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Disney Animation recently decided to release the first new Zootopia-themed merchandise that we’ve seen in a while. It’s a new “hidden object” phone-app game called Zootopia: Crime Files. According to a write-up at Adweek.com, “The hidden object game asks players to help Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde solve cases by completing hidden object scenes. In each normal scene, players are asked to find items on a list, which may include pieces of evidence or clues for the current case. Users can access hints if they need help finding objects.” The article goes on to describe the types of game play in much more detail. Lots of new Zootopia characters are introduced in the game — most (but not all) of them quite nefarious! The game has been available as a download for the Apple platform for a while, but now with the official launch it’s also available for Google Play, PC format, and Amazon Underground as well.
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Furries VS The Media (Episode: 96)
Furries VS The Media (Episode: 96)
Bandit and his group must find a way to protect their reputations after a media intern uses them as subjects for a controversial story on the fandom. See more at: http://www.TheRaccoonsDen.com... From: The Raccoon's Den Views: 7345
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FA 032 Anal Sex 101 - Does having more sex lead to a better relationship? How do you prepare to shove foreign objects into your anus? How should you resolve conflict in a pack house? All this, and more, on this episode of Feral Attraction!
Hello Everyone!
We open this week's super show with a discussion about whether or not having sex is a determining factor in your relationship's success. Does frequent sex lead to a deeper, more meaningful relationship? We answer this with science.
Our main topic is on Anal Sex. Many individuals across every gender and sexual preference spectrum imaginable have asked us on how to have anal in a way that is pleasurable and accessible. This episode is geared towards beginners to anal sex-- maybe you're a straight male interested in getting pegged for the first time, or you're a female who just really enjoys the idea of anal but have no idea how to get started. We demystify this with the help of our resident bottom, Koji! This episode is long, for sure, but well worth it the ride (that's what he said).
We have a series of questions, ranging from questions about anal to questions about relationships in a pack house. It's a panel of questions you don't want to miss!
For more information, including a list of topics, see our Show Notes for this episode.
Thanks and, as always, be well!
FA 032 Anal Sex 101 - Does having more sex lead to a better relationship? How do you prepare to shove foreign objects into your anus? How should you resolve conflict in a pack house? All this, and more, on this episode of Feral Attraction!Song of the Summer King, by Jess E. Owen – book review by Fred Patten.
Submitted by Fred Patten
Song of the Summer King, by Jess E. Owen. Map.
Whitefish, MT, Five Elements Press, July 2012, hardcover $30.00 ([viii +] 246 [+2] pages), paperback $12.99, Kindle $4.99.
“Shard is a gryfon in danger. He and other young males of the Silver Isles are old enough to fly, hunt, and fight–old enough to be threats to their ruler, the red gryfon king. In the midst of the dangerous initiation hunt, Shard takes the unexpected advice of a strange she-wolf who seeks him out, and hints that Shard’s past isn’t all that it seems. To learn his past, Shard must abandon the future he wants and make allies of those the gryfons call enemies. When the gryfon king declares open war on the wolves, it throws Shard’s past and uncertain future into the turmoil between. Now with battle lines drawn, Shard must decide whether to fight beside his king . . .or against him.” (blurb)
The beginning of the first volume of Owen’s The Summer King Chronicles tetralogy is reminiscent of Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull. “Fresh morning air lifted clouds and gulls above the glimmering sea, and drew one young gryfon early from his den. Too early, just before sunrise when forbidden darkness still blanketed the islands.” (p. 1)
Shard, a young gryphon, has sneaked out from his cave on Sun Isle early to get some additional flying practice. It’s not for the pure glory of flying, though. Shard is a native of the Silver Isles, conquered a generation ago by the gryfon Sverin the Red King and his Aesir.
“‘The king comes,’ said the older gryfon. Halvden [the son of one of Sverin’s advisors] blinked and spun as they all perked ears toward the king’s rocks. The king glided in from his morning flight, massive wings flaring, stirring the grass as he landed on the top of his rocks.
The largest of the pride, Sverin-son-of-Per looked every bit a king. He wore gold, crusted with emerald and sparkling catseye, around his neck, and golden bands clamped to his forelegs just above the spread of black talons. Tokens from Sverin’s grandfather’s war with dragons in the farthest arctic lands across the sea. The dawn outlined his copper flanks, throwing sheen across the scarlet feathers of his shoulders and the deep crimson of his face.” (p. 7)
Sverin’s Aesir gryfons are larger than the Silver Isles’ native Vanir. The conquest resulted in the deaths of many Vanir warriors, and the mating of their Vanir gryfesses to Aesir males. Shard is the last pure-blood Vanir. The gryfons of the Silver Isles who have reached maturity are scheduled to perform in an aerial initiation hunt under Sverin’s watchful eye. Shard, as the last of the smaller Vanir, would normally never be allowed to join the Red King’s pride, but he was raised as a playmate, a wingbrother, of Kjorn, Sverin’s son. Still, the hunt is rigorous and nothing can be taken for granted, which is why Shard snuck out before dawn for some forbidden nighttime flying practice.
Shard – his full name is Rashard — does well, and is honored by Sverin. The Silver Isles consist of the largest Sun Isle, the next largest Star Isle, and four minor isles. The gryfons have traditionally all lived upon Sun Isle, and have only flown to Star Isle, inhabited by wolves and game animals, for hunting. Now the Red King decrees that the gryfons are to colonize all the other isles, Star Isle first, and that Shard is to lead the colonists consisting mostly of the younger generation; his closest peers. The wolves are to make way for the gryfons; if they object, they are to be killed.
Shard, who has never known anything but the Aesir’s rule, is proud and determined to prove himself worthy. He has some opposition from some of the Aesir who think the leadership of the colonists should have gone to one of them, and ignore him.
“Without thinking, Shard broke from the hunters and spun into a dive toward Hallr.
‘Stop!’
Hallr slowed, checked by the unexpected command. He saw Shard, snapped his beak and turned back to the fleeing wolf who crossed toward the trees.
‘Hallr! Leave it!’
But instead, Hallr called for his son. Halvden turned immediately and streaked toward the trees to fence the wolf in.
Shard screamed in eagle’s fury and closed his wings to plummet hard to the earth. He slammed into the ground between Hallr, Halvden and the wolf, and flashed his wings wide.
I said stop!’ The word bellowed as a lion’s roar.” (p. 116)
More troubling is that the wolves turn out to be as intelligent as the gryfons, and they object fiercely to being relegated to extinction on their own island. Shard, who is ordered not to talk with them, learns that many of the customs that he grew up with, thinking that they are traditional gryfon customs such as not flying after dark, are Aesir customs only. The Vanir and the wolves were friends, with the Vanir happy to leave Star Isle to the wolves. Shard comes to question the Aesir’s dominance, leading to the cliffhanger ending of Song of the Summer King (cover by Jennifer Miller) and three sequels: Skyfire, May 2014; A Shard of Sun, September 2015; and By the Silver Wind, forthcoming.
Song of the Summer King ends with another gryfon telling Shard, ‘You may have lost your place in Sverin’s pride […] But now it’s time to find your place in the the [sic.] world.’” (p. 244) It won an honorable mention in the 2013 Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards, and was the winner of the 2013 Global E-book award for Fantasy. For the reader of furry literature, it offers well-developed four-legged talking animals like gryfons, wolves, and in the later volumes dragons and wyrms, plus some talking birds, rather than the usual anthropomorphized animals.
Wonderbolt Powers: Activate!
While we were at San Diego Comic Con, one of the categories we saw (of course) was lots of fan stuff and official tie-in stuff for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. (Yes it’s still around and Yes it’s still popular!) One of the more interesting and unusual of the latter is The Wonderbolts Academy Handbook, compiled by Brandon T. Snider and published by Hachette / Little Brown Books. “Attention cadets! This Wonderbolts Academy Handbook once belonged to Rainbow Dash! Along with valuable information on how to become a Wonderbolt, our stellar Pegasus pony added her own notes to help you along. The lessons in here have been passed down for generations, with each generation refining these lessons to better serve you and the institution. You will have much to learn and all staff and senior members of the Wonderbolts are more than willing to guide you. Good luck, have fun, and stay focused!” You should focus on Barnes & Noble to order yourself a copy.
image c. 2016 by Citron Vert
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Dream Jumper: Book One, Nightmare Escape – book review by Fred Patten.
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Dream Jumper. Book One, Nightmare Escape, by Greg Grunberg & Lucas Turnbloom.
NYC, Scholastic Press/Graphix, July 2016, hardcover $24.99 (203 [+1] pages), trade paperback $12.99, Kindle $7.99.
In this adventure fantasy recommended for grades 5 to 8, middle school student Ben Maxwell is failing because he keeps falling asleep in classes from exhaustion. He has nightmares every night about monsters chasing him and his school friends. But his friends also have nightmares, and Ben is in them. A rabbit named Lewis tells Ben that he is really a Dream Jumper, with the power to enter others’ nightmares that are sent by the hulking monster Erebus, the lackey of Phobetor, the Nightmare Lord. Lewis teaches Ben how to fight Erebus and his nox minions that thrive off people’s fears.
But it’s all more complicated than that. As Ben’s mother insists that he be tested at a Sleep Clinic for his “disorders”, and Ben demands that Lewis in the Dream World tell him more about what is going on, details emerge that are more science-fictional than fantastic, such as the government’s top-secret Office for Dream Warfare. Just who are Phobetor and Erebus? Who are Lewis and his friends, who are clearly more than just cute furry and feathery talking animals? Will Ben’s classmates from Taft Middle School play a more important part than needing saving from their nightmares? Stay tuned for Book 2.
Fantasy and s-f stories about a separate waking world and a dream world, with a protagonist who is able to travel between the two, go back to at least the 1940s. Two 1940s examples, both for adults, are the novel Slaves of Sleep by L. Ron Hubbard and the short story “Dreams Are Sacred” by Peter Phillips. By making their Dream World more fantastic, with friendly Dream Jumper talking animals like Lewis the rabbit and Mrs. Geomy the gopher, author Grunberg and illustrator Turnbloom have produced a comic-book-format novel that can help preadolescents to discover the worlds of furry literature.
WagzTail Ice Cream Social - It's summer for the WagzTail crew! Perfect weather for ice cream. But then, what isn't good weather for it? Tell us your favorite type or recipe in the comments below!
It’s summer for the WagzTail crew! Perfect weather for ice cream. But then, what isn’t good weather for it? Tell us your favorite type or recipe in the comments below!
Metadata and Credits WagzTail Ice Cream SocialRuntime: 41:03m
Cast: Firefoxkac, Levi, Pamiiruq, Wolfin
Editor: Levi
Format: 196kbps AAC Copyright: © 2016 WagzTail.com. Some Rights Reserved. This podcast is released by WagzTail.com as CC BY-ND 3.0.
WagzTail Ice Cream Social - It's summer for the WagzTail crew! Perfect weather for ice cream. But then, what isn't good weather for it? Tell us your favorite type or recipe in the comments below!
It’s summer for the WagzTail crew! Perfect weather for ice cream. But then, what isn’t good weather for it? Tell us your favorite type or recipe in the comments below!
Metadata and Credits WagzTail Ice Cream SocialRuntime: 41:03m
Cast: Firefoxkac, Levi, Pamiiruq, Wolfin
Editor: Levi
Format: 196kbps AAC Copyright: © 2016 WagzTail.com. Some Rights Reserved. This podcast is released by WagzTail.com as CC BY-ND 3.0.
Art for Music’s Sake
Frank Kozik is a world-famous graphic artist who has often been credited with single-handedly reviving the silk-screened rock’n’roll concert poster as an art form. A self-described “military brat”, after his honorable discharge from the air force he dedicated himself to art — completely self-taught as well. He has since become known not only for his posters and graphics but also for several lines of unique toys and action figures based on his designs. And yes, “funny animals” (and disturbing animals!) are often part of his work. Back in the day, he even started his own record label! Take a look at his web site to see more of what he’s been up to over the years and what’s coming next. Be prepared!
image c. 2016 by Frank Kozik
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Housework Becomes Fun With Furries
Chortopia is the name of a new educational game and phone app created by Aurasync. It has one basic goal: To help parents motivate their young children to make a habit of completing their household chores by turning those chores into “advenchores”. Kids visit the magical land of Chortopia, where they meet a variety of anthropomorphic and mythical creatures who need the children’s help setting things right in the land — by the kids completing various household tasks, of course. After the advenchores are done, kids can “collect” the various characters they have helped out as friends who will help the kids win various games that are also part of the app. Chortopia is available now at the Apple App Store, but you can also visit the Chortopia web site to find out more about it and see some introductory videos from YouTube as well.
image c. 2016 Aurasync
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Dogpatch Press and Adjective Species covered by The More You Know podcast.
The More You Know is a new video podcast hosted by Victor Dimitroff. Season 1 Episode 4: Media in the Furry Fandom talks to guests Pup Matthias (David) from Dogpatch Press and Makyo from [Adjective][Species]. While Victor is still in the beginnings of building his channel, I see a lot of promise in his approach to finding guests and planning notes for good conversation of interest to furries. Take a look.
This is about media by furries, not outsiders. Specifically the kind that covers what’s going on within the subculture. There’s much more than you would realize just from talking to friends. That’s why it’s so fun to start and run your own channel.
Victor comments about how Dogpatch Press seems to find endless stories to fill our regular posting schedule. So how do we find them all?
For the answer, watch Victor’s Q&A and then read our site(s). You see, it’s a bit of a secret recipe. But the foundation of everything everyone does in this fandom is about participation and loving what we do. That’s not really a secret at all.
With all the stories out there about furries deserving to be known, and all the dislike for the trashy kind in the mainstream, I take it as an informal mission to Be The Media. I am furry fandom, and so can you! (Ha). Check our About pages for how to share your story tips or guest posts. We want you.
Thanks very much to Victor, Makyo, and Pup Matthias. Everyone had in depth chat the whole time. I wish I could have been present to give more details about the site founding, mission, and investigating stories (I’ll be there in the future.)
It’s a watershed year for furry stuff, and it’s going to be fun to look back in 2017. Hope you look forward to many great stories to come.
More from The More You Know:
- Episode 1: The Tech Trio (using Google Hangouts on Air.)
- Episode 2: Zootopia (with guests November and Kristofur.)
- Episode 3: About the Host.
From Out of the Toy Box
Robert X. Burden is an artist who has taken an unusual subject and really run with it. He paints complex, highly-detailed, collage-like but highly-ordered pictures based on classic toy action figures from movies and TV. As such, of course he paints a lot of science fiction subject matter. And yes that includes a lot of Furry subjects, like the Thundercats and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Visit his web site to see more of what he’s done — and spend some real time looking slowly through all the detail he puts in.
image c. 2016 by Robert X. Burden
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Episode -28.1 - There....we fixed it
Episode -28.0 - The shark broke everything
ep. 130 - Inner City Olympics - Reminder: We're on Patreon! If you could kick us …
Reminder: We're on Patreon! If you could kick us a buck or two, we'd greatly appreciate it. www.patreon.com/thedraggetshow ALSO, we're not just on SoundCloud, you can also subscribe to this on most podcast services like iTunes! Inner City Olympics! White people Olymics! Politics! Listener feedback! Exclamation points!!! Don't forget to hang out in our telegram chat, now w/ over 100 members! telegram.me/draggetshow Lastly, don't forget to check out our YouTube, where we have many extra vids, Dragget Plays, and live streams & recordings of the podcasts. www.youtube.com/user/DraggetShow/videos ep. 130 - Inner City Olympics - Reminder: We're on Patreon! If you could kick us …
Les Ailes du Singe. T.1, Wakanda, by Etienne Willem – Book Review by Fred Patten
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
Les Ailes du Singe. T.1, Wakanda, by Étienne Willem.
Geneva, Switzerland, Éditions Paquet, May 2016, hardbound €14,00 (48 pages).
This is another fine entry in Lex Nakashima’s & my project to bring American furry fans the best of new French-language animalière bandes dessinées. We covered Étienne Willem’s previous four-volume L’Épée d’Ardenois, set about the 13th century with knights in armor. Les Ailes du Singe, The Wings of the Monkey, is considerably different. It’s set in New York in 1933, with knights of the skies.
It’s March 1933, in the depths of the Depression. Tens of thousands of people are out of work, eating in soup kitchens and living in Hoovervilles. Harry Faulkner (monkey), a top pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I, and the owner of his own barnstorming and movie stunt-flying Jenny biplane during the ‘20s, has fallen on hard times; but he’s not so desperate that he’ll take a job as a common mechanic. He complains to his girlfriend, Betty Laverne (deer), a newspaper reporter for the Herald, and to his own mechanic, Lumpy (pig), that he wants a job that will let him fly.
Meanwhile, the mayor of New York (rabbit) is gambling on jump-starting a return to prosperity – and advancing his own political career – by sponsoring a fleet of high-profile dirigibles (which the mayor secretly owns a share of) powered by synthetic helium, that will replace the railroads in crossing America in comfort and speed. The first of them, the Navy dirigible Wakanda, is about to cast off from the Empire State Building on its posh maiden voyage to California. The flight is covered by Betty.
Except that the Wakanda is taken over by gunmen led by Lydia, a sultry leopardess who poses as an entertainer. They have replaced the champagne for the festivities with mustard gas that they threaten to explode if stopped, not only destroying the Wakanda but also killing the people in the city below them.
A guest temporarily escapes and manages to send a message before he is recaptured. The Navy sends a man to get Colonel Fischer (pelican), who is attending the premiere of King Kong. Harry, in the audience near him, overhears the emergency and runs for his old Jenny. It is in hopeless condition, but Lumpy has made friends with an immigrant German doctor-professor (goat) who has invented an experimental aircraft. Harry and Lumpy take off for the Wakanda, which Harry gets aboard and meets up with Betty.
The last 25 pages of the 46-page album is Harry’s & Betty’s adventurous recapture of the Wakanda from the gunmen, and Harry’s ditching it in the Hudson River to save New York. But they have discovered several things during their adventure. The Wakanda was not a limp-framed dirigible but a fixed-frame zeppelin. It was not filled with non-flammable “synthetic” helium but with Z-03, a new gas invented by Howard Hughes (Doberman) who won’t say what it does except that it’s highly flammable. The gunmen who seized the Wakanda are said to be terrorists, but they are more clearly pirates who planned to divert its flight to Brazil, and then …? What is Howard Hughes’ connection to them? And what had the old goat inventor been doing in Germany before he came to America? There are plenty of loose threads to lead to the next four (or however many) volumes.
Les Ailes du Singe (The Wings of the Monkey) is for readers who like 1930s-style pulp action-adventure with a funny-animal cast. Willem has evidently researched the period. The 1933 clothing looks authentic. The date of early March 1933 was when King Kong premiered. The fat mayor of New York is fictitious, tailored to Willem’s plot, and the character of eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes is closer to the legends about him than to the reality. Les Ailes du Singe is a pulp thriller that authors like L. Ron Hubbard, Frederick C. Davis, and Lester Dent used to churn out during the 1930s, and that the Indiana Jones movies have been keeping alive. It looks like Étienne Willem has another winner here – with anthro animals.
Fighting Like…
Space Cats In Space! is the name of a new animated computer game, currently under development. They have a Kickstarter campaign in place to try and finance the next step in the process. “An advanced twin-stick shooter space epic, SpaceCats In Space! Follows the kingdom of Meowfyre’s rebellion against the dogs of the Grolich Empire. Bomber strikes, wingman assistance and RPG-like leveling are all tools at your disposal in the battle to stop Oberluft Kommandant Arnuld Von Schloss and the vast Grolich war machine. Featuring animated cutscenes and full voiceover to immerse you in a World War II inspired space battle of cats versus dogs!” This is not the most “serious-minded” of fighting games out there… if the title wasn’t a giveaway, check out the intro video at the Kickstarter page! (Also this is obviously more for “cat people”!) As we write this there is just over a month left in their current crowd-funding campaign.
image c. 2016 Robotic Potato
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Cats, Dragons… and now Mice!
Alan F. Beck is an artist who created a series called The Mousopolitan Museum of Art — “classical portraits by the mice masters”. In other words, world-famous works of art re-imagined as anthropomorphic mice. He has also written a children’s book (available through Create Space) called The Adventures of Nogard and Jackpot, which details what happens when a young kitten hears a noise within the closet and discovers a baby dragon. Both of these (and many other items) are on display at the artist’s web site.
image c. 2016 b y Alan F. Beck
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