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Fans of the Twilight series and fans of animal transformation would do well to check out the novels of Colleen Houck. Her first book, Tiger’s Curse, introduces us to a teenage girl named Kelsey. She’s been given a very unusual assignment: Accompany a rare white tiger as he is shipped back to his native India. As soon as she lands though, things begin to get strange right away. Turns out that Ren, the former circus superstar, is not actually a tiger at all: He’s an Indian prince trapped under a bizarre magical curse which only allows him to assume his human form for 24 minutes a day. What’s more, Kelsey has been chosen by a powerful Indian goddess to be the girl who is destined to help Ren defeat the curse. Some assignment! Splinter released Tiger’s Curse in hardcover last January, and recently they released Tiger’s Quest, the second book in the series. In it, Kelsey must return to India to assist Ren’s less-than-savory brother Kishan, who has also fallen prey to the tiger’s curse. You can find out about these books and more in the series at Colleen Houck’s web site.

Author: GreenReaper

Furry artistic social community Fur Paws is now in open beta.

Created by Fur Affinity founder Alkora, the site was launched June 2, but went down for two days after a security issue was raised, allegedly involving the naming of uploaded files.

Fur Paws features multi-picture character profiles, folders and a safe-for-work login option. Currently only images and stories are supported; music uploads are planned. Initially known as Art Paws, the site was renamed over trademark issues. It has adopted an ‘honest’ privacy policy.

 

This flash piece blends a tale of folklore and magic. Pretty White Snake, once a powerful luck charm, is now shunned by the people who fear him and his power, leaving him forced to travel the dream-paths searching for one who is not afraid of him. Will Pretty White Snake succeed, or will he continue to languish, powerless and despised?

"Pretty, White Snake" by Cathy Smith

Read by Adam Fullerton (Pegasus316)

Music cues by Infinity Squared

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A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails.  Enjoy.

News:

• Group Plans to Get Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Furry Conventions

• Human & Bovine Genes Spliced – Brave Moo World

• 2 people die as bear flies through SUV

• Dogs Likely Born with ‘Canine Telepathy’

• Last U.K. Teddy Bear Factory Celebrates 80 Years

• A Defense of Teddy Bears

• Anthrocon featured as Hip, Gay, Fetish party in Mate Magazine

 

Annoucement:

• FurFusion Radio Promotion

Emails:

• Dox – “Howdy FurCast”
• Raxtus Pain – “Friend Problems”
• Shadow – “Dear Furcast”

Interviewee:

• Markos – Furry News Network . com

Topic of the Week:

• Furry online communities

Find the full article here: FurCast

The contents of this Podcast may have adult language and adult themes. The content is not produced by Furry News Network, but is posted for your convenience.

Author: GreenReaper

For many furs, Anthrocon is approaching – but roughly 50 Finns are looking forward to the first FinnFur Summer Camp (website), held 1-3 July at Röskö in the forests of North Karelia. Planned activities include BBQ, lake swimming, rowing, motor-boating and dances, plus indoor games.

All cabin spaces have sold out (at 30-40€ + 10€ for sponsors); campers can still attend for 35€.

The event is led by SlvWolf, founder of Finnish-language Furboard and TurriWiki, and was mentioned in a letter to Knotcast #141 (AAC/MP3 – 10:43).

Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought

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Folks who have been following on-line comics for a while, especially anthro comics, might recall a particular one called Buster Wilde: Weerwolf.  As written and drawn by Scott Zellman, it tells of the trials and tribulations of an ordinary heterosexual human guy who, once bitten, keeps transforming into Buster — a decidedly queer werewolf with a party-all-night attitude! No it’s not pornographic and yes, it’s very much for adults only. Originally available exclusively on the Buster site at Furnation.com, FurPlanet and Bad Dog Books have announced that it will now be released as a black & white trade paperback later this June. Mr. Zellman has also been re-printing the original Buster strips in a larger format up on BadDog’s site.

 

This week, we explore our first episode with a topic! We handle two e-mails this time around, one of them from someone telling us all about his crazy family, and the other a follow-up e-mail from a previous week about stalker behavior and what’s being done about it!

Next week’s topic is the workplace. What’s your job like? Do you enjoy it, do you hate it, do you need one, what’s the story there? Write in with any questions or comments you may have, whether topical or otherwise, and we’ll read them on the air! Write in before Thursday to have your e-mail read on Episode 8 – Salt Mines!

Per usual, e-mails go to fuzzy.logic.podcast@gmail.com, our FA account is fuzzylogicpodcast, and our Twitter account is fuzzylogiccast – give us a listen, and write in!

Episode 7 – Family Ties

Episode 7 – Family Ties - This week, we explore our first episode with a topic! We handle two e-mails this time around, one of them from someone telling us all about his crazy family, and the other a follow-up e-mail from a previous week about stalker[...]

A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails.  Enjoy.

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News:

• Group Plans to Get Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Furry Conventions
• Human & Bovine Genes Spliced – Brave Moo World
• 2 people die as bear flies through SUV
• Dogs Likely Born with ‘Canine Telepathy’
• Last U.K. Teddy Bear Factory Celebrates 80 Years
• A Defense of Teddy Bears
• Anthrocon featured as Hip, Gay, Fetish party in Mate Magazine

Annoucement:

• FurFusion Radio Promotion

Emails:

• Dox – “Howdy FurCast”
• Raxtus Pain – “Friend Problems”
• Shadow – “Dear Furcast”

Interviewee:

• Markos – Furry News Network . com

Topic of the Week:

• Furry online communities

FC-44 Fayroe’s Hour - A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails. Enjoy.

A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails.  Enjoy.

Download MP3

News:

• Group Plans to Get Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Furry Conventions
• Human & Bovine Genes Spliced – Brave Moo World
• 2 people die as bear flies through SUV
• Dogs Likely Born with ‘Canine Telepathy’
• Last U.K. Teddy Bear Factory Celebrates 80 Years
• A Defense of Teddy Bears
• Anthrocon featured as Hip, Gay, Fetish party in Mate Magazine

Annoucement:

• FurFusion Radio Promotion

Emails:

• Dox – “Howdy FurCast”
• Raxtus Pain – “Friend Problems”
• Shadow – “Dear Furcast”

Interviewee:

• Markos – Furry News Network . com

Topic of the Week:

• Furry online communities

FC-44 Fayroe’s Hour - A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails. Enjoy.

A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails.  Enjoy.

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News:

• Group Plans to Get Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Furry Conventions

• Human & Bovine Genes Spliced – Brave Moo World

• 2 people die as bear flies through SUV

• Dogs Likely Born with ‘Canine Telepathy’

• Last U.K. Teddy Bear Factory Celebrates 80 Years

• A Defense of Teddy Bears

• Anthrocon featured as Hip, Gay, Fetish party in Mate Magazine

 

Annoucement:

• FurFusion Radio Promotion

Emails:

• Dox – “Howdy FurCast”
• Raxtus Pain – “Friend Problems”
• Shadow – “Dear Furcast”

Interviewee:

• Markos – Furry News Network . com

Topic of the Week:

• Furry online communities

FC-44 Fayroe’s Hour - A slow start, and a lot of Fayroe and Paradox headbutting, but a decent outcome. Another great interview, and definitely some good emails. Enjoy.

n 2002, YiffStar was born. Run and mainly supported out of pocket by Toumal, It stood for Yiffy Story Archive and functioned as a site for mainly adult themed stories, art and music, housing some 25,000 entries by fall of 2007. In 2008, Alex Vance was working on his own concept for a “Social Content Platform” called “Anthropad”.

Toumal and Alex had already worked together on Alex’s own furry story archive, FurRag, and being friends had no problems working together on other projects. Toumal was excited about some of the concepts Alex had for his “Anthropad” concept, and through discussion, they both reached an agreement that instead of building a new site from scratch, using off the shelf software, they would instead use some of those very same concepts to rebuild Yiffstar, which was in need of a refresh after 8 years of service.

It took a year and a half, a”Cadre” of coders and extensive work, but YiffStar was relaunched as SoFurry on December 26, 2009.

Well someone had the bright idea to get the Westboro church to protest AnthroCon. Looks like the mod's locked down this post though, so no harm done.

In Zookeeper, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship -- animal style. The film also stars Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb and features the voices of Cher, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, and Sylvester Stallone.

Hamster Rage is an interesting beast by writer and artist Brian J. Crowley. It's a webcomic featuring an anthropomorphic super powered hamster with a penchant for trench coats and cheese. Nevertheless, the lead character isn't what makes this an odd read. It is the feeling that so much more is going on beyond the scenes than the reader is privy to. The first introductory batch, available online or in a recently released paper issue, features Roosevelt, the titular raging hamster, alongside a boatload of supporting characters duking it out in the streets of Chicago, featuring a number of landmarks familiar to people who frequent Montrose between Ashland and Clark.

I went to a meeting earlier in the day to see a game that was billed "a mystery game from Sony." The only other information I knew about it was that it was announced at the Sony press conference yesterday.

I was hoping and praying the game was Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.

Lucky for me, it was! GLORIOUS!

Poor James Pond. A star on the Amiga, he never quite made an impact on other platforms, though he sure as hell tried. James Pond II - Codename: Robocod, in particular, is one of those inescapable games that resurfaces every few years on a new console, with its most recent appearance being as a freebie title featured in Sony UK's "Welcome Back" program for PlayStation 3 and PSP owners.

This month, however, James will return in his first new adventure since 1993's The Aquatic Games. James Pond in The Deathly Shallows ("Yes, you did read that correctly," the press release assures) ditches the platforming gameplay that defined later sequels for side-scrolling shooter mechanics that recall the original James Pond for the Amiga and Sega Genesis.

Few other details have been revealed, but you can probably expect lots of fish, bubbles, and terrible puns when the game releases for the iPhone and iPad on June 30th. Maybe if we're lucky, James will take another ill-advised swipe at Sonic the Hedgehog.

The new big thing in Furry Fandom is contests! Yes, now you can enter into a contest to win a paid commission. All you have to do is submit a piece of art, of the finest quality you can make, to specification and for free to the person running the contest… see the flaw yet?

To those of you who've not worked it out: yes, this is what we call a "scam".

Updated with some probability theory showing the scammy nature of these contests.

The guy running the contest gets a whole load of "to specification" artwork, and only has to pay for one, but keeps all of them. The clever ones even put in the small print that all rights to submissions are transferred to them. The really abusive ones never pay out at all, with their winner being a friend or a sock-puppet. Sometimes they're run by people who just don't get that it's not okay to trick people into giving you stuff for free.

This is nothing new, and has been going on in other fandoms for as long as people thought they could take advantage of others, or felt they deserved things for free. Other variants include "Your submission could be included in a High Quality Full Colour Art-Book, retailing for $18.99." where every submission wins, and the books are then sold to the "Lucky" winners.

Some people do try to defend these contests, with the following arguments…

"These contests provide exposure for the people who enter."

They're probably the least effective way to gain exposure. What exposure is gained will be that from people who look at the other entries – which may not be possible in closed submissions – and from whatever use the winning entry sees, which may be very limited indeed.

"People should be allowed to give their work away for free if they want."

Sure, I'm not going to make the Pixel-Stained Technopeasant argument. If you want to willingly give away your work, that's fine. But that's different to using the promise of a "win" to get people to do work for free, particularly if you give exact specifications for what you want. People have the right to distribute their work how they want, but taking advantage by subtly coercing them into handing over stuff for free is unethical.

"No one gets hurt, it's just for fun."

People can spend hours, even days of hard work on their submission – and can then be crushed when they realise they've been taken for a sucker. That sounds like harm to me.

Sadly, it's hard to prevent these abusive "contests". But it is possible to get the message out to creators to beware of being scammed into providing their work for free.

There’s something that I notice at anime conventions and it’s that there is a silent disrespect and hatred for the furry fandom. It seems some “otaku” place themselves on a pedestal over furs. I understand that at an anime convention it is conventional for people to cosplay as anime characters. So furs that dress up as pokemon or digimon or any other creatures related to an anime series are generally left alone. But there’s a silent double standard in the anime fandom and it’s that you can costume as any character, anime related or otherwise, but god forbid you fursuit as your personal character! Or god forbid you sell “furry”/anthropomorphic art in artist alley. People will talk about them behind their backs as if somehow they are greater than the other person. And this isn’t just limited to the furry fandom. Anime fans get their fair share of hatred. Anime in America is thought of as a fad that will disappear in time. People who like anime are thought of as immature or “wannabe Japanese” people. God forbid a person shows a genuine interest in the language or culture as well as likes anime. They will be thought of as a “weaboo”. And what about sci-fi and comic book fans? Their like of cosplaying as their favorite characters at conventions is always fodder for late night comedians to poke fun at. They’re thought of as the 40 year old, overweight virgins who will never get a girl because of his “insane” interest in Star Wars or Superman. Yet there still seems to be a ranking system of fandoms within fandoms.

I get kind of tired of people laughing at some of my characters because they think that they're "furries" in the bad sense of the word. I'd like to start by saying that these characters were characters BEFORE I gave them their powers. I didn't say "Okay I want a tiger chick...what is her story?" I said "Okay here's this girl with this story, I should figure out what super powers she has." to which I decided on super strength, agility, etc. But I wanted to go further then that by making her appearance something that would constantly be a haunting thing per say. Mutated enough that it causes her stress. I didn't do it because I have a fetish for furries. I didn't do it because I just like tigers. I did it for the character's sake.

If I'm considered a furry then I guess Batman is too. Sam is stuck with her appearance. Batman just plain CHOOSES to put on a bat themed costume and run around Gotham! To inspire fear? Surrrreee right right...Admit it Bruce! You just have a fetish! What's that? Fans disagree? Then STOP CALLING ME A FURRY DAMN IT!

Police officers in China practice how to trap a tiger in case one escapes from the zoo. Obviously they won't practice with real tigers so they get people to dress up in Tigger suits.