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S4 Episode 20 – Season 4 Recap - Well, this is it! We've reached the end of Season 4! Morphy and Charm come back to help Roo and Tugs wrap up the season in this truly double length episode. Sure, we know it's a long episode (it could have been a special),
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Show Notes
Special Thanks
Morphy Tiger and Charm Husky, our guests
Firebreath and Koru, our supporting cast
Kira the Fox...kitsune....person
Leo the Artist
Captain Chibi
Degens
Miski
All our guests this season, since our show really wouldn't exist without you.
All YOU listening! You are why we do the show.
Art Submissions:
Music:
Opening theme: Fredrik Miller– Cloud Fields (Radio Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Space News Music: Fredrik Miller – Orbit. USA: Bandcamp, 2013. Used with permission. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Closing: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. ©2011 Fur What It’s Worth. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Next episode: The next episode will start Season 5 - Video Games in the Fandom, Cubed! What games do you love the most? What made you a furry? Send your emails by August 22, 2015! S4 Episode 20 – Season 4 Recap - Well, this is it! We've reached the end of Season 4! Morphy and Charm come back to help Roo and Tugs wrap up the season in this truly double length episode. Sure, we know it's a long episode (it could have been a special),
How do you handle an artist who ow 5,000?
So there an artist that has taken over 50 commissions which they never started; At this point they've taken 5,000 USD. Keep in mind they did not do this over a day. They did it over years.
Basically they post offers for commissions. Take a few, delete the post. Do a few of them. But not the rest.
They're do stream. They take some commissions. They'll get a few people to line up and pay. Do the first 1, and then log off.
Out side of the ninja posts. they wait a months at a time. and like I said they do take and complete some commissions. They've created and dropped side accounts. again to do the same thing.
There are people who payed them 5 years ago, and still haven't received the art they payed for.
At this point I wounder if this is just one of several accounts they may be using. In which case the amount they ow could be much higher.
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FREE REQUESTS AND STREAM! Read details! Come hang out with me, fuzzbutts! I had a TON of fun streaming yesterday, but that was with my content. Now I want a challenge!
Hey! You clicked my link! Yay!
Read the post before you request anything, please.TL;DR If you're new to the fandom, you don't draw or are new to drawing, and/or you don't have a fursona at all yet, please let me know! I will do a request for you. I start at 3:30 (half an hour from this post). Also, if you are the person I pick for the first request, and you aren't watching, I probably will pick another. OR I can do it when you are able to watch if you ask nicely! :D
Link(HYYYAAATTT!): https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=EssjayC
I will be streaming starting at 3:30PM EST, and going probably until the wee bonnie lass hours of the morning. So don't worry if you have to go to bed/work/school/temple/synogogue/mars.
By the way, I'm hanging out in the chat now if you want to... chat.Alright, so yesterday I finally got the courage to stream my art for the hell of it. I figured no one would watch anyway, so whatever why not. I had like 5 people watching for like 10 hours or something crazy! I met some really awesome people, had a LOT of fun, and even got some incredibly useful help while doing it too!
So, that being said, I absolutely adored streaming, and had a blast.
Anyway, yesterday I was streaming me drawing my comic (I will probably show you guys on Tuesday!) which was really... easy. Time consuming but easy. This time? I want to draw WHAT YOU GUYS LIKE. Draw an avian? How the hell do I draw feathers? You want a neon-blue-and-green coloured macro furry wolf fursona with insanely huge muscles with wings wielding a lightsaber and oh he also has superpowers? Uhhhh. Alright? Let's do it! (I don't want to actually do that, as awesome as it'd be.)
I want to help people! If you don't have a fursona yet, or have an idea of what your fursona is but want someone else to draw a really bad version of it, LOOK NO FURTHER! I also don't mind making icons (though it'll be like the one I did earlier, a high-res version of it). Or forum signatures maybe. But I'd prefer to draw something you guys want.
I'm going to lean towards newer furs who don't have a fursona yet, or can't afford a commission (because I used to be so broke and I totally get the feels) from your favourite artist. Yay! I'll be your second choice!
Anyway, here's the link:
https://www.picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=EssjayC
I want to give back to you guys. You guys are the reason I've found a new passion in life, and you've given me the strength to beat not only my depression and the worse effects of my bipolar disorder, but you've also managed to help me make new friends I'd never have otherwise met!
Seriously. I love you guys.
PS: Post your requests in this thread, the ones in the stream chat I will ignore because if there are a lot of people requesting (seems like you guys like this request stuff) it will get confusing, and I also want to make sure I'm helping those furs who will benefit the most!
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[Riddle] How do you keep a Furry busy for hours?
I had the realization that I am the furry version of Uncle Ruckus (Discussion prompt! Not a drama thread! Interested to hear your take or opinions)
Quick edit: I don't bash other furs, just was afraid of associating as a furry online! Uncle Ruckus kind of... makes an extreme and aggressive example here... lol
Not an overly dramatic post, but someone somewhere said something about how Uncle Ruckus from the Boondocks (a show that will heavily inspire my artwork forever) bashed the very thing he was. I can't remember why he was making the point, but that it was kind of like a defense mechanism for being I guess afraid (for lack of a better word) or rejecting what they are.
It kind of opened my eyes, because while I want to draw realistic-ish anthropomorphic people, I was afraid of lumping myself in with everyone else. But recently I decided to say "fuck it".
...kind of the same approach to cleaning my dog's sheddings off of my furniture. It just keeps accumulating and it never seems to go away.
Apparently I'm a furry. I guess maybe I don't want to be one of those people who uses that one thing to identify themselves, and become kind of like "the furry guy" to people, analogous to "the gay guy" at the office, or the person you know.
I dunno. I honestly don't care that much. While I have a strong love of the community I've engrossed myself in here, as well as animals in general and the art, I don't have a fursona (and still don't understand that! Why is this a thing?).
Maybe this is all because I'm new to this, and literally haven't bothered to make friends who discuss this stuff until literally last night.
Sorry if this all seems so dramatic! I really just wanted to hear what people thought and kind of had that realization the other day, and no one to share it with. I just found it funny that someone opened my eyes to a kind of bias like that!
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Episode 290 - What's In A Name?
When do things get TOO furry?
I'm pretty sure their is a limit..like..once you go fast enough you hit plaid..then everything is uninspired fox oc's and lotion bottles.
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Weekly comm thread #8!
DracoSyndrome ($35-$70): http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3329986/
Almasy ($25-$75): http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3825277/
Wolfthings ($30-only 2 slots left!): http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6963109/
You guys know the drill! And if you guys have any feedback whether you like/dislike the new date, just let me know!
And I've noticed that the past couple ones have been somewhat expensive, so I wrote myself a note to find cheaper ones for next week!
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Slow popcorn: The Rise of the Red Shadow
The Rise of the Red Shadow
By Joseph R. Lallo
Cover Art by Nick Deligaris
439 pp., $2.99 (ebook), $16.00 (trade paperback)
Amazon Publishing Services/CreateSpace
From the 1950s up through the 1980s, the paperback original dominated genre fiction. Some became undeniable classics—the Ace Science Fiction Specials included the first publications of Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Wild Shore—but most aimed less at dazzling critics than at presenting rousing adventure tales. They might rarely be your Favorite Book Ever, yet if you got hooked on an author—or a series—you’d grab title after title.
Unless you’ve got the next Dresden Files, though, major publishers aren’t interested in those kinds of titles anymore. This has opened a gap for self-published and small press ebooks to fill. Series like Annie Bellet’s The Twenty-Sided Sorceress and, closer to home, Phil Geusz’s David Birkenhead septology would fit beside 1980s stalwarts like Diane Duane and Alan Dean Foster. Amazon and Goodreads are full of well-loved series—far more than there were in the paperback’s heyday, and once inflation is accounted for, at lower prices.
One of those series is Joseph R. Lallo’s The Book of Deacon, a trilogy starting with a novel of the same title. The Rise of the Red Shadow is a standalone prequel described as “Book 0” of the trilogy, telling the origin story of one of Deacon’s side characters: a “legendary assassin and mythic hero” named Lain, a malthrope—an anthropomorphic fox.
The story opens as slavers tracking down a runaway discover his body next to that of a female malthrope’s, evidently having killed one another in a struggle—likely to protect her young kit. Humans consider Malthropes to be monsters:
Stories told of them carrying off children and raiding livestock. The creatures were the villains of more than their share of bedtime stories, and were always a safe thing to blame for your problems if you weren’t happy with your lot in life. One of the few things that the north and south halves of the continent could agree upon was that wiping the creatures out would be an improvement. Thus, a price had been put on their heads—or, more accurately, their tails. Slicing the tail off an adult and handing it in to the authorities would net you a small fortune in entus, the silver coins that lined the pockets of the more well-off Tressons.
This passage simultaneously reveals both a virtue and vice of the writing. The milieu has been extensively developed, its breadth and depth rivaling sword and sorcery classics. (Lallo’s Tressor is more reminiscent of Lankhmar than Middle-Earth.) But in countless passages like the one above, the story pauses for a moment to give us background. While introducing readers to a complex and unfamiliar world is always tricky, it sometimes feels like Lallo has avoided the “As you know…” problem by constantly stopping to hand us reference cards.
The reward for young malthropes calls for capturing them alive; the slavers give the baby to a plantation owner as a “discount” on an older, sightless slave. Over the course of the novel’s first act, Blind Ben finds himself the de facto caretaker and defender of the “mally” as the young fox rapidly grows and, to anyone paying attention, shows himself to be at least as smart as any of the humans around him. When the plantation passes into the hands of the original owner’s incompetent son, he takes his own business failings out on his slaves—including the aging Ben. Stricken by sorrow that turns into rage, the nameless malthrope becomes a one-fox revolt against his masters.
Without delving too much farther into spoiler territory, the rest of Red Shadow follows the malthrope through distinct episodes in his life as he seeks his purpose in life, focused on the words of his mentor Blind Ben: “without a purpose, there can be no worth.” Sorrel, a female malthrope he meets shortly after his escape, teaches him about his race and how to survive outside of human society in feral fashion; a network of legally-sanctioned assassins who act as bounty hunters affords him work, but also sets up a nemesis in the criminal kingpin Duule; a mysterious land of refugees hidden behind a cave of legendary danger leads him to the perfection of his fighting talents. Along the way, Teyn—as Sorrel names him—picks up both his new name and his nickname, the “Red Shadow.”
Some of the supporting characters—most notably the volatile Sorrel, but also Ben and the fairy Fiora—pop off the page. The stoic and emotionally stunted Teyn is well-drawn, but while he develops tremendous prowess and gains important insights, his character arc doesn’t have much curve to it. The villains are appropriately mustache-twirling but stay flat, with one exception: an early scene introduces two generals in “the kingdom formerly known as Vulcrest” and tells us of prophesies that clearly set them in opposition to Teyn. This is a great sequence, defining their characters quickly, setting up intrigue, and priming us for a fantastic faceoff. If that faceoff arrives, though, it doesn’t happen in this book. The novel ends without Teyn being aware of their existence.
The disappearing villains—presumably major players in the full trilogy—signal a problem for anyone coming to Red Shadow cold. The novel’s payoff is clearly meant to be Teyn coming into his role as Lain for The Book of Deacon. To readers who are already fans, this may be enough, but that payoff isn’t in this book. Each of Teyn’s adventures has its own set of tensions and thrills, and each ends with an important epiphany that shapes his outlook. Yet there’s little urgency to the whole affair. He does what he does until events make it impossible for him to keep doing that, then he does something else. He has long-term goals, but he’ll get to them when he gets to them. The story is less a quest than a picaresque; you’re curious what happens next, but you rarely feel like you can’t put the book down until you know.
While this makes it hard to recommend The Rise of the Red Shadow on its own, it’s good enough to inspire interest in The Book of Deacon itself. Lallo’s prose is solid—infodumps not withstanding—and, again, the worldbuilding is impressive. (Tressor may not be a world you’d want to visit, mind you; while it may not qualify as “grimdark,” not a single character in Red Shadow has a happy life. Teyn’s circumstances may give things a more dire pall, but the opening scenes of The Book of Deacon don’t paint any more a hospitable picture.) Even though I found the novel slow, it brought back fond memories of going through fantasy paperbacks like popcorn during my high school and college days.
Weekend Stream - Monsters, Kaiju, and Hybrid requests!
http://original.livestream.com/aurora_sareii?t=495777
Going to be setting up in a couple minutes, running until approx 3pm MST (5 hours long)
Today's stream will contain the following:
-Monster designs -Kaijusona Bash WIP -Hybrid creature requests -Headshot requests -SFW stream
Please no RP (I've caught it at the end after I've left the stream, please don't), otherwise come hang out while I do dumb stuff.
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What's everyone doing this weekend?
Twisted by Miranda Leek – Book Review by Fred Patten
Review: From Well-Liked Comedy Character To Star In The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #8
She has always been a character referred to by both readers and creators alike with a warm fondness, yet with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, both Erica Henderson and Ryan North have fleshed out Doreen Green, aka Squirrel Girl into a more complex and rounded character beyond the knowing jokes and geek trivia lists. This issue rounds of the first arc and last issue of the surprise hit of the year before she returns in October with a new number one and juggling the responsibilities of college and her position on the New Avengers team. She goes from well-liked comedy character to star of two books in only eight issues.
Norse menace Ratatoskr’s plans finally come to fruition as she continues to turn people against each other using their own insecurities and mistrust. Our heroine and her friends race to put a stop to her smack talk and save the world. Throughout its first seven issues the series has always had an emphasis on nonviolent conflict resolution, which might sound counterintuitive for a superhero book, but North makes it work. Leading Squirrel Girl and company to seek out more creative methods for dealing with her would-be foes makes for a far more interesting read. It’s the perfect series for anyone seeking non-stop action and adventure without the dull repetitiveness of the bif-pow superhero slugfests. Oh sure, Squirrel Girl isn’t afraid to throwdown with the best of them when push comes to shove. Even when shove comes to out and out brawling, but in true Marvel fashion she’s currently slugged more of her fellow heroes than she has villains. This issue is no exception. With New York under the threat of destruction yet again, Doreen and her team set about finding ways to defeat an enemy who can turn the strength of the Earth’s heroes against them.
A comic can live or die by its supporting cast, or lack thereof and North and Henderson know this adding some of the most interesting creative and flat out funny additions to the 616 in years. Koi Boi and Chipmunk Hunk are hilarious and great new characters but it’s the no-nonsense Nancy Whitehead, who finds herself Doreen’s roommate, who is the particular standout. With Earth’s mightiest heroes having succumb to Rataskrs poisonous whisperings she takes center stage helping out the Asgardian heroes, once again using brains not brawn. The moment when she cuts through the overly complicated superhero dramatics to point out the single, simplest solution is one to behold. Even Tippytoe gets development. After sulking on Nancy’s shoulder throughout the conflict she makes the the ragtag team of animal themed superheroes that they need to make more of an effort to include her and communicate. She also offers great physical comedy in a book already packed with panel upon panel worth of humour.
North continues to be as inventive as ever with his writing employing the kind of tricks and touches that wouldn’t look out of place in his equally loved run on Adventure Time. His use of seemingly offhand throwaway jokes returns in this issue as Nancy’s headcanon, fanfiction creation Cat Thor comes to life with the aid of Asgardian’s resident trickster god in some of the funniest moments this issue. I’m sure a cosplay of an in comic cosplay that will surely end the world as we know it must only be a few days away at most. It’s an overwhelmingly positive book that North and Henderson have created and truly what comics should be about. Writing Squirrel Girl as an defiantly upbeat character who sees the very best in people, even villains, is a welcome change from the norm and her rousing speech towards the end of the conflict with Ratatoskr is most definitely one of the best examples of the positive power of comics.
Henderson’s art is on top form again, this time around getting to draw a few more heroes including her brilliant renditions of Thor, Odinson and Spider-Man. I’d urge North to write bigger and bolder team up issues in the future if only to see Henderson tackle all the Marvel Universe’s myriad numbers of characters on the page in her own playful and distinctive style. At the very least can we petition Marvel to enact a company wide initiative, like Jim Lee’s redesigns at DC, only with Henderson revamping the whole universes street wear? Seriously, off action superheroes and their friends have never looked so fashionable. In early issues her artwork focused mainly on the characters, some panels left with just solid coloured backgrounds.
While this worked give the book a fresh and bold feel to it, this time around she draws drawing some of her most complex pages so far including a stunning Asgard resplendent in it’s mix of futuristic cityscape and Norse flourishes. Let’s not forget the character design for new adversary Ratatoskr. Angular and menacing she has been a great villain and a seamless way to link The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Thors together. Coincidentally, Ratatoskr’s Wiki page has already been updated as predicted in the issue, but unfortunately not to inform us of what a big baby she is.
An amazing finish to the first arc of Squirrel Girl’s adventures, Marvel’s decision to keep the same creative team in the wake of its company wide shake up means we will get to see more rodentine stories when she returns in October in both this title and taking on a bigger role in the going on the newly reformed Marvel Universe.
Review: From Well-Liked Comedy Character To Star In The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #8
She has always been a character referred to by both readers and creators alike with a warm fondness, yet with The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, both Erica Henderson and Ryan North have fleshed out Doreen Green, aka Squirrel Girl into a more complex and rounded character beyond the knowing jokes and geek trivia lists. This issue rounds of the first arc and last issue of the surprise hit of the year before she returns in October with a new number one and juggling the responsibilities of college and her position on the New Avengers team. She goes from well-liked comedy character to star of two books in only eight issues.
Norse menace Ratatoskr’s plans finally come to fruition as she continues to turn people against each other using their own insecurities and mistrust. Our heroine and her friends race to put a stop to her smack talk and save the world. Throughout its first seven issues the series has always had an emphasis on nonviolent conflict resolution, which might sound counterintuitive for a superhero book, but North makes it work. Leading Squirrel Girl and company to seek out more creative methods for dealing with her would-be foes makes for a far more interesting read. It’s the perfect series for anyone seeking non-stop action and adventure without the dull repetitiveness of the bif-pow superhero slugfests. Oh sure, Squirrel Girl isn’t afraid to throwdown with the best of them when push comes to shove. Even when shove comes to out and out brawling, but in true Marvel fashion she’s currently slugged more of her fellow heroes than she has villains. This issue is no exception. With New York under the threat of destruction yet again, Doreen and her team set about finding ways to defeat an enemy who can turn the strength of the Earth’s heroes against them.
A comic can live or die by its supporting cast, or lack thereof and North and Henderson know this adding some of the most interesting creative and flat out funny additions to the 616 in years. Koi Boi and Chipmunk Hunk are hilarious and great new characters but it’s the no-nonsense Nancy Whitehead, who finds herself Doreen’s roommate, who is the particular standout. With Earth’s mightiest heroes having succumb to Rataskrs poisonous whisperings she takes center stage helping out the Asgardian heroes, once again using brains not brawn. The moment when she cuts through the overly complicated superhero dramatics to point out the single, simplest solution is one to behold. Even Tippytoe gets development. After sulking on Nancy’s shoulder throughout the conflict she makes the the ragtag team of animal themed superheroes that they need to make more of an effort to include her and communicate. She also offers great physical comedy in a book already packed with panel upon panel worth of humour.
North continues to be as inventive as ever with his writing employing the kind of tricks and touches that wouldn’t look out of place in his equally loved run on Adventure Time. His use of seemingly offhand throwaway jokes returns in this issue as Nancy’s headcanon, fanfiction creation Cat Thor comes to life with the aid of Asgardian’s resident trickster god in some of the funniest moments this issue. I’m sure a cosplay of an in comic cosplay that will surely end the world as we know it must only be a few days away at most. It’s an overwhelmingly positive book that North and Henderson have created and truly what comics should be about. Writing Squirrel Girl as an defiantly upbeat character who sees the very best in people, even villains, is a welcome change from the norm and her rousing speech towards the end of the conflict with Ratatoskr is most definitely one of the best examples of the positive power of comics.
Henderson’s art is on top form again, this time around getting to draw a few more heroes including her brilliant renditions of Thor, Odinson and Spider-Man. I’d urge North to write bigger and bolder team up issues in the future if only to see Henderson tackle all the Marvel Universe’s myriad numbers of characters on the page in her own playful and distinctive style. At the very least can we petition Marvel to enact a company wide initiative, like Jim Lee’s redesigns at DC, only with Henderson revamping the whole universes street wear? Seriously, off action superheroes and their friends have never looked so fashionable. In early issues her artwork focused mainly on the characters, some panels left with just solid coloured backgrounds.
While this worked give the book a fresh and bold feel to it, this time around she draws drawing some of her most complex pages so far including a stunning Asgard resplendent in it’s mix of futuristic cityscape and Norse flourishes. Let’s not forget the character design for new adversary Ratatoskr. Angular and menacing she has been a great villain and a seamless way to link The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Thors together. Coincidentally, Ratatoskr’s Wiki page has already been updated as predicted in the issue, but unfortunately not to inform us of what a big baby she is.
An amazing finish to the first arc of Squirrel Girl’s adventures, Marvel’s decision to keep the same creative team in the wake of its company wide shake up means we will get to see more rodentine stories when she returns in October in both this title and taking on a bigger role in the going on the newly reformed Marvel Universe.
I'm leaving. Goodbye guys.
I'm off to the DMV to get my license renewed. I'll be back here in the afternoon :3
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