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Idealized reality is crushing my soul.
I feel like being a part of this fandom as well as playing a lot of video games has made me feel kind of detached from reality. Games have always been fun, and to a certain extent make me feel free (the word "limitless" comes to mind), but going outside has always been boring, because there are so many rules we all have to abide by, like the laws of physics and the actual law. This fandom is somewhere in between, it makes me happier than going outside but has more limits than video games.
There are a lot of things I want to do outside, only a few are actually possible, and the rest are logistically difficult to do. I could go hike the Pacific Crest Trail, but I hate hiking. I could go scuba diving, but I've seen Jaws a few too many times. I could go skydiving, but that's expensive.
Most of what I want going and actually doing something to be like is from media (movies, games, tv, etc), not my personal experiences. I've gone camping and hiking and all that, and sometimes I've even enjoyed it but there have always been limits; "can't do that because x x and x".
I guess I've kind of idealized reality because of all the video games and time spent lost on /r/furry, to the point where real life is a disappointment at best.
Escapism is a real bitch, you know?
In case you're wondering I just watched the movie Wild.
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Home-Schooled Furry Needs to Take Advantage of Furry Community to Make Friends
I've known my only friend for almost two years though we both live in the same location. My boyfriend however lives in another country.
The question is how to make friends. I'm not the best at anything to get attention and I don't have any idea on how I should approach a stranger.
Mars (age 17, Florida)
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Dear Mars,
Being home schooled is really no reason for not making friends, and I’m sure you haven’t been working with adults all your life. What have you been doing up until now to socialize? Even kids who go to a regular public or private school do most of their socializing outside of the classroom. The best answer is to engage in structured activities outside the home when you’re not studying. You could participate in church programs, the Girl Scouts, community programs, or even just hang out with relatives or children of your parents’ friends (unless you’re living in an isolated Florida swamp or key somewhere).
You might also be interested to know that in your state of Florida you can participate in local school programs even though you don’t attend the school itself. This is true for ten states in America, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. In the other 40 states, such rules vary from school district to school district. It must be noted, though, that even in home-school-friendly states such as Florida, you need to meet certain requirements of academic achievement. Check with your local school to learn about the details.
When it comes to opportunities to expose yourself to social events and make friends, you have no excuse not to.
Now, if the issue is actually that you are a very shy person who has trouble making friends, that’s an entirely different ball of wax. I wrote a column about overcoming shyness two years ago that you can read here: http://www.askpapabear.com/letters/shy-furry-wants-to-overcome-her-fears.
In a nutshell, how does one make friends? The best way to meet people is at places where socializing is encouraged, such as at a party or at some group activity. Just go up to someone and introduce yourself. Stick out a paw and say, “Hi, I’m ____! What’s your name?” And, since you’re a furry, a good place to do that would be a furmeet or other furry event. If you haven’t already, join the Florida Furs group (http://www.floridafurs.com/) and make friends there! Sounds like you really haven’t taken advantage of being a furry, which is a huge worldwide community just waiting for you to explore!
The only thing holding you back is you!
Here’s wishing you many many many furiends,
Papabear
I love the rain~ Commissioned from Firekeeper77
Lasagna Night!
Gonna be streaming for a while. Come and hang out or something!
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Working on a long overdue trade, maybe one of my commissions later!
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First Impressions: Magnetic Press upcoming Releases
It’s telling just how much of the limelight the larger comics companies take up online, that up until last week I’d never heard of Magnetic Press before. Their newly announced titles for 2015 are a strong mix of sci-fi and fantasy with two of them featuring lycanthrophy. Seriously, why have I never heard of this company before? I’m not going to be too hard on myself as this is only the companies second year. Mostly dealing with bringing foreign language and European titles to a wider market, the company has already released twelve titles as well as forty four digital ones in it’s first year alone.
Looking through their catalogue from last year the quality of their hardback editions are luxurious to say the least. Hardback, rounded corner, gloss elements on cover and thick paper stock. Their presentation of the material can only be described as lavish.
Going into it’s second year, it seems the company is extending it’s roster once again with another ten titles. While Magnetic Press has only revealed a few details with the promise of more information in the coming weeks, there are already a few titles that I am interested in and will definitely be checking out when they are released.
Klaw-French Edition cover- illustrated by Joel Jurion and written by Antoine Ozenam.
Klaw, illustrated by Joel Jurion and written by Antoine Ozenam.
Teenager Angel Tomassini has been hiding a dark and scary secret: when threatened he involuntarily turns into a violent and vicious Weretiger. He doesn’t know why, how, or what to do, because when he transforms, he loses control and people end up badly hurt. As if this isn’t enough for a kid to deal with, Angel is slowly learning his father is one of the biggest organized crime leaders in the city. And are there more like him? Are there… different creatures too?
Oh please, let there by other creatures too! A showing of An American Werewolf in London at a friends house at an impressionable age means I am forever obsessed with Lycanthropy and shape shifting. Apparently Klaw has been around in French for quite some time now, even the press release describes it as “wildly world-popular”. Which makes it baffling that I’ve never heard of it before. Belonging to a fandom that pounces on anything with even a whiff an anthropomorphism, I’m a little surprised that no one else has pointed this out to me, even more so having attended European conventions before.
From a little scouring about it seems that Magnet Press will be releasing the first five issues of this as a hardback graphic novel. Not speaking any French I can’t comment on any of dialogue from the pages I found online, but the artwork is simply gorgeous, really vibrant and dynamic. With four “tomes” of material already out there, this will hopefully be a series to enjoy for a long time to come.
From the original French language edition
From the original French language edition
Love: The Fox- French Edition Cover-illustrated by Federico Bertolucci and written by Frederic Brremaud.
Love: The Fox, illustrated by Federico Bertolucci and written by Frederic Brremaud.
The second volume in the award winning, lushly illustrated, wordless graphic novel series, Love: The Fox follows a spry, intrepid, one-eyed fox during an average day of foraging when a natural disaster erupts. Readers are taken on a thrill ride as animals of all shapes and sizes react to the danger, but the fox inexplicably runs towards the fire, braving daunting obstacles and even larger predators to reach a desperate location in the heart of the storm
Like Klaw this one’s been available in France and Germany for an age now. This wordless tale is a day in the life narrative following, you guessed it, a fox. Completely without dialogue it’s the breathtaking artwork from Bertolucci that tells the story here and as usual I’m fascinated to see how artists convey emotions in a purely visual manner. As with Klaw and this being the second volume of this series, it already has the selling point of having more to follow. With the third in the series, Love Lion already completed and the fourth, featuring a T-rex being finished by Bertolucci in the very near future. Even though it doesn’t have the issues surrounding translation it does appear to be out of print. Even if that wasn’t the case, after seeing Magnetic’s website I’d still rather have waited on their plush hardback version.
Bitten, created by Cornelia Funke, written by Raul Garcia, and illustrated by Francisco Herrera.
Entering high school is tough enough as it is, but how do you cope when you’ve also just been bitten by a Werewolf? This beautifully illustrated, madcap all ages adventure is like a classic 2D animated feature in print!
Another werewolf themed book, this time from German author Cornelia Funke, the mind behind the Inkheart trilogy of young adult books. Out of the three I’ve picked out, Funke is the only person who’s work I have had previous experience with, having read the first in her trilogy many moons ago. This time around werewolves are the centre of her story as high school student finds himself bitten by one of the creatures of the night. The artwork instantly reminded me of a cute, Saturday morning cartoon so it was unsurprising to find out that both the writer and artist have worked in animation for Disney.
As well as the comics, the two art books Angelarium and Robot Envy also look really interesting. It’s definitely a company who I’ll be keeping an eye on in the future.
More mature furries and fursuit makers, what problems have you encountered with younger furries?
Especially fursuit makers, because I hear they get asked a lot by kids who would outgrow it etc.
What problems have you had with younger furries?
Yeah, I'm 14 but I am interested in finding out.
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Interest Check: /r/furry community Sergal Fort?
TL;DR I wanna play Dwarf Fortress with a sergal mod. I'll let people sign up to have sergals named after them, with specific professions, if requested. I play and give updates on how things are going occasionally and see how things unfold. I'll give more specific details if there's enough interest.
I've gotten back in the mood for playing Dwarf Fortress. It's a fun and complicated game, where you make and manage a city of drunk manic depressive idiots and try to help them survive and thrive. It's a stupidly difficult game to figure out, too, so even if it sounds up your alley, it's going to be an uphill battle to learn enough for the game to be fun. Well, fun fun, not DF-brand fun... which is losing. (For real, the game's tagline is "Losing is fun!")
I've got a fun idea, though. On the forums for the game, people will sometimes run a community fortress, where people sign up and have a dwarf named after them, maybe given a specific job, too, and then the owner of the community fort plays the game and see how it plays out. The owner will give updates regularly, taking screenshots of interesting things and noting important events. Here's one of the more legendary community forts to happen on the forums, Nist Akath! (Nist Akath was made in '07 with an lot older version of the game, so it's not accurate to the current state of the game)
This isn't furry so far, but fortunately, Dwarf Fortress is stupidly moddable. However, somehow making a bunch of randomly generated anthropomorphs fit together in one civilization would be incredibly complicated and silly to attempt, there is another mod I'm gonna use for this: the Vilous mod! Sergal fortress!
So anyway, this is an interest check, to see if anyone would be down for this. I'm not the best writer, but I could probably embellish the shit out of anything that could happen in DF. There are plenty of slots every everyone who'd likely be interested to have a character named after them and all kinds of crazy fun stuff could happen.
Normal DF has ASCII graphics, but I'll be using a tileset and a mini custom-made graphics set for the sake of readability. I'm still thinking of how to do the updates without being too spammy. My current idea is playing a season or two of in-game time and having bi-weekly updates until the fort somehow falls apart, which will happen.
What do you guys think? AMA about this, too.
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