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Author: crossaffliction “I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.” – Pink Floyd, “Brain Damage” Wait, oops. Sorry about that. The song quote is my My Little Pony DVD review shtick, not my comic book review shtick. I got confused for a moment because, for this set, I decided to review three My […]

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Author: Fred I have no interest in video games. But I could not help hearing about Angry Birds, created in 2009 by Rovio Entertainment in Espoo, Finland. They seemed to be everywhere in the last couple of years; on billboards, in Coca-Cola and Cheetos advertising, in political cartoons, in news articles that UK Prime Minister […]

Roo and Tugs are joined by both Wolf and YuuRyuu as they explore the deeply personal and often rarely seen side lifestyles of Therianthropy and Otherkin. First, Tugs calls Wolf on the telephone and learns about the deeply spiritual and philosophical ways of Therianthropy. Then Roo and Tugs are joined in studio by YuuRyuu, who explains what an Otherkin is and how it affects him on a daily level. Throughout, we explore the differences and similarities between Therianthropy and Otherkin. After the deep dive, we break out the funny and torture YuuRyuu with the game. Why are you still reading this? Get listening and learn!



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Show Notes

Music and Breaks

Opening theme: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Radio Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. Used with permission.  (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Listener mail segment: Eskadet – Back To Kyoto ;  from the album “Solitudes” (Lemongrassmusic, 2010) - www.lemongrassmusic.de - Used under license.
Closing: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. Used with permission. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)

Special Thanks

Rufus Sigma (Ident!)
Keyni Bluepaw
Connor
Axel
Firefox
Naught0
Wolf
YuuRyuu

Next episode: Rabbit Valley will join us next episode as we explore the world of Furry Publishing! If you have questions on what it takes to get published or what it’s like running a specialty business, now is your chance – send us your questions and we’ll ask them for you! Check the contact us page for ways to get in on the fun! We need your emails, voicemails, and love by Thursday evening! S3 Episode 6 – Therian & Otherkin - Roo and Tugs are joined by both Wolf and YuuRyuu as they explore the deeply personal and often rarely seen side lifestyles of Therianthropy and Otherkin. First, Tugs calls Wolf on the telephone and learns about the deep

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Author: Fred Are ice cream trucks migrating south for the winter anthropomorphic? This is bird (or monarch butterfly) behavior, not human. Nevertheless, this seems like the sort of thing that Flayrah should want to know about. A 3’33” film directed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney for Britain’s Channel 4, reported by C. Edwards on […]

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Hi there, Papabear,

I've wrote to you twice before, you replied to my first letter, but not my second. Don't worry though, I know you get busy and stuff. Anyway, I'm a 16 year old boy who lives in Australia and well I've had an internet relationship with a guy who lives in America. I can't take it anymore and after much thinking have finally decided to break up with him, when I get time to talk to him... 

So, a problem I have now though, is that I really feel like a need a mate who can be with me physically. And basically there is a guy who I can physically meet up with every now and again and I know that I've fallen in love with him which is the real issue here. I mean, he's a good friend, and he knows I love him, but he has a girlfriend. Due to him having a girlfriend I've tried to distance myself from him a bit and not be in love, because I think it'll bring trouble. However, no matter how hard I try I end up falling in love with him again, with a stronger feeling each time... It hurts me that I know he doesn't love me back and that he has a girlfriend, and I try to stop it, but I can't help it. My instincts and feelings keep bringing me to love him, despite the fact that I know it won't work... What do I do?

Thank you for reading this,

Hendorne Endoh'roth

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Hi, Hendorne,

Sometimes an email sneaks by my old eyes, sorry about that! On to your current dilemma....

Smart move, first of all, dropping the LDR with the American. Unless you planned to one day live with him and either move to America or have him move to Australia, it was a doomed relationship from the beginning.

As for falling in love with a heterosexual guy who doesn’t return your affection, I’ve seen this happen before to other people, sometimes with heteros and sometimes with gay people who simply don’t love the other person back. It happens. One thing I have learned in talking to the love-smitten is that it’s silly to tell them they should abandon their emotions and move on. We love what we love, and we cannot control our hearts. This is the hard side of the emotion that people don’t discuss too often because it seems in most cases it is harder to find love at all, let alone unrequited love.

What people often fail to understand, however, is that it is possible for the human heart to love more than one person. Love is a renewable and self-generative resource. If we allow it to, it can fill our hearts over and over again without end. It is also a free resource, so it won’t bankrupt you to have lots and lots of love. Therefore, it is also a class-less resource. You cannot hoard it and prevent other people from being in love.

It is okay for you to love the guy with the girlfriend. What would not be okay, of course, is trying to break up his relationship so you can have him for yourself. Recognize this and you will be fine. You might even have the courage to tell him, “I love you, but I know you love your girlfriend, so I won’t interfere. Just wanted you to know that you are loved and I’m here for you as a friend if you need someone to lean on.”

You are free to find love elsewhere. There are many many many people out there like you who need someone in their lives they can love, people who are not already taken, single people. They are not difficult to find if you look.

You have the right to love many people. One of those people, one day, will be extra-special because he/she will become your mate, but that never means you can’t love other people, as well. Just note that, when I say “love,” I don’t mean jumping into bed with all these people, I simply mean allowing yourself to feel tenderness and caring for others beyond mere friendship.

Hope that helps!

Papabear

Right off the bat I'm sure this'll be buried under the copious amount of downvotes for begging, but I'd at least like to get an idea of something.

Are there any fur artists out there who know of Payday: The Heist or its fairly new installment, Payday 2? Because I'd like a request based on those games. I would pay, but I've also recently been hacked and I now have trust issues with PayPal. If you'd like more details about it, feel free to send a PM.

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Small backstory: I used to be a fox/wolf furry many years ago when I was like 13 or so, but I had to leave it behind cause of parental expectations and peer pressure. Now that I've gone so long without it all I've kinda forgotten what it's all about. I do miss it occasionally, but I've reached that point in my life where I need to decide what to do.

Do I continue as I am, working hard at uni towards a dead beat job and end up living a "normal" life just as my parents wish, or do I go back to what I was before and have fun again? I never got deep into it all, never knew anyone irl who was furry too and basically only did it online. I'm stuck, and it's scary.

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Hello! I'm pretty new to this fandom, and, well, I have a fursona, but so far, there's absolutely no drawing of him. I'm also a poor boy, so I'm afraid I can't pay anything, at all... Sorry~

I have a rough description, which goes like this:

Description of

KASAI - nekoboy

Length/weight: A tall guy, around 185-190 cm, but very thin, not anorexic though.

Clothes: Not too many, and very casual. Preferrably barefooted, and usually shorts with some sort of underwear below. Doesn't always wear a shirt though.

He has brown hair, pretty short, and standing up a little. There's two medium-sized ears on top of his head, a bit darker brown, triangular with a pink center. He has yellow-green eyes, and he has a couple of whiskers close to his nose. His mouth is pretty narrow, and inside there's teeth, and small fangs. His neck is narrow but quite long, and his shoulders are also narrow. His arms are not muscular at all, they reach his hip, and end in some sort of handpaws, they're also brown. His chests are not muscular either, nor is his abdominal zone. His spine is visible, if you look from behind. Kasai's tail is long, very long, and brown, with a black tip. His thighs are a bit more muscular, and so is his calves. His legs are long. His feet is as his hands, a mix between feet and paws, but he only stands on his toes when walking. He has smooth fur all over, which is brown, in various nuances, but mostly dark brown.

He is quite agile, but not that flexible. He's shy, but very friendly and clingy, and loves everyone who's nice to him. Kasai is also weak, according to himself.

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Tricksy Bastard, The Card Game: Kitsune, Of Foxes & Fools; Havok & Hijinks (and a nod to “Cairn”)

It’s required that all fantasy games alliterate and have an ampersand in their title. Blame E. Gary Gygax. A few card games around the general theme of ne’er-do-wells, con artists, and tricksters this week, all with big, inviting, and possibly insincere smiles and strong artwork.

And then a bunch of other stuff.

Kitsune: Of Foxes & Fools

The trick, with many kickstarters, is imagining what the final product will be. Kitsune: Of Foxes & Fools, is that sort of project: A card game which is distinguished by its art, but puts polishing up the art as one of its first stretch goals. It’s an awkward line, the black and white foxes in F&F are elegant, distinctive–but at the same time give the project a first-timer quality. There’s a few apples you can only grab with a Kickstarter pledge, and this indie card game might fall into that basket. 

Kitsune is a game of tactics and luck, players pick one of a set of kitsune to be their avatar in the game world, each with their own characteristics and favorite targets. The foxes gain notoriety, power, and tails, by pulling tricks on foolish mortals, taking advantage of their sins of lust, gluttony, and so on to teach the humans a few lessons.

Overall play looks like a game of growing your resources, countering your opponent, and picking your battles, competitive more than interactive. Which is a pity, the characters are appealing and a little interactive play might be fun! But there’s plenty of color and humor in the card set, enough to infuse the game with the right level of impish fun. Plus, big stacks of kitsune art, which is appealing on its own.

Havok & Hijinks

The project’s full title (“Don’t slay a dragon…BE one!“) seems to imply majestic beasts soaring overhead, probably voiced by Sean Connery. These…these aren’t that sort of dragon. The fire-blasting majestic beast is mommy, and you tried to touch her hoard. So you’re out in the harsh world, trying to build your own nest of gold, preferably with as little effort as possible. And you are dangerously cute.

Game play is quick and easy, a 15-30 minute game. The developer claims to have invented the game standing in line at DragonCon to play while standing in line at DragonCon. It’s for 2-4 players, and family friendly, if a little too tricky for pre-teens (but geeks, as we all know, have super-intelligent mutant offspring, so your mileage may vary.) Game play involves turning over “havok” cards (treasures and events), stealing from and pranking the other hatchlings with tricks like “incinerate trousers”, and generally trying to grab coins, treasure, and easily-ransomable nobles before your “friendS” do.

It doesn’t look like there’s anything really new in the game play, but “well-made, streamlined, and insanely cute” counts for a lot. Events turn up, players respond and counter or steal from each other, with an assortment of fantasy trope cards to help round out the universe. One interesting wrinkle is that certain cards play better for certain dragons–fire-based tricks really work well for the Ruby hatching, for instance. The game does allow for a variety of play styles–wheeling and dealing, scorched earth, trickery. And it includes at least one cat girl.

The game is set in author “Ferrel” Trzonkowski’s D&D/Pathfinder world of Vallhyn, and since Havok & Hijinks is  made by a small-press RPG publisher, there’s a good chance we’ll see more from Vallhyn in the future. The Kickstarter’s already chewing through its stretch goals with another month on the clock, so check it out!

Awakened Villagers of Cairn Bicycle Playing Cards

And one quick call-out for a beautiful product. Last year a game launched on Kickstarter called “Cairn.” It was an attractive tabletop RPG with some of the cutest anthro artwork I’d seen, mice and bunnies with lots of personality. A bit “Redwall,” but impish and appealing. Unfortunately the project crashed, partially as a victim of its own success with too many “Backers at the $100 level can add their own X, Y or Z” goals, partly a victim of the author, who has had a few other misfires. Caveat emptor and all that. Jeff Laubenstein’s furry art lives again in Villagers of Cairn, a product by SoulJar Games (which, I am assured, is a totally different company.) Personally I’m thrilled to see the world of Cairn open up again. Take a look at the project and embrace the cuteness.
Note: Images used above are included to promote the work of crowdfunding artists, and are owned by the original creator.

New Projects

Fetch: An Illustrated Book (Books/Print. Ends: 9/21/2013)
Whimsical illustrated adventure book with a “special effects” feel about were dogs come from, and their carefree homeland.

Dog Breed T-shirts (Clothing/Costumes. Ends: 9/23/2013)
Huskies: represent. A series of miminalist silkscreened dog breed loyalty tees. (I’m not chipping in for this until they post a Mexican hairless design.)

Last Resort: Bound Edition and Reprint (Comics/Graphic Novels. Ends: 10/6/2013)
Volume 2 of the reality show travails of the world’s fluffiest vampire. (From an anthro-loaded webcomic, worth a tour on its own. Click around, the art style varies a lot.)

Forbidden and Unbreakable (Film/Animation/Theater. Ends: 9/23/2013)
Live-action feature film, a romance between a young woman and a science experiment (Science: creating a better anthro border collie for the future!) and the secrets that keep them apart. (The IGG page is a bit light on plot details, more information on Junto Box.)

Dogg Park: It’s a Ruff life (Film/Animation/Theater. Ends: 10/9/2013)
A “scripted reality show” about talking dogs at the dog park. (This may be intentionally bad? If you like pain and humiliation, watch the video. Just watch the video anyway. The jokes just write themselves, and clearly did.)

Bronies: The Movie (Film/Animation/Theater. Ends: 10/10/2013)
A short comedy film (and possibly a webseries) about a young man “coming out” to his co-workers and girlfriend as a brony. (The video’s not bad, this may be funnier than it initially sounds!)

Buck: Legacy game expansion (Tabletop Games. Ends: 9/5/2013)
An expansion for the Buck: Legacy pony fantasy dungeon crawl card game. (“Visit them on Facebuck.”)

Awakened Villagers of Cairn (Tabletop Games. Ends: 9/19/2013)
“Bicycle” cards featuring the quirky, detailed furry art of the “Cairn” RPG–rodent fans and Redwall enthusiasts, this is for you. (The Cairn RPG has its own tragedy/success story, SoulJar Games has picked up where the original KS project left off. )

Save Mr Egg (Video Games. Ends: 9/18/2013)
Fox chases egg in this odd little video game. (The visuals on the fox are interesting. I’m not sure who I’m supposed to be cheering for.)

The Hyena Sanctuary of North America (…Causes. Ends: 10/10/2013)
Help build a Texas home for the hyenas of the Berkeley hyena program!

Furrycc (…Meh. Offbeatr prelaunch voting)
Pitch, vague and unformed, for a new furry chat website. May be adult. Pledge $25 and you can be a mod!

 

Art

Animal Parade (Ends: 9/1/2013)
A faintly creepy interactive art exhibit and collection of colorful, marching animals with huge, staring, dead eyes
All my life I have wanted to be a double-pig early bird. Share this opportunity with me now.

Hunter Clark’s Sublime Creatures (Ends: 9/1/2013)
(NSFW) An artsy collection of animal-headed women, artistic nudes of mothers, mothers-to-be, and madonnas.
More about the beauty of the pregnant female body combined with animal symbolism than hybrids and anthros, but an interesting take on hybrids and lots of African carnivores.

Books/Print

Flynn: A Frog’s Journey (Ends: 9/13/2013)
Children’s/YA book, featuring a very stylish tree frog’s quest to restore his wife to health.
Don’t bother watching the “stock footage marathon” video…cover illustration is really strong and vivid!

Children’s Products

Jason and the Monster King (Ends: 9/13/2013)
Children’s graphic novel/ebook in the “kid hero visits dangerous magical otherworld” genre. Cute costumes and main character design!

Clothing/Costumes

HouseBROKEN Clothing’s New Designs (Ends: 9/2/2013)
New additions to Housebroken‘s tee line–almost exclusively, sharp-dressed animal designs.
I’m wearing Pussy Enforcer on casual day this week.

Piki Charms (Ends: 9/21/2013)
Tiny charms for phones, etc, with an amazing range of designs, by DrawWithLaura
The goal is a little high for the nature of this product, but it’s to fund some business capital equipment. But it’s fixed-funding, so no accidental scams.

Comics/Graphic Novels

Owlgirls (Ends: 9/1/2013)
A “paranormal detective” genre comic, three shadowy sisters touched by the goddess of Death. Oh, they have owl heads.

Caribbean Blue: Volume 2 (Ends: 9/2/2013)
Cat-girls and girl-cats on a tropical island in this colorful manga-style webcomic-turned-print.

Flashy the Overlord (Ends: 9/4/2013)
A graphic novel with simple watercolor illustrations about, possibly, coming of age and taking the throne in a fantasy kingdom.
There’s a strong interactive element in this project, community-building and writing yourself into the plot.

Danger Squad (Ends: 9/9/2013)
Sci-Fi Comedy featuring a crazy captain and maladjusted crew, and a nice range of anthro characters and villains.

Woof Yorkers (Ends: 9/12/2013)
Cartoons from the dog park, a “keep the site alive” campaign from Woofyorkers.com
I’m on the fence on this one. Occasionally clever, occasionally cute, but it’s no “Housepets.”

Film/Animation/Theater

Anthro: Animating the Soul (Ends: 8/27/2013)
A documentary look at beloved anthro characters and their creators.
Stitchfan has broken this project up into a series of small-goal IGGs, interesting model and I hope to see it succeed!

Werewolves of Predatory Moon (Ends: 9/1/2013)
Indie low-budget “creature feature” with a pack of werewolves and a commitment to costumes rather than CGI.
I can’t imagine what their faux hair budget is. Check the Predatory Moon website for more images.

BiPolar Bears (Ends: 9/1/2013)
Animated series about manic and depressive polar bear twins Manny and Preston (orderlies in a psych institute), the Post-Traumatic Puffins, Randolf the Alcoholic Reindeer, and other friends.
Bleah. The promo vid is “join me in my philosophy” rather than “here’s this cool product idea.” That plus very high goal/60-day campaign is a bad sign.

The Ballad of Thundercluck, Chicken of Thor (Ends: 9/4/2013)
“Half mortal. Half god. All natural chicken.” Short animated film with a Celtic style, like a silly Secret of Kells. Ride with Thundercluck into glory!

Sanpomichi, A Little Oze (Ends: 9/9/2013)
Stop-motion film of a mouse’s daily life, her habits, her family challenges. Graceful slice-of-life.
I’d love to watch this back-to-back with Blood Tea and Red String. For contrast.

Samurai Chinchilla: The Animated Short (Ends: 9/12/2013)
Relaunch of the project, now with more stills, concept art, and of course an origami kitsune.

The Labyrinth (Ends: 9/12/2013)
Short film: a sympathetic and stop-motion look at the birth and life of Asterius, the Greek minotaur

Tabletop Games

Monster Derby (Ends: 9/11/2013)
A quick and silly board game of racing monsters.
The first 20 seconds of the KS video is particularly worth watching. Maybe not so furry but cute werewolf and minotaur.

Kitsune: Of Foxes and Fools (Ends: 9/11/2013)
A card game of tricky kitsune plotting against foolish mortals, and possibly a tanuki.
Wait for the line in the video, “These are the foxes we’re not using.” Kickstarter proceeds are going toward improving the artwork, so hard to get an idea of the final product.

Havok & Hijinks (Ends: 9/24/2013)
A disturbingly cute card game: you play a dragon hatchling that got kicked out of the parent’s den, and now it’s time to find your OWN hoard!

Attack to the Pantry (Ends: 10/13/2013)
Old School Warner Bros cartoon style card game: Scoundrel animals raiding Grandma’s pantry for whatever they can carry away!
Page is mostly in, or originally in, Italian, but the sketchy concept art is fun and universal!

Toys

The Kingdom (Ends: 9/4/2013)
Epic adventure with anthro monkey warriors–first graphic novel series, now a line of action figures.

March of the Art Dolls (Ends: 10/8/2013)
Ochoa‘s line of art dolls, a variety of expressive and wooly beasts

Video Games

Fable Kart (Ends: 9/1/2013)
Multiplayer kart game in which the hare, turtle, and lots of animal friends crash and zoom around as they try to rescue the pages from Aesop’s storybook.

Edo Superstar (Ends: 9/5/2013)
Monkey-on-monkey fighting game with an ancient Japanese flavor from the maker of Yukiyoe Heroes (favorite video game characters as ancient Japanese block woodcuts.)
Honestly, I really don’t care about the game. I want the SWAG.

Adult

Chimera Labs (Ends: 8/27/2013)
Lovingly–that’s the word–detailed adult toys by Kharnak
I would like to meet the fennec fox that had one of those. They don’t usually grow that big…

Roundscape: Adorevia (Ends: 9/10/2013)
An ambitious and smutty narrative-driven free-to-play 2D sprite game, looking for some floating decimal point between the hentai fandom and “Lord of the Rings.”
I don’t think Lord of the Rings had quite as many money shots. Is this a furry project? Not really, but poster Kaliyo tells me that we can expect furry companions and transformations. We’ll see.

No Good Deed: A Macrophilic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (Ends: 9/13/2013)
A multi-ending illustrated book-on-CD, with transformations, macro growth, and the occasional demigod. And lots of naked giant dragon critters.
Look for DNA‘s work on FA.

…Meh

Dark Stalkers: The Movie (Ends: 9/12/2013): Talbain and Felicia are so cute, I want to love the KS of “Darkstalkers,” but…there is NOTHING in this page worth looking at…
Discord in Equestria (Offbeatr prelaunch voting): …Huh? I’m pretty sure there’s an adult novel/game concept. It involves ponies, and discord. But the concept is more cryptic and garbled than a collection of “Myst” outtakes. Remember: You have only yourself to blame if you let this slip by.

…Causes

Save Virachey Park (Ends: 9/10/2013): Campaign to install motion-trigger cameras in Virachey park, Cambodia, to show it’s a worthwhile preserve of endangered species. Do it for the dholes!

…Just For Fun

La Divina Caricatura (Ends: 10/1/2013): An American Bunraku-style (Japanese puppet theater) production, a pop opera with a few beautifully done anthro puppets, worth a visit to the IGG for the characters.

Author: Patch Packrat Peter Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, has been an honored guest at furry conventions including Anthrocon and Eurofurence. I enjoyed his appearance with manager Connor Cochran at Anthrocon in July. (In fact, we have unfinished business together, but I’ll save that for another article. For now…) “A quick update from Peter […]

Edit: Slots are now FULL, so if you still want one you'll have to keep an eye out for the next thread! Or throw money at me, I can do commissions.

I think everyone deserves to have at least 1 decent, unique image of their sonas so come on in and grab one off me! If you wanna see what I do here is my DeviantART, FurAffinity & Neopets request page

So to get something done for you I'm gonna need you to tell me a few things about your sona. Here the main things I'll need:

• Species
• Gender
• Eye colour
• Paw colour
• Description of pelt colour/pattern
• A link to a visual example of a similar character you like
• Hair syle & colour (if any)
• Character's attitude/personality
• Anything it has on it that is unnatural of the species

That's all I can think of for now, will add stuff if I think of any more. I'll only take five because I have a bad habit of accepting more than I can handle, hence not doing all the requests on my last freebie board. Sorry 'bout that.

Here are the slots, now go nuts!

1. Tawes - Done!

2. Xenin

3. mehi100

4. JunOrca

5. SynFox

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Author: Higgs Raccoon It has been announced that a new television series of Alvin and the Chipmunks will debut in 2015. The series, originally called The Chipmunks and Chipettes and now titled ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks, has been in development since 2010. The new series is being created by Ross Bagdasarian Jr. (son of original Chipmunks […]