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I'm getting my iPad tomorrow with a Wacom stylus + was wondering if there was anyone else here that use their iPad to draw? And what drawing app their recommend? Thanks so much!

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Author: Harvi We’re rebooting the podcast! Now you can take part in the Hop Inn from the beginning! When we catch up to the current episode we’ll update our iTunes Feed to point over here instead of the old, soon to be gone, site. We’ll be adding more information and links as this site progresses [...] [Series Reboot]Live From the Hop Inn Episode 402

Author: E-Mail Hidden This week on Knotcast, Fuzz, Savrin, and Shiva get a load of emails! A follow up or two, feedback on the dom/sub thing from last week, and have an honest to goodness DTMFA letter. We don’t do that often. Bucktown Tiger provided us a song this week, “We Don’t Let Dreams Die“ [...] KnotCast: Episode 183 – Spaghetti Cyclone

How can I meet furry people? I met my boyfriend on pounced but haven't been able to make any friends which bums me out. Any advice?

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(((Really sorry if this is a repost)))This came to mind because I just suddenly thought of it and I suddenly remembered. I saw and episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, idk why but he pulled out a bear costume and my brothers were all like 'LOL' and i was like 'LOL, what?' And then my brother was like 'he's a furry, lol' But until about 3-4 years later, i actually got into the community and have been in it for about 4 year now.

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some of you may remember a while back i had posts about wearing a tail to school. well after 2 days, it was a success with only a few harsh comments. this coming year i am going to wear it to school on a regular basis. my question is how much is to much to wear a tail. or how often should i wear it

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TK, Xavier, and Eeve3 are joined by Felis and DeeJay again (as is normal these days) for more fun and chaos in a studio that gets hotter and hotter for TK, causing him to post pictures to Facebook for sympathy. For Done and Dusted TK mutters a bit about the animated film Rock and Rule after hearing Werewolfe's review in episode 03. Xavier reviews the film Chronicle, Startcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, and MLG. Felis talks about the Mass Effect 3 new endings. Werewolfe is back this week, and reviews Pootie Tang. Starring TK, Xavier, Eeve3, DeeJay and Felis. TigerTails Radio - Season 6 - Episode 45 - Hot and Bothered

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Hypnobeast is the cheery face of furry hypnotism. Best known for his retro FurAffinity banner ads, HB is a qualified hypnotist offering a service tailored to the furry community.

I enjoyed a long chat with him recently where we talked about the utility of hypnotism within furry, the trials of being a professional furry, and how to react when people ask you to rape them.

My reflections and some highlights follow in the article below.

Hypnotism is a natural pursuit for furries. The trance state is like a vivid waking dream: hyper-alert yet perfectly relaxed. This state, with guidance, is the closest that any of us will get to living and feeling our imaginary furry bodies.

It helps that furries usually have strong imaginations and vivid internal lives. Our furry alter egos are already well realized within the community: hypnotism allows us to take that a half-step further.

In a session with HB, he will ask you about your furry identity and your reasons for choosing their form. Given the premise that furries craft their avatar with great care, HB will reflect the language of that creation. So if you associate (say) your inner fox with intelligence and creativity, HB will use language during the session that reinforces those concepts.

The process itself is simple enough: a few minutes of relaxation, followed by some image-rich wordplay designed to engage your imagination, followed by exploration of your furry body as if you were inside it. The experience is different for everyone, but the biggest variable is the skill of the hypnotist.

HB is a proper old school furry. He started by lurking around alt.fan.dragons as a tween in the early 90s, eventually graduating into the growing furry world. Like a lot of furries who discover the community at a young age, HB found high school difficult and was drawn into the open-minded, respectful, and tolerant online furry community as his primary social outlet.

HB developed an interest in hypnosis and dabbled amongst other amateurs online. I suspect that HB’s interest in hypnotism originated from a desire to draw away from life where he was an outcast, to feel closer to the virtual furry world where he was accepted and loved.

After school, HB earned a degree in psychology and, with no interest in becoming a therapist, underwent formal training as a hypnotist. Nowadays, he works as a hypnotist inside furry (as Hypnobeast) in combination with a more traditional practice out in the real world. He has an office but, curiously for a profession that requires a close connection between practitioner and client, prefers to use Skype.

Hypnobeast is his professional virtual furry hypnotist. The Hypnobeast identity allows HB to separate his furry work from his regular practice. It also provides distance from his personal furry identity. This simple idea has proved surprisingly complex… but more on that later.

The cheesy imagery of Hypnobeast – all swinging pendulums and mesmeric spirals – is probably a marketing masterstroke. HB is a little less sure because he only gets exposed to the extreme reactions: either prospective furry clients or those making fun of Hypnobeast’s 1930s-travelling-mesmerist image. But it’s attention-grabbing, fun, and unforgettable.

HB’s marketing may suggest that his style is dazzling and demanding, yet this is not the reality. HB is an Ericksonian hypnotist, which means that his style is friendly and permissive. He will look for, and ask for, regular feedback during a hypnosis session.

He controls the rhythm of his voice and chooses carefully crafted phrases, delivered to guide you into a relaxed state. He does this while reflecting your own words and conversational style, noted during the getting-to-know you chat at the beginning of a session.

Craftsmanship is the value of a professional hypnotist, and HB is a true craftsman of words. HB understands the language of furry introspection.

Early in our chat, HB told me that he is shy, which he immediately disproved by happily chatting away with a relative stranger for the next hour or two. He might be better described as vulnerable, as he reveals a lot of himself in conversation. The rapport between hypnotist and client is all important, and HB’s openness is charming and disarming.

While chatting about his path into becoming a hypnotist, HB was open about his difficult and relatively unhappy adolescence. Throughout school, he coped by disengaging from the world and spending a lot of time inside his own head. Like a lot of people who study psychology, I suspect that HB chose his degree because he was hoping to learn about himself.

Starting up as a professional hypnotist is a difficult task. There are set up costs – insurance, office space, union fees – and no client base. The task is especially difficult because hypnotists are usually focussed on treating a symptom rather than exploring a cause. Most clients will see a hypnotist two or three times. Regular clients (like a therapist might have) are rare.

HB is less interested in hypnotism as a cure. He sees his ideal role as providing relaxation sessions, on the premise that relaxation is good for long-term physical and mental health. And inside the furry community, HB hopes to build up a client base who appreciate the joy of an occasional walk inside their furry body.

It’s tough for anyone looking to be a professional furry and HB is no different. He has found new clients to be rare, and last-minute cancellations to be common. He has found it difficult to market himself in person: he’s attended cons in a professional capacity, but learned that a well-dressed professional hypnotist won’t receive walk-up trade; he’s performed free group hypnosis sessions at Further Confusion and Califur, for which he received positive feedback but little paid follow-up.

HB has had most success by advertising on FA directing people to hypnobeast.com. His current offer – $5 for a first session – is going well, drawing some new clients and increasing his visibility inside the community. But his business has not yet grown to a significant number of paid furry sessions.

And then there is the sex. The trope of hypnotist-as-rapist is common in furry erotica and pornography, and it tests HB’s patience and ethics.

HB isn’t anti-sex, and advocates hypnosis to enhance sex. Hypnosis is commonly used to treat sexual problems – erectile dysfunction, or management of vaginal pain during intercourse are probably the two most common – and also to broaden sexual horizons. This requires utmost professionalism from the hypnotist, to ensure a controlled environment for the client. This does not work well with furries.

One of the strengths of the furry community is its openness towards sex. Furries are okay talking about sex freely but this leads to problems in a therapeutic context. HB has found it challenging to maintain a professional bubble when dealing with sex-related issues: amongst furries, there is a fine line between discussing sex and flirting.

After a few clients who looked to inappropriately cross HB’s professional boundaries, he has become wary of offering such services. Hypnobeast, the character, has been created to provide a professional identity. Professional conduct is important, not just for HB’s integrity but also under the terms of his insurance.

It’s nice to be considered an object of lust. Hypnobeast is such an object in the eyes of many furries, and some have been very direct in suggesting rape-fantasy roleplay. HB has asked me to keep details confidential, but suffice to say that some of the sexual offers he has received via Hypnobeast are surprising in their complexity, scope, and creativity.

HB is a professional and gives short shrift to anyone flirting with/at Hypnobeast. In a lighter moment, he expressed wry frustration that his personal furry characters rarely, if ever, receive such attention. Or, as he puts it: “please, please, stop hitting on Hypnobeast”.

• Hypnobeast is currently offering $5 sessions for new furry clients – see here.

Author: Fred Before Transformations and More Terrible Than Chains, so much more happened. Learn about one chakat family’s lives and customs, loves and hates, friends and foes. Join with us as Chakat Forestwalker recounts tales of hir experiences and those of hir family and friends. (back-cover blurb) Melbourne Furry fan Bernard Doove has been writing [...]

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Hi, Papabear,

Well, my mate and I have been mating and she seems to have problems reaching orgasm and other times I reach it fast. My question is what we can do to really enjoy sex?

Lovely Cow

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Dear Lovely Cow,

As with anything else in a relationship, problems in the bedroom are best solved with communication. Your letter is really short, and thus undetailed, so Papabear will have to respond in general. The assumption I will make in my response is that both of you are in good physical and mental health, ruling out bad health as a possibility of her problems reaching a climax.

Many people, especially at the beginning of a relationship in which sex has become a part, go to bed and start doing stuff to their partner that either they themselves enjoy or they think their partner will enjoy. When you do something with your partner that they don’t enjoy at that point, the partner can do one of a couple of things: 1) tell you right away something to the effect of, “Hey, I don’t really enjoy that,” 2) not say anything to the point that you think they actually DO like it, which can lead to misunderstandings down the road, or 3) not say anything but also make it pretty apparent they aren’t having a good time, leaving the first person thinking they are just a lousy lover.

What is happening to you might be because you actually are not pleasing your mate, but she is too embarrassed to tell you so or doesn’t want to hurt your feelings. You need to talk about this in an open and frank conversation and discuss what both of you enjoy and do not enjoy. In this way, you will hopefully come to a nice understanding and it will greatly improve your bedroom experience.

Hope this helps!

Papabear

Hey all, I've heard so much about the alt.fan.furry newsgroup, and now
i'm finally posting to it.

How's everyone?

My name is Coyo Stormcaller, I'm a black and green coyote daemon.
Pleasure to meet all of you!

If anyone wants to play games, i'm coyotama on steam, and if anyone
wants to chat on xmpp, my xmpp is xmpp:c...@darkdna.net

Author: Fred Tristan Black Wolf, a resident of Syracuse, NY, is a member of the Furry Writers’ Guild and of North American Fur, and has stories in both volumes to date of Allasso, the “publication dedicated to finding new experiences within anthropomorphic writing and art.” The Man With Two Shadows is his first novel. Jeremiah [...]

Please, help me.
My name is Sergei Dudnik (my nickname Seronheliya). I'm from Ukraine.
I am an orphan, and I'm openly gay.
I fear for my life. I posted the video on my video blog 2 years, every homophobe knows my face.
I want to get political asylum. But all the embassies have ignored me.
I can not leave the country legally, I can not get a passport because I do not have a residence permit, I do not have a residence permit, I have no home.
Here all the orphans are homeless.
I live with my boyfriend.
Everyone knows my address.
Each month, we are under attack homophobic fascist group near my home.
LGBT organizations in Ukraine can not help.
Help! Please tell my story to those who could help me to leave Ukraine.
My vlog
http://www.youtube.com/user/seronxeliya
my e-mail
nas@ua.fm

Author: crossaffliction Pixar’s newest movie, Brave, is about a princess who turns her mother into a bear. I have a problem with Pixar, and in reviewing Brave, I would like to get up on a soapbox for a bit and explain that problem. Many people really like Pixar movies, and think they are the best [...]