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Author: Patch Packrat Originally posted to BAF and reposted with permission, here is a nice short piece by Spottacus. The furry experience addresses a nearly universal desire to be seen as you feel you are Whether you are a fur (who feels a species identity different than your human skin shows), a transgender (who feels [...]

There has to be some deep and spiritual meaning to why you're wolf. Or maybe you just think foxes are cute. Could it just be you but with fur?

From what I get from foxes in lore. My personality just fits with foxes. Loners. Small and fast. Loves to mess with people. Always keeps promises. And I'm also shy as hell but will fight back if I need to. Cornered beast? Still, I just think of fursonas as a symbol that represents you. Nothing beyond that. Still hot though.

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I never know if I actually like something until I get into it for 2 weeks or so. If I keep beating around the bush, I'll just become some kind of repressed closet furry. There's no point in trying to fight an interest with no real downsides, it's like having some kind of existential crisis about liking train-watching. If I like it, I'll stay. If I don't, who cares. See you around.

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Posted a couple of things, Commented on some stuff, decided to post something yet again.

Welp, My name is Ryan, but I usually (try to) go by Dev. I was introduced to the fandom accidentally about two years back when I was browsing about YouTube. I came upon some nice speedpaints, and I was intrigued, but I paid them no mind. I went back to those same videos about 6-8 months ago, and actually looked up the fandom. I've been active within the fandom ever since.

The internet is a dangerous, yet wonderful place, and I have experienced both of those examples firsthand. I have made plenty of friends in the fandom, but, because I have Asperger Syndrome, I can easily put myself into harm's way without knowing it.

Finally, A couple of just general things about myself. I am 14 years of age, My Fursona is A Renamon (I know, a bit overused), and I have made friends, plenty of them, because of both reddit, and the fandom.

Thank you for letting me take up some of your time ~Dev

EDIT: I wrote this when I was half-asleep. I knew there was bound to be an error. My fursona is a Renamon/Skunk hybrid.

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Fantasy Fest is rocking and so far it has been an utter blast! Any furries down here? It would be awesome if we could have an impromptu furmeet this week to get to know some new faces and enjoy the craziness that is Fantasy Fest!

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Because you know, I don't think furries are that common under 18. Anyone know where I could find others.

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*snatches keys back from Kyo* Bad fox! No lube! Anyway, it’s time for the posting of our first live show at Oklacon! Afraid there’s no music break for this one, as it’s hard to find time for a proper pause during a live show. Instead, we have an hour and fifteen minutes of solid content! Also, sorry for the lateness of the posting; as stated previously, neither Smokey nor Istanbul were available until late-ish on Monday, and the bunny is both con-cruddy and on fire at the moment!

Before we launch into our e-mails, we attack topics like Kyo’s word of the week, the absence of audio distractions for this week’s episode, Kyo barely making the podcast, and Spirit Day wherein anti-bullying sentiment is spread! Smokey discusses ‘cloppers’ and the need to respect someone’s wishes when they don’t wish to partake of a certain variety of content, Halfwit mentions the Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert attended by the entire podcast the previous week along with the cardboard city she helped to create, and Istanbul mentions his awesome Werewolf moment (dickery?) and the Furry Common Sense panel that would be given the following day!

Of course, then it’s time for our e-mails, and we certainly make a mountain out of the molehill of e-mails we got! D (number D!) gives us an update on how his job search is going and asks for some help with a successful interview, we have another listener with an inspirational story about how they dragged themselves out of an abusive home life and turned themselves into something they can be proud of, and the topic of cutting bad people out of your life comes up yet again! A third listener shares some advice pertaining to coping with life’s little iniquities and looks for help in dealing with a vicious (and false!) rumor being spread about him, and the issue of age and its decreasing relation to intellectual capacity comes up. Finally, we come to Kyo’s vagoozle sending us a correction about komodo dragons as mentioned in a previous episode…but that’s not all! We have the studio audience coming up and asking how to lose weight, prompting us to discuss fat burning vs. muscle development, and we even have the developer of FurrySociety.com come up and tell us about a new, up-and-coming website and its impending capabilities. Sounds pretty impressive to us!

Next week’s topic is all about fursuiting, or – given that we’re on the cusp of Halloween – costuming in general. Can you recommend a good producer of same? Got any advice that you wish someone had told you when you started? Need some guidelines on how to deal with them, whether as a wearer or an onlooker? Write on in and let us know, we want to hear from you! Rememeber, your e-mails make us go vroom!

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Episode 62 – Hang In There - *snatches keys back from Kyo* Bad fox! No lube! Anyway, it’s time for the posting of our first live show at Oklacon! Afraid there’s no music break for this one, as it’s hard to find time for a proper pause d[...]

Or, "a very casual discussion on gender imbalance in the fandom"

I live in an area that has a high queer/homosexual population, so sometimes I feel a little out of place amongst the guys. However, I've met amazing friends, including my boyfriend of one year through the fandom, so I regret nothing.

So ladies, has your experience in the community been a positive one? What stories can you share?

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I understand a good chunk of you guys are active fursuiters (as evidenced by so much fursuiter-friendly discussion and events discussed on Reddit!) and I just recently found out I'm going to be coming into some money in a matter of about 6 months.

Now, as such, I'll then be in the market for a fursuit. I've fursuited all of twice (the first while being "mildly" inebriated, the second giving me cyclopean vision with no choice but to leave my glasses off) and neither were really quite me (as in, they weren't sized for me or my species or anything!)

My requests are threefold:

1.) Someone that can assist me in getting my measurements and making a duct tape dummy if needed (I have long johns that need to be sacrificed to the furry gods anyway)

2.) A good price for a fursuit. I'm not going to go overboard (Moving jaw! Reflective material eyemarkings! EYES WITH LEDs IN THEM!!! :P) but I want a good modest, yet respectable representation of myself.

3.) Someone I can discuss fursuiting with, get tips, maybe learn a few things. How I've been doing it is I just jumped into the deep end and tried to flail my way around. Doesn't work.

Any help on any of those would be much appreciated.

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CLOSED! Art will be distributed over the next few weeks to a month. I'll update this again when I'm done giving out free stuff. Thank you everyone, seriously! :D

Hi guys, I'm feeling a bit generous this week and would like to do some free art for people who haven't gotten any art of their character before. :) Generally when I do free art days I offer a tip option, but this time around I don't think I'm going to worry about it. I mostly just want to give people who perhaps can't afford art a chance at having an image of their 'sona. :)

So for all you peeps who have a fursona but have never had a picture drawn of them before (or perhaps you do have a picture but you had to draw it yourself, or it's not too well made), please dump your descriptions here! PM'ing them is fine too. Feel free to spread this around to friends, and if you know someone who has never had art done before and would like to surprise them with a picture, feel free to describe their character for me and we'll see how far I get. :)

I can't promise I'll get to everyone, but I'll try to do as many as I can! They most likely will be completed over a few weeks time, in no particular order. The style will be up to me, so maybe you'll get a sketch, maybe you get a full color, just depends on my mood. If you'd like to see my art, check out my FA here: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rikkoshaye/ or my DA here: http://rikkoshaye.deviantart.com/

Finally, if anyone is reading this and already has art, I would really appreciate an upvote to help others see this thread, if you don't mind of course. :) Otherwise I think that's it! Thanks everyone! I hope I get lots of responses. :D

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Tell them that when they are grazing in herds of hundreds or thousands,
it's stupid to panic and run away from a pride of stalking lions which
contains 10-12 individuals. Simply charge them.

Result: predatory threat eliminated.

Papabear,

My question to you is: IS there a such thing as being TOO YIFFY?

I asked this on a facebook group, Furries. Reason I asked this was because of most of the local younger furs are telling me I'm too YIFFY. But in turn they are doing the same thing, showing affections towards each other in public, and it's cool for them. But when I do it, I'm called perverted.

--Coony

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Dear Coony,

Ain’t THAT a double standard they’re laying on you! LOL. So, it’s okay for them to be yiffy but not you because you’re older than they are? That’s a big ol’ “WTF?” in this bear’s book.

(Now, to be clear to my readers, Coony is simply talking about public displays of affection, such as hugging and kissing, not yiff in terms of fornication.)

Papabear's feeling here is that you are being discriminated against because of your age. They are essentially saying that it is only cool for cubs to kiss and hug and greymuzzles should stand back, because, I guess, we might remind them of their parents, and who wants to think of their parents being affectionate in public? 

The young furs in your group need to get over themselves. It really gets my goat--to use and old expression (UPMO, for those cubs who love abbreviations so much)--whenever young people think they are superior. So, I'm gonna start a new feature here, called my Weekly Bear GRRRR at the world. Here's this week's

WEEKLY BEAR GRRR!

"Youth is not a virtue, nor is old age a sin." --Papabear

Of course, Papabear is taking the risk of insulting a large part of my readership. So be it. I am not saying all youth are like this, not at all, but there is a problem with many young people thinking they are the bee's knees (shit don't stink). I'm not blaming them entirely for this attitude. Today's Americans are part of a neurotic society in which kids are not challenged because we don't want to hurt their self-esteem, they go to schools that are dumbed down so everyone can get a passing grade (I mean, they allow calculators in math class, for God's sake!), and they are part of a youth-worshipping culture that is geared entirely to teens and twenty-somethings when it comes to TV, music, movies, and so on. So, no wonder they think a lot of themselves. They are constantly told they are amazing, even in those cases when they don't deserve it.

On the other paw, we have a huge disconnect where a large part of the young population is still suffering from depression and low self-esteem when they cannot match up to the illusion of beauty and popularity displayed on the glowing screen. I see this a lot in my column. This is fortified by bad parenting (there's a LOT of that going on) in which parents are falling down on the job of raising their kids, many parents even being abusive to their children.

The result: by and large, from what Papabear has seen, we have very few well-adjusted young people in this country. I'm not blaming them by any means. They are at a gross disadvantage because they are being poorly raised and educated. I think, actually, that many kids recognize this, at least subconsciously, and that is why they act out or, perhaps, become furry: they are seeking an escape from what their instincts tell them is a psychotic society.

This is a long, desultory explanation to get around to my point. Coony, you are basically the target of a neurotic society. These young furs have been brainwashed into thinking that being older is an ugly thing and that older people shouldn't be affectionate. Perhaps their own parents are nasty people and so they cannot come to grips in their mind that not all older people are cold, cruel, or uncaring, so they mock your actions (mocking is an instinctive defense when people are ignorant of or confused by a behavior they cannot comprehend). Perhaps they just buy into the whole Hollywood image (you don't see old people kissing on screen much) and are amazed that you don't fit that mold.

In short, YOU are not the problem and you are NOT a pervert, Coony. This world NEEDS more affection, more love, more hugs (as my friend Pawfan would say), and more kisses. We need LESS hate, less prejudice (including ageism), less callousness and cruelty.

Papabear happens to know you personally, Coony, and you are a sweet sweet furry. Don't ever change. You should set yourself as an example to these cubs and pups!

Here are some hugs and kisses for you (young people, avert your eyes or they might melt in your eye sockets!)

HUGS, KISSES, LICKS, YIFFS!

Papabear

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Hello agiain Papabear

I'm back again with another issue. I am a smoker. My mate is not. It is hard for him to understand my decision because we both have lost people near and dear to us to lung cancer. I know that the old "it relieves my stress" thing is a cop out, but it does so for me. I have also quit before and I know I can do it again. Should he respect my decision, or should I quit? I know he is only looking out for me, but this is my choice.

Thanks Again,
BlazeNeko
aka Blaze

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Dear Blaze,

It is, indeed, your choice to smoke, and it is not illegal to smoke. You don’t provide any reasons why you smoke, other than it relieves stress.  There are many ways you can relieve stress other than smoking: exercise, meditation, a vacation/break from the routine, soothing music, certain herbal remedies, trying to change the situation that is causing you stress, and so on.

All of these things are not only not dangerous, but are actually good for you. Yet, you have chosen a way to relieve stress that is a health risk to the point of being lethal, as you well know. Furthermore, allowing yourself to continue to smoke just makes you a tool—a tool of the cigarette industry that unnecessarily puts nicotine into cigarettes in order to get you hooked on something that is bad for you. Also, because of additional taxes placed on cigarettes in order to discourage smoking, you are paying a premium on every pack (the average is $5.50 in the U.S., or $55.00 a carton, and in New York you pay about $12 a pack or $120 a carton; if you are smoking 2 packs a day, that’s costing you about $4,000 a year or more), which makes you even more of a tool. Oh, and let’s not forget something else that’s important: you’re exposing your mate to cigarette smoke, thus endangering his health, too, against his will.

Do you really enjoy being the tool of a murderous corporate scam? Do you enjoy making yourself and your mate sick? Especially when there are alternatives to smoking to reduce your stress?

Yes, you have free will to smoke or not to smoke. It really depends on how much of a derp you are.

Am I being harsh? In this case, you bet. I’m being as rude to you now as you are being to the mate you supposedly love.

Think about it. Then quit.

Papabear

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