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Hey everyone. I recently just got introduced to the community by my best friend. I am a writer, so the main appeal to me was the new style of writing I could try out. I had a discussion with said best friend and realized that I am a scaley. I have always had a fascination with dragons and would often spend time thinking about how it would be to be a dragon. It has been a bit of an obsession of mine for years!

So I know this. Now what? What do you all recommend I should do as getting a fursona created? What are the best communities? Anything specific about the community that I should know? Give me your best r/furry! :)

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What’s a crunchy, tasty, and totally unhealthy snack food? Potato chips. What’s your favorite? What’s this All Seasoned type? Maybe you’re just hungry and want an idea to, wait, that doesn’t work. Do you want to get hungry? Listening here will do that.

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Daily Show: October 22, 2012 - What's a crunchy, tasty, and totally unhealthy snack food? Potato chips. What's your favorite? What's this All Seasoned type? Maybe you're just hungry and want an idea to, wait, that doesn't work. Do you want to get hungry? Listening here will do that.

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Hello there. Short time reader, one time poster. I've got some issues I'd like to discuss in a civil manner. I am not a furry, but I like some of the art and think the idea is cute. I'd like to address the things scaring me away from the fandom, because the majority of "unfavorable" furries have no idea that they're acting inappropriately. Allow me to enumerate:

1. Yiff. I don't care that this smut exists, and I would never judge someone for having a fetish that doesn't affect others. The problem is, porn should be something that you hide in a corner and discuss only in private among friends. The way it is now, platonic furry art and erotica is so intertwined that there's no way to be part of the art community without being connected to the porn community. Just flipping through a couple of pages of Furaffinity, Inkbunny, or deviantArt's anthro section will reveal that a significant portion of submissions are pornographic in nature. There is yiff for almost every furry webcomic out there. There is so much porn that it has its own lexicon. This is not how you want your group to appear to outsiders who want to get to know the fandom better. If you want this problem to go away, the community needs to make a concerted effort to separate the platonic from the sexual, be that by making separate websites entirely or simply a "disable mature images" option selected by default on popular websites.

2. Fursuiting. This one is an issue for people on a psychological level, and while it's great in the company of other furries, it gets very weird in public. From one perspective, a fursuiter is a giant, living teddy-bear for people to take pictures with. On the other hand, people wearing the suits tend to lose their sense of self rather quickly. It's just not healthy to hide behind a mask, if you wouldn't do something in public without the suit on, please don't do it in public. Ever. That said, I can't really find fault with fursuiting at conventions or with friends, playing make-believe is often lost with age, and I wish it wasn't.

3. Self-Criticism. I could probably write more about this issue than about the other two combined, but I'll keep it short. If you'd take a short trip over to r/furryartschool or r/furry_wordsmith, you might notice how sheepish (pun intended) the users are about giving criticism. I read some stories looking for constructive criticism on the wordsmith last night, and they were outright bad, but the commenters just skirted around the issues. This is endemic in the online art community in general, where many users are more concerned with making friends than improving their art. For issues 1 and 2 to be addressed, the community needs to grow some proverbial balls, take a long, hard look at itself, and be willing to take a stand on the issues brewing among members. It is never too late to make an ultimatum. In a recent success, the TVTropes admins recently demanded that all personal, pornographic, and pedophiliac pages be deleted or moved offsite, and in a week it was done. Now, the furry fandom is much larger than TVTropes, but that doesn't mean the same kind of results can't be turned out. It just takes some forcefulness on the part of the administrators.

That's all I have to say for now. I do like the fandom in general; and it's far less sexual and psychopathic than the media would have people believe, but it could be so much more. Thank you for reading, and I look forward to discussing this in an open environment.

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So BBF rides out another video from Eurofurance and past cons. Check it out, sit back and relax. Then you can go back to your porn.

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Author: Isiah Jacobs Isiah offers his own thoughts and analysis on Roar as a part of a twelve-part review series. See also: Reviews of Roar 4 by Roz Gibson and Fred Patten. Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought Creative Commons: Full post may be available under a free license.

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TL;DR: Journal detailing the contest is here, and her gallery is here. Her art is awesome and you should watch her, regardless of the contest!

This is a self-post because I need to give you an example of how cool a person she is. A few weeks before AC this year, I commissioned this con badge from her, but, sadly, it didn't arrive in time for the con--or so I thought. A week after AC I find my badge. Cut in half and on the sidewalk a block down from my apartment. Yay mail theft. :/

I didn't want to break the news to her, since the destruction of something you've created can be heartbreaking to an artist, but I had to tell her the truth when she later asked me if it had ever arrived. Upon hearing what happened, she made an even bigger, better badge, and refused to let me pay for it, despite the previous badge's fate being 0% her fault.

That is a class act, so go! Watch her on FA! Commission her for great art! Put on a purple thing and dance around!

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Author: Fred During World War II, David Stern, then assigned to an Army newspaper in Honolulu, wrote 15 short stories for Esquire about a nameless brand-new U.S. Army 2nd lieutenant fighting the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. The naïve 2nd lieutenant is helped by a talking, flying Army mule. The humorous military fantasies, satirizing [...]

I need practice with my tablet, so I figured this would be a good place to offer sketches. However, I need specific things to try, so for round one I'm opening 2 slots:

-1. Inked sketch, might add color

A relatively simple canine

-2. Rough sketch, might be inked [closed]

One of the lesser populated species; not a feline or a canine

Post here with a ref sheet if you're interested, please be aware that I'm a beginner, and these are not going to be super high quality.

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Author: Fred So the camel can talk. Can he fly? Have you ever heard of Kamlu …Happy Happy, a 3D CGI Hollywood-Bollywood co-production directed by Govind Nihalani that will be released on November 2? In India, anyway, in Hindi. Produced by Krayon Pictures, the same studio that made Delhi Safari, in fact. This English-language trailer [...]

I'm opening for halloween commissions~ (More information here )

Either message me here, comment below, or note me on FA :3

I only accept Paypal.

-Lexi

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Author: crossaffliction This is the third installation of my series of three comic book reviews, but why should I have all the fun? There has got to be other furries out there who read and collect comic books. I am going to open this up to them; if you read comic books and would like to [...]