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This week instead of canceling we decided to Skype Fayroe into the studio and have a quick discussion about just what was going on where the studio is located. Just south of Buffalo New York, more than 6 feet of snow, driving banned in almost every town, school closed for the month, the National Guard called in, lives lost, it’s been a little crazy!

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Watch Video FC-184XX Snow Day - This week instead of canceling we decided to Skype Fayroe into the studio and have a quick discussion about just what was going on where the studio is located. Just south of Buffalo New York, more than 6 feet of snow, driving banned in almost every town,

Hiya folks. I figured it would be a nice idea to get people to post some furry-related things that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I think this would be a great place to look if you're having a bad day, so I'm here to spread some furry cheer!

Post your photos, stories, art, videos, future plans, or anything else that is furry-related that makes you feel good!

I'll start: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10365046/(SikeRedWolf on FA, /u/SikeRed) http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14707315/ (ValdorFox on FA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-nhBi7FHMc

Edit: Forgot about this short little story! So I was at a robotics event with my local team, Team 176 Aces High, 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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Everything is welcome here. I am currently listening to Cire's "Wholesale Buyout" album, if you're curious.

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Welcome to the brainstorm hall of the FurAffinity Exodus!.

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/exodus

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Exodus: a mass departure or emmigration.
We're planning to organize a movement to leave FurAffinity en masse, and the destination is Weasyl. There are several reasons for this, and they will be explained below, but first, a quick summary:

1.- The leadership of FA has lost credibility to the point that the website feels leaderless. The promised transparency, organization, and quick resolution have not been delivered.
2.- The website has been almost in feature freeze since its inception. There have been no noticeable changes for almost a decade, despite promises to do so.
3.- For different reasons, many members of the community have wanted to leave, but artists won't leave without their fans, and fans won't leave without their artists. The only way to leave effectively, is for all to leave together.
4.- Out of alternative sites, Weasyl is the most feature rich and with the most promising administrative organization, a direct response points [1] and [2]. Moreover, it has the largest active community of the alternative websites, easing [3].
If you want to know more about points 1 to 4 either because you disagree, are neutral, or are curious, please skip down to the section "EXAMPLES OF POINTS 1 TO 4" and then keep reading this.

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===WHY AN EXODUS AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE?===

FurAffinity the website belongs to Dragoneer, and no matter how displeased we are with him, or how little we trust him, he is not obligued to comply to any demand from the community for better features or appointment of administrators. The only way we have to really make a difference that is completely in our power, is to vote with our feet and leave. We all have this power.

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===THE GOAL===

The goal of this thread is to discuss how to best spread the news of a mass departure movement, how to gather the enthusiasm of the community that "we will finally reunite elsewhere", and how to best persuade the undecisive people to leave. Instead of a movement in dribbles, where the people who move lose morale feeling isolated from their old contacts, we want an organized movement, where we all move together to greener pastures.

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=============EXPLANATIONS==============

So, whether you come here from the latest FA heated discussion (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766) or because you clicked by curiosity, allow me to provide examples of the points 1 to 4 listed above, and to explain what we plan to do in this thread:

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===THE PLAN===

We're going to make a Poster to share virally!, as described here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43224092

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If we make it clear, short, and convincing, and spread it over all available channels, we're going to get the news to all the community.

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Issues I encourage you to discuss in this thread (but you can discuss anything else that you like):
1.- I think we should encourage people to make a Weasyl account and fill it up, but not to immediately remove everything they have in FA since this could cause alienation. I think it's better to be in 2 places at once for a brief amount of time while issuing the warning that you'll move your main activity to the other website. Do you agree?.
2.- I think it's better that the poster(s) we make stick(s) to completely undeniable facts and things that appeal to the widest possible audience (for example, lack of features in FA), so that every person can add their own seasoning to the poster by commenting it in their journal. What do you think?.

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===EXAMPLES OF POINTS 1 TO 4===
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ABOUT POINT 1:
FA has been the subject of many scandals involving the people who Dragoneer has made administrators. The latest 'scandal' was the reveal of the latest admin for FA. The admin was brought in under the alt account StarryKitten (instead of his main account, breaking the promise of transparency) and was found out to actually be Zidonuke, a person known for wreaking havoc (spy on users, delete databases, publish users' data...) in many of the previous communities where he was given a position of power. The admin has since stepped down from the community pressure but Dragoneer has still not commented on this issue officially (in FA itself), even 1 week after it started.
Details below:
http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2mmfq6/to_anyone_that_uses_furaffinity_this_is_important/
http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2mtqb4/furaffinity_and_zidonuke_drama_part_ii/

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ABOUT POINT 2:
Just look at this list of features promised but never delivered: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Fur_Affinity#Confirmed_future_features

On the other hand, Weasyl has many of those features already implemented and more, including collections, a section for critique, FOLDERS, silent updates, watches + friends separated, users can tag submissions to ease search, and more.

Anyone who's been for a long time in FA knows that the website is about the same as when they joined.

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ABOUT POINT 3:

Many users have expressed they feel they can't leave FA because this is the main hub of the community, for example...
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43187676
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6265766#cid:43175184

By the way, one of those users expressed frustration that "nothing can be done". Ooh, it can be done. We will do it right here.

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ABOUT POINT 4:
"What makes Weasyl different from other sites?"
https://www.weasyl.com/help/faq
Also let me repeat what I said in point 2
"[...] Weasyl has many of those features already implemented and more, including collections, a section for critique, FOLDERS, silent updates, watches + friends separated, users can tag submissions to ease search, and more."
Also I should mention images load much faster in Weasyl than in FA, for those concerned.
They have divided the roles of administration in several roles, admins, developers, mods and directors are separate, and not only that, they have a public code of conduct for the staff: https://www.weasyl.com/policy/scoc
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===POSTER MESSAGE EXAMPLES===
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By the way, there's no need to make just 1 poster, we can make this like a movie trailer, make SEVERAL posters, and let each person pick their favorite to share!.
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EXAMPLE POSTER 1

WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE FURAFFINITY
TOGETHER THIS TIME
WILL YOU COME WITH US?
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FOR LONG-AWAITED FEATURES
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FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE ADMINISTRATION
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TO NOT LOSE CONTACT WITH OUR FANS AND ARTISTS, LET'S MIGRATE TOGETHER
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TO WEASYL

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EXAMPLE POSTER 2

FURAFFINITY HAS BEEN STAGNANT
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PROMISES OF FEATURES AND TRANSPARENCY HAVE BEEN BROKEN
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SOMETIMES, YOU MAY EVEN PONDER 'WHAT IF I LEFT'?
BUT YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO LEAVE YOUR COMMUNITY BEHIND
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IF ONLY WE COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE .
THE TIME IS NOW
YOU TOO CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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FURAFFINITY EXODUS, MORE INFO AT WWW.########.NET

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I am not good creating images, I'm good with words!, I ask of you to please discuss the poster ideas, add your own if you please, and if anyone can make a poster, please share!.
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Happy discussing!, We have a great future ahead!.
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===FOOTNOTE===
TOOLS FOR EASY MIGRATION:
https://projects.weasyl.com/soft/
https://bitbucket.org/Kitashi/art-gallery-manager/wiki/Home
I'm going to be travelling to another city during this weekend and I will be unable to participate in the debate, but I'll be back in Monday!.
Keep the flame burning!.

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Hello Papa Bear,

Me and my girlfriend are really wanting to get into fursuiting but we're really not sure here to get good fursuits. We know what we would like, but we have no idea where to get them, or how to make them ourselves.

Please help a Fox and a Wolf!

Many thanks,
Kaz and Mjay

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Dear Kaz and Mjay,

Thanks for your question. This is a two-part answer: first, how to get fursuits made by others; and second, how to make them yourself.

Commissioning a Fursuit

This I know, having gone through the process myself. Like you, I knew what I wanted in a fursuit (a bearsuit inspired by—but not imitating—the ones in Disney’s “The Country Bears”), so I went online and looked at pictures of fursuits on FurAffinity. After a while, I zeroed in on a designer I really liked: Beastcub. Then I visited her website, which was excellent and contained information on how to commission a design. You can also visit a really cool site called the Fursuit Database (http://db.fursuit.me/). This thing is HUGE and searchable. Find a suit you like and it will list the designer and whether he/she is taking commissions.

Once you have found a designer and agreed on a price, there are a couple things you need to do before the designer can begin:

1. Have a Reference Sheet made. If you’re an artist, you can draw one yourself; if not, you will need to also find an artist to do this for you. A reference sheet like the one below for Grubbs shows the design from several angles. It gives the designer an idea of color, size, and overall construction.
2. Provide the designer with a list of specific needs for the suit. What kind of eyes will it have? Will you have a movable or static jaw? Will anything else move? Do you want, perhaps, LED anywhere on the suit? Will the feet have flat soles or pads? Do you want an electrical fan installed in the head for cooling? And so on.
3. You will need to have a duct tape suit made. This is something with which you will need the help of one or more friends. A duct tape suit is when you literally wrap your body in duct tape (don’t apply directly to the skin; wear something underneath, such as long underwear, and make sure it is something you don’t mind destroyed because it will probably be cut when you remove the duct tape). This suit provides the fursuit maker with a very close approximation of all your body dimensions so you are sure to get an excellent fit.

Send all of this stuff to your fursuit designer and wait. Be patient, these things take time. Ask the fursuit maker to tell you when they actually begin construction and an estimated completion time, but don’t harass the maker repeatedly for updates unless you really want to be annoying.

Once the fursuit is done, received, and paid for, you’re still usually not completely set. Often, you will need to make some minor adjustments here and there on the suit until you are completely satisfied with it. Before you have a contract with a fursuit maker, ask him or her whether and how many adjustments you can make after the final product is delivered.

It’s a good idea to get in writing from the fursuit maker what he or she promises to do, when they plan to do it, and for how much. In other words, get a signed agreement so that, if things don’t go your way (such as the fursuit is never delivered) you have legal recourse to get your money back.

This brings up another good point: look for and contact other furries who have had fursuits made by your designer of choice. Ask them if they were happy with the work and whether or not the designer was easy to work with. When I chose Beastcub, I knew she was a reliable designer. I also knew that I would need to wait quite some time before she was available to make the fursuit, so I was prepared for a long wait. But it was worth it!

Making Your Own Fursuit

It should go without saying—but I’ll say it anyway LOL—that if you are going to make a fursuit yourself you had better be a very good sewer. You should also know how to do other crafty things not normally seen in sewing clothes, such as how to make a fursuit head and paws.

There are a lot of websites out there with information you can read and view, but one that I like is on Matrices.net at http://www.matrices.net/fursuiting.asp. This excellent site has a ton of information and videos on making your own fursuit. Kudos to Sara Howard for making this available to aspiring artists.

Fursuiting

Once you have your fursuit, now you need to know about performing in them and maintaining them. Fortunately! I have already written a column on that very topic here: http://www.askpapabear.com/letters/fursuiting-tips.

Hope that helps, Kaz and Mjay! Happy Fursuiting!

Papabear

Show me your fursonas!

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It's an image of a werewolf family. Well, 3/4 are werewolves. The mother (werewolf) is putting a blanket onto the father (human) who is asleep in front of the tv while their two daughters (werewolves) are running up the staircase in the background after their very first transformation. I honestly don't remember if the drawing is good or not, it just bothers me that I can't freakin' find it anywhere.

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hello fuzzbutts! i have a bit of a question for you.

i am considering getting another tail, but i'm not sure what to chose to make (or have commissioned)

i see that faux fur tails seem to be quite popular (when seeing con videos and the like) whether they be stuffed or made on a foam base, but they seem quite 2dimensional to me, often seeming flat in colour, and often with relatively short fur. and i don't quite know how vivid they are when worn.

on the opposite corner i see yarn tails, that often seem quite alive to me, and if made well can seem almost real, but i could imagine them being quite delicate.

so i ask what is the pros and cons of each type? is it simply a case of faux fur tails being cheaper and easier to make? or are they actually better in some respect (or more practical)

Sidenote: if you want to ask about my current tail, it's neither i have a friend that had just recently started taxidermy when i got it, he had been given a roadkill silver fox by one of his parents friends but he couldn't make a proper taxidermy out of it due to damages to it aswell as lacking expertise, so instead of throwing it away or using it for scraps he instead made it wearable and gave it to me, as he knew i was a furry.

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It probably won't be happening for a while because money. But I would like to know some recommended fursuiters. I'm probably going to get a toony style suit, so suiters who use that style are best! Thank you

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Hey all! So I've been wanting to buy a tail for awhile now, but I don't know where to order a custom one. Can someone help me? Thanks! ;)

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