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This week we chat with suit maker and dancer Temperance/Momo Mouse. We get 2 furs in our 5 minute furs fur fun, and Bearly and Taebyn trade some really bad Dad jokes and pun. The episode is chock full of fun and excitement! Join us! You Won't Be Disappointed!

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Bearly Furcasting #16 - Temperance/Momo Mouse, 5 Minute Furs, Really Bad Jokes

Inkblot is a new full-color fantasy comic series coming soon from Image Comics. “Third-generation comic artist Emma Kubert partners with up-and-coming creator Rusty Gladd to deliver a high-fantasy epic! This new ongoing series follows a powerful sorceress attempting to correct her greatest mistake: The creation of a magical cat that can travel through time, space, and reality. The cat threatens to unravel the fabric of the universe, doesn’t care, and just won’t listen!” Look for it this September — before it’s too late!

image c. 2020 Image Comics

Savrin talks about some things they've enjoyed in the intervening weeks because folks... it's not good out there.

LINKS The Fandom on YT -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY Telegram Fan Chat - https://t.me/joinchat/CGL2Zj9oiYOXuQPOJXOrsg 

Episode 471 - Scremcast - Savrin talks about some things they've enjoyed in the intervening weeks because folks... it's not good out there. LINKSThe Fandom on YT -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEYTelegram Fan Chat - https://t.me/joinchat/CGL2Z

今天一樣是帶來海灘場海灘場景的作品，是由安尼歐帶來的《海灘事件》。等等……泳褲居然被奇怪的螃蟹剪破啦！接下來的畫面兒童不宜，就讓我們把畫面定格在這一秒，欣賞這幅作品吧～（前任總編艾倫德表示找到彩蛋他會送你一張優惠卷哦XD

作者：安尼歐

作品名稱：海灘事件

We try to keep on top of things here, so we thought we should update the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle news for those of you who follow them. Remember The Last Ronin, the newest TMNT comic miniseries? Well according to Bleeding Cool, there have been some last minute changes to the upcoming release. “Esau Escorza and Isaac Escorza, best known for their work on Tarna for Heavy Metal, are now joining the art team with Kevin Eastman, but Andy Kuhn is no longer listed on the creative team. Apparently, this stems from poor retailer reaction to The Last Ronin preview, and a new sampler is in the works.” Also, the release date has been pushed back again to the end of October. An interesting side note: The original script for The Last Ronin, written by Eastman and Laird in 1987, set the action in the far future — of the year 2017. Obviously, that needed to change!

image c. 2020 IDW Publishing

Did you know that both National Dog Day and National Cat Day both occur in August? Before you think this is a weird way to start a post on the FWG blog, we promise the pieces to the puzzle will be arranged shortly.

Today we are sharing an interview with Mary E. Lowd who is not only a Furry Writers’ Guild member but has also recently had the novel “When a Cat Loves a Dog” published by Goal Publications. We sat down with Mary to discuss writing in general, her new book, and using species as allegories in stories. Enough with the introduction, let’s get to the interview!

FWG: For those that might not know you, please tell our readers a bit about yourself.

Mary: Hey, readers.  I’m a science-fiction and furry writer who lives in Oregon.  I grew up reading the Redwall books by Brian Jacques and watching Star Trek: The Next Generation — the combination of those pretty much established my aesthetic.  After college, I spent a period of time that felt like forever (but was apparently only seven years) trying to be a serious science-fiction writer whose stories centered on humans… and failing horribly, by way of writing Otters In Space. 

Then I discovered the furry fandom, joined the Furry Writers’ Guild, started writing for furry anthologies and furry publishers, and have somehow ended up a decade later editing my own furry fiction e-zine.

FWG: What do you think makes a good story?

Mary: For me?  Spaceships and talking animals.  Robots are also good, maybe some magic.  Seriously though, every reader will have a different answer, and those answers will vary depending on the day.  Right now, during a global pandemic, I’m probably more interested in escapist wish-fulfillment stories than hard-hitting incisive idea pieces.  And that’s okay.  Fiction fills many roles — some stories will change how you think about the world forever; other stories simply help you get through a hard day.

FWG: To say you are a prolific writer would be an understatement. You have won several awards (including our own Coyotl Awards), have over 150 published short stories, and even run your own e-zine. How do you manage balancing your life while maintaining so much writing output?

Mary: I… don’t.  I’ve been fighting with my husband about this very question a lot over the last month.  He’s incredibly supportive… but then, also… not.  Because come on, we live in a society that puts different pressures on women than on men, and even when he tries to do half of the work it ends up being a smaller half, and I can either pick up the slack or… let the house fill with trash and the children run wild.  So, looking forward to a year of, essentially, homeschooling due to the pandemic… well, I don’t know.  I’m exhausted, and every day, there’s another day tomorrow.  Somehow though, I’ll keep writing, because as far as I can tell, I became a writer because it soothes my intrinsic anxiety.

There was a time when I had to do my writing with a baby on my lap, a six-year-old next to me, and Blue’s Clues taking up half of my computer monitor.  So, I’ll manage somehow, but I don’t know how.  I do have a special cheat code though:  my mom is the most amazing, and she lives next door.  So, a great deal of the writing I get done is directly due to her support and willingness to watch my kids for big chunks of time.

FWG: We also have to ask, with so many published works, do you have any tips for our readers on how to get stories or books accepted by publishers?

Oh goodness, so much… But this question is really too broad, because the answer is entirely different for short stories vs. novels, and then again completely different depending on the type of novel publisher.  In every case, persistence is key.  Sadly, rejections are the cornerstone of most successful writing careers.  Get used to them.  Find ways to celebrate them.  The writing group I was in for a decade had everyone announce their rejections from the week at the beginning of every meeting and then be rewarded with chocolate. 

I like to think of my rejection total as an ever-growing high score.  Right now, it’s 1682, and that will likely be out of date by the time this interview is posted.  Because the rejections don’t stop; you don’t graduate out of them; you just learn to weather them and keep persisting.  And I promise, with practice, they do get easier.

FWG: So we have established you’re well published, but what is your favorite of all them that you have written?

Mary: This is always a hard question, because if I didn’t love a work enough to pour my time and energy into it, then I wouldn’t bother writing it.  However, I think I have to go with Nexus Nine.  When I was a kid watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax was my favorite character.  She may still be my favorite character of all time. 

Anyway, my heart was broken when she died at the end of season six, but then when Ezri Dax showed up at the beginning of season seven, lost and confused by holding Jadzia Dax’s memories without actually being her… I can’t really explain the emotions I felt.  Her first scene is incredible.  She’s both Dax and not Dax, and I immediately loved her and felt for her plight, even while missing Jadzia and knowing they weren’t the same.

I wanted to write about that kind of character, and so I created Mazel Rheun, a calico cat with a computer chip in her head that carries the memories of dozens of previous individuals, most recently the dog who was her captain.  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a big part of my heart and who I’ve become, and Nexus Nine is my love letter to it.

FWG: When a Cat Loves a Dog was recently published by Goal Publications. Can you tell us a little about the book?

Mary: When a Cat Loves a Dog originated with the character of Topher Brooke, a pug dog comedian who makes fun of cats ironically.  See, Stephen Colbert used to have this show called The Colbert Report where he presented the news while pretending to be a rightwing numbskull.  So, I was playing my standard game of “what kind of dog or cat would this person be?” and the idea for a story popped into my head about this pug dog comedian proposing to his cat girlfriend.  You can read the story, “A Real Stand-Up Guy,” on my personal archive site here: http://deepskyanchor.com/a-real-stand-up-guy/

When a Cat Loves a Dog follows Topher Brooke and Lashonda, the cat he proposed to, after they get married and decide to have a family.  In order to do their story justice, I had to read a bunch of books researching the history of in vitro fertilization and gene therapy which was completely fascinating.  I also read up about mixed-race adoption and sea steads. 

I don’t think I’ve ever researched another book more thoroughly.  Though there’s also a lot of personal touches lifted from my own life and experience of marriage.  The result is a novel that’s a mix between a tender love story between a cat and dog, an exploration of how their society reacts to their marriage, and some fun medical sci-fi.

FWG: In your previous stories in the Otters in Space trilogy, as well as more recently published works like When a Cat Loves a Dog, you use differing species as a lens to discuss a lot of real-world issues. What inspired you to do this?

Mary: Okay, so, literally, I had a dog who got really mad when cats were way up high.  Like if they were on the floor, they were friends; if they were on the top of a bookshelf, they were probably evil mountain lions planning to eat his sheep.  He was a Sheltie, so he was pretty sure he must have had some sheep somewhere.  When I wrote Otters In Space, focusing on a cat who was oppressed by a dog who wanted to outlaw cats traveling up the space elevator to the otter space station… that’s what I was writing about.  That’s it.

Yes, in the first few scenes, my tabby cat protagonist worries about how there’s no point in going to the cops, because they’re all dogs and won’t listen to her.  But… see, I was so sheltered, naive, and privileged that I thought I was writing about an interesting speculative concept.  I had no idea back then that the real world police were actually worse than the dogs in my book.  I was white and grew up watching Star Trek.  I thought sexism and racism were sad chapters in the past.  I’ve learned a lot over the last fifteen years.

FWG:  We’ve seen attempts to use species as allegories for race and racism in films like Zootopia in recent times. Do you think there are advantages to using animals for anthropomorphic characters instead of human characters to discuss these issues? Disadvantages? 

Mary: Using animal characters in place of humans is a little like someone in a sitcom telling a story about their “friend” who needs advice, when everyone knows they mean themself.  It gives you distance.  It gives you space.  It gives you plausible deniability.  But in the end, we know that stories we tell about animals are usually at a deeper level about ourselves.  Or even if they’re not — if say, it’s a story about a weird quirk of jellyfish biology that simply doesn’t apply to humans — then we’ll still find a way to make it about us anyway.  Humans are good at that.

There can be a sense of safety in using a funhouse mirror to look at yourself and see yourself reflected in a more comfortable, fuzzier way, before having to admit to yourself that, yes, that’s you.  But there’s also a danger that people will look at the twists and contortions of the mirror — for instance, intrinsic biological differences between predator and prey species — and try to map those features onto human differences in a way that magnifies them out of proportion.  This is why it’s sometimes important to strip those levels of obfuscation away.  There are some stories that need to be told straightforwardly with absolutely no misdirection, no space for misinterpretation, no way to wiggle out of what you’re seeing.

So, yes, there are both advantages and disadvantages for using furry characters; both furry and mainstream stories have their place, and both kinds of stories should be told with care.

FWG: Given the current political climate, and how this topic has recently been controversial in the mainstream writing space, has your approach to covering these kinds of topics shifted? Especially in a time where we are trying to center BIPOC voices in all areas.

Mary: My approach to thinking about the relationship between furry fiction and allegory began shifting years ago as I started becoming aware of how pervasive racism is in the United States and how much I’d been sold a lie back in the 90s about how sexism was over.  This was particularly driven home for me by two key aspects of writing Otters In Space 3.

The first two Otters In Space books were already published when I was writing the third, establishing certain facts as canon.  For instance, Emily the octopus chef on the otter spaceship talks in the first book about how octopuses die after laying their eggs — except her, making her an outcast.  In the third book, I wanted the characters to visit a big octopus city under the ocean, and I realized I was deeply uncomfortable with the idea of actually depicting the society implied by Emily’s speech. 

When I’d written the first book, I’d been fascinated by the real world fact that octopi die after laying their eggs, and I hadn’t been thinking about how I was essentially — in video game terms — making octopus women a largely unplayable race.  That made me really uneasy, so I needed a way to retcon what I’d already written.  I ended up settling on making Emily from a backwards cult, and so when Kipper (the tabby cat main character) gets to the octopus city, she’s surprised to discover octopi are generally fine after laying their eggs. 

When she expresses her surprise, the octopus woman guiding them through the city acknowledges that, yes, sadly there are still religious cults who expect women to die after laying eggs and thus enforce those expectations.  Similarly, Kipper discovers that there’s a lot about the world above sea level that she didn’t know, because the dogs printing the history books have a very particular, religiously skewed world view.  This is partly a retcon, but it partly simply reflects my experience of life.  I grew up thinking that sexism and racism were over, but as I experienced more of the world, I learned that what I’d been told was wrong.

The second key aspect of writing Otters In Space 3 that stopped me in my tracks was that I had outlined a plot arc for one of the cat characters that involved her driving around aimlessly to get her kittens to fall asleep, being pulled over by a police dog for no reason other than prejudice, and being wrongly arrested.  Between the time I outlined this plot arc and actually got to writing it… 

Look, I don’t know if it would be considered libelous under our complicated legal system to say that Sandra Bland was murdered by police, so…  I’ll just say that she was arrested in a way that was very similar to what I’d outlined.  And it hit me really hard that when you’re writing furry fiction, you will end up writing allegory, whether you plan to, intend to, or want to.  It’ll be there.  People will look at the animals in your stories, and they’ll see people.  The furry worlds that you create may or may not reflect your subconscious beliefs about race, gender identity, and sexual orientation, but it will look like they do. 

So be conscious about your choices.  Be aware of how your words will sound when seen through an allegorical light, because you can’t fully escape that light.  Stories about animals are, at their heart, stories about people, because they’re written and read by people.

FWG: When tackling difficult subjects like this, how important do you find sensitivity readers to be for your work, and how do you get them to check out your novels before publishing?

Mary: I haven’t actually used any sensitivity readers, but I’ve found it essential to seek out and read works — books, blog posts, tweet threads, etc. — by people who have lived experiences that I don’t.  There is absolutely no substitute for listening to other people and believing them about their own lives.

FWG: Any last words for our readers?

Mary:  Find the points of brightness in the world and hold on to them.  For me, that’s furry fiction — writing it, reading it, and right now, re-watching BoJack Horseman.  And if you can find the strength to make more points of brightness — believe that they mean something to someone else out there, even if you can’t see it.  Because we need more light.

We would like to thank Mary for sitting down to talk with us. Be sure to check out the e-zine she runs called Zooscape and to follow her on Twitter. We hope you found this interview informative and entertaining. Until next time, may your words flow like water.

夏天…夏天……真的除了陽光、海灘和冰棒之外就別無他物了嗎？

其實不是的哟！在日本傳統文化中，夏天各種祭祀的慶典個是日本文化相當重要的一環呢～神社門口左右並排的攤販、沿街懸掛的燈籠、穿著和服或浴衣四處享受熱鬧氣氛的人們、以及高空中爆出絢爛光芒的花火，相信大家也一定在許多的動漫作品看過了。今天的圖是由繪師Apple帶來的《夏日祭典》，以日式的場景來詮釋夏天。

啊～彷彿看著看著都能感覺到夏天夜晚舒爽不燥熱的微風迎面拂來呢！

作者：Apple

作品名稱：夏日祭典

Dear Papa Bear,

How can I convince my mom to let me make a mini partial fursuit? I told my mom I was a furry through text (I have social anxiety so it was too hard to say it aloud) and I told her I really wanted to make a “furry costume”. She wouldn’t let me do it and she said I shouldn’t be looking up furry stuff. I know there is inappropriate stuff but I don’t look at it. She always complains that I’m lazy so she should be happy I want to put effort into something. I wanna explain to her that it’s not inappropriate but I don’t have enough confidence bc of social anxiety. Being able to make my own fursuit would make me the happiest.

~Erin

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Dear Erin,

The internet can be a wonderful thing, but when it comes to the fandom, it can prejudice parents against letting their kids explore the fandom. This is a shame, because not only is the fandom fun, it can have many benefits as well. Helping people like you who suffer from social anxiety is one of these benefits. If instead of going on the internet to look for furporn your mother searched on "social anxiety and furry fandom" she would find articles and videos about how many young people have treated their anxiety by being furry and enjoying its community. It also helps people suffering from various degrees of autism spectrum disorder.

Here are just a couple articles and videos you can show your mother:

• https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/2960951-teen-overcomes-social-anxiety-by-becoming-a-furry-dressing-up-as-her-wolf-alterego-cosmo 
• https://www.intomore.com/culture/my-first-furry-convention-helped-me-feel-more-human 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJ3czQFs6o 

​I would also suggest your mother visit the Moms of Furries website at https://mofurries.com/. These two mothers were, like yours, nervous about their kids participating in the fandom, but they gave it a try and found it had a lot of benefits for helping them get out of their shells and socialize in healthy ways. 

Being a furry has lots of benefits. Point these out to your mom and tell her she should avoid jumping to conclusions because of furporn. Porn is all over the web, not just furry sites, but that is not what you--indeed, most furries--are about.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Papabear

說到跟夏天有關的元素，許多獸第一個想到的無非就是冰棒了！那冰涼清甜的滋味，一舔下去，沁獸心脾的感覺馬上在嘴裡爆發開來。今天皓然要為各位介紹的作品，也是一張相當「清涼」的圖。讓皓然為各位介紹，由狐鬼所繪製的《夏天當然是要吃涼爽的冰棒和看爆大肌肌啊！》看著這張養眼的作品，各獸是否也覺得涼快了許多呢？

就讓我們一起欣賞由狐鬼帶來的作品吧！

作者：狐鬼

作品名稱：夏天當然是要吃涼爽的冰棒和看爆大肌肌啊！

Dear Papa Bear,

For years, my FurAffinity account has been posting both normal art and art of extremely fat, but clean, versions of cartoon birds with big bellies and behinds . . . and I'm a Christian, so I put a lot of Biblical references in my art. Here's my question: How come only a few FA artists--like myself--endorse Christianity for fatties, but everyone else posts crude, secular art? I do have some great nonreligious friends, but I still wanna' know.

Signed,
Robert Keown

P.S. I do love furries, but I don't dress up like them because I don't have the money to do so.)

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Dear Penguin,

While there are Christian furries, the majority of furries are not Christians; while there are furries who are into fat furs, they are also in the minority. So, think of a Venn diagram with three circles: one contains Christian furries, one contains fat furries, and a third contains furries only into clean art. When you merge these options together, the ones who are Christian furries into clean, fat fur art are pretty small. 

The reason there are not many like you in terms of what you enjoy is because you have a very specific taste that does not relate to a large subgroup.

Hope that answers your question.

Papabear

We’re always excited when a new book by Katie O’Neill is coming down the road (as you may have noticed), and that’s especially true when it’s a new Tea Dragon book! For one last time, join the cast of The Tea Dragon Society in the final book of this magical graphic novel series, The Tea Dragon Tapestry. “It’s been over a year since she was entrusted with Ginseng’s care and Greta still can’t chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. As she struggles to create something spectacular enough to impress a master blacksmith in search of an apprentice, she questions the true meaning of crafting, and the true meaning of caring for someone in grief. Meanwhile, Minette receives a surprise package from the monastery where she was once training to be a prophetess. Thrown into confusion about her path in life, the shy and reserved Minette finds that the more she opens her heart to others, the more clearly she can see what was always inside.” Check out the review over at Comics Beat, and look for Tapestry this September from Oni Press.

image c. 2020 Oni Press

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If you’ve ever had to explain to an outsider what furries are, you might be a little weird. Or as I prefer, lovably eccentric. There’s a writer who gets the lovable part, and he wants your help to learn more about furries. You can be part of the research:

Click here to take the Furry Fandom 2020 Survey.

Tea Krulos is a freelance journalist and author who covers subcultures, weird news, and strange personalities. He also writes about local art and entertainment for a bunch of magazines and has his own weekly column. His books are about the Real Life Superhero Movement, monster hunters who chase Bigfoot, ghosts and UFO’s, cryptozoology and more. It makes me want to visit a whole book store just for that stuff — and help him make a new book.

Tea and I did an hour interview and he told me about his research. It was just before he led a weekly walking ghost/history tour. Last time I did one in New Orleans, I was happy to have a trusty guide to lead me on a leash. (It kept me from slipping in ectoplasm or Mardi Gras barf.) I think Tea’s research will make him a trusty guide like that. The survey is sociological and asks about a few debated topics, but I know there’s nothing wrong with writing about them from someone who is just learning and being into the same stuff as me. He says:

Hello furry friends — my name is Tea, I’m a freelance writer and author from Milwaukee, WI. As an eccentric punk rocker, I’ve always had an interest in subcultures, social movements, and fandoms and have written about them several times (including roller derby, paranormal investigators, Real-life Superheroes, music cultures and more) and I always approach the people I’m writing about in a respectful (but truthful) way.

I’m working on a future book that examines a variety of subcultures/ social movements that focuses on the years 2015-2020 under the Trump campaign/ administration. To write it I’m doing a lot of interviews and also surveys directed at different groups of people.

I’ve created a survey for the furry fandom that takes about 5 minutes to complete. Your personal info will not be shared. Surveys like this are helpful in getting some idea of who the group is and if their answers are mostly in agreement or split on issues. I hope you participate (and help share) and the last entry asks for contact info if you wish to talk further.

Thank you and a big thanks to Patch for his insight on the survey questions and for helping me spread the word. Hope you’re all well in this crazy year.

— Tea Krulos
www.teakrulos.com

Tea’s Wiki page is good to read. Most recently in the news, he covered the publisher of the pioneering furry comic Omaha The Cat Dancer.

People tend to know me from one thing or another. In the early 2000s I was way into underground comics, studied them, drew 'em, edited an anthology. I wrote about an upcoming exhibit with a rich local history for @milwaukeerecord. https://t.co/t3tNTwmp4K

— Tea Krulos (@TeaKrulos) August 6, 2020

Speaking of Bigfoot sightings or walking tours, there isn’t that much attention on walking talking furry animals being sighted in cities right now with Covid shutdowns. But there’s still cool stuff coming from inside the fandom. That’s what led to my second interview this weekend. I spent an hour with the hosts of Bearly Furcasting, a weekly podcast started in May 2020.

Look for the show soon and have a weird and fluffy week.

These guys just interviewed me and it was super fun! Show comes out in a few weeks. Taebyn and Mike are awesome hosts, I don't do a lot of chat format podcasts but I think they are in the groove with many good guests and solid format. Give them a follow and treat your ears. https://t.co/MBbENK05Kn

— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) August 10, 2020

Like the article? These take hard work. For more free furry news, please follow on Twitter or support not-for-profit Dogpatch Press on Patreon. Want to get involved? Use these subreddits: r/furrydiscuss for anything — or r/waginheaven for the best of the community. Or send guest writing here. (Content Policy.)

夏日真是個令獸喜歡又討厭的季節呀！夏日的太陽常常使得各獸無法招架，而夏日又有許多令獸會心一笑的小確幸。無論是在炎熱的夏天來上一根冰棒、到泳池中涼快一下，或是舒服地躺在地上吹著涼爽的風扇，都是夏日中的小小確幸。

各獸知道還有甚麼是夏日的小確幸嗎？沒錯，就是我們時報的夏日祭典！雖然摸不到也聽不到，但繪師們的作品可是絕對會讓大家大飽眼福的！這次我們要為各位帶來的，是由K Wolf所繪製的《夏日的小幸運》。各獸就一起來欣賞K Wolf的作品吧！

作者：K Wolf

作品名稱：夏日的小幸運

Stabby the Unicorn is a well-known character from the popular comic series called Mother Goth Rhymes. (We hadn’t heard either.) Well now it turns out that he’s popular enough to have his very own hardcover graphic novel called If UR Stabby, written and illustrated by series creator Kaz Windness. Here’s what we’re told: “Stabby is a unicorn who has had a very bad day. Who’s positively magical and ready for sunshine, giggles, and sliding down rainbows? Not Stabby! Meet the world’s surliest unicorn. If UR Stabby follows Stabby as he deals with life’s challenges the only way he knows how: Horn first.” Coming this September (in black & white, of course!) from Hermes Press.

image c. 2020 Hermes Press

Art by Fleeks is available on shirts.

The Furry Music Anthology is uniting musicians, just like other furry artists, to share their music and be recognized with one collective platform. A themed series was launched with “Anthrology Vol. 1: A Song of Your Sona“. 13 musicians contributed using the Furry Musicians group on FurAffinity and Twitter. Now there’s a new edition featuring 15 musicians.

Get it here: https://furrymusicanthology.bandcamp.com/album/new-horizons (It’s all still free!)

Here’s what perked up my ears and made the music sound furry for me in this thoughtfully sequenced collection.

• Wings of a Dream – New Dawn is a percolating rock opener, like coffee for mice before they do a secret mission in Catland.
• Indy Go Rat – Maybe This Time is loopy Hüsker Dü indie rock for questioning existence.
• Skunk Surfeit – Passion has a minimal beat that flips out with angsty fuzz, for venting about feeling dogpiled.
• Jayden Raske Productions and Ikodo feat. Rye – Long for Rain is chill aquatic and jazzy, for otter floaty time.
• Byeonaraye! – Twostep is a nice little nervous instrumental with beats & piano, for sneaking down an alley in Toontown.
• RobinG – Fuzz is throbbing neon synthpop candy for dancing with your fursuit crush.
• I.S.T – Your Life Remade is moody post-breakup rock with strings for a long walk in the woods.

There’s more from What Eyleth Thee?, Edward Sebastian, Cordial, Entro-P, TELOS, Out of the Way, ✞FOX, and Tomas Walker.

Co-founder Camarón the Flamingo writes:

After many months of production, we are pleased to announce The Anthrology Vol. 2: New Horizons. What was intended to be a New Years themed album got swept away in the chaos of 2020, and it had to be moved to a Summer release once everything got into order. We return with Bob Drake mastering the tracks and Fleeks designing the beautiful cover art.

This volume managed to include a few more songs than the first, and the variety of styles is just as diverse.

Alongside the release of this second album, we have opened up a few more avenues for people to support the Furry Music Anthology moving forward.
To bring support to the artists providing the cover art for the Anthrologies, we have started a merch store with the permission of the artists so far who have been involved with us. It’s a step forward for the future of the Anthology.

Support us here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/FurMusAnthology/shop?asc=u

For now, proceeds of the merch store will go 100% towards the artists who create the art for the Anthrologies (and the merch store itself). Our plans moving forward are to eventually become an independent outlet for furry musicians to gain recognition, and, in time, income. As things stand, the Anthology is still non profit for anyone involved, management included.

The Furry Music Anthology has a Discord server that will soon be open to the public, but it is not quite ready yet. For those who wish to join, we will have that information released by the people at the Furry Musicians FurAffinity who have been the defacto hosts of the Furry Music Anthology for the time.

Thank you to all of the musicians involved in this second volume, Bob Drake for mastering, Fleeks for the art, and Kiko Picasso for helping managing.

Bob Drake is here on Furaffinity, Kiko Picasso is here and Fleeks is at fleeks.art.

– Camarón the Flamingo, Furry Music Anthology Founder

More about musicians in the fandom:

• A Q&A with Bob Drake and Fox Amoore.
• What is furry music?

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And again with the reboot stuff! We’re finding out more about the long-awaited reboot of Animaniacs, this time thanks to Dave Lee’s Cartoon News on YouTube. Turns out the new series is scheduled to premier on November 20th on Hulu — at least in North America. Here’s what the producers have to say: “This new version of the family friendly cartoon will see Warner siblings, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner sister Dot, have a great time wreaking havoc and mayhem in the lives of everyone they meet. Joining the trio will be fan-favorites Pinky and the Brain, who will also return to continue their quest for world domination.” No word yet on any of the other characters from the old series (sorry Minerva!), but the new cast has all the original voice talent, including Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, and Frank Welker.

image c. 2020 Hulu

10/8/2020UPDATED 10/8 11:24am STC UTC+8 Latest news ■ Furry Blacklight (France): cancelled. Announced on 9 Aug. Sources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RsV9ZaO-l7Vymgsb8PoLD1iRgQtRLGifir-0Hl23-VI Map Updates ■ Completed cons on this sheet will be known as Held on our Furcon Updates map. However, completed cons will not be represented on the map.

Recently we came across Lacey & Lily, a new full-color graphic novel for young readers from Darby Pop Publishing. According to Previews, “A quick-witted pre-teen (Lacey) and her extraordinary dog (Lily) must unravel the mystery connected to a pair of super-powered hero costumes while simultaneously navigating middle school… and saving the world.” Written by Dave Dellecese and illustrated by Andrew Cieslinski, Lacey & Lily just hit the shelves. The official web site has lots of interactive stuff too.

image c. 2020 Darby Pop Publishing