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Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a lot of good conversations about [a][s], what it means, and how best to engage with it.

A lot of those conversations boil down to one core topic, and that topic falls out into one lesson. That is, [a][s] provides what many feel is an important resource. There is a wealth of data, a wealth of ideas, and probably at least three more articles on gender Makyo can write (ohoho…just you wait until tomorrow!). The lesson that comes out of this is that the project should never – indeed, few projects should ever – continue out of a sense of obligation.

Our esteemed Phil Geusz wrote me privately to share his thoughts on this, and brought up some very good points about what goes into running a project. It takes time, steady effort, and dedication. None of what I said two weeks ago is negated: I need to find a healthy level with which to engage (something that falls squarely on my shoulders), and I will gladly accept all the help I can get. Additionally, it could be that the site does need change: the articles and data, through the poll, form a core part of the project, but our voice and scope ought to be continually evaluated.

So let’s keep going. We have more than 41,000 responses to the Furry Poll to plow through and, as my work on tomorrow’s post shows, far more data than shows up when we just search for longitudinal responses, as we have in the past. When you add in the fact that the IARP also has a wealth of data, we have our work cut out for us. Plus, furry remains delightfully weird, so we’ll have no shortage of thinkpieces and longreads to toss out there.

Thank you all for your tireless patience, and if you have an idea for an article you’d like to pitch, do remember that our submissions are always open.

Do you like Scooby snacks?  The first time I ate a weed cookie was at a Really Really Free Market. That’s a swap meet seasoned with radical/hippie idealism. People who love principles of mutual aid get together and trade crap they don’t need with others who want it.  It keeps stuff out of the dump and helps people without money. It’s a place to score old books, music or some wiggy threads. They may have potluck food or dumpster dived treasure. Or both at once. (I once lived for two years with Freeganism – oh the stories I have.) And you might score weed (for adults where it’s legal, of course.)

The meet was in a 5th floor artist loft full of good music and fun people. There was a spread of free cookies with a sign to beware of overmedicating. I took one and nibbled a corner. Nothing happened so I went whole hog.  Then it happened… oh boy it happened.

My personal pile of treasure was all donated, so I took the exit to the twilight zone.  On the way down the stairs, I turned a corner and suddenly they weren’t going down… they were going up.  What the heck!?  I continued to fumble my way out while a faint satanic chanting emanated from behind the doors.  Somehow I found the street and got home. I sat down and time-traveled.  When I looked up, I realized that I forgot to shut the front door.  And there was a hooker in my living room (it was that kind of neighborhood).  She asked for a ride, so I told her to try one of those cookies for a real trip.

I wish there was a way to travel to a world full of furries. That would make some amazing blogging for you.  But you can make it happen where you live. The coolest thing about this fandom is how it’s so DIY. It’s like a sandbox for whatever you want to make of it.  If you live anywhere that has furries within petting distance, try getting together with them to throw cool events.

Imagine a standalone furry show and swap meet, minus the elaborate trappings of a con. Set up tables like a dealer’s den for members to sell stuff.  Have an art show, but not just for filthy lucre – if it’s not in a costly hotel and people don’t have to pay for a big blowout, do it for love. Make it participatory with an art jam and swapping.  This could be done in a show space, library, community center, apartment commons, warehouse, studio, comic shop, or any open place, with a co-op concept.

Why swapping?  Furries love to collect books, comics, and games that get read and re-read until it’s time to give them a new home. Same for art, art supplies, and fur scraps. And (my favorite), costume gear. I have a walk-in closet full of stuff that someone would love to wear.  But sadly, that one con shirt isn’t for me.  I have too many sparkly belts and pet collars. Someone else needs those pants covered with owls.  Maybe that’s you, and maybe you have some cool fursuit bandanas to throw on my stack!

These happen for general communities, but theming can be extra fun. For those who already have premade stuff for art shows or dealing at bigger cons, a locally-organized event could be an accessible opportunity with the chemistry that makes fandom great.  It could take advantage of empty scheduling between cons.  There are fairs/swaps for other indie groups (like goth clothing swaps, how cool is that?)  Furry art jams are already a thing – think of leveling up with a showcase for your local group.  Cons are full of distractions that make dealing hard (party fun is a focus for many furs) – a show like this could BE the party!

Please comment if you have any such events in your local fandom!

Side topic:  Remember when I mentioned doing freeganism a long time ago?  That’s where my packrat fursona came from.  Almost 15 years ago I did bad writing about it for the heck of it, and was immensely surprised to have some republished by cyberpunk-founder Bruce Sterling in Wired.

Subthread:  Furry cons try to be all things to all attendees. While they grow, maybe it risks spreading the effort too thinly. They have so many kinds of things to offer (shows, dances, panels, art, dealing, and more) that maybe more focus can help.

I think fandoms like anime & furry need to start treating artists like exhibitors/vendors, not as attendees. This is people's livelihood now

— Camp Eevachu✨ (@Eevachu) August 5, 2017

It leads to Eevachu’s point that “a furmeet/artist alley fandom model works well for <1000 attendee events,” but those who vend professionally may need a more focused model.  I can back up that point with complaints about limited dealer spaces that crowd out long-time pros. (They’re in my article about limits of a growing fandom.)  Perhaps local bazaars could make other options.

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Voracious is a recent full-color comic book series written by Markisan Naso and illustrated by Jason Muhr and Andrei Tabacaru. The first story arc (Diners, Dinosaurs, & Dives) was the simple (?) story of a young chef who inherits a time travel suit — and uses it to collect dinosaurs he can slaughter and butcher to make new meat for his ailing restaurant. (Not your vegan ed-otter’s cup of tea, but what the hey…) In the second story arc however (Voracious: Feeding Time), things take on a decidedly more anthropomorphic turn: “Hunting dinosaurs and secretly serving them at his restaurant, Fork & Fossil, has helped Chef Nate Willner become a big success. But just when he’s starting to make something of his life, he discovers that his hunting trips with Captain Jim are actually taking place in an alternate reality – an Earth where dinosaurs evolve into Saurians, a technologically advanced race that rules the far future! Some of these Saurians have mysteriously started vanishing from Cretaceous City and the local authorities are hell-bent on finding who’s responsible. Nate’s world is about to collide with something much, much bigger than any dinosaur he’s ever roasted.” Nothing worse than discovering you’re accidentally a serial killer… Feeding Time is available now in a collected edition from Action Lab.

image c. 2017 Action Lab

Vox, Tal and Adoom gather up to try to make the internet laugh. We moved into the basement this episode so there may be some unfurledness about the recording. Episode 6 - Shark in the basement!

The cast get together tonight for more good laughs Episode 5 - Shark it again

The unfurled crew returns for another good night of laughs Episode 4 - Shark it

Here is a bit of Rick and Morty fan animation for the insect furs out there. (Yes, like much of R&M this is a bit nihilistic.)
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Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer

A Dog’s View of Love, Life, and Death, by J. R. Archer
Hove, England, White Crow Books, June 2017, trade paperback $14.99 (ix + 299 pages), Kindle $4.99.

This is an intriguing fantasy, but from an anthropomorphic point of view, it’s ultimately unsatisfying.

The locale is New York City. The chapters are short. In chapter one, Svetlana witnesses Robbie commit suicide, leaving Rosie, a small dog. In chapter two, rich, elderly Margaret Roper and her small dog Rags are introduced. In chapter three, young Black police officer Teddy Dwight investigates Robbie’s suicide and takes charge of Rosie. In chapter four, Margaret has a fatal heart attack. Her son Will, who has anger issues, is mostly resentful at the inconvenience her funeral will cause him. He breaks his promise to look out after Rags, who is sent to a dog shelter.

Most of the first nine chapters are entirely about the human cast. The dogs are little more than props. Other important characters are young Milo McGarry, the conscientious Black receptionist at the East 110th Street dog shelter (which is expected to go out of business soon), where Rosie and Rags are taken; two other dogs there: Lennon, a hulking but kindly Great Dane, and Darcy, a rescued Greyhound ex-racing dog; Sebastian, Svetlana’s pet Borzoi-German Shepherd mix; and Elton, Milo’s long-haired Chihuahua.

The dogs finally talk in chapter Ten. Chapters Thirteen, Fifteen, and some others are also devoted to the dogs, but for an anthropomorphic novel, it’s too little, too late.

The dogs don’t talk verbally but mind-to-mind.

“‘Allow me to introduce myself, Lennon, my name is Rags.’

The Great Dane sat up, looking surprised. ‘How’d ya know my name?’

‘It came to me as soon as we connected.’

‘Seriously? … I’ve never been able to do that. Have you just arrived, little fella?’

‘I got in early this morning.’

‘Rags, if you want a heads up, I’ve been here for a while now, and for me it’s home. I don’t know how long you’re gonna be here but, while you are, let’s be friends.’” (p. 47)

Some of the dogs, especially Rags, are deep into reincarnation.

“‘Well, let’s just say I’m a little further along the path than you, and I’ve learned to do these things.’

Lennon stretched his long legs and walked round Rags, looking mystified. ‘What do you mean, ‘a little further along the path?’” He scrutinized the little dog. ‘I’m the old timer here. You still look like a pup.’

‘That’s true, my friend. As humans measure time I’ve been here for a little over a year, but that’s not what I mean. What I mean is, I’ve experienced more here than you have – maybe not in this lifetime but in others. Although when I say ‘I’, I don’t mean Rags – Rags is just the name a human gave me while I’m in this body. It would be more accurate to say my body is called Rags, but I’m not my body. Speaking of bodies, do we get exercised here? Mine could do with a run.’” (p. 48)

They are also deep into giving moral support to each other and, telepathically/subconsciously, to their humans.

“Rosie pushed the bowl round the kennel until there wasn’t a scrap of food in sight. Meanwhile, Darcey pricked up her ears.

‘What brings you to the shelter, Rosie?’

‘My owner jumped off a roof last night and killed himself.’

‘How horrible.’

‘How about you?’

‘My owners were killed in a car crash.’

Rosie burped. ‘That’s too bad.’

Darcey got up and stretched her long limbs. ‘It is. I really loved those people.’

‘We love all humans, greyhound, but they do dumb things. I’m amazed they live so long.’” (p. 60)

It seems to come to interspecies communication when Milo brings Rosie home one evening and she beams her thoughts to Milo’s father, Seamus. But he’s paralyzed from an accident and can’t talk, and he doesn’t believe in the voice in his head, anyhow.

The humans in A Dog’s View of Love, Life, and Death (cover by Astrid) work out their own problems without being aware of their dogs’ subconscious guidance, which is so tenuous that the humans often frustratingly ignore it anyhow. The novel is basically a soap opera about the humans involved, with the dogs as an unnoticed Greek chorus. The dogs may talk, but this isn’t really a furry novel.

–Fred Patten

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Um, we’ll let the folks at Kechal Comics explain it: “Placed in men’s tightie whitie underwear on a whim by the scientist who captures him, Baxter the monkey does the only logical thing possible – he instantly develops consciousness and the ability to speak. Because… SCIENCE!!! Excited by his discovery, the scientist decides to see if other animals react as well as Baxter. Gaining intelligence, rational thought and an innate understanding of justice and fairnesss. Let’s just say further experiments do not go as well. Join Baxter as he navigates a world he’s just starting to understand, a world full of fearful humans, zany animals, and one seriously deranged bunny rabbit.” See? We told you they’d say it better! Underwars #1 was written by Kevin Joseph and illustrated in black & white by C.M. Brennan, based on a series of paintings he did.

image c. 2017 Kechal Comics

Thanks to a conversation with FableCharm, a brony, we've realized our previous furry lifestyler episode is in need of a revisit! This is the revisit. Tugs is joined by Nuka while Roo takes a break, reading your emails and discussing the lifestyler question from an academic point of view. What is a lifestyler? Does this change over time? How does experience shape the ideal of one's furry self? Are hobbyists as valid in the fandom? Where does "get off my con" come from? Find out, along with new Space News, Olde Timey Ads, and Fifty Sheds of Grey.





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Nuka, our guest. Check out some science!!
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Opening Theme: DJ Earworm – The State of Now. USA: YouTube, 2017. ©2015 DJ Earworm. Check out the original piece at his website.
Some music was provided by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. We used the following pieces:

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Space News Music: Fredrik Miller – Orbit. USA: Bandcamp, 2013. Used with permission. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
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Closing Theme: Husky In Denial – Cloud Fields (Headnodic Mix). USA: Unpublished, 2015. ©2015 Fur What It’s Worth and Husky in Denial. Based on Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)

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Next episode: Our next episode is the Season 6 Recap! What episode moments were your favorite? Send them to us by August 12, 2017! S6 Episode 19 – Furry Trash - Thanks to a conversation with FableCharm, a brony, we've realized our previous furry lifestyler episode is in need of a revisit! This is the revisit. Tugs is joined by Nuka while Roo takes a break, reading your emails and dis

Here’s the Plan is a new 2D animated short film from Chile, written and directed by Fernanda Frick. “A married cat-dog couple of cupcake bakers dream of opening their own bakery. One day their oven breaks and they have to postpone their dream in order to earn money and replace it. Somewhere down the line, they drift apart from their dream and from themselves.” It had its world premier at the Nashville International Film Festival last April, and it’s been making the rounds at animation festivals since then. The official web site has a lot more info.

image c. 2017 herestheplanfilm.com

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We take a sip of corn, churn through a ton of news and eat some disgusting jelly beans.

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Watch Video Link Roundup:

• Fandom Fashions Tail Hoodies
• Why It Sucks To Be A Male Hyena
• SyFyWire’s “How Furries Became A Fandom”
• Fairly OddParents creator working on Danny Phantom-like series for YouTube
• BadDragon’s YouTube Channel
• BBC: Meet the trio who ‘married’ each other
• Rockos Modern Life returns with movie: Static Cling
• Kentucky Ark Encounter wants to ‘take back’ rainbow from LGBTQ community
• Psychology Today’s “What’s the Deal With Furries?”
• Daily Mail: The psychology of furries: Expert says dressing up as animals could boost mental health by creating ‘strong social support networks’ and achieving a ‘positive sense of self’
• Second Life’s Immersive Sequel [Sansar] Is World-Building at Its Finest
• Daily Mail: ‘Stop pretending this is normal!’ This Morning viewers baffled by ‘furry fandom’ guests who socialise in ANIMAL costumes (and Eamonn wants to know if they ‘sniff each other’)
• @kittywarrior16 draws cute art for Paradox. Seeks commissions!
• Adam Ruins Everything: Alpha Males Do Not Exist
• NHL 18 Game has Mascots in it
• Samsung Wireless Charger Convertible: Launch Film
• U.S. Muslims More Accepting of Homosexuality Than White Evangelicals
• In a Heartbeat – Animated Short Film
• Florida Today: Unfurgettable: Megaplex in Orlando celebrates furry fandom
• Splatoon 2’s Lobby Is Full Of Furries
• Culturally F’d: Copyright for Furries
• Centaur Skyrim Mod
• Firefox Nightly has a new logo
• The Verge: This Japanese mascot is an enema disguised as an adorable penguin
• Scent Generator
• VR Next Generation

News:

• Texas Man Shoots Armadillo, Bullet Ricochets Back In His Own Face
• UK to implement age-verification system for porn sites
• Is This The Most NSFW Scientific Study Of All Time?

FC-273 Monster Butt Punching Rally - We take a sip of corn, churn through a ton of news and eat some disgusting jelly beans.

We take a sip of corn, churn through a ton of news and eat some disgusting jelly beans.

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Watch Video Link Roundup:

• Fandom Fashions Tail Hoodies
• Why It Sucks To Be A Male Hyena
• SyFyWire’s “How Furries Became A Fandom”
• Fairly OddParents creator working on Danny Phantom-like series for YouTube
• BadDragon’s YouTube Channel
• BBC: Meet the trio who ‘married’ each other
• Rockos Modern Life returns with movie: Static Cling
• Kentucky Ark Encounter wants to ‘take back’ rainbow from LGBTQ community
• Psychology Today’s “What’s the Deal With Furries?”
• Daily Mail: The psychology of furries: Expert says dressing up as animals could boost mental health by creating ‘strong social support networks’ and achieving a ‘positive sense of self’
• Second Life’s Immersive Sequel [Sansar] Is World-Building at Its Finest
• Daily Mail: ‘Stop pretending this is normal!’ This Morning viewers baffled by ‘furry fandom’ guests who socialise in ANIMAL costumes (and Eamonn wants to know if they ‘sniff each other’)
• @kittywarrior16 draws cute art for Paradox. Seeks commissions!
• Adam Ruins Everything: Alpha Males Do Not Exist
• NHL 18 Game has Mascots in it
• Samsung Wireless Charger Convertible: Launch Film
• U.S. Muslims More Accepting of Homosexuality Than White Evangelicals
• In a Heartbeat – Animated Short Film
• Florida Today: Unfurgettable: Megaplex in Orlando celebrates furry fandom
• Splatoon 2’s Lobby Is Full Of Furries
• Culturally F’d: Copyright for Furries
• Centaur Skyrim Mod
• Firefox Nightly has a new logo
• The Verge: This Japanese mascot is an enema disguised as an adorable penguin
• Scent Generator
• VR Next Generation

News:

• Texas Man Shoots Armadillo, Bullet Ricochets Back In His Own Face
• UK to implement age-verification system for porn sites
• Is This The Most NSFW Scientific Study Of All Time?

FC-273 Monster Butt Punching Rally - We take a sip of corn, churn through a ton of news and eat some disgusting jelly beans.

We take a sip of corn, churn through a ton of news and eat some disgusting jelly beans.

Download MP3

Link Roundup:

• Fandom Fashions Tail Hoodies
• Why It Sucks To Be A Male Hyena
• SyFyWire’s “How Furries Became A Fandom”
• Fairly OddParents creator working on Danny Phantom-like series for YouTube
• BadDragon’s YouTube Channel
• BBC: Meet the trio who ‘married’ each other
• Rockos Modern Life returns with movie: Static Cling
• Kentucky Ark Encounter wants to ‘take back’ rainbow from LGBTQ community
• Psychology Today’s “What’s the Deal With Furries?”
• Daily Mail: The psychology of furries: Expert says dressing up as animals could boost mental health by creating ‘strong social support networks’ and achieving a ‘positive sense of self’
• Second Life’s Immersive Sequel [Sansar] Is World-Building at Its Finest
• Daily Mail: ‘Stop pretending this is normal!’ This Morning viewers baffled by ‘furry fandom’ guests who socialise in ANIMAL costumes (and Eamonn wants to know if they ‘sniff each other’)
• @kittywarrior16 draws cute art for Paradox. Seeks commissions!
• Adam Ruins Everything: Alpha Males Do Not Exist
• NHL 18 Game has Mascots in it
• Samsung Wireless Charger Convertible: Launch Film
• U.S. Muslims More Accepting of Homosexuality Than White Evangelicals
• In a Heartbeat – Animated Short Film
• Florida Today: Unfurgettable: Megaplex in Orlando celebrates furry fandom
• Splatoon 2’s Lobby Is Full Of Furries
• Culturally F’d: Copyright for Furries
• Centaur Skyrim Mod
• Firefox Nightly has a new logo
• The Verge: This Japanese mascot is an enema disguised as an adorable penguin
• Scent Generator
• VR Next Generation

News:

• Texas Man Shoots Armadillo, Bullet Ricochets Back In His Own Face
• UK to implement age-verification system for porn sites
• Is This The Most NSFW Scientific Study Of All Time?

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From out of nowhere… actually, from out of Spain. The Think Lab is an animation production house in Madrid, and they recently completed their first CGI feature film, Deep, directed by Julio Soto Gurpide. “In 2100, when humanity has abandoned the earth, a colony of extravagant creatures still thrives in the deepest abyss of the ocean. Deep, an adventurous ‘dumbo’ octopus and the last one of his kind lives there with his two unconditional friends: Evo, a nerdy and clumsy angler fish, and Alice, a neurotic deep-sea shrimp. When an accident destroys their home, the guardian of the abyss, The Kraken, will send Deep and his friends on a perilous journey to find a new home. In their mission, they will be joined by Maura – a voracious moray eel – and together they will travel to amazing places like the submerged city of New York, the Titanic, or the Arctic, facing formidable enemies and hilarious situations.” No talk of a release here, but the IMDB page lists all English-speaking actors, and the trailer is in English too.

image c. 2017 The Think Lab

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Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer

ArCANIS: A Modern Animal Tarot, by David DePasquale. Illustrated.
Los Angeles, The author, July 2017, hardcover $30.00 (unpaged [168 pages).

I went to the Center Stage Gallery in Burbank, CA during August to see the “ArCANIS: A Modern Animal Tarot” art exhibit by David DePasquale; a full 78-card Tarot deck in color, divided into 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana cards split into 14 cards each of the four Tarot suits (swords, wands, pentacles, and cups), with each card featuring an anthropomorphized animal. Besides the original art (for sale), there were the printed cards, a rotating enlargement slide show so the attractive stylized art could be easily seen in detail, and brief notes on the history of Tarot and the meanings of the cards.

In addition to the exhibit, visitors could buy in advance (the publication date is in September) the printed 3.5” x 5.5” deck of 78 cards in a customized tuck box, and a de luxe hardcover book showing the 78 cards individually on right-hand pages with a one-page explanation of each on the left-hand page:

THE NINE OF WANDS

Upright: Determination, Hope, Persistence

The Nine of Wands can represent searching inside yourself for the inner strength to overcome a final hurdle. You have worked through many obstacles to get to where you are now, so do not give up when you are so close!

Reversed: Defensiveness, Hesitation, Paranoia

The reversed Nine of Wands can indicate that you are slowing down in your progress toward your goal and defensive about how much you’ve been accomplishing. You’re hesitant to take on more work when you already feel like you’re drowning in it. You could use a good, long break to recuperate and gather your strength.

The Nine of Wands features an orange-&-black dragon. The jacketless book is attractively printed in color (although each card is in just one color plus black) on thick glossy paper. The binding is black cloth stamped in silver foil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David DePasquale is a Los Angeles/Hollywood visual development artist who has worked at Nickelodeon, Disney and DreamWorks, among others. His online posts are heavy on anthropomorphic paintings. He got the inspiration for this Tarot card deck and book last November, received lots of encouragement from fellow artists, ran a Kickstarter campaign from March 17 to April 18 of this year, and raised $19,748 with a $13,000 goal. He’s been working since to complete everything; this ArCANIS art exhibit at CSG in Burbank, July 28 to September 3, is its first public release.

Fortunately, there are plenty of his Tarot cards on his website to show what they look like: modern, stylized, and bold. There are dragons, goats, cats, raccoons, eagles, lions, wolves, deer, storks, horses, bear – you name it. There are not 78 different animals and birds, but duplicates (except dragons) are kept to a minimum.

ArCANIS: A Modern Animal Tarot is a private art project and is not publicly available – but its Kickstarter is still online. For a $30 pledge, you can still get this book; or the Tarot card deck, if you prefer. For $50 you can get both the book and the card deck. See the Kickstarter for other goals, such as an enameled pin or original sketches.

DePasquale says on the Kickstarter video that he will launch ArCANIS more publicly at this year’s CTN Animation Expo, in Burbank, CA on November 17-19, 2017. CTN stands for Creative Talent Network; it’s not a fan convention but a professional animation artist’s job fair. Check out the Wikipedia entry. Furry artists and fursuit makers may be interested.

–Fred Patten

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