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Friendship is Magic: Story of the Blanks
Friendship is Magic: Story of the Blanks
So, are you guys... Out?
Ok, so I posted an AMA in IAMA, and I got a lot of flame and downvotes. I wonder if this is a true representation of the perception of furries in popular culture... I wondered if I ever would have to explain to anybody what it is, and I feel that the pop media portrays us poorly.
So, I was just wondering, are you guys out of the proverbial furry closet? If so, how did you do it?
I for one am not. Not in real life, anyway. I have been a furry for a few years, now, and I've only actually accepted it and started feeling good about it since I have joined reddit. But I do not want to come out yet.
submitted by Fenno[link] [52 comments]
FA Previewer – Chrome Web Store
Full-size pop-up image previewer for submission view on FurAffinity (see screenshot).
If you find it useful, I’m not asking for donations or anything: I do ask that you tell your friends with chrome, leave a rating or review, and/or give feedback for how you’d like it improved :3
Grab the Extension here: FA Previewer
Glastonbury Music Festival: Wombles not welcome!
novelty group The Wombles for this year's event - and said it was a
mistake."
"But the furry litter-picking troupe - who had a string of hits in the
mid 1970s - have stepped up a war of words by saying they will not be
tidying up the site afterwards."
The Lion King....(wait for it)...in 3D.
Furry characters brighten up Bothell’s Grand Parade
Anthropaws, a local costume-building and repair services company, brought some cheer and smiles to Bothell’s Fourth of July Grand Parade with a crew of furry critters. The company offers full custom-design character suits starting at $800, and has a community involvement division that delights in brightening up local community and charity events through the magic of character performance.
For more information on Anthropaws’ community involvement, visit the website at www.anthropaws.com.
Photos courtesy of Bobby Yadon
Click here to view a video of Anthropaws performing in the parade
First Colorado Furry Dance Club Night - Fox Trot Club - July 29th. (www.foxtrotclub.com)
Fanboy Confessional on Space channel in Canada
Space a Canadian cable channel is doing an episode on furries in their new series Fanboy Confessional
http://www.spacecast.com/fanboyconfessional.aspx
also credit to Green Reaper and Flayrah for the story
http://www.flayrah.com/3592/furries-get-limelight-canadian-cable-network
Lizard has problem-solving skills
This place needs more activity. How do we get it?
It is quite sad that this place is as inactive as it is. Would it be a bad thing if we went on and sort of made the FA/fchan users aware of our existence, or would that be spamming? Do you guys have any good ideas for attracting more of our friends, or does anyone know of an alternate or more active furry reddit?
submitted by Fenno[link] [68 comments]
Critters Against Cancer
07/12/2011
By: Kamden Blackstone
Critters against cancer.
July 9th 2011
Salt Lake City, Utah.
To say that it was going to be a hot day would be an accurate understatement. It’s Summer time in Utah, everything is dry and hot. I was there in Liberty Park in Salt Lake after getting my tiger striped butt out of bed at what many would call the ungodly hour of 6 in the morning, picking up a lynx friend of mine, and a car stall on I-15, no more then a mile away from our exit. We had about 6 liters of water with us, and I had no real expectations about what was going to happen.
I mean, I never handled a fursuit before. Hell, up until recently I didn’t even have something I could call a self respecting tail. So, I honestly was feeling like a fish out of water… well, I suppose a cat in a lake would be a better metaphor. This was something I wasn’t used to. But, I had the day off, and was planning to be in Salt Lake anyway, and the cause was something I could agree to. So, I decided to ally myself to the “Walk for the Cure” along with the other fursuiters and Utah furries that made it.
July 8th, the day before, we were getting a head count into rough ball park of 15 suiters. The organizer of this event, was a Martin, who was turned into Marbled pole cat, by the name of Thay, and to say she was stressed over the fact that she had to get a bunch of furries to handle the fursuiters would be spot on. Hell, I know I would be. Seriously think about it, if you have ever tried to get a bunch of furries organized, it’s like herding cats. Probably because some of us are cats.
She couldn’t back out of it though. She organized a bunch of suiters and furs to participate in the Orem city summerfest in Orem Utah. Where some of the Cure for Cancer folks saw us insanely unique costumers. They asked for us by name, to participate in the Cure for Cancer walk. Probably the whole reason we were asked to participate in this was because it was a cure for juvenile cancer. There were a ton of little children around there. We were a welcome sight to the little children. Honestly, a lot of them came up and hugged the suiters and there were even adults getting into the act. To be dead honest, everyone was having fun.
Hell, I even had fun, after all the nervousness in handling for the first time died away. It brought a smile to my face, and a warm furry feeling to my heart. But, all around there was a great time to be had by all. We got some positive publicity, and we supported a good cause. Honestly folks, cancer is messed up. I have lost people to a ton of things, drunk driving, drugs, ninja cheerleaders from the rival school, and war. But out of all of these things, Cancer is still the worst. Talk to anyone who’s lost anyone close to them about it, and you’ll see them get all teary eyed, or go stoic, if you’re lucky. At times, they’ll collapse to the ground wailing about their loss. Its disgusting sickness, but we are making such huge strides to end it, but until we can get no one up front to release a balloon in the memories of those felled by cancer. We cannot stop. Even if it means donning a silly looking tiger costume in 90+ degree weather and walking about, we must continue this work. For the benefit of all us.
Kamden G. Blackstone.
What about having multiple fursonas?
I've always been interested in creating another one, but never really got around to it because I didn't know whether it was looked down on or not. I saw one user on FA who had 14 of them. I know that's pretty overboard, but if I had just a second one....would it be confusing to people, possibly annoying?
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Housepets are Naked!
Housepets! is an on-line full-color comic strip by Rick Griffin. It’s well-known and well-loved… in fact it even won the Ursa Major Award for Best Comic Strip two years running. And now, it’s on dead trees! Housepets! Are Naked All The Time is the first collection of Housepets! strips available in softcover book format. In fact it’s available now from Createspace — and, of course, from Amazon. Follow the daily adventures of the pets of Babylon Gardens, USA. And now you don’t even need a computer!