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Facebook, you likely either love it or hate it. The social networking giant seems to have been conducting maintenance on its user accounts for a few years focused on accounts for pets or animals. Mainly this seems to be driven by the network’s security policies to keep users from hiding behind another personality and not showing a profile page.

Whenever the furry fandom comes to light in popular media, it has often become sensationalized. We envision a film that steps beyond the aesthetic spectacle of the community and explores the fandom in more depth. In particular, we are interested in placing this subculture against a social background to examine the “human element” of being furry.
To do this, we will explore the lives of several furries both in and outside of the fandom. We will place a particular emphasis on how “being furry” contributes to identity construction, how the fandom is structured as a community, and how the fandom influences (or is influenced by) mainstream society.

The winners of the tenth annual Ursa Major Awards for the best anthropomorphic/"funny animal" literature and art first published during 2010 have been announced at a presentation ceremony tonight at Morphicon in Columbus, Ohio.

"Hyenas" Movie Story:

Plot Outline:

Roving clans of shape-shifting human/hyena creatures prowl and hunt for human prey. They are hunted by one man seeking revenge for the death of his loved ones.

Overview:

"Hyenas" the movie is an urban legend detailing accounts of human encounters and attacks by a sub-culture of predatory cryptohuman Hyenas. These shape-shifting human-like creatures prowl the rural back roads and forests of North America and have long been thought to exist by Cryptozoologists. Folklore and sightings persist even as mainstream science denies their existence. But these fierce creatures with bone crushing jaws and an appetite for human flesh are real and live up to the fierce reputation of their cousin, the African Spotted Hyena. A dozen snarling, fighting crypto Hyenas can devour an adult human -- skeleton and flesh -- in a matter of minutes.

Author: dronon

After the recent review of the terrible Hyenas, here’s something to make hyena fans happier!

When Ursula Vernon published the first volume of Black Dogs in 2007, her life was very busy. She was moving house, her webcomic Digger was experiencing a surge in popularity, and her newly-acquired literary agent had got her a sweet deal to write and illustrate children’s books for Scholastic.

Understandably, writing a sequel took a back seat, so when the second half of Black Dogs was published four years later, Sofawolf Press conveniently reprinted the first volume with a new cover.

Black Dogs is a fantasy novel set in a world with humans, elves, and many anthropomorphic species. The main character is Lyra, a young human who finds herself on the run after her merchant family’s home is attacked by bandits. Though educated and well-read, she hasn’t much practical knowledge. Luckily she meets Sadrao, a tall, kind dog-soldier, one of a respected species of anthro-hyenas. Taking her under his wing, she joins him on his travels while he teaches her survival skills.

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I happened upon this, dated from about a month ago (April 19):
http://www.dr.dk/P1/Klubvaerelset/Udsendelser/2011/04/16115910.htm

It's in Danish, and looks like a piece on a radio program. (Any Danish furs here who can elaborate?)

A quick-and-dirty Google translation, of the page's text to English, reads:


Bold, beautiful and sexy furries
Club Room 19th April 2011, at. 16:10 P1

Listen to the show (43:32)

By fox cage in Scandinavian wildlife park sits club room with Charlie, Martin and Ole. They are ordinary young people, but they are also a wolf, a fox and a gray jackal.

When the fox plays Guitar Hero
There is a group of young Danes who call themselves furries. They dress in animal costumes, exchange drawings of animals and meet at the 'furmeets' to talk about the furry subculture and their various fields of interest within it. Ole example. a 'fur-suites'. So he dresses himself out in big animal costumes and join forces with other fur-suites out in parks, where he gives the past an adequate experience they will long remember. - I decided once to go to Blockbuster to download a game wearing my fursuit. It turned out to be a fantastic trip for all responded so positively. The employees behind the counter was completely finished with laughter and there were two boys behind me in the queue who called their friends and said 'Hey, I just can not wait have to get down to Blockbuster, here is a giant fox and play Guitar Hero! "

Fur porn yiff =
But when you move into the dirtier part of furry culture, then you come upon furry self-invented synonym for furry porn: Yiff. Martin is 28 years and was for many years a fan of an American account named Eric Schwarz. Eric Schwarz's first animal motifs were quite innocent, but at some point learns Martin, the artist starts to draw its anthropomorphic animal women with large, bare breasts and with a lot more affectionate glances. Martin's drawing style evolve in the same direction, and he still prefers yiff rather ordinary man porn. - It gives just an extra dimension that the girl has fur and cat ears. It's probably just a fetish, like so many others, he says.

Furries across borders
Yiff has spread like a prairie wind out of the Internet's nooks and crannies, and you can find according to Martin yiff just as easily as one can find general porn on the net. And furrykulturen owe the Internet a great deal of its success, for it was over the net that culture in the early '90s began to break boundaries. Today furries exchange pictures, drawings, yiff, fur art and stories over the net, and it is here that the big Furry Conventions is beaten up. Kept example. a Fur Con in September in Germany, where organizers expect thousands of furries as a visitor.

Three predators living together at Noah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center.

Author: actfuronair

In this episode we discuss saving money, dinosaurs are awesome, shimenji’s and changing the names of pets.

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Author: PeterCat

The winners of the tenth annual Ursa Major Awards for the best anthropomorphic/”funny animal” literature and art first published during 2010 have been announced at a presentation ceremony tonight at Morphicon in Columbus, Ohio.

See also: Last year’s winners, the 2010 nominees and other UMA coverage.

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05/13/2011
By: SonoKAI

Okay… Now here is something. I know we Furries have our ordinary lives right?
But they are never shown. Here is a little something that made me happy yesterday. I found out about this video thanks to Renard Queenston, but coming down to it I think it is something we should all watch.

Author: crossaffliction

The pitch for Eric Weston’s Hyenas must have resembled “it’s a werewolf movie, only this time they’re werehyenas!”

On one hand, not exactly the greatest movie premise ever. On the other hand, it worked on me.

Right here it should be said Hyenas is a bad movie. Besides the obvious reasons a low budget, straight-to-DVD creature feature might not be worth your time, it manages to offend in ways it didn’t mean to.

So here’s fair warning for any other furry hyena fans hoping for at least a glimmer of decency: look elsewhere.

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By far one of the Grand-Daddies of anthropomorphic science fiction (as opposed to furry fantasy or children’s stories) is the Fuzzy series by the late H. Beam Piper. Beginning with Little Fuzzy in 1962, Piper introduced us to the short, fur-covered in inhabitants of the planet Zarathustra, and what happens when humans colonizing the planet stumble across them. (Yes, we’re certain that George Lucas read the book as a young man, too.) Piper wrote a second Fuzzy book (Fuzzy Sapiens), but then he committed suicide in 1964, seemingly bringing the series to an end. However, the books continued to grow in popularity, becoming nearly required reading for up-and-coming science fiction fans in the 1970′s and 80′s. Eventually, Ace Books hired William Tuning to write a third book in the series, and Fuzzy Bones was the result. Some time later, Ardath Mayar wrote a book called Golden Dreams: A Fuzzy Odyssey, which told of the planet Zarathustra from the point of view of the fuzzies themselves — and postulated that they were actually a space-fairing race.  Then, strangely enough, H. Beam Piper’s missing third Fuzzy book turned up, Fuzzies and Other People, and the history of Zarathustra was changed all over again. So, why are we telling you all this now? Well, it seems that author John Scalzi has decided to “reboot” the Fuzzy series all over again with his new book, Fuzzy Nation. It’s available now from Tor Books. According to the press release, it tells the story of one Jack Holloway, who discovers a wealth of gems on the planet Zarathustra. They belong to company that hired Jack, so long as there are no sentient species on the planet.  Then, these fuzzy little aliens show up in Jack’s camp…

Hullo fellow furs,

I'm trying to make a pair of large, yellow, comet moth antennae. I've got a pair of ostrich feathers that I've dyed yellow, but I have no idea how to attach them to a headband or such like. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Author: mbulsht

The season end makes us all sad, Sweetie Bell.

Well that’s it for now, my fellow bronies. A full season has come and gone. What began in October 2010 as a humble reboot of a popular toy line has ended here in March, now blazing in full glory, and dragging along with it a massive fanbase high that’s on ponies and salivating for more. But it seems that now we’ll have to wait a while for more new episodes as the production team gears up to start work on the second season. And let us not forget the news that Lauren Faust has officially stepped down from the production team, a startling announcement that has left some of our fellow bronies reeling in shock. More than a few fans posting in Equestria Daily and Ponychan have expressed some fears that the fandom may falter during this long pause in the show.

They fear that, with no new official content, people might leave the fandom out of boredom, and not return when the new season airs in December.

I fully realize that I am not the first to address this situation, nor will I be the last. I also realize that AppleCider and his expert team of podcasters have discussed this subject at length in their last couple of episodes, so I won’t patronize you by summarizing their views. This is just my little two cents; A few words of encouragement for the fandom so that we can see this big break through to the end

It’s important to remember, first, that ponies will never die. As long as there is the promise of new episodes, there will always be Bronies. So, stay strong, keep faith, and most importantly,

Don’t Stop Believing!

We’ve always put our faith in the MLP:FiM production team knowing that, without a doubt, they would always bring us the best possible show they could. And not once have they failed us. Since the beginning of the show all those months ago, we have enjoyed twenty-six full pony-packed episodes that have made us laugh, cry, and in some cases, shudder (Party of One, do I really need to explain? Creepy, creepy). There is no reason for them to throw it away now, and I doubt even Hasbro would be so clumsy as to mishandle the show at this point. They know full well the kind of following they’ve created.

And with the promise of a new line of toys coming to the US soon, American Bronies like myself might all be able to adorn our living spaces with delightfully adorable figures! I myself have a cute small plastic Applejack living on top of my computer screen.

So let’s put our faith in Hasbro and the pony production team!

But of course, it’s not good enough just to pray and wait. We have to take it upon ourselves to help nurture the fandom and that takes me to my second point….

Contribute to the Fandom!

I can’t stress this enough. A fandom dies when its fans no longer take part in it. So during this long break, don’t let your interest wane. Post on Ponychan and visit Equestria Daily on a regular basis. Don’t hesitate to join in discussions and chat rooms, there will always be things to talk about. Discuss the show, discuss the next season, even discuss fanworks. And, if you’re daring enough, take part in the fanart/fanfiction side of the community. Read and review some of the stories, and look at all the pretty drawings (man there are some really good artists out there!).

And if you find that you have some talent in you, don’t hesitate to post your own work! Not that you should throw up every little pencil sketch and 300-word oneshot you write, but there is no reason why your voice shouldn’t be heard. During this break it will be on us, the fans, to keep up the momentum. And what better way to do that then to flex our creative muscles and pump out some pony stories of our own?

And lastly, but perhaps most importantly, we must all strive our best to…

Share the Love!

There are people out there who (Le’ gasp!) have not discovered the joys of the latest My Little Pony show. It is up to us, as it has always been, to be constantly introducing new viewers to our favorite cartoon. So invite your friends and family, your room mates and classmates, and anyone you think who might learn to love the show, to sit with you and watch ponies.

I myself am constantly trying to show my friends the show. My room mate managed to convert the episodes we got from iTunes to a format that could be read on a PS3 and every Friday we marathon ponies in 1080p on our HDTV. I try to bring a different person each time. And nearly every time we’ve come away from that night with a new brony in tow, ready to take the fandom head on and participate in discussions, write fanfiction, and in a few cases, draw awesome fanart.

So in short, what we really need to do is just

Keep doing what we’ve always done.

Continue to be the best fandom you can be.

Keep being those dependable, fan-squealing, pony-loving, toy-buying, fanfic-writing, fanart-drawing Bronies that I have come to know and love. Because I guarantee that if we stay the course, then no matter how long the break, we will all still be here. And believe me when I say, that as far as I’m concerned, we’re going to see this break through to the end. We’ll come bursting out the other end of that long dark tunnel with shining smiles plastered on our faces, friendship and rainbows firmly clasped in one hand, and ponies in the other.

Well, that’s all for me at the moment. I’ll leave you guys with a humble goodbye, and….

*internet brohoof*

See you on the other side.

-Ben Sims
(mbulsht)

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Another recommended hardback from Fantagraphics this month, a French
classic you've probably never heard of.
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MAR110027 Usagi Yojimbo vol. 25: Fox Hunt tp, 192pg, b&w $16.99
MAR110028 Usagi Yojimbo vol. 25: Fox Hunt hc, 192pg, b&w $59.99
by Stan Sakai

^^ This'll be my second anthrocon, curious if any other /r/furs are going to be attending. Also looking for general discussion/thoughts regarding anthrocon this year.

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Our good buddies Cartoon Brew have announced the formation of a new cable TV network, to be known as The PB&J. According to them, Luken Communications (owners of the Retro TV channel, which has been airing much of the Filmation cartoon archive) and Classic Media (owners of… well, a whole lotta stuff!) are partnering up to create the new channel. According to the PB&J press release, “The 24-hour network, set to launch in the US this summer, will feature Classic Media titles from the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Those include The Archie’s, Mr. Magoo, The Lone Ranger, Gumby, and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. PBJ will be available to broadcasters, cable and satellite providers”. Plus, according to the Cartoon Brew folks, “If they have the Classic Media library, this new channel could also air the Harveytoons (Casper, Herman and Katnip, et al), the Jay Ward library (Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, etc.), Roger Ramjet, Underdog, Felix the Cat, Rankin-Bass Specials, UPA’s Boing Boing Show, Dick Tracy cartoons and Magoo’s Christmas Carol – among others… “. At the end of the Cartoon Brew article is a link to a You Tube video with an introduction — apparently not official — to the new network. Stay tooned.