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Guest post by Mando. Mando is a twenty-something writer slash editor from the land of pizza and mandolins. Music lover and music teacher with a degree in Modern Literature, he’s currently working on the Fragments of Life’s Heart anthology along with Munchkin and enjoying what the furry community has to offer.

Today’s guest post is a data visualization showing a breakdown of submissions to SoFurry! Feel free to mouse-over and explore the data further. It’s embedded below, but if you can’t see it there (some plugins, such as Privacy Badger, don’t play well with iframes), you can follow this link!

Guest post by Mando. Mando is a twenty-something writer slash editor from the land of pizza and mandolins. Music lover and music teacher with a degree in Modern Literature, he’s currently working on the Fragments of Life’s Heart anthology along with Munchkin and enjoying what the furry community has to offer.

Today’s guest post is a data visualization showing a breakdown of submissions to SoFurry! Feel free to mouse-over and explore the data further. It’s embedded below, but if you can’t see it there (some plugins, such as Privacy Badger, don’t play well with iframes), you can follow this link!

submitted by GardeniaBlossom
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I stand tippy-toes all the time, and if you know the anatomy of canines, you will see that there. On all fours.

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Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.  Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Guest posts welcome. “Local correspondents” wanted to talk about your local networks.  CORRECTION: Fangcon was NOT the first con to sponsor a float in a Pride parade – FWA was earlier. Tip from Slickkat: “FWA has had a float in the Atlanta Pride parade for the last […]

submitted by Chaos_Kitten
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Hello furries! I've been lurking around on reddit for about a year and this subreddit for the last three months or so. I just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Topaz Colite, as the username suggests. My fursona is a gryphon anthro with a light green bird top half and gray wolf bottom half. You'll often see me wearing t-shirt, cargo pants, a plaid robe and a lavendar fedora with a macaroni. That is all. Feel free to aske me questions. And before you wonder it, yes, I have gone through the dark bowels of the fandom but I'm done with that now.

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Morning, guys. I think the commission thread will be moved to saturday. Should be a day when people have more time to see it, its not right before a new weekly thing-though it is right after, and there won't be a problem when my classes start up.

Hope this works for all of you!

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What inspires you to do great things? It’s a question that could be pondered for hours, yet we have only half an hour. We are joined again by Tycho as we discuss successes and failures of difficult and rewarding tasks.

Metadata and Credits WagzTail Season 3 Episode 83

Runtime: 30m

Cast: Levi, Firefoxkac, Tycho, Wolfin

Editor: Levi

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.

Goals and Inspiration - What inspires you to do great things? It’s a question that could be pondered for hours, yet we have only half an hour. We are joined again by Tycho as we discuss successes and failures of difficult and rewarding tasks.

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More news regarding Disney TV Animation’s upcoming new Lion King spin-off series The Lion Guard, thanks to a recent article in Variety: “Disney will launch The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar, a short prime-time movie focused on the son of Simba, the hero of the original film, in November on Disney Channel. The program will follow Kion, Simba’s second-born cub, as he and a team of animals known as ‘The Lion Guard’ try to keep the peace in the surrounding terrain. Disney intends to launch a Lion Guard TV series on Disney Channel and Disney Junior outlets around the world in early 2016.” In this new series, “Kion breaks tradition by forming ‘The Lion Guard’ out of a varied group of animal friends he thinks are heroic. Typically, only the bravest, strongest lions in the African savanna can be members.  In the movie and the TV episodes that follow, the crew will learn how to use unique abilities to solve problems while introducing young viewers to new kinds of fauna.” The article includes a short video clip from Return of the Roar as well. See you in November!

image c. 2015 Walt Disney TV Animation

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submitted by PrinceNu
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Several years ago, furries were nothing more to me than pornography on the internet.

One year ago, I had an extreme hatred of fursuits.

8 months ago, I bought a wolf statuette completely on impulse.

Half a year ago, I visited /r/furry for the first time.

5 months ago, I realized I was a furry.

3 months ago, the pornography aspect of the fandom became completely irrelevant to my enjoyment of looking at anthro art.

1 month ago, I realized I loved sergals.

Yesterday, I stole a long, tail-like piece of paper from art class because I figured I could wear it.

Today I do not have a completed fursona, much contribution to the community, and I do not plan on buying a fursuit ever.

5 years from now that might change.

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The Wulfden Theatre Company presents Zipped and Pelted Playing at the Chicago Fringe Festival, September 5-13, Chicago, Illinois
Funding on Indiegogo through August 21

One thing that Indiegogo does so very well is operate on a local level—as a platform for community groups to raise funds and build awareness for events that might never be able to afford a full advertising spread in the local newspaper. Take the Wulfden Theatre Company.

The Wulfden Ensemble is, at present, and who knows what the future holds, a local drama group active in the Chicago area, with a focus on new artistic voices and found space—single-night short plays in a house or apartment, indie theatre spaces, Wulfden has mastered the art of intimate, zero-budget drama. With the furry-focused short play Zipped and Pelted (now on Indiegogo, on stage in September) Wulfden takes on a bigger stage in the Chicago Fringe Festival, with a play that in so many ways couldn’t have made it to paper, let alone the stage, some ten years ago—old questions of identity and humanity meet the modern furry fandom, the 21st century’s world of arbitrary terrorism, the high-energy space of social media.

Z&P is an hourish-long play by Lucas Baisch, focusing on two new furries, Boomer (“Grizz”) and Mikey, going to their first furry con, Midwest Furfest 2014. In all probability, anyone who’d read this particular blog would remember the strange and horrible chlorine gas attack at MWF2014, and while Z&P isn’t the indie stage equivalent of a Michael Bay disaster film, it’s still informed by those events—a mess of panic and hard questions that the audience can see coming before the play even begins, as Grizz and Mikey make their plans, tweeting and internet chatting and blogging about their new furry identities, building their fursonas, planning their con and constructing their new fandom lives. The play takes place partly over social media, shown with shadows and projectors, partly at the space of the con itself. It’s a gently absurdist play, “two characters trying to find their fursonas in a world of tiki torches, fox wine, rubber ducks, through a chlorine cloud,” a mix of convention culture, high kitsch (apparently Baisch collaborated somehow with the creator of the lawn flamingo?).

Zipped and Pelted is about exploring what it means to be human by exploring what it means to be an animal, and the identity-bending, occasionally stigmatized furry community, their world and their response to the 2014 attack, is a playground for this sort of exploration. It sounds like from some of the lines in the video the play asks questions about what it means even to exist, and that’s a challenging question in a world of neon fuskies, anthro dragonwolves and snaketaurs.

I made up the snaketaurs, I hope.

The Wulfden Theater team was kind enough to share some words from playwrite Lucas Baisch, on the inspiration for his story:

“I started thinking about this play about a year and a half ago. The desire to write about the topic stemmed from a specific instance that May, when I was put in a position where I felt obligated to mercy kill a dying animal. I think what triggered it was this obsession with how humans can completely eradicate any semblance of empathy when interacting (or imposing violence) upon another animal. Maybe that violence is the root of the play. At the same time, I have for a while been thinking about writing a piece involving furries. I am fascinated by the way the community interacts with their own humanity, by layering on another animal identity.

While Baisch’s take on the fandom is playful and absurdist, he’s worked to keep it balanced—”not other-ing the community,” easy to do with a group of marginalized, but cheerful, weirdos. All the while, still telling a story with comic elements, and opening up some of the core ideas of the fandom to explore questions about the animal nature of humans.

If you want to learn more about Wulfden, you can poke around on their Facebook and see what they’re up to, or pop open Tumblr or Instagram for a deeper dive. You can chip in on the show itself on Indiegogo, or if you happen to be a Chicago resident, you can buy tickets to the upcoming show (you can of course buy tickets if you don’t plan to visit Chicago, but that seems a little rude somehow.)

Follow @furstarter on twitter for the latest fur-friendly crowdfunding projects!