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Seeking forum roleplay partner

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 08:04

Hey guys, I'm looking for a good furry roleplay partner, here's a little about me.

I'm 22, Male and Australian, seeking preferably female RP partners (as romance is a definite element of all my RPs.)

I love brainstorming, building plots and worlds for our characters.

I prefer to play a human lead, I'm not a full-on furry so I have trouble identifying with anthro male leads but I immensely enjoy playing with furry partners.

I have 8 years experience in forum roleplay, I love writing and I tend to provide between 3-5 paragraphs per post.

I am an adult, I will not play with anyone under 18 (I am 22)

NSFW content a very real possibility, while not the focus it is something that can easily become a part of it.

I like to keep in touch with my RP partners, so after contact I will ask to exchange Skype usernames, I don't use the camera, text only.

I also enjoy exchanging furry pics we find to use as characters in RP or just for fun.

Contact me at Bluemoonroleplaying.com (username "Ivory11") or on RPnation.com (username Bettsyboy, be warned, RPN allows naughty stuff in roleplays over PM but not in public forums)

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Seeking a good webcomic

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 07:53

Hey guys I'm looking for a good new webcomic, preferably one which mixes in both humans and furries, no porn comics please, I'm looking for a good story not smut, but fan service is appreciated :3.

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Favorite Season?

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 07:17

Just wondering what season's your favorite.

And by season, I mean spring, summer, winter, and fall, in case if you want to be a smart-alec and say rosemary or something like that.

Edit: Fall lover here.

Edit 3: The totals so far:

  • 11 Winter lovers
  • 6 Summer lovers
  • 6 Spring lovers
  • 6 Fall lovers

Edit 4: Does your 'sona have a different favorite season?

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Springtime - by Zanity

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 06:48
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Nose Boops

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 06:40
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Help! I’m Sick! - How do you try to recover from illness? We all have our tips and tricks. This week, the Wagz crew takes advantage of Levi's absence to discuss something he'd run away from at a moment's notice.

WagzTail - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 06:00

How do you try to recover from illness? We all have our tips and tricks. This week, the Wagz crew takes advantage of Levi’s absence to discuss something he’d run away from at a moment’s notice.

Metadata and Credits WagzTail Season 3 Episode 60

Runtime: 30m

Cast: Crimson X, JWingy, Kail, 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. Help! I’m Sick! - How do you try to recover from illness? We all have our tips and tricks. This week, the Wagz crew takes advantage of Levi's absence to discuss something he'd run away from at a moment's notice.

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My latest drawn request

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 05:13
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The Fight for Fleadom

In-Fur-Nation - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 02:55

(Say that three times fast we dare ya!) Author Lewis Goldstein is known for creating stories that are religious parables told with a particular wit. Now in his second book, he tells the story of one Finnegan T. Flea in a graphic novel called Of Fleas and Fleadom: A Tale of Two Vermin, illustrated by Arianna Grinager. Finnegan is an ordinary flea, trapped under the thumb (literally) of a brutish flea-circus owner and forced to witness some of humanity at their worst.  He longs to break out and experience his true “fleadom”, and Mr. Goldstein’s adventurous poem shows how the flea tries to do precisely that. Find out more at the official web site of Baable-On Books, the publisher. By the way: This (very) graphic novel is not meant for young readers!

image c. 2015 Baable-On Books

image c. 2015 Baable-On Books

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Game Over. You Win!

Furry Reddit - Thu 5 Mar 2015 - 00:04
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Been working on my speedpainting

Furry Reddit - Wed 4 Mar 2015 - 23:55
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Steele busting a move

Furry Reddit - Wed 4 Mar 2015 - 22:53
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My New Face

Furry Reddit - Wed 4 Mar 2015 - 22:47
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The Vimana Incident, or what really happened on the Moon in 1939

Claw & Quill - Wed 4 Mar 2015 - 21:24

The Vimana Incident
By Rose LaCroix
Cover Art by NightPhaser
208pp, $9.95
FurPlanet Productions, February 2015

The Vimana Incident features alternate history, time slip, and a deliberate homage to one of the most respected names in science fiction. By her own admission, author Rose LaCroix has set herself some ambitious goals with this novel. Has she bitten off more than she can chew?

The Vimana Incident

The cover by NightPhaser is rich in tiny details and psychedelic in design, recalling the more out-there covers of science fiction from the 1960s. But where those fanciful images often bore no resemblance to the contents of the book, everything pictured on the front of The Vimana Incident is imbued with significance.

The action opens in an alternate 1939, where instead of preparing for war, the big players on the international scene are vying against each other in a space race. Flamboyant fox Edward ‘Red Ned’ Arrowsmith is an engineer and a civilian, but he finds himself pressed into a top secret mission to the Moon with another civilian and three military lunanauts.

The five are sent to investigate a mysterious spacecraft which appears to be Terran in origin, yet built using technologies far in advance of anything known on Earth. When Ned finds a way in to the craft, he and three of his companions—stag Robert Hawthorne, Russian hare Viktoria Aksakova, and Ned’s American opposite number Tom Ingerholt, a wolf—find themselves whisked not only into the future, but along an alternate timeline.

As if that wasn’t enough, Ned starts having disturbing dreams about a figure from history, Godric of Hereford. And with four creatures flung together far from home and out of their element, Ned’s homosexuality becomes an additional source of tension. When the foursome reaches the planet Enkidu…but here be spoilers.

Until this point, the story has been relatively slow. We get to know the characters, the frequency of weird happenings gradually increases, and there are rich, loving descriptions of both the alternate past and the technology of the future. Shortly after the halfway mark it starts to gallop along, with Ned caught up in more and more confusing and surreal situations and the timeline switching from the 12th century to the late 1940s in a world where the second war happened after all to a future ahead of our time, but before the far future Ned visits in the spacecraft.

Confused? You might be, but Rose LaCroix has the plot firmly in hand, bringing everything—or almost everything—together for the conclusion. It’s an enjoyable and exciting ride; Ned’s vanity and fragility are all too real, making him an appealing character, and the dialogue feels convincing for the various periods yet retains plenty of snap.

The various periods have been well researched (and the alternate timeline is convincing), but all this knowledge is borne lightly, without too many infodumps. Okay, there’s a biggish chunk near the start about the British aeronautical industry, but I am unlikely to complain about what is essentially a paragraph of plane porn. There are lots of nice touches, like the airship which takes Ned to the USA in an early chapter. The word chosen for the international spacefarers is ‘lunanauts,’ to distinguish from the American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts of our own reality.

It’s mentioned that Red Ned’s character is based on codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing, but he fits well among the eccentric-genius British aeronautical engineers of the interwar period—like Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bomb used in the Dambusters raid, on whom I based a character in my first published furry story.

The Vimana Incident forms part of a story cycle that starts with The Goldenlea and includes the adult novellas Basecraft Cirrostratus and Escape from St Arned, along with the upcoming The Linen Butterfly. Vimana, the most recently released, is the first I’ve read, but all are also suitable as standalone reads. I could guess a little of how the canon ties in just from the reviews I’ve read of the other books, and undoubtedly I’m missing a lot more clues that would be obvious to someone who’s read the lot.

In her introduction, LaCroix mentions the inspiration she took from the life and work of Philip K. Dick. I did find some similarities of theme—an alienated protagonist, a trippy feel, multiple realities—but I wonder if I’d have picked up on these if I hadn’t been told to look out for them. To be fair, I’ve read a few of Dick’s novels but nowhere near everything, nor am I that well up on the author’s biography (took some drugs; wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is about my level).

Rather, the author who came to my mind throughout The Vimana Incident was Nevil Shute, the favourite novelist of my late father. Shute, whose best-known works are A Town Like Alice and On the Beach, mixed accurate and detailed accounts of aviation (he was an aeronautical engineer before his writing career—I’m sorry—took off) with fantastical elements, and wrote several stories in which present events echo, and are intruded into by, those of the past. (If that tickles your fancy, try An Old Captivity, The Rainbow and the Rose or In the Wet.)

At 208 pages, The Vimana Incident is a short novel (or a long novella), and there were places and themes I’d have liked to have seen explored more fully. After a gradual start, the tipping point is reached and events and lives start tumbling past with increasing rapidity, though this adds to the dreamlike, disassociated feel.

All my nitpicks are small ones involving slightly clunky sentences or matters of pedantic detail—and if I can accept that the main character is an anthropomorphic fox, it seems churlish to complain that the presence of turtles is unlikely in an English river.

Has LaCroix succeeded in her ambition for the novel? From a reader’s point of view, she has created a satisfying and intriguing story. I looked forward to the next chapter while I was reading it, and I’ll certainly be reading it again. Whether she has produced a work of the quality she herself wanted, well, only the author can say, but I’m reminded of that annoyingly ubiquitous quote about shooting for the moon and missing to land among the stars. The sphere of furry writing can only benefit from this breed of originality and its lofty aims.

This review is of a proof copy given by the author.

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This shirt

Furry Reddit - Wed 4 Mar 2015 - 21:01
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