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Video of an eagle fursuit taking a spear on a WWE wrestling show

Furry Reddit - Tue 5 Oct 2010 - 20:36
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Season 5 - Show 20

TigerTails Radio - Tue 5 Oct 2010 - 18:00
Chaos, Destruction Derby, Spirited Away, and Xavier has a rant. Fun packed show!
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Furry in Spirit, Not by Definition

Weasel Wordsmith - Tue 5 Oct 2010 - 15:37

Amulet
by Kazu Kibuishi
Scholastic Books

If there’s anything my partner and I have learned from repeated visits to comic conventions, it’s that there are a whole lot of comics out there featuring animal-people that do not identify themselves as “furry” because the creators don’t. We’ve long been aware of Kazu Kibuishi’s beautiful and charming webcomic Copper, the story of an adventurous boy and his more cautious canine companion (also available in collected form from Scholastic—just sayin’). A few years back, we picked up the first volume of Kibuishi’s new story series Amulet, and were hooked.

Amulet is the story of Emily and Navin, who are moving with their mother to an old family home after the death of their father puts the family in financial stress. The house was the property of Emily’s eccentric great-grandfather Silas, so it’s not long before the kids discover an old workshop where Silas built his many toys. And it’s not much later before a creepy monster that looks like the offspring of an octopus and a lamprey swallows their mother, leading them back through a magical passage in the house’s basement to a strange world.

If it weren’t for the odd amulet Emily found in the workshop, the kids would not have survived their fight with the octolamprey (technically called an arachnopod). But the amulet speaks into Emily’s mind and gives her the power to fight off the creature, if not to free her mother. The amulet then leads them to a house and a strange collection of friends, and the quest to recover their mother becomes something much greater.

The furriest thing in volume 1 (“The Stonekeeper”) is a stuffed pink rabbit named Miskit, who’s been built by Great-Grandfather Silas to be Emily’s companion and guide. But in volume 2 (“The Stonekeeper’s Curse”), the kids arrive at the city of Kanalis, and meet its inhabitants, who, Miskit explains, “are very slowly being altered by an ancient curse. It is what gives them the appearance of animals.” Emily says how terrible that is, and Miskit replies, “I don’t believe they see it as anything quite so negative. This curse has affected them for so many years that the new generations see it as simply a fact of life.”

And yes, the book is full of animal-people. Mammals, birds, even mollusks and other, odder creatures. But it is not spoiling anything to tell you that the most important one is a fellow named Leon Redbeard, who is a fox (he’s on the cover, see, not just of the second book, but also of the third, “The Cloud Searchers”). He understands the power of Emily’s amulet and knows much more about the shadowy figures now hunting her because of it.

Even without the furry element, these books would be recommended. Kibuishi has a good sense of storytelling and an even better sense of art and design. His style is a lovely, simple fusion of Japanese and European comic styles—think Moebius drawing manga. The simplicity of the characters makes them appealing and distinctive, and although his art tends to simplify, Kibuishi is certainly capable of rendering lush, gorgeous backgrounds.

The coloring really stands out as well. Like the art itself, it’s deceptively simple. Kibuishi is a master of light and shadow, in which even the simplest panels take on life. Though the story is worth reading, I often found myself just flipping through the comic to look at the art in some of the more detailed panels.

And the story complements the art well. Emily’s rapport with her family is shown very nicely in a few pages, and although her story is somewhat reactive at the start (her mother is kidnapped and she must give chase), Emily is given plenty of choices to think about and make along the way. The amulet promises power, but makes no secret of its price (though it does not tell the whole story all at once, of course). And the mysterious stranger stalking the children as soon as they arrive in the new land has his own story, which proves to be intertwined with theirs.

Amulet is accessible to children, but the stories are complex enough to be enjoyed by adults, too. If it takes a heroic fox to get you to look at the book, so be it. You won’t be disappointed.

(You can still find Copper online, as well as Kibuishi’s other projects, at http://www.boltcity.com/. )

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Dragon otherkin Starblade, 26, stabbed to death

furryne.ws - Tue 5 Oct 2010 - 06:44
"Matthew Paul Finnigan (26), also known as Starblade Enaki, died 22 September 2010 - apparently after being stabbed in a friend's apartment. The suspect, James Torrey Hill, has plead not guilty to murder and is being held in custody. Starblade was a controversial figure in fandom, best known for inspiring the "FYIAD" meme."

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Elmo wins fight

furryne.ws - Tue 5 Oct 2010 - 06:15
Police: Elmo wins fight after 'unprovoked' attack at Winter Park guitar shop "Elmo got the best of the guy," Lt. Wayne Farrell said. "He broke two of his fingers."

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Man uses rabbit as weapon

furryne.ws - Tue 5 Oct 2010 - 06:08
An Auckland man is today defending accusations that he held a rabbit by its ears and thrust it at passers-by on Queen Street, before spitting on a police officer who tried to arrest him. That's no ordinary rabbit...

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Martinos video blog

Furries In The Media - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 23:02
Theodore T-Dawg Williamson III was interviewed in iOMGWTF! Furries/i, the furry mockumentary released in 2005. His brother, Martino Williamson, has just begun a video blog as he begins to explore the circumstances surrounding T-Dawgs death.br /br /lj-embed id=332 /
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The Fox Manual (twitter)

Furry Reddit - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 22:57
submitted by a href=http://www.reddit.com/user/kebdraggie kebdraggie /a br/ a href=https://twitter.com/foxmanual[link]/a a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/dmxk4/the_fox_manual_twitter/"[3 comments]/a
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LAFF Bowling - September Edition!

Furry Reddit - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 22:30
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What to see some Decent/Good

Furries In The Media - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 18:48
Media piece. br /br /a href=http://current.com/entertainment/comedy/88813499_the-fursuit-portrait-project-lets-get-inside-those-furry-heads.htmhttp://current.com/entertainment/comedy/88813499_the-fursuit-portrait-project-lets-get-inside-those-furry-heads.htm/a
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This is it! - - Phase Coherence is the reason for the binding attractive force in ALL the 4 fundamental forces, Proof of this is in the following:

alt.fan.furry - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 18:45
This is it! - - Phase Coherence is the reason for the binding br attractive force in ALL the 4 fundamental forces, Proof of this is in br the following: br Our space is built up by the average amount elements are out of phase br with each other. br Repulsive forces are generated between elements that are out of phase
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Anyone remember the furAffinity site wide interface design update we were supposed to get over the summer?

Furry Reddit - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 07:54
!-- SC_OFF --div class=mdpYeah what ever happened to that :V hadn't heard ANYTHING about it since it was first announced./p pSeriously the site is too central for furs to have such a god awful layout ;sup;/sup/p pAlso I currently cannot submit any arts D:/p/div!-- SC_ON -- submitted by a href=http://www.reddit.com/user/Dhaos Dhaos /a br/ a href=http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/dml5j/anyone_remember_the_furaffinity_site_wide/[link]/a a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/dml5j/anyone_remember_the_furaffinity_site_wide/"[19 comments]/a
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Babby otters

Furry Reddit - Mon 4 Oct 2010 - 03:37
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Do furries have souls? Such was the substance of debate in Medieval times...

Furry Reddit - Sun 3 Oct 2010 - 23:11
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Starblade, e-famous for fuck you I'm a dragon, was murdered on September 22

Furry Reddit - Sun 3 Oct 2010 - 14:57
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Being Human

alt.fan.furry - Sun 3 Oct 2010 - 10:45
Anyone been watching that show? I'm just watching season 2 now.
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Unsheathed #56 - Live at RainFurrest! The first con we've done twice, the return of a snow leopard, and a secret revealed!

Unsheathed - Sun 3 Oct 2010 - 04:00
We return to the scene of our first live show, where a lot more people know us now. Our favorite snow leopard artist comes back, and Kit and Kyell unveil a secret! Unsheathed #56 - Live at RainFurrest! The first con we've done twice, the return of a snow leopard, and a secret revealed!
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