand this summer.
Dandy Warhols and a bunch of furries featured in film noir music video, with a count
Beware of costumed bandits.
I’d like to see a lurid midnight movie that crosses a criminal heist plot with a furry convention. The bandits use fursuits to go under cover. But their plans get messed up when they become accidental popufurs.
There would be unexpected coming-outs, geek tests and rave drugs, awkward costume switches, and a gauntlet of hugs and dance comps.
Is that an SPH, or is that how you keep a gun in a fursuit? Who switched the bulletproof vest with the EZ-cooldown? Is that
Anthropomorphism is loaded with symbolism. Foxes and lions from Aesop’s fables, and fauns and centaurs from old myths represent personalities, emotions and urges. This influenced modern concepts of the subconscious by Freud and Jung. In dream symbols, animals are very prevalent, appearing in as much as 50% of dreams of children. It relates to the way they spread throughout prehistoric cave art, until today when media is full of animal cartoons. Anthropomorphism has deep roots in the way peo
I sometimes find myself sad or frustrated because I find it difficult to relate to anyone I know. I don't mean anything super serious; I just wish I had friends I could get excited about things with. There's plenty of people online who I find make for great conversation, but not so much so in real life. I want a friend to get excited about video games with. Someone who knows and likes a lot of the things I do. People who I would have fun with and want to spend time playing with and talking to.
Ah Devo, one of my favorite bands. I love the false optimism of the song. I know false optimism is not an original concept in music, but this has to be the catchiest song to use it.
I love hard psych rock like this. Especially love the guitar riffs. Not much I have to say about this.
I'm not a huge fan of 80's pop, personally. However, if I had to name my favorite pop band of the 80's, it'd be Tears for Fears. I've had this song stuck in my head for th
