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KnotCast: Episode 207 – Convention Reportz
Author: E-Mail Hidden This week on KnotCast, Fuzz, Shiva, and Savrin are joined by the BONUS FOXES Kyo and Tealfox, making this an extra long episode of longness. We got religion, relationships, convention reports, and How Not to Die at Conventions going on up in here. Use our coupon code ‘knot’ at AdamEve.com for a [...]
KnotCast: Episode 207 – Convention Reportz
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TAKEOVER FC! 2: Main Menu
TAKEOVER FC! 2: Main Menu
Like last year, only better! More fursuits, more parties, more awesomeness at Further Confusion 2013! Select where you want to start your adventure! FACEBOOK... From: TheRaccoonsDen Views: 277
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TAKEOVER FC! 2: The Gathering
TAKEOVER FC! 2: The Gathering
Flying f**ks, squeaks, suiters, hairy armpits... just a few of the many signs that a furry con is in town. FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/TheRaccoonsDen T... From: TheRaccoonsDen Views: 300
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Ke$ha - Crazy Kids ("The Raccoon's Den" Music Video)
Ke$ha - Crazy Kids ("The Raccoon's Den" Music Video)
Music video of The Raccoon's Den by Ke$ha performing Crazy Kids. THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING!!! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/TheRaccoonsDen TWITTE... From: TheRaccoonsDen Views: 1676
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TAKEOVER FC! 2: Interview with DJ Wulf (Pt. 2)
TAKEOVER FC! 2: Interview with DJ Wulf (Pt. 2)
The interview with DJ Wulf (Tumma/Andrew Camenzuli) continues! DJ WULF FB: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWulf DJ WULF FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/... From: TheRaccoonsDen Views: 77
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I want to be a furry, how can I?
I have always been into the whole furry thing, but today after stumbling across this subreddit that I can be one. I have a fursona, it is my cat. I don't know if he is a valid thing to have as a fursona though. Can anyone help me out?
submitted by CaptainBonk[link] [13 comments]
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FC-112 Colon Three
You gotta give Fayroe credit, he tried to mess up the intro but it’s just not working anymore. At least the ways Paradox messes with everyone actually works, such as this episode not being posted for a month. Oops.
News:
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Tales of a Blue Vulpine
- Drive Fast or Get Slapped
Emails:
- Shoulong – “shout out & fursonas” (We did Last Week OOps)
- Mattox’s Friend – “How did you pick your fursona”
- Zev – “Sorry”
- Keo – “Furnal Equinox”
- Seth M. – “Advice Needed”
- Panther – “With Apologies to Mattox and Xenos”
- Johnathan – “Hi guys”
- Anonymous – “PLEASE HELP”
- SC Fur – “In regards to differing opinions”
- Pokey – “Hey guys!”
- Ashapoo – “To appease the Demon Lord Ashapoo…”
- Joe – “Feel Kind of Harrassed”
- Anonymous – “PLEASE HELP ME, (Desperate)”
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FC-112 Colon Three - You gotta give Fayroe credit, he tried to mess up the intro but it's just not working anymore. At least the ways Paradox messes with everyone actually works, such as this episode not being posted for a month. Oops.
You gotta give Fayroe credit, he tried to mess up the intro but it’s just not working anymore. At least the ways Paradox messes with everyone actually works, such as this episode not being posted for a month. Oops.
News:
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Tales of a Blue Vulpine
- Drive Fast or Get Slapped
Emails:
- Shoulong – “shout out & fursonas” (We did Last Week OOps)
- Mattox’s Friend – “How did you pick your fursona”
- Zev – “Sorry”
- Keo – “Furnal Equinox”
- Seth M. – “Advice Needed”
- Panther – “With Apologies to Mattox and Xenos”
- Johnathan – “Hi guys”
- Anonymous – “PLEASE HELP”
- SC Fur – “In regards to differing opinions”
- Pokey – “Hey guys!”
- Ashapoo – “To appease the Demon Lord Ashapoo…”
- Joe – “Feel Kind of Harrassed”
- Anonymous – “PLEASE HELP ME, (Desperate)”
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FC-112 Colon Three - You gotta give Fayroe credit, he tried to mess up the intro but it's just not working anymore. At least the ways Paradox messes with everyone actually works, such as this episode not being posted for a month. Oops.
You gotta give Fayroe credit, he tried to mess up the intro but it’s just not working anymore. At least the ways Paradox messes with everyone actually works, such as this episode not being posted for a month. Oops.
News:
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Tales of a Blue Vulpine
- Drive Fast or Get Slapped
Emails:
- Shoulong – “shout out & fursonas” (We did Last Week OOps)
- Mattox’s Friend – “How did you pick your fursona”
- Zev – “Sorry”
- Keo – “Furnal Equinox”
- Seth M. – “Advice Needed”
- Panther – “With Apologies to Mattox and Xenos”
- Johnathan – “Hi guys”
- Anonymous – “PLEASE HELP”
- SC Fur – “In regards to differing opinions”
- Pokey – “Hey guys!”
- Ashapoo – “To appease the Demon Lord Ashapoo…”
- Joe – “Feel Kind of Harrassed”
- Anonymous – “PLEASE HELP ME, (Desperate)”
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For those of you having issues loading Flayrah and WikiFur, they are currently being DDoS'd
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Do people actually buy into the adoptable thing?
If you create adoptables can you explain this to me? How can you copy and paste the same lineart 3 or 4 times, paint them up with different color themes and then sell each one for money?
I'm trying to make sense of this.
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Sly Cooper animated short is pretty good
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Art in 3D
Painted Dog is the furry name for the artist known as Angyl Kille, creator of one-of-a-kind wildlife and fantasy sculptures. As shown on her FurAffinity page, her work can range from simple character studies to more “practical” applications like shot glasses and Christmas tree ornaments, all with more than a touch of whimsy thrown in. Check her out there, at her Deviant Art page, or at her own professional page, belibou.com.
image c. 2013 A. Kille
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Commission I got of myself and my friend, figured I'd share to get the artist's name out a bit!
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Above All Else, Be Kind
Dear Papa Bear,
I have been getting bullied because I’m a furry. He has been bullying me for about a year now. We finally got him to stop. My question is why are furries picked on? Is it because we are different?
Zaneth Wolfbane
* * *
Dear Zaneth,
In a word, yes, you have hit it on the muzzle. Human beings do not like people who are different from them. It makes them uncomfortable. And when they don’t understand someone who is different, they make fun of him or her, or they exclude the person, or they are violent to the person. It is not just furries. Humans find any excuse to hate others: you’re a different color, you’re a different religion, you come from a different culture, you speak a different language, you don’t dress the same, you’re gay, you’re a Democrat, you’re a Republican, you have red hair, you’re disabled, you don’t have enough money, you’re overweight, it doesn’t matter. Anything different will do.
When I was a cub, I was bullied a lot. It was because I was shy and quiet and unathletic. Also, apparently, because I committed a cardinal sin in Southern California: I didn’t tan. I’ve always been very pale and I was laughed at a lot for this.
This behavior against those who are different is instinctual; it is found in Nature as well. It goes back to the basics of mating behavior and preservation of a species. In Nature, it is actually a practical thing. For example, a red-tailed hawk will not mate with a bald eagle because, even though they are birds and the anatomy for mating would work, they are different species, and they recognize this because their plumage and other things about their appearance are different. This way, they will stay away from each other and not try to interbreed. Instead, a bald eagle will find another bald eagle and perpetuate the species. That’s kind of oversimplifying things, but you get the idea.
Even though all humans on the planet are Homo sapiens and are able to breed with each other, these prejudices remain. Instincts tell a white guy with English heredity that the black guy with curly hair and a broad nose is too different from him, and he becomes uneasy. Culture enters into it, too. The black guy who enjoys Hip Hop and wearing baggy pants thinks that the white guy who dances like he has a piece of doweling up his butt and likes Kenny G is bizarre (again, oversimplifying for effect here).
So, if this is true with such minor differences, imagine when a fursuiter (or even just a furry wearing a tail) walks into the room. Alarms go off in the “normal” or “mundane” person’s mind. He or she thinks, “What is WRONG with this person? Why are they acting so strangely and wearing such weird things?” Such reactions are born of ignorance.
The shame of it all is that furries do this, too. They all have their cliques, and I’ve been learning more and more about this for years now. A while back it was the whole “Burned Furs” idiocy in which a group of furs set themselves apart from others. Then there is the current “popufur” nonsense, the Brony bashing by some furs.... There are even divisions within divisions. For example, I’m led to understand that within the otherkin community, the elves stand apart in their corner, the fairies in another, and the dragons in another and so on.
We are all diminished when we isolate ourselves and don’t try to understand and empathize with others.
I wish furries everywhere could step back and look at the conflicts within the fandom in this way: as a furry, don’t you feel badly when mundanes make fun of you, exclude you, and harass you? So, why do you do it to other people in the fandom? When you tell Bronies that they don’t belong in the fandom, or you ignore a shy furry because she isn’t as popular as you are, aren’t you doing the same thing that others did to you to make you feel bad?
There are furries out there who set themselves up as the definers of what a furry is and seem to think that some other groups are “watering down” what furry is. This makes me laugh with a cynical chuckle because it reminds me of something J. K. Rowling wrote about extensively in her Harry Potter books: the fear and hatred and evil done by the “pure-blood” Deatheaters against the “mudbloods,” people with muggle (mundane) backgrounds who nevertheless are wizards. There are furries out there who think they know the difference, set themselves up as “better” than other furries, and the results are appalling.
Furries bashing furries, furries ignoring furries, furries excluding furries—it’s all just as bad as what we complain about mundanes doing, how we feel unfairly persecuted by mundanes. It’s sad that we are no better than them—at least, not at this time in our history—and unfairly persecute and are prejudiced against those who simply are looking to belong to our community.
How much healing a simple hug would accomplish ... a simple kind word of “You are welcome here, my furiend” is all most people want to hear. Is it so much to ask?
It is Papabear’s belief that we can evolve beyond this base animal instinct and become Enlightened and recognize that the similarities between us are greater than our differences. Indeed, many people HAVE reached this step, but they are far and away the minority of the species.
One reason I came to the fandom was to distance myself from the pettiness of human conflict—only to find that it is here, too. You cannot run away from it; you must face it. I am facing it now by founding the American Furry Association, an organization whose purpose is to bring furries together for their mutual benefit.
Zaneth, my apologies for using your question as a springboard to leap onto my soapbox, but you did give me the opportunity to try to talk to furries and human beings in general that their ridiculous squabbles are selfish, ignorant, destructive, and without ultimate purpose other than to cause harm and pain like what you have experienced from that bully.
So, I ask you, Zaneth, to take this bear’s paw and swear with me that you will not treat other people—furry and mundane alike—the same way that you were treated. One of the best things to come out of the Bible is the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is, really, all you need to know to be a good person in this life. You know, now, what it is like to be a victim of hate. Do not perpetuate that circle of unkindness by hurting others because of your own pain. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
Be kind, Zaneth.
Bear hugs,
Papabear
I have been getting bullied because I’m a furry. He has been bullying me for about a year now. We finally got him to stop. My question is why are furries picked on? Is it because we are different?
Zaneth Wolfbane
* * *
Dear Zaneth,
In a word, yes, you have hit it on the muzzle. Human beings do not like people who are different from them. It makes them uncomfortable. And when they don’t understand someone who is different, they make fun of him or her, or they exclude the person, or they are violent to the person. It is not just furries. Humans find any excuse to hate others: you’re a different color, you’re a different religion, you come from a different culture, you speak a different language, you don’t dress the same, you’re gay, you’re a Democrat, you’re a Republican, you have red hair, you’re disabled, you don’t have enough money, you’re overweight, it doesn’t matter. Anything different will do.
When I was a cub, I was bullied a lot. It was because I was shy and quiet and unathletic. Also, apparently, because I committed a cardinal sin in Southern California: I didn’t tan. I’ve always been very pale and I was laughed at a lot for this.
This behavior against those who are different is instinctual; it is found in Nature as well. It goes back to the basics of mating behavior and preservation of a species. In Nature, it is actually a practical thing. For example, a red-tailed hawk will not mate with a bald eagle because, even though they are birds and the anatomy for mating would work, they are different species, and they recognize this because their plumage and other things about their appearance are different. This way, they will stay away from each other and not try to interbreed. Instead, a bald eagle will find another bald eagle and perpetuate the species. That’s kind of oversimplifying things, but you get the idea.
Even though all humans on the planet are Homo sapiens and are able to breed with each other, these prejudices remain. Instincts tell a white guy with English heredity that the black guy with curly hair and a broad nose is too different from him, and he becomes uneasy. Culture enters into it, too. The black guy who enjoys Hip Hop and wearing baggy pants thinks that the white guy who dances like he has a piece of doweling up his butt and likes Kenny G is bizarre (again, oversimplifying for effect here).
So, if this is true with such minor differences, imagine when a fursuiter (or even just a furry wearing a tail) walks into the room. Alarms go off in the “normal” or “mundane” person’s mind. He or she thinks, “What is WRONG with this person? Why are they acting so strangely and wearing such weird things?” Such reactions are born of ignorance.
The shame of it all is that furries do this, too. They all have their cliques, and I’ve been learning more and more about this for years now. A while back it was the whole “Burned Furs” idiocy in which a group of furs set themselves apart from others. Then there is the current “popufur” nonsense, the Brony bashing by some furs.... There are even divisions within divisions. For example, I’m led to understand that within the otherkin community, the elves stand apart in their corner, the fairies in another, and the dragons in another and so on.
We are all diminished when we isolate ourselves and don’t try to understand and empathize with others.
I wish furries everywhere could step back and look at the conflicts within the fandom in this way: as a furry, don’t you feel badly when mundanes make fun of you, exclude you, and harass you? So, why do you do it to other people in the fandom? When you tell Bronies that they don’t belong in the fandom, or you ignore a shy furry because she isn’t as popular as you are, aren’t you doing the same thing that others did to you to make you feel bad?
There are furries out there who set themselves up as the definers of what a furry is and seem to think that some other groups are “watering down” what furry is. This makes me laugh with a cynical chuckle because it reminds me of something J. K. Rowling wrote about extensively in her Harry Potter books: the fear and hatred and evil done by the “pure-blood” Deatheaters against the “mudbloods,” people with muggle (mundane) backgrounds who nevertheless are wizards. There are furries out there who think they know the difference, set themselves up as “better” than other furries, and the results are appalling.
Furries bashing furries, furries ignoring furries, furries excluding furries—it’s all just as bad as what we complain about mundanes doing, how we feel unfairly persecuted by mundanes. It’s sad that we are no better than them—at least, not at this time in our history—and unfairly persecute and are prejudiced against those who simply are looking to belong to our community.
How much healing a simple hug would accomplish ... a simple kind word of “You are welcome here, my furiend” is all most people want to hear. Is it so much to ask?
It is Papabear’s belief that we can evolve beyond this base animal instinct and become Enlightened and recognize that the similarities between us are greater than our differences. Indeed, many people HAVE reached this step, but they are far and away the minority of the species.
One reason I came to the fandom was to distance myself from the pettiness of human conflict—only to find that it is here, too. You cannot run away from it; you must face it. I am facing it now by founding the American Furry Association, an organization whose purpose is to bring furries together for their mutual benefit.
Zaneth, my apologies for using your question as a springboard to leap onto my soapbox, but you did give me the opportunity to try to talk to furries and human beings in general that their ridiculous squabbles are selfish, ignorant, destructive, and without ultimate purpose other than to cause harm and pain like what you have experienced from that bully.
So, I ask you, Zaneth, to take this bear’s paw and swear with me that you will not treat other people—furry and mundane alike—the same way that you were treated. One of the best things to come out of the Bible is the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is, really, all you need to know to be a good person in this life. You know, now, what it is like to be a victim of hate. Do not perpetuate that circle of unkindness by hurting others because of your own pain. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
Be kind, Zaneth.
Bear hugs,
Papabear
Episode 207 - Convention Reportz
This week on KnotCast, Fuzz, Shiva, and Savrin are joined by the BONUS FOXES Kyo and Tealfox, making this an extra long episode of longness. We got religion, relationships, convention reports, and How Not to Die at Conventions going on up in here.
Use our coupon code 'knot' at AdamEve.com for a great deal.
Episode 207 - Convention Reportz
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Episode 46 - When someone asks you a question regarding faith, how do you answer? There is no one response that works all the time, because everyone is different and will ask in different ways. This week we discuss the genuinely curious and the dismissive
When someone asks you a question regarding faith, how do you answer? There is no one response that works all the time, because everyone is different and will ask in different ways. This week we discuss the genuinely curious and the dismissively aggressive, and how to react in either situation.
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Ep. 54 - Gay Chicken - Took a while to get into it, but this ep. was gold once we got going! Kataze and Draggor (aka The...
Took a while to get into it, but this ep. was gold once we got going! Kataze and Draggor (aka The Bulge) join Xander and Alkali to discuss swordfighting, peeing in sinks, Gauntlet, and all sorts of madness. Don't miss it!!!
oh yeah, TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Or something. A review on iTunes or posting a link on your social networking thing always helps. Also, check out our YouTube channel for highlights. - http://www.youtube.com/user/DraggetShow
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Ep. 54 - Gay Chicken - Took a while to get into it, but this ep. was gold once we got going! Kataze and Draggor (aka The...
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