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Furry Reddit - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 15:25

Pay What you want! I have a friend that needs practice drawing and could really use your help! He works fast, and you only pay what you feel you owe, after you receive your art!

Samples:

http://imgur.com/a/MgNvW

Sites:

http://locusteater.tumblr.com/

http://thelocusteater.wordpress.com/

http://thelocusteater.deviantart.com/

Payment:

PayPal, will consult him about other methods.

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Stargazing by xainy

Furry Reddit - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 14:28
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Being super cute at RMFC

Furry Reddit - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 13:15
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On Advertising: Part 1 – Before

[adjective][species] - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 13:00

I’m trying a little bit of an experiment with a few projects of mine.

Advertising.

I am unashamed to admit that I run AdBlock almost all of the time that I’m online. I think that advertising is a shoddy and cheap, albeit necessary way for many online services to derive income, in general. I also think that, in general, ads are effective on a level that is perhaps not in line with the goals of an organization determined to be as introspective as possible, in a lot of ways. That is, they don’t necessarily fit with the goal of the projects I have in mind. Flashy art and animations are great for artists because they show off art and animation skills. They’re wonderful for organizations such as Rabbit Valley and Sofawolf, that offer products for sale because they showcase the products. Even so, I’m left with a few questions about the way advertising works within the furry fandom, and how information is transmitted within a potential audience.

How does one advertise a blog that offers nothing for sale and provides a non-essential service?

How does one advertise for a survey, and in what ways does that impact the results gained from that survey?

Does animation play a role? If so, how much?

What difference does wording make, particularly when it comes to key words such as ‘sex’? For that matter, how does an advertisement that mentions sex differ from an advertisement that does not?

These are hardly deep questions. Ask any advertising agency or the like and you’re likely to come up with some quips about what does and does not work, as well as what works best for what type of product.

If you look at us, however, as well as our sister project, LSF, we are, at best, irregularly-publishing magazines filled, almost entirely, with opinion articles. The articles often have basis in statistics pulled from here or there, but for the most part, the pieces are written more as introspective or observational explorations of the act of participating in a subculture. For us, these questions bear additional meaning, as this advertising experiment is taking place almost entirely within the subculture itself.

Here’s what we’ve done:

  1. I’ve set up four advertisements on two different sites, FurAffinity and SoFurry. These ads are for four different projects: [adjective][species], Love – Sex – Fur, The Furry Survey, and an unrelated project, Bookmarfs!.
  2. All four advertisements have slight differences:
    • All ads except for Bookmarfs! are animated.
    • The ad for LSF contains the word ‘sex’.
    • The ad for [a][s] and for the Furry Survey contain text other than the subtitle of the site.
  3. The ads should rotate fairly evenly among other ads on both sites (though Dragoneer and Tourmal are invited to comment on the advertising systems in place on their respective sites).
  4. All four ads have campaign data indicating their source. These only show up once per click, of course, so we’ll only see these as unique visitors. That is, there’s no way to bolster the numbers by simply clicking on the ads a bunch of times!

Just to start things out, I’ve taken snapshots from before the ads went up of how traffic looks.

[adjective][species]

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You can see, here, just how the traffic generally looks for this site in particular. You can see, for example, when articles go live, and even when an article that winds up becoming particularly popular or contentious goes live as compared to one that doesn’t: JM published an article on introversion on Monday the 23rd that became the subject of heated discussion, and I published an article two days later that was largely neutral (this is the way of things, we’ve decided: I write introspective pieces, JM writes more provocative pieces). This is a pretty standard few weeks for us, and we’ve had few deviations from that. One can see the effects from conventions at which we have panels or advertising, as we did for Anthrocon one year.

Love – Sex – Fur

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LSF has been quiet of late, due to my personal schedule, and so you can see a similar graph, lower in traffic, to the time between articles on this site. Visitors come in from various places, usually search engines and old Twitter links (the t.co link-shortener shows up as the referrer in these cases).

The Furry Poll

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The Furry Poll, not having any changes over time within the year, shows bumps primarily from links in from outside, such as on this site, or other forums where others post the link. Reddit, FurAffinity forums, FurBase.de, and so on are all sources of the second bump, for example.

Bookmarfs!

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Bookmarfs!, on the other hand, gains traffic at regular intervals from posts at the beginning of the month (when that month’s book is announced), and at the end of the month (when that month’s discussion occurs). Full disclosure: although Bookmarfs! is not related to [a][s] at all, I do help out with them in a technical capacity.

You can also see the advertisements that we placed, above. These are the different paths that we’ll be investigating as inroads that advertising provides. What it is that we hope to see is how information spreads within the fandom in terms of something sort of neutral and random such as these advertisements, organic social sharing, such as retweets or links provided to friends, and from followers who catch us on FA journals, Tweets, or G+ posts.

Working within a subculture such as ours, I will posit that, while advertising drives some traffic to sites such as these, the majority of our readership found the site through sharing, due to the nature of our content. However, given that these ads will all be live for about a month, I’ll pull statistics again in a few weeks and see just how things have changed – or not!

We’re interested to hear how you found this site (and if you found the others, how), as well as how you think that this little experiment will play out. Will members of the furry community pay attention to the ads? Will they largely ignore them? How do you feel about advertising in general, and on furry sites? Do you treat them differently? Let us know in the comments!

(Note: [a][s] and related projects are, of course, run totally out of pocket, and we have no ad revenue of our own; we stand to gain nothing but information from this little experiment, all of which we aim to share with you!)

Would Like art for an OC. I am not talented with art.

Furry Reddit - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 12:54

About me. I'm a gamer guy, more on the lines of JRPGs like Final Fantasy. I'm what would be considered a closet furry, i don't fursuit since 1. i don't have creative talents when crafting, and 2. not sure what to do for one, and 3. am a broke, out of college person with full time job and lots of loans. And about my preference to furrys. I like Kangaroos and Foxes mainly. I'd say i'm more akin to Anthro Furs to the style of Sonic the Hedgehog. My favorite would be Tails in that series that i'd relate to more than any other. (Not in the sidekick perspective)

If anybody would be willing to draw me an OC, it would be very appreciated. I didn't know where else i should ask this, so thought i'd start here. Please and thanks.

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Cheap and fantastic conbadges!

Furry Reddit - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 12:17
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Redditfurs Steam Group Spooktoberfest

Furry Reddit - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 10:18

Hey everyone, we're going to be having a series of gaming events for the community this month on the redditfurs steam group! (It's linked on the sidebar!). We'll be playing games like Left4dead, Killing Floor, TF2, and whatever else we can think of every saturday. The events are posted on the group, and will happen every saturday. Feel free to join us for some zombie slaying shenanigans!

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Should He Break It Off? Or Is There an Alternative?

Furry News Network - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 07:56
Author: Dear Papabear; I would like to thank you for providing an advice column to the furry community. It’s something that was desperately needed and I would like to thank you for taking time to do this for us. As a grey muzzle I would normally be giving advice, but I have found myself in […]
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Fuzzy Logic: Episode 93 – Red Fall Down

Furry News Network - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 07:53
Author: Smokescale Aquatos Welcome all to Fuzzy Logic, episode 93! Red Fall Down. Discussions go all sorts of strange places before Smokey brings us back to the Mighty No. 9 kick starter. Halfwit tells us about her high school reunion in Tennessee. Mitch joins us in place of Kyo and gives us an update about […] Fuzzy Logic: Episode 93 – Red Fall Down
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Furry Let’s Play ‘Retromania’ to raise funds for kids on Nov 2

Furry News Network - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 05:39
Author: DJ EAR Retromania is a Let’s Play series by 2 the Ranting Gryphon & DJ EAR, focusing on retro-style games. It’s one of several new shows being produced for “RGStv“, which is intended to be a 24/7 Internet TV station for furries. On November 2, Retromania will go live for a full day of […]
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Animation: “À la française”

Furry News Network - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 02:38
Author: Fred À la française, a very anthropomorphic student film by Julien Hazbroucq, Ren Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton, and Morrigane Boyer of the SUPINFOCOM animation school of Arles, France, has won Best in Show at the (40th annual) SIGGRAPH 2013 convention in Anaheim, California, July 23-25, and is considered a sure nominee for […]
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Man and Dog, Cheese and Crackers

Furry News Network - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 02:05
Author: rodney Unless you live in the UK, you might not be aware that the multi-award-winning Wallace and Gromit animation series has been adapted into a full-colour weekly comic strip. Well it has, and now the folks at Titan Comics have collected the strip series (so far) into a new hardcover book coming out this […]
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Should He Break It Off? Or Is There an Alternative?

Ask Papabear - Wed 9 Oct 2013 - 01:02
Dear Papabear;

I would like to thank you for providing an advice column to the furry community. It's something that was desperately needed and I would like to thank you for taking time to do this for us. As a grey muzzle I would normally be giving advice, but I have found myself in a situation where I need some advice.

I am in a relationship with someone a few years younger than I—I am in my mid 30s and he's in his late 20s. It's my first 'real' relationship because I was late coming out of the closet, and it is his third. We're both furries and that unfortunately is the only thing that we have in common.

We have been dating for over a year and it has become apparent to me we are not compatible. When he comes over we sit playing on our computers in silence. When we travel he is not focused on the journey or the destination, just what's on his phone. I am very much a conversationalist and he is not.

Last month I asked him if we should be friends instead of mates. In hindsight I should have just told him. Now he is bending over backwards to accommodate me. Asking things like "what do you want to do" and "when do you want me to come over?" He is a very sweet guy and that is why I am struggling with this. He has trouble expressing his needs and thoughts and it is clear he will ignore his needs to try to accommodate mine. 

It is becoming more obvious by the day that we are not compatible. It is becoming more like a parent / child relationship instead of a mateship. I do not think there is a future for us as a couple but am having trouble breaking it off.

I am trying to figure out how to proceed from this point. Any advice you can offer will be appreciated.

-Confused Furry

* * *

Dear Confused,

I understand your hesitance; you are fretting that you will really hurt your current boyfriend, and you wouldn’t be worried about that if you didn’t care about him. But you and I both know that if you don’t feel he is your match then you cannot continue as mates forever.

You don’t have to break it off, either, though. You said it yourself: you feel more like this is a father/son relationship than a boyfriend/boyfriend one. You don’t have to abandon him, just transition your relationship from the current paradigm to a new paradigm. He clearly likes being with you and wants to please you, so how about you tell him that you have been thinking about your relationship a lot. You care about him (true) and you don’t want to leave him (also true), but the difference in your ages may mean that a different type of relationship could work better. Then ask him if it would be all right if you were his daddy bear instead of his boyfriend.

What would this mean? Well, it's somewhere between being mates and just being friends (something you already proposed). It would mean that the two of you could have a special relationship and do things together, and care and even love each other, but that both of you would be free to find your own mates who, hopefully, are closer to your ages and more compatible.

Even though the two of you are not a match, you care about each other. You should never discard people from your life merely because they are not exactly what you want. You can be just like a little family because, you know, fathers and sons are often very different, but they still love each other.

Hope that helps. Hugs!

Papabear

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Furry News Network - Tue 8 Oct 2013 - 23:38
Author: studio@xanacreations.com (..::XANA::.. Creations) http://furcast.fm/logos/furcast-2013.png Terrified of your energy costs this winter? Install bee insulation! You’ll be so terrified of the insulation itself that a relaxing night of paying bills will be a dream! Download MP3 (Right-click, Save) News: World’s Biggest Hornet: Insect Behind Deadly Attacks Dinosaur Erotica Author Alara Branwen Reveals Her Fantasies And […] FC-142 Bee Insulation
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Would you use a social/chat/aggregator site?

Furry Reddit - Tue 8 Oct 2013 - 23:35

So, I'm being pitched this idea right now... And considering I burnt out on programming long ago, I'm struggling to bring myself out of retirement for something I don't think would be very popular.

It'd be one place for everything you do elsewhere, basically, you'd post links to your stuff on FA, Inkbunny, just about anything furry related, maybe have it automatically pull in your posts. Plenty of social features, along with a fully featured chat system and groups for shared interests.

Would you use it?

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