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For a moment I decided to go full on anthro here.     In a film that Pixar could have done we have a road picture with Houses.    The animation is downright stunning, every frame is a painting.

Hey! This would be legit at Anthrocon!

 

 

It’s the video they LOVE to hate.  They can’t tear their eyes away while they stare.  There must be some German word for that emotion – something that means spellbound horror.  I shared it without comment, shortly after it was posted on August 31.  Now, it wormed it’s way back to my attention. It’s attracting special antipathy, with […]

I am writing an article for my Journalism class and I chose the topic of the incident at MFF. So to whoever was there,

What was your initial reaction to the evacuation? Where were you in the Hyatt when the alarms went off? What were you feeling when outside the Hyatt?

Please don't give one or two word answers. The more detail is best. If you want, I can post my article after it is finished.

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I'm not quite sure how to start this post, but man I'm incredibly socially awkward. This isn't what I've realized I'm just stating it to inform you of what kind of person I am. Now I'm a relatively young furry at the age of 16. Have been a furry for about 3 years but never really cared until a few days ago. But man I'm not that social in a shy type of way. I really only talk if spoken to outside of my group of 4-5 friends and my boyscout troop. But there's something I've finally realized. Being a furry is sort of my life. I feel at home when I'm on the subreddit, talking to you other furries way more than any of my actual friends. (not saying I hate talking to them, they're awesome people) This place is so kind and inviting and hell I taught myself how to draw my fursona which is pretty neat. Funny thing is, sadly due to the Internet and trolls I always thought furries were just some only gay community and that being straight I wouldn't fit In. (That was obviously a lie for my stupid young brain to almost believe). Either way it doesn't matter your sexuality or sexuality preferences we're all family. It's like the family I've never had and always wanted. I don't feel afraid to talk to you guys, I don't feel afraid to talk to other furries in real life. More and more I'm realizing that I want to be apart of this fandom. I want to go to a convention one day! Wear my own fursuit! Etc. What I'm saying is I guess I found out who I really am, who the people I relate to most with and am comfortable being around. I plan to make Eagle Scout by the age of 17 - 18 and once I've finally achieved that goal I'll start making my first arrangements to go to a furry con where I can just be myself and hang out with others. Anyway thanks for reading my really long post, I'm sure some of you have seen me around the subreddit and I hope to stay for a long time. You guys have a wonderful day.

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What Can Goodreads Do For Me?

by Huskyteer

What it is

Launched in 2007 and acquired by Amazon in 2013, Goodreads is a social network for readers and writers. Like Facebook, but for books. Bookbook, if you will. Users can search for books in the extensive database, for the most part user-created, and add them to their ‘shelves’. If the book you’re after isn’t listed, you can do your part by adding it. There are three default bookshelves, ‘Want to Read’, ‘Currently Reading’, and ‘Read’, but you can add as many custom shelves as you like; ‘Crime’, for example, or ‘Non-fiction’, or perhaps ‘Comfort Reads’ or ‘Really Bad Books’.

It’s strangely satisfying to have a record of what you’ve read, with statistics and word clouds for your shelves. If you feel the need to gameify your reading experience, you can sign up for a challenge like ‘read 50 books in a year’. Every time you log in, Goodreads will tell you how many books you’ve got through and how far behind or ahead of schedule you are. Other bits of fun include literary trivia questions, polls, and daily quotes from writers.

As well as keeping track of what you’ve read, you can follow your friends to see what they’re reading and reviewing, and leave comments. I’ve had many a Goodreads discussion over books I might otherwise never have suspected someone I know had also read.

Looking at your friends’ shelves is one way to find new reading matter, but there are also communities for fans of particular genres, as well as for readers from one particular area or with a common interest. There’s a reasonably active furry community, Furries!, as well as the more general Anthro Fiction group. Goodreads also offers recommendations based on what you’ve read, and lists of the top books in a particular category, which can be as broad as ‘Best Young Adult Books’ or as specific as ‘M/M Cat-Shifters, Feline Aliens, and Other Feline Humanoids’.

When you finish a book, you can add a star rating and a review, tweet the fact that you’ve finished it, and recommend it to friends (Goodreads even suggests friends who might like it, given their tastes). All of this is optional, of course, but if you loved a book, this sort of thing can really benefit the author. Which brings me on to:

Goodreads for writers

Here’s where things get interesting. Once you’re signed up as a Goodreads Author, you have a number of options for promoting your works and interacting with your readership, most of which will cost you nothing but time.

Learn more about your readers and how your books are doing by visiting the page for one of your books. Here you can see who’s read it, who’s marked it as To Read, and any ratings and reviews. Who are those people? What else are they reading? These could be valuable clues to help your marketing strategy. See whether your book is featured on any lists, and what else is on there. Add it to some lists yourself (sneaky!).

Goodreads offers a number of configurable widgets, so you can show off your reviews on your own website, or add a button next to your book so passers-by can add it to their To Read list. They even provide the API if you really want to get down and dirty. And if you don’t mind giving away something for nothing, it doesn’t take much more effort to upload a free sample of your work as an ebook.

Medium-level effort, now. If you already have a blog, you can hook it up to your Goodreads account quickly and easily (mine feeds off my LiveJournal). If not, you can blog straight to Goodreads. Blog posts keep your page looking new, and pop up on your followers’ homepages to remind them you exist.

As an author with a Goodreads account, whenever you’re listed as the author of a publications, you’ll get ‘Goodreads Author’ in brackets after your name. This tells readers than they can come and bother you right there on the site, declare themselves your Fans, interact, and ask questions. If you activate the ‘Ask the Author’ option, users can ask you questions through the site, which you can then answer and display on your page. Or not, if it’s a question like ‘why is ur riting so rubbish’. No fans yet? Goodreads provides several preset questions for you to answer and post. Kyell Gold-esque levels of popularity? Announce that you’ll be open for questions on a specific topic, like your soon-to-be-released next book, for a limited period only. That should ‘generate buzz’, as Goodreads is so irritatingly fond of saying.

If you’re prepared to invest money, you can pay to advertise on the site. With the ability to target a specific audience, and stats to look at, this might be an interesting route to pursue, although I haven’t tried it myself. You can also give away copies of your book. Everyone loves a freebie, so a listing on the Giveaways page is a good way to familiarise a lot of readers, albeit cheapskate ones, with your name and cover. You will have to pack and post the books yourself, and hope your winners enjoy their prizes enough to write a review and spread the word.

See the Goodreads Author Program page for more information and ideas.

How to join

Joining Goodreads as a reader is as simple as registering a name, email address and password, and you can also sign in using Facebook, Twitter, Google, or your Amazon account. For authors, it’s a little more complicated, and takes slightly longer.

You’ll need to sign up for a reader account, if you haven’t already. Then find a book that gives your name as the author (co-author, editor, contributor and so on are all fine too) and click on your name. You’ll see an almost empty profile page with a link near the bottom: ‘Is this you? Let us know’. Click the link  and a verification request will be sent to the Goodreads team. Within a few days – often hours – your reader account will be merged with your shiny new author account, which you can then update. If your book hasn’t been added yet, just add it yourself.

And when you’ve signed up, come and be my friend!

 

For me... well, sex and sexuality is different.

Let's just get it out of the way, I'm a furry trangender MtF, but I like women.

No, I haven't altered my body. To be honest, I'm a plain as normal guy, I suppose. But inside, I'm a girl, just trapped. And frankly, all of this is so complicated, that even trying to express the idea of sexuality is just a clusterfuck.

To get the furry thing out of the way, it's barely sexual. I love me some anthropomorphic animals. I adore movies that have them. And frankly, I have so much respect for the characters that I wouldn't dream of being sexual with them. I'm a writer, and I love good characters. And while, sure, I think Mrs. Brisby is a lovely woman and mouse, I wouldn't dream of defiling that image, and that goes for many of the females I adore in fiction.

I expect sex to be a thing shared between consensual beings who love eachother so much that they feel comfortable in the idea of sharing that moment. It's a thing to be cherished. But...

Given that, my fantasies often involve women. (Human of course.) But that's the thing. As a transgender, I feel I am a woman myself. I hold on to that thought, and would, given the chance, to be one. And frankly, it's more difficult because while I could please a man, and have, I desire women more. But I'm a man, who wants to be a woman, who wants women.

But oddly, my furriness has nothing to do with sexuality, and for most, it has to do with the relationships between fursonas. And frankly, I don't particularly feel sexual about the furry thing. I just enjoy the art and the idea of my fursona being who she would be as a person, and not as a sexual object.

Frankly, it's so frustrating I've been almost unable to open up about it for a year. I hoped perhaps others could lend a hand in a community I deeply feel connected to.

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Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the house, Ringo was yelling, so loud he killed a mouse. Killick had plugged in the microphone with care, while Sepko played games, since the Xbox was there. The episode of Furballd was long overdue, so its now time to sit down with this podcasting crew. This time they would talk about movies filled with Christmas cheer, which Ringo filled with sex, dicks and dildo jokes. Oh dear.

This week’s song is “Food Frenzy” by GaMetal.  You can find the song on OCRemix here.

Xander’s Japanese Panda News!

Stephen Colbert’s take on the new lightsaber design!

The Star Wars VII George Lucas special edition trailer!

Saving Christmas trailer!

Bye for now, but not forever!

Episode 79 – Christmas Movies - Twas two weeks before Christmas and all through the house, Ringo was yelling, so loud he killed a mouse. Killick had plugged in the microphone with care, while Sepko played games, since the Xbox was there. The episode of Furballd was long overdue,

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Bad Dog Bar & Grill is closing its doors permanently on January 1st. The economy had an impact on regulars and the riots scaring everyone else away. The owners floated the place as long as they could out of their own pockets and can no longer do so.

Bad Dog gave me a job when I really needed one and it also welcomed everyone with open arms.

In fact, I was in fursuit one night with Amarok and someone was heckling us. The bartender and bar owner both asked him to leave, telling the guy that this was our home. This really resonated with me as a safe place that we could be ourselves no matter who we were.

We hosted many furry meets here, from eating the tastiest food in Saint Louis to Karaoke to playing Cards Against Humanity and ultimately making new friends in the process.

The bar will be missed greatly and I still can't believe this news even as I type it.

We are having a farewell meet and greet on Saturday, December 27th from 6pm to Midnight. Some of us may be going to their New Years Eve fetish ball on their final night as well.

If interested, here is the address: Bad Dog Bar & Grill 3960 Chouteau Avenue Saint Louis, Missouri

The venue is next door to a White Castle and has plenty of parking as well as a heated patio for smoking.

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Just that, really. I'd like to know about your experiences please. :)

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Hiya fellas! I figured that with all the recent events and some drama making it to the front page recently, its a good time to help some of you guys feel better about ourselves and our fuzzy family. Post any feel-good furry related stories, art, videos, etc. here! If anyone needs a shoulder to lean on, or just want a conversation, feel free to PM me too, I'm here for you.

I'll start: I was at a robotics event with my local team, while wearing my fleece wolf hoodie, and saying hello to other team members and pedestrians, giving free hugs, drumming up some spirit and good times. There was a woman who walked in with her baby boy, so I walked up to her and said hello to her and her baby. She held him close to me and he reached out and grabbed the ear on my hoodie, and giggled. What happened next was a suprise for me and the mother. He smiled and said "gog." The lady was very happy that I helped him say his first words! Even if it wasn't a real one, that was a highlight of my day.

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I think it could be fun. Basically what I'm proposing is an open livestream where people could come and chat about their ideas for their fursona and other characters and everyone can help each other develop and design their characters while I sketch them and stuff.

I'm a concept art student who wants to focus on characters so I love talking about this stuff and drawing all sorts of folks :3 I know a lot of people who don't have references for commissions and stuff bc they don't really draw or don't have their design nailed down and stuff like that. Some people just might wanna redesign their characters a little bit, anyone could come and everyone could get a turn being drawn some.

I couldn't do anything super complete or polished for everyone (I make most of my money from art commissions and am very very broke) but I could do some nice sketches and coloring and stuff. I think it could be a cool community activity, too. Let me know what you guys think!

EDIT: Mostly, I want to know what day would work the best for people! This way I can set up a livestream for it. If this gets enough interest we could make it like a bi-weekly thing or something.

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