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submitted by Falcon_42
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Papabear,

As I have been seeing the last few years since my last con in July 2011 which was my latest interaction with furs. I tried rejoining the local fur group here and not knowing till maybe 1-3 months later I couldn't post on the SEFF [Southeast Florida Furs] FA page. OK, so I asked one of the heads about it and he said that there were some complaints from some furs, not saying who they were and what the complaints were about because they were "confidential." Since then I have only really known one fur locally from another fur group I was in since 1998. I try to hang out with him or plan something and all I get from him is, "I'm working that weekend/day/night." So my question is, "Is he avoiding me?" Now, about getting together with others on the other hand: What do you suggest?

Ace (age 32)

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Dear Ace,

With any group dynamic, there is inevitably social politics, drama, cliques, and all that bogus crap you may have naively believed would end after high school but still continues with “adults” your age. I have experienced this in everything from business (departments fighting with each other), to nonprofits (favoritism and shunning at a certain zoo I once volunteered at), to the gay community (the infamous A vs. B list of gay men in pretty much any community, mostly having to do with how much money you earn, how you dress, and who you know—you know, the things that really matter to people who are shallow douchebags).

Once “rumors” or “whispers” behind your back start to develop in a group, whatever group that might be, you’re usually toast at that point. People will glomp onto the popular furs in a group, believing whatever they say just to not be rejected, and accept whatever they say negative about a particular person. That’s one possibility. There are other possibilities, but this is all speculation, since I don’t know everything about your situation.

If you have made the effort to mend fences only to be rejected, then what you can do is try to form your own furry group. Stop being a follower and joiner and, instead, become a leader in your area. Invite furries to your home, organize activities, etc. You might find that there are other furries in your area who have also felt rejected by the established group there and that would be happy to join you.

Create your own Facebook page and Meetup page and publicize the hell out of your new group. When people ask to join, be welcoming and friendly and helpful.  There is always a need for new furry groups; I am constantly hearing from furries like you who can’t find a group nearby or, sometimes, who don’t feel the local group is very welcoming (sad, but true).

Sometimes in life the only way to get what you want is to take charge yourself, make your own rules, and lead the pack instead of being an omega wolf.

Good luck!

Papabear

Fandom and academia made itself topic of the week. (It led to learning a new-to-me term: “Aca-fans”, popularized by Henry Jenkins.) Researchers prove to be SUPER COOL about questions sent their way! Quoting Dr. Tibbals on Furries, sex and sociology: In 2014, it seems like every blogger thinks they’re a reporter and every “reference” is […]

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submitted by shazoom
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[adjective][species] was compromised last night through a template loader bug in WordPress.  The only effect that we have seen from the compromise was that spam links were injected at the top of the page, visible only to users on certain IP ranges (notably Google; the goal being to boost spam sites’ popularity in the search engine).  This appears to have been an automated attack on several WordPress sites on our host, and no data has been compromised, however, this should serve as a reminder to practice Safe Password!

If you run WordPress and find yourself in a similar situation, here are the steps required to clean it up:

1. Search for the exploit in your installation.  It looks like this at the top of your template’s index.php file.  If you have access to the command line, you can check for it with the following command:
   find . -name *.php -exec grep -q "mx_start" {}\; -print
2. Clean the files by removing the block.  If you’d like to automate the process, here is a python snippet for doing so: import re import sys f = open(sys.argv[1], 'r') text = f.read() f.close() pattern = re.compile(r'<\?php /\*mx_start.*mx_orig_end\*/ \?>', re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL) print pattern.sub('', text)

   Run it automatically by saving it as demx.py, and using bash like so:
   for i in `find . -name *.php -exec grep -q "mx_start" {} \; -print`; do python demx.py $i > $i.demx; mv $i.demx $i; done

Author: crossaffliction Contributors this month include crossaffliction, dronon, Fred, GreenReaper, Higgs Raccoon, Patch Packrat and Rakuen Growlithe. read more Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought Creative Commons: Full post may be available under a free license.

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Author: crossaffliction Both are round, orb-like fruits, while one is usually red on the outside (though green, yellow and even orange are possibilities), its smooth, thin skin usually eaten, with firm, off-white flesh that ranges from sweet to sweet with varying degrees of tartness in flavor, with small brown seeds found inside the core of […]

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Author: Fred The front cover blurb reads: An Erotic Historical Tale. It is rated NC-17. Isaac Ellison, a part-albino cheetah (with unusually pale fur and a beefy physique like a Marine), and his inventor buddy, Raziel, a humanoid reptile (“He looked quite draconic, but slender as opposed to the more bulky builds of lore. Small spines […]

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Hi! I'm kinda new to this fandom and subreddit and I've seen all this hype about fursonas. So many of them are so amazing and I'm curious about how you decided on its design! Any tips/suggestions/stories are appreciated!

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I've been thinking about getting a yarn tail recently. I've considered making one myself, but I don't think I would be able to find the time and motivation to finish it any time soon.

I was wondering if you all know of anyone who does yarn tail commissions? I don't really know what I want it to be like yet, so feel free to list anyone you know.

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[Back from CaliFur, and we have so much to talk about!]

Over at Cartoon Brew they have premiered the brand-new trailer for the upcoming animated film Song of the Sea, directed by Tomm Moore. Like Moore’s previous film The Secret of Kells, this new feature will be hand-drawn in a traditional 2D fashion with a highly stylized design. And, like that first film, this new one is based on the legends and lore of Ireland — in this case, the story of the Selkies, magical beings who are seals in the ocean but can shed their furry skins to become humans on the land. “Song of the Sea tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child – who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea. ” As with The Secret of Kells, Songs of the Sea has been picked up by GKIDS for distribution in North America. Now if we could just get a firm date for its release!

image c. 2014 Cartoon Saloon