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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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After the most recent article about suiting, it has been brought to my attention by several folks that I spent most of my time talking about suiting at cons and interacting only with other furries.  Of course, that’s not the only context in which fursuiters don their garb!  In the spirit of providing a more inclusive look into the costuming side of the fandom, I’m going to be pulling together a few of these vignettes on different aspects of fursuiting.  If you have any suggestions* to make regarding some unique use of suiting outside of the con scene, please feel free to either leave comments on this post, or email them to submit@adjectivespecies.com.  You can also send them to our Twitter, Google+, or FA accounts!

Our first example of suiting in a unique way comes from a submission, and included a neat little story:

When I first got my fursuit, I promised myself I’d use it for at least one charitable cause, which ended up becoming a pretty extensive fundraiser campaign. The premise is that myself and anyone I can get involved will keep making fun fursuit videos as long as people keep donating to our target charity

Furs For Life is a fundraiser for Red Cross, and helps in the charitable cause by advertising, primarily through the use of their YouTube channel where they’ve amassed several videos.   Of course, this includes the obligatory Thriller dance video.

They have their own Red Cross donation channel set up to use (use the link, or funds won’t be counted), and have pulled together about two and a half grand so far this year, which, hey, is pretty good!

* These aren’t going to be paid sponsorships or anything, and this is, perhaps, on the edge of what I’d consider posting, but it is for a charitable cause!

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This is no one’s idea of a personal blog, but when your ever-lovin’ ed-otter turned 47 yesterday he received two books from his family that are so cool and so furry that he just had to give mention to them — again. Both of them feature behind-the-scenes looks at recent Dreamworks Animation films, and both of them are available now (here and here) in hardcover from Insight Editions. The Art of Puss in Boots is edited by Ramin Zahed (veteran editor of Animation Magazine) with a forward by famous director Guillermo Del Toro. The Art of Kung Fu Panda 2 is edited by Tracy Miller-Zarneke (who worked on numerous animated films including Chicken Little and The Emperor’s New Groove) with a forward by famous actor Dustin Hoffman (aka Master Shifu). Both books feature so much background artwork and character development for these two very furry films that the reader may find themselves wondering which are more interesting: The final character designs or the sketches leading up to them.

image c. 2011 Insight Editions

 

Red Lantern is going to be delayed…. ohhhh noooo…… *cries* …. okay calm down now …. Which means the delay according to the publishers will be due out sometime March just in time for FWA 2012. I’ll see you there if you go, which you should because there is enough time now.

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Introduction

• This is an analysis of all 51 furry "I Am A..." posts submitted to Reddit between August 2009 to December 18th 2011.

• It doesn't include IAMA requests, or furry-related IAMAs from non-furries.

Chart

• http://i.imgur.com/0WEKY.png

• This chart shows the scores and comments of each furry IAMA, listed in chronological order.

• The red graph shows the number of comments in each IAMA. Mean average of 88 comments per IAMA. The most talkative IAMA had 446 comments and a score of 0 (233 upvotes and 255 downvotes).

• The blue graph shows the score of each IAMA. Appears to be waning if you look at the 'lump' around IAMAs 1-7, then the peaks at 15 (80 points), 30 (67 points) and 44 (43 points).

• 50% of furry IAMAs have a score of 0, although even these have an average of 55 comments.

Synopsis

• Furry IAMAs are good for comments but not for karma.

Highest scoring furry IAMAs

Score Comments ago Title 80 421 1 year IAmA Furry and a Scalie. AMAbsolutelyA 67 394 8 months IAmA furry who recently spent over 1000 dollars on a fursuit. AMA 62 165 2 years IAmA furry and have been for five years. I own a fursuit and have attended 20+ furry conventions. AMA! 56 177 2 years I am an erotic furry artist and get paid for it, ask me anything. 43 239 2 months I am a current furry who has attended 17 furry conventions. Many things the ex-furry" AMA says are false. AMA. 27 225 1 year IAmA Female Furry. AMA. 24 102 2 months IAmA (not crazy) Furry. AMA! 18 80 2 years I am a gay Furry who has been in the Furry Fandom for five years. No I don't fuck animals. AMA 16 35 2 years I'm a Furry, and I draw a Webcomic. I know you've got questions. Ask 'em! 14 58 2 years I'm a furry. AMA!

Low scoring but highly-commented furry IAMAs

Score Comments ago Title 0 446 2 months IAMA a former Furry who now feels nothing but Disdain for group due to all the media "lies" being true 2 215 28 days IAmA another "furry" who finally realized just how pervasive sex is in the fandom. AMA 6 181 9 months IAmA Furry, AMA 6 159 5 months IAmA Veteran Furry AMA submitted by KarlPilkington
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