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Author: Rakuen Growlithe One must wonder whether it’s time Dragoneer stepped down as head of Fur Affinity, as he continues to make poor leadership decisions. Earlier this year, he stirred controversy by announcing Zaush, who’d been accused of rape, as development lead for Project Phoenix. This time he has made sure there are no lingering doubts […]

Hi. This is Aberration_One. I just wanted to greet this semi-dead sub. So, about myself. I've been an Internet denizen for around a decade now. I spent the majority of that time being mostly anti-furry. I mean, it's basically bestiality, right? They always use dumb emotes, they flaunt their fetishes in public, and seem to have no self awareness.

Then I started noticing I had an interest in the art. Then I noticed it was the Sodom variety I was interested in. Thus I fell into a horrible pit of self-loathing and denial, realizing how aberrational (hee hee) I was, being a furry and most likely homosexual. For the better part of a year, I stayed like that, staunchly avoiding anything that had to do with fur.

Have I come to terms with being a o-so-horrible furry? No. But I have completely given in to it, and here I am. It still gets to me, making sonas and going on chats. Well, got the boohoo stuff out if the way.

My sona has almost nothing special about it, due to how uncomfortable I am with making it. So: panda. Not too special not completely generic. No special markings, no superpowers, no sparklez. Giant panda, usually wearing a shirt and tie. Fairly cynical personality.

I have gotten a reference pic from a kind soul on 8chan, and I'll edit it in soon. Word of warning, he took my instructions to mean 'fat'. Doesn't matter, I think it looks good regardless.

So hello, /r/furry . You got me, now I'm a furfag! No turning back!

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This week’s illustration is from “Samudai” fighting cats video game, now on Kickstarter.

One of the recent serious furry video game success stories, Armello, posted this to their followers on the twitters: a Kickstarter blog post called “A Year of Games from Down Under.” The gist of the article is, “It’s been one year since Kickstarter went live in Australia/NZ, here’s some games we love from the southern hemisphere.”

It’s a good little article, not a lot of deep coverage but fun to see the range of successful projects–and it leads with Armello, and not because Armello starts with “A” (though it does, I have a degree in this sort of thing. Also, the London Underground is not a political movement.)  There’s a few other fur-friendly treasures there–Paradigm and its mutant sloth, angry bears, wererats–it’s a mixed bag. But it’s nice to know we’re solidly planted deep in the fantasy gaming genre.

I don’t know where I’m going with this, no-where in particular, but it’s good to know we’re not the furry ghetto we might have been in the distant past.

Reviews this week: Laughing with Mormons in “The Furry Experience”

PS: Did you know that sometimes when you skip a week, 4,000 projects get posted? Still true.

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For a “complete” list of furry/fur-friendly crowdfunding projects, check out the Project Page and Patreon Page! New Projects Art

Life Size Pokemon (Ends: 12/5/2014)
I love Kickstarters for free stuff! This one is for a give-away of free life-sized pokemon art. Cute stuff.

Books/Print

A Shard of Sun (Ends: 12/16/2014)
Hardcover run for Book 3 of the Summer King Chronicles, Jess Owen’s epic gryphon clan trilogy

Clothing/Jewelry

Steadfast Kid’s Clothing (Ends: 12/5/2014)
Well, kid’s clothing and adult sizes too–tattoo art style animals, with some seriously cute tigers and owls.
I do like this clothing line, but doesn’t look like there’s much of a chance of it making goal.

Comics/Graphic Novels

Smilin’ Ed Comics (Ends: 12/11/2014)
It’s a bit ‘tank girl’ really–the friendliest smiling rat that ever escaped from 70s drug culture into your heart. Maybe.

Gold Digger: Gold Brick 5 (Ends: 12/12/2014)
Collected issues 101-125 of the Gold Digger comic series, from Antarctic Press, one of the granddaddies of anthro comics
I have a lot of love for Antarctic Press, most of their furry titles moved across the street to Radio Comics, but AP was one of the first groups to take a chance on the furry fandom.

The Furry Experience (Ongoing funding)
Patreon campaign for Ellen Natalie and her webcomic, a slice-of-life set in, of all places, Salt Lake City.

Film/Animation/Theater

RealAnimals Supreme Court Arguments (Ends: 12/7/2014)
Somewhere between ‘The Muppet Show’ and ‘The Washington Post.’ Canine re-enactments of supreme court hearings by dogs, #realanimalsfakepaws.
Yeah, so this isn’t the project poster’s creation, it’s an ongoing meme, being crowdsourced (?) by John Oliver.

Dogs At War: A Documentary (Ends: 1/8/2015)
A documentary about military service dogs, told through the dogs’ eyes

Tabletop Games

DragonFlame (Ends: 12/4/2014)
A quick card game for 2-5 players, of burning villages, hoarding goald, and eating knights!
Past its $10K goal!

Cleadonia (Ends: 12/10/2014)
Furry tabletop fantasy RPG.
So many furry tabletop RPGs out right now! The illos for this one are more quirky than artsy, I don’t see that carrying into a product with a market, myself.

The Underground: Sam and Fuzzy RPG (Ends: 12/12/2014)
Sam and Fuzzy: Paranormal Detectives. An RPG based on the wacky webcomic.

Technology

Chemion: Smart Glasses (Ends: 12/31/2014)
Fun ‘smart glasses’ with programmable LED displays displaying custom text, animations, readouts. Fun stuff.

Toys

Ichabod Plushie Prototype (Ends: 12/8/2014)
For all your big-eyed, optimistic corgie full of love needs

Video Games

Age of Aleria (Ends: 12/5/2014)
Pet breeding and raising game with a vast equine assortment to chose from, and dragons to hunt.

Legendary Battlegrounds (Ends: 12/5/2014)
A cute ‘once upon a time’ video game with an amusingly cumbersome Big Bad Wolf. No chance of it making goal, but fun.

Dragon Dating Simulator (Ends: 12/17/2014)
Sooo. I don’t know if this “Dragon Dating Sim” is a joke or not. I really can’t tell. This is what too much Indiegogo does to your brain. Someone else be the judge.

Samudai (Ends: 12/23/2014)
A fighting cat samurai game loosely inspired by Smash Bros, with a range of different challenges and four players

WWW

Inkster (Ends: 12/13/2014)
Development funding for the online art portfolio site Inkster
This is a lot of what Flickr used to be for me, an online art gallery/portfolio. Nice look and feel.

…Also by furries

Gotcha Gachapon (Ends: 12/5/2014): Meanwhile, in Colombus, Ohio, two furries launch a Japanese arcade and gift store, with tons of vending machines and gimcracks

…Meh

Eddie Earthdude (Ends: 12/6/2014): Oh. Oh dear. The artwork on this is astonishingly bad. Apocalyptically bad. It’s ‘Captain Planet’ meets the absolute worst furry artwork you can imagine.
Anubis PC Gaming System (Ends: 12/13/2014): Guys…guys guys guys…a PC case that looks like Anubis is really just kind of silly. Sorry to break it to you.
Furry4Life 2014 (Ongoing funding): It’s not that I don’t like Furry4Life, it’s a decent social network, it’s just that this crowdfunding page doesn’t tell anything tangible about the product, doesn’t really call anyone to act, or make any actionable promises. Don’t be this page.

…Just for fun

ChipCodes (Ends: 12/25/2014): Cartridge modifications to turn your Gameboy into an 8bit synthesizer with a fun guitar or xylophone case

 What’s Corbeau Backing This Week?
I have NOT been picking winners lately, with two of my three most recent projects cancelled or pulled. So I’m playing it safe, with this incredibly fidgitable-looking top. This will be endless hours of tactile enjoyment, I’m sure.

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Let me start off by saying that if this isn't the correct place to post this I'm sorry and I'll try /r/sex

My gf and I have an amazing relationship inside and outside the bedroom. Recently when drunk she talked to me about wanting to have ears and a tail on when getting down. I'm all for it if its something she wants. I think it's all about having fun in the bedroom and I think this would be an interesting addition.

That being said... what are some fun "furry" things I could do with her? I don't think she wants like a full outfit or anything (she could, not sure yet) but I didn't get that impression. I'm up for any advice in general on the subject.

Thanks in advance!

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Author: Potoroo Potoroo, host of the Fuzzy Notes podcast, is developing a new podcast that models itself after NPR’s This American Life with a focus on the stories of the furry fandom. Like the popular program, it will choose a theme and tell several stories based on that theme, but focused on the furry community […]

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San Francisco had a series of furry events last week.  Before it, I posted: “Independent shows and festivals offer new concept for furry events”. After, I posted about the enthusiastic response.  The creativity and demand for more couldn’t be contained in one event. Here’s further developments that spun off from the successful gallery opening of Ron Lussier and Bobby Pin’s […]

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Hey Papabear,

I was wondering if I could get some relationship advice. Alas, I think I’ve fallen into the pitfall of online relationships. You see, I enjoy various types of role-play (RP), through which I’ve met many friends who I have friendly, but non-sexual (much of the RP is “baby-fur”) relationships with. I met a guy through a mutual friend about a month and a half ago, and this is where the relationship sort of started. After a few rounds of chatting and whatnot over two weeks or so, he asked if I liked him, and smitten, I replied yes. 

My issue now is that after a while, I’m not sure I still feel the “boyfriend-style” love for him. I mean, he’s a great guy and all, but he’s so busy with housework and helping his mother and grandmother around their property that I don’t feel he’s ever available, and when he is, it’s often in a state of such exhaustion that I don’t feel that real connection with him. Compounding this, I have issues with relationships, and am absolutely a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde character within them. I’m utterly afraid of being left, and when I feel like I’m not holding all the cards in the relationship, I assume what I mockingly call my “Christian Grey” persona (From the 50 Shades of Grey character), where I seek to sort of gain that power back through being a powerful dominant. But, doing this also rather pains be, because I tend to be naturally mild and submissive, and I don’t really like to have to be that cold and emotionally detached.

So really, my issue is that he’s not really all that available, and I’m not sure whether or not to just try and detach and “friend-zone” him again (cruel as that seems), go for a straight-up breakup (hypocritically, this bothers me a lot less if I’m the one initiating the break-up), or try and save the relationship. I mean, I really do want to try a committed relationship (my only prior experience was a one-time “friends with benefits” thing that ended after a bout of sex), but I want to get something out the relationship as well. I just don’t feel like I’m a priority for him, and when we talk, it’s sort of friendly small-talk, nothing really intimate. He wants to try the long-term thing, but when he’s not really there, it’s Fox-damned hard not to feel a bit neglected. He promises that he’ll be more available in a year once he heads out to Montana State University (MSU) in the summer (he’s a fellow H.S. senior), but it’s a long ways away and I already see myself with someone else if he’s going to be this unavailable for another year (can’t see him IRL, he’s in upstate main and I’m in Northern Virginia). 

I guess for me, absence doesn’t really make love fonder. Is there a course of action you’d suggest I take in this situation, or any relationship advice you might offer? My friends are rather unhelpful on this.

Much appreciated,
Kit Callaway (Age 17)

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Dear Kit,

There’s a lot going on here, and you know Papabear’s position on the viability of LDRs. From what you’re saying, there’s not even a possibility of you two being together in the near future. While you can have a virtual relationship in terms of friendship, human beings need to have a physical component for any real mate-bonding to occur. Even without that, you say in the second paragraph that you “don’t feel that real connection with him,” so my question is: why are you obsessing about this in the first place? It’s a non-issue if you don’t feel your heart strings being tugged or pulled.

That aside, what I find more intriguing about your letter (and why I’m posting this on the website instead of just answering you via email) is your psychological approach to relationships in general: your Jekyll vs. Hyde personality, as you call it. You describe yourself as generally meek and mild, but with abandonment issues. Without knowing anything about your parents, Papabear wonders if you come from a broken home or have lost parents to death or, another possibility, if you were adopted. Any of these would create understandable feelings of insecurity. Thus, when you feel a relationship is at risk you become defensive, like a cornered cat—afraid, neck fur bristling, but appearing aggressive with fangs and claws bared. Sound like you?

Therefore, going back to my earlier question as to why you are obsessing about this guy, the answer might be that you feel uncomfortable with any breakup, even if it is with a person you don’t even love that much who lives far away.

Your LDR “boyfriend” is, then, truly irrelevant to your problem (a symptom of a larger issue), though Papabear suggests you stop obsessing about him and find someone local. Downgrade him from BF to F status, but do it kindly. Your focus should instead be on how to get over your relationship insecurities, or else you will likely repeat the experience you are currently undergoing.

Why are you so insecure? Figure that out, and then you can go to the next step of unloading your emotional baggage. And, finally, when you dump that baggage you can forge ahead with confidence into new and healthier relationships.

Please feel free to write again if you wish to discuss this further.

Wishing You Love and Health,

Papabear

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Since you offered to discuss this further, here's the events in my life I feel relevant to this issue. If you have any questions or desire any additional information (privacy is not an issue), please feel free to shoot me another email. 

Best Wishes,
Kit

Note: This is a candid account of  the relevant portions of my life, and as such, contains some triggering content and frank discussions of mild sexuality (a fetish)

Dear Papabear,

Your description of me as “a cornered cat—afraid, neck fur bristling, but appearing aggressive with fangs and claws bared” is pretty spot on. A bit of my personal history might be helpful in explaining this dynamic, so forgive me if I’m a bit long-winded. I do have a rather large amount of emotional baggage.

I’ve grown up solidly upper middle class, living in a single-family home in the suburbs, two BMWs in the driveway, all the games and amusements my heart desired.. “The American Dream” and all that. A mother and a father, many friends, high marks in school, everything a guy could want. So not a broken home. I’d say more a home that lacked love.

I don’t have many memories of my childhood. From my (limited) recollections and what’s been told to me over the years, I had little contact with my parents as a young child (0-6 years old). My Mother worked extremely long hours (~80 per week), so I rarely saw her (I mean literally on Saturday, once a week-if that). My Father was an alcoholic, the type that would pass out on the couch after making me dinner. So I really never had a strong bond with either of my parents. My Father overcome his alcoholism in time for my Mother to depart for a one-year tour in Iraq (2003) with her organization, but with my Father’s “hearty” meals, I soon became rather heavy (to the point where I now weigh less than I did in third grade). From this, I developed a rather unhealthy self-consciousness of my weight, as well as an emotional distance to my Mother I’ve never overcome.

During Elementary School, I had few friends, aside from my current best-friend due to shyness stemming partly from my weight and partly from a minor lisp. I found solace and comfort in books, especially “Artemis Fowl” by Eoin Collier. The character of Artemis held great appeal for me, especially his complete and utter unwillingness to depend on anyone, for anything, and to use people for what he needed them for, and nothing more (I disregarded his change of heart in latter novels). At that point (fourth grade), I developed a deep depression which I hid well from my parents (along with mild-self harm tendencies, scratching, head-banging, etc.), and I would console myself by stating (I’ve forgotten the exact wording) something along the lines of “my parents don’t love me. No one loves me. I’m just using them for the things they buy me.” So for the longest time I was an island, a rock alone, invincible. From this came my “Christian Grey” persona, the man that doesn’t need love, because he has all the money and power in the world to fill that hole.

However, this persona is also balanced out by another side of me which developed a bit later, during Middle School. As my sexuality emerged, I developed a rather strong diaper fetish (not exclusive, I’m bisexual, but still quite strong). From this, I gradually developed a fascination with regression fantasies and being babied (I would consider myself a “lifestyle AB” to some extent). So the counterbalance to the rock hardness of the other persona is the persona of the two-ish year old arctic fox kit (hence the pseudonym).. (Note: this is not DID by any stretch, simply varying states of mind). So he’s sort of around to “fill-the-hole” I guess, since I honestly do not remember every enjoying being a kid-I was always the calm, adult outsider.

As best as I can tell from talk-therapy (which I do with a Licensed Clinical Psychologist), most of my security results with never having had a really secure relationship with anyone up until High School. My Mother had once admitted she regretted not having more children (I’m an only child), so I relentlessly strove for excellence. I tried to become the guy everyone envied in order to get love, except...I still feel a deep emptiness. I have abandonment issues primarily because I’ve never felt that anyone loved me for who I am, only what I’ve done and the stuff I have. I’m ordinarily quite passive, but I can’t stand having relationships “break up.” It’s not a rational thing. Simply put, I’m “successful” and conventionally attractive enough that I could probably get a warm body in my bed if I felt so inclined. But...I want more out of relationships, but I’m afraid of appearing vulnerable and admitting weakness because I fear that I’m not good enough. I’ll...never be good enough. I never feel secure enough to invest emotionally with anyone, because I’m so afraid of getting burned. Instead, I just don a mask, being whatever they want, instead of being me. My two personas are the physical manifestation of this, and who I am, genuinely, is somewhere in between.  That’s perhaps the root of my insecurity, and I don’t know how to fix it.

Best Regards,

Kit Callaway

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Hi, Kit,

This all makes perfect sense to me. Abandonment doesn't always have to be physical. You were emotionally and psychologically abandoned by both parents. That kind of hole in your childhood will leave life-long marks on your personality because it is during childhood that we learn (preferably from parents and other family) what love and nurturing are, and money and things and status do not fill that hole.

It also explains your interest in baby furs. You want to return to childhood, but not the childhood you had; rather, a real childhood in a nurturing environment. In other words, "if I could wave a magic wand and do it again, I would go back to childhood and have it done right."

What you need to do is find an "abandonment recovery" strategy. If you search on that term, you will find some websites you can research. There are also books such as The Emotionally Absent Mother and Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery that can really be helpful to you.

I suggest you explore some of these and see if they help. 

Hugs,
Papabear

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Hey,

I appreciate the advice. Perhaps one of these sites will have what I'm looking for.

All the best,
Kit

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