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Hello furry friends! It's time for today's question:

Does your ‘sona have any pets?

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Woke up early, left home late, got nauseous driving to work in the next town over (Chico) and locked myself out of my car, it's raining and I feel like a drowned rat (er, raccoon)...silver lining? I go back home and reschedule work for Thursday and roadside assistance got me back in the car.

So how is your day going?

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Hello there!
 
I've heard great things about you. I am relatively new to the fandom and my friends don't know that. These friends of mine really dislike furries as a whole yet they know nothing about them. I was wondering if you had any tips on how I can convince them that furries aren't bad and something they shouldn't hate without giving away that I am a furry. Thank you for your time.
 
Sincerely,
 
Someone on the Internet (age 14)
 
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Dear Someone,
 
As with any type of prejudice, hatred of furries is born of ignorance on the part of the hater. (As you might have heard, I’m working on a book to help correct this ignorance, but it’s been delayed because I’ve had to finish the book Yogi was working on when he passed away). Therefore, the best way to convince someone that furries are nice people is to introduce them to furries and have them get to know furries as people. If your only impression of someone is what you see on TV or on the Internet, you’re going to get the wrong idea. Why? Well, because the media thrives on getting people upset and fearful; the more controversy they stir up the more people watch their broadcasts and websites.
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As you said, your friends know nothing about furries. You can talk to them until you’re blue in the face, but unless they get to know us you aren’t going to change their minds. See if you can take your friends to a furry meet, or even a furcon. They’ll discover we’re very nice, creative, and fun people.
How do you do this without telling them you’re a furry? Well, if you’re too embarrassed to admit you’re a furry, then that’s something you should perhaps work on first for yourself before you go trying to convince your friends about us. Your friends would have to be awfully dumb not to figure out you’re a furry if you are spending lots of time trying to convince them the fandom is great.

Remember, real friends will like you for you. If they don’t, they aren’t real friends and you’re better off without them. This is a difficult lesson for any teenager to learn because we’re so desperate at that age to “fit in,” but it’s one worth learning.
 
Hugs,
Papabear

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

The Long Road Home, by Rukis. Illustrated by the author.
Dallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, July 2015, hardcover $29.95 (403 pages), trade paperback $19.95, electronic edition $12.95.

This is a mature content book.  Please ensure that you are of legal age to purchase this material in your state or region (publisher’s advisory.)

This is the final volume of the trilogy begun in Off the Beaten Path and continued in Lost On Dark Trails. Those were first published as trade paperbacks; now all three are available as $29.95 hardcovers.

The trilogy follows Shivah, the bobcat narrator, a Carvecian native “squaw” in an anthropomorphic world roughly similar to late 18th-century North America (the Amurescan colonies in Carvecia fought a war for their independence and formed the United Carvecian Nations a little over a generation earlier); and her two companions, Ransom, a coyote trapper, and Puck (Puquanah), a blind silver fox shaman. Shivah is on a quest for vengeance against Methoa’nuk (also a bobcat), Shivah’s ex-husband, a cruel native warrior who has joined a band of raiders that have wiped out Shivah’s tribe and now threaten the new UCN peoples along the Eastern Seaboard. Lost On Dark Trails went in a major new direction from Off the Beaten Path, so it should be no surprise that The Long Way Home does the same.

In this conclusion to the trilogy, Shivah’s quest changes from vengeance against her personal enemies and those of her native peoples to finding a cure for the Fever that has been killing natives and UCN peoples alike. Ransom, Puck, and Magpie the rat take her deeper into the lands of the strange foreigners from overseas:

“I was beginning to see different sorts of people as well, the closer we got to the enormous settlement. Peoples I’d never before heard of, or even imagined. More and more varieties of Otherwolves, felines with brightly-colored fur and wild markings, spots and stripes and patchworks of different colors, and some peoples I couldn’t even begin to identify.

By the time we reached the city itself, I’d been seeing it in the distance for nearly half the day. The hilly terrain surrounding this ‘Arbordale’ sloped down onto the flatlands that lead towards the ocean, so we could see the immense, sprawling settlement after we’d crested the last of the rolling mountains along our trek. In fact, it was all I could see for miles.” (pgs. 13-14)

Rukis’ talent for rich description is evident:

“When Ransom made his way towards her, the [polar] bear looked up, as did the black canine she was talking to. The bear was a very large woman, built like most bears, dense and strong, but definitely female. She was wearing a richly-colored blue tunic with gold trim, and a long, cream-colored wrap skirt beneath. She looked very regal, very impressive. It wasn’t often I saw a woman who commanded respect. It was refreshing.

‘I know you, don’t I?’ the bear said with half a smile, pointing a finger at Ransom. ‘I never forget a scar.’” (p, 19)

Shivah’s party is headed away from the lands that she has always known, to the Dark Continent to find a cure for the deadly Fever. Shivah is also still pursuing the fleeing last target of her vengeance. But the Dark Continent has become so dangerous that the Amurescan king is evacuating its colonies there. The only ships that the four can find that are going there are a tiny fleet of three privateers, more like pirates; completely untrustworthy.

I hesitate to reveal any more for fear of giving away spoilers, but there are wonders here. Before Shivah even gets to the Dark Continent, there is action at sea:

“And then I saw something bizarre. Something I hadn’t expected, considering we were two weeks away from land, as far as I knew.

‘Are you certain we’re two weeks from landfall?’ I asked Grayson [the wolf captain] curiously.

‘Ten days maybe, with these winds,’ the wolf mused. ‘Why?’

[…]

I shook my head, still keeping my gaze on the bizarre specks I’d noticed. I was fairly certain now… I could see wings. ‘It’s not land,’ I said, ‘it’s birds.’

‘What?!’ the wolf suddenly snapped, and grabbed the spyglass out of my hands. He looked through it for a few moments, searching for what I’d seen, and then he froze. I watched his expression shift from concern to outright alarm.

[…]

‘What are they? What are they carrying?’ I asked, as we dropped down onto the top platform, and the wolf stopped there, grabbing at the edge of it and screaming down at one of the rats far beneath us, ‘Bring the sails in, damnit! Now!’

I made it to his side at that, and the wolf pulled out his pistols, one by one, checking them. ‘Drakes,’ he growled, ‘carrying fire bombs. Baskets of burning pitch and tar, and whatever else they feel like loading those blasted things with. They sunk my fourth boat a few years back. The Leverage.’ He snarled, shoving the last of the pistols into his bandolier. ‘We have to take them down before they get close.’” (pgs. 99-101)

The Long Road Home is full of unexpected drama, new characters, the end of Shivah’s long quest, and over a half-dozen illustrations by Rukis. There are a few brief scenes of adult intimate sexuality, both hetero and homo, which is the reason for FurPlanet’s advisory, but they are tastefully and nonerotically presented. The trilogy is really one long novel in three parts, so if you are not familiar with it yet, you should start with Off the Beaten Path. If you have read it and Lost On Dark Trails, you don’t need me to tell you to get this climactic volume.

Cover from Rukis from Furaffinity

–Fred Patten

• Buy on Fur Planet
• Buy the e-book on Bad Dog Books
• Fred’s Review of Off The Beaten Path
• Fred’s Review of Lost on Dark Trails

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Back from Further Confusion 2016 with a new batch of interesting things to let you know about! First up: AjSHROY is a graphic artist interested in sequential art and illustration (as well as costuming). You can see her works over at her website, zia.li. Meanwhile, her currently active comic is called Birblyfe, which you’ll find over on a web site called ilk.space: “The ilk are a highly advanced bird civilisation whose territory occupies a series of large islands off the Northeastern coast of Tsim-Edien. Collectively, the island cluster is known as Rork. Residents of this region live in relative isolation from the rest of the world. Birblyfe follows the lives of two townbirds, Benjamael Grimroth and Peter Mayden, as their normal routines are disrupted by a strange celebrity of unknown origin.” Lots of character information and sketches to be found there as well.

image c. 2016 by AjSHROY

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