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Call for Submissions: Tropes!
Hey! You! Are you a furry writer? Or an avid reader of furry fiction? Yeah? Well, we want you!
We’ve been spending a good amount of time on visual art, recently, and as we peek through the drafts and ideas for the upcoming year’s articles, there’s still plenty more where that came from! We’d like to start branching out, however. In order to get a broader perspective on the furry writing scene, we’re trying something new: we’d like to feature three short pieces about tropes in furry fiction. A trope is an idea, technique, or metaphor that carries through multiple, unconnected works; as TVTropes puts it: “Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations”. We’re looking to explore a few of these which are either specific to furry writing, or weirdly out of proportion in our genre. Keep reading for the rules!
The RulesWe’re looking to pick three entries from three different people in order to highlight some of the tropes common in furry writing. You may point these tropes out in a humorous fashion, find a unique way to hang a lampshade on them, to subvert, avert, or invert them, or point out if they are particularly effective. Three winners will be published here as an entry with proper credit, links back to galleries or websites, and a sentence about the author.
- Enter as many times as you want; if you provide more than one entry in a submission, please make sure they’re easily distinguished.
- Submissions should be 500-1000 words.
- Please include a short sentence about yourself and/or your character, as well as a link if you wish (website, FA or SoFurry gallery, etc).
- Cite any quotes you include.
- If your submission is fiction, please provide a description of the trope you are highlighting in order to make sorting easier (we’re aiming for three different tropes).
You will be notified in advance whether or not your entry is selected. Only one entry will be selected per person. By entering, you’re giving us the right to publish your entry here on http://adjectivespecies.com with proper attribution. You may be contacted again if there are additional publishing opportunities for your entry (we will never spam, nor share your address, of course). We may edit your entry for style, spelling, and grammar, and will notify you in advance if we do so. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to contact us at submit@adjectivespecies.com.
Furries on NatGeo Taboo
Rodent vs. Rodent
The Nut Job is a new CGI animated feature film that was announced in Animation Magazine’s 2012 calendar. It’s being produced by Toonbox Entertainment and Red Rover International, who are hoping to release it next summer. The director is Peter Lepeniotis, who first introduced his character Surly the Squirrel in a 2005 animated short film titled, appropriately, Surly Squirrel. In this new feature film, Surly and his rat buddy (named Buddy) must contend with a new group of rodents who invade their city park home. Not a lot to go on yet, but the film does have an entry up on IMDB, and Toonbox also has an web page for the project. Word is that The Nut Job may be developed into a TV series also.
image c. 2011 Toonbox Entertainment
ActFur s3 epX - Christmas special
Season 3, Ep X(17) – Christmas Special! - We talk a whole lot of flaff this episode, much of it interesting and all of it entertaining. Enjoy out holiday special!
FC-65 Yiffmas Eve Eve - Woo! We opened some presents from some awesome donaters, answered some fan emails, played some music, and did a small give-a-way. Can't wait for next week's new year's show! :D
Woo! We opened some presents from some awesome donaters, answered some fan emails, played some music, and did a small give-a-way. Can’t wait for next week’s new year’s show! 
- ‘Wolf fetish’ sex offender jailed Posted by Higgs Raccoon
- Video: National Geographic profiles fursuiters on ‘Taboo’ Posted by GreenReaper
- Grenthorn – “A thought provoking question for Mattox the best bad ass bat in the world”
- Zenwulf – “New Furry Game?”
- Hemms – “Furry Pride”
- Pulse The Panther – “A hair-raising dream.”
- Anonymous – “kiss?”
- Will – “I have a question”
- Kamikaze – “Remembering Dreams”
- 1st Place Winner: RIFT
- 2nd Place Winner: Zoram
FC-65 Yiffmas Eve Eve - Woo! We opened some presents from some awesome donaters, answered some fan emails, played some music, and did a small give-a-way. Can't wait for next week's new year's show! :D
Woo! We opened some presents from some awesome donaters, answered some fan emails, played some music, and did a small give-a-way. Can’t wait for next week’s new year’s show! :D
News:- ‘Wolf fetish’ sex offender jailed Posted by Higgs Raccoon
- Video: National Geographic profiles fursuiters on ‘Taboo’ Posted by GreenReaper
- Grenthorn – “A thought provoking question for Mattox the best bad ass bat in the world”
- Zenwulf – “New Furry Game?”
- Hemms – “Furry Pride”
- Pulse The Panther – “A hair-raising dream.”
- Anonymous – “kiss?”
- Will – “I have a question”
- Kamikaze – “Remembering Dreams”
- 1st Place Winner: RIFT
- 2nd Place Winner: Zoram
FC-65 Yiffmas Eve Eve - Woo! We opened some presents from some awesome donaters, answered some fan emails, played some music, and did a small give-a-way. Can't wait for next week's new year's show! :D
Woo! We opened some presents from some awesome donaters, answered some fan emails, played some music, and did a small give-a-way. Can’t wait for next week’s new year’s show! :D
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News:
E-mails:
- Grenthorn – “A thought provoking question for Mattox the best bad ass bat in the world”
- Zenwulf – “New Furry Game?”
- Hemms – “Furry Pride”
- Pulse The Panther – “A hair-raising dream.”
- Anonymous – “kiss?”
- Will – “I have a question”
- Kamikaze – “Remembering Dreams”
Contest:
- 1st Place Winner: RIFT
- 2nd Place Winner: Zoram
My wife made this as a present but I had a feeling y'all might like it more than most.
What are your thoughts public perceptions?
Since watching the National Geographic 'Taboo' preview posted a few days ago, I keep finding myself thinking about the public perception of furries and how much (if at all) furries care about public perceptions.
As of right now, the fandom seems relatively small compared to other fandoms and it seems that most people have either a) never heard of furries or b) have no opinion(s) towards them. That said, I also know of multiple accounts of negative media portrayals and a general concern of additional negative portrayals from multiple furs… However, what if the exact opposite were true?
What if, instead, furries were consistently portrayed in a positive light? What if they became the next 'thing'? What if it went so far that it became commercial? Would this too be discouraged?
TL;DR Do you care about perceptions of the fandom? If so, do you have a preference for what they should be?
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Episode 2 - Welcome back for another weekly instalment of the WagzTail Podcast 2.0. This week we're still talking about Christmas: the movies and traditions as well as some awesome folks who are still willing to stand up for the real reason for the season
- Welcome back for another weekly instalment of the WagzTail Podcast 2.0. This week we’re still talking about Christmas: the movies and traditions as well as some awesome folks who are still willing to stand up for the real reason for the season. All that in more in this week’s WagzTail. 30min of Christian furry discussion guaranteed not to cause hairballs.
WagzTail Podcast 2.0 Episode 2
Runtime: 30m
Cast: Wolfin, Levi, Kail
Format: 128kbps ABR split-stereo MP3
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Episode 27 – Fuzzy Ogic - This is the first of two episodes wherein we’re missing a Kyo – which may be for the best, since he’s going to KILL US ALL when he gets back – and we’ve got five e-mails to read! Everything from [...]
This is the first of two episodes wherein we’re missing a Kyo – which may be for the best, since he’s going to KILL US ALL when he gets back – and we’ve got five e-mails to read! Everything from relationship woes to health issues, from computer brands to writer’s block, we’ve got your back! This episode opens with a reading from Smokescale of his own original – VERY original – work, and we’ve got Istanbul’s horrible word of the week, the origins of Justin Bieber, Smokescale’s credits as a nerd, and other assorted malarky and nonsense!
Next week’s topic is…open! That’s right, it’s been quite a while since we had an open topic week. Sure, every week is technically open topic week in that we’re here to help you with any problem you may have, but we’re going to see how it goes when we don’t include a topic for one week. Write on in, we want to hear from you!
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