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Meeting 32 – We Discuss Three Stories by Buck Hopper
Furzona
Furry club revolving around electronic music.
In their words4 Years & still going. The only furry club to offer the best in electronic music. Famed for our huge events & atmosphere we're number 1 for BASS. We welcome everyone if you like good music.
Features- Games room
- Lounge
- Dance floor
- Avatar vendor
Entrance
Lounge
Rating
You must be 18 or over to have a Second Life account. Visitors are advised that strong language might be used and on occasions some furries may be nude.
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I just finished a new website for my mate to sell Fursuits and stuff :3 Suggestions welcome!
Furry Second Life Grid?
tl:dr Why Is There No Furry OpenSim Grid?
Since Second Life declined in the past few years I have recently heard about all these new grids opening up. These grids are maintained by third party people who are not associated with Linden Labs yet these grids run the same SL code. I've read here about all these other grids. Some use their own currency, some use L, some are made for specific purposes like science of game development, and some even have full fledged governments of the people.
There are some of us here who still remember being a Furry on SL in 2007 and 2008. The griefing, the /b/ Anonymous (before they decided we were small time and took on the US Government), and people like the Patiotic Nigras. The same people who "protested" Anthrocon. We didn't have anywhere else to go on SL and it was hard and annoying to be a Furry there. For these reasons we got our own sims, estates, built neighborhoods, the same thing you see immigrants do in Los Angeles. So my question is this:
Why do we not make an all Furry grid? We could make it like we always wanted SL to be, and while it may not be as advanced as SL is we are a people rich in technologically literate computer scientists, programmers, and engineers. I'm curious as to why we are not pouncing on this. Open Sim is not a streamlined and easy to understand platform from what I've read. One needs to know how to set up, code, and maintain multiple pieces of equipment. But given that we know we have the people who could do such a thing, why not do it? Why not make our own Furry Second Life?
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Forra — A World Like No Other
Antilia is described by its creators as “an MMORPG featuring a beautiful world, original races, unique gameplay, and an innovative storytelling system!” Brought about by Jeff Leigh and the crew at Right Brain Games, this new multi-player game is currently in the testing and programming stage — and has a Kickstarter campaign up to get things brought to the next level. According to Jeff, “With Antilia, we are creating a unique and beautiful science-fiction/fantasy world, populated by distinctive anthropomorphic races. If you’ve heard of Antilia before, it’s because we have spent several years refining our process and building the game’s foundation. Antilia has had public alpha tests for the past two years as we developed, and we are confident we can deliver a quality game.” Find out more by visiting Antilia’s web site, or by checking out the preview trailer up on YouTube.
image c. 2013 Right Brain Games
If Anthro animals existed, how do think they would feel about the Furry Fandom?
I dunno, this just came to me. If this has been posted before, just tell me and I'll take 'er down.
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Breaking Barriers
Guest post by Hyshaji Nightdragon. Nightdragon is a biological science graduate, laboratory specialist & fursuiter from Singapore. Rawr!
Three years ago, I was first introduced to fursuiting and fandom. This year, I made my first ‘pilgrimage’ to Anthrocon. With that came the rather intimidating prospect that is long distance travel. You see, I’m from Singapore, so by traveling all the way to the United States, I do mean a really, really long journey.
Crossing borders can be a touchy affair. Deep down, many of us do fear ‘outsiders’. We scrutinize them, question their motives, and sometimes downright reject them from ‘our place’.
That sense of caution is not entirely unwarranted, but in a manner of speaking, it is building a barrier around ‘our place’. As discussed in articles such as Furry Internationalism, the furry culture is helping to break down those barriers.
In many ways, my experience was complementary to JM’s experience, when he travelled from the UK to Malaysia, as he detailed in The Furry Accommodation Network.
The journey to Anthrocon would take me from Singapore, to Japan, then to the United States, visiting Seattle and finally Pittsburgh. Through some work-related circumstances, I later ended up in the UK too.
All over the period of two months.
Several Japanese fursuiters had visited Singapore the previous year for an Anime convention. We’d gone fursuiting together then, but I certainly couldn’t claim to know them that well. However, I still contacted one of them and, with my intermediate level of Japanese, managed to tell him about my upcoming trip. I expressed to him that it might be difficult to meet because it was a Friday, being a working day, but I was greeted with a very happy reply.
Don’t worry! I’ll take leave!
The result of that was two Japanese furs picking me up from Narita Airport during my 8 hour layover, and taking me out to the nearby areas. A simple, quick shopping and lunch trip. And as a little bonus, the three of us got out our partials and took photographs at a small waterfall in a park.
The language barrier was there and communication was rather minimal, but it was a different feeling. It didn’t feel like I was going to Japan alone; I was going there to meet friends.
My purpose of going to Seattle was to visit a Singaporean who was there for studies, and I was also referred to contact one of the local Seattle furs prior to the trip. I did, and that got me a phone number and a lunch appointment.
Upon arriving in Seattle, I was indeed able to meet up with several local furs, despite having no prior contact with them before. After flying over 20 hours and the trip through immigration, it was a very good feeling to be welcomed by the locals.
Did I mention they dragged me to visit the local zoo on the day I was fresh off the plane? Yup, jet lag be damned! And I had a photo shoot, in fursuit, at a local museum the very next day.
A lot of the anxiety of traveling to a foreign country had faded away.
As for Pittsburgh, it so happened there was a fur from Singapore studying there. I’d only met him briefly once before during one of his visits to Singapore, but a quick online message and I had someone else to meet .
This was in addition to the contacts I’d been speaking to online, and had arranged to meet during Anthrocon. Plus some of the Seattle furs from before, who were also attending Anthrocon. I could probably go on about ‘My First Convention’, but that’s not really the point of this article.
My overseas travels were not to end there however, as I was soon sent to the UK for a work-related training course.
Very nicely, a fur from the UK had earlier visited Singapore and joined one of our meets. We exchanged messages, later phone numbers. And suddenly, the looming business trip to a foreign country, knowing nothing and no one, turns into a trip where I could look forward to meeting people during the weekends. One of whom happened to be JM.
Looking back, this was a completely different feeling from being on a tour group or going with my parents. Rather than follow ‘their’ schedule, I was able to follow my own.
I would have to say that in Asian culture, we are definitely more conservative. Someone, like myself, who is not a seasoned solo traveller, was bound to get flooded with the ‘usual advice’. Don’t do this, don’t do that, don’t go and meet random people from the internet; you never know who they could be.
That’s my parents’ generation, and while some of those rules still do apply, times change and other rules break as a result of that change. As long as it’s done smartly.
To quote JM, “When you first meet a new furry in real life, there is an implicit level of trust.”
I don’t expect things to go perfectly every single time. There will be the good and the bad; that’s just life.
I compare this to when I studied & lived in Australia for two years. When everything around you seems unfamiliar, we tend to gravitate towards the most familiar thing. In this situation, I found there was an Aikido club on campus, a martial art which I practice back home. The people there may have been different, but the feel of the art was still the same. It definitely helped me to relieve the stress in my initial weeks there.
On each leg of my trip, I found myself taken back to that emotion I felt then.
Not only was I able to visit touristy areas and do touristy things, I was able to see how the locals lived and dined. And I got to hear it from them directly: the differences and similarities between our cultures and our countries. I was able to talk to them about how the fandom scene was over there.
The beautiful thing is that I would never have crossed paths with these people otherwise. Our lives were too different, except for that one common interest.
I took back from my journey was the idea that ‘now I know how it feels’. My experience has become another common interest I can share with visitors when I reciprocate for kindness that was given to me. It’s certainly a hope that by spreading this around, others will be encouraged to do the same. This is especially interesting because I’ve always been naturally very introverted, yet the fandom has helped me open up and talk to people. That in turn has actually made me more comfortable with meeting people outside the fandom as well. It’s just a matter tailoring the conversation for the audience.
As a side note, readers, while I can’t really offer a crash-in spot for the night, I’m certainly happy to meet up for dinner. Drop the me or another of the local furs a message if you’re ever in Singapore.
To finish up, I would say that I’ve found some things to be truly international. Public transport screwing up, idiot drivers, screaming kids on planes & trains, McDonalds, the sight of my dragon fursuit making kids cry… and furries.
We’re one of the means to break down the walls that society has set up around us.
An outsider questions to the furry fandom.
Hey I am an outsider to the furry fandom but I am a all around general nerd through convention I had run in and have met furries and all that.
I respect you guys and gals I mean I am aware of the crazy assumptions and prejudice that go with and the fact all of you continue to support each other and enjoy yourselves with zero fucks given is just awesome.
Flattery aside I wanted to know like how does it correlate or interact with your every day life?
How was your first ever con experience?
How would you gauge how comfortable you are about it?
Creative processes when it comes to art and suits?
Like I said I am an outsider so apologize if anything came off rude before hand I am just really interested to learn.
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Fursonas? Just a few q's. Do you have one? Why?
Hi there! Just a few questions about fursonas. I don't have one but have wondered whether to make one. For those who have them, what encouraged you to make it? Do you see it as an essential part if the fandom? What are your fursonas?
For those that don't, why? What are your opinions on them? (I would make mine but I've got the feeling it'd be seen as quite generic)
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Macrophile
Macrofur community portal containing art gallery, forum, directory and stories.
RatingWhen viewing without an account and can be configured with an account the artwork is suitable for all ages. Accounts can be configured to allow viewers to see content that has graphic violence, mature themes, and/or nudity and adult situations.
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IRC #Taurs
A small community website for taur furs, revolving around their IRC chatroom.
In their wordsTaurs and non-taurforms alike are seen to be lounging and talking, playing and laughing, cuddling and snoozing. This is a calm place where the daily grind is left behind. Let yourself go...
Rating
Chatroom is public and will typically be inhabited by people over 18 years of age. Those under 18 may require parental supervision.
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Suddenly Fisting
Humourous gags illustrated in Shiuk’s cute chibi art style.
In their wordsA webcomic by writing machine Graveyard Greg and artist extraordinaire Shiuk. A certain guy who thinks he's a pony online might also be helping, but no one is really sure!
Rating
This site contains little or mild offensive materials.
Not your usual stuffed bear
via designboom:
New York-based artist deborah simon walks the line between taxidermy and toy, fabricating a series of faux-bear sculptures that materialize their vulnerability to human-initiated adversity. the three species are meticulously crafted from clay, imitation fur, and embroidery tools, and hold near perfect proportions and facial likenesses to their living counterparts. influenced by the evolutionary process and biological classifications, simon crafts an embellished coat for each species — wearing it rather than their own — ornamented with intricate organ systems hand-stitched to their exterior.
via io9:
My work walks the line between taxidermy, toy and sculpture. Each animal is meticulously fabricated to create an unnervingly accurate but slightly off version of the natural animal. Evolution has always held a particular fascination for me, informing how I create and group the animals in my work. As I've read and dug through museum collections to research my pieces, western science's mania for labeling, codifying and collecting has stood out. Most of this categorizing bears little resemblance to how animals and plants exist out in the natural world and I find this disconnect fascinating.
Adult-comedy animation “BoJack Horseman” slated for mid-2014
Essentially one of those comedies about a has-been actor trying to get back into the industry; in this instance their gimmick is that the actor is a horse. The lead character is voiced by Will Arnett of Arrested Development fame and will be distributed on streaming video service Netflix.
I’m a big fan of Netflix because they represent the future of where the entertainment industry is going. They are working on a lot of original content including animations for children, so we could be seeing a lot more programming of interest to furs in the future.
Edit:
BoJack Horseman is being animated by ShadowMachine, the same studio that does the claymation for Robot Chicken. [Source: The Next Web]