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I'm thinking of selling original pieces of art on something like furbuy. I am assuming the art should be yiff to sell well. It feels a bit dishonest to ask this, but what are the most lucrative species, fandoms or kinks out there? I thought something like Pokemon or MLP could be fun and popular enough. Commissions could also be an option, but I'm not as confident drawing to order.

This is not to say I will draw whatever is suggested, but what would you likely pay for to have the original artwork? What do you wish to see more of? Or is my plan doomed?

Another thing I've been wondering is if people prefer human or animal genitalia in furry art. If I were to draw for example MLP:FiM characters, especially in a bipedal style, should they have human or pony genitals?

Any input is appreciated. Help out a fellow furbutt?

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Posting this to see if there is any interest~

Hey everyone, I'm a classical (for the most part) producer fur and I'm going to be heading off to college in the next month. I figured once I finish some of the WIPs I have and make a little tips and tricks vid for a friend, I'm going to open 2 slots up for music commissions. These can be anything you want really, whether it be a character theme or even something for a project you're working on.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fenyn/

My profile page which has only WIPs right now, will be submitting final pieces in the next week or so.

Prices will be finalized in a journal which I can repost here if need be, but the prices will work with a base price for one piece and then will increase as the piece becomes longer/more complex and the more instruments involved, the higher the price (each instrument added involves more work).

If you want a price range right now I would say $20-35 as a base price (base price includes 4 instruments i.e. strings only, brass only, etc.)

If you want me to pull out everything i've got and make a massive full orchestra (strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, etc.) The price will jump to probably around $70-100 as it involves a ton of work and a lot of checking back with you to see if you are happy with the progress.

Fees are subject to change before I open based off the quality of my finished pieces and what I feel they will be realistically worth.

Feel free to PM me here, or Note me on my FA if you're interested and I'll mark ya down for a reserve spot.

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Dearest Papa Bear,

I've been reading your advice column a lot, and honestly, I've been getting a lot of advice indirectly. Your column is very helpful and I believe you have sound advice. So I want to turn to you...

About two months ago, I met Indy (not real name) on FurAffinity, and we talked to each other a lot because of similar interests. I loved snuggling and chatting, like him. But unfortunately, while I was looking for a friendship, he was looking for a mate. And neither of us knew, because we were just talking casually.

Later on, he made a drawing of the two of us, cuddled, sitting on a couch. I thought it was just for gratitude, for being a friend. He said I was free to upload it to FA, and so I did.

I made it clear on my FA profile page that I am straight, I keep a "straight furries" icon on my profile, but still, one day, he asked me if I was bisexual, and when I said "no", he was devastated. He told me that all his past relationships ended badly. He wanted to leave the fandom, and said he wasn't worth my time anyway. He said he felt very sick. He said he was a fool to think that. I tried apologizing, explaining to him that I was curious (sexuality-wise), and that what he felt was not just his fault, it was also my fault for being too vague with my friendly affections. On that day, we said our goodbyes, and I told him he didn't have to speak to me again if he doesn't want to.

He left a note on my FA, saying that even if we don't speak to each other again, could I at least keep the drawing he made for me. Before I could reply, he sent me another message, saying: "You know what, please, let's forget what happened this morning. I don't want you to leave, I want you to stay like who you are."

I responded immediately, saying that I agree, and we reconciled, and we were friends again. Although for the first few days after the incident, I was very careful of what I said, and he was still being quite pessimistic. This mellowed down, and today, we are very open and casual to each other. Like the relationship of two brothers who are very similar. He relies and depends on my emotional support very much. Now and then, he says "love you," where I respond, "I love you back" but I do feel he knows I only mean it as friends.

Later on, he found a mate, and I congratulated him, but he said even though he's mated, I'm still more special to him than anyone. Later, his mate broke up with him, because his mate realized he wasn't ready for a relationship. Indy poured his sorrows out to me. Like I said, he depends on me a lot.

Now, you see, I realized that even though I am mostly straight, I am bi-curious. I'm okay with dating a guy. I'm not closed in my sexuality. And I really feel like I'm falling in love sometimes, even with those of the same sex, even falling in love with Indy himself...

Papa Bear, my problem is ... I'm afraid to fall in love with someone of the same sex. Indy and I could not be together because I said I wasn't bisexual. But now, I am suddenly okay with it. If I fell in love with another male who isn't Indy, would it not hurt him badly? Would he not feel "cheated" by life?

My question is: What should I do? Should I just let myself do what I want, without acknowledging how I might affect Indy, or is there something I need to do to clarify things to him? I want to keep him as my friend, I don't want him to get hurt if in case I fall in love with another male who is not him. What should I do Papa Bear?

With lots of love and hugs, a troubled coyote,

Gordon

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Dear Gordon,

Love is an odd fish.  There are many kinds of love in the world: love for a parent or sibling, love for a mate, love for one’s child, love for a dear friend, love for one’s god, even love for a pet dog or cat or gerbil. Just because you love someone does not mean you want that person, necessarily, to be your mate.

For instance, I have a dear bear friend whom I call my Spirit Bear because he helped me through the time when I was discovering my sexuality at a late age while coming to the end of a decades-long relationship.  I love this furry in a deep way, but not in the same way as I love my mate.  I have other dear friends like this as well whom I love very much.

The point is, you are permitted to love more that one person in your life, Gordon. This is especially necessary for someone like you who is bisexual(?) and would probably never be happy with just one sex or another, but it is true of all people, to a greater or lesser extent. 

You can love Indy in a perhaps-more-than-brotherly way, and you may find another person or two or more whom you also love. Then there may be that one person whom you love above all others, but this doesn’t mean you have to stop loving those who are still very dear to you.

But Gordon, you might not realize this, but you are really setting off my gay-dar here (and before I get any letters from readers, no, I don’t think all furries are gay, quite the contrary), and I believe you set off Indy’s as well. Your letter is a Freudian psychologist’s dream, rife with clues that tell me you aren’t being entirely honest with yourself about your sexuality, including:

1. It is quite telling that you say you are worried you’ll hurt Indy by falling in love with another male, not female! even though you are “mostly straight.”
2. You compare yourself to Indy as “two brothers who are very similar.”
3. You constantly protest you are straight, yet you never once support this with an example of a relationship with a woman.
4. You go so far as to put a “straight furries” icon on your profile; pardon me for saying so, but men who are confident in their heterosexuality feel no need to announce they are straight. This falls under the “methinks he doth protest too much” category of argument. I’m sure others who do as you have done will object to what I just said, but oh well!
5. You describe yourself merely as “bi-curious,” but someone who is just playing around with the notion of homosexual encounters does not say “I'm falling in love sometimes, even with those of the same sex, even falling in love with Indy himself.”
6. You say you are suddenly okay with being bisexual after initially denying that feeling.
7. For someone who merely wants to be friends with Indy, you are extremely concerned with how having encounters with other men will hurt his feelings for you, and possibly your chances of a future relationship with him.

To answer your question, no, you shouldn’t just do whatever you want without regard to how it might affect Indy. Especially when it sounds like you might be doing this out of fear that you’ll fall more deeply in love with him. Letting fear make the decisions for you will likely lead you to the wrong choice.

Papabear suspects the reason you originally backed off with Indy is that you got scared about what you were feeling and what that said about you, so you pushed him away. Fortunately for you, Indy didn’t give up on you and asked you to let him back into your life.

I’m not saying you should immediately proceed into matehood with Indy, but I am saying you shouldn’t keep him at arm’s length because you are afraid you might fall head over footpaws in love with him. Right now, though, you are not quite ready for either choice.

What you should not do is toy with Indy’s emotions again (judging by your letter, he is extremely emotional and wears his heart on his sleeve), which is what happened the first time and why he got crushed. And, yes, here comes that word again that Papabear uses so often: communication. You need to talk to Indy and tell him exactly where you are emotionally and sexually. Tell him you do care for and even love him, but you are still confused about your own sexuality and that it wouldn’t be fair to him, right now, to become his mate because you honestly don’t know where you stand when it comes to sex and matehood (you’ll figure it out, though, I’m sure).

Papabear used to be a bear who always had to have a plan where he was going and where he would be 10, 20, 50 years down the road. I found out in more recent years that it doesn’t work that way. If you had asked me 20 years ago where I’d be today, I would have told you I would be a fantasy book novelist living in conservative Michigan and getting ready for my 25th wedding anniversary; instead, I am a 46 year old divorced, gay, furry, failed writer (but okay editor) living with my mate in southern California. Life’s funny that way. Hell, I was once a registered Republican, for God’s sake (no offense, Republicans).

The lesson here is: don’t fret too much that you are still working on who you are. It is a lifelong process. Think of where you are now, today. And what you have now and today is a very dear friend named Indy who loves you and whom you love back. Who knows where it is going? It might not go anywhere or it might become a wonderful life together. That you are writing to me worried that your decisions in life will affect Indy in a bad way tells me that he is much more than just a friend and that you have a lot to figure out still. Embrace that. And be honest with him.

Hugs,

Papabear 

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So a couple weeks ago I posted a link to this artist's new album. You folks seemed to receive it well, so I hoped perhaps posting this here as well might help him out a bit. It appears he's offering music commissions along with just accepting anything people are willing to give him to survive. Please at least just give it a read and send him your best if nothing else.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3734633/

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Or is anyone else sick to fucking death of (IWTL to be a cock slave) posts on here... that and Who's the sexiest furs out there? bullshit. It is bad enough when I try to use my job on my resume and I for sure get googled. "ohh, it says here that Mr.Slidewolf helps raise money for military animals and their handlers,... lets just google some info to verif....HOLY FUCK!!! BURN THE FUCKING RESUME!!!!!!!

*note I don't have "I'm A FURRY HUUR DURR" on my job resume I am just saying google image search the name of something reputable online and it for sure will come back with something horrible..because well...its google

So I don't know what exactly I want to get across here...maybe just SHUT THE FUCK UP, if you have to take pictures of a 8' long dragon dildo up your ass...don't tag it "FURRY"..try instead..."hey look at me violate my own asshole" and leave the Furry out of it....Just saying =)

Have a shiny fucking day! <3 ~slide

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I have no idea what it is, other than a phone friendly skype-ish thing. Message me if interested?

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We all know we like eachothers butts. Lets have a contest! Who is the sexiest REAL LIFE FUR you know? Lets boost some self esteem!

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I guess you could say I'm a questioning furry, and I really don't know if you can really consider me a furry per se...

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So recently Jerry Springer tweeted that he's looking for bronies. I thought he didn't have a show? Anyway, response has been the obvious "It's a trap!" from everyone from the brony side, including Tara Strong (a voice actress from the show). Why is it a trap? Well you should know already, being furries, and how the media just loves to expose the "dark seedy underbelly" of everything, ever. But a more real reason would have been because Howard Stern recently had one of his dudes go to a bronycon and straight up ask attendees if they fap to pony porn (clop) and which pony is their favorite that they fapped to the most. Howard actually made a decent effort to explain "clopping" and "plot" but obviously the only reason was to just go EW GROSS LOL CREEPY LOSER VIRGINS ala Rush Limbaugh when spoke about FC05.

So basically these kinds of things get comments from the peanut gallery (ie, non-bronies) about how the fandom is just like the furry fandom, with responses from other bronies stating how they are nothing alike. I disagreed, but didn't know why at the time. Today, when I saw the same assertion that furries and bronies are completely different I ended up posting the following

They're pretty similar, fandom wise. So obviously there's cons, and ponysuits, and people creating their own characters and getting art and writing stories of them, and referring to their friends by their OC name, and being the punching bag of the internet, and "X pride" and "coming out" stories. But really the most similar, is the fact we have adults who really like what is perceived to be childish things. Anthro animals are historically associated with child-friendly things (Disney movies, vidya games). So when mass media gets wind that there are adults that really really like these "kiddie" things, they take interest. Then they hear about porn drawn of these characters, and custom plushies (ohhai lyra), and $1000 custom suits with special holes in them, then they get really interested.

I've been a furry for long enough to have this stuff not surprise me when I see bronydom going through the same motions. Cons? Fanfic? risque fanfic? XXX fanfic? Artists with "fame"? Bragging how you got a commission from a famous artist? Pony suits where half the comments are disparaging and half supportive? Howard Stern et al asking adults personal and invasive questions about their sex life, with people being candid cause they don't give a shit and are comfortable with themselves? Yea, they're pretty much fuckin mirrors. Expect drama when Tyra Banks gets a brony on the show to talk about how he faps to clop and then we'll see how loving and tolerant the fandom is.

How come anime cons get a free pass? How come media never focuses on hentai, shota, and lolicon? They're about as integral to that fandom as clop and yiff are to their respective fandoms. (As in, it's completely debatable and a extremely controversial thing that polarizes their fandoms.)

So I sound a bit sour and cynical (a cynical raccoon? NO WAY) but I feel like there are furries and bronies who aren't into the adult stuff that just think it will go away if they pretend it doesn't exist.

So what do you guys think?

tl;dr Seeing the MLP fandom go through the same motions as the furry fandom and watching bronies vehemently deny it is really fun.

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Xiath: And for the first time, the episode uploaded flawlessly! *epic win*

Anywhoozle. This episode we decided to take things a little bit on the deep end and discuss a topic that may be a little controversial. We discuss where we believe the line between acceptable furry behavior and unacceptable behavior is.

Remember to send us listenermail!

~Xiath FursonaPod Ep. 43 – When Does the Fandom Go too Far? - Xiath: And for the first time, the episode uploaded flawlessly! *epic win* - Anywhoozle. This episode we decided to take things a little bit on the deep end and discuss a topic that may be a little controversial.

Xiath: Hello fellow furries! Looks like we’ve got another episode up! you better go listen to it!

In this episode Rainstar and myself are joined by first time guest Rizz the Fennec Foxote (foxote’s FTW!) and former owner of FusonaPod Zaaz the skunk. We discuss where we believe the furry fandom sits within society. Hope you enjoy this episode!!

Remember to send us listenermail!

~Xiath FursonaPod Ep. 42 – Where Does the Fandom Sit in Society? - Xiath: Hello fellow furries! Looks like we've got another episode up! you better go listen to it! - In this episode Rainstar and myself are joined by first time guest Rizz the Fennec Foxote (foxote's FTW!) and former owner of FusonaPod Zaaz the skunk.

Xiath:  Can this be?! A new episode of FP? Indeed it’s true! Rainstar, Marseth, and Xiath made and episode for you!

In this episode, you shall see what the fandom means to me. Sit back and relax and take a look into our past.

Remember to send us listenermail!

~Xiath Fursonapod Ep. 41 – What the Fandom Means to Us - Xiath:  Can this be?! A new episode of FP? Indeed it's true! Rainstar, Marseth, and Xiath made and episode for you! - In this episode, you shall see what the fandom means to me. Sit back and relax and take a look into our past. -

Xiath:

Note: I dun goofed with uploading the new episode so this blog post is gonna be boring since I effed up. Sorry!

Hope you enjoy this episode!

Remember to send us listenermail!

~Xiath Have something you’d like to say?

Email: listenermail@fursonapod.com

Fursonapod Ep. 40 - Xiath: - Note: I dun goofed with uploading the new episode so this blog post is gonna be boring since I effed up. Sorry! - Hope you enjoy this episode! - Remember to send us listenermail! ~Xiath - Have something you'd like to say?