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Sonic The Hedgehog (Fixed)
They fixed the Sonic design ... now the real question is about the quality of the story. I guess they have nailed that 90s xtreme attitude right? At the very least this is less nightmare fuel.
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Trailer: Scoob!
It's a brand new CGI based Scooby Doo origin movie and I'm sure it will in no way break the long consistent Scooby Doo canon. It looks also looks like it will contain Blue Falcon for ... reasons. Now, if you will excuse me I'll looking around to see if somebody obsessively tried to figure out the timeline of Scooby Doo.
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TigerTails Radio Season 12 Episode 09
At Furry Weekend Atlanta, an academic philosopher wins a job by the power of fandom.
The human species is diverse, but anywhere you go, there’s job-seekers hungry to start careers. At least one of them is a tennis-playing philosopher with a FurAffinity account, a raccoon fursona and a cool story: WildeCard. (Here’s his personal site.)
In human form, he’s a Postdoc researcher and ethics course instructor at Ohio State University’s Center for Ethics and Human Values. He’s working on a book titled The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation, which explores the ethics of slowing population growth. (For humans — no word about raccoons, bunnies or others with prodigious proliferation.)
How did he get there? WildeCard writes in:
“I recently documented how my experience on the academic job market (in philosophy) overlapped with attending Furry Weekend Atlanta 2019. And by overlapped, I mean that I was literally doing job interviews from my hotel room while attending this convention. That part of the story comes near the tail-end of an 8-month search for academic employment, which was ultimately successful.
The relevant (and lengthy) blog post is here.”
His 8 months of searching started with a Google Spreadsheet with 196 possible jobs, of which he applied to 118. His story is aimed to help other hopeful seekers, with a twist.
“There are some aspects of this story that are extremely idiosyncratic and unlikely to be a part of anyone else’s job search.”
“How could one venture into the cartoonish landscape of ludicrous photo-ops and cringe-inducing animal puns, and then later be expected to discuss population ethics or how to approach teaching non-philosophy majors?”
Juggling 118 job applications was depression-inducing, but WildeCard made time for the fluffier things in life.
At FWA 2019, he ran a panel called Discussing the Furry Fandom with Non-Furries “to give people a little advice on how they can go about discussing the furry fandom with friends, family, coworkers, and other curious acquaintances.” (It covers topics like: Reasons to Disclose Membership in the Furry Community, Handling People with Strong Negative Views of the Fandom, and Impact on One’s Career.)
I get questions about this ALL THE TIME. So I never want to hear “what can you do with a philosophy degree?” It’s almost as silly as questioning the prestige and fortune that comes with Furry Journalism.
Literally made a Furry 101 playlist with all the basics you can ask for. https://t.co/SMLvBOBZJv
— 
David OK Boomervich (@Bookworm_Review) November 9, 2019
WildeCard’s story is mainly for other job-seekers, but also contains a good explanation of the fandom, with a demonstration of furry power from a great ambassador. It has self-evaluation about how he handled the handfuls of job interviews that came from his applications — some with great difficulty, and some with high confidence. That makes an intriguing clue about the secret to his success.
“In my first 100 applications, I did not get a single offer. In my last 18 applications, I got 3.”
“50% of my interviews at furry conventions yielded job offers.”
They do always have lucky rabbits feet there. (Also the rest of the rabbits, otherwise this might not be such a happy story.) Thanks to WildeCard for showing that furries come from many walks (and hops and scurries) of life, with lots of talent, smarts and success.
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Trick or Treating in Fursuit
35 Years of Turtle Power
Hey! We’re easing our way into the Christmas Season… How ’bout a gift for the Ninja Turtle fan in your life, courtesy of IDW: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 35th Anniversary Box Set. “Revisit the glorious origins of the TMNT during the 35th anniversary month! This special box set includes Mirage Publishing’s TMNT #1-4 and the Raphael Micro-Series at their original 8 ⅜ x 10 ⅞ dimensions enclosed in a box with new art from TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman. A must-have for all shell-heads!” You said it, dude.
image c. 2019 Mirage
[Live] TeaHC
We discuss possibly being sponsored, followed by the usual off-track news.
Link Roundup:- US Consumer Product Safety tweets about wolves
- Adobe and Twitter are designing a system for permanently attaching artists’ names to pictures
- BuckTownTiger returns to Jeopardy
- The Senate unanimously passes a bill that makes SOME animal cruelty a federal felony
- FurFest “I lost the room lottery” shirts
- Vlogbrothers: This Cat Makes No Sense
- Twitter thread judging every horse emoji
- Netflix says Beastars is coming
- MinuteEarth explains the realism of dragons
- The mayor of Washington DC posing with a drag queen and her pups for Halloween is a huge, huge mood
- Jacksfilms: How to fix your furry profile
- Voxian finishes public VRChat Taur model
- Gilead drama: Who Owns H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs? The Taxpayers, U.S. Says
Ev’rybody’s Busy, Just A Little Dizzy
Got this right from Animation Scoop: “This month marks Disney Television Animation’s 35th Anniversary, the studio that created pop culture phenomena beloved by multiple generations, including, among others: DuckTales, TaleSpin, Recess, Kim Possible, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Phineas and Ferb, and Gravity Falls.” Your ever-lovin’ ed-otter feels the need to make mention of Gargoyles, too! Take a look at the video celebrating the milestone and interviewing several creative folk about what it’s like to work for The Mouse on the small screen.
image c. 2019 Disney Television Animation
Green Eggs & Ham
Green Eggs & Ham is now a series on Netflix ... somehow. We can assume they will pad the story a bit.
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Yoshi Stranding
It's a Yoshi based parody of the new video game Death Stranding [1] and while I've heard good things about that game ... I kinda want to play the Yoshi version now. While not exactly furry here is a Rick and Morty crossover for good measure: https://youtu.be/KXf9O0OWe54 [1] https://youtu.be/tCI396HyhbQ
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Any Port in a Storm…
Another successful Kickstarter project we discovered at a recent comic convention: Franklin and Ghost, a full-color graphic novel series written by Garrett Gunn and illustrated by Nic Touris. Check out the glowing review over at Outright Geekery. And now comes news from the publisher, Source Point Press, that a Franklin and Ghost animated series is in development. So what’s it all about? “‘Franklin and Ghost is a sci-fi adventure story about two trouble-making aliens who escape slavery on their home planet by stealing a space ship and crashing it on Earth,’ says Source Point Press Editor-In-Chief Travis McIntire. ‘They inhabit the closest bodies to the crash site, one being a fox and the other a skull from a cemetery. It’s absolute chaos from there, as they cause all sorts of trouble, landing them on the radar of galactic police forces.'” Got that?
image c. 2019 Source Point Press
Stuffed
A beautiful short about a young cat with anger issues (to a near lovecraftian level) learns to deal with his issues. (I believe the first murder by some stuffing monster is free?) I think there might be a broken aesop [1] somewhere in this. [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenAesop
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Underrated furry news sources
So, you want to know what’s up in furry news. There’s that site from the dog with holographic pants, but it’s blabbing about obscure art movies and being too sexy to handle. There’s that site that smells like carrots, but their comment section is toxic waste. Maybe there’s a more respectable site ready to grow. Hmm… nothing but a merchandising front here, and a spam blog there… why hasn’t this need been solved yet?
Writers have lives, and fandom won’t pay for 1/10th of the cost for ones willing to slave over a hot keyboard all day. Social media can make reach, but has negatives like users who bite the hand that feeds. If you find anything decent, it’s like a gift given despite the costs. You won’t find it for sale in the mainstream.
When it’s a labor of love, think of this oxymoron: “unbiased fandom.” That’s self contradicting, and it’s possible there will never be a news source for furries that isn’t run by some agenda (personal passion is a fine agenda). Don’t hunt for a unicorn, just go find the ones that do it well. There’s stakes too. When “sensational media” is blamed for image problems, the solution is “Be The Media”. That’s how fandom works, so be a fan for the little ones with potential.
1991 (from confurence.com)
InFurNation — https://www.infurnation.com
Weekly posts about books, movies, TV, art, games, and anything creative curated by Rod O’Riley (co-founder of the first fur con). On paper since 1991 and the web since 2009.
Our team of researchers scour the globe looking for new things and events of interest to furry fans. And who’s on that team? Us… and you! If you know about some cool upcoming things that funny animal fanatics might want to see – and buy! – then write to us! Contact our head writer at his e-mail, rodso64@hotmail.com.
Rod, Mark Merlino, and Changa Lion share Southern California’s Skiltaire house. I keep nudging them to consolidate effort because they do so much for too little recognition. Imagine one content stream, backed by a Patreon to sustain all their stuff under one brand:
- The Confurence Archive — artifacts of fandom curated by Changa.
- Skiltaire Party — The twitter presence for their monthly furry house party.
- Furry.Today — Changa’s daily short videos.
- Two Old Furry Fans — Mark and Rod’s blog.
- Ursa Major Awards — The annual best of fandom.
Finding furry info there is like drinking from a firehose. R/furry is sort of a forum just for art, you can barely get to know anyone, and there’s no curation of topics. Imagine the front page of Furaffinity, minus porn which all goes to r/yiff. Then r/furry_IRL is just for memes. That covers most of furry Reddit. But there’s potential in small subreddits. These look good:
- r/WagInHeaven: Stories of the furry community at its best.
- r/Furrydiscuss: News and talk, no art or memes.
It’s hard to call this a source, and beware of falling in past the event horizon. If you wanted to find all the great accounts to follow, it could take forever. (For example: Furries Out of Context, Unintentional Furries.) Try these:
- Furry News Network: Briefly a promising blog, now a Twitter feed worth watching.
- Furry news list: aggregating a few other sources.
In hibernation?
- [adjective][species]: Essays, issues, data.
- Culturally F’d: Not news, but more like documentary/popular education.
- Furrymedia: Livejournal petered out but news aggregation could easily happen on one of those subreddits.
- Furstarter: Furry crowdfunding was well covered there in 2016 and would be great to have as a feature here.
Got any others? Leave a tip. Or start one.
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Honest Trailer: Lion King
Have some honest trailers and speaking as a fan of the Lion King I have to admit about the "Live Action" one .... At least they will leave Lilo and Stitch alone right?
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TigerTails Radio Season 12 Episode 08
Meet Magferret, artist for October’s site banner.
(Patch:) Hi Mag. Very nice art and it’s a pleasure to host it. The site is commissioning regular new banners and featuring the artists, with a goal to give attention to ones outside the US. The last one was Alf Doggo from Chile. Can you give a little intro about yourself, where you live, and where to find you on social media?
Hi! My name is Mag, I’m from England and I draw cartoons and make music! I’m most active on Twitter where I post a bunch of my art!
- https://twitter.com/magferret – Art Twitter
- https://skooshed.bandcamp.com/ – Music (Also on Spotify)
- https://www.skooshed.net/ – Merch Store
Do you mostly do art in furry fandom, or somewhere else like for non furries? Do you do it for a living or just sometimes for money or for fun?
I’ve been taking commissions for over 10 years now, but went full-time with my art around 2 years ago. I’ve done some art for indie game projects, but the majority of my art is commissioned from within from the fandom which has honestly been such a pleasure! The fandom has some of the kindest, most supportive people ever and I’m really lucky to have such an amazing community of followers to interact with, I’m nothing without those guys!
Can you say more about your art? I notice it all looks SFW and wholesome, and it’s multi talented even involving music. For the art you did for the site, my favorite part is the zombie possum, who might just be playing dead because that’s what possums do. And why are you so good at toony ferrets?
I mostly draw toony animals, the cuter and squisher the better! As for being good at drawing toony ferrets, I think that just comes with how long I’ve been drawing for! I started drawing back in 2003 roughly, mostly drawing video game characters I liked. I wasn’t very good at it, but I enjoyed drawing and kept at it. I started taking my art more seriously in 2007 and began posting my stuff online / drawing a lot more. It’s surprising how quickly you can improve at something if you really dedicate yourself to it!
I also make music under the name Skooshed. I released an album called “Anxious Dreamer” earlier this year. It’s a personal, downtempo / chill album. You can find it on Spotify or Bandcamp (https://skooshed.bandcamp.com/).
How did you find furry, and what’s the fandom like where you live? Do you spend time with other furries in real life?
I don’t really remember the exact moment I found the fandom. I’ve always been into toons since I was super young and spent pretty much all my free time watching Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, so naturally when I got on the internet I made friends with a few people on forums who were into toons and it kinda went from there.
There’s quite a few furries in the UK and I attend a bunch of cons around Europe too. I’ll have a table at Confuzzled in May 2020, so if you’re there, come say hi!
Do you have any favorite furry characters, whether in game or movies or tv — or favorite artists people should check out?
Oh man, I have way too many fav characters to list! Bonkers and Sylvester are a few of my favs. As for artists you should check out, go follow @gatorblits on Twitter – their stuff is always amazing!
Do you have one more favorite piece of art you drew that you want shared?
I’ve been playing the Links Awakening remake recently, so here some art of Mag dressed as Link!
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