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Ep 80 – The Value of Furry Lit - Let’s talk about the value of Furry Literature. Does it have value? Do people appreciate it like other works? What can you do to add value to your work? The cast explores what it means to value your work and what’s needed
Let’s talk about the value of Furry Literature. Does it have value? Do people appreciate it like other works? What can you do to add value to your work? The cast explores what it means to value your work and what’s needed to set expectations.
Ep 80 – The Value of Furry Lit - Let’s talk about the value of Furry Literature. Does it have value? Do people appreciate it like other works? What can you do to add value to your work? The cast explores what it means to value your work and what’s needed to set expectations.Episode 20: "And we're back!" (2019-03-25)
But the Little Dolls Understand
Somehow we missed this last year: Plush, a new full-color comic miniseries from Antarctic Press, written and illustrated by Holly Daughtrey. “Carrie, a crafty plushie maker and artist has lost a great deal in her life, but she’s coping with the help of her late mother’s gift: A special cat plush that suddenly comes to life one night to help. Yet not everything seems right. Is this truly magic? Or is it all in her head?” Check out the preview pages over at Antarctic.
image c. 2019 Antarctic Press
Overture. Hit the Lights.
So Animation World Network recently brought us a big announcement from the folks at Warner Brothers. Here’s the highlights: “Bugs Bunny! Daffy Duck! The Looney Tunes are back! The classic Warner Bros. Animation characters return in Looney Tunes Cartoons, a series of new shortform cartoons debuting at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which runs this year June 10-15. The next chapter of the iconic Looney Tunes story, featuring a cartoonist-driven approach to storytelling, will have its world debut on Monday, June 10, as part of the Opening Ceremony festivities, with Looney Tunes Cartoons shorts playing in front of the previously announced opening film, Playmobil: The Movie… Looney Tunes Cartoons is a series of new short form cartoons starring the iconic and beloved Looney Tunes characters. With a crew of some of the premiere artists working in animation today, each ‘season’ will produce 1,000 minutes of all-new Looney Tunes animation that will be distributed across multiple platforms — including digital, mobile and broadcast.” We’ll see how things work out this time. We know from several recent attempts at “new” Looney Tunes that the old Warner Brothers magic is hard to recreate — especially the timing. Stay tooned.
image c. 2019 Warner Brothers
[Live] Bottomant
We chat about our awesome Furnal Equinox experience, then catch up on news.
Link Roundup:- VICE: The Emerging Fetish of Laying Alien Eggs Inside Yourself
- SyFy: “Meet the most famous furry in the world”
- Gray Muzzle Geekery Podcast
- This Is What Cars Built for Centaurs Would Be Like
- Tumblr suffers 150 million drop in traffic after porn ban
- BBC: Teen ‘Furries’ on what their costumes mean to them
- Tanglewood Game
- TwoFurryBros music video from NFC: Furries – The Song
- Not just a costume: A look at Regina’s furry community
- #FE2Me Highlight Reel Contest
- BBC article on Customer Service Wolf: How a bookshop wolf handles awkward customers
- Furry Film Festival now open for submissions
- The Fandom – EP1 Introduction
- Dogbomb Celebrating ALS Fundraising & Achieving Bucket List
Chemical Brothers: We’ve Got To Try
Episode 58 - And sharking it to the right
Episode 57 - Sharking it to the left
Episode 56 - Sharking it on down
Episode 55 - Sharking it on up
Madagascar The Musical
So, there is a stage musical version of Madagascar currently touring the world and just about hitting Hong Kong next September [1]. Just because ... "Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto the stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime. Based on the smash hit DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar – The Musical follows all your favourite cracka-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar. Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York’s Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends – Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo – have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape – with the help of some prodigious penguins – to explore the world. Filled with outlandish characters, adventure galore and an upbeat score, you’ll have no choice but to “Move It, Move It!”" [1] https://premier.hkticketing.com/shows/show.aspx?sh=MADAG0919
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Rilakkuma and Kaoru
A new stop motion animated series on Netflix. That is all. "Starring Lana Condor, Rilakkuma and Kaoru is the story of a soft toy bear and his human roommate Kaoru, and the short but sweet time they spend together"
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Two Birdies Are Back (and there’s gonna be trouble!)
Wow — it’s been more than a year since we first mentioned Tuca & Bertie, the new adult animated TV created by Bojack Horseman production designer Lisa Hanawalt. Now, finally, we have a release date! Look for it on May 3rd, coming to Netflix. Oh, what’s it about? Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Ali Wong star as a pair of bird women who are best friends — despite one of them being outgoing and sexually adventurous while the other one is, well, not. Animation World Network has a detailed preview and a YouTube link.
image c. 2019 Netflix
Commercial: The PVC-Horse
The Dutch bank ASN [1]has been doing a series of beautiful ads where they try to showcase their social responsible investments. It's nice to see a bank that has standards they try hard to go trample on. Also, their logo is of effin' cute. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN_Bank
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Commercial: Treat Me Good
Proud & Punch has a cute series of ad's with lizards, insects and birds. I want some coconut pops now.
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TigerTails Radio Season 11 Episode 46
Podcast update - 17 Mar 2019 - South Afrifur Pawdcast
In this episode, we chat about some of our upcoming projects relating to the podcast, the upcoming convention and omg we've been nominated for an Ursa Major! 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/
The Tiger and the Tale
[You know what? Lingering colds really really suck…] Buried in a recent article at Animation Magazine’s web site about some upcoming films (all of them furry, to some extent!) was this little tidbit: “Meanwhile, Paramount has confirmed that The Tiger’s Apprentice, an animated adaptation of Laurence Yep’s young adult fantasy trilogy series, will be released on February 11, 2022. The story centers on a young San Francisco boy who meets a mysterious talking tiger called Mr. Hu and realizes that he’s the appointed guardian who can protect everyone from an evil ancient phoenix. The screenplay has been adapted by David Magee (Life of Pi). The studio hasn’t announced a director or voice cast for the project. Feb. 11, 2022 sounds like a good spot for the animated pic as no other movie has been announced for that time period.” Really now? Hmm, let’s see… 2022 would be six years after the release of Zootopia. The same amount of time it took Disney Animation to make and release Frozen 2. Just saying…
image c. 2019 HarperCollins
Member Spotlight: Frances Pauli
This feature, we get the opportunity to talk with Frances Pauli a bit about her writing and process.
Tell us about your most recent project (written or published). What inspired it?
I just finished a novel in a new series called Serpentia. The first book, Disbanded, is about a snake architect who believes he’s destined for great things but who is held back by his society’s caste system. The book features snakes and their rodent companions, and the series will explore a lot of issues surrounding the concepts of destiny, free will, social equality and personal rights.
I suppose it was inspired by my own interest in reptiles as well as some personal choices and lifestyle changes I’ve made recently. A lot of my stories have explored the idea of diet ever since I’ve stopped eating animal products, but even before that the idea of an all animal society trying to work out who is food and who is friend has been something that fascinates me. In Serpentia, mice and snakes have a somewhat symbiotic relationship that is peaceful on the exterior, but very problematic at its core.
What’s your writing process like? Are you a “pantser,” an outliner, or something in between? How do you find that this helps and/or hurts your writing style?
I love this question. When it comes up I usually call myself a “reformed pantser”, and then have to explain, of course.
I’m definitely not a heavy outliner, and I began writing as a total seat-of-the-pants, no idea where this is going to take me, exploratory writer. However, a few years and a few books into the process I got very interested in plot structure and dramatic pacing, did a lot of research on plot points and audience expectations, and figured out that I’d be wise to incorporate all of the above into my process.
So nowadays I do a bare bones bit of planning that usually involves sorting out where my major plot points will be, but also leaving a lot of room to move about freely in between. That way I have guide posts along the way, and I always know what big scene I’m writing toward, but it doesn’t feel suffocating either.
I admire in-depth outliners a great deal, but if I try that (and I have), my process usually shuts down pretty fast.
What’s your favorite kind of story to write?
Animal stories! Oh, wait. I suppose that’s too general in this company. But of course I had a lot of books written before I worked out that furry literature was a thing, so between those stories and my fuzzy books, I definitely prefer writing animal-centric.
Within furry writing my favorite stories to write are about justice or equality, stories that might explore some of our shadows as a society and then bring those things into the light or remedy them, at least on the page. I like heroic underdogs and quirky sidekicks and a little humor in the mix. And even though I can wander into the dark end of things from time to time, my background in the romance genre has made me pretty attached to that happy ending.
I want to feel good at the end of a book, even if I cried a little along the way.
Which character from your work do you most identify with, and why?
Stella Rose from Queen of Arts is probably the closest I’ve ever coming to writing an autobiographical character. I wish I could claim someone more exciting or heroic, but writing Stella was more than a little therapeutic. She’s the quintessential “mama bear,” maybe a little too concerned with her friends’ lives and very protective of them, but also creative, insecure, and a domestic violence survivor. And she’s feeling her age. All very much like her greymuzzle author.
What has most influenced your work? Is an author, a title, or something else?
I think the things I’ve read over the years, primarily classic sci-fi and fantasy, but also humor and romance, classics, non-fiction…all the variety of input consumed sort of rolls together to influence a writer. Combine that with life experience, trials, things we survive and things we endure and the end result is what pours out onto the page.
Individual authors I hope influenced me are Andre Norton, who will always be my favorite, Tanith Lee, Patricia McKillip, and more recently, Christopher Moore.
It’s no surprise that my earliest reading was all animal related. Jack London, The Black Stallion, Wind in the Willows. We circle back to our beginnings eventually.
What’s the last book you read that you really loved?
I adored Signal by Renee Carter Hall. I’m currently reading Daniel Potter’s Marking Territory and I love most everything about his writing and that universe.
Besides writing, how do you like to spend your free time?
I like to spend as much time as I can with my kiddos, who are getting old enough to want mom to back off and let them get back to their video games. I also crochet, play around with visual art, build fursuits and their assorted parts, and keep way too many pets, including a new rosy boa breeding project that has my house filling up with snake terrariums.
Advice for other writers?
So many things. Never give up. Take all advice seriously but only use what works for you, keep writing even if it’s not good yet or you can’t see how good it is yet. But mostly, I say, don’t forget that this is supposed to be fun. Write because you enjoy it, and then remember to keep enjoying it.
Where can readers find your work?
My website can get you to almost everything I have available. I also post some furry things on SF and FA as Mamma Bear. I’ve been honored to have some stories published in furry anthologies from various publishers, and I try to post those as they go live on my Facebook page or in my newsletter.
What’s your favorite thing about the furry fandom? Why write furry?
Can I say everything? I love this fandom. I love how open-minded we are and how accepting and most of all how much we embrace fun and joyful play. I’ve met people from all walks who have found support, encouragement and family in the furry world.
But why write furry? Well, I think furry literature has a glorious history of great stories that goes back longer than most people realize. I want to contribute to that magnificent body of works called “animal stories” and I want to help spread awareness of the genre and enthusiasm for furry books in the wider world of genre fiction. All of that sounds great, but in truth, I write furry stories because it makes me smile, and it keeps me coming back to the keyboard without dragging my feet. It brings me joy.