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Common furry species, and you!
So here's my deal.
I've been a part of the fandom for, oh say, eight years. I've had a character for six of those years. I started out as a leopard, moved to being a housecat, before settling on my current fursona. Now, my fursona is a black fox, with purple running through him. I like my character, it really fits, but it seems other furs dismiss me sometimes for being 'too unoriginal' and the like. I'm putting this here for any fur out there he gets the same comments. YOU, yourself, are the judge of your character. If someone tells you to change it, simply because 'I see those everywhere, be something original', ignore them. A fursona can be so many things. Mine is an aspect of me, and is something I identify with. If you're the same, if your character is something from a part of you, then be it with gusto. Have fun with it, because it's YOURS. This also applies to anyone with a hybrid. Just because you want all these traits in your fur doesn't make it any less yours. Have fun with it, and when you get the chance, show us all exactly how awesome it looks, common or hybrid, 'original' or otherwise!
Take care furs! ~Schrix
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THE FURTASTIC ADVENTURES OF THE CABBIT AND THE FOLF
http://www.vice.com/read/the-furtastic-adventures-of-the-cabbit-and-the-folf
Gosh I love the smell of fresh furry media in the morning :D
For this series, titled "The Furtastic Adventures of the Cabbit and the Folf," I photographed Belgian, Dutch, French, and German members of the furry fandom, where adults transform themselves into animals by wearing plush costumes. The title of the series is meant to evoke fairytales and refers to their own made-up language. When something in the furry world is fantastic, they call it furtastic, a cabbit is a combination of a cat and rabbit, and so on…
I have chosen to photograph the characters in their own living rooms. The costumes, which signify that the participants are "in character," are juxtaposed with the homey, personal atmosphere and reveal small things about the participant, grounding their fantasy world in the reality of common life. Despite the somewhat humorous nature of my topic, I wish to approach the topic and photograph the subjects with respect. While the photos have a documentary nature and imply a straightforward visual language, I nevertheless put a great importance on my aesthetic choices. The characters appear like actors on a stage, in the décor of everyday reality.
Charlotte Lybeer is a Belgian photographer who's work has been exhibited and published globally. Currently she is working on a PhD in visual arts and is teaching photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. More of here work can be seen here.
Talkin’ About Our Generation
This is an edited reprint of an article that first appeared in Anthro #11.
It sometimes feels like I’ve tried to spend most of the last ten years of my life trying to explain the fast-growing Anthropomorphic Animal, or ‘Furry’, phenomenon to outsiders. Yet the trend absolutely begs explanation. Attendance at furry-themed events is doubling roughly every three years, fur-fans (or, simply, ‘furs’) are becoming a highly-visible presence in many online communities, and more and more anthro-themed marketing campaigns appear every day.
So what’s behind the sudden explosion? There have always been anthro-themed ad campaigns, as any consumer of breakfast cereals can testify. Practically all of us grew up with Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, and Sugar Bear. Nor are anthro characters anything new in entertainment, as attested to by Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse, Pepe le Pew, and Speedy Gonzales. Children have been sleeping with stuffed animals at least since the time of Teddy Roosevelt, and as early as 1922 they were common enough to serve as a powerful literary symbol in the classic story The Velveteen Rabbit. Even long before modern times, humanized animal characters occupied an honored place in the human heart; where would Aesop have been without them?
Yet there’s clearly a new dynamic at work today. Artists have drawn anthropomorphic creatures before, but never in such mind-boggling variety, or to such an appreciative audience. And, more pertinent to the blog you’re currently reading, writers have written tales in which half-animals appear since the very beginning of things. But never before has the usage of such characters been so widespread or executed so skillfully. Never before, in other words, have authors so openly and unashamedly incorporated anthropomorphic characters into works intended for adults, written with an adult level of depth and sophistication. Or, at least, it’s never happened frequently enough to be noticeable as an artform in and of itself.
Which brings us right back to our original question. Why now? Why is furry fiction taking off and growing legs today, after lying near-dormant for so long? Why are the adventures of cartoon-like bunnies suddenly acceptable as the stuff of serious novels, instead of for Saturday-morning-only consumption? There are two important and largely unrelated reasons for this, I think.
Everyone knows that children are very open to the power of suggestion. During childhood the human mind develops like nothing else in nature, desperately attempting to gather and incorporate everything it needs in order to master the environment around it. This adaptive process runs far deeper than merely mastering the art of counting to ten and learning that cows go moo-moo. In one key phase of development, for example, infants become obsessed with the human face and will spend hours either staring at the faces of others or else scrawling increasingly human-like visages on whatever surfaces happen to be handy. During this period the child is among other things learning what is human and what isn’t, not just how to read faces but what a face is and what it represents. The child is, in short, defining itself as a member of a group of others like it. Yet it is during this same key developmental period that children are perhaps most exposed to anthropomorphic animal images in the forms of stuffed animals, picture-books, and animated films. Furthermore, the level of exposure has increased dramatically both in volume and ‘quality’ (via television, DVD player and VCR) over time. Would it be any wonder if, surrounded by more and more anthro images during a critical developmental stage, kids began to blur the lines a little in learning what is human and what is not? Would it take a miracle for a substantial and growing percentage of kids raised in this way to grow up feeling most at home interpreting and understanding the universe through the eyes of half-animal characters? Might children raised in such an environment develop an otherwise inexplicable attraction to anthropomorphic art and fiction as adults? Indeed, wouldn’t it be even more surprising if, exposed to such a saturation of anthropomorphic characters at such an impressionable age, said characters didn’t come to play an important role in their inner lives?
The second key factor behind the new explosion of interest is, I believe, the Internet. For the first time, people who admire serious anthropomorphic art and literature have been able to find one another and share their creations. The pent-up potential is finally being released, and the result is the veritable explosion you see today in the anthropomorphic arts.
Furry art is still not for everyone. However, it does seem to be for more and more of us every year. Given the stratospheric average IQ among the furs I know and their tendency towards careers in professions such as IT and the sciences, it’s fair to say that the cultural impact of anthropomorphic art is not only well out of proportion to the numbers involved but continually rising. Today, for example, ethicists blanch at the idea of merging human and animal characteristics via gengineering. But tomorrow, who knows?
The future may be closer than you think. And it just may be brought to you by a guy who likes to look at pictures of horses walking around on two legs…
Isn't It Obvious?
I have been having some issues with my mate. I moved in with him a year ago and things were great at first then I slowly found out things about him: he would choice to watch yiff instead of being intimate, he would lie about things, borrow money from places and not say a word; he would lie through his teeth all the time. I lost so much trust for him; he would enjoy himself while I was at work. then lie. When we made love, I would cry and he would say he’d stop for our relationship; then the second I walk away he goes and does it again; he would lie until I proved it.
I finally got him to stop for about a week now, but other things came up.
We were behind on the rent thanks to his borrowing, so I asked my dad for help. I got in so much shit for him and my dad put the money into his account. It didn’t go through to the man we pay the rent to, so today I said, "We are going to the bank to get it sorted." He flat out refused .... I ignored it, then I get a text from him: "What should I bring home for tea?" I said back to him, "Money in your account is for the rent, you haven’t spent it have you?" He had been buying himself snacks; he says he wouldn’t have "eaten into our rent," but honestly I know he is a big liar, I rang him and told him off.
I mean, it wasn’t even his money to spend!
I don't know what to do. We have to move in with my family soon because of money issues, and I don't trust him. I used to trust him with money, but now I don't. What should I do?
Sparkal
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Dear Sparkal:
Papabear thinks you know what to do. This guy is not good in bed, he is cheating you on money, and he lies about all of it. What, in all the gods’ names, do you see in him?
This will be my shortest reply ever for this column. Dump the jerk, kick him out, do so post haste, and get on with your life. He’s a bum and you deserve better.
Good luck!
Papabear
To all those a good night at FurFright
Anyone headed to Elliotts Fall Festival?
I'll be there and I look forward to meeting other local furs, making new friends, meeting old ones, and having a great time!
https://elliottsliveevents.org/
This Saturday the 27th out west of Orlando in the winter garden area
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eevee and team fortress 2 (xpost from gaming)
Daily Show: October 26, 2012 - Do you get bored with board games? Or are you the one in the family always bugging to have a Monopoly Marathon? We talk about these things and more, just in time to perhaps give you some ideas for family fun this weekend. -
Do you get bored with board games? Or are you the one in the family always bugging to have a Monopoly Marathon? We talk about these things and more, just in time to perhaps give you some ideas for family fun this weekend.
Stuff we talked about:
Hosts: Levi, Spenser, Tikaani, Wolfin
Picture by: John Nyberg
I'm 22 years old and I've never been physically attracted to another human being. This scares me.
I'm a 22 year old guy living a pretty normal life (in college about to graduate, plenty of great friends, hobbies, etc.) except for this anomaly of not being able to recall another human being I've wanted to reach out and touch. It's not often a problem, really. I'm usually able to just not think about it, but I would be lying if it doesn't trouble me. It's gotten in the way of more than one relationship.
I should clarify: the problem isn't with my libido, but with my attractions. I've known for many years now that the only things that "work" for me are furry things. Specifically, male furry art, stories, etc. This especially makes things complicated when most of my relationships have been hetero.
Due to the embarrassing and confusing nature of this problem I have only told three people in the world about this before now, but every now and then the loneliness gets pretty heavy. I'm tired of the silence, I just want someone I can be totally honest with about this because I don't understand it at all. Why am I attracted to imaginary things, and imaginary things only? I'm an optimistic dude, but it doesn't seem very fair to me and it's hard not to feel down about it sometimes.
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Review: ‘Roar Vol. 4? part 6
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Twelve weeks until Further Confusion 2013
Can't remember comic name.
All I can remember is it's about a lion who goes to college and discovers he's gay. Also almost everyone else in his dorm is gay too.
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