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Cant draw for shit, but I can use the PAC3 editor in Garrys Mod quite well. Just say in the comments what you want me to make! Ill deliver in the next 1-3 hours, depending on what you want me to do. c; (Im gonna limit my PACs to 2 a day, 3 if I have time)

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Curse you Space Bear!

1. Tell us about your most recent project (written or published). What inspired it?

My most recent project has been weeding the garden. Aside from that, I have been writing a lot of short stories. I was really excited my story, “Day of the Nuptial Flight” came out in the July/August Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, a story someone called “alien, insect erotica.” I recently sold a series of 7 stories/paranormal love advice columns to Daily Science Fiction. Imagine Dear Abby meets the bogeyman.

The project I know I should be working on is Shadows and Starlight, the sequel to Silent Moon. The first book in the series came out with Soul Mate Publishing this year as an e-book and will be coming out as a print book on Amazon next month. The first book is a gothic mystery with werewolves and a Jane Eyre feel to it. The sequel will focus on one of the “wolfmen” in the first book and his relationship with a shapeshifter who resembles shadows and starlight in her true form. It has been really hard to find the time to finish editing it when I have been successfully writing and selling short fiction. It’s all a balancing act on the tightrope of time management!

2. What’s your writing process like? Are you a “pantser,” an outliner, or something in between?

I think I am something in between. I really like writing character and dialogue, possibly influenced by early play writing classes in college, but I know if I don’t make a plan, my characters will and that might not make the best story. Outlining means less cutting later, but it also takes away from the joy of spontaneity. It is a difficult balance. More tightrope walking.

3. What’s your favorite kind of story to write?

I love to write about magic and I like to write about relationships. I heard a writer once say that all romance is a kind of magic and that might be why many of my stories lean toward romance.

4. Which character from your work do you most identify with, and why?

Arg, that is so hard. I went to art school to be an illustrator and one of my teachers once said all portraits are self-portraits and all paintings are of yourself—whether you intend it or not. I think I put something of myself in every character and the ones I don’t are the flattest and least alive. Usually when I write about school teachers those are the characters that are the most authentically myself because I am putting direct experiences into my writing. The characters that are aliens or outcasts or monsters that I write about feel symbolic of my experiences living overseas because I was an alien in those circumstances.

When a friend and I were discussing my beauty and the beast obsession, most recently seen in “A Monster and a Gentleman” which came out in Hot Dish this year with my pseudonym, I wondered what that meant about my mindset and mentality toward men and women and gender roles. My friend said that actually she thought I thought I was the monster, not the beauty. That gave me a different perspective. I think this really came out in Cassia in Silent Moon. I identified with the struggle for acceptance and self-acceptance of being a monster/flawed/an outcast.

5. Which authors or books have most influenced your work?

So many! I love classical literature, romance, fantasy and mystery blended with these subjects. Some of my favorites include:

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

Tale of Two Cities

Wuthering Heights

The Time Traveler’s Wife

The Count of Monte Cristo

Austenland

The Passion

The Promise

Harry Potter

The Host

Twilight

Imzadi

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Tuck Everlasting

Shades of Milk and Honey

Dresden Files

Sookie Stackhouse Series

Stephanie Plum Series

6. What’s the last book you read that you really loved?

The Hunger Games. I really like how much I cared about the protagonist and sympathized with her.

7. Besides writing, how do you like to spend your free time?

When I am not writing, I spend my time sewing new creations as a fashion designer, teaching and performing belly dance and concocting experimental food that may or may not be edible.

8. Advice for other writers?

Don’t quit your day job. Ha ha! It takes a long time to become a career novelist. I have been writing since I was 6, submitting writing and attending writing workshops since I was 18 and more seriously starting to submit starting eight years ago. Four years ago I sold my first short story. At this date I have sold over 40 short stories, and two novels. Although I am selling to markets that pay better as I become a better writer, it takes a long time to establish a career.

9. Where can readers find your work?

The best place to find free stories is on my website:

sarinadorie.com

My novel Silent Moon is up on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Moon-Sarina-Dorie-ebook/dp/B00GHLBDTI

Dawn of the Morningstar, my alien and puritan romance, is up on Smashwords.com. Next year it will be up on Amazon when WolfSinger Publishing republishes it.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/267911

10. What’s your favorite thing about the furry fandom?

Mary E. Lowd—also known as Ryffnah, author of Otters in Space. She introduced me to the furry genre.

http://marylowd.com/

Check out Sarina Dorie’s member bio here!

 

Author: Dear Papabear, I really appreciate the support and advice you are giving to many people that are facing difficult times. I’m a 24-year-old Italian guy and time ago I realized I was bisexual… but mostly attracted to men. I’m still in the closet and I want to ask for your advice because I’m becoming […]

Dated August 11, here is a blog article on the website of the Denver Westword:

http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2014/08/rocky_mountain_furcon_furries_cosplay_costumes_denver.php

It is essentially a collection of photos from last weekend's Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2014.

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You have to wonder why FurCon happens in the heat of August, because, like, thick fur everywhere? Nonetheless, the furries convened over the weekend at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, clad head-to-toe in plush costumes. Thank goodness for air-conditioning. Danielle Lirette brought back these pictures and more of FurCon's heavy-duty cosplayers; read on for some of our favorites.

Well not really (at least the last bit). This September Boom! Box Studios brings us the premier of Teen Dog, a new full-color comic book series by Australian web cartoonist Jake Lawrence. Here’s an introduction from the web site Comic Vine: “Teen Dog is the cool guy you always wanted to be in high school, à la Michael J. Fox and Ferris Bueller, except he’s a dog in a rad denim vest. Each issue contains short vignettes featuring Teen Dog, his best friend Mariella, Thug Pug, Sara the star quarterback, and many more. Teen angst and whimsical adventures collide in this new series that combines the feel of John Hughes movies with ‘90s Nickelodeon cartoons.”

image c. 2014 Boom! Box

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Mine would be running a older i5 2500k with a Geforce GTX 760 and 12 Gigs of RAM and mostly my favorite game being Metro Last Light

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Dear Papabear,

I really appreciate the support and advice you are giving to many people that are facing difficult times.

I’m a 24-year-old Italian guy and time ago I realized I was bisexual… but mostly attracted to men. I’m still in the closet and I want to ask for your advice because I’m becoming increasingly anxious. A part of me urges to come out but I know it’s not safe yet: I’ve never been in a relationship and haven’t yet come to terms with my sexuality. More importantly, I’m still economically dependent on my family and the moment I’ll be able to live by myself seems so far away.

My family is caring and supportive, but judgmental towards others’ sexuality, in particular on homosexuality (they are Catholics), my parents having even worked with associations in support of “traditional family”. They say they love me the way I am, but I don’t know if they would still feel this way if they knew their son is homosexual.

I still love my family but I feel hurt when they make a joke or have something negative to say about homosexuals, not knowing I’m one of them. I feel that we are growing distant. I’ve actually reached a point in which I am uneasy when at home with them. I had to ask them not to question me continuously about girls. I find difficult to study and go through everyday tasks, my performance at university worsening.

Even if they would still accept me as a person, I know they wouldn’t accept my homosexuality because it would mean going against their religion. I guess it was already hard for them when, years ago, I told them I was agnostic. I don’t know if I have the right to hurt my family further by coming out gay. Sometimes I feel like a burden to them, I often think that I’m making them worry for my soul.

It’s not helping that I’m struggling with my bisexuality, It’s like I am constantly asked to make a choice. Be with a man, and face rejection from family and people around you... be with a girl and risk being in an unhappy relationship because you still experience a stronger desire for men. I think this is the main reason I feared being in a relationship, together with the fact I’ve only dated girls that were religious and/or somewhat judgmental towards homosexuals.

My brother told me that for a period my mother suspected I was gay. I don't know if that is good.

They noticed that something is not right with me lately. They think it’s because I’m going slow in my studies and because I don’t have a girlfriend, which they say it’s because I’m too unsecure. Instead, I’m aching because I’m still not telling them the truth and I feel we are being pulled apart.

Is there something I can do to better manage this emotional pressure while still being in the closet at my age?

Thank you so much for caring and reading through this long letter,

Yours Sincerely,
Distant Dragon

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Dear Dragon,

I sympathize and empathize with your difficult situation. It sounds as if you may have read some of my previous letters, because you make the observation that it’s not a great ideal to come out to parents who still hold the financial strings if you feel they will disapprove strongly and possibly leave you without means of support.

On the other hand, you’re 24. Not sure why financial independence is so far off for you, but if I were you I would make that my top and immediate priority.

But let’s talk more about your parents and the Catholic Church. While I was raised Southern Baptist, I have familiarized myself a bit with Catholicism and have a lapsed-Catholic husband. I believe that many people misinterpret what the Church’s official view of homosexuality is. While there are some things that are definitely prohibited when it comes to homosexuals (specifically, the Church sees the holy sacrament of marriage as being only between a man and a woman), the Church does not hate homosexuals. Even Pope Francis said not too long ago that he does not judge homosexuals and neither should other people. That is for God to do. This article by Christina Mead, I believe, is a pretty good representation of the Catholic position.

The anxious feelings you have are generated by the tension between the real you and the mask you are wearing daily around your family. I had that for four years before coming out to my now-ex wife. It was a miserable time. 

The good news is that your parents seem like caring and loving people. They may be a bit misguided by social pressures (especially in a country like Italy, which has a bit of a machismo culture), but if you prepare yourself well enough to answer their questions and allay their fears, you should be okay, I sense.

A couple things you can do. 1) I suggest reading this helpful booklet  (the booklet is geared toward Americans—sorry, I don’t know of an Italian source) and 2) talk to your priest about this in confessional. This in itself will lift a huge weight off your shoulders, since you’ll be able to talk about being homosexual while knowing that the conversation is confidential. Now, during confession, the priest might ask if you can continue the conversation outside of confessional. This might be a good idea, if things are going well. If you and your priest have a good relationship, I suggest, when the time comes, you approach your parents together.

You probably recognize, as well, that your parents are trying to think of what is best for their son. They worry about health issues (HIV etc., even though you can get these from women just as easily as men) and perhaps legal issues. Gay people do have legal protections in Italy. You can’t be discriminated against; however, same-sex couples in Italy do not have the same rights as straight couples when it comes to shared property, inheritance, and social welfare programs. Making yourself aware of your rights in your country is always a wise path, and you can use this knowledge to address questions your parents have, too.

You will only find your real happiness by allowing yourself to come out and be yourself. The timing and how you do it will be up to you. The best thing to do is prepare yourself as best you can, educate yourself, and, if possible, find allies to support you when you do come out to your family.

Bear Hugs,

Papabear

I need some help compiling some pictures for a friend of all the characters from Fur Will Fly and its almost impossible to search for them. I'm mainly looking for Selena. If anyone can help out, that would be great!

(SFW/NSFW is okay. I don't give a rat's ass. No offence to any rodents..it's just a saying)

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