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If you’ve been following this season of  The Guild – an online Situation/Drama/Comedy that revolves around the lives of a group of gamers as they interact online and in person, you will have noticed a mysterious brown Canine fursuit stalking one of the characters.

In the first few minutes of the new episode, the mystery fursuiter is revealed as WIL WHEATON.  Wil Wheaton, former child star from Star Trek: The Next Generation, geek blogger and now adult geek star (currently appearing in Eureka on SyFy) has had an at-times very vocal disdain for the Furry Fandom and fursuiters in particular, stemming from an incident at a convention where a fursuiter violated his personal space in an unwanted way.

In 2007, during the internet media hype over the “Furries vs Klingon” bowling event held in Atlanta,  I had a long email exchange with him about his vocal dislike of furries, and at the time, it seemed that he was not up for giving the fandom a chance to redeem its self.   In 2008, an article he wrote circulated where he again stated his dislike for furries, as we were “weirdos”.  Clips of the post also ended up on his own blog where he had an exchange with several people over it, including Matthew Ebel.

Wil’s response to the comments:

I need to make something really clear: the furry comment was mine and was meant exactly as delivered.

Furries give me the creeps, and I’ve had some random dude dressed up in a fucking fursuit try to hump my leg enough times to feel pretty comfortable saying that.

You want to dress up like animals and do shit together? Great, have fun. Just leave me alone when you’re doing it. I don’t think it’s cute and I don’t think it’s funny. It’s a violation of my personal space and I don’t like it.

Just as everyone is entitled to their opinions about me and my work and my blog and everything else, I am entitled to hold this opinion and express it.

After such exchanges, it was astonishing to see the fursiuiter pull his head off in the episode to reveal it was actually Mr. Wheaton.

I’m sure this is a tongue-in-cheek poke at the Fandom, but maybe the experience has given him a new perspective on furries in general.  We can but hope.

As for the fursuit, the Guild’s website WatchTheGuild.com talks to the couple who created the suit -  Bobby Bristow and Colleen Campbell – Dragon Squared Studio.  The article details some of their experience on the set during the filming, and participating in the shoot, at times actually in the fursuit they created.

Video: Season 5 – Episode 9 – Invite Accepted“>

 

Video: Season 5 – Episode 9 – Invite Accepted

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I mean, one I can join with mibbit, or some other easy online chat
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Some reviews just nicely write themselves. Like this one for Luna: Order of the Werewolf, coming this October (of course) from Famous Monsters of Filmland (which is now publishing comic books!): “Relentlessly hunted through the years and finally threatened with extinction, Brother Andres gathers the species of werewolf to take sanctuary in a monastery called Luna. High on the snow-capped mountains of South America these werewolf monks live a daily life of struggle away from the temptations of the hunt and relentless persecutions, until a mountain expedition stumbles onto the very rock Luna rests upon. The fragile balance Andres and the monks have constructed is about to explode!” This 4-issue mini-series is written by Mark L. Miller and Martin Fisher, with full-color illustration by Tim Hope. Here’s more about it from Westfield Comics.

image c. 2011 Famous Monsters of Filmland

Be sure to listen to Joel's quote at the end ;)

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I think my posts are getting caught in the spam filter... here it goes anyway.

Has anyone ever seen something close to a black and tan coonhound as a fursuit? Trying to get some ideas here before I go ahead and look at getting a suit commisoned.

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PETA wants to get into porn to make people more aware of animal abuse.

The Norfolk-based animal-rights group has applied to launch a website under the soon-to-be-available ".xxx" domain, which will feature pornographic sites, Lindsay Rajt, the organization's associate director of campaigns, said Monday.

"As soon as we heard that the.xxx domain was becoming available, we thought that would be triple extra effective in helping us bring our important issues of animal rights and eating a vegan diet to a greater number of people," said Rajt, who is based in Los Angeles.

The site, she said, will have nudity and "sexually suggestive content" but not hard-core porn: "A lot of people distinguish between erotica and pornography, and this will be erotica."

The pornographic images, Rajt said, would lead viewers to "information and graphic imagery of how animals suffer in the food industry."

"That's what we hope will shock people, get them talking, question the status quo and take action that benefits animals," she said.

The idea will backfire on PETA, said Daniel Howard, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

"It makes them appear as if their organization is extremist," Howard said. "Even though some have accused them of being that way in the past, they're about to confirm it.

"There are a lot of ways to get your message out there," he said, "but doing it through a pornography website is not a socially acceptable way of going about it, at least according to a vast majority of Americans."

Rajt said, however: "We live in a 24-hour news cycle world. We've found that it's the racier things we do that are most effective in grabbing people's attention."

The tactic would extend the group's strategy of using provocative images, often including scantily clad women, to gain attention.

"Nudity," Rajt said, "is a tactic that PETA uses with some regularity." Actresses have been photographed naked for the organization's "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur" campaign. And in some cities, such as Brattleboro, Vt., "we are able to do a totally nude demonstration," Rajt said.

That has made PETA a target for feminist groups. Rajt said everyone who participated in previous campaigns and will be seen on the ".xxx" site is acting voluntarily.

"They are willing adults who are dedicated to helping animals," she said. "We think people have the right to use their bodies as a form of political protest."

PETA, Rajt said, applied earlier this month to launch the website peta.xxx with ICM Registry, based in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The earliest that PETA could receive approval, she said, is Nov. 7. If that happens, "we would be able to put it up that week."

Bronx Bunny and Teddy T quiz Mark "Luke Skywalker" Hamill about Star Wars and porn.

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