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Illustration from The Evolution Card Game on Kickstarter

A bit slow in crowdfundingland, so I’m going to take a quiet moment out and look at a couple of cute tee shirt companies currently funding. But it’s worth pointing out one little, or large, achievement. If you’re a fan of the adorable steampunky webcomic “Lackadaisy,” you’re probably aware of this one already.

It’s hard to find enough words to praise this comic. The art is detailed, with the attention to detail of any of the great realistic artists of the fandom and the character and warmth of…of…well, like I said, words fail me.

So it’s newsworthy that Lackadaisy’s artist, Tracy Butler, has managed to quit her job, gather her fanbase together, and take the plunge into full-time, crowdfunded cartooning. A scary step, but it seems to have worked for her–through Patreon, she’s actually looking at a living wage, and without a lot of complicated perks. Congratulations, Tracy!

Now, on to the tees.

I seem to be a little bit late to the party for Wild @ Heart’s tee line, now on Kickstarter. I missed the original project post back in March, and now there’s only a week left on the project. Oops!

The concept, and the tees, are pretty simple, but well-executed–it’s a tail tee. The first two designs to be unfurled are the fox and husky, to be released for the next Anthrocon. Also in the line-up is a super-cute dragon with wikkle wings, a tiger, and—well, I don’t know what that is. It looks like a strawberry bunny, I’m at a loss.

If you happen to miss this cute Kickstarter, you can check out Studio Cute’s webpage, follow Ponygirl on FA, and the tees are likely to make it to her Etsy page as well (along with some cute wolf-themed jewelry…), so even if it’s too late to pony up some cash, you can still get some tail there.

Apologies for that last one. It’s really been a heck of a week.

Over on Indiegogo, you still have a month to check out Animaltshirts.eu–though there’s a lot to be said for just cruising over to their website. To save you some valuable clicking time, here’s the species page for canine designs.

Points for having a lot of obscure animals–Tasmanian devils, hyenas, bats, Sergals (!), dragons all make the cut–as well as a heaping helping of fox subspecies, some tribal style art–lots of variety in this company!

Most of the art is by RaikaDeLaNoche (or if you’re not at work, you could check her after-dark alterego, AlmaAurora), whose style runs an impressive stylistic range from pieces reminiscent of Blotch, Goldenwolf, and Michele Light. Nice stuff!

Ultimately, this is a capital campaign, intended to get a textile printer and replace some of the services their previous provider cut. The prices in the Indiegogo page are a little higher than in the shop–it’s a fundraiser more than a deal of the century. So think a bit about how you want your money to flow.

For a “complete” list of furry/fur-friendly crowdfunding projects, check out the Project Page! New Projects Art

Tea Critters 2016 Calendar (Ends: 5/2/2015)
Illustrated calendar by NightLineZ with delicately colored animals from the Chinese zodiac, in watercolor and tea.

Clothing/Jewelry

Wild @ Heart (Ends: 4/18/2015)
Animal-themed tees with little tail butt-logos, choose your species! The dragon one is particularly cute.

Comics/Graphic Novels

Batbear (Ends: 5/8/2015)
In a city ruled by darkness, one bear is brave enough to don the MASK OF JUSTICE. Batbear.
Although I did like the original title, Deadpooh.

Dream Town Amusement Park (Ends: 5/10/2015)
The happiest place on earth goes to hell and the animal mascots start attacking. Art by Defected Angel.
For a Five Nights at Freddy’s rip-off, this graphic novel has much better art than it needed to.

Lackadaisy on Patreon (Patreon ongoing funding)
A Patreon campaign for the luscious steampunk comic, Lackadaisy, by Tracy Butler.
Awesome! A wonderful artist successfully quits her dayjob to commit art!

Film/Animation/Theater

Slow and Steady (Ends: 5/6/2015)
CGI adaptation of the Tortoise and the Hare. The Uncanny Valley on this one is quite high.

Lapin, Une Etrange Historie d’Amour (Ends: 5/7/2015)
A surreal french film about a man, a rabbit-like girl, a strange world under an apartment. A bit Gaimanesque. A bit French.

Tabletop Games

Burrows and Badgers (Ends: 4/22/2015)
Animal tabletop mini figures with a Redwall aesthetic, but a little dark-and-grimmer than you might expect.

Epyllion, Dragon Epic RPG (Ends: 5/3/2015)
Tabletop RPG of noble dragon houses and their scions rebelling against tradition.
Interestingly, the team lists MLP: Friendship is Magic as an influence, huh. This is actually past goal pretty early in, which is kind of a surprise–also they may have lowballed the goal.

The Evolution Game System (Ends: 5/24/2015)
A colorful card game of evolution, predator and prey, and terrible fights around the watering hole. Also, lots of striped hyenas.
Past goal!

Toys

Embroidered Equines (Ends: 5/3/2015)
Plush ponies from SparkCostumes, and a maker looking to move to embroidery from the stitched applique model.

Video Games

Ninja Chronicle (Ends: 5/3/2015)
A collect-a-thon adventure featuring a skyship and a nimble cat and fox.
Slow start. I think this might suffer from first-project-itis and a realistic goal.

Adult

Big Book of BNG (Ends: 5/2/2015)
92 pages of muscly, glossy, color guys by BNG

…Causes

DragonHarpGaming mascot suit (Ends: 6/7/2015): I’m broadly against “fund my fursuit” pages, but this is for a cause of a sort, a charity/gaming group and it’s a cute character, a dragon with video game controller markngs, so hey.

…Just for fun

The Art of Character Design (Ends: 5/9/2015): Vol.2 of a book of game, film, and toy character design. CGI, puppets, stop-motion. Fun coffee-table tour of the subject.

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We've got a very kind person on this sub asking what furries do in their non-furry lives. And lets face it, I'm very curious about some of you as well.

Post us a quick comment about what your non furry self is!

I know mines pretty simple, 9 to 6 data entry job, live in an apartment with my boyfriend and we play video games and dungeons and dragons. Graduated college so no more school for me. But I went to school for art, so I draw a lot (big fat surprise huh).

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Let first start off and say that I am not a furry but I also have no issue with it…Im not trying to convince him out of it or anything like that.

The problem is that he is emotionally very immature and has a very unhealthy view of it (He is 16,aspergers, meds, therapist - the whole 9)…not the actual furry thing but his approach to it. He had talked about him being a furry for quite some time now and me and his mom took him to a convention. Three days and he had a blast. Very positive experience, we had fun…he bought a tail and some mercy and was happy. I said I had no issue with the stuff and whatever. BUT that his involvement in the coming months would be determined on how maturely he handled the coming weeks and balancing stuff.

So first day back from school we got a phone call…he broke down in class and was crying. So I go pick him up…this is sort of a bi-weekly thing for him to just refuse to do work or whatever. Get home and I tell him to put his tail in the closet…that he isn’t mature enough to handle it right now. So he broke down crying. I had to work so went to the office…he was just standing by the closet. I talked to him and basically figured out that he was trying to stay close to the tail…and it seems that he’s latched onto the furry thing and think life can be like a convention all the time. He isn’t figuring our that everyone has work, career, school, personal lives, responsibilities and all that. I tried to explain to him that everyone has something that they love…that we get through the stuff we hate like work and school so we get rewarded so we can do what we love. He’s got it in his head that there can be this way to live where you’re in suits all the time and it’s all fun and games and don’t have to worry about the other stuff.

I don’t know how to approach this…I am very careful to not talk negatively about being a furry but his approach to it is really affecting the family and his own emotional well being. And he’s done it before with things like Wicca or wanting to just live in the woods and live the hunter gatherer life…he seems to latch onto something and then put it in this super romantic view where all the responsibilities of life don’t exist…..this time it just so happens to be furry.

So what sort of lives do most of you live….what’s the balance like of real life and the furry life. Did you go to school, have a career and all that. I guess I’m looking for sort of ways to show him that being a furry is just part of your life…it isn’t EVERYTHING about you. People have kids, and shopping and bills and all this other stuff…it’s just not suits and games and fan fiction or whatever….

Also sorry if I misspoke about anything furry….I dunno the lingo / whatever.

EDIT ADD: Wanted to thank everyone for the replies...I have been trying to reply to each one because you took the time out to answer my questions / give insight so I think I should reply and thank you and all that. I've gotta work but I'll get back to it....I think it also might be helpful later to have him post and get some insight. <3

EDIT #2: Wow....I was expecting a couple of responses and then nothing else...it's been like hours and theyre still coming in! Really awesome job everyone...you've almost covered everything I was hoping to...and further strengthened my support of the culture because how insightful, positive and forthcoming you all have been with this. Ill try to reply to the others tomorrow maybe...we had, to say the least a very emotional day and I had to finish up some work tonight so I'm freakin' beat. Off to read comics. Much love everyone.

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