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Unicorn Overlord Review - By Brandon Billingsley
Unicorn Overlord is a tactical rpg developed by Vanillaware and released on March 8th, 2024. Those familiar with Vanillaware's work might remember Dragon’s Crown (2013) for PlayStaion 3/Vita and/or 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (2019) for PlayStation 4, both of which also featured sidescrolling and strategy elements. If you haven’t heard of them, don’t worry. Neither did I until doing research for this review.
If You Build It…
Stuart Ng Books always have a fascinating booth at any number of fannish conventions. At WonderCon, they introduced us to Paisley Rabbit and the Treehouse Contest, an illustrated book for children that came out in 2018 from writer Steve Richardson and illustrator Chris Dunn. “Can a lone girl rabbit with all the odds stacked against her actually surprise boastful Jimmy Squirrel to win the big tree house construction contest? It is the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year, Jimmy Squirrel, whose dad owns the biggest construction company in the city, agrees to a tree house contest. To everyone”s surprise, Paisley Rabbit, who has never touched a hammer or a nail and has no one to help her, is a long shot to win. But the imaginative and determined Paisley, demonstrates her resourcefulness and strategic planning abilities that eventually amazes her friends and silences the smug Jimmy Squirrel.” The book is available now in hardcover. Check out the preview pictures — the artwork is gorgeous. Interesting note: Chris Dunn also illustrated an edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. We’ll have to look it up.
image c. 2024 Impossible Dreams
與「毛」同行！台南獸曜日快閃活動吸引眼球
文／伊爾、藍風 編輯／涯軒宇、傑克、艾倫德
在台南成立的團隊——獸曜日3月9日下午於新光三越台南中山店舉辦首場快閃遊行活動，共有29位獸裝扮演者報名參與，吸引許多獸迷同好與民眾圍觀，一同享受熱鬧氛圍。
29位毛毛在現場合影。 圖／伊爾提供
主辦單位表示，為了向大眾推廣獸文化，活動安排從百貨公司一樓外進行大合照後往建築內移動，以小型遊行的方式穿梭在各櫃位之間與民眾與百貨人員互動，許多人也向毛毛們打招呼或是要求合照。參加者沃斯特表示，因為百貨公司內要進行獸裝扮演拍攝多數都是禁止的，因此這次活動讓他好奇並從外縣市前來參加。參加者晃汰則說能在百貨公司內看到毛毛和櫃檯人員的互動很有趣，不過對有位毛毛的眼皮掉在手扶梯的情形表示有點危險。
毛毛與櫃台人員握手展現親切態度。 圖／伊爾提供
對於本次活動，多數參加者都有提到現場空間比較壅擠，對獸裝扮演者來說會比較不友善，但扮演者帕洛特和悠樹皆表示，未來如果再度舉辦會想要再參加。另外，參加者米糖表示，雖然本次是快閃活動，但遊行時間有點倉促，也對本次活動的理念有點疑惑。參加者弗里德則建議主辦單位可以使用對講機，來增強現場遊行隊伍的管控。
現場民眾與毛毛歐迪斯一起合照。 圖／伊爾提供
主辦單位之一的烏咪和小歪說，本次活動能從原先預定的4樓場地，擴展至百貨公司的快閃遊行，要感謝提供場地的源酒屋協助，讓活動能更加熱鬧。但由於本次活動的籌備時間較短，工作人員也有限，因此在動線規劃與活動沒辦法完全掌控，也沒辦法針對獸曜日團隊理念多做介紹，不過歡迎對獸曜日有興趣的獸迷加入團隊。
許多獸迷與一般民眾在現場舉手機拍攝毛毛們。 圖／伊爾提供
未來的活動規劃上，主辦單位的成員冰心表示，接下來的例行活動會安排在元宵節前後，在剩餘時間也會不定期舉辦不同主題的小活動，結合台南在地的文化，不僅讓更多民眾了解獸文化，也能推廣台南的美給每一位參加者。
Furries conduct fursuit parade around shopping mall in Tainan
与「毛」同行！ 台南兽曜日快闪活动吸引眼球
TigerTails Radio Season 15 Episode 22
TigerTails Radio Season 15 Episode 22. Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf For a full preview of events and for previous episodes, please visit http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.
Bomb threat alarms Motor City Fur Con 2024; one suspect arrested
美国兽展 MCFC 因炸弹威胁受惊吓 一名嫌犯被捕
FWG Monthly Newsletter April 2024
It’s been a busy start to the month for the FWG, so apologies for the slight delay in getting the blog out!
Not only have we closed for submissions on Blood and Water (39 submissions in total, and we’re already getting stuck in to reading them!), but the Coyotl Awards have also closed for nominations. We’re currently collating the numbers now, with an announcement on the finalists and voting to begin tomorrow.
With both of those happening, it should also not be forgotten that April is the start of the election period for FWG officers. Any FWG member is eligible to stand for any of the five officer positions, with an election to be held for each if more than one nomination is received.
All candidates should declare their intention to stand for election in the designated thread on the forums: https://forums.furrywritersguild.com/t/guild-elections-2024-2025/2463
Details about the election will be shared in early May if one is required. All candidates have until April 30 to declare their intention to stand.
With so much happening that is already known, there is not much else to discuss on the blog this month so I will keep it short.
I also wish to remind you that we are open for guest blogs across the year. Topics can relate to anything around the furry writing community or furry writing as a whole. Submissions to the blog can be made at this link:
https://forms.gle/icEUzYtZQ5tFE6w47
As usual, we have the current open markets:
F/F Non Erotic Anthology – Deadline August 31st 2024
Indecent Exposure – Deadline When Full
This Is Halloween – Deadline When Full
Furry Femdom Erotica – Deadline When Full
Isekai Me! – Deadline When Full
Children Of The Night – Deadline When Full
Furry/Lovecraftian/Erotic/University Themed Anthology – Deadline When Full
Beyond Their Pale – Deadline When Full
Please also check out the latest and upcoming releases from guild members:
Kelpie Thrall, by Frances Pauli. Released March 3rd 2024.
Quicksilver, by Anastasia Spinet. Released March 6th 2024.
Far Flung, by Utunu. Released July 3rd 2024.
If you are a Furry Writers Guild member and have an upcoming release you would like shared on the blog, please feel free to let us know!
We can’t wait to get through the submissions for Blood and Water. Also keep an eye out for the opening of the voting period for the Coyotls!
Until next time, keep safe and happy writing.
J.F.R. Coates
GFTV amends the Programme Rating System on use of coarse language
国际兽视就节目评级系统限制用语方面做修改
Shape-SHIFT!
More we discovered at WonderCon: Author Lauren Jankowski and her Shapeshifter Chronicles series of urban dark fantasy books. Here’s the description of Sere From The Green, the first book in the series: “There is a race that lives among humans, unbeknownst to them, called shape shifters, those that can shift from human to animal at will. Many protect the innocent on Earth and act as the eyes and ears of the guardians, divine beings similar to gods in ancient myths. Isis is a woman who lives a normal life until the day she photographs a murder scene for her job. When the body disappears from her photographs, Isis is determined to solve the mystery. Her investigation uncovers answers about her own past and sets her on a journey that will change her life forever.” Visit the series web site to find out more.
image c. 2024 Crimson Fox Publishing
Homemade Cake made by a Furry Chef!?
Trailer for Episode 126: Let's Get Cooking! w/ Static Static shows off her baking skills with an incredible 3-layer cake based off the show's logo! #theraccoonsden #TRDs9 #foodchallenge
Let's Get Cooking! w/ Static (EP: 126)
Static shows off her baking skills with an incredible 3-layer cake based off the show’s logo! See more at: http://www.TheRaccoonsDen.com FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/TheRaccoonsDen TWITTER/X: http://www.Twitter.com/TheRaccoonsDen FURAFFINITY: http://www.FurAffinity.net/user/TheRaccoonsDen INSTAGRAM: http://www.Instagram.com/TheRaccoonsDen TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@theraccoonsden Fursona Art in Thumbnail by Neo: https://www.Twitter.com/NeotheMartian -------------------- MUSIC BY: E Royale: https://www.eroyalemusic.com/ For All: https://forall.rocks/ Jaiko: https://furaffinity.net/user/jaiko Aki Tanuki: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW_Izh5Cbgp6regPR9_ra1Q Schtewee: https://www.schtewee.bandcamp.com Status Ferret: https://www.statusferret.com rK: https://soundcloud.com/bohemek MDKai: https://midekai.bandcamp.com Doon the Fox: www.soundcloud.com/doonthefox Steven Esso: https://stevenesso.bandcamp.com/ ❤️ GOJII ❤️: https://gojii.bandcamp.com #TheRaccoonsDen #TRDs9 #FoodChallenge
Buying a Fursuit with a Past Doesn't Obligate You to Keep the Fursona
Just a random question for a suiter... I recently bought a fursuit (I really like the suit), but he is an already established character (I am the third owner), so he has been around cons and has about 480 followers on his own twitter account done since 2018. I am debating whether to remake his character or continue his character from the previous 2. The 2nd owner continued the first owners character. Thing is, there were a lot of changes already: foot paws, hand paws, and tail were replaced. Padding removed, so no longer digitigrade (needed to remove it cause it wont fit otherwise). So, I feel like he is no longer the previous owner's character. I wanted to redo him, but what about his history? And then, can I still call him using the maker's name when 3 things are no longer the original? This is my very first fursuit.
Anonymous
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Dear Furiend,
As with most things in the furry fandom, there are no rules, so I am not going to give you lines like "you have to do this" or "you have to do that."
That said, here are Papabear's feelings on the matter.
The only reason to keep the original fursona's name and rep would be if you are jonesing to keep his followers following you. And the only reason to do THAT is if you are desperate for followers and trying to get a rep as a popular furry. You don't owe the followers of the original fursona anything. As you pointed out, the fursuit has been modified quite a bit, anyway, so it's not really the same character except maybe for the name.
My feeling, then, is to make this fursuit yours, make it personal to YOU. Continue to modify the fursuit as you wish to please yourself, and change the name to a name that you like and is personal to you.
You bought the fursuit because you wanted a fursuit, not because you wanted the character, right? So, make it your own.
Enjoy! Happy Fursuiting!
Papabear
Two for Survival
Fresh back from WonderCon in Anaheim, and there was so much interesting stuff to see there! Like… Chuck Grieb is an art instructor at Azusa Pacific University, but he worked for years in animation production as well. Now he’s expanded his resume to include “author” with his illustrated fantasy novel The Goblin Twins — the first book in his Garden Clan series. It features more than 100 black & white and full-color illustrations. “Running for their lives from an evil shaman, The Goblin Twins Bela and Vuto flee to the far side of the enchanted Thicket. But the shaman has not given up, and the Goblin Twins’ escape to the Faerie Garden Clans sparks a confrontation which could lead to a Goblin-Faerie war.” Check out the official web site to find out more, including the author’s other projects.
image c. 2024 C and W Creative, Inc.
What Are Furry Body Pillows & Where To Get Them?
- Introduction
- The Cultural Significance and Variety of Furry Body Pillows
- Custom and Commissioned Pillows
- Tips for Purchasing Your Furry Body Pillow
Introduction
Within the diverse and colorful world of the furry fandom, where individual expression and creativity are paramount, furry body pillows stand out as unique and cherished items. These are not your standard pillows; they embody a blend of artistic expression and comfort, designed to bring the vibrant personalities of anthropomorphic characters into a tangible, snuggable form.
But what are these furry body pillows, exactly, and what makes them so appealing to enthusiasts and collectors alike? This article aims to uncover the essence of furry body pillows, shed light on their significance, and navigate you through the avenues to find one that connects with your furry alter ego or favorite character.
As we explore further into the realm of furry body pillows, we’ll delve into the cultural relevance, the variety in design and representation they offer, and, crucially, guide you on where to discover and acquire your own. Whether you’re deeply embedded in the furry fandom or just exploring its fringes with curiosity, our journey into the unique world of furry body pillows is designed to be both enlightening and engaging.
The Cultural Significance and Variety of Furry Body PillowsFurry body pillows transcend being mere sleeping aids or decorative pieces; they are a vibrant intersection of art, identity, and culture within the furry community. Let’s explore the layers of meaning behind these items and the diverse range of designs that fans can enjoy.
Cultural Significance
In the furry fandom, where the lines between fantasy and reality are creatively blurred, furry body pillows act as a bridge. They provide a physical form to characters that many have formed deep, emotional connections with. For some, these pillows are a comforting presence, offering a sense of security and companionship during the night. For others, they are a canvas for artistic expression, allowing both creators and fans to visualize and celebrate anthropomorphic art in a unique, personal way.
Moreover, furry body pillows often serve as a focal point for personal identity within the fandom. They can represent a fan’s fursona (an anthropomorphic animal character with whom they identify), favorite characters, or artistic styles they admire. This makes each pillow not just an item of personal value but also a statement of identity and community belonging.
Fursuit Body Pillow Design
Image via Reddit
Variety of Designs
The world of furry body pillows is as varied as the fandom itself, catering to a wide array of tastes, characters, and artistic expressions.
Character Representation: From popular characters in the furry community to custom designs that bring an individual’s fursona to life, the range of characters depicted on these pillows is vast. This allows fans to closely connect with the characters that resonate with them.
Artistic Styles: The artistic style of furry body pillows can range from cartoon-like and whimsical to highly detailed and realistic renderings. Some pillows feature characters in dynamic poses or expressive scenes, adding to their appeal as pieces of art.
Themes: The themes of furry body pillows can vary widely, including everything from simple, sweet depictions to more adventurous or even romantic and provocative designs. This diversity ensures that there’s something for every taste and comfort level within the community.
Commissioning a fursuit has never been so easy!
"They where extremely understanding and patient. They provided fast response times and amazing communication"
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In the next section, we’ll guide you through where to find these captivating furry body pillows, from popular online marketplaces to specialized artists and community platforms. Whether you’re looking to purchase your first furry body pillow or add to an existing collection, there are numerous avenues to explore in your quest to find the perfect snuggle buddy.
Furry Body Pillow Design Printed Onto Actual Body Pillow
Image via Anime Body Pillows
Where to Find Furry Body Pillows: A Shopper’s GuideFinding the perfect furry body pillow can be an adventure in itself, given the vast array of options available across the internet and within the community. Whether you’re on the hunt for a pre-designed pillow featuring a popular character or seeking a custom piece that brings your fursona to life, here are some key places to start your search.
Online Marketplaces and Specialty Stores
General Online Marketplaces: Platforms like Etsy or eBay can be treasure troves for finding furry body pillows, especially if you’re looking for something unique or handmade. Many artists and creators use these platforms to sell their work, providing a direct link between creators and fans.
Artist Commissions
Direct Artist Commissions: Commissioning an artist directly is a fantastic way to get a custom furry body pillow that perfectly matches your vision. You can find artists open for commissions on social media platforms, furry art websites like FurAffinity, or during furry conventions. This option allows for direct communication with the artist, ensuring that the final product is exactly what you want.
Commission Platforms: Websites that facilitate artist commissions can also be a useful resource. Sites like Fiverr or Upwork allow you to browse portfolios, compare styles and prices, and contact artists directly about creating a custom body pillow design.
Furry Conventions and Community Events
Conventions: Furry conventions are not only great for immersing yourself in the community but also for shopping. Many conventions have vendor halls where artists and merchants sell furry merchandise. Among these you may find body pillows, this also gives you the chance to see and feel the pillows in person before making a purchase.
Community Meetups and Swap Meets: Local furry meetups and swap meets can be excellent places to find body pillows. These smaller, more intimate gatherings sometimes feature merchandise sales or swaps, offering another avenue to find that perfect pillow.
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Tips for Purchasing Your Furry Body Pillow
Research the Seller or Artist: Before making a purchase, especially if it’s a commission, research the seller or artist. Look for reviews, previous work, and feedback from other buyers to ensure their credibility and the quality of their products.
Understand the Materials and Care Instructions: Furry body pillows come in various materials, each with its own care instructions. Make sure you know what you’re buying and how to care for it, to keep your pillow in the best condition.
Consider the Shipping: Especially for international buyers, consider the shipping costs and times. Body pillows can be bulky and potentially expensive to ship, so factor this into your decision.
With these tips and resources, you’re well-equipped to embark on your quest for the perfect furry body pillow. Whether it’s a comforting companion or a vibrant expression of your fandom identity, a furry body pillow can be a delightful addition to your collection. Happy hunting!
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TigerTails Radio Season 15 Episode 21
TigerTails Radio Season 15 Episode 21. Join the Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/SQ5QuRf For a full preview of events and for previous episodes, please visit http://www.tigertailsradio.co.uk. See website for full breakdown of song credits, which is usually updated shortly after the show. If you like what we do and wish to throw some pennies our way to support us, please consider sending a little tip our way. https://streamlabs.com/tigertailsradio/tip * Please note, tips are made to support TigerTails Radio and are assumed as made with good faith, so are therefore non-refundable. Thank you for your support and understanding.
“Robin Nood”: Furries use AI technology to recreate Disney movie without clothes
Are you one of the masses with a crush on Disney’s Robin Hood?
That fox may have created more furries than any other beloved character, and they create huge amounts of fan art. Sexy, sexy fan art.
Artists: Sandblastcoyote and Paintfox34
The weirdos who search the net for Sexy Robin Hood, like this author, mostly get still illustrations or very small bits of animation that can barely quench their burning desire. Until now.
A secret work group of furries have been pushing the limits of AI technology to deliver the worst nightmare for Disney’s Family Moral Standards department. It’s the long anticipated full movie fan edit where Robin Hood is as bare as he leaves the King’s treasury, and he’s showing off all his jewels.
To explain how this technological breakthrough was achieved, let’s start with a conceptual creation by Changa Husky. He lives at the Prancing Skiltaire house in California, a long-time haven for pioneers of fandom. Changa used to make effects for 1990’s science fiction TV shows and now works with Furality, the VR convention. Around 2018, Changa was inspired to make a bootleg VHS release of Disney’s Zootopia featuring period-authentic pan-and-scan formatting, trailers for other fan works, and vintage marketing materials in a clamshell box. It was Mandela Effect prank art from an alternate universe. Yes, it’s real.
Changa’s unique Zootopia VHS release only went to a few special furries. Some of them were inspired to take the concept farther, and now Robin Nood is here.
How hard was it to generate a fan edit to feature Robin Hood’s full-frontal anatomical correctness, like his fluffy but well-toned abs that invite nuzzling, not to mention the rogueish fox’s muscular buttocks that you could only imagine under his forest bandit tunic before?
It’s hard to ask the secret work group behind Robin Nood, who refused to comment while they avoid Disney lawyers behind a cloak of anonymity. Some questions were sent to the artist Wizardhead (Brendan Baldwin) because he was in a previous Dogpatch Press article about AI. How did they do it?
Baldwin replied:
The length of the render is mostly relevant in that the proliferation of angles and different kinds of shots involved might need tweaking for whatever algorithm is applied. I’m not familiar with any approach to targeted rendering of character bodies in a consistent way and to date I’ve seen no examples of this which lead me to believe it is either cheap or easy. Most of what I do is fairly transformative but intrinsically chaotic and somewhat visually incoherent, which is very different than what the deepfake videos do by creating very exacting targeted replacement of video subjects. If quality and coherence were not relevant, then after maybe a day of experimenting one could arrive at an appropriate model to apply to the spectrum of scenes in the target film and the only real work there would be chopping up the work into manageable bites, dishing them out to the rendering machines and compiling them all together at the end. Long form video tends to require the chopping-up treatment when running it frame by frame through these systems because per-frame storage even at 1280×768 for example runs about 1.8MB and that adds up crazy quick. For reference, if I took Zootopia and ran the whole thing through the model I used for my Slimefeld video, it would probably cost me about $400 in computer rentals and about 8 hours of time chopping and midwifing through the systems and recompiling. Just to cost it out conceptually, if I was to use my approach as a model for your friend, my break even costs for doing something like that would run $1200 (@100/hr labor/opportunity) and if I was going to do a job like that for someone I’d probably charge about $2500 so I could double my out-of-pocket costs to make a profit. Now as for making the characters naked (I assume just with matching animal fur etc) I don’t honestly know how one would coherently achieve that via the AI tools out right now in a low-labor or cost-effective way, but I’m sure someone smarter than me with a lot of time could figure it out.
Furries pushed the technology farther than even a seasoned expert knew how to do it. Wow!
Like the VHS bootleg of Zootopia that really exists, this recreation of a Disney movie only exists as limited edition physical media. You have to know someone to get a copy. Good luck everybody!
Note: Dogpatch Press doesn’t endorse using AI images because the systems that make them are unethical. Memes and conceptual projects with no commercial purpose may be less harmful but the systems also burn up energy that hurts the planet. Their misuse is toxic and their overuse dilutes real art. The feeling of seeing a bunch of AI images can be like enjoying pretty gift wrap, which lasts a minute until you rip it up and throw it away and never think about it again. If you care about art and want it to last, hire a real artist who puts thought and care into what they make, not just math to put other art in a blender and barf it back out. This applies most to replacing human artists for certain jobs, but one like Wizardhead still displays inventive use of absurd juxtaposition and editing prowess no matter what the tools are. And of course, the artists who animated Robin Hood weren’t allowed to give his fans the extra-sexy version we all long for, so it was meant to be willed into existence somehow.
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Trying EVERY Furry Game Demo in the Steam Deckbuilders Fest 2024
I went through the ENTIRE Steam Deckbuilding Fest list of games that had demos available and grabbed em all! I played them on stream at Twitch.tv/DaxelTheDeer and I've listed them all here below! There are some gems in here and I'm looking forward to playing them when they release!
Bearly Furcasting S4E45-Thanks For Your Patience
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We’re back! Thanks for being patient while we shake things up at the BFFT Studio and get used to our new schedule.
This episode is jam packed with fluff! Taebyn tells us all about his time at VancouFur and all the fun furry things he did while he was there. We have a lot of news in Furry News, we talk about our Media consumption, play some trivia, tell some jokes, and Taebyn astounds and mystifies us with his special brand of Mathmagic!
So grab your headphones and put us in your ear holes!
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The Trickster Without Scruples
Sometimes, the publisher explains things perfectly well for us. Like this: “In this atmospheric tribute to the medieval folklore tradition of trickster tales starring Reynard the fox, beloved children’s cartoonist Ben Hatke turns his pen to a very special project for adult readers. Inspired by the 12th century tales of the indomitable trickster fox Reynard, this offbeat tribute to the archetypal rogue has a satisfyingly old-fashioned feeling to it. Although this Reynard adventure is entirely the creation of modern fairytale master Ben Hatke (Mighty Jack), it fits seamlessly into the body of Reynard tales still beloved in Europe to this day. Featuring evocative, charming black-and-white illustrations and a swiftly moving narrative, Reynard’s Tale follows our hero through a series of encounters with other classic figures from this body of folklore to piece together a headlong journey through a perilous landscape filled with murderers, kings, ex-lovers, mermaids, and even Death herself.” So there you have it. And it’s available now.
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Where Can You Learn about Furry History?
I have been in the fandom for the longest time since I was 15 years old. One of the thing I really love about the fandom is the golden age of the fandom. I love hearing stories of the past when the furry fandom was a new concept, seeing classic artists and art that shape the fandom for what it is today.. My question is, I really find it hard to find info of the past. Do you know any sites or good links that have a history of furry knowledge and classic art.
Lighten
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Dear Lighten,
I sure do! There is a growing number of good online sources for you to check out to learn about the fandom's history. Here are a few of them:
For Starters:
- Fred Patten's Furry Retrospective (https://www.flayrah.com/4117/retrospective-illustrated-chronology-furry-fandom-1966%E2%80%931996) is a great place to start to get a short summary of the history of the fandom.
- The documentary The Fandom, directed by Ash Coyote, which is available for free on YouTube. This also serves as a good introduction to furry history in video form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY&t=3197s
After you've digested the above overviews, delve deeper with...
- Wikifur.com. As you can guess, this is a wiki devoted to furry. You can find information about almost anything here. The only trouble is that in order to get some use out of it you need to know what you're looking for. For example, if you've never heard of Robert Hill, you won't know to look him up and find out he was the first fursuiter; and if you've never heard of an APA, you wouldn't know to look that up, either. That said, you can go directly to the History entry for a nice overview.
- Fang, Feather and Fin: A Furry History Blog and Archive (https://www.fangfeatherandfin.com/): This incredible website by a nonprofit organization needs to get more attention! And I'm happy to do that here! The mission of this page is to archive print and online sources of furry history, as well as conduct and post interviews. It is a treasure trove of information!
- The YouTube channel Culturally F'd https://www.youtube.com/@CulturallyFd is dedicated to exploring the history of the anthropomorphic arts. Lots of info to be learned here.
- Confurence.com https://confurence.com/: The online archive of con books from the first furry convention from 1989 to 2010. Also includes fliers and other publications from the era.
- Furry Times archive https://furrytimes.net/downloads/: An archive of conbooks, APAs, and fanzines.
- Conhistory.com: An online resource of furry con history, as well as comic cons, sci-fi, and other conventions.
As a bonus, I would also suggest you take a look at the recent memorial video Rod O'Riley created on YouTube that is all about the late-great Father of the Furry Fandom, Mark Merlino. You will learn a LOT about the fandom's origins by watching this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLfNdhHmh1Y&t=14837s.
There are also some excellent books out there for you to read, including:
- Patten, Fred. Funny Animals and More: From Anime to Zoomorphics. Theme Park Press, 2014.
- Patten, Fred. Furry Fandom Conventions, 1989<en>2015. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2017.
- Stoddard, Tim. Furtannia: The History of the Furry Fandom in the United Kingdom. Uncle Bear Publishing, 2023.
- Strike, Joe. Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture. Cleis Press, 2017.
There are, of course, other sources online and in print, but the above represents your best bet to get the information you want.
Happy Researching!
Hugs,
Papabear