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Alright, Here's the situation. You went to sleep one night. Normal human you. You woke up. And whatever your furry character would be, that was you. And you were the only person that this happened to. What would your first moments in your course of action be? I'd love to see your opinion of what you would do in the comments.

Me? First thing. I would wake up, spend a couple of minutes looking in the mirror, and freak out a little bit. I'd attempt to then try my various controls, to see if I know how to walk in the new body, or can still speak English for that matter. My next move would be to probably cut a hole in the back of some shorts to actually fit that tail through and wear something. Then, if I can talk, I would probably call up to all various places, and call in some sick time. Disappear from the radar for a little while. After that, I would make sure that a friend could run to the store and grab me a couple of bottles of shampoo (You've gotta clean that entire body of fur somehow). After that, I'd start to get into the swing of things. Doing the usual computer routine, and try to even type. Once I have accomplished that, I'd actually go outside. Contact some close family, explain the situation. Maybe get a few pictures up online of myself after having explained it all, and try to raise general publicity. That way, it would avoid me becoming some kind of new science experiment and hauled off to a lab. If I disappeared again, a bunch of people would notice. Once I can get into the general swing of things again, I would just try to live out my usual day-to-day life and enjoy everything.

EDIT: Tell me if you want more of these things. I've got plenty of 'em in my head!

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Word has come out of Florida a few days ago that Digital Domain are closing down their new animation studio, Tradition, effective immediately, and will instead focus their California and Vancouver, Canada studios on movie special effects. Tradition was an attempt by Digital Domain (a well-known special effects house created by Stan Winston, Scott Ross, and director James Cameron) to follow in the steps of another FX house, Sony Pictureworks, into the realm of animated features (as Sony did successfully with Open Season, Surf’s Up, and other films). Now, 300 people have been let go in Florida, and — from a furry fan perspective, perhaps another sad thing — work has stopped on The Legend of Tembo, Tradition’s first film, which would have followed the adventures of a young elephant. Cartoon Brew have been following this story closely, so check it out — but be prepared for some harsh words.

image c. 2012 Digital Domain

Hey everyone, I've only recently started to embrace the fact that I'm a furry and will be attending my first con (FurFright) later this year. I'm really curious, though, on how one becomes active and involved in the Furry community?

Any tips?

Also, if anyone is situated in or around Worcester, MA, give a shout out.

Thanks!

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As more of the EuroFurence XVIII  (Aug 31st 2012) footage comes in I found this, exclusive “Savannah Revolution” concert Rock’n'Rome .The revolution guys are a group of furry musicians, much like the ones I tend to bump into at Camp Feral ( there is a lot). These guys got their stuff down and look pretty damn sexy up there too. I feel the vibe in my pelvis I might start to swing it. Would be pretty kick ass now I think of it to get all the music peeps together and sing one big song.

I would like to know which picture/video/event/whatever you look back to and say: "Since that moment I knew I'm a furry."

As for myself, one year ago a small reference to the game Solatorobo on an online gaming magazine from Germany, called 4Players, caught my eye and I got fascinated by the art style and googled around for more pictures and eventually got to know the furry fandom. A few weeks later I had first thoughts about being a furry myself, but I'm self-assured being and calling me one since the beginning of this year or so. So all in all, this picture here started the snowball for me:

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FA being down and all....

...and no, im not serious. thats what i have a portable hard drive for.

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I just realized that as of this week I've been in furry for 16 years! I've been a fur much longer, but discovered the fandom in 1996. I'm still heavily involved - I run Camp Feral! in Canada, I live with four furs (I've lived with 17 over the last 12 years in various furry houses) and have no interest in leaving anytime soon. Anyone else here been in furry for a long...LONG time? :)

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Christopher Smart (1722-1771) was an English poet and satirist. His story is one of art, debt, cross-dressing, drama, and cats. Readers of this article should feel free to draw parallels between Smart and furries, real or imagined.

Smart was an artistic youth with a seemingly misguided romantic focus, writing a poem at age four to challenge a rival for the affections of a twelve year-old. He was also delicate, avoiding physical exercise due to asthma attacks, a complaint widely disbelieved by those around him.

He attended Cambridge University, incurring a substantial debt in the process in the hope that this would be covered by his future career. To that end, he accepted several long-term contracts that tied him to Cambridge and prevented him from easily moving to the burgeoning publishing community in London.

He enjoyed some success in this time, winning a scholarship for Latin poetry, and working as a translator for Alexander Pope on an ad hoc basis. However his income was not sufficient for him to discharge his debts.

Smart gained some notoriety for his satirical plays, where he would act some of the female roles himself. This was considered unusual and led to rumours about his sexuality, a concept continued by today’s critical interest in Smart’s poetry, particularly its perceived gender-bending and phallic imagery.

He moved to London to work in the Grub St publishing scene, a collective of poets, low-end publishers and booksellers. During this time he continued to draw his wages from Cambridge, a ruse that was eventually discovered, cutting Smart off from his main income.

To try to make ends meet, Smart became a prolific writer. He contributed to a variety of magazines on top of his own plays and poetry.

Smart also got caught up in petty personal politics on Grub St, a 1752 equivalent of a flame war. Siding with Henry Fielding against John Hill in a ‘paper war’, Smart spent a great deal of time contributing to the growing vitriol, culminating in his epic poem The Hilliad. While he gained notoriety, such navel-gazing didn’t pay the bills, and Smart foundered in growing debt.

To manage his debts, Smart looked for charity amongst his friends. This led to personal problems as Smart became branded a moocher. Desperately, Smart accepted a 99-year contract to single-handedly publish a weekly paper. In 1756, at age 34, he had a breakdown from the stress.

Smart was interred at St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics on Old St. He fell into a religious mania and was pronounced incurable.

I visited the long-demolished site of St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics, now replaced with retail and a block of post-war flats. (For those who know London, it’s opposite the William Blake pub on Old St, just west of the roundabout.) St Luke’s Church (pictured) stands about 100m down the road. Photo by @bastett.

During his time in the asylum, Smart wrote his two great works. A Song to David was published in 1763 to acclaim that has grown with time, notably through Robert Browning (in the late 19th century) who ranked Smart alongside Milton and Keats.

Smart was eventually released from the asylum, only to be arrested for debt in 1770. He died in prison in 1771.

In 1939, Smart’s Jubilate Agno – which includes the canto For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry – was discovered and published.

Smart sees Jeoffry as godly, an opinion I imagine sat well in Jeoffry’s mind. There can be no doubt that Jeoffry was loved by Smart, to the extent that he sees God in Jeoffry’s morning ablutions. Nowadays, Jeoffry is Smart’s best known work.

The full text of For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry is below.

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having consider’d God and himself he will consider his neighbour.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day’s work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord’s watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he’s a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord’s poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually–Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can set up with gravity which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master’s bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Ichneumon-rat very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God’s light about him both wax and fire.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.

Some of my favorites are Cheap Thrills, Housepets, Broken Plot Device, Ballerina Mafia, Catena Manor, Lackadaisy, and Alpha Luna if that helps

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EDIT: Whoa, typo right there in the header. How's that for a first post, hah. I'm contemplating making PRINTS for sale, rather!

Hello, I'm http://www.inkbunny.net/shortwings/ (also http://twitter.com/_shortwings and I just tweeted about starting a thread here. Those accounts are linked to each other.)

The title says the tl;dr. I want to challenge myself and make high quality prints (well, as high quality as I can possibly muster) and I wanted to ask for your opinion. I recently just did a fully colored picture of Miorang from the game Flyff, and I was thinking of doing the rest with fanart as well. Which characters should I draw? Krystal? Renamon? (Also, does Renamon count as furry? No idea, that's why I'm here.)

Secondly, do you think the prints should be more geared towars adult content, or should I keep them sfw?

Cheers,

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I've really got nowhere else to turn with this! I'm a very confused person in many ways. Gender, sexuality, etc., etc. But what confuses me the most is my spirituality and religion.

I was raised in a semi-spiritual home. My mother was always burning sage and driving out bad spirits, and we prayed sometimes. But the problem is that she left me to choose what to call myself!

I feel very, very connected to the Nahua people, and ancient Mexicans in general, despite not being related to them at all (although my mate is from Mexico). I feel a deep burning desire to worship their deities and to live with them in my heart. When I find something to believe, it is my life... until something persuades me otherwise!

So what's the problem here, really? Well the issue is that I'm not an Amerindian. To me it's just taboo to go about a religion or way of life that isn't your own. If I were to be an Aztec worshiper, I'd still live my American life, but I'd just be into their spirituality. Despite these thoughts, there are still a lot of conflicts about it. I mean there are Caucasian Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and even Shintoists and they're generally accepted by everyone. It's just that something seems wrong with what I want to do.

Please help me, Papa Bear. I look up to you as a person who wishes to be tolerant and helpful, and I am really anxious to see what you have to say (as long as it's not, "Do what you want."!)

Happy Yerfday as well!

Xochimazatl

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Dear Xochimazatl,

Awesome name, by the way. Thank you for an important question! You are correct that most people in life stick with the religion of their culture and with how they were raised, if they stick with religion at all when they are older. Many Americans, of course, become rather secular and don’t go to church much as adults, except on holidays. Those Americans who do usually stick with the church of their parents: Baptists children become Baptists adults, Mormons become Mormons, Jews grow up Jewish, etc. etc.

In Papabear’s opinion, believing in something because you have been indoctrinated to believe in it since you were a toddler is to just do as you are told. A far stronger faith comes when one travels to it on his or her own accord. This can be, for example, a Christian who converts to Judaism or Islam or shamanism or Wicca, or Jainism, or anything other than his or her original faith. It could also involve dropping out of one’s original faith but then returning to it later after concluding that it is right for you.

Now you may have read before that Papabear isn’t big on organized religion, though I do respect those who follow their faith in all sincerity. Many faiths use scare tactics to keep members, such as “you’re going to Hell unless you believe in Jesus yadda yadda.” Always nice to be threatened, isn’t it? What a loving church that is. My mother lost her final scrap of faith in Christianity when the minister of our church (Southern Baptist) proclaimed, “Jesus wants us to have a new red rug for our church!” Really? Frankly, I don’t think Jesus gives a fat rat’s ass whether your rug is new or worn out.

After observing Christianity as a child and youth, I went on a long journey myself, learning about Far Eastern philosophy and religion from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. Later, I started to learn about “pagan” beliefs such as Wicca and shamanism, and currently I am learning some Native traditions from a personal teacher. Now, I have absolutely no Native American blood in me. I’m English/German/Russian. Does that mean I can’t study about things like the Medicine Wheel? Absolutely not!

You make it sound like a problem, but your mother has actually done you a huge favor in letting you explore your own spirituality and making your own choice. Sure, that’s a lot harder than just being told what to do, but in the end you will find it much more rewarding.

Spiritual belief is the most personal journey anyone can take. You must find the truths about those things that lie beyond the material world that make the most sense to you and which draw your heart into them. For you, Xochimazatl, that journey has led you to the Nahua people and their beliefs, which make sense to you.

That nagging in the back of your mind that says there is something wrong with this is your cultural upbringing. All around you, you hear people saying you should be a Christian in this country, especially if you are white and watch much television, and you feel guilty and even ashamed to pull away from that tradition. But I say to you right now that your desire to find a belief system that is true for you no matter what is a beautiful and extraordinary thing, and Papabear encourages you to pursue it 100% and without regrets.

May Grandfather Bear watch over you. I wish you love and happiness.

Papabear

P.S. Thanks for the Yerfday wishes!

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Author: admin Sorry for the delay on the episode, folks! Last week, Halfwit was sick and Kyo was at MFM, and two people just aren’t enough for something like this! Kyo shares his story of TornadoCon, Smokey tells us all about the danger of fructose, Halfwit finally gets her hands on a smartphone, Kyo gets [...] Episode 57 – School’s In