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So, I've been a furry for a while now, but I can't really find other furrys to have actually relations with. I'm not talking boyfriend girlfriend stuff here. I mean close friends and stuff. Are there any chat groups or things I could use to meet some other furrys or what?

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Today’s illustration is from the Indiegogo campaign “Doberfrau” by Claudia Bacco

I had a friendly email from Claudia Bacco, one of the photographers of the “Doberfrau” photography campaign, asking for a little callout. Happy to oblige, I really like her retro-pop aesthetic, the colors of the 80s and the dobermans of today. Thanks for sharing these images, Claudia!

Anthrocon this week, looking forward to that brand of chaos, my first megaconvention. Keep an eye out for me, I’ll be at the Kaze retrospective event on Friday and generally milling around the rest of the time, look for a green shirt and tie and black jacket. Say hi if you have a second!

Friday the 4th–the Kaze Retrospective panel–is the launch of Kaze: Ghost Warrior’s next chapter, the new incarnation of the 2004 animated “Kaze” film by Amadhia Albee. I’m working with her on her Kickstarter launch, dealing for the first time with the issues in an actual Kickstarter campaign (and working with another artist…) More about this project on Friday, and I’ll be sure to post a “project in review” in the Resources section. Come if you can, Amadhia’s an amazingly talented person in a wide number of fields.

Just two mini-reviews this week, I’m going to return to my goal of two or three blog posts a week after August when the campaign is over. So until AC, here’s a quick look at a few video games–not vouching for both of them, one’s a bit weak, but the concept art is good for a look.

See you in Pittsburgh! -Corbeau

Reviews

New Projects

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

Art/Photography

Lupyroo’s Startup (Ends: 6/16/2014)
Lupeyroo‘s badge commission startup
I’m really not a fan of this project. If you can’t get commissions on FA, you’re NOT going to do any better on Kickstarter. Crowdfunding is for projects, not commissions. Okay, I’ve said it.

Books/Print

How to Become Horsefamous (Ends: 7/11/2014)
Horse-famous, if you don’t know, is the tongue-in-cheek Brony version of “popufur.” This is kind of the pony version of bad-furry.
Cute, but the project is a little unclear and weak on professionalism–not surprising, given the subject matter, but not a confidence builder either.

The Future Is Cute (Ends: 7/25/2014)
Kawaii little critters explain science, economics, and the world in general. And they’re cute while doing it.
The typography of this project doesn’t match the project or its tone well, it’s cute but doesn’t seem to be making progress in funding.

Hokey Bear Storytelling Project (Ends: 7/27/2014)
Surreal bear-human multimedia strangeness and experimental storytelling from deep in the woods and the subconscious.
Strange stuff. Arguably spawned in the same section of the brain as furry, but expressed in a deeply right-brain way…

Children’s Products

The Moribund Mouse (Ends: 7/21/2014)
Second of a “children’s books for adults” series, after “The Existential Giraffe,” about a mouse who goes YOLO after receiving unexpected bad news…

Without My Coffee (Ends: 7/23/2014)
Parents are MONSTERS without their coffee, as this book illustrates.

The Bristowl (Ends: 7/25/2014)
Por quois stories told in rhymes and beautiful illustrations, preview the book and pictures here

Misri Bunch (Ends: 7/29/2014)
Puppets, books, and animations with completely adorable animals, Koran/Islamic education for children.
I always get nervous talking about religious stuff because furries are as a category anti-religious, most geeks are. But this really is adorable.

Costumes/Clothing

Sunny Creations Tee (Ends: 7/23/2014)
Mini-campaign, cute tee by Sunny Creations, fursuit maker and artist. Sort of a “my other shirt is a husky” sort of idea

Pokemon Gum Badges (Ends: 8/11/2014)
Cloisonne/enamel pins representing the Kanto, Johto, and Battle Frontier pokemon gyms…and soon, Hoenn.

Film/Animation/Theater

Sympathy for the Devil (Ends: 7/22/2014)
A documentary about the endangered Tasmanian Devil, currently threatened by transmissable cancer (yes, that is a thing)
The goal on this one is probably unreasonably high for a first-time crowdfunder.

Toys

Tiny mouse Friend Doll (Ends: 8/1/2014)
Delicate, porcelain-like resin ball-joint mouse from Summerdream Dolls

Video Games

Catlateral Damage (Ends: 7/11/2014)
BE THE CAT. Knock things off the shelf and onto the floor. Repeat. Repeat. Sort of a feline goat simulator.
Already $4K past its $40K goal!

Wild Warfare (Ends: 7/24/2014)
Vehicle and energy blaster FPS with raccoons, bears, and bunnies, armed to the buck teeth.
Their alpha is already available online

Redneck Assassin (Ends: 7/28/2014)
Third-person stealth shooter game for mobile devices, Bambie mixed with Kill Bill.
Second time around for this project with a strange funding goal (a goal of $5 is more a joke than a goal…)

Adult

Teddy Love (Ends: 8/15/2014)
It’s a teddy bear. It’s a vibrating toy you can take with you on the airplane without explaining.
I think I’m going to pull this one down soon, it’s too silly not to post but not really on topic…oh, how we make justifications.

Hardblush’s Technophilia minizine (Offbeater pre-launch)
Cute and twinky anthro boys from hardblush.com, with a technology/scifi theme
The project itself is only a bit NSFW, the hardblush website, very NSFW

…Causes

Save Africa’s Wild Dogs (Ends: 8/25/2014): A project to tag and track endangered AWDs in Kruger National Park, Africa. Campaign’s very short on backer rewards, but AWDs are an amazing species…

…Just for fun

Yomi fighting game (Ends: 7/17/2014): A melee/strategy fighting game with 20 decks, covering a range of supers, supernaturals, and a few anthro characters. Nice illustrations and WAY past goal. I just want the dragon, thanks.

Original post here: http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/260wd5/how_do_you_start_relationships_if_youre_only_into/

About a month ago, I asked how to start relationships when you're only into yiff. My problem was that I was only turned on by yiff art. After more than a month of nofap, there's no difference on that side, but I expected that.

I've tried to look for more furries in my area. I found only one, and we didn't really talk much. However, I realized this was only a small part of what makes someone, and I shouldn't look exclusively for that.

As for relationships in general, as people said on the other thread, romance != sex. It might be harder for me to find that perfect someone, but I'm more hopeful about that today. Plus, one of my friends on the internet who was actually in the same situation as me found love, which proves to me it's far from impossible.

I decided to move in a larger town (Montreal) once I'm done with my studies, so I could meet more people with similar interests as me, included but not limited to furries.

Thought I'd share with you guys.

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Okay so I'm furry, obviously, any who I never really found an animal, mythical or otherwise that appealed to me, sooo I created a species that fits me. Though it doesn't have fur or scales or a combination it does have an exoskelton thing ish..... what I'm asking is is that weird? Among the fandom ik weird is hard to come by lol.

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I'll draw for free, because my art is semi crap, but I'll still try my damndest to do what you want me to. It will take a while as well because I am kinda working full time and have a decent social life, but you'll get them. I'll post a link to my imgur album if people are interested in "Fusky's Fusking Awful Arts".

If you have lineart, I can colour it as well.

Examples and junk! That are all kinda NSFW!:

Drawn by me!

http://i.imgur.com/uCPVVvh.png (NSFW)

http://i.imgur.com/4I9HbiI.png (NSFW)

http://imgur.com/P432Q2y (NSFW.... again)

Recolours/colouring!

http://i.imgur.com/mOm9mHHs.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fXNZqyLs.jpg (NSFWish)

Requesting done! I'll hopefully get to everyone in a timely fashion!

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The Pre-registration end date is July 3th. If you have not booked to the hotel, you should hurry because there's a special promotion going on until then.If you book now, you also will get admission to the con for free as a sponsor. Snagging you a pretty good deal at the con.

As a sponsor you get three days admission to the convention. A Maltese fur-con T-shirt. Plus a commemorative numbered, metal badge to thank for you cooperation. You also get a mention in the conbook and an invitation to the Super Sleuth's Secret Sponsor Soiree. The price of a Sponsor is 80 dollars and only applies to one person. So if you're a fur on a budget looking to attend a cool con starting up in Boston, look no farther then this deal right here.

The con website http://www.maltesefurcon.com/ Hotel information can be found here: http://www.maltesefurcon.com/hotel.html

The con starts August 1st to the 3rd. The hotel is called the Hilton Hotel located by Logen Airport. People who cook at the hotel get free wifi and admission to the rec room which includes a pool. In addition there's also a free shuttle that takes you directly to downtown Boston in only 10-15 minutes.

If you want to be part of this cool event please feel free to join us :D

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[Note: Funding for Wild Warfare is cancelled, and "Redneck Assassin" probably isn't worth funding anyway...]

A couple of fun FPS style video games came up on Kickstarter this last two weeks, worth a look for art if nothing else. Of the three, “Wild Warfare” seems like the one with the strongest business–they’re working from a strong starting position, with an alpha already in place, a good team, and enough games under their belt that they probably know how to use the money. The second, “Redneck Assassin,” I’m not quite so confident in, they’ve got that “I’ll start the goal at $5 and not edit my post” thing happening, and it’s showing in pledges. But it’s a fun story, Kill Bill meets Bambi.

I had a third…the kitten slaughterfest Whiskers of Death–but the project seemed, pick one: A) Doomed, B) Gratuitous, C) Silly. So you’ll have to  go to their page for a wholesale orgy of ill-thought-out kitten destruction.

Anyway…

Wild Warfare

Kickstarter crowdfunding cancelled.

Maybe you’ve played “Wild Warfare” already? It’s been available as a free Alpha for a while now. It’s a Team Fortress sort of game, but with raccoons, bears, and bunnies running around generally wasting each other. According to the kickstarter vid, Wild Warfare started as an internal pet project, a mod to turn one of Hyper Hippo‘s existing games into an FPS (I’m thinking “Mech Mice Tactics,” the look and feel’s similar. And, mice.) What started as office fun ended up as an online alpha with a few thousand players, but not quite enough for a full game release–and so Hyper Hippo turned to Kickstarter.

Wild Warfare is a multi-player, multi-class, vehicle-based first person shooter for web play, with a few different play modes–free-for-all skirmish, a team-play death match, and a “capture the flag” mode. The concept is simple and pure: animals run around blasting the hell out of each other with energy weapons, and sometimes there are mecha, trucks, and mechatrucks.  Right now the world of Wild Warfare is on the spare side–two worlds, and three race/classes that fill many of the standard FPS tropes (the raccoon striker/commander, rabbit engineer, and the bear, the big dumb bruiser. The Kickstarter promises more worlds, more races (they show concept art of a hillbilly ‘gator, bomb-happy armadilo, and a very slinky weasel sniper). We see the big stompy mecha vehicle in their kickstarter video, but there are tanks and off-road trucks sprinkled around the kickstarter page, presumably stretch goals.

There are also many hats. It’s kind of a running joke. I’m torn between the bowler cap–always a sound decision–and the road cone.

The pitch video’s images of game play are murky and indistinct, it’s a teaser more than proof of concept. Reviewer “Badass Games” has a good 10-minute play video on YouTube that gives a sense of the skirmish mode, and the pacing and general insanity level of the game.

Thoughts on the Kickstarter itself–they seem to be having a hard time gaining traction. Not being really with-it on video games, this looks like a function of market saturation–with every established and indie game developer putting their wares out for crowdfunding, and the surge of indie games in general, there’s just too much competition for the gamer dollar and attention span. They were picked by Steam Greenlight, but they’re sharing that honor with like 30 titles a week.  The game looks like a lot of fun, and the Kickstarter seems well-constructed, but the response hasn’t been great so far.

Redneck Assassin

Kickstarter ending 7/28/14

 

Fursuit shot from pitch vid

Oh, the dialogue. Did you know what rhymes with “buck?” Lots of things rhyme with buck. I’m not sure that joke sustains a script. Oh deer.

Ahem.

Redneck Assassin is a bloody, stealth FPS for your mobile device. In fact, “mobile” is an important part of the game’ls story–the developer, Clay Hayes, created Redneck Assassin in part as a response to the lack of a good stealth game for mobiles. The controls were a big problem for him: keeping the standard stealth game controls on the screen in the tight confines of a mobile was clunky, so Hayes set out to make a game with controls that would be where you needed them when you needed them.

The pitch video does a better job of capturing the game than still images do; the camera work is a bit too muddy for good detail shots. Also, the player’s thumbs look like giant alien monsters watching the action on their viewscreen, safely orbitting Golgathon IV.

The plot is simple and classic, largely a pastiche of Shakespeare’s later romances: You are a humanoid deer, left for dead by hunters and trained in the arts of ninja-type murderation by your sensei, Bigfoot. It’s nice how those ancient stories come back in so many forms.

Redneck Assassin’s play is heavily influenced by Metal Gear Solid, and just perhaps by Redneck Rampage. The feel of the game–particularly the cut scenes–is meant to invoke an over-the-top grindhouse revenge flick–would this be “bucksploitation”? Certainly the cinematography does a good job of that, but the dialog…I’d say it leaves me cold, but it actually makes me reach for a bottle of Pepto Bismol. So many bad deer jokes. so many.

It looks like this is the second round of crowdfunding for Redneck Assassin, the first came and went with a few thousand dollars toward a 5-digit goal, which isn’t a terrible response. This time around response has been much weaker, as the poster has tried to do something like Indiegogo’s flexible funding by starting with a $5 goal. A lot of potential backers might be thrown by this–what are you going to possibly be able to deliver with $5? I know the poster’s already spent the money and developed the title, this is for expansion, polish, and back-debt, but the combination of the weak financial story and sloppy editing work on the body copy just doesn’t make what I see as a backable project.

Images above are used to promote/review the artist’s projects, and are owned by their original creator.

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Dear Papa Bear,

I've got quite a personal issue I've never really come to a conclusion on. From a very young age, I've never been truly able to identify with myself as a female. When my father lived with us, he constantly discouraged me from my passion, weightlifting, terrified of the thought of me becoming “bulky.” My mother always tried to bully me into wearing more “girly” or slutty clothing, and still does at present, even when I go out in a dress I consider to be cute.

I was very self-conscious of my body until I was about 16, so I tended to wear very baggy clothing to “mask” my figure (I leaned on the chubby side up until that age). When I started getting serious about fitness and eating clean, in addition to all the weightlifting I was doing, I began and maintain to this day a body that I'm proud of. I became a lot more accepting of my female body, although not quite completely. I brought up my concerns with my mother, who was very supporting and said it didn't matter to her whether I was male or female.

Then I started dating my first boyfriend (who I'm still very happily with), and the sexual aspects of our relationship only served to make me even more comfortable with my female body.

I do not identify with the female stereotype in any way, nor have I ever attempted to, but some days, when I reflect upon myself, I find it incredibly difficult to muster up any definitive “acceptance” of myself as a woman. I don't MIND having breasts or female genitalia, but sometimes I wonder if I'd be happier not having them, too. I've brought this up with my boyfriend in the past, and I remember him being quite neutral on the subject. He more or less just heard me out on it. 

I'm not sure why I'm having these thoughts. I think that when I was younger and less happy with my body, I thought it'd be easier to simply not have to be a female because they're held to such high expectations to look good and be sexy and all that crap, and then as I matured and realized I don't care about any of that, those feelings faded away, but not completely. 

What do you think, Papa Bear?

The Gryphon (18)

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Hi, Gryphon,

My first impression of your letter is that you are not having a gender-identity issue so much as you are experiencing an issue with your family's, and society’s, expectations of what it is to be a woman. According to you, you are (mostly) fine with being anatomically a woman, and you are fine with having a boyfriend (even, it sounds like, enjoying the sexual part of it), so I don’t think you are a lesbian, nor do I see you as destined to be a transsexual.

What you don’t like is being made to dress up in girly things and act in a feminine manner. You don't like being pressured by parents to be something you are not. I suspect you only kind of resent having breasts and a vagina because they lead others to categorize you and make demands on you as to how you should behave. They are, in a way, symbols of oppression that are literally attached to your body and therefore difficult to ignore. I suspect that if your parents and others had no problem with your lifting weights and being fit, wearing jeans or less “girly” clothes, etc. you would be less stressed and upset about being a woman.

At 18, you are more accepting of your female body than you were earlier in life. Given this and the other things you have said (and I don’t know whether you were asking me about the possibility of a sex change operation), I would definitely not recommend anything drastic for you. You should only pursue that possibility if you are absolutely 100% unhappy with being your current gender and feel you cannot be who you truly are without that operation. You must be completely certain, too, that you are doing it for yourself and not because of what others say.

Your case is not nearly so extreme to warrant surgery, and I believe that, as you get older and less pressured by parents, and feel less pressure from others to fit a certain stereotype of a women, you will be more comfortable in your current skin. Although some feelings of discomfort still remain at present, I would definitely relax a bit if I were you and see how you feel in, say, three years when you’re 21. I'd be most curious to receive a letter from you then.

The key is to make yourself happy with who you really are, not what others see you as or want you to be.

Hugs,

Papabear

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Author: GreenReaper Could the VCL, once a key furry art site, reverse its trend towards irrelevance? On newly-reinstalled forums, site admin Ch’marr declared that he had: […] enough motivation collected to bring VCL back to stability, and perhaps some level of functionality to keep it a useful and enjoyable place to play around with. Certainly not […]

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What more could you ask for on the weekend? Somehow we missed this: Empire of the Apes, directed by Mark Polonia. “In a distant galaxy three escaped female convicts crash land on a primitive world inhabited by a race of warlike apes. They fight for survival as the humanoid apes fight for their possession, body and soul. A daring escape is their only way out. Hot on their heels are the blood lusting gorillas and a prison warden bent on their return to the prison ship they escaped from.” Got it? You have got to see the trailer for this thing! Could its release on DVD have anything to do with the new Apes movie coming to theaters this summer? Nah! Well anyway, the DVD is available on Amazon.

image c. 2014 Sterling Entertainment

If any of you are up for a completely non-sexual roleplaying partner with HORDES of characters, I'm your gal! Also up for just general chatting, as long as it's non-flirty or sexual. I am a taken fur. Please PM me on here if you're interested, only then will I give out my skype.

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Here we have a music video from “Foster The People’s” that seems heavily influenced by Heavy Metal.

Just comment :D And yea. The role is up to you, I am down for anything! I just wanna do somethings with the Furry community! :)

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