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I hated every day in that school....

I hated every, single step i would take, every waking moment i spent sitting in those uncomfortable wooden chairs next to people who loathed me.

I can remember the pain i felt when my dad would wake me up to tell me to get dressed and go to school.

Eight. Long. Years.

I can..... feel, the emotional pain of walking to school, and the pain and strange relief i felt walking out of it, only to know that the next day won't be much better. How i'll be forced to sit next to those....things and go through various beratings, beatings and such.

In the back of my head i can hear my memories of gym class......how useless i felt.....

I can see myself shrinking as they yelled at how stupid i was, how i couldn't do anything right.

How i despised their smug, arrogant faces when they would walk up to me and ask me various awkward questions just to mess with me....

"Hey Anthony, how do you jerk off!"

"Hey Anthony, would you fuck that one... yeah i bet you would!"

"Do you know that everyone talks behind your back?"

I wanted nothing more than to kill them... torture them.... destroy them....

I was a......socially inept, whitdrawn, ostracized hermit with no real friends.....oh God.......i was so lonely......

I hated myself.

I hated how skinny, ugly and unlikeable i was. I hated how i would always go away from everyone else, while my only wish was that someone gave me one kind word...... that i could just trade places with one of them.... to be smart. To be liked and popular..... to feel like i was wanted.....

On field trips, i was the one always walking away from everyone else, and then taking the first chance i could to try and bond with one of them....i was a leech... i wouldn't go until they told me.....

The only thing the.....liked.... was my art (not yet anthro). The only time i would feel liked.

I feel so stupid now when i remember the moments when i would make a fool of myself to impress them...make them laugh.....

How i would "play along" while they took my shoes and hid them in the bathroom.

The one that stuck with me the most was when a guy berated me three times in a row.... what stuck with me most was how he told me that i was better off dead.....that my mother regrets birthing me.....

I needed an escape.... i found one.....

I can still remember the day. It was monday, and i just came back from school and my mom happily greeted me and told me that she had something for me.

My heart jumped as i saw the beautiful red book she bought for me. It was a fantasy book about dragons. Dragonology it was called.

I never let it out of my hand. My young mind wanted so much for all those dragons to exist.

One dragon cought my attention. It was named a frost dragon and i fell in love with the design.

He was my escape.

I feel shy to talk about it... He was the first anthro i created.... a polar image of me... strong, brave...loved.

A social outcast who becomes a hero.

I called him...Arronax....

I would imagine him in various adventures, fantasy, sci-fi, normal, everyday situations.

He was my escape. He was who i wanted to be, and not a day wouldn't go by without me praying that i wake up one day like him, so that i could show those assholes who's boss.....

Years later....he's still here. He's still my favorote and most important character i created.

I matured, of course, and he became an independent character, someone new, interesting. No longer a Marry Sue, thankfully.

Im a little embarrased talking about this, but only today did i see that he was the reason im a furry. A product of my lonelyness and depression.

He's no longer a dragon, but the design is more or less the same. He's completely changed, for the better.

Thank you, Arronax......for everything......

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I am on a quest to broaden my furry music collection. Can you guys tell me your favorite furry artists and links to them? And yes, I already know about Renard and his alternate fursona artists.

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Ok im a tad bit new to the furry reddit (posted a couple things of my art which many people have viewed and Favorited, which i thank you all very much for) But i have found it best to advertise stuff here i guess and really this is a bit more of a question. so here is the post from my journal

Oh ya and other news my friends little brother sold his (my friends) PS3 and bought an Xbox behind my friends back. Because of this outrageous outrage (the little brother was not significantly punished) I have decided to consider starting doing commisions to buy my friend a new ps3 for his birthday (its not for several months but still) how many of you would be interested?

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Join the fluffy critters from Direlda’s weekly Bible study as they examine the second chapter of Mark.

 

Originally recorded December 4, 2010.

Mark Chapter 2 - Join the fluffy critters from Direlda’s weekly Bible study as they examine the second chapter of Mark. -   - Originally recorded December 4, 2010.

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In the “about bloody time” department: Word is out that Gon, the globally-popular manga by Tanaka Masashi, is finally being made into a CGI animated TV series. Gon, if you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know (or perhaps if he threw one on top of you) is a miniature dinosaur-like creature of tremendous speed and power. He lives in the animal world, and always seems to be getting into fights (comical, but still…) with other animals over simple matters like food and territory. Interestingly, this famous Japanese manga is being brought to television by an animation house in Korea, Daewon Media, with the help of the Japanese publishing house Kodansha. There’s a preview video up on YouTube which shows footage that was displayed recently at the TV trade show MIPCOM. The show is all set to premier in Japan and Europe early next year, with the rest of the world hopefully to follow soon after.

image c. 2011 Daewon Media

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The Taboo team have been looking to do a show on furries since before this year's Anthrocon - it looks like they got enough footage to put an episode together.

Cue a mix of exuberant fursuiters paired with the usual 'concerned' scientific commentators - who are careful never to give their own opinions, just discuss the ones which the show wishes to hear.

On the bright side . . . at least nobody's eating couch cushions like last time. That was just unhealthy.

Hey, we done did a podcast! Alkali & I talk about various things such as homeownership, placentas, Chirstmas traditions, and Beers Around The World.

If you want to email us, email draggetshow[at]gmail.com

youtube links part 1: http://youtu.be/TiKk60aAqDQ part 2: http://youtu.be/iIvdtJyKUuU

mp3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A9RZMTV2

I'm looking into getting it all non-youtube like, getting it up on a website with all that direct feed jazz. Until then, enjoy the mp3 and youtube link and enjoy!

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Author: GreenReaper

Nat Geo sees fursuiting as a fit subject for Taboo, according to this three-minute preview:

The program spins furries as “people who enjoy wearing animal costumes in their adult life”, calling the behaviour “bizarre”, and quoting regular media commentator Dr. Sudeepta Varma:

Furries can be considered greatly taboo because we look at people dressing up in furry costumes as child’s play, and it’s something that should have been left in the past, and not brought into adulthood.

One fursuiter profiled on the show is Nuka (Courtney Plante), a social psychology graduate student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

When I’m Courtney, I’m shy, I’m nervous, I don’t like having a lot of attention on me . . . Courtney is the stressed-out grad student trying to work on a PhD. I prefer being Nuka – he’s mischievious and playful and silly, and when I’m in my fursona I don’t mind people looking at me, I don’t mind people looking at me, I’m OK with being the center of attention, I don’t feel so embarrassed to have people’s eyes on me.

If I got a pair of ears and a tail on, or if I’m wearing my collar, or I’m in the mindset of Nuka, I’ll run up to a group of people and be really enthusiastic, I engage with people a lot more.

Other furs appearing include Talarus (as Bebop) and fox/dragon/plant Alkane (Eric):

You think you’re a furry, you feel like a furry, you’re a furry. Like any other subculture, we come together because we have this common interest.

Also quoted is bioethicist Peter Singer (whose other views were touched on in a recent review):

It’s considered strange for grown men and women to dress up as furry animals because most adults can’t relate to people who want to do that.

The show estimates that there are “up to a million” furries, citing unnamed research to say that “up to 85% believe they’re not entirely human” (presumably that of Nuka’s collaborator, Dr. Kathy Gerbasi, whose team has regularly surveyed Anthrocon in recent years).

National Geographic Channel is a joint venture of the National Geographic Society and Fox/News Corp.

Update (20 Dec): Ocean – another fur included in the show – has given more background on the shooting of the episode (registration required), and reports that it will be about “double lives”, possibly also including footage of real-life superheroes and phone sex operators.

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In this episode, Ranstar and Xiath discuss what it would be like if Furry was a culture. FursonaPod Ep. 37 - Furry as a Culture.

With Xavier off for his Christmas break, Eeve3 and TK are free to ignore the show's format and spend some quality time rambling. They talk about everything from Christmas music, to Lemmings, to spoliers and the people who spoil things. For Done and Dusted Eeve3 reviews Mystic Quest, and joins TK in talking about Sonic CD on the PSN. TK goes solo to talk about Need For Speed: The Run, and the film Final Destination 5. Felis reviews Cooking Mama: Cook Off on the Wii. Starring TK and Eeve3. TigerTails Radio - Season 6 - Episode 17 - Christmas Bonus? Nah...

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Join the fluffy critters from Direlda’s weekly Bible study as they examine the book of Jude.

 

Originally recorded September 19, 2009.

Jude (Entire Book) - Join the fluffy critters from Direlda's weekly Bible study as they examine the book of Jude. -   - Originally recorded September 19, 2009.

Personally, the first time i got interested in anthro's was when i was a kid and i watched The Mummy Returns. and saw THESE GUYS.

God DAMN are these guys cool. When i saw them in the very first scene as a kid, wheN i saw their design, the only thing i wanted to see in the entire movie was them. Just them.... naturaly as shity movies do, they only appeared in the last FIVE MINUTES or so, and i was more than a little dissapointed.

But still, they were the basis for my fixation for anthro's, so i guess i have to thank the movie for that.

So, if at all, what movie or TV show got you interested in anthros :)?

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