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Any love for KingGourd?

Furry Reddit - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 09:29
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Any furry league of legends players

Furry Reddit - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 08:46

Am usually on Friday at 8:00 or 9:00 am Wisdomismykey so just message me see you on the field.

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Guest post: “Aesop Continues To Inspire” by Carmen K. Welsh, Jr.

Furry Writers' Guild - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 08:21
Aesop Continues To Inspire

by Carmen K. Welsh, Jr.

 

Why are we driven to use non-humans in our stories? Why do we create characters based on inanimate objects? Why do we feel the need to personify, or, anthropomorphize ideals and abstractions? Why was I driven to animal cartoons? Why did public TV nature shows become an influence? Why did the struggle between life and death fascinate me as a six-year-old? Why would popular shows such as “Wild America” foster in me the need to tell stories?

My answers came during the formative junior high years, when, isolated from the rest of my classmates for having interests they did not share, and thus, bullied, I found refuge in a collection of Aesop tales in the school library. Yet, the significance of the fables never rang more true than when I spent hours reading the volume each time in my junior high’s library. I was so enthused by these fables on complex human ideas; I immediately created a booklet of my own, penning and illustrating notebook paper before binding the little pages with a stapler.

Now, I was already familiar with the great philosopher of animal fables showcasing human folly. For voracious readers, we will see the same stories pop up, over and over, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, ‘Dog in the Manger’, ‘Spider to the Fly’, and the ‘Crow who needed to quench his thirst’ as well as ‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs’. There was also ‘The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ and ‘The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf’, or what many know as ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’. We understand these tales because they tackle moral issues: greed, lust, desire, humility, and arrogance.

Last, but certainly not least, Aesop’s influences continue to surprise me. For several years, I’ve been listening to different East Asian and some South Asian music. Years ago, it was Japanese pop tunes. Nowadays, it’s Korean-pop. While watching a Korean news program, they ended the segment with two music videos. I fell in love with the song called Oops! By G.NA and featuring Ilhoon of BTOB.

Since the news showed the video in the middle and most of the end, my curiosity was piqued and I jumped to YouTube.com to watch it in its entirety.

It is a wonderful song, G.NA is a fun vocalist to listen to, and Ilhoon, the rapper, is fast and furious. While watching the video, I learned from other YouTube commentators that it is the story about a young handsome man who has a silver tiger cat. When he leaves her for the day, the cat crawls under his bed sheets and emerges as a woman (G.NA)!

After luxuriating in her human form, she eventually puts on new clothes and goes clubbing. Her owner is there, and their eyes meet. She sidles up to him, and they touch noses, before she flits home, leaving him dazed and confused.

Once back in the house, she gets back into the nightclothes she first emerged as a human before the owner comes home.

Can’t tell who is more surprised, but, she grins at him like a minx, and he is more than thrilled to find the mysterious girl from the club in his house. The next morning, he’s in bed and his hand is seen stroking the cat.

Wow, this reminds me of an Aesop fable! I thought.

When I shared the video and my comment, one of my Facebook friends sent back that “C, you are special”. But who could blame me? I flipped through my modern edition of Aesop, and found the story I compared to the K-Pop video. It was “Venus and the Cat”!

Another YouTube commentator ‘liked’ my comment and told me she/he enjoyed Aesop fables too. Is it any wonder many of us enjoy anthropomorphic stories? In the act, we create new tales that are updates of ancient myths and weave new lessons for new generations.

In conclusion, I cannot choose a single Aesop favorite, or 10 favorites. I will, however, choose a particular tale that probably has more adaptations and incarnations than many of the other fables, and that is “City Mouse, Country Mouse”, or, originally known as “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”. Why this fable? Well, Aesop’s use of animals as symbols appears to have made huge impressions on its readers, or the stories would not have lasted for thousands of years.

A country cousin leaves his rural home to visit his slicker city kin. Mayhem ensues, with the country mouse rushing back to a world that, though no less dangerous, is familiar and makes sense. This appears to run rampant in the amount of ‘fish out of water’ themes prevalent in many films and books. Please do yourself a favor, and read “City Mouse, Country Mouse” in any adaptation. As with this and many other Aesopic tales, you will appreciate its message more with each reading and/or retelling.

 


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furry PC gamers?

Furry Reddit - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 08:10

I'm new here, and as an israeli PC gamer I was wondering which games do the furries of reddit play?

Games I play: EVE Online, Planetside 2, Titanfall, Warframe.

(Please leave politics out of this discussion and don't derail this thread. if you do I will be forced to post Spiderman. kthanx)

edit: I just joined the steam group.

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A Special moment

Furry Reddit - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 03:49
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He’ll Sniff Out the Clues

In-Fur-Nation - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 02:46

Well this is perhaps something different… Fables: The Wolf Among Us is a comic book based on a video game based on a comic book. It’s . “Even before the first issue of Fables, there were stories to be told, shadowy avenues to explore, and lives hanging in the balance! Bigby Wolf has seen plenty in his time as Sheriff of Fabletown…but nothing can prepare him for this… It all starts with a simple domestic disturbance. But when Bigby learns that his old nemesis, the Woodsman who has an axe to grind, is part of the scene, things go downhill fast. And how will Bigby and Snow White keep their heads long enough to crack the case when they get caught up in a grisly murder mystery? Vertigo’s first-ever digital-first series, Fables: The Wolf Among Us is a gripping adaptation and expansion of the smash-hit video game from Telltale Games, and an official prequel to Bill Willingham’s bestselling Fables! Written by Fables alum Matthew Sturges (Jack of Fables) and Dave Justus (House of Mystery), with art by Stephen Sadowski (JSA), Shawn McManus (Fables / Fairest), and Travis Moore (JSA All Stars)!” You might also recall that the game was nominated for an Ursa Major Award. The first full-color issue of the comic book series comes to stores this January.

image c. 2014 Vertigo

image c. 2014 Vertigo

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Finally got a fursona

Furry Reddit - Mon 10 Nov 2014 - 00:26

I came up with a fursona with a friend today it's a wolf lizard hybrid. It has horns of a horned devil eyes of a leopard gecko claws and tongue of a blue tongue skink and the rest is grey wolf. What do you think of my so a.

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Has anyone ever been asked to suit for a buisness/event or have been a mascot before?

Furry Reddit - Sun 9 Nov 2014 - 23:39

The reason I'm asking is I actually hope to become a mascot for college when I go off to one, for at least one time. Maybe it could be a job I can do on-campus. Also, I'm asking from my own curiosity, still being relatively new.

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Furry Xbox Gamers?

Furry Reddit - Sun 9 Nov 2014 - 23:22

Hey there! I'm looking for a few furs to start up a club in Forza Horizon 2 or to play Destiny with. Xbox gets kinda boring without other people to interact with. If anyone wants, my Gamertag is Rainbow Blitz46. Just need a little money to change it to Jace the Fox xD

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My new bestest piece (crit welcome!)

Furry Reddit - Sun 9 Nov 2014 - 23:16
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Would any of you be interested in 5$ sketch/digital flat color commissions?

Furry Reddit - Sun 9 Nov 2014 - 21:51

So this is my first time really offering anything like this, and I am interested if there would be any takers, I am desperate for practice and will be offering them continuously as a motivator.

Examples can be found on my deviantart page to the left.

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Lost something?

Furry Reddit - Sun 9 Nov 2014 - 21:36
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