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Hi Papabear.

I've been feeling really useless. I'm a high school dropout but I blame myself for that. I get really bad panic attacks when I'm around a lot of people which I think led to me dropping out. Then I can't drive because I don't have good depth perception. I wear glasses, but the doctor still said I shouldn't drive. So now I'm an uneducated shut in with no license. I’ve been living on a $2,000 or $1,000 dollar check I get every three months, but bills, food, and family (including pets) forces me to use it up in a month, so I have to go donate plasma. I really want to get my G.E.D and get an art degree so I can get a job without leaving my house or so I can at least call myself an artist and have an option to get a job.

Then reality sets in. My family won't help me, taking a bus is out of the question, and I can't get medication for my panic attacks because I have no insurance or someone who will take me to the mental health clinic, plus no money. I need to have a steady income, but no one will help me. I feel so useless. I can't do anything. I can't even join the army since I have bad eyesight and I had asthma when I was young. Some days I feel like disappearing. My family would still get the check. I mean, I don't do anything, so If I'm gone nothing would change. I feel that if I'm gone everyone and everything will be better without me. I have nothing to live for, my self-esteem is gone along with my pride. 

Uh, is there any advice you can give me? 

mb (age 23 in Arizona)

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Dear mb,

Papabear gives you a big HUG. I thought you might need it. I’m glad you took the time to write me. You have three issues here, one being, I perceive, thoughts of suicide, but I think we can alleviate that if we fix the other two issues: health and education.

Let’s do health first. I am a little surprised you have apparently not heard of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). With your extremely low income, you should easily qualify for health insurance in Arizona at little or no cost. Two sites I want you to check out: 1) The Arizona Department of Economic Security’s health care page, and 2) The federal government site. You should qualify for health care assistance, after which you find a doctor and go see them about your health issues.

The second subject is schooling. I’m proud of you for wanting to get your G.E.D. so that you can find work and make something of yourself despite your family’s shameful lack of support. Fortunately, you were born in the technological age, and there are ways for you to earn your G.E.D. at home for free. In your state of Arizona, there is Insight Academy of Arizona. You can also check out Arizona Connections Academy. These places offer high school courses, but you can also go online for help to specifically pass the G.E.D., such as Pima Academy, which offers on-site as well as online courses. Do a little research and you will find something suited for you.

When you are ready to take the G.E.D., this may be the one time when you actually have to arrange transportation to get to a testing facility. Make absolutely certain that you go to an accredited facility (there are scam facilities) by checking first with the Arizona Department of Education, which is also a great place for you to learn more about classes and testing.

In short, mb, there are ways for you to get the help you need, conveniently and at home for free, both medically and in school. Happily, you clearly have an Internet connection, since you emailed me, so all this is possible for you.

I hope that helps! If not, and you're still having depressing thoughts, please write me again. Good Luck and BIG BEAR HUGS!

Papabear

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submitted by VentKazemaru
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Hello R/Furry!

I am a year long lion fur who is so far really enjoying the furry fandom community!

Now I have been browsing/posting on R/furry and have been seeing furries doing different activities such as snowboarding, skydiving, skateboarding, paintballing, and the list goes on. As much as I love all those sports/hobbies, I am a Rock Climbing fur.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER FURS OUT THERE THAT ROCK CLIMB?

I would love to see pictures of you guys climbing indoors/outdoors, bouldering/top roap/lead climbing. Or even link me to some groups where there are furries that discuss climbing or even meet up to climb.

I would post pictures of myself, but I am not exactly the "open" furry type and tend to keep it on the DL. So all the pictures would just be standard photos of me climbing rocks with no furry apparel.

One last thing, does anyone own or seen a furry tail chalk bag? If this isnt a thing yet I swear ill invent one x3

Edit:

I thought you climbing furs might like this. My Fursona Rock Climbing

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Author: Dear Papa Bear, Greetings. Just want to say, I have read some of your responses and really do like what you have said. What I want to talk about with you is about a long distance relationship I am in. First of all, I am not a young male. After Anthrocon, last year, I […]

I am looking for some older artists who were popular in the mid 90s. One was called either Coyote or Werewolf. He drew alot of male on male wolves and human females with coyotes. he was interviewed on a tv show about furries about ten years ago. I dont remember the name of that tv special either.

The other artist went by the name of Aaron (on vcl). his artwork consisted of goblins, faeries, and short elven women with non-anthro horses. Very hetero. i managed to refind some of his work but the signature was unreadably.

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What happened?

This past weekend, Gaming Furever was attacked. Because of this, we have decided to do a clean wipe of our website files. We've been recovering and restoring the data that we do have (which is everything up until right before we went down) but wanted to make sure the problem was completely eradicated as soon as possible. That's why there was very short notice.

As a reassurance, no personal data was compromised. All passwords are encrypted and protected. It was a simple case of adding in a script file that used our email sending method in a corrupt way.

To prevent this from happening again, we have been installing fresh, updated, secured versions of the software we use to run our site. The upside of this is that we have a cleaner, more functional system running everything. The downside is that not everything we had runs on this new software. We also want to do everything we can to prevent this from happening again, so we have removed outdated and vulnerable code and programs from GF. It will take us a few days to get all the kinks out and everything running smoothly, but we promise it will be! 

So now what?

Well, our staff has decided that this is as good a time as any to take a step back and do a full evaluation on how our site looks, what we focus on, and what we provide to all of you. With that said, we would absolutely love to hear from anyone who has thoughts on what they want from GF, what they think we do best, and any other specific comments you might have. We've set up a little survey that you can take to let us know whatever you want. We want to be the very best, like no one ever was, so please don't hesitate to say as much (or as little!) as you want.

Gaming Furever Spring 2014 Survey

What happened?

This past weekend, Gaming Furever was attacked. Because of this, we have decided to do a clean wipe of our website files. We've been recovering and restoring the data that we do have (which is everything up until right before we went down) but wanted to make sure the problem was completely eradicated as soon as possible. That's why there was very short notice.

As a reassurance, no personal data was compromised. All passwords are encrypted and protected. It was a simple case of adding in a script file that used our email sending method in a corrupt way.

To prevent this from happening again, we have been installing fresh, updated, secured versions of the software we use to run our site. The upside of this is that we have a cleaner, more functional system running everything. The downside is that not everything we had runs on this new software. We also want to do everything we can to prevent this from happening again, so we have removed outdated and vulnerable code and programs from GF. It will take us a few days to get all the kinks out and everything running smoothly, but we promise it will be! 

So now what?

Well, our staff has decided that this is as good a time as any to take a step back and do a full evaluation on how our site looks, what we focus on, and what we provide to all of you. With that said, we would absolutely love to hear from anyone who has thoughts on what they want from GF, what they think we do best, and any other specific comments you might have. We've set up a little survey that you can take to let us know whatever you want. We want to be the very best, like no one ever was, so please don't hesitate to say as much (or as little!) as you want.

Gaming Furever Spring 2014 Survey

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I recently saw this suit pop up in my Twitter feed, and now I must know who made it!

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Hello Hello.

Where should I begin? (At the beginning! Har har har I just annoyed myself)

So I have been interested in getting involved with the fandom for many years. I didn't due to various reasons but I have decided to throw caution to the wind and embrace it!

First of all, I feel a bit old posting here. 29 years old and from what I have seen the fandom is mostly of younger people.

Secondly, how on earth did you choose your fursona? I have it narrowed down to three, (bat, deer or jackalope) and it's hard to pick just one!

Third, everyone here is an amazing artist! I don't think I could draw a stick figure without messing something up about it but it seems like art is a very central theme in the community.

Fourth, how do I meet other furries?

Thanks for taking the time to read my post. Everyone rocks

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The Great Lakes Fur Con is this weekend. February 7-9. Its in grand rapids Michigan.

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Furfunding Week in Review 2-3-14

This week’s illustration is from the kickstarter for Kombat Kittens by Large Animal Games

First, a moment of silence for Antilia,the furry MMORPG with a promising launch and whimper of an ending. What makes a project succeed or fail? This one seemed to have LOTS on the ball–strong visuals, the product well in development. Was it a victim of the commercial nature of crowdfunding at the large-project level? A glut of product in the Indie gaming industry or MMORPG product space? Too niche?

On the tabletop front, though, several new projects. I’m excited–again–by Terrene Odyssey, which had a strong launch but is now in the mid-campaign oceanic abyss that is the Kickstarter lifecycle. Here’s hoping for a few surges, the goal’s not distant, but one does not simply walk into…uh…successful funding.

A little microcallout for Fursday, a new curated furry news blog with hand-picked articles, and excellent taste in contributing writers. Good luck! This week’s reviews: Terrene Odyssey, Mob Town, and a cluster of mini-reviews of adult projects on Offbeatr and Kickstarter. Beware, here there be nudes.

Reviews

New Projects

For a “complete” list of furry/fur-friendly crowdfunding projects, check out the Project Page!

Art

Fantasy and Dragon Paintings (Ends: 2/16/2014)
Cute delicate dragon postcards and paintings, and the occasional tiger girl

Children’s Products

Da Bunny Trail Book Set (Ends: 2/28/2014)
Cute little bunny-PJ wearing Felipe slouches his way into your heart….

Monster Series (Ends: 3/3/2014)
Not SO furry, but cute and strange B&W art panels from mythology and fairy tails for cribs and mobiles

Comics/Graphic Novels

Kris Winter’s ‘Tears of Reality’ Webcomic (Patreon Ongoing Funding)
Manga style B&W fantasy webcomic with furry elements, funding on Patreon

Film/Animation/Theater

BRONIE Power (Ends: 2/26/2014)
Special features and extended footage from Bronie: The movie.

Tabletop Games

Kombat Kittens: The Card Game (Ends: 2/20/2014)
Fighting photoshop kittens from a bizaare genre-blending dystopian future. The card game.

Terrene Odyssey (Ends: 2/26/2014)
Strategic card game based loosely on 90s Japanese turn-based skirmish video games…but with dragons!
Artwork and art direction by Megillakitty

Mob Town (Ends: 3/9/2014)
Weasels, rats, foxes, and pool sharks corrupt and take over small towns, mafia-style, in this family-friendly card game.

Video Games

Project Rain World (Ends: 2/13/2014)
8-bit era platformer: in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization, a lonely slugcat tries to hunt and survive…

Adult

KinkyFur Collection #1 (Offbeatr Prevoting)
All-female kink portfolio, with lots of bondage and video game tropes tossed in for funsies. Art by Ligertits and Seinobyte.

…Just For Fun

PANTHEON: The True Story of the Egyptian Gods (Ends: 2/9/2014): A whimsical graphic novelization of the story of the Egyptian gods. The video is animated and absurd.
Creating Monkey Business (Ends: 2/27/2014): Wild and strange simian sculptures made of nails and metal
Maximalist Wallets and Card Hodors (Ends: 2/28/2014): Fandom-spanning hand-crafted leather wallets with nods to some famous video games, and Game of Thrones. Get it? Card hodors?