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From The Outside to the Centaur
Ow… Hey! It’s crazy-hot out. But we’re back with more anthropomorphic news. We got this from Animation Scoop: “Netflix will transport viewers around the world to a colorful and imaginative land where fantastical creatures sing and adventure surrounds you – welcome to Centaurworld. The new kids animated series hails from first-time showrunner Megan Nicole Dong, a 2017 honoree of Variety’s “10 Animators to Watch” list… Centaurworld follows a war horse who is transported from her embattled world to a strange land inhabited by silly, singing centaurs of all species, shapes, and sizes. Desperate to return home, she befriends a group of these magical creatures and embarks on a journey that will test her more than any battle she’s ever faced before… The series will feature a mix of animation styles and each episode will include original songs in a variety of genres.” No word yet on a premier date, but it’s Netflix — they will let us know!
Supporting my Local Furry Con
GFTV releases 2 new channels
Today, the GFTV has released 2 new channels as a rebrand for our existing international and Mainland Chinese channel. With that, meet our channels, Ch. 1 (International) and Ch. 2 (China)! With this new release, all of our English programmes will go under Ch. 1, whereas our Chinese programmes would go under Ch. 2. Bilingual […]
[Live] Tailnadoes
A smol roundup followed by casual convo.
Link Roundup:- Anthro NE will get a new charity
- Furries Are Arguing About Whether They Should Support Police Dog Charities
- Tails and Tornadoes Fur Con raises $7000 for wildlife rescue
- Casual Mention of Furries
- How to stop DHGate
- VancouFur opens rooms tomorrow
- CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report Shows
- BBF’s Anthrocon Preview
- Cops shut down massive 3,000-person game of hide-and-seek at Ikea
- ‘Storm Area 51’ Founder Pulls Out Of ‘Alien Stock,’ Fears Another Fyre Festival
The Ultimate ”Bambi” Recap
Seems accurate, If you have not seen his lion king recap here is that as well: https://youtu.be/Bge_9DsoMWI
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Trailer: You Son of a Bitch!
Check out the trailer for this adult animated furry rom-com from Philippines-based studio Rocketsheep that's getting a release in 2020. Now I realize the world needs more furry adult romantic-comedies. You can see more on their Facebook page Nimfa Dimaano [1]. [1] https://www.facebook.com/MissNimfa
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Meet Alf Doggo, Chilean furry artist for the new site banner.
If you like this interview, read The Diversity of the Latin American Furry Fandom – by Rama and Patch. Thanks to a special Cat for translating from Spanish.
(Patch:) Hi Alf! Very nice art, drawing backgrounds can be hard work besides the characters. The site is commissioning regular new banners and featuring the artists, with interest in lesser-known artists in the world outside of American fandom. The last one featured was Meru Tenshi from the Phillipines. Can you tell me about where you live, and say a little more about yourself?
I’m from Chile, from the city Iquique. I spent part of my childhood in ‘Lana’, a small town in the interior of Combarbalá, Ovalle. That’s where my grandma lives, she’s a farmer. (She has no livestock, only agriculture.)
Do you mostly do art in furry fandom, or somewhere else like for studying at school or publishing for non furries?
I have always spent my time drawing whatever I like. It’s like phases. I started in a church, and I did oil and acrylic, it was pretty realistic. After that I turned into an Otaku, drawing a lot of anime. Now I’m only furry, and for my career I only do architectural drawing.
Want to share your links on social media?
I’m not very active in my social networks, because of school, but here they are.
How did you find furry, and what’s the fandom like where you live?
I found the fandom with one friend from University, while we talk about crazy things. She told me about this group and I got very curious. In August 2017 I got into the fandom.
It was interesting to hear about your family and grandma, it makes me wonder, is it unusual to be an artist in your family or where you grew up?
No. In my grandma’s house we didn’t have too many things to do, there wasn’t electricity. Besides playing outside, there wasn’t much to do. We spent the time drawing, or playing with mud, or learning to play a musical instrument. I got involved in drawing. Never managed to get the musical ear from my mother. My sister did, she played the whole day. Meanwhile, I drew the whole day.
My grandmother is dedicated to agricultural work, mainly to Peach Huesillo. But she also has fig trees, parronales* and much more… I drew under the trees and watched the animals pass, mainly the dogs and grazing goats.
When I wasn’t drawing, I would go to a river nearby. I built wired things… it was my imagination going crazy. I built my own version of a futbol (soccer) table. And built time machines… I even saddled and mounted a sheep. I was only calm when drawing.
All my family does art in many ways, starting from musicians to sculptors, painters, bakers, etc. My generation was not so good, but still keeps the love for the art.
And just to be clear, right now my grandma has electricity and there is even open television. It’s a rural place and the technology comes slowly.
*[I had to look up Parronales… it’s large scale grape farming, with labor that can be split by gender in Chile. – Patch]
Do you spend time with other furries in Chile, and what do you do? Or is it mostly on the internet?
Mainly on the internet. I don’t know other furs in Iquique, my city.
Do you have any favorite furry characters, whether in game or movies or tv — or ones made up by you or artists you like?
Balto!
Can you compare the fandom in North America to the part where you are? Do you hear about it a lot, or do you mostly talk about happenings closer to home?
I have no point of measurement about how the fandom is in US. Only things that I’ve seen of Mexico on the internet. From South America? Nothing… In Iquique there are no furry events, not even another furry from my same city.
The art you did for the site is super cute. Is there one thing you could say about it, like what you used for reference, or what style you used?
For the buildings in the drawing I just used to two vanishing points. I used simple elements, no references. I think I just used my head and anything that came out from my memory. For the bus I checked internet pictures. I used pictures for you sent by Mr. Cat. For the rest of the characters, I was asked to not use ‘known’ furs, so I invented all of them generic (a cat with stripes, a fox, a couple of bunnies, a panda, a black cat, a wolf, a pig, etc.)
Do you have any favorite art you drew that you want shared?
This commission is very important for me. It was requested from a Mexican artist called ‘Paco Panda‘. I did it with a simple mouse (I didn’t have a digitizing tablet at that time) and I opened commissions to buy one. But drawing with a mouse was painful (like a real physical pain) and I was going to decline. But Paco paid me for this drawing and give me a huge tip, that was a boost to buy the tablet that I have now. I’m very grateful to him.
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A chat with Brazil FurFest
When I initially contacted BFF to ask about their recent sponsorship agreement I thought that was it. Then my fellow US colleague Rosca Santigria sent 3 questions: What is your response/feelings about the Brazil Amazon Rainforest fire? There is a lot of public outrage about it in Mexico, USA, and Canada. Are there any efforts […]
The “New Paws” Hoax: How alt-right trolls piled on a disabled man to boost their failing careers.
4chan started a conspiracy theory that PretzelCollie used dry ice on his hands because he wanted them to be amputated and replaced with paws.
Hands-down one of the most depraved harassment campaigns I've ever seen. And it's of course blatantly untrue too. https://t.co/rC2pzgITL1
— Mythic (@MythicalRedFox) August 31, 2019
A shocking accident.
In 2015 I met a furry who joined furmeets I organize in Northern California. He’s bright, enthusiastic and fun to host. It was a shock when he posted on Facebook about suffering an accident. There were graphic medical photos of extreme frostbite caused by dry ice.
Welp, I’m in the hospital with a life changing situation. It was my own damn fault. Been pushing myself so hard for so long, sleep deprived, pushing myself with arthritis in my wrists. Basically I fell asleep while icing my wrists last night. Woke up 6 hours later, hands were frozen. Went to the hospital, they care flighted me to a burn center in California. It was too late, damage had been done, it’s resulting in a bilateral hand amputation so things are about to get very interesting in my life. I’m doing ok, remaining optimistic. Honestly I’m anxious to get it over with and move on with my life.
To help with costs of hand amputations, one of his co-workers started a crowdfund. I shared it on Twitter, and added a light-hearted comment about helping him to get “new paws” with an article I wrote 6 years ago: Scaly, feathery alternative limbs leap the uncanny valley into the future of prosthetic design (2013). It was about improving the lives of amputees. Instead of hiding prosthetics, they can be featured, like transforming scars with cool tattoos.
I commented about “new paws” before I saw anyone else say it. The crowdfund was his co-workers idea. Those ideas didn’t come from him.
Cooking up a fake attack.
Soon a rumor began spreading on social media. He was accused of causing the amputations on purpose for a fetish. There are cases of people doing self-harm with “body mods” or BIID (Body Integrity Identity Disorder), so the idea has non-zero plausibility. It’s a dysmorphia issue like anorexia. On rare occasions it crosses with furries. Examples range from Stalking Cat in the 1980’s, to the 2018 “Noodles and Beef” story that was on the cover of The Stranger in Seattle. (The writer consulted me for his story based on my tweets about it.)
The situation was concerning. Did I help to spread false money appeals to the public, or contribute to the risk of media glorifying self-harm? Even if it was very unlikely and it was spread from dubious places, the risk was worth taking seriously just in case. I looked in with an open mind about issues I already cover, so this can’t be accused of bias. I checked both sides, but only one was real. Not everything has sides.
Meanwhile the target spent energy to answer trolls while he couldn’t even easily type. With a stylus in his mouth (or speech-to-text), and nothing to hide, he challenged them to show evidence. They had nothing to show but posts unrelated to him, and fake screenshots with no source.
He explained that he worked with dry ice, and used it after a busy day because he didn’t have regular ice packs ready at the moment. It would have a powerful effect. He’d been overworked, and slept through the harm. (I use melatonin or a weed gummy to pass out sometimes).
He’d never posted anything about intentional amputation — that would be a drastic result of long-term obsession, not a sudden impulse. He did have a history of pain management and motorcycle accidents.
This was a sadistic hoax to torment an innocent guy in a time of need. And the hoaxers didn’t even know that they were piling on someone who was hurt for more than medical reasons. The next part could bring more harassment, but I think it’s important to reveal how they’re even more malicious than they look (and help you decide what responses to give their agenda.)
Pouring salt on the wound.
The victim wasn’t out as gay, and that made a problem about getting home care. He wrote on Facebook:
You know what sucks the most about this situation I’m in? The fact I can’t tell my family. Sure they will find out eventually, but I have to stall that as long as possible. I cant rely on my own parents for support through something like this like I can all the rest of you.
Then a visit from a parent outed his relationship with a partner who was caring for him. Coming out as gay led to losing a parent (at least for the time being.) It’s more evidence that there’s no intentional self-harm here. After the sudden disability, and losing a parent, he told his friends:
Reading the responses and messages just makes me smile and give me that fuel I need to keep pushing on… You all truly are family to me.
I felt bad about unintentionally feeding the hoax with my prosthetics article. There were a few hundred retweets on my posts. I deleted them, and he posted about a break from social media to let the hoax wither away.
For those of you who follow me on Twitter, I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding this last tweet I made. As many of you are well aware, my situation got a lot of attention and the internet trolls latched onto it and took off with it. I was so relieved to see the majority of furs arent buying into their bullshit. Honestly I’ve got bigger problems to worry about than what some pathetic basement dwelling teenagers want to speculate, but it was really starting to get out of control. Everything I said and did was being used against me, I just got tired of it. I deleted all of my furry content because people were taking my past posts and manipulating them, in addition to straight up photoshopping fake posts. It was getting bad. I figured the best thing for me to do was to take a break from Twitter altogether.
Selfish trolls grabbed attention by kicking an easy target while he was down. But it wasn’t just simple clout-chasing.
A scapegoat for a hate agenda.
The rumors were spread by washed-up pseudo-celebrities tied to hate groups and “Gamergate”, the conspiracy theory/harassment campaign. Their following has nothing to do with furry fandom and only targets it for views. These are grifters who bounce from target to target sourced from chanboards and troll sites, to capitalize on their most gullible followers. (I won’t make that easier by linking their accounts.) These are frontline trolls with 5-figure followings (and not the helpful Frontline that gets rid of fleas.)
(Last screen) Milo’s channel
A machine greased with hate to strip-mine the truth.
This hoax is just one example of gaming the algorithms of platforms. Faking a controversy has a goal to move merchandise, subscribers, and donors, at the expense of a newly disabled man in a time of suffering. They’ll say or do anything for clout. You can tell they’re lying if their lips are moving.
The last screen above comes from a familiar face. Milo is the Gamergate grifter who built a following by:
- Mocking gamers as “unemployed saddos.“
- Getting paid by propaganda outlet Breitbart to turn them into a troll mob, and “red-pilling” them as tools for neo-nazis of the alt-right.
- Getting fired by Breitbart for praising pedophilia, going bankrupt and being deplatformed by Twitter for hate attacks.
- Recently trying to mobilize hate groups behind a so-called “straight pride parade.”
When he isn’t spreading transphobia, he’s teasing views at the expense of furries, like the other trolls shown above. It isn’t coincidental, it’s coordinated. Like when an admin of The Daily Stormer (the neo-nazi blog) tried to get “altfurries” out to neo-nazi events coordinated with trolling on their blog. Milo even did get help from a few furries. Dreamkeepers artist David Lillie drew a fursona for him (that he’s been sharing lately) and boosts the “Comicsgate” troll campaign. If you like furry fandom, these trolls inside will use your tolerance to ruin it for you. But you don’t have to let them.
Throwing a wrench in the gears.
This was written with permission to help the victim. But there’s a bigger point to a story of how simple trolling isn’t so simple. They can target me about it to grab their clout, but I personally don’t give a shit about them (or any breed of clout-chaser) because it’s not about me. It’s about what you can do.
Outside of fandom, these trolls are more and more desperate. Their games stopped working thanks to platforms cutting them off from abusing their service.
Deplatformed alt-right personalities Milo, Jacob Wohl, and Based Dragon are all having a collective meltdown together about how their Telegram audiences have stalled at extremely low numbers right now and it's glorious.
Sweet, sweet nazi tears. pic.twitter.com/9GlXcrKqg0
— Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyderPHL) September 8, 2019
Milo Yiannopoulos says he is broke. The disgraced right-wing troll is complaining that the major social media companies have effectively cut off his alt-right audience and crushed his ability to make a decent living.#thoughtsandprayers https://t.co/e2JFcbH8cB
— Stone (@stonecold2050) September 9, 2019
Alt-right furries had the same fate after Furaffinity kicked out a few and the fandom showed the door to the rest. Altfurries have no real presence except for being corralled in little hate groups on Telegram where they just wither away now. https://t.co/gP9fqwjXpe https://t.co/MrgPX8Dzxy
— Dogpatch Press (@DogpatchPress) September 9, 2019
Deplatforming WORKS! No person nor platform is obligated to provide a soap-box for these hatemongers. Sure, sunlighting is important, but both sunlighting and deplatforming are valid and complementary strategies to protect communities from alt-right recruitment tactics. https://t.co/aYCu57aQ3W
— Echoen (@echoenbatbat) September 9, 2019
The hoax about “a furry amputated his hands to get new paws” comes from termites eating away at what makes furry fandom special. It’s a place where a newly disabled LGBT man finds support he needs. Spreading this kind of bullshit hurts the weakest people who need help the most. If you see anyone jump on board with it, abate the misinformation. And if they keep doing it, block them, kick them out of your groups, and cut off their funding, because hate doesn’t belong here. Don’t let them in until they stop making scapegoats out of people who truly deserve support. It’s like a little treatment of the Frontline we need.
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In Flux, ed. Rechan
I Love You Mao Mao
Here is the first episode for Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart in case you have not seen any of this yet. Also a female Tanuki bounty hunter shows up much later and is rather awesome. https://youtu.be/VC_-ZNE5X-U
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Nexus Nine, by Mary E. Lowd
TigerTails Radio Season 12 Episode 00
Furries: The Movie [8 Sept 2019] - South Afrifur Pawdcast
Today we have the honor of bringing you an interview with Lucas and Tetris, two individuals who are part of the cast and crew of Furries: The Movie, an 80's style horror movie comedy set at a furry convention! If you would like to find out more about the movie, or help fund the production, click here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/furries-the-movie--2#/faq Find us on Twitter: @South-Afrifur, https://twitter.com/southafrifur, on Tumblr, http://south-afrifur.tumblr.com/, and on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/southafrifur Also, for more local news, check out the Zafur forums! http://forum.zafur.co.za/
Animal Farm: a furry fetish party at the Citadel in San Francisco, Sept 14.
At Animal Farm, all animals party… but some animals party more than others.
Furries have conventions, bowling meets, and dance parties, but until 2014 there were few or no openly advertised, public-access furry fetish parties in the world. Then San Francisco got Wild Things at The Citadel. The BDSM club wanted to host something different and got me involved. (Apparently I look like a helpful dog who likes helping every species to express themselves and get their kink on, with support and safety about consent. Also, I got to do weird fun promotion like joking about a Human Sized Cat Box and making a cat box cake to share in the lounge.)
Wild Things had 4 parties with lots of praise from its diverse, young, LGBT-friendly goers from ages 18+. Then the organizers let it go into hibernation. Until now. If you want to enjoy this stuff, try it here on a set schedule through 2020, because sex is healthy and fun and furries are cute and cuddly.
Come get it:
- Not just teasing like other furry parties… all the sex, and nobody will turn the hose on you for being naughty!
- Get some in the well-equipped dungeon full of gear and toys. Get a vet exam, or be fun and frolicsome. Prance, pose, participate… or get dragged into the fray by your collar! Try a glory hole, get tied up and spanked, do it with a friend, do it with lots of friends, or do it solo while they watch.
- Safety supplies provided (house rules discourage going raw dog unless with your SO.) Sorry, no watersports, save it up for after the party.
- Nervous or shy? Don’t fear, enjoy the lounge where no sex is allowed. Just chill out and talk to new friends, with a kitchen full of snacks.
- Enjoy a secluded cuddle zone with a fun, plush sexy environment, and dancing on the light-up disco floor with DJ Nightkat. (BLFC, Furcon, Frolic.)
- There’s lockers for your gear if you will change. (They’re not big enough for your gimp/pet person, but there are kennels.)
- Got a murrsuit? Bring it, and don’t even try to hide that SPH. Pup gear, leather, and any animal costuming goes, with a headless lounge for safe changing.
- Not sure about coming? Any way I can convince you? How about a free show? Ask to see my dog bone and I’ll give you an eyeful for a party favor.
Get involved, find friends, and please volunteer.
Volunteers are needed for setup, cleanup, and kitchen. Cashier or DM wanted if you have Citadel training.
Got any demos you’d like to run? How about games or a pet auction? Get in touch. It can have volunteers write down pet tricks they will do, and have a pet show where we spin the bottle to find who chooses, with a winner picked by who gets the most barking. And if you don’t do a trick you can do truth or dare.
I dare you to come to the Animal Farm.
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[Live] Goo It Yourself
We somehow packed six people onto the show this week.
Link Roundup:- Night In The Woods developer passes away
- Telegram Update: Scheduled Messages
- Kerfluffle Airline Video
- First look at Netflix’s Centaurworld
- Gay Conversion Therapist Comes Out As Gay
- Anthro New England announcement about MA Vest-A-Dog
- Lana Del Rey Comes Out Against Furries: ‘I’m Not A Furry, You Guys Are Gross’
- New Wolfgun Album
- Familiar Travels game on Steam
- New Zealand’s Bull Town Is Unbullievably Full Of Bull Puns
- Bricks of cocaine wash ashore in Florida after Hurricane Dorian
- Florida Man Breaks into House Make Breakfast
- Squirrels Use Birds to Signal When it is Safe
- World’s Chillest Man
- Amazing Rollercoaster Save
- C1PH3R TH3 PR0T0G3N – C1PH3R TH3 PR0T0G3N
- Rose – “Hospitalized Reno furry needs help paying medical bills”
- Balin – Familiar Travels – Heya!
FSMX2 Trailer
Did you know there was Furry meetup at Siguniang Mountain in the Xiaojinxian in the Sichuan Province, China? How amazingly cool is that? Check out the trailer for the Four Sisters Mountain Furry Summer Meeting for 2019 [1]. I just love seeing furry stuff like this in places I never expected to see furry go. [1] http://www.mouffy.com:888/
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