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How not to win valuable foxdollars.
Pretty regularly I see projects that…just don’t work for me. My general guidelines for Furstarter posts and listings are, “is it interesting and/or furry?” and “does it have a chance of making goal?”
These, well, they’re furry. Interesting? I don’t know, I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Do they have a chance of making goal?
Probably not.
I’m just ranting here.
Anyway…First the semi-titled “Animal Shelter Project”
Animal Shelter ProjectIndiegogo ending 7/29/14
From cons, twitter, and people making fun of crowdfunding without really having a grasp on what it actually is, the most common misconception is that it’s all “fund-my-life” type projects–help me get a game system, help me pay my rent, or help me buy a fursuit. Please, guys, don’t prove them right.
There’s a lot that’s wrong with this page. A stretched-out two month campaign time that suggests someone relying on Indiegogo to spread the word for them, “Flexible Funding” turned on (rarely if ever a good idea), no business plan, and a photo that looks a little bit ganked from the internets, without telling any of the story the poster wants to share. You could at least show something from the artist you want to commission!
At heart, this is a “buy me an x-box” campaign. Wrap good intentions around it if you like, but charity dollars shouldn’t go toward buying you a fursuit. Even if you do intend to use it at charitable events, there’s no shortage of fursuiters in Montreal. Heck, it’s got its own convention. With a really cute logo. It seems pretty transparent that generosity-dollars should flow toward actual service work if the capital material’s already out there.
*sigh* Now instead of saying “no, it’s not about ‘buy me a fursuit!’” I’m going to have to say “Yeah, well, there was that one…”
Anyway.
Furries: Life But with FurIndiegogo ending 6/15/14
If I didn’t have some familiarity with the group fronting this, I’d assume it was a “Something Awful” put-on. But I’ve seen the “Griz Coat” team before, they’ve done some bear coats which were quite successful over on Kickstarter, I think I gave them a reluctant call-out before, I’m not a fan of their “lulz” tone and the coats kind of creep me out. Still, their campaigns are often called out as success stories.
Anyway. The “Furries” IGG is a mockumentary about, well, furries. I know a lot of furries, on the whole they’re a bunch of amiable dorks that enjoy video games, each other, and fuzzy animal personas. But if you take an exploitative approach (Say, MTV’s “Sex2K” or two-thirds of the media coverage targeting furs), you can of course pull out enough steamy and surreal material to fill an hour-long documentary–or in this case, a TV pilot.
I like media coverage. I do. It’s helping mainstream the community, and every year it seems trending to portray us as the oddball subculture that we are, not the sex-crazed loonies that–well, frankly, most of humanity is. “Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks in a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
I do not like media coverage that opens with the promise of a fox humping a chicken, then cuts into a frightening guy wearing tiger pants and chains, and is loaded with effing awful puns. The entire thing is theoretically going to be launched to the Fox Network, so it just gets better.
There’s some cute fursuit images a the bottom of the page, but the overall tone is snark and exploitation. I really hoped we were over this. Judging by the underwhelming response, maybe we are.
Guys, please, don’t mock your target audience.
“Dance Walking” and Street Fursuiting: a match waiting to happen
FC-168 TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
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- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
FC-168 TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
Watch Video News:- Fur Affinity cracks down on ‘watchbot’ accounts by GreenReaper
- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
[Live] TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
Watch Video News:- Fur Affinity cracks down on ‘watchbot’ accounts by GreenReaper
- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
FC-168 TaurCast - A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it's not like I'm writing this episode description while currently half asleep o
A great guest from afar joins us for an otherwise small crew this week to discuss various shenanigans. A good round of emails as well! Really it was. I mean it’s not like I’m writing this episode description while currently half asleep on a computer at work pulling subjective terms to describe how it went out of my ass or anything… No seriously though the guest was pretty good, we got to have a nice short interview with our friend Mishka from the first article and uh yeah, emails were good too. It was good. Really. BELIEVE IT.
Watch Video News:- Fur Affinity cracks down on ‘watchbot’ accounts by GreenReaper
- Flayrah’s story ratings now reflected in Google search results by GreenReaper
- FL state rep: School tests designed to turn students gay
- Furry DJ NeonBunny’s “Eat, Sleep, Fursuit, Repeat” by NeonBunny
- 9-1-1 CALL: Man denied Triple Whopper, upset over relationship goes on shooting rampage in Port St. Lucie
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Invaded Washington, DC
- Health and Environmental Concerns Abound: Minnesota Bans Common Antibacterial Chemical
- Twitch & Tez – “Skittes are Gaysist”
- Kane – “Shifts”
- Kyler – “Gender Identity Crisis”
- Mercure Lexion – “Choosing a Fursona”
- Trystyn – “Dear FurCast”
- Anonymous – “Fursuit”
- Lupus Vette – “Tests and names”
- Jesse Pinkail – “very first con”
- Sin Nombre – “Assy friends, awkward kisses, and Species confusion”
My reaction to some things in this fandom...
He Might Lose His Straight Friend after Confessing He Is Gay
A dual commission of Trivol and me, by Rileyy
Furries, self-esteem, and identity: assumptions to check
Looking for input on a fursuit decision.
(Note: I know this MAY be more apt for /r/fursuit, but the community here seems extremely helpful and active. Hope this post isn't an issue)
Hi all,
So I've basically been kicking around the possibility of buying a fursuit for a while now. I was hoping that I could get a bit of advice from the community here over whether that's actually a sound decision, though, basically due to the time investment of production as well as the cost.
Basically my particular situation is like this: I don't consider myself a furry per se (though I'm also not hostile or something), but have been aware of the community for quite a while. The art has never really been of interest to me, but I've been fascinated with costumes (mascots and character performance in particular) for some time. I spent my four years of college as my university's mascot, and it was everything I'd expected as far as the fun of performing and entertaining people, and now feel that having a fursuit (especially meaning a suit would actually fit me) would give me a chance to continue that now that I'm out of school.
On the other hand, though, I'm concerned about the fact that, since I'm not really involved in the scene, don't have a FA account or a fursona in the traditional sense, etc., I would not be able to find outlets or places to make use of my suit.
As far as makers, I love the aesthetic of DHC's suits (especially their foxes, which is what I'm leaning towards), but am also considering Mischief Makers, among others. Money is not a significantly limiting factor but can't truly be ignored.
So basically my questions are these:
-Is it probably unusual/not worthwhile for someone basically not involved in the community to just go out and get a fursuit?
-Does anyone here have experience with DHC and their timescale/price range/ease of working with?
-Are there any other pieces of advice/things to know you guys could give as far as a fursuit as an investment for something of an outsider?
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Anyone have reptile feet advice?
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13601449/
My WIP, big lee (not really my sona, just drawing a new character for fun and practice) needs feet. Can anyone help?
Furryartschool isnt very active.
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