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Just as the title asks, what collage do you attend and what major are you pursuing?

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Hello /r/furry ,

It's time to discuss something serious: Depression.

I'm sure we've all encountered someone who is depressed but weren't sure what to do.

This is how I feel. I myself am not depressed, but a few of my colleagues on various sites are. I take posts depicting (real) self-harm or tweets about suicide very seriously. I want to intervene, I want to say something, but I'm afraid I'll make it worse for the other person. The two times I've attempted to speak to people who are depressed seemed futile. Conversations end with "You wouldn't understand" or just my own replies. I really want to be a good friend and help these people, but sometimes I get pushed away and they tell me they have no friends.

What should I do when I encounter someone who is depressed?

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Today's question:

Your sona hears a spooky sound in their home late at night. What do they do?

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I've noticed there isn't a meet-up group or anything that I've found in Columbus. Does anyone know of one or am i just looking over one?

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I found myself wondering this after a couple conversations with some folks. My fursona is actually a great deal quieter than I am, but pretty much everyone I've talked to has stated that there's at least a noticeable difference. Interested in other people's stances on this!

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submitted by ZeiglerJaguar
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Fairly recently, I told my friend that I'm a furry. He was super cool about it (that's the kind of person he is), and something he said stuck out. "I don't understand why you furries get such a bad rap." And you know, I don't really understand why, either. I know that some people don't like it because of the misconception about the fandom being all about sex and stuff like that, but how did that misconception (and all the others) come into place? Sure, there's popular media that portrays it this way (CSI comes to mind), but again, why? Why did they sexualize this fandom and not some other? What do you guys think?

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So now and again, I see people getting the fandom confused for a sexuality.

I'd firstly just like to clear this up, although most of you already know, just for newfurs.

Being a furry isn't a sexuality in any way. It's just a fandom! Just like the Undertale fandom or the Star Trek fandom.

Rule 34 of the Internet (if it exists, there's porn of it) applies to pretty much all fandoms (e.g. family guy porn - yes this exists), including the furry fandom. The fandom calls this yiff, of course, and it has become a thing that about half the fandom like and half don't.

But it's just a hobby/interest! It's not a sexuality! :~)

Also for the rest of you, what situations relating to this topic have you witnessed/been part of?

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Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. “Here is another old review, fixed up the way that it should be published.” Odyssey from River Bend, by Tom McGowen. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, April 1975, hardcover $5.95 (ix + 166 pages). This was a minor children’s/Young Adult fantasy in 1975, but it is […]

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submitted by Leechy111
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http://imgur.com/nkDiGGy

Longtime lurker, first time poster, figured I'd share something I scribbled up. One of you lovely furballs let me know that Clip Studio Paint was on sale last week so I snatched it up to try my hand, and this was the first chance I got to really sit down with it. My spiffy gerenuk friend was looking for a ref, since good ones of his species are few and far between, so today I got practice, and he got this.

Let me know what you think! Super new at art in general and wide open to criticism, commentary, or panegyric approbation. Preferably the third one, because I'm shallow and seek the approval of strangers. Cheers!

submitted by Spindrift-
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You're probably aware that last year at Midwest FurFest, there was an incident where the hotel was attacked with chlorine gas, and a few people, including both convention attendees and bystanders, were hospitalized. Well, although I have attended a number of conventions since 2008, in both furry and other genres, this will be the first time I have attended Midwest FurFest, as well as the first time I have ever purchased a supersponsor membership for a convention of any kind. While I am there, I will present matching donations of $1000 (which, if you'd like to keep score, is $1000 more than has been raised for any charity by the entire atrocity tourism, anti-fandom, and "fail" communities put together over the entire time those communities have existed,) both to the 501(c) organization that runs Midwest FurFest itself, and to Save-A-Vet, the convention's official charity for this year, which is dedicated to finding adoptive homes for military and police service dogs.

Why am I doing this? Well, part of the reason is that over the past several years, I've seen the entire internet become steadily worse and worse, more and more devoted to the ongoing arms race of who can be the most self-seriously nihilistic and the most mindlessly ironic. And Midwest FurFest and Save-a-Vet both provide excellent counterpoints to that attitude. They're great examples of what can be done when one admits something genuinely positive into their life, something they have a sincere passion for that can make the world better in a small way.

The main reason I am doing this, however, is simply because I know just how deeply it will hurt the perpetrator of the gas attack to see this happen. I'm doing this to make it quite clear to him that his little cry of self-satisfied petulance has literally accomplished less than nothing. I want to see him raging impotently about that all over his chans and his drama communities, trembling with righteous fury and inconsolable despair as he witnesses an event that offends him so deeply not only continuing to grow and thrive, but becoming stronger than ever as a direct consequence of his own actions. After all, a life that will never have any greater fulfillment than that to offer him is the only destiny he really deserves, and the destiny he has willingly chosen for himself.

What I think we have to realize, however, is that furry conventions do not exist in a vacuum. Sooner or later, we will inevitably be affected by events in other subcultures, and there are now both pro-Gamergaters and anti-Gamergaters sending in bomb threats to conventions (by the way, a wise person, instead of raging at me here for pointing out that both sides of that particular shitfit are nothing more than two heads of the same hydra, would learn an important lesson about why the mere fact that a fight is occurring does not mean there must be a good guy in it. I believe in taking a consistent stand against all movements that reveal by their actions that their motivation consists simply of hatred for some dreaded Other, because it is their actions, and not any high-minded principles their PR divisions might assert to be what they really stand for, that demonstrate what they believe in and what they are willing to fight for in reality. And any movement that tries to excuse its actions by pointing out that the other side does the same things is only demonstrating that both sides are equally unworthy of my respect.)

Although we have no real way to tell what cause the MFF 2014 attacker thought he was fighting for, it's ultimately immaterial, because over the past few years, we've only seen more and more examples of the sort of authoritarian movements that are soon going to be reaching out and trying to bring furry fandom within their control, just as they have done with other communities. And these are the sort of movements that I want to see stopped before they see any chance to gain a foothold within our fandom, before they start to convince others that they ought to be gatekeepers and that the sincere passion, creativity, and individuality of furry fandom ought to be subject to their approval. And there is absolutely no way that I could care any less about what side of what social issue any of these movements may claim to be on. Everyone who has ever looked at fandom as a target for their entryism to be whipped into compliance by means of violent threats, I want to lose. I want them to never receive anything but scorn and humiliation for their efforts.

When it comes down to it, the truth about terrorism is that it's all about control. Terrorism is the mode of operation of millenarian mass movements whose true cause, regardless of what noble ideals they might claim to believe in, is always and everywhere to enforce their bigotries on the entire world by means of arbitrary violence. As the ongoing politicization of absolutely everything continues, we in fandom will only see more and more and more similar efforts at controlling us, and I believe there is only one way to stop them. The only solution is for everyone across all fandoms to unite in sending a message too powerful to be ignored, saying that, regardless of what cause it claims to stand for, we have no respect for terrorism, and we will not allow terrorism to become a viable means of controlling fandoms or conventions. Whenever a terrorist threat is made against a convention of any kind, we will all join together in overwhelming public disobedience against the terrorists' agenda of control.

That is why I am doing what I am doing. As far as I am aware, I am the first person in furry fandom to do something like this, but I want to preemptively set a precedent of resistance against authoritarian activism before it infects furry fandom to the degree that it has already infected gaming fandom. Because as someone who's a furry and not just a product of today's social media outrage culture, I don't just know what I'm fighting against. I know why furry fandom is worth fighting for.

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Hello, everyone! I am fairly new to the furry fandom and just recently had a friend draw me a fursona, a super cute and fluffy tiger! I am still unsure of what to name him. I was wondering how you guys came up with the names of your fursonas. What were the reasons for picking your name? Thanks in advance! :)

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Fursuiting in Central Asia? Tycho Aussie returns to the show to tell us about his recent adventures on the other side of the world. As it turns out, audiences perceive his performing quite differently than they do here. How? Listen and find out.

Metadata and Credits WagzTail Season 3 Episode 99

Runtime: 30m

Cast: Eli, Levi, Tycho Aussie, Wolfin

Editor: Wolfin

Format: 128kbps ABR split-stereo MP3 Copyright: © 2015 WagzTail.com. Some Rights Reserved. This podcast is released by WagzTail.com as CC BY-ND 3.0. If distributed with a facility that has an existing agreement in place with a Professional Rights Organisation (PRO), file a cue sheet for 30:00 to Fabien Renoult (BMI) 1.67%, Josquin des Pres (BMI) 1.67%, WagzTail.com 96.67%. Rights have been acquired to all content for national and international broadcast and web release with no royalties due.

Podcast image “The Street Art of Kyrgyzstan” by Tycho Aussie. Used with permission.

Exotic Fursuiting Adventures - Fursuiting in Central Asia? Tycho Aussie returns to the show to tell us about his recent adventures on the other side of the world. As it turns out, audiences perceive his performing quite differently than they do here. How? Listen and find out.

This is direct from Animation Magazine’s web site: “Brown Bag Films and Cyber Group Studios have launched production on Gilbert & Allie, a new animated series that has been acquired by Disney Channel EMEA. Created and directed by Bronagh O’Hanlon, Gilbert & Allie is an odd-couple supernatural comedy about the sparks and spells that fly when a teenage girl discovers she has wizardly powers. Unfortunately, those powers can only be harnessed in partnership with an ancient and extremely grumpy magical rabbit that just wants to retire. Produced in France and Ireland, Allie’s adventures as a wizard-in-training facing the everyday challenges of a teenage girl will be animated in CG, while her visits with Gilbert to the magical realm will be created in 2D. Aimed at ages 8-11, the series will launch on Disney Channel in Europe in 2017.” Aw, those European kids, they get everything! We’ll let you know if we hear any word of Gilbert & Allie being released in North America between now and then.

image c. 2015 Brown Bag Films