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Monster of Monsters
Okay, so we missed this the first time — but now the first five issues are collected together. Bigfoot Frankenstein Volume 1: Colossus of Destiny is a new graphic novel written by Mark Bertolini and illustrated by Vernon Smith. “When the great-great-great (many greats)-grandson of the original Dr. Frankenstein stumbles across the remains of the last tribe of Sasquatches, he uses his family’s patented formula for creating life and brings forth Bigfoot Frankenstein! Compelled to seek the evil clan of rednecks who slaughtered his people, Big Frank and his creator, Jude, hit the road on a hilarious quest for justice, vengeance, and… love?” You heard it here folks. It’s available now in trade paperback from Action Lab Entertainment.
image c. 2022 Action Lab
Birds Rising in the East
Look, we can’t make this stuff up. (We’d make more money if we could!) Disney Manga: Donald Duck Visits Japan! by Meru Okano. Here’s the description from Tokyo Pop: “Donald Duck works for the American furniture business, ‘Duck Furnishings’. It’s been two months since he and his employees, José Carioca and Panchito Pistoles, were reassigned to the Asian Culture and Distribution Department, and the phone hasn’t rung even once. Just as they’re starting to wonder why they were transferred in the first place, the CEO suddenly orders them to travel to Japan! The three Caballeros must learn all they can about Japanese customs, entertainment, culture, food, and clothing before they return to New York City. Assuming they don’t get into too much trouble first!”
image c. 2022 Tokyo Pop
Have You Heard of Laos Before? Meet Defago, Artist and Lion Gentleman Ft. Defago [FABP E25]
Have You Heard of Laos Before? Meet Defago, Artist and Lion Gentleman Ft. Defago [FABP E25] ---- Laos is more than just the setup for a punchline from King of the Hill. It’s a beautiful country rich in culture and natural beauty. Join Defago, an artist and gentleman lion, as we take a brief tour to Laos and meet one of the very few active Lao furries in the world! ---- Timestamps: 00:00 Teaser 00:33 Episode intro +++Section 1: Introduction+++ 01:25 Guest introduction 02:25 Defago's fursona 04:31 Defago's intro to furry +++Section 2: Guest spotlight+++ 06:52 Inspiration to draw 12:19 Film noir style inspiration 14:39 Art senpais 18:18 Favorite art pieces of your own 21:10 How defago makes money with art 26:00 Art advice +++Section 3: Comparing and Contrasting Fandoms+++ 28:43 What do you think furry is? 33:00 How many lao furries are there? 38:06 Future con plans 39:31 Laos furry fandom's future 42:44 Lao furry con 43:59 Social media shoutout and outro ---- Social Media: Official FABP Twitter: https://twitter.com/foxandburger Michael: https://twitter.com/foxnakh https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK9xoFQrxFTNPMjmXfUg2cg Burger: https://twitter.com/L1ghtningRunner http://www.youtube.com/c/LightningRunner Defago: https://twitter.com/Defago https://www.deviantart.com/defago https://www.furaffinity.net/user/Defago ---- Footage Credit: https://www.deviantart.com/defago/art/L-for-Lion-in-Suit-263498425 https://www.deviantart.com/defago/art/My-Fancy-Suit-355093500 https://www.deviantart.com/defago/art/Bubble-Tea-784452588 https://www.deviantart.com/defago/art/Journey-736094897 https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/dial-up-modem-9859935062.html https://www.deviantart.com/defago/art/Fresh-Baguette-829952463 https://www.deviantart.com/defago/art/Stars-and-Smoke-738685850 https://www.deviantart.com/tracyjb/art/Lackadaisy-Vesture-923292267 https://www.deviantart.com/tracyjb/art/Lackadaisy-Conjuration-845728775 https://www.deviantart.com/tracyjb/art/Lackadaisy-Rubberhose-910921721 https://www.deviantart.com/tracyjb/art/Lackadaisy-Dancefloor-907492459 https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36478474/ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26957500/ https://twitter.com/Defago/status/1516283956135489536 https://twitter.com/ArtCheetah https://shinombgjinik.blogspot.com/2021/07/black-sad-in-mouth-of-dorkness-comic.html https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters4/dante.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2wskV2CDuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaHP7NodrrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rHyyvC6L0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_CaZ4EAexQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlB8s9bEl8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0eXKvExTT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_9KKVibKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59K8WH8a0o8 Other pictures and video provided by Defago, Pixabay, and hosts' personal footage. Intro/Outro Music: Aioli by Andrew Langdon. ---- The Fox and Burger Podcast is one segment of our production house, Fox and Burger Productions. The podcast’s goal is twofold: 1, to know more about the Asian furry fandom; and 2, compare and contrast the Asian fandom with the Western one. If you have a guest that you would like to see on the show, please PM us! We will also take questions for our guests, so don’t miss this opportunity to know some amazing furs.
Bearly Furcasting S3E21 - Number things. Furry News. This or That.
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Oop! Ack!
Well, bad on us for having no idea this was even on the table! But here it is, right from Animation World Network: “Emmy Award winner Tim Long (The Simpsons) has been signed to write, executive produce, and showrun Fox’s Bloom County, an animated series based on the acclaimed comic strip of the same name, created and written by Berkeley Breathed, who will also executive produce.” In case you need a reminder: “The comic Bloom County evolved from Breathed’s first published comic strip, The Academia Waltz, which originally appeared in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the University of Texas. This work led The Washington Post to recruit Breathed for a nationally syndicated strip; Bloom County debuted in 1980, appearing in more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide until its end in 1989.” No word yet on a release date.
image c. 2022 Bento Box
Fur Affinity bans AI-generated art, but AI has a plot to return.
Policy update from the furry fandom’s main independent art site.
AI art tools made me think of a term: sequential juxtaposition acceleration.
An AI tool starts with scraping millions of pre-made images from the net. That’s a learning set to combine and interpolate. Prompt it with key words (green grass, old building), and you get approximations of everything that matches. One could call this a form of cheating artists, because people don’t like the scraping of pre-made sources without permission. But after they combine, the output is nothing that ever existed. That’s doing what any artist does to learn from reference, but in a wholesale, industrial way that wasn’t envisioned by the current creative property system.
Back to that problem in a minute, but first think about art context.
Collage is a method of using pre-made images. 100 years ago, Dada and Surrealist artists started cutting pictures out of print media and juxtaposing them for a sense of irony or the uncanny. Conceptual art came from “readymades” of industrially made but recontextualized objects. (Consider the irrational sensation of trying to use a furry teacup.) Warhol continued the process with industrial pop art. Suddenly, art rendering mattered less than ideas.
If AI art was only for derivative copies, there wouldn’t be more to say; but recontextualizing is a skill too, and accelerating it is powerful for an artist.
Here’s a silly example: juxtapose Barney the Dinosaur with H.R. Giger. An artist can draw it, but for a low-effort meme type thing, why not use a tool and spend the time on more original things?
Now do it 1000 times and play it back sequentially with editing and music. That’s effort. You can make a unique, trippy aesthetic unlike anything else. Wizardhead is creating cool videos like that with metal music (fair warning, this is a little gross):
Youtube’s copyright system was used for a strike against fair use of referencing Elmo videos for these.
Speaking of copyright issues for AI learning sets, let’s compare them to sampling pre-made music. When new tech for music sampling emerged in the 1980’s, it was controversial, but made a golden period for a genre of hip hop with acts like Public Enemy. But copyright tightened up and unregulated sampling made it hard to access:
De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo
In 1989, obtaining the permission of musical copyright holders for the use of their intellectual property was often an afterthought. There was little precedent for young artists’ mining their parents’ record collections for source material and little regulation or guidelines for that process.
It’s culturally important, right? Another music comparison is mashups with DJ’s and clubs doing popular live parties. The music industry also changed with tech for downloading and sharing until streaming came in. It makes me wonder if AI art may take a role in the culture like that, and how the artists would count.
I stand with artists, not prompts.
— Dragoneer (@Dragoneer) September 5, 2022
The Furaffinity ban made mainstream news in Vice
. It echoed my thoughts last week… a ban is probably smart so a niche, independent site doesn’t get flooded with unoriginal and derivative content. But I don’t think the tools are useless for skilled users; and it probably won’t keep them out of the culture.
It made me ask a friend about using the tech to remaster old media that’s hard to watch, like cartoons and games in low resolution – and I learned that there’s already a scene for that.
Thirsty furries take note: you can probably generate all-adult versions of beloved animation.
The FurAffinity ban points to signatures from reference art in the learning set as a reason, saying the approximate signatures show copying:
I've been monitoring and taking notes for weeks. I've seen tons of mutilated artists signatures.
AI art is a damn good *learning* tool, but it's taking everything it does from artists. It leeches on the time, effort, skill, energy an artist put into their work.
— Dragoneer (@Dragoneer) September 5, 2022
The examples I saw weren’t signatures. They were glitches in the place those go. Is anyone confused about those being someone else’s work? This reminds me of how the Cats movie was edited to remove accidental “buttholes”… isn’t that a bit of over-analyzing?
Job security for artists seems like the other big worry besides quality and control. Cameras didn’t kill painting; they made jobs for photographers. Stock art and news illustrations generated by AI could possibly go into direct competition with illustrators. But they still need to generate from recognizable styles, don’t they?
From running a nonprofit news site paid out of pocket, there are no jobs here, just need. Nobody would be unemployed if this site had a button to generate something free matching the text, and although they can generate whole stories too, they can’t do that for research (and furry panache.)
If you oppose AI art, maybe your art can be kept out of it, but Big Data may change the culture before you even realize it. Just look for your house on Google Maps; they already have the photo and you probably use their product. We’re looking at a map of uncharted territory.
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TigerTails Radio Season 14 Episode 08
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What Is A Furry Fetish?
What Is A Furry Fetish?
Xege Kheiru, Writer, Furry
12 Sep 2022
One of the biggest and broadest questions surrounding furries, apart from what furries are altogether, is what a furry fetish is. There is a recurring misconception that the word furry has inherently sexual connotations which draws many people to the question of what a furry fetish is. Before we dive into the ins and outs of this fairly complex definition, let’s clarify that furries and fursuits are not synonymous with having a furry fetish, in fact, a fraction of furries actually have a furry fetish.
What Qualifies As A Fetish?
A fetish, as defined by Merriam-Webster is either an object or body part regardless of its presence being real or fantasized, that is necessary to grant a person sexual gratification. In some cases this could be classed even as a sexual obsession however that is typically in the most severe cases of a fetish. With this in mind, it should be a lot easier to understand what classifies something as a furry fetish.
What Makes It A Furry Fetish?
Because of the breadth of the term “furry”, a furry fetish is more a spectrum of things that can grant sexual gratification rather than one specific thing like in the case of a foot fetish for example. Instead a furry fetish is characterized by whether or not an anthropomorphic character, be it a person in a fursuit or a cartoon on a screen, is bringing the person in question sexual pleasure. Their sexual interests and entire sexual identity doesn’t have to revolve around the idea of furries for it to be considered a furry fetish, as long as its in their catalogue of things that brings them that special joy.
Furry Rally
Image by The Sun
So Do They Roleplay As Animals In Bed?It’s easy to just think, well furries are people who like cartoon animals, surely if they have a furry fetish they just pretend to be animals in the bedroom but it’s a bit more intricate than that. Because if that were the case, that would just be pet play, which is a completely different thing. While pet play may be involved in what they do in the bedroom, this wouldn’t necessarily mean they had a furry fetish. Instead their fetish would be characterized by whether or not an actual anthropomorphic character or suit was involved in whatever it is they’re getting up to.
So in short, yes they might roleplay as animals in bed, but this doesn’t inherently make them furry fetishisers.
Furry Convention
Image by The Guardian
Does Having A Furry Fetish Make You A Furry?
It certainly feels like an indication of something if you have a furry fetish however, having a furry fetish doesn’t necessarily make you a furry. I know it sounds ridiculous, but in the same way that watching hentai doesn’t automatically make you a weeb, getting sexual satisfation from the idea of furries doesn’t automatically make you yourself a furry.
Probably A Furry Convention Also
Image by The Plaid Zebra
Are All Furries Fetishisers?
This is something that simply cannot be stressed enough and is reiterated time and time again, but we’ll say it once more for the sake of clarification. NOT ALL FURRIES HAVE A FURRY FETISH. There is no denying that certain members of the fandom definitely have a furry fetish and will act as such, but to put all furries into this same box, makes the fandom sound like a bunch of perverts which simply isn’t the case. The furry fandom is one of the most inclusive and accepting communities you’ll find, but the sexual stigma tied to them makes it a lot harder for them to grow as many people are intimidated or put off by it.
A Few Furries In Fursuits Crossing The Street
Image by The New York Post
How Many People Have A Furry Fetish?
This is a tough one. It’s hard to say exactly how many people actually have a furry fetish but with a bit of research we can get an idea. If we look at one of the highest ranking porn sites’ traffic under the search terms “furry porn” we can start to get a better idea of the grand scope of the furry fetish. Pornhub’s volume for furry porn is in the ballpark of 400,000 clicks a month. This is not to imply that every single one of those searches is a person with a furry fetish but it definitely highlights just how many people may have a furry fetish. With this in mind, if we were to say that only 25% of the people actually had a furry fetish that would still make 100,000 people with a furry fetish. Then if we narrow this even further and say that 80% of these people are actually furries that would mean that only around 80,000 of the possible 1 million members of the fandom have a furry fetish.
Of course that math is shoddy in a thousand different ways but the point stands that furry fetishes are pretty popular.
The post What Is A Furry Fetish? appeared first on Fursonafy.
Feline Funnies
And speaking of Magnetic Press, here’s another one they recently brought us from Europe: Cats Cats Cats! by Stephane LaPuss (!) and Philippe Larbier. “Do they like us? Do they hate us? Who knows, but they’ll make you howl with laughter! Each feline in this book of silent comic antics may have its own personality, but any cat-lover will recognize these always-adorable but often-frustrating quirks, each with a touch of madness!” Available now in paperback.
image c. 2022 Magnetic Press
Furry Vtubers in Asia - June Live Stream
A Closer Look at Furry Vtubers in Asia - June Live Stream. ---- In this live stream, we brought back Pukan as well as a new guest, Pink Cat, to tell us more about what Furry Vtubing is and how they got started! ---- Social media: Our official Twitter: https://twitter.com/foxandburger Matcha Fox: https://twitter.com/foxnakh https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK9xoFQrxFTNPMjmXfUg2cg Burger: https://twitter.com/L1ghtningRunner Pink Cat: https://twitter.com/PinkCatVRC1 Pukan: https://twitter.com/PukaPukann
Furry Book Month Novel Pack – Call For Submissions
Hi everyone!
I’m delighted to announce that for Furry Book Month we intend to have a story bundle available for purchase – the first that the FWG has produced. If this goes well, it will hopefully be the first of more to come.
To populate this novel bundle, we are accepting submissions to be included for the next two weeks – until September 25th.
To qualify, the story and author must fulfil a few criteria.
The author must be a member of the Furry Writers Guild.
The story must be self-published.
The story must be a novel.
The story must be a stand-alone or first in a series (no sequels).
The story must be furry.
The story must be for general audience (no erotica this time).
In the future, should we run more story bundles, we will look into what we can do in conjunction with our wonderful furry publishers to include works published by them. Authors who retain the rights to their published novels as ebooks may submit. We can also look into erotica stories being included, but for the first to test the waters we wanted to keep the potential audience as wide as possible.
All contributing authors will receive an equal share of the proceeds from this story bundle, in addition to a share going towards the Furry Writers Guild. Depending on numbers received, we may need to curate the total list, as we are aiming for approximately 10 novels in the bundle.
Please send all submissions to the Furry Writers Guild email address, or directly to myself through Telegram or Discord.
I look forward to seeing your entries come in!
J.F.R. Coates
Bearly Furcasting S3E20 - Bearly is back. Silly Words. Fun with numbers.
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Moobarkfluff! Bearly is back from his travels, and Taebyn is excited! We chat about Bearly's adventures on his motorcycle trip and going to the Oregon State Fair. Taebyn give us some interesting news and we learn about look and say numbers. Moobarkfluff!
Bearly's Motorcycle trip video: The Epic Ride
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Where Do Unicorns Go?
The description of The World of Yaxin: Day of the Unicorn sounds so simple… “On an island between dream and reality, a young faun named Gabriel is fascinated by the extraordinary new creatures called unicorns. ‘A magical thing born of nature,’ he muses… What mystery surrounds their birth? What place, what function do these mythical animals occupy in this imaginary world?” This hardly scratches the surface of how respected and sought-after this largely wordless book of illustration has become. Now, it’s finally released in North America thanks to Magnetic Press. Creator Manuel Arenas is well-known as an artist for Disney Animation, having worked on films like Zootopia and Big Hero 6.
image c. 2022 Magnetic Press
TigerTails Radio Season 14 Episode 07
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Bringing Adventure Back From The Brink
We love that tag! So much that we stole it! The Extincts: Quest for the Unicorn Horn is a new hardcover graphic novel. “A team of genetically-enhanced extinct animals embark on top-secret missions around the world in this new graphic novel series. Meet Scratch, Martie, Lug, and Quito, members of a secret organization called R.O.A.R., or the Rescue Ops Acquisition Rangers. When their boss, Dr. Z, finally calls on them for their first big mission, the team heads to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost. Scratch is thrilled at the chance to prove his worth to Dr. Z — but as soon as they land, the team runs into a mysterious enemy determined to take them down. With exciting missions, plenty of humor, and an environmental angle, this series starter from New York Times bestselling illustrator Scott Magoon is an action-packed adventure from start to finish.” The publisher has a lot more information.
image c. 2022 Abrams Books
“What Are Mursuits?” Everything You Need To Know
“What Are Mursuits?” Everything You Need To Know
Xege Kheiru, Writer, Furry
05 Sep 2022
For those who’ve taken a deep dive into the furry fandom, you might be able to take a guess at what a mursuit is but for those who cannot, we’re here to clear everything up.
Before we jump into what a mursuit is, we’re going to be using the word “fursuit” a lot in this article so I think it’s important that everyone completely understands what a fursuit is. Fursuits are essentially custom made animal costumes typically of people’s fursonas for members of the fandom to wear. They will usually wear these to conventions to show off like any other cosplayer would.
A common misconception is that there is a sexual connotation to wearing a fursuit and we are here to say that this is not necessarily true at all. While yes, it can’t be denied that there are definitely people getting frisky in their fursuits, that is not the sole purpose of a fursuit, at its core, fursuits are just like any other cosplayers outfit, they are simply for a bit of fun. However, this ties perfectly into understanding what a mursuit is.
If you’re interested you can even check out our several other articles on fursuits and information on making your very own.
Now that everyone has a grasp on what a fursuit is, what on earth is a mursuit and how is it at all different? Wel, this is about to get a little explicit, but a mursuit is a fursuit that has had “alterations” made to it so that it is better suited for those aforementioned members of the fandom who like to get frisky in their suits. You can probably guess what these alterations entail, but if you haven’t got the greatest imagination, you can read this for a better idea.
Not A Mursuit, Just A Standard Fursuit
Image by AliExpress
Do All Furries Own A Mursuit?It’s probably worth noting that owning a mursuit isn’t some sort of a qualification for becoming a furry. An already small percentage of the fandom actually engage in sexual activity in their fursuits and an even smaller percentage actually own mursuits. There are a few reasons for this. For one, obviously fursuits and mursuits are not everyone’s kink so not many people own them. However, likely what is the main reason is how pricey a fursuit is let alone a custom mursuit. A quality fursuit can cost upwards of $3000 and to spend that in one go just to fulfill a fetish is not something the average person is willing to do.
Upper Half Of A Mursuit Typically Just Looks Like A Fursuit
Image via Reddit
When Do Furries Use These Mursuits?You may be asking yourself right now that if most furries wear their fursuits at conventions, then where are these furries wearing their mursuits? I’m here to reassure you that these people aren’t wearing their mursuits to conventions, these suits are mostly reserved for more private situations. However, I say mostly because there are exclusive meetups for the more devious furries looking to get a little action and this is obviously a perfect opportunity to bust out the mursuit.
Contrary To Popular Belief, You Won’t Usually Find Mursuits Here
Image by The Business Journals
Where Can I Get A Mursuit?If all this talk about mursuits has piqued your interest, you might be wondering where you can get your hands on a suit of your own. Not to worry, because there are plenty of places for you to browse. Below we’ve provided a list of options for you to look through.
This is probably the most popular option for people looking to get a mursuit of their own as Etsy allows the customer to stay in touch with creator which means that you can get exactly what you ask for. Also, it’s probably the most reliable thanks to its refund policies, making it one of your safest options.
This is a bit of an iffier pick but it is still worth a look as you can always find some diamonds in the rough. While furaffinity is an art sharing site, occasionally you can find people advertising other things apart from art, such as in this case: mursuits. The issue with this is that there is no security in your purchases as the site is not designed for it, meaning the site is more a way to get in touch with sellers than it is to actually buy from sellers who you can purchase from separately from the site.
Much like Furaffinity, this isn’t an extremely reliable option for those looking to buy fursuits but it’s definitely worth a shot. Mursuit makers are few and far between so sometimes you do just have to look for alternative options.
However, above all, your best bet is getting in contact with normal fursuit makers and asking them if they’d be comfortable making a mursuit. This way you know you’re speaking to a reliable source and the worst possible outcome is they just say no I wouldn’t and they may even refer you to someone who can help.
Inaccurate Portrayal Of How Much A Fursuit Will Cost
How Much Does A Mursuit Cost?Mursuits will likely be around the same as a fursuit meaning it’s going to be in the ballpark of around $2000. Of course there are shortcuts and sacrifices in quality you can make to cut this price down, but if you’re looking for longevity in such an expensive purchase it’s not worth taking these shortcuts as they typically aren’t as durable or there’s errors with the suit.
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From App to Apple
More news for young cartoon fans, courtesy of Animation World Network: “Apple TV+ has shared the trailer for Sago Mini Friends, a colorful new 2D series produced by Daytime Emmy Award nominated Spin Master Entertainment and animated by 9 Story Media Group’s Emmy Award-winning studio Brown Bag Films – Toronto. Based on the characters and artful designs in the award-winning Sago Mini World app developed by Sago Mini, the show premieres on the streamer September 16. The series is an adorable nod to gratitude, featuring Harvey, the floppy-eared dog, and his best friends: Jinja the cat, Jack the rabbit, and Robin the bird, with a cast of colorful residents. In each episode, Harvey and his friends express their true thankfulness for all things, big and small, through optimism, kindness, preschool-friendly humor, and original songs!” Turns out that several people who worked on Paw Patrol are associated with this new series, so it’s a good bet they know what they’re doing.
image c. 2022 Spin Master Entertainment
Bearly Furcasting S3E19 with guest co-host Lux Operon!
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Lux Operon joins Taebyn this week as co-host. We make terrible jokes, learn about ring-tailed lemurs in Lux's Better Know a Species, hear some That's Just Stupid stories from Rayne, Lux dusts off the portable transfurmation ray to run an experiment on Taebyn, and then Taebyn gives us a stellar math lesson. All this and more in this episode of Bearly Furcasting Feat. Taebyn!
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King of… TV?
Interesting Disney news we got from Animation World Network: “Disney+ has begun development on a new live-action series based on the famous 1933 King Kong film, Deadline reports. Disney Branded Television is producing, with Paper Girls creator Stephany Folsom on board as writer and executive producer… According to Deadline, the series will be an ‘action-adventure drama that brings the classic monster story into the modern age, with a return to Skull Island and the dawn of a new Kong.’ The show will be based on Merian C. Cooper’s original films as well as the newer King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito, digging deeper into Kong’s origin story and mysterious home.” Important side note: “This new King Kong series is not related to the Monsterverse movies from Legendary Entertainment, which, due to a complicated, tangled web of rights, could only use the name ‘Kong’ to refer to their giant ape in the films Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla vs. Kong. We’ll next see a Monsterverse Kong on the small screen with the animated series Skull Island via Netflix.” Big news on the big ape front.
image c. 2022 Universal Studios
FWG Monthly Newsletter: September 2022
The year is passing by quickly – I hope everyone had a good August, and those of you in Europe and North America were able to keep cool in some nasty heatwaves.
The Furry Writers Guild is looking forward to next month – Furry Book Month. We have a few plans we’re not quite ready to announce, but keep an eye on our socials for some exciting things to come.
One thing that is certain is, of course, Oxfurred Comma. Everyone’s favourite online furry writing convention will be back on October 22/23. If you want to contribute on a panel, please let us know as soon as possible so we can start putting together a schedule. Any aspect of furry writing is open for discussion, so send in those ideas!
There are a few ongoing submission calls for short stories, though we have not seen many themed anthology calls at this stage. If you see something that you think can be highlighted by the FWG, then please contact us with information about it!
Happy Howlidays: A Furry Advent Calendar – Deadline September 8th
Empire of Beasts – Deadline December 1st
This Is Halloween – Deadline When Full
Furry Femdom Erotica – Deadline When Full
Isekai Me! – Deadline When Full
Children Of The Night – Deadline When Full
Furry/Lovecraftian/Erotic/University Themed Anthology – Deadline When Full
#ohmurr! – Deadline: Ongoing
Zooscape – Temporarily closed for submissions. Reoccurring submission windows.
Please also consider checking out some of the new and upcoming releases from our members.
Pirating Pups, edited by Rhonda Parrish. Featuring a short story from FWG member Alice Dryden. Released August 9th
Goddess of the Ancients, by Ian Madison Keller. Released August 25th
Shapers of Worlds: Volume III, edited by Edward Willett. Featuring a short story from FWG member Jess E. Owen. Released Fall 2022.
When The World Was Young, edited by Madison Scott-Clary. Featuring stories from multiple FWG members. Released December 1st.