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Hey! This episode you can win this awesome limited edition ALS themed trading card from Royalty Card Game, more information later in the video after a wonderful interview with the driving force behind this wonderful initiative!

Welcome to the 5th episode of Digging Up Positivity video of this year! This episode is packed with animation news but oooh so much charities because the furries have been BUSY!

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The winners of the 2025 Cóyotl Awards have been announced! This annual award is granted by the members of the Furry Writers' Guild to recognize excellence in anthropomorphic literature.

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Sorry this is late - my job has been super busy in the last two weeks (in a good way), and May was a pretty quiet month for newsbytes on Flayrah.

dronon: horsegiirL is going on tour later this year.

dronon: Laika drops a trailer for Wildwood! Aiming for a late October release. [Tip: Dav]

dronon: In the UK, the highest 100 grossing films in the last three years are four times as likely to have a talking animal as a lead character than a human woman over age 60. And six films' leads were named Chris.

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A surprise came to New York City furs at the end of April when word spread of a new convention this November in their area that nobody had heard of: New Anthrodam. Without an official announcement, nor having been established in conjunction with the local furry organizations, people were left in the dark as to who was running it. New Anthrodam, to be held in downtown Brooklyn the weekend before Thanksgiving, caught even the organizers of local events off guard when knowledge of it went around.

On April 3rd, a Bluesky account bearing the name was created and made its first post: “Coming soon!” but no attention was given until awareness of it arrived suddenly on the 24th, during Furgeddaboutit. The website the account linked to—registered last August, according to a WHOIS query—consists of a logo, dates and venue, two social media links, a link to sign up to a mailing list, and a vector city skyline (with windows that light up randomly on each visit). No information on what it is about or how to register are provided for a convention less than six months out. So, who runs it?

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I was vaguely aware, browsing bookstores and libraries, that there was an odd group of murder mysteries with cats on the cover illustration (and cat puns in the title of course), but for many years was not entirely sure that this wasn't just one prolific author writing one ongoing series to a niche but dedicated readership of cat detective fans. Despite being a fan of anthropomorphic animals in stories, and generally liking detective fiction, they just seemed a little bit too specific for even me. The only example of one of these novels I've ever read featured foxes rather than cats, and it was unfortunately terrible enough that it killed what little spark of enthusiasm for the genre I had. My lack of interest in the sub-genre seems to be mirrored by the furry fandom at large (we tend to like our cat detectives a bit more bipedal, among other traits).

Recently, this little genre has slipped off the written page and onto the big screen. The Sheep Detectives adapts one of these novels, Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, which the observant reader may have already deduced features sheep detectives rather than cats. Directed by Kyle Balda, this movie tells the story of George Hardy, an Irish shepherd played by Hugh Jackman, who enjoys reading detective stories out loud to his flock, never believing for a second they are actually paying attention to the stories and learning sleuthing skills second hand from these readings. When George suddenly dies one night, the sheep begin to suspect foul play, and decide to solve the crime themselves.

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This is a belated review of the last two official volumes of Blacksad, the French hardcover comic series about a cat detective written by Spanish author Juan Díaz Canales, with gorgeous anthropomorphic art by Juanjo Guarnido. Credit to StratoKasta who beat me to it back in 2024! So why am I getting around to this now? Because I want to read something new that's Blacksad-adjacent, and didn't want to do that without reviewing these first.

I'd last read Blacksad volume 5 (Amarillo) ages ago, and had largely forgotten it. So diving back into the series felt like riding a bicycle after a long absence - a bit wobbly at first, then getting back into the groove. The last two volumes are a two-parter called They All Fall Down (French: Alors, tout tombe).

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Attendees at opening ceremonies for Furgeddaboutit in its second year, whose theme was centered around the 1980s. (Eberra Wolf/Flayrah)

Co-reported with Kamen The Lycanroc

In the last weekend of April, Furgeddaboutit’s second year hosted over a thousand attendees and raised $11,828.31 for charity. For the New Jersey convention, this year’s theme was “Don’t You FURGeddabout Me: All About the 80s!”. From Friday to Sunday, songs from the decade emanated from the ballroom, a few furs dressed in their best 80s fashion, and several took photos with small sets in the hallway, themed on the decade.

Furgeddaboutit was originally established to spite another furry convention, Garden State Fur The Weekend, or GSFTW, for its unscrupulous ties with an infamous furry group that was responsible for ending Rocky Mountain Fur Con in 2017. In turn Furgeddaboutit drew prospective attendees away from it by overlapping on the same days. GSFTW suffered a large blow from what became a drain of defectors, and as of writing is seemingly defunct. There has been no official talk of a 2026 convention for Garden State beside what appears to be in the last public communication, on Twitter in mid-June of last year, fielding suggestions on a theme. GSFTW did not respond to a request for comment.

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It's been about a decade since Nintendo released its last remake of Star Fox, originally a space shooter featuring furry characters for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System back in 1993, so Nintendo is finally moving forward with another version, to be released next month, June 25.

Contributors this month include dronon, earthfurst, EberraWolf, and Rakuen Growlithe.

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Yay! Time for another episode of digging up positivity! April sure has been a big month for the furry fandom, and we have some lovely animation news as well. Plus an interview with a really awesome furry from Wales, who often does amazing things for not just the local community but for charity as well! But first, the charities!

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Furries gathered at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., for a group photo. In the past, small furry friend groups would see the cherry blossoms bloom in the spring. How did it become so large? (Photo by Hypercat, via Furtrack)

Right when the first cherry blossoms were beginning to bloom, just over 300 furries came down to Washington, D.C., last month. Touring the Tidal Basin and the National Mall, they walked around to take in the majestic sight of bright pink cherry petals. While 13 days too soon from what is deemed “peak bloom”, some other trees were budding or blooming entirely.

Furs from all over came as part of an evolved and growing field trip in the fandom to visit the annual spectacle on March 14th. Furs local to D.C., including in the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia—known locally as the DMV—came, of course, but so did people from further afar. It’s been for decades a trip that furries’ friend groups would go down to the Tidal Basin, I’m told, to take in the sight of hundreds of thousands of beautiful petals in fursuit. These excursions were previously ad-hoc, small, private outings amongst friends for years by different groups of people. How did it become so large and organized?

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Many furries had left the platform formerly known as Twitter, and I myself had moved onto bluer skies. While not as active as I once was, I have hung around to keep an eye on things. Streamers typically use it as a simple content regurgitator, but it’s mostly very simple content. It’s rare that any content stirs conversation these days, probably bebcause the bot army with the blue checkmarks will come around and "um, actually" followed by a talking point for the site's owner. But sometimes the steamer stars align to create an unintentional talking point.

One day apart the stream recap clips of Gebbous and Wolfffff posted content when they were discussing with chat their expectations for decorum, which ended up in such a way on my timeline where these two people were almost having a debate they didn’t even know they were involved in. However, in the more active internet where fans engage with the creators in real time it shows how diverse the expectations are even within the furry fandom when it comes from the behaviors of those beyond the fourth wall.

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is Illumination's latest release from their vast catalog of animated filmography. The film is the inevitable sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie from 2023, which was one of the most successful films of that year. While there are improvements from that original film, the film still does possess major flaws that the original has that are made even more apparent in this sequel.
 
While the animation quality is not a huge step up from the first film, the dynamic camera work is very exciting and made action scenes a lot more engaging than in the first film. In regard to character design, the characters transitioned from their video game iterations to cinema very well.
 
One of the major criticisms that the first film received was the lack of original compositions in the soundtrack in favor of licensed music. This film contains a lot more compositions from the Super Mario franchise in its soundtrack that helps elevate this film above the standard Illumination film.
 

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Yay! Time for another episode of digging up positivity! The first quarter of this year is almost over, and furries around the world are supporting charities to make this world a little bit better. Besides that, we have furries in Spain Got Talent, some animation news, but first— the charities!

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The winners of the 2025 Ursa Major Awards are in! The announcements were made at Las Vegas Fur Con on Friday April 3, 2026.

The Streamer category is a new addition, and for 2025 a temporary Classic Anthro Videogame was created to acknowledge games made before 2001, before the Ursas existed.

Winners below the cut!