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I cannot believe this is a thing...

According to TechCrunch:

While the origins are murky, the holiday seems to have started around 1992 when two techies spotted a weasel carrying a wrapped Kraft Single. This, they assumed, must be the Cheese Weasel, and therefore, that it must be Cheese Weasel Day. After all, what else would a weasel be doing with cheese if he weren’t headed to your local data center to leave the sweet, yellow goodness on your favorite techie’s desk?

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Makers of cute toonish fursuits based in Florida. The site also offers advice on maintaining your fursuit.

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We are a combined custom fursuit/mascot business in Orlando, Florida! We make all sorts of things including: fursuits and mascots, dolls, props, bandannas and more!

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Suitable for all ages. This site has no offensive content.

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Come join me! Taking (SFW) art requests and/or doing some game streaming! https://furstre.am/stream/Fooji-Draws

EDIT: Stream over. Thanks, guys! It was fun!

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I'm a yarn tail maker and have been making them for just shy of a year now. Along with making them I have a bunch of other things to do including going to college, seeing my boyfriend, tending to my animals, drawing and whatever else pops up. I enjoy everything I do and was wondering if anyone had any ideas or tips on making yarn tails and how to make it less time consuming but still the same quality? Thanks furs ^^

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I remember enjoying the animated series and passionately reading one particular story about the adventures of Moominpappa. Never before have I known much about the author behind these wonderful characters, so this article is a great introduction.

The final passage of Mark Bosworth’s piece is an observation by the British film director Frank Boyce which neatly sums up the spirit of the Moomins:

"They are just fantastically enriching books. One of the things I really took from them was the importance of small pleasures, that life is really worth living if we're just nice to each other and make really good coffee, and the pancakes are just right - then nothing else really matters in any substantial way.

These days I know Moomins are in fact Finnish troll creatures with large snouts, but I will always think of them as adorable hippos.

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BLFC 2014 (Episode: 69)
Bandit is back at BLFC for another adventure, this time it's through a revamp of the '80s! THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING!!! FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/TheRac... From: TheRaccoonsDen Views: 856 58 ratings Time: 14:01 More in Entertainment

Just wanted to say i see why the fandom drinks. A person saw my tail and just started to cal me a animal fucker. Confucius say " one bottle of wine equals happy two bottle now your good" xD

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What makes someone want be a furry? Now, I'm sure this topic has come up before, but I'm hoping to approach it a a slightly different angle. Do you guys think that some people are more prone to become interested in the furry fandom? Perhaps even a genetic or very early developmental cause that leads to, for lack a better term, "furry tendencies"?

Personally, I cannot even remember when I began being interested in "furry" things. It was long before I knew a furry fandom even existed. From a young age, I preferred movies and TV shows with anthro characters. And if a video game gave me the option, I would always play as an anthro or animalistic character. When I got a bit older, maybe 10 or 11, I began self identifying as a wolf. Furry felt like an important part of who i was and am now, long before I knew there was a name for it.

So, I want know what you guys think. What makes someone a furry? Did you do "furry" stuff before you knew there was a fandom, and if so, what did you do? Do you think someone can choose to be a furry or is it a part of who they are?

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Here is an article, dated April 3, in The Muse, a student newspaper in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada:

http://themuse.ca/2014/04/03/investigating-the-oft-misunderstood-furry-fandom/

The article looks at the furry activities on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, and features an interview with local furry Will "Chu Ward" Marshall.


Investigating the oft-misunderstood furry fandom
By Laura Howells

Furry: for some people, the term may be foreign. For others, it may conjure up a range of connotations, from the positive to the downright disturbing. In recent weeks, furry fandom has been a topic of discussion for MUN students, as posters calling for the convergence of furries in the university have been plastered around campus.

The posters are the work of MUN student and furry, Will Marshall, who also goes by the furry name, Chu Ward. Ward sat down with the Muse to discuss what being a furry means, the misconceptions surrounding the fandom, and the furry community in St. John’s.

At its core, the furry fandom consists of people who are interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters. According to Ward, there is no specific way to be a furry; people express their furry identity in a wire range of ways.

For some people, being a furry means dressing up in an animal costume, known as a “fur suit,” and role playing or attending public furry events. Many “fur suiters” handcraft their suit, while others spend anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand dollars having a suit custom-made. However, donning a fur suit is hardly something such furries do everyday.

“As any fur suiter will tell you, it’s actually very physically exhausting to wear one of those things because it doesn’t breathe at all and you’re in there sweating all day. It’s something that they plan in advance,” said Ward. “It’s usually in a very social context. It’s not just something they wear around the house whenever they feel like it.”

Ward says that for fur suiters, dressing up as an animal is a way to let loose and express themselves freely.

“It’s kind of like the anonymity of the internet. You’re behind a mask,” said Ward. “When people see you out in public they see a character, they don’t see you. So you can act how you would want to have your character act, instead of you just being in plain clothes like me, barking. In fur suits it’s more a performance than just a weird way of behaving.”

However, the majority of furries are not fur suiters. Many furries enjoy role-playing as an animal online, while other furries simply like to draw human-like animals or animals shaped like humans. For Ward, being a furry means role-playing online and looking at anthropomorphic art.

Ward says one of the biggest misconceptions people have about furries is that they are simply people who like to ‘dress up in an animal costume and have sex.’

“I’m not going to lie and say there isn’t sexuality in the fandom, but there’s sexuality in every single fandom out there because we’re human beings,” said Ward. “But it’s not what we’re about.” He adds that most of the hatred surrounding furries is based on ignorance and insecurity.

Just as there is a variety of ways one can be a furry, the level of connectivity people feel with their furry-identity also varies.

“Some people genuinely feel like maybe they were a mouse in a past life,” said Ward, explaining that some equate their furry identity to a form of shamanism. “Other people are just like no, it’s just a character I play as on the Internet.”

Ward says that for most people, being a furry does not mean feeling their expressed human identity is incongruous with their actual identity.

“The majority of the furries I talk to, if I were to ask them, hey are you really a wolf? They would say, uh no. There’s often a very large disconnect between what people do in the context of being a furry and how they actually feel about themselves as a person.”

When furries are figuring out what animal they should be, Ward says many are influenced by cartoons or anime they enjoyed as children; Ward’s furry animal, for example, is a Pikachu.

“There are lots of dragons, dragons is a big one. It doesn’t have to be anything real. Trying to role-play as a furry you have to presuppose some level of non-reality.”

When Ward was realizing he was a furry at age 14, he felt extremely alone, figuring he was just the “one weirdo in Newfoundland.” Through the posters he is putting up around campus, he hopes to connect similarly thinking furries to the broader Newfoundland furry community.

“With all the stigma that you get on the Internet you’re convinced that there’s something wrong with you. Finding other people, tangible people, not just on the other side of the screen, but people that relate to you and have likely felt the exact same experiences you have, really feels good.”

The furry community in Newfoundland currently consists of around 50 active members and is always looking to expand. Furries sometimes gather for picnics in the park, participate in social events like bowling, or meet up at conferences like Sci-Fi on the Rock. Ward enjoys the open-mindedness of the furry community and the sense of belonging it fosters. He says that although his posters have only received a dozen serious responses so far, no one who contacted him had any idea there was a furry community in St. John’s.

“I’m convinced that if I keep at it, there’s going to be more furries out there that will know they’ve got a group of people who feel the same way as they do and they can feel welcome in that community.”

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Comic series about a lawyer who is also a tiger. The interesting aspect is changing genres and art styles between each story.

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He's a tiger... he's a lawyer. He's Tiger Lawyer! The titular legal practitioner brings his own brand of justice to the courtroom and the concrete jungle. Each issue of Tiger Lawyer features two original stories, each in their own genre and presented by different art teams.

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This site contains slightly offensive material.  Chance of mild swearing and mildly disturbing imagery.

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