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submitted by MezzaCorux
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Here we go!

I wanted to do more, but as I expected, work picked up shortly after I posted that thread... I was actually about to not post it because I figured that would happen, but eh...

Anyway, I did my best! I need to work on drawing arms and hands. I drew a couple of broken wrists here, haha.

If I didn't doodle you, then I'm going to keep it in mind next time it's a slow work day! That way I have something to fall back to when I run out of ideas, which I tend to do rather quickly...

Here's where I link the furs I doodles so they know I did it! /u/stratathefox, /u/FreeThinkerComic, /u/LightningPaws, /u/Neohexane, /u/spacecoreV8, /u/copperbadger

submitted by IntroIntroduction
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So... I recenty got into anime I guess you can say. It started with this Youtube video. I liked his anime he suggested.. I loved Cat Planet Cuties, loved Kanokon, and really love Spice and Wolf. The 3 had a slight level of romance and were not too... sexual about it. Although I was told Kanokon was a cock tease ( did not effect me in that way, but whatever )

My question is... what else is there? Like I want things along these lines... preferably dubbed as Japanese voice acting irritates me sometimes to where it is a turn off on anime. Although I know most anime is subbed first... I have no idea how to say it. I am a little weird about it. If the anime is very well done, the voice acting wont bother me much. Dubbed is not something I want, but will take it into consideration.

Hopefully you can help me out here.

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Where do you go to find furry artists? It’s been a long time since we last talked about this, and in light of some recent instability and uncertainty of a popular furry art site, we thought it was time to revisit the issue. Where do you like to go to find, post, or commission art? Tell us below!

Metadata and Credits WagzTail Season 3 Episode 64

Runtime: 30m

Cast: Firefoxkac, Levi, Wolfin

Editor: Levi

Format: 128kbps ABR split-stereo MP3 Copyright: © 2015 WagzTail.com. Some Rights Reserved. This podcast is released by WagzTail.com as CC BY-ND 3.0. If distributed with a facility that has an existing agreement in place with a Professional Rights Organisation (PRO), file a cue sheet for 30:00 to Fabien Renoult (BMI) 1.67%, Josquin des Pres (BMI) 1.67%, WagzTail.com 96.67%. Rights have been acquired to all content for national and international broadcast and web release with no royalties due. Finding Furry Artists - Where do you go to find furry artists? It's been a long time since we last talked about this, and in light of some recent instability and uncertainty of a popular furry art site, we thought it was time to revisit the issue.

c/o Mwalimu on Flayrah, here is an article, dated April 1, in Vermont's Seven Days newspaper:

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/free-to-be-furry-group-fights-to-wear-animal-costumes-in-burlington/Content?oid=2546940


Jessica Owens is 32 years old, lives in Milton and works as a secretary. On a rainy night last week, she agreed to meet at Wicked Wings in Essex Junction. She showed up in a black sweatshirt, but on a different day, might have been dressed in her custom-made corgi suit.

Owens is part of a subculture of people called "furries" who are passionate about anthropomorphized cartoon animals. Conventions across the country attract thousands; many come wearing bespoke hirsute costumes.

Joined at the restaurant by two fellow furries — her husband, Jonathan, and a friend, Rob — Owens explained the particulars of furry culture with the rehearsed manner of someone used to dispelling misconceptions.

No, they don't actually believe they are animals. Yes, they do cultivate "fursonas." Owens explained that she chose a race-car-driving corgi named Rally as hers partly because she shares the breed's outgoing and assertive personality.

"I'm her codriver," her husband chimed in. The 36-year-old, who delivers appliances for a living, identifies as Ahzlon, a black panther with blue hair.

The trio belongs to the Vermont Furs club, which has been around since the early 2000s and has a membership that fluctuates between 20 and 40 people. The local furries get together at bowling alleys and pool halls — sometimes in suits, other times not — and look for opportunities to entertain at events such as charity walks and Christmas-tree lightings.

"We're just here to put smiles on people's faces," Owens said.

Not everyone has been so charmed. In fact, some city authorities seem a little freaked out.

Two months ago, Owens and 11 other furries joined the crowds at Burlington's annual Mardi Gras celebration. Decked out in green, gold and purple beads like the rest of the partygoers, the seven of them in costume high-fived little kids and posed with people in a photo booth on Church Street.

After about an hour and a half, a Church Street Marketplace rep confronted the group outside the mall and requested that they remove their animal heads, because they didn't have permission to perform on Church Street.

Why were they being singled out, the furries wanted to know, when the streets were teeming with other strangely dressed revelers?

"It's just different," was the response, Owens said.

Offended, the group walked into an alley, where they removed their masks, or "broke the magic" as they describe it. Later, the Vermont Furs filed a formal complaint with the city, calling the incident an act of "blatant discrimination."

The Church Street Marketplace, which regulates the street, issues permits to people who want to busk on the brick promenade. To make the cut, street performers must audition in front of marketplace staff and pass a background check. Vermont Furs had a permit, but it expired at the end of last year. When Owens tried to renew it in January, she was told she couldn't yet because the permit system was getting revamped.

As bidden, the Vermont Furs had stayed off Church Street. They showed up at Mardi Gras because they didn't think they'd be breaking any rules.

Ron Redmond is the executive director of the marketplace. Asked about the incident, his response was simple: Google "Elmo" and "Times Square."

The first result was a New York Post story headlined "Elmo in Handcuffs After Times Square Bust." A woman wearing an Elmo suit had been arrested for aggressive panhandling. Elmo wasn't the only character to act out. In June, two different Spider-Man look-alikes were taken into custody on charges of groping and assaulting women. A Cookie Monster allegedly shoved a child and ... you get the idea.

Redmond's point: Fear of the big, fluffy creatures isn't totally irrational. He stressed that marketplace staff have a responsibility to the public to keep the pedestrian mall safe, which requires vetting all performers. "It's become a national issue where, in some cities, people dress up in these outfits and aren't necessarily doing it to connect with children," he explained.

The Vermont Furs club is a different breed than the panhandling denizens of Times Square. The former belong to a tradition that dates back at least to the 1980s and grew out of science-fiction and anime fandoms. When out in public, they abide by certain rules. They're always accompanied by a non-costumed "handler," and they bend down rather than tower over small children so as not to intimidate them. Owens emphatically pointed out that they never accept cash.

"We're just like other fandoms except we're cuter, furrier and we do it for free," she said.

It hasn't helped the cause that several stories have linked furries to plushophilia — an attraction to stuffed animals — and other sexual fetishes. "It's a stigma we've dealt with for a very, very long time," Owens said. "As with any fandom, regardless if you're 'Star Trek' fans, My Little Pony fans, those romantic themes are out there." For Vermont Furs, and for the majority of furries, Owens continued, sex has nothing to do with it.

"We know they are really, genuinely good people," Redmond said of the Vermont Furs. Pointing out that the marketplace sometimes hires high school students to dress up as Frosty the Snowman or other characters, he stressed that they've got nothing against costumed creatures per se. Regarding the Mardi Gras situation, he admitted, "I'm not sure if that was the right move."

In Redmond's opinion, furries don't really fit the street-performer category, which puts them in a regulatory gray area. "It's an interesting and complex issue," he noted.

Even before the furry quandary, the marketplace had decided to revisit its street-performer system in response to complaints from "our more successful street performers," Redmond said. Under the current arrangement, he estimates that roughly 95 percent of people pass their auditions. As a result, an abundance of performers crowd the street, sometimes creating sonic overload. The likely solution: more rigorous auditions.

Church Street is the commercial lifeblood of Burlington, and its custodians are understandably concerned about preserving its charm. But some residents have criticized several recent policies — a smoking ban and a no-trespass ordinance allowing police officers to ban unruly people from the promenade — as overzealous attempts to sanitize the place. For some, raising the bar for street performers could carry the same whiff of elitism. How will those in charge address the concern? "It's a great question. I don't know the answer, but we've got to find the answer," Redmond said.

If there's a stricter audition process, will the furries — whose repertoire consists of high-fives rather than fancy tricks — make the cut?

Redmond said the marketplace is committed to carving out space for them; they just need some time to figure it out. One solution, he suggested, would be to give registered furries a badge or a pin with Church Street insignia showing that they've cleared the same background checks street performers undergo.

In the meantime, the Vermont Furs members are frustrated. Places like Essex Junction have welcomed them with open arms, but "at this point, the entire city of Burlington is off-limits to us."

The problem is not just on Church Street. For years, furries did their thing in Burlington, undisturbed, amusing people at events such as the weekly farmers market in City Hall Park. But last summer, a police officer notified one of them that the city of Burlington's mask ordinance forbade that kind of attire. Perplexed, Owens went in person to the police department.

She found out Queen City regulations favor the underdressed over the overdressed. It's perfectly legal to parade around in the buff, but Burlington prohibits anyone over 21 from wearing a mask in public. The ban dates back to the days of the Ku Klux Klan, according to the Vermont Historical Society. In 1924, the hate group burned crosses on Lake Champlain's breakwater, and city officials passed the ordinance to prevent anything similar. The police department continues to enforce the ban, largely because people often wear masks when committing crimes.

"I'm, like, OK, well how does the didgeridoo guy with the cat mask get away with it?" Owens remembers asking a police officer, referring to a man she'd seen on Church Street.

The officer explained the street-performer permit system, and Owens later got one for the group.

Deputy police chief Bruce Bovat said he wasn't familiar with the incident — or the furries. He noted that officers only apply the ordinance within reason. But Bovat declined to weigh in on whether the ordinance should apply to furries — "I'm wary to put something out there that's so black-and-white."

For the Owenses, being furry is a social thing. The couple has traveled to conventions, and they love being a part of the community.

Their friend, Rob, has never been to one. The 35-year-old auto parts salesman and backyard mechanic was quieter than his two companions. He's been a furry since age 15, but he didn't want to be identified because he's never told his family and doubts it would go over well.

Rob doesn't have a suit, but he's refurbished an old Ford Escort to resemble his fursona — a zebra with white stripes on black named Zytx. "I am terribly shy. Just coming down here tonight I got the shakes," he admitted, raising his hands to demonstrate. His fursona and his friends in Vermont Furs force him out of his shell.

The Owens talked about hosting a convention that even Rob would attend — one right here in Burlington. They already have a name: Green Mountain Fur Con.

But given the current situation, they know that for now, it's just a fantasy.

submitted by S_XOF
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I'm looking for an artist to commission a ref sheet for my new husky fursona. He has yet to be drawn, but I have a text description of him that I've written up.

If you don't do ref sheets but would like to do a headshot or a body sketch I would be very grateful. :3

Either post here, pm me, or add me on Skype via rumtum_hyena.

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I'm up late and can't sleep. Anyways, what has you night owls up? :3

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First, a little background information. I am currently taking an independent study for orchestra at my high school, so there's a lot of people I don't know too well. Most of them know I'm a furry or suspect it because I brought my tail in one day (I told someone that if she did something, I would bring the tail in. She did it).

Anyway, today, right after a concert, one of the girls in my class walks near my case. Conversation ensues until I jokingly say something along the lines of "If I wore the tail on stage, how long would it be before I got kicked off? " She then asks me if I'm a furry. Naturally, I say yes. She then says "cool. I am too. I just don't normally tell people because they are annoying about it."

I have known this person for about 5 months now. I was so shocked and happy at the same time. I only kinda knew this person, and I suddenly discover she's a furry. Now all I have to do is get her on reddit.

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Since I got a lot of thank-yous for making this idea a comment, I wanted to broadcast this for the rest of this subreddit. Join your local furmeets if you have the time! I'm lucky enough to live in the DFW area and have at least three meets a month within thirty minutes driving distance. They're fun social gatherings of outrageously accepting people. (mostly guys, as you would expect) You don't need a fursuit or anything, just come as you normally appear. People that been around will usually wear con lanyards and badges of their fursonas to help identify themselves. Most furmeets I've been to have been filled with socially anxious people trying to make friends. Most people will want to walk up and talk to them as complete strangers, and let's face it, furries are awesome so you'll want to meet them too!

You might have to be a little tenacious in finding information on meets. I found the forum for Texas furmeets mentioned in the second google search result when I type "Texas furmeets". Lonestarfurs doesn't appear as a direct result, so look around!

Link to other thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/30zbaf/new_to_furry_fandom/

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I'll draw your shit for free, yo. Post here and I'll try and get back to you! I might not be able to do all of them quickly, so it may be some time before I am able to get back to you, but I'll try my best :D

EDIT: Forgot to say this, but I can only do sketches, drawing computer is down.

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