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Howdie bear friend!

I'm so dearly in love with our fandom and my enthusiasm after over a year has not really ever faded.

But my emotional condition has varied as I want to go to meets and fursuit events so badly but just don't have one red cent to spend after bills and food. I had gone to some a while back and there are friends and others I can get a ride from on rare occasions so I know how to get to some meets and events but there is always a need for money, even mass transit with a discount. My budget says “no.” Plus I find that especially without a handler / hearing ear person to help me out I can get upset easily from misunderstandings and so on so I'm reluctant to go as well. Sorry for the long explanation.

My problem is I'm so very happy and proud to be a furry when I watch the videos on YouTube and all the other stuff yet it also can be dearly painful that I'm stuck at home so much just like so many furries and cannot get out to have fun too.

I was so jealous of seeing other furries having fun and that I wasn't having fun, so I put my paw down and made my fursuits so I could have fun too. I didn't know what a rare and precious thing it was and how few get to fursuit or have fursuits. And that it is infrequent and difficult to get to fursuit let alone have the same fun.

I so dearly love our fandom but the best way to handle it would be to stop watching so many great videos about us and to become jaded and not so interested so therefore I'm not so emotionally invested in the concept and the fandom. I dearly love all furries!

I have few friends but without money and my best friend barely able to get around himself, etc. I don't have much emotional support or relief outside of some low level amount from online friendships.

And I don't ever want to become jaded one dang bit! I love the fandom and it's worth the pain. But it is a lot of pain.

I need to get out so very much. I need to fursuit in public as it's so much fun but the local city police told me I'm not allowed to fursuit at the park and so forth with what's stopping me. I'm afraid to go out these days. Yet fursuiting was the incentive to get out and do things. To get exercise or go to the park.

My energy levels as much from depression as anything are very low so it's difficult to get myself to do much of anything. Like calling park commissioners to deal with the police problems at the parks. And I'm very busy from so many things I have to do in all sorts of things like trying to get decent hearing aids though I won't be able to use them much like when fursuiting.

So how am I going to deal with all this? What more than I have and had learned how to deal with emotional difficulties that I can do? I'm trying but so very close to giving up. So very close but so "obsessed" with our fandom that fortunately I won't ever truly give up though I try to keep the fursuits in storage since it's wear and tear wearing them as well as there is almost nothing I can do in the cramped house in fursuit anyway (long story).

It's just so painful and so difficult and so lonely.

And a whole heck of a lot of other furries feel the same way too (depending on circumstances).

--Excelsior the Lion

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Dear Excelsior,

[FYI to Papabear’s readers, I know Excelsior and have chatted with him online a number of times, though we have never met IRL.]

There are a couple of issues here that need addressing: 1) your hearing impairment; 2) your lack of money preventing you from easy travel; 3) the cops telling you that you can’t fursuit in a park; 4) your intense frustration over not being able to socialize with furries.

Let’s address #3 first. There is no California law that says it is illegal for you to wear a fursuit in a public place such as a park. If there were, then I couldn’t have done this at a park in Riverside:
Papabear crashing a wedding reception. Therefore, these cops are denying you your rights. Contacting the park commissioner will, as you found out, not yield results because they are the ones who probably contacted the police in the first place. If I were you, I would look up a pro bono lawyer and explain to them that the cops are denying you your rights; not only that, but you are deaf and they are harassing a person with a handicap. At the same time, contact your local newspaper and give them the details of the story of how the police are making a deaf man’s life miserable when all he wants to do is harmlessly fursuit in the park. Any news director is going to eat that story up, believe me (I’m married to a former news director).

Okay, so that’s dealing with local derpy public officials; now on to the furry community. Just to make sure bases are covered, I’m assuming you contacted Hearing Services of Antioch, which is your area service for the deaf at 4045 Lone Tree Way, Suite D, Antioch, CA 94531, phone 925.778.3298. But if you haven’t, or haven’t done so in a long time, you should really contact them and pick their brains on ways to improve your daily life with your hearing impairment. 

As for money, well, many of us struggle with that, the obvious solution being to make more money, but sadly Papabear can’t help you there.

Okay, so that is #1, 2, and 3, now to #4: meetups with furries. I’m sure you’re aware that the Bay Area Furries Meetup Group is based in Danville, which is less than a 30 minute drive from your home. I’m hoping you have some connections there? Someone who could occasionally drive you? 

If not, you know you COULD organize a furmeet at your own home. Bring the furries to YOU, since you can’t go TO THEM. Make sense? You can have a party and have people bring a dish and drinks and hang out, play games, watch movies, whatever you like. (Oh, and another option, though not quite as good, but pretty darn close, is to get involved in SecondLife, where there are tons of furries and places to hang out with them.)

So, the lesson here is twofold: 1) don’t let the police and county officials push you around when you are legally in the right, and 2) there is ALWAYS a way to get around roadblocks if you have the will and creativity to do so.

Good luck, Excelsior,

Papabear

P.S. If anyone reading this column lives in the San Francisco area and has more tips for Excelsior, please comment below. Thanks!

No, this ep. has nothing to do w/ the terrible movie the image is from. We talk about food fights, politics, segways, and Cheetos. Also, we're doing an art contest!!! Grand prize is my 3DS! 2nd: $60, 3rd: $40, 2nd: $20. Check it out! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8966756/ GOT A COUPLE NEW HIGHLIGHTS UP, CHECK 'EM OUT! http://www.youtube.com/user/DraggetShow as always, you can leave your questions and comments on draggetshow@gmail.com, we love hearing from you! 041 - Food Fight! - No, this ep. has nothing to do w/ the terrible movie the image is from. We talk about food fight...

No, this ep. has nothing to do w/ the terrible movie the image is from. We talk about food fights, politics, segways, and Cheetos. Also, we're doing an art contest!!! Grand prize is my 3DS! 2nd: $60, 3rd: $40, 2nd: $20. Check it out! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8966756/ GOT A COUPLE NEW HIGHLIGHTS UP, CHECK 'EM OUT! http://www.youtube.com/user/DraggetShow as always, you can leave your questions and comments on draggetshow@gmail.com, we love hearing from you! 041 - Food Fight! - No, this ep. has nothing to do w/ the terrible movie the image is from. We talk about food fight...

Are you the quiet, learned type, or do you just take a concept and shout it to anyone with ears? We discuss this idea, based on Proverbs 18:2.

Also, happy birthday to Wolfin.

Hosts: Levi, Tikaani, Wolfin
Image by: Silent Paw

Daily Show: October 11, 2012 - Are you the quiet, learned type, or do you just take a concept and shout it to anyone with ears? We discuss this idea, based on Proverbs 18:2. - Also, happy birthday to Wolfin. - Hosts: Levi, Tikaani, Wolfin Image by: Silent Paw

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So i've been editing furry pics to be used as icons. I run snow leopard and use a program called candybar (now free) to swap out icons for folders and apps. Thought you all might like em

http://www.u18chan.com/board/u18chan/fur/topic/1101091

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Su Ling is a prankster, a young Si'amese girl who loves to play tricks on others. When her brothers are set to be married by the local match makers, Su Ling plays a prank that brings some unexpected results.

“Su Ling” by Carmen K. Welsh

Read by Christopher Williams

Music cues by Infinity Squared 

AD 044 - Su Ling - Su Ling is a prankster, a young Si'amese girl who loves to play tricks on others. When her brothers are set to be married by the local match makers, Su Ling plays a prank that brings some unexpected results. “Su Ling” by Read by Music...

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Just in time for more Monsters, Inc, Marvel Comics brings us… Monsters, Inc! The full-color comic book adaptation, that is. The new 2-issue mini-series was adapted by Charles Bazaldua and illustrated by a team of artists from Italy. All of this in anticipation of the 3D re-release of Monsters, Inc — which is, of course, in anticipation of the new Pixar prequel film, Monsters University, which is due next year. (If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the Monsters University “Campus Brochure” that Disney/Pixar have created.) The comic book version of the original Mike and Sully movie, meanwhile, is due in stores this December.

image c. 2012 Disney/Pixar

 

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Check it out! We love our listeners and wanted to give you even more ways to connect to the show! We are pleased to announce FWIW Mail and FWIW Voicemail. Check our “Contact Us” page for our mailing address and phone number. You just might hear your voice on the air! To celebrate the addition [...]

I tentatively enabled link flair, I added some categories to choose from for posts and whatnot. I think you can add flair to your submitted links. I'm still sciencedog.jpg about this though.

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And dragging along a redesign of my Fursonas. (I shudder when I say that word and I have no idea why.)

Basically I used to depict myself as Two Grey Wolf twins. One male, one female. Male on was the more derpy of the two, basically my every day self, and the female one was the more sensible, academic one that keeps me in-line. My conscience and brain really. But I decided that the Wolf didn't really suit me anymore. So I asked my friends and stuff, and we came to the conclusion (Somehow) that a Collie suited me.

So I drew them again as two Collies and took a crappy webcam photo because scanner does not play nice with pencil. They are called Randall and Petra and there is nothing special about them. =|

http://i.imgur.com/aZrHj.jpg

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