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More interesting stuff from the recent Walt Disney Company investors’ presentation. Turning Red is an upcoming Pixar animated feature being directed by Domee Shi, creator of the Oscar-winning animated short Bao. Here’s how Pixar describes the story: “Meet Mei. She experiences the awkwardness of being a teenager, with an added twist: When she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.” Oh! Turning Red is set to be released in the spring of 2022.

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Yuubae from Sittin Kitten studios joins us this week. We talk about her experiences with Fursuit making and the fandom. What is the difference between Filipino and Philipino? How many diamonds can you get in Hearthstone? Are Anglos angry and is it possible to workout on an egg timer?  All these, and many more, are discussed in this weeks episode. Spend some time with Bearly and Taebyn.  It is time you will enjoy!

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Bearly Furcasting #33 - Yuubae, 5 Minute Furs, Storytime

Hi Papa Bear.

​Even though I'm 30 I'm a bedwetter and have been off and on my whole life even diapered a lot from age 8 up. I think its what lead me to becoming a babyfur. My thing is I don't know how to go about talking about the issue and its connection with others that I love.

Maximus Astori-Wolfheart

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Dear Maximus,

What have you done so far to address your bedwetting?

Papabear

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So I have done several things over the last few months, actually. I've went to the doctor and got a referral for the urologist. Saw them, got a CT scan done both with and without contrast and ultrasound of the kidneys and bladder; went in for surgery for a cystoscopy, and everything came back negative.

Being a furry/babyfur I think is a trigger from my past, and I wanted your opinion, if you don't mind. From age 7 or 8 and all the way up, I've been in and out of diapers my whole life. I suffered from encopresis (bowel loss) when I was 7 till around age 9, then bedwetting from there on. I was constantly spanked and given enemas and eventually put back into diapers at age 8. Seems more like a punishment than helping control the problem.

But I wanted your opinion/advice about this sort of thing. Do you think that it's the past that possibly triggered my babyfur side of me to manifest, and also like when I get with someone how to bring this situation up?

Thanks fur the help.

Sincerely,

Maximus Astori-Wolfheart

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Hi, Maximus,

If the bed wetting isn't caused by a medical problem, then it likely is caused by an emotional or mental issue. Did you have a traumatic childhood?

Papabear

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As to what I explained before in combination with this, I was in fact sexually assaulted by my cousin at age 11. I don't know if you want me to go into details with it or not, but I was also sexually assaulted by an older guy in March of 2011.

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Hi, Maximus,

Thank you for that honest response. Now we get to the nitty-gritty of the matter. You see, bedwetting can be an expression of the trauma of having been raped as a child or even as a teen. By extension, your babyfur urges are right up the same alley. You see, when you were traumatized by being raped, you not only were physically assaulted but you were psychologically and emotionally assaulted. Your attackers robbed you of your innocence and, indeed, your childhood. To compensate, some people such as yourself try to revert to a childhood or even infant state in an attempt to reclaim the innocence they have lost.

Here is a link to a very informative PDF that is all about how childhood rape can affect people well into adulthood. 

I would suggest that you seek counsel from a professional who specializes in helping rape victims. Once your psychological issues are resolved, this should go a long way toward mitigating or even completely resolving your bedwetting problem.

As for personal relationships, I would recommend you try and figure out the bedwetting first and then worry about relationships later. Sometimes, of course, serendipity plays an unexpected card and you just fall into a relationship. Should this happen while you are still seeing a counselor, explain what is going on with you openly and honestly, but only when you feel ready to do so and only if you are in a serious relationship (i.e., e.g., it's not something I would mention on a first or second date).

Good Luck!

Papabear

Here is a cute thesis film with a mix of 2D and 3D animation.

Synopsis: A young girl named Sonny is learning how to make potions from her mentor, Theo, a talking cat. Being overconfident, Sonny makes a grave mistake which causes there 3 Dimensional world to become flat.

The Cat’s Apprentice

We're back for one final 2020 episode- catching up on the missing month of November, house hunting, furry parasocial relationship weirdness, cons dying, and food boxes.

This was recorded on 12/3 and Savrin just forgot to upload it, so we missed out on Texas getting BTFO by SCOTUS tonight. 

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Episode 481- 2020 Don't Stop - We're back for one final 2020 episode- catching up on the missing month of November, house hunting, furry parasocial relationship weirdness, cons dying, and food boxes. This was recorded on 12/3 and Savrin just forgot to upl

Welcome to Dutch furry guest writer Jack Newhorse.

Albert Heijn is the biggest supermarket chain in The Netherlands, a country of 17 million people in northwestern Europe. Its hamster mascot is often seen in video ads and in the weekly circular. And for those who don’t mind seeing a (toy) hamster being ripped to shreds, it’s even available as a squeaky dog toy.

The Dutch word for hoarding is hamstering (“hamsteren”): The mascots were created for promotions that encourage consumers to stock up. You don’t “squirrel it away” there, you hamster it away!

But the “AH” hamsters were forced back into their burrows when the wordplay that brought them to life became grim. As hoarding led to depleted shelves in the first weeks of COVID-19, the grocery’s “hamsterweken” (hamster week) sales seemed inappropriate. Within a few days, the hamsters were gone.

Now they’re back to celebrate Christmas. As a company spokesperson told NU.nl (English translation), “The hamsters are once again for sale in the store as a stuffed animal and a Christmas ornament. They’re also giving a bit of color to this week’s print ad.”

Online, the store offers several ornaments, including one with the hamster in a kigu-like moose onesie. The store’s collection of plushies — which the Dutch charmingly call knuffelbeestjes, or “cuddle beasts” — includes a “Hamster Piet“. Thankfully, a non-racist version.

Despite the hamsters’ anthropomorphism, Dutch furries surveyed for this article were mostly blasé about them. Mike Nighthowl said he finds them “Slightly annoying. Yet I miss them as they’re kinda iconic. Without them advertisements get even more bland and therefore almost seem more interrupting.” And Kuva Klik (aka DJ-Code Y) writes, “The hamsters are quite funny. I remember seeing some commercials featuring them when I was younger. [But] I don’t watch regular television now, so I wouldn’t have known they were missing if it weren’t for the news article about it.”

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Jack Newhorse is an American-born writer in The Netherlands, furry since 1998. He runs the coronavirus-postponed event Otterdance.

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Just today on Twitter, Disney Animation made the announcement that a new slate of original animated TV series is on its way to the Disney+ streaming service — and among them is a show called Zootopia+. Yes: Zootopia the series! According to other sources, the series will follow several characters throughout the multi-species city, rather than focusing exclusively on Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps. Here’s the bad news though: We’ll have to wait ’till 2022 to see it!

image c. 2020 Disney Animation

Open the box! Open the box!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three frogs are discussing the content of a mysterious box and can’t agree on opening it, because they don’t know what’s expecting them. When they finally decide to open it, they get confronted with a knowledge they can’t cope with.

The Box

A review request came in from Lucas Masoch:

My new album Baumarius Remastered is an 85-track, 5-hour-long compilation of my work over the years, featuring music that falls within the realm of avant-garde, psychedelic, orchestral soundtrack, epic trailer, post-rock, and world music; often a combination of these. You can listen to the album here on Youtube.

As a confirmed night owl, most of my work happens between midnight and dawn. This is the chilly season for Northern California fog, so I work with a lit fireplace and dogs lounging on fluffy covers nearby. When I put Baumarius on, the cozy level was off the charts.

5 hours of music is great for immersion, but a lot to review. So I used it as background for working with occasional extra attention.

Baumarius Remastered is packed with arboreal, pagan, and fairytale vibes to summon furry creativity. For more than personal listening, it would also be good for a chillout or cuddle space at a party, an art exhibit, a moody video game, or a group art making session. Another Youtube mix of it is labeled: Calming Fantasy & Adventure Music for Writing, Sleep, & Emotional Inspiration.

Art by RavenGearProduction / SheilaGrace

Even with 85 tracks to pick from, the whole album is very consistent — all of them are a few minutes long, using a familiar palette of smooth, digitally-perfect orchestral sounds. I could slide in like a warm pool and never get distracted while soaking it up.

What can I say about it critically? Don’t expect anything like pop singles. The transitions from piece to piece are seamless and the whole experience meanders, but it’s like playing hooky to wander in the woods because you want to. Between overly pompous or trivially whimsical extremes, I think it hits the right balance without overstaying its welcome. I like some avant-garde music (Cabaret Voltaire is one of my forever favorites) and I would classify this as more like comfort food than experiments with itchy dissonance and sound collage, or signature production style. Not that I’d expect it to be what it isn’t; it’s the opposite of funky, but sometimes your ass needs to settle down so you can think. As a non-musician, all I could ask for in future work is to go beyond playing with a nice palette of sounds, and emphazise compositions with direction and solid motifs that your ears can grab. There’s a lot of forest, but can we see the trees?

Notes on a few tracks:

• 59. Finding Self. A dissonant ending.
• 61. Dreaming Together. Hiccup strings.
• 62. Losing Paradise. Nervous energy and clock chimes in a speedup tempo.
• 66. Mindhacker. Slippy slidy whistle and cello.
• 68. Ghostwing. Stormy weather.
• 69. In Control. A bit all over the place actually, with a piano crash thrown in.
• 73. Into the Heart of the Beast. Arresting opening like a slightly ominous chorus of swamp creatures at night.
• 77. The Escape. The echoey string layers give it extra space.
• 80. Thunderstruck. Electricity buzzes, crackles and surges.

Try making art with this on and share it to the musician, I’m sure it would get a great response!

Artist bio and links:

Lucas Masoch is a Puerto Rican multimedia artist and synesthete who specializes in creating avant-garde orchestral soundtracks and music-based synesthetic visual effects. He has two musical acts, known as Baumarius and Syamori, which have influences from genres such as trailer and soundtrack music, psychedelic music, trip hop, and EDM. He began his creative journey in self-isolation at the age of 14, exploring mediums such as writing, inking, digital art, 3D modeling, and virtual reality in an effort to find ways to express himself. That journey eventually brought him the courage and opportunity to leave his family at 19, ditching their doomsday cult to live among strangers halfway across the United States. Recovering from the environmental and social deprivation the cult provided was no easy feat, but now he thrives among friends and resides in Pennsylvania with his partner Marroh.

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Proper movie-trailer speak. This is one we came across on Facebook, of all places. Brok The InvestiGator is a new “narrative-driven adventure game” that’s coming soon from Cowcat and Gog. “In a futuristic ‘light cyberpunk’ world where animals have replaced humans, privileged citizens live under a dome protected from the ambient pollution while others struggle to make a living outside. Brok, a private detective and former boxer, lives with Graff, the son of his deceased wife. Although he could never elucidate her accident, recent events may shed some light on an even more tragic outcome… one that may be linked to their own existence. Will they be able to withstand the threats of this corrupted world and face their own destiny?” There’s a cool trailer on YouTube as well.

image c. 2020 Cowcat

Exploration! That age-old activity. Whether it be exploration of new lands, planets, universes, or mindsets, people have been Exploring New Places for a long time and hopefully will continue to do so far into the future. But why should humans have all the fun? This anthology has stories where furries make first contact with humans, and others where they test themselves against hostile environments, and in yet other stories they make more esoteric discoveries.

The first story, “To Drive the Cold Winter Away” by Michael H. Payne, is one of those more esoteric expeditions. In this one, a simple country mouse learns that his entire world is nothing but the fiction of another, far larger, species, and that music has a quite literal magic to it. When he finds himself stranded in the human world, how will he get back home? This story shows how alien and terrifying humans can be through the eyes of small creatures, even if they mean well. It’s a bit unorthodox, somewhat evocative of Neil Gaiman’s lighter stories, but has an upbeat ending.

Alan Loewen’s “In Search of the Creators” is another story about furries discovering humans, this time in a sci-fi setting. After an exploratory craft crewed by “uplifted” rabbits finds not only signs of the species that created their ancestors, but a small colony, questions arise of how to handle this galaxy-shaking discovery. I appreciated the nod to lapine mentality as fear-motivated, being descended from prey species, but thought the apparently enlightened nature of the humans on their metal-poor planet seemed overly optimistic. It makes one wonder if they’re not being totally honest with the bunnies.

“The Rocky Spires of Planet 227” is one of Mary E. Lowd’s “Tri-Galactic Trek” stories, actually included in the more recent compilation, and based loosely on a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. I’m afraid I haven’t seen this one, but it’s where the crew accidentally kidnap a silicon-based lifeform that uses sound to attack them. An unprecedented situation, and an innocent mistake, yet the consequences could have been dire. It’s interesting that the sound only affects the cats in the crew at first, given that Lowd uses both cats and dogs as stand-ins for humans in these Trek-inspired stories; it was nice to see some differentiation between them.

Horwich Wolcott’s “Defiant” shows how first contact with another culture can go horribly, terribly wrong when a human ship lands on a planet populated by stone-age squirrel people. Plans of making peaceful contact go out the window when the squirrels assume their drones are creatures of some kind of evil god, and the translator software misses that particular nuance. I have a bit of a nitpick on that one scientist who tries to relate to the squirrels on religious terms: she seems to have a concept of “God” limited to a Christian viewpoint, despite being said to have grown up with a Hindu cultural background. I also didn’t think the big reveal at the end was strictly necessary for the story as a standalone, but it could act as foreshadowing for a greater series.

“Why Indeed” by Pepper Hume has a feline alien as the protagonist, but the main focus is on a species of trilaterally symmetrical aliens that can’t really be called “furry.” You see, the trilateral aliens are applying to join the galactic Federation and claim to be complete pacifists, yet it appears that some of their youths murdered a few off-world merchants. The feline is there to investigate what happened. I appreciated the exhibition of cultural differences, but I have to wonder what “incompatible barbarities” the investigator was attempting to suss out exactly. The Federation investigator wears a sword as a badge of her office, while the aliens applying to join the Federation ban all blades longer than their own claws. Also I could see the plot twist coming a mile away.

Editor Fred Patten’s own story, “Come to Todor,” is set amid a universe where humans live peacefully with many alien species. When a ship of otterlike traders lands on a human frontier colony they find very little of value, but one of the crew decides it looks like a nice place to retire and stays behind. A couple years later, she’s decided that homesteading ain’t all it’s made out to be. It’s pretty good at subverting the “idyllic country life” trope, while still showing that it has its perks. However the captain’s objections to coming back seemed a bit forced, like he didn’t really believe them.

“You Are Our Lifeboat” by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen is one of those stories where humans are exploiting uplifted animals for their own benefit, in this case sapient rats forming the crew of a colony ship to Proxima Centauri. Only, it turns out the rats’ creator decided the humans in hibernation didn’t deserve a new planet after they destroyed their old one. So, now the rats have a choice to make that will decide the fates of two different species. I appreciated the little reminders that the rats are not humans with fur and tails, like their difficulty forming certain sounds with their mouths and the resulting changes to their number-based names like “743” to “Sehunsotre.” However, I’m still a little sick of “humanity is evil” furry stories and differentiating your furries from the humans isn’t quite enough to salvage this story in my view.

Vixxy Fox’s “The Animal Game” seems at first to be a dig at the FurryMUCK segment of the fandom, with a new “drug” making the rounds that seemingly allows online roleplayers to enter a full virtual reality. Unfortunately, diving into their fursonas so deeply makes it harder for them to hide their furriness in public, especially once their tails come in. Aside from the furry self-references it’s good with fakeouts. Are the lozenges actually a drug, is it a placebo, or perhaps something entirely new? Is the protagonist of this story the teenage fox boy, the diner’s owner he introduced to the game, or possibly the detective searching for the origin of the Animal Game who keeps switching species?

“Ashland’s Fury” by MikasiWolf seems evocative of old-style dark fantasy stories like “Conan the Barbarian,” as seen when we start with a cougar adventurer in the middle of a bar brawl. Soon he gets hired by a maned wolf druid to escort him to the volcanic Ashlands, where some strange disappearances have occurred recently. Unfortunately, this story exposes the weaknesses of such nihilistic stories: there’s no sympathetic characters. You’ve got the abrasive barbarian, the mage who refuses to use magic except to smack his bodyguard silly, the villagers who want to burn said mage at the stake, the baron who almost let them, and the lizardfolk who’ve been tossing villagers into the volcano. (SPOILER ALERT) And it all amounts to nothing in the end, the volcano blows and everyone but the two main characters die, having accomplished nothing but some abstract “restoration of balance.” (SPOILERS OVER)

M.R. Anglin’s “Legacy” is part of her larger “Silver Foxes” series, about a world with a militant isolationist nation of foxes called Expermia surrounded by several multi-species countries. This story is set right after Expermia lost a war with those other countries. Our POV character is a teenage Expermian who has to venture to another country in order to settle the affairs of his uncle who was executed for war crimes. When a song on the radio catches his attention he finds himself forced to confront the differences between the propaganda he grew up with and the reality of the world outside. It’s depressing, but shows how travel can expose a person to different viewpoints and even tackle one's own subconscious racism. Seeing that people outside your community are really just people, only a little different, listening to their music, walking around their cities, talking to them… No matter how central to one’s identity such beliefs might be.

The next two stories are both in the same military sci-fi series, “Umbra’s Legion”, but by different authors and from radically different perspectives. “Shamblers of Woe” by Adam Baker takes us into the heat of the war between the Canines and their Feline allies against the Getran Empire of United Simians. After taking out one of the Empire’s pet mad scientists a mixed-species squad finds themselves confronted by creatures that have no business being in the same universe as them. Again, I found indications that these characters had their own unique cultural quirks, which got me curious to learn more about them. One of the cats removing a fallen saber-toothed comrade’s fangs, was that some funeral rite or just to keep the enemy from making trophies of them? Why is it a big deal that one character was half-thylacine? The lack of dog-cat animosity was something of a breath of fresh air too, even if it was only due to a common enemy.

Geoff Galt’s “Where Pride Planted” gives us the civilian view from within the Getran Empire. Specifically that of a gorilla child on a school field trip to a museum. After she’s shown the story of a self-proclaimed God-King who got flattened by an asteroid, and how the ensuing wars between religious fanatics and scientists led to the foundation of the Empire, she wanders off. There she finds much later exhibits chronicling the beginning of the Empire’s conquest of the stars. Many modern readers might find the apes’ response to picking up radio signals of other planets to be disturbing, but it sounds in line with the “Manifest Destiny” attitude so common in the 19th century.

“Beyond Acacia Ridge” by Amy Fontaine is a tale of inter-class friendship in a hyena clan. The tribe has a quite rigid hereditary hierarchy, Straggletail is at the bottom, like her mother before her; while Glossycoat’s mother expects her to succeed her as matriarch. Yet Glossycoat has no desire to perpetuate the grossly unfair system and actively seeks out Straggletail’s friendship, even though her mother killed her mother for defying her. Male hyenas aren’t even worth notice. After Glossycoat’s mother tries to separate them, the two of them leave the safety of the clan to seek where the sun goes at night. This story shows the difficulties of inter-class relationships, and why some people might remain in an oppressive society, though presented as simply something that may be overcome. Both main characters have their own reasons to go on their quest, unattainable as it may be, and it truly doesn’t matter whether they actually achieve their goal.

Thomas “Faux” Steele’s “One Day in Hanoi” is a bit of an alternate history, post-WWI with some steampunk elements, though moving to internal combustion. Our heroes, a French bluejay detective and his Russian otter boyfriend, have barely left the airship to French Vietnam when they get pick-pocketed. Thus leading them on a sweep of the Hanoi underworld in pursuit of the stolen property, impersonating the local police and both winning and losing a small fortune in the gambling dens. It comes across as a lighthearted interlude to a larger noir story, 20s tourist drama with low physical stakes. However, it does jump you into the world without much of an introduction and you might find yourself wondering who these people are.

“Welcome, Furries” by Cathy Smith is a comedy of errors based around culture shock and mistaken identities. Earth has made contact with some sort of interstellar Empire that already has human citizens, somehow, ruled by these vaguely defined “Overseers” who have formalized some student exchange programs with the humans of Earth. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have percolated down to the average “Terran” citizen that one of the Empire’s other sapient species is feline, with the attitudes to match. Thus, we find a pair of feline exchange students who get mistaken for pets, assume the fish in an aquarium are snacks, and then get directed to a furry con. All while making the poor unaware Terrans bend over backwards apologizing for the inconvenience. These two are probably the most catlike furries in terms of behavior that I’ve read, and they make sure everybody knows it. Stories about “real” furries coming into contact with the furry subculture are always fun to read, and this was one of the more entertaining ones.

Frank LeRenard’s “Back Then” is more confusing than anything else really. You’ve got a nameless male and nameless female working in an immense otherwise abandoned laboratory; there’s some hints they’re reptiles of some sort. It doesn’t really give anything to latch onto. Just leaves the reader confused about what’s going on and who’s in there.

“Tortoise Who” is another story by Mary E. Lowd, this time set in her “Shreddy the Cat” universe, at least at first. As Rosie the mouse tries to escape Shreddy’s claws, she runs into The Tortoise, whose shell is a bit bigger on the inside. The Tortoise claims he wouldn’t interfere with Shreddy’s hunt, but he can give his prey a lifetime before he claims her. And thus, The Tortoise takes Rosie on a series of adventures through space and time. A fascinating story that gets a bit trippy at times and forces a housecat to philosophize. It would make a good Doctor Who episode.

Cairyn’s “I Am The Jaguar” is a long one, not only telling a story of exploring the unknown, but also the inventions, diplomacy, and logistics needed to carry out the expedition beforehand. As well as the fate of the previous expedition’s last survivor. The focus are a tribe of jungle-dwelling bat-people called the Awraa, who have an uneasy peace with the nearby Jaguars. The Awraa are adept at botany and animal domestication, while the Jaguars have made great strides in metalwork since the two species made their treaty; the expertise of both species is needed if they can hope to reach the far side of the great desert. Yet, is even that enough? The tensions between the species are palpable, with the fructivorous Awraa suspicious of the sharp-fanged Jaguars, but as the title suggests the expedition gives the Awraa an opportunity to see themselves on their neighbors’ footpads. I also appreciated the misdirection with the first expedition’s dying words, “We drank…”

The final story, “The Promise of New Heffe” by Kary M. Jomb, illustrates the differences between those who would seek a new home and those who would rather stay. About a generation before the story some human scientists accidentally triggered a supernova that destroyed a star system inhabited by a canine alien species. Fortunately, they were able to evacuate the population, who’ve been living as refugees aboard human space stations ever since. Now the human government has chartered a new colony planet for them, but not all of the Heffens are interested in going, such as a few of the younger members of one family who grew up on the station and are annoyed with their elders. I thought the contrast between the elders who want to live on a planet again and the younger generation who’ve grown up stationside was an interesting exploration, possibly even moreso than any exploration of New Heffe itself.

This anthology has been sitting on FBR’s virtual desk for a while, and given its size that’s not particularly surprising, but unfortunate nonetheless. Like any anthology, the stories are somewhat hit-or-miss, but if you like at least half of them I’d consider this book worth the price. Overall, I feel the collected stories give a good sense of the exploration of strange places, meeting new life and civilizations, going where no furry has gone before!

Exploring New Places, ed. Fred Patten

Nothing worse than an otter who is afraid of the water.

A sea otter who is afraid of the ocean is challenged to face his fears when he loses his precious pink shell necklace at sea.

Fixed: Deep Fears

Nice work here and …. Oh no.

If you don’t get the reference it helps to see this music video by Caravan Palace:

Lone Copper

TigerTails Radio Season 12 Episode 51 Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf For a full preview of events and for previous episodes, please visit http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. Some music provided by https://audiograb.com/u/XimerTracks Some music provided by http://spoti.fi/NCS Backing music by Sanxion7.

Check out this furry adventure game.…

In a futuristic “light cyberpunk” world where animals have replaced humans, privileged citizens live under a dome protected from the ambient pollution while others struggle to make a living outside. Brok, a private detective and former boxer, lives with Graff, the son of his deceased wife. Although he could never elucidate her accident, recent events may shed some light on an even more tragic outcome… one that may be linked to their own existence.

Will they be able to withstand the threats of this corrupted world and face their own destiny?

 

When Classic Adventure meets Beat ’em Up! Coming 2021 on PC + current and new gen consoles. Play the free prologue! BROK the InvestiGator Prologue

BROK the InvestiGator

F3, or the Furry Film Festival recently announced the dates for their virtual screening event slated to be held on 19 December. This year, YouTuber Majira Strawberry, filmmaker Ash Coyote and Twitch streamer Kiit Lock will be in attendance at the judge panel. There will be a total of five awards presented compared to last […]

It’s been 10 months since the WHO declared the coronavirus a public health emergency, and so far almost a hundred furcons globally have announced postponement until 2021. They have been faced with many challenges due to the virus, and recently because of it one furcon announced closure. FA: United, a furcon based in the US […]

We were looking for something else, and we came across this completely by accident! Hidden Dragon is a new animated feature film that’s due this year, according to the IMDB page. We don’t know much about it, but the production crew names are mostly Chinese while the voice actor names are mostly western, so it’s an international production. “In a magical undersea world where dragons rule and humans are feared, a naive young dragon forms an uneasy alliance with the sea’s greatest enemy – a human girl.” We don’t know if they’ll successfully get it out this year, but it should be coming soon.

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Papabear,

IHey! I'm back and with a question, does it matter if i have for instance: a non- binary sona, or a trans one? - even tho I'm cisgender, does it change anything, i wanna stay christian, but its just a fursona! right? ?? (no offense to anyone lgbtq, i support you.)

Lacra (age 11)

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Dear Lacra,

Fursonas are a way of expressing yourself and/or experimenting with different identities. Sometimes, fursonas express who we would like to be in an ideal world; sometimes, they express who we really are but are afraid to be or are too shy to express; sometimes, they are a way to experiment with other identities of all types. I've known furries who are male but their fursona is female (and vice versa), and furries who are straight might explore being bi or gay in their fursona.

Fursonas are just playful ways to experiment and explore and rejoice in being you or to take a break from being you. Oh, and you can be Christian no matter what your gender or sexuality, so don't worry about that. Anyone who says you can't has not listened to what Jesus really said.

Create a fursona who is whatever you like them to be. That's the fun of being in this fandom. And while you do that, your fursona might surprise you and teach you things about yourself you didn't know or want to admit.

Be what you wanna be, dear. And have fun with it!

Hugs,
Papabear