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Today we have the honor of hosting our returning guest Tonya Song, as well as fellow Native American Shooky Luka. We talk about native rights, indigenous music and representation in art. Follow them on Twitter! Shooky Luka: https://twitter.com/BangtanPebbles Tonya Song: https://twitter.com/Tonya_Song 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/

At WonderCon we came across an artist known as Jo2, who creates art under the name Artistic Flavorz. As you can see from their web site, they specialize in especially cute, chibi versions of characters from many places — but with a particular affinity for Disney and Harry Potter. Visit them to see what they offer in greeting cards, stickers, and especially enamel pins.

image c. 2019 by Artistic Flavorz

You really do have to be careful in art galleries around the Mona Lisa....    
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Sports! How do you have competitve sports with participants of wildly varying sizes. Wht if size-shifting was an aspect of the game? Side tangents onto the Presidential Physical Fitness award, listener responses to our last episodes and more. Episode 23: "Sports Sports Sports Sports" (2019-05-06)

Perhaps the most famous “fur-suiter” on the planet has left us. Peter Mayhew, best known as the human inside the massive “walking carpet” Chewbacca in the Star Wars series of films, passed away on April 30th at the age of 74. Interestingly, before Mr. Mayhew came to the attention of director George Lucas he appeared as another anthropomorphic character: The minotaur in 1976’s Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca the 200-year-old wookie from the first Star Wars film in 1977 (Episode 4, aka A New Hope) until 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when he passed on the role to former basketball player Joonas Suatamo. But Peter Mayhew will always be known as the warbling roar that announced Star Wars to the world.

image c. 2019 The Verge

Did you know there currently more than one Dinosaur based heavy metal bands? Due to lawyers and record labels there is now also Sauruxet: "In the beginning of 2011 Mirka Rantanen [1], the drummer and one of the founding members, drifted into a dispute between their record label Sony Music Entertainment [2] about the copyrights and trademarks of the characters. As a result, Rantanen formed a competing band called “Sauruxet”, with the people who played in the Hevisaurus live set-up. The court ordered “Sauruxet” to pay the record label €100,000 and legal fees. Legal documents stated that the rights for the characters always belonged to Sony Music Entertainment." "Heavysaurus [3]teamed up with the wonderful Doro Pesch [4] and rock out with a new video for "The Last Mammoth"." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirka_Rantanen [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Music_Entertainment [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hevisaurus [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doro_(musician)
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A small indie game maker (Little Red Dog) [1] has made a semi-furry Atomic Age Brinkmanship game. This brings me back to the old Commodore Amiga game Nuclear War [2]. https://store.steampowered.com/app/951670/Precipice/ [3] Gotta give them props for attempting a silly low budget trailer like this. [1] https://www.littlereddoggames.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game) [3] https://store.steampowered.com/app/951670/Precipice/
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Tonight we chat to Stephen Coghlan, author of the GENMOS series. We talk about the authoring process and dad duty. Find Stephen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WordsBySC 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/

Is this birb? Ok, I do love the style and the birds are simple and cute in an abstract way.
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There are many artists out there who offer up specialty high-class pet portraits, whether in paintings or photography. We’ve featured some of them here before. But now we’ve come across a different sort of pet portrait, thanks to an artist named Cassandra Nuss. She takes pictures of your beloved dogs, cats, or birds, and converts them into painted portraits in the style of classic painters like Rembrandt. Take a look at her Etsy store and see what she’s done so far.

image c. 2019 by Cassandra Nuss

Hit the decks! Another outsider look at the fandom! (Thankfully this sort of stuff isn't as bad as it used to be) Also the mention of getting creeped out by the eyes that is a touch of this phobia: Maskaphobia or the Fear of Masks [1] "Inside the Furry Fandom, where fursuiting is all about community, not fetish." [1] https://www.verywellmind.com/maskaphobia-or-fear-of-masks-2671868
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Dammit! My cat can't play piano the lazy thing! Still this one is a real pizzicato pussycat ....
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At the local Family Pet Expo recently, we stumbled across a company called Puglie. No prizes for guessing, they specialize in lots of cool knick-knacks specifically themed around everyone’s favorite little flat-faced dog breed. Over at their web page (on a site called For Fans By Fans) you’ll see examples of their t-shirts, wallets, mugs, and lots and lots of pillows.

image c. 2019 Puglie

Rex talks can be a bit pretentious at times but really this has been an amazing advancment in the study of humans.    I just have to admit that my favorite humans films are a bit inaccurate. ....I've got to give props to Anya Redkina the animator at  Sheridan College Animation [1] with this her 2019 grad film and I hope to see more at some point.    You can find more of her art here: https://www.artstation.com/anyaredkina [2]   [1] https://academics.sheridancollege.ca/programs/bachelor-of-animation [2] https://www.artstation.com/anyaredkina
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Coming soon to Xbox near you is an honest to god Blacksad [1]game. If you are not aware, Blacksad is a furry French noir detective series of graphic novel books that are very adult and very furry.  This is also coming out for Playstation 4 and Steam later in the year.   https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003890/Blacksad__Under_the_Skin/ [2] "A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksad [2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003890/Blacksad__Under_the_Skin/
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Yes, he's furry, black and very gay and going to kick your ass. Are we mainstream now? "HoneyBee takes on SonicFox in Mortal Kombat 11 in this high level pro grudge match at the IGN Esports Showdown!"
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Back from BABS-Con in Northern California, and of course we have lots to talk about. But first — we’re still working our way through WonderCon! There we met Kristian Horn, the creator, writer, and artist behind Periwinkle Puss — an on-line funny animal superhero comic. “The Periwinkle Puss is the principled purveyor of justice in his metropolis. With powerful pride he protects the poor and downtrodden from the parade of criminals that attempt to paint his city with their deeds of paltry nefariousness!” Kristian put out a full-color mini-comic at the convention to guide kitty and superhero fans to his web site. Worked here!

image c. 2019 by Kristian Horn