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I have been toying with the idea of attending Further Confusion next January. However, I would like to attend semi-anonymously for a number of reasons, the main one being that having a reputation as a furry is not a good one to be stuck with. I have a few questions:

• Does anyone know of any consequences related to attending a con?

• Is it really obvious that you attended a con, like is there a huge list of names that is kept/published somewhere?

• At the con, I know people can be touchy with photos, does that mean there are other people thinking like me there?

• How are cons if you don't know any furs? Is it easy to meet good people?

Thanks in advance!

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submitted by -Klippy
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Hello.

After a few years of dipping my toes into the pool, I have finally come out as a furry. I told my sister and brother, who both supported me, and my mother who didn't. Oh well.

Are there any good resources to exploring this lifestyle? I found wikifur but it seems a bit overwhelming.

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I hope I'm able to get some insight on this in time, as it's getting down to the wire and I have to get my prints sent out tomorrow morning.

I have an artist's table at Anthrocon this weekend, and along with doing on-the-spot commissions, I also wanted to take a small amount of prints, bookmarks and pin-ups to sell. I wasn't expecting to take a lot, as that's not really what the Alley is for. But after talking to a friend, I'm starting to think that my estimates for what I'll need are too low (for example, I was planning to bring maybe 20 of each pin-up, but he's telling me he would recommend something like 100). For the pin-ups, quantities wouldn't be a huge problem, as I'm doing them through self-serve retail printing, so if I run out I can always find a nearby Walmart or something and print out more, even though I'd rather have everything I need already. But the large prints I'm having professionally done and can only get so much in time.

I've never been to AC before (though I know attendance this year is looking around 6,000), so I don't really have any idea of what to expect in terms of sales for prints. I have no clue how many of each I should bring. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing and could offer some help or advice? I'd really appreciate it! =)

[EDIT] To break it down, I have 10 5x7 pin-ups (I know I'll need the most of those because stuff like that tends to sell big), 2 bookmarks, 2 4x4 mini-prints and 2 small posters.

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I'm bored off my ass and don't know what to watch on youtube. I want to watch minecraft series but want it with furries. Any suggestions?

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We are looking for Furries who are 18 years or older, who will talk about the Furry lifestyle, including how it has relates to their social and sexual personae.

Contact: thefurrysearch@gmail.com or PM me on here. Please include the best way to reach you by phone and email. We want to hear your story!

If you're not interested then no worries! :) Also I know people won't usually talk until they can get permission to but the sooner the better! thank you so much!!

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TigerTails Radio Season 7 Episode 33
TigerTails Radio Season 7 Episode 33 From: TigerTails Radio Views: 0 1 ratings Time: 02:05:56 More in Entertainment

Bullying and hatred have long been part of society in general, and in turn, the fandom. It's a hot "buzzword" in the media these days, but what exactly defines bullying? How have you been bullied? How is it different within and outside of the fandom? What can you do to overcome it? Gina joins Roo and Tugs as they embark on a thorough exploration of this topic, including identifying various kinds of bullying as they read your extremely personal, powerful stories.



NOW LISTEN!

Special Thanks

Rufus
Kasstrick
Lyons
Rhapsody
Oddeofreq
Kyo
Danny
Banshee
Maxxie
Orion
Smokescale
Gypsy Jack
SF77

Music & Breaks

Opening theme: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Radio Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. Used with permission.  (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Music break: NIIC - Never Gonna Catch Me. New York, New York: Independent, 2013. Used with permission. (Support your fellow furs!)
Bumpers: ZREO - Ganondorf Battle and Clock Town 3rd Day, 2010. Used according to site terms of use. (Check out Team ZREO for more music!)
Closing: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. Used with permission. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)

Next episode: We all know there are unspoken rules in our day to day lives – for instance, letting people off the elevator before you get on. What unspoken rules exist in the furry fandom and which do people follow or not follow? We want to know! Check out how to get in on the action below and be heard on the air! S3 Episode 3 – Part 2 – Bullying & Hate in the Fandom - Bullying and hatred have long been part of society in general, and in turn, the fandom. It's a hot "buzzword" in the media these days, but what exactly defines bullying? How have you been bullied? Ho

Portzebie is the Lone Ranger. Your ears are Tonto. Questions from our wonderful listeners have combined to form the horse Silver. Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! Follow us @ FA and Twitter @portzcast 12 - Me Alone

Portzebie is the Lone Ranger. Your ears are Tonto. Questions from our wonderful listeners have combined to form the horse Silver. Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! Follow us @ FA and Twitter @portzcast 12 - Me Alone

Portzebie is the Lone Ranger. Your ears are Tonto. Questions from our wonderful listeners have combined to form the horse Silver. Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! Follow us @ FA and Twitter @portzcast 12 - Me Alone - Portzebie is the Lone Ranger. Your ears are Tonto. Questions from our wonderful listeners have combined to form the horse Silver. Hi-Yo, Silver! Away! Follow us @ FA and Twitter @portzcast

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Guest post by Newfur.  Newfur is a fluffy red fox and college student who, true to his name, is relatively new to the furry fandom. He reads voraciously, writes unsteadily, loves music, mathematics, and molecular biology, and is an avid participant in Bookmarfs!

Reading through JM’s and Makyo’s posts here got me to thinking about the nature of presentation and the public face, and from there to one simple tenet I have lived by. Having lived in many ways and in many places, from my often rocky relationship with my family and cloistered visits to famously conformist South Korea, to my time in the furry fandom and in other such gloriously tolerant places, at some points I have had to live by this tenet by force, but thankfully more often, by choice:

The face we show one person need not be the face we show all people.

I know, I know, plenty of ink’s been spilled over “authenticity”, and we’re told from childhood that “honesty is the best policy”. In the end, though, only the demands of others to know all they desire about you and childhood conditioning drawing from this motivate these feelings. It is, in the final estimation, relatively easy to stay true to yourself while, in a calculated manner, making sure that some people don’t see what you don’t intend for them to see. At first blush, this may seem like a suspect notion, even one indicative of sociopathy. Think for a moment, though: does anyone really want to hear about what you had yesterday for lunch?

The telling of such lubricative lies and stories along with the careful holding-back of information is integral to this bewildering phenomenon called society, regardless of how we feel. Naturally, this sort of lie is crucial because it allows people to interact with each other without the abrasion that would result if we were as true and open as many purport to seek to be. We build up, consciously or otherwise, a public face: a mask that we show others in place of our true face. Those that fail to do so, whether through a lack of capability or desire, generally end up marginalized: out of work, shunned by others, or, occasionally, dead.

As furries, then, we find a tactic used time and again in the animal world: camouflage. Camouflage of dress, of speech, and of action. These aspects of disguise are the tools and the material with which we build the edifice that we intend others to see. They form the public face, as furries or even just as people. For if we must craft a mask just to function in society, we must craft it as best we can, rather than just letting the cards fall where they may. Hoping blindly that we’ll be accepted, no matter how awful it feels to choose to deliberately manipulate the emotional reactions of those we meet, will do us no good.

Balance is required, though. We find in ancient Greek mythology an apt picture of our dilemma: that of Scylla and Charybdis, the famed great hazards of the Strait of Messina. Scylla, it was told, was a terrible sea monster with six heads, and Charybdis, a terrifyingly deep and powerful whirlpool. And so too for us: to one side, the Scylla of too little – indiscriminately wearing and doing what we please anywhere and at any time, the wearing of collars at all times or barking at strangers – threatens us with ruin. More dangerous to my mind, though, is the Charybdis of too much, of selling your soul and losing what makes you delightfully unique, of wearing business clothes everywhere because you’ve forgotten what anything else feels like. Judiciousness is required, too. A three-piece suit would be almost as out of place at a furmeet as a collar would be at a job interview.

We draw inspiration, then, from the delicate art and subtle science of the lie. To put it poetically, a well-crafted lie is a story told about an alternate world which is easily confused with one about the real world. So too for our camouflage of word and deed : a story told in speech and movement of someone who is an ordinary member of society, about whom it cannot be said that something suspicious or untoward is going on. We must be careful, though, of Charybdis again: the lie bites both ways, and it isn’t unheard of to wind up living the lie you have accidentally convinced yourself you believe.

So what’s to gain from all this trouble taken? It seems to me that the presentation of a false face to the world is the only way to balance your true self with the demands of society, and in so doing guard yourself from society’s assimilative pull. Even better, it allows you to hide your true preferences from someone who might seek to use them against you.

It can attract friends, true ones, too: people will enjoy knowing you more if you still have the decency to treat them properly as a fellow human being even if you don’t really feel personally invested in the way you’re interacting with them. And oftentimes, those you meet out on the fringes as they sail carefully between Scylla and Charybdis, or even find some small success taking Odysseus’s famed daredevil route, will be some of the best friends you’ll ever make.

It’s hardly as bleak or as do-or-die as I’ve said here – at least, not most of the time. Society is often forgiving: in practice, people have a Somebody Else’s Problem filter for the strange and unusual, which those like us can gleefully exploit. A good example of this is the noted example of the residents of every college town whose residents have become inured to strange happenings, have seen it all, and now don’t even blink at the strangest happenings. The important thing is to keep the transgressive and the truly strange out of view, which seems to be the rather successful tack the furry community as a whole is consciously taking, and that many other subcultures have taken with varying degrees of consciousness and success in the past.

And thus in the end, it’s important not only to know the rules of the world, but also to know when you can bend or shatter them. A life lived placidly within imagined and self-imposed boundaries is barely a life lived at all. It is, after all, only in the lighting of a little non-conformist lantern that you can signal to those other interesting strangers that you’re someone worth talking to. Just don’t let it turn into a ship-consuming bonfire, of course, and you should be fine.