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Cinéma Anthropomorphique – the monthly movie meet for furries of Oslo, Norway

There’s lots of furry movie outings, and sometimes they even rent a theater for a special occasion, but I’m not aware of many permanent furry movie clubs. Oslo’s Cinéma Anthropomorphique isn’t just well established, it seems to be the premiere fur meet for the capital of Norway. I’m going purely on stereotype about the frozen northlands of Scandinavia, but I imagine that in between good cold weather fursuiting and, I dunno, pulling sleds with husky friends under the Northern Lights, indoor movie

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Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture, by Joe Strike – review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture, by Joe Strike. Illustrated. Jersey City, NJ, Cleis Press, October 2017. Trade paperback, $17.95 ([ix +] 342 pages), Kindle $10.99. Yes! Here it is! What we’ve all been waiting for! The book about furry fandom! Full disclosure: I’m quoted by name on a back-cover blurb, and cited as “a founding father of furry fandom”. Is it perfect? No, but it’s probab

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Civilized Beasts Poetry Anthology, volume II – book review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Civilized Beasts, Poetry Anthology, volume II, editor-in-chief Laura Govednik. Foreword by Jonathan Thurston Howl. Manvil, TX, Weasel Press, August 2017, trade paperback, $8.00 (126 pages). Well, this is a bargain. The 2015 Edition, volume I, was $8.99 for only 86 pages. This is only $8.00 for 126 pages. Let’s hope this trend continues. This poetry anthology contains 84 poems of mostly one page or less. Several authors have

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Hate Addiction and What Furries Can Do About It – guest post by Tempo.

Tempo (Tempe O’Kun) is a furry author in North Dakota. Art: Rattusdingus ~ ~ ~ If you support white supremacy… If you play dress-up in the uniforms of genocide… If you mock people who just want the same rights you enjoy… …you don’t belong here. Not in my fandom. Not in my country. Not in my world. You cannot possibly play the victim enough for me to consider your murderous opinions valid. So cry all you want, but we’ll be here in the furry fandom having fun without you. To the rest of

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Making History at the Alamo City Furry Invasion 2017!

Rune’s Furry Blog showcases people within the furry community, issues and media plus personal blogging. Rune joins other guest posters here – Welcome Rune! – Patch “It’s a sleepy day in the sleepy town of Fur City Bluff…” begins the narrative of ‘The Furry, Furry West’ within the ACFI con-book. It sets the tone, bringing us to a dusty town under the watchful eye of the Sheriff and his team, to a place where there is a fair coming up, and the looming threat of the Red-Mask-Gang. Boots, badges

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Sabrina Online: The Tail of Two Decades, by Eric W. Schwartz – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Sabrina Online: The Tail of Two Decades, by Eric W. Schwartz. Illustrated. Keston, Kent, UK, United Publications, June 2017, hardcover, $22.95 (unpaged [148 pages]). This large (8½” x 11”) collection presents the last half – the last ten years — of Eric Schwartz’s Internet Sabrina Online comic strip: four strips per page from November 2006 (annual collection 11) through the end of the annual collections with #14, and the follo

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Fred Patten Interviews Rich Hanes – Author of Foxhunt!

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Back in April 2017, I reviewed Foxhunt! by Rich Hanes, a 2009 337-page science-fiction novel set in a largely-anthropomorphic “Wildstar Universe”. Foxhunt! is primarily about an interstellar nation of anthropomorphic foxes, but it refers to many other species. I was very favorably impressed by it, ending my review saying, “Foxhunt! is superior both as space opera and as furry fiction. Don’t miss it!” Rich Hanes, the author, e-m

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Itching for a furry dance party? The first Scritch Detroit is coming on 11/11/17.

Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.” The concept has been spreading since the late 2000’s. It’s a dance party independent from cons. It builds on their growth but takes things farther. It’s more ambitious than informal meets and events that happen once. Those can stay inner-focused, but this brings partnership with new kinds of venues, and new support for what they host. It crosses a line to public space, so a stranger can walk in and discover their new favorit

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Always Gray in Winter, by Mark J. Engels – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Always Gray in Winter, by Mark J. Engels Knoxville, TN, Thurston Howl Publications, August 2017, trade paperback, $12.99 (178 pages). Always Gray in Winter is one of those novels that is deliberately mysterious at first, and only gradually reveals what is going on. To avoid my own spoiler, here is the blurb on the author’s website: “The modern day remnant of an ancient clan of werecats is torn apart by militaries on three con

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Monster Island, Directed by Leopoldo Aguilar – Movie Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Monster Island. Directed by Leopoldo Aguilar, from a script by Billy Frolick & Alicia Núñez Puerto. Sony Home Pictures Entertainment, September 12, 2017, 80 minutes, direct-to-DVD, $14.99. Distributed in the U.S. & Canada by Vision Films (Sherman Oaks, California). Produced by Ánima Estudios (México City). Is Monster Island worth an article for DP? How can we ignore any movie with a character like Verónica, the pig-gir

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Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend blasts off on November 3-5.

EXTENDED PRE-REGISTRATION: Sign up by the end of day on October 10! Register here to join the fun and support this young con. San Jose, CA has two furry cons. Look at special places like that for ideas about how the fandom is growing. (See my article: One Town, Two Cons.) Do two cons show healthy demand and raise the bar for both?  Do they split the community?  Or are they just on different paths with one trying an out-of-the-box concept?  Well, it looks like win-win positivity in San Jose.

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Foreign animated movies released direct-to-DVD in America – by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Are you going to see Woody Woodpecker: The Movie? It’s coming out on October 5th. In Brazil. But it’s a Universal movie. Or at least Universal is distributing it there. The American public may not have noticed it, but one of the cinematic trends of the 2010s has been the production or subsidizing by American movie companies of movies featuring their famous cartoon stars, for theatrical distribution worldwide by those companie

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The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon, by Lowell H. Press – book review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon, by Lowell H. Press. Maps. Bellevue, WA, Parkers Mill Publishing, September 2014, trade paperback $11.99 ([xv +] 297 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $0.99. This Young Adult fantasy (winner of a 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award, for Teen Fiction (13-18 Years), of the Independent Book Publishers Association) is set in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, home of the Habsburg monarchs of Austria, about 1820. In those day

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A furry’s brush with fascism – authorities “don’t understand the seriousness of the threat.”

(Comment from blog linked below.) Sugar-coating helps fascism worm in. Even with cartoon animals when Altfurry brings Trojan-horse hate to furry fandom. To learn more, see tagged stories here. A regional furry organizer shared this story.  ID is withheld so their job can be discussed. They’re an airport terminal worker. “Just encountered something that I never expected to see. A line of badged, patched, and uniformed fascists just came through my airport. Like any other passenger group, I w

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The Animal Guild Series – Book Reviews by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Animal Guild Series The Animal Guild, by Jennifer Sowle. 2nd Edition. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, May 2015, trade paperback, $11.97 ([5 +] 307 pages), Kindle $0.99. Monsters in the Territory, by Jennifer Sowle. 2nd Edition. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, February 2015, trade paperback, $12.99 ([5 +] 340 pages), Kindle $3.99. The Marrhob War, by Jennifer Sowle. 2nd Edition. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, February 2015, trade paperb

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“Suburban Jungle: Rough Housing” – Comic review by Ace.

Review: Suburban Jungle: Rough Housing Guest review by Ace Suburban Jungle was a web comic done by John “The Gneech” Robey that started on February 1, 1999. It starred a young tigress, named Tiffany, who is trying to make a career of acting and modeling while holding down numerous temp jobs. Along the way she meets the Kurt Russell-esque Leonard Lion, Leona Lioness (no relation to Leonard), and many others such as Drezzer Wolf and Conrad Tiger. It was slice of life with the characters residing

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Aquatifur is making a splash with the first waterpark furry con, October 2017.

Who else loved going to Biggest Little Fur Con at a resort with go karts, mini golf, bowling and more? For finny friends and everyone else too, here’s a new one.  A fur con at a water park is such an amazing idea, the fun is rubbing off on me vicariously.  I’m happy for everyone who gets to go. I love swimming and fursuiting – what could be better than enjoying both at the same place? Maybe not at the same time though, unless you don’t mind a little lawn sprinkler action.  Stand back! Here’s

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French anthro comic: Solo, T. 2, by Oscar Martin – book review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Solo. T.2, Le Coeur et le Sang, by Oscar Martin. Paris, Delcourt, January 2016, hardcover €16,95 (109 [+ 1] pages). Oops. This volume 2, The Heart and the Blood, almost got away from Lex Nakashima & me. Volume 3 is out already. Expect a review of it soon. I said of volume 1, “The setting: a bleak, war-destroyed future Earth. Think MGM’s/Hugh Harman’s 1939 animated Peace on Earth, where the last humans on Earth kill each o

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Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer – book review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer NYC, MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2017, hardcover $26.00 (323 [+ 2] pages), Kindle $12.99. Borne is a science-fiction novel, not a furry novel. That’s Borne on the cover. No furry author has ever featured an animal quite like him – if he is an animal. “WHAT I FOUND AND HOW I FOUND IT I found Borne on a sunny gunmetal day when the giant bear Mord came roving near our home. To me, Borne was ju

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HappyWulf’s Furry KickStarters – Ep. 3

Welcome back, my shopping friends. Let me tell you a story! I almost missed this first entry because I don’t usually sift through the music section of KickStarter for projects to share. Imagine the egg on my face had I not found it. People don’t tell me these things! I have to find out on my own! I’m here to tell YOU about these things!! So these things, here they are! MUSIC Muh. A Pepper Coyote Album I shouldn’t need to introduce Pepper Coyote. This is for his new album, along with Fox Amo

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Three furries save lives in deadly multi-vehicle crash in England.

(Thanks for tip from Tinkafur) On Saturday, September 16, a highway accident killed four and hospitalized three in South Gloustershire, in the south west of England.  A truck suffered a tire blowout and lost control. It crossed into the oncoming lane, demolishing cars and a motorbike before landing in a ditch. Three witnesses were in a car 30 seconds behind the crash. They rushed to help at a traumatic scene.  Kids were pulled from a car on fire, while rescue crews were stuck in traffic.  E

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Here’s the Altfurry blocklist – a powerful tool to reduce hate spam.

Have you ever hung up the phone on a jerk? Frozen out a bully who acted like a wasp in your hair?  Rejected a stalker who can’t stop asking to sniff your socks?  Shut the door on a creep trying to get you into a crackpot religion, or to sign a petition to legalize hunting at zoos? Blocked spam to sell you a miracle cure for crotch rot, made from the powdered toenails of a peruvian jungle sloth? Good. You stood up for yourself like an adult and moderated a nuisance. And now the power is yours to

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Monster Party Cafe opens in Japan – the first permanent furry-themed business?

monsterparty.cafe It’s fun to go to themed places that make you feel like you’re in a movie. There’s Speakeasy and Tiki bars, or even Horror and Clown themed bars. For a spooky time, try The Jeckyl and Hyde Club in NYC, Donnie Dirk’s Zombie Den in Minneapolis, or Lovecraft Bar in Portland, Oregon. How about a visit to Toontown? For some people, it’s more than fun. Night life is real life. Some places support subculture or identity like Gay and Leather bars. Why not a furry bar? It’s a half-j

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