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Adult fursuit poll
I got into a bit of a spat with a guy last week who stated that "half of all fursuits are murrsuits". Supposedly he's been fursuiting for 10 years and I'm the one who's "deluding" myself into thinking that the fandom isn't chock-full of murrsuiters. (Personally I really don't care either way. I've grown up beyond the point of thinking that a person's sexuality has anything whatsoever to do with the content of their character).
So I've created an anonymous poll, for shits and giggles. Probably not the best sample size to choose from, but there seem to be a lot of furs on Reddit, so I'm curious.
PLEASE ONLY VOTE IF YOU ARE A FURSUITER. Non-suiter votes obviously don't really count. :P
Link: http://www.poll-maker.com/poll366511xbD844093-14
NOTE: Please don't kink-shame! If you have anything judgmental to say about someone else's sexuality, don't say it.
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TigerTails Radio Season 9 Episode 01
My experience as a handler
Hello all!
I posted this a few weeks ago after handling some fursuiter friends at the Montreal Comiccon. It was originally posted in the comments, where I figured most people didn't see it, so I'm reposting it here. Enjoy!
Fursuiting and handling in a public, non-furry con is hard work. There are hundreds of people with no notion of Fursuit etiquette, it is badly ventilated and warm, there is no changing area and there is no rest area. There is no safe place to leave your clothes or belongings while you suit. Furry events facilitate fursuiting immensely - fursuiting outside of a Furry event is very challenging.
Getting anywhere is difficult. You will be stopped every two feet by people who want a picture, and you'll often get stuck in an infinite loop of "okay, now take a picture with me!". Lines and circles form where groups of Fursuiters stop.
On day one I carried a backpack containing two bottles of water, two bottles of gatorade, a long plastic straw, some almonds and a conbook which doubled as an improvised fan. I followed my Fursuiter doggedly, pestering him to drink, eat and take breaks regularly.
I lost sight of my Fursuiter for a few minutes as he wandered off to take pictures while I discussed with some old colleagues. They walked away in time for me to see him limp back towards me, eyes staring at the ground. I thought he was messing around, right up to the moment where he knelt down and collapsed in front of me.
I didn't have time to catch him. Instinctively I moved my right foot forward under him in order to break his fall - I doubt it helped much.
I'd like to say I heroically leapt into action, but I didn't. I immediately asked him if he was okay, and his brightly cheerful face gave no answer. I followed with "Do you want me to remove your head?" which elicited a weak nod.
Before that moment I had never had to forcibly remove a fursuiter's head under pressure. My feelings were torn between a strong desire to insure my friend's safety, a strong desire to avoid hurting him and a strong desire to avoid damaging his expensive costume.
Finding and undoing the zipper took me longer than I would've liked, and I had no idea how hard to pull or in which direction - I settled on some blend of "Up" and "Away from his body", and after a few good pulls I managed to take his head off. Holding the head in one hand I pulled out my makeshift fan and began fanning him to cool him off.
Security appeared quickly, offering to call an ambulance as I explained to them what happened while continuing to fan my friend. He was conscious enough to decline the ambulance, chug water and undo his suit.
I don't think I'll ever stop feeling guilty for not catching my friend as he collapsed. I feel like I failed him in his hour of need.
Needless to say, I kept a much closer watch on him after that, alternating between fanning him with the conbook, harassing him to drink more water/gatorade and asking him how he was feeling.
On day two I came with four bottles of ice water, two bottles of gatorade, a long plastic straw, more almonds and a portable air pump that I used to push air through his muzzle and into his eyes. Pumping air into his mouth, I could feel gusts of disturbingly hot air escaping from his facemask.
Handlers, remember this: a Fursuit is a potential deathtrap. A Fursuit's face does not allow any emotion to come through. The person behind the big happy smile may be in extreme distress. A dehydrated person (eg: every fursuiter ever) may not be able to vocalize. Before you handle ANYONE, agree on a hand signal that indicates an immediate emergency: tell your fursuiter "if you're in trouble, put both hands on your neck as if you're choking". Seeing someone choking should be enough to spur you into action, and let's face it: once the heat and dehydration makes them unable to vocalize, they are choking. Go help them.
Stay safe.
Handling a group of fursuiters is a logistics nightmare. In a large convention, arranging a meeting quickly is non-trivial. When the person you want to meet is unable to use a phone, it becomes borderline impossible. If possible, have the fursuiter's phone be held by their handler - this saved me more than once.
Time is of the essence when fursuiting. You simply cannot stay in the suit forever, so you must make every minute count. However, when managing a group of suiters, having to move together slows you down immensely. Your suiters may be in various states of unsuiting - if one of them is taking a headless break to cool off while the others want to run around, you may have a problem. If two of your suiters are fully dressed while your other two have yet to put on their bodysuits, you have a big problem, and people will get annoyed very quickly. No suiter wants to sit around doing nothing while dying of heat, but no one wants to be pushed when they're taking a break.
A backpack holding six full bottles and other gear is heavy. If you're like me, your backpack will start leaking water everywhere while you're responsible for the safety of four other people. You may feel a twinge of stress at this point. Stay calm. Hopefully you're not doing this alone - after today, I would never handle more than two suiters at the same time. Distribute the water bottles among the handlers - this also helps if you get separated. Don't be a single point of failure.
Your responsibilities as a handler are many. You carry water, gatorade, straws, emergency food, cooling equipment on top of whatever con stuff you're carrying. You may feel like this: http://img.4plebs.org/boards/tg/image/1373/52/1373523440432.jpg
You will carry whatever spare fursuit parts your suiters are not currently wearing (heads, handpaws, head accessories like bandanas). You will help your suiters put on and remove their costumes, several times a day. You will adjust your suiter's costume to make sure they look their best, hiding zippers and seams, brushing fur and adjusting gloves. You will have to pull out at a moment's notice whatever your suiter needs - water, gatorade, cooling. You will have to help your fursuiter stand up when they kneel or sit down for pictures (they kneel for kids all the time). You will have to coordinate with other handlers to organize meetings or split-ups. You will have to constantly monitor your group to make sure no one gets lost, falls behind or goes too far ahead. You will have to take pictures. You will have to refill water bottles. You will have to sit around holding a fursuit head while your suiter takes a bathroom break (this may take a while).
You will have to help your suiters through crowds. If someone attempts to cut off a Fursuiter by walking in front of them, chances are your suiter won't see them coming. If moving through a crowd, be very protective of your suiters, make a path for them, don't be shy about asking people to get out of the way and don't let anyone walk between you and your suiter. Making a conga line by having your suiter place their hands on your shoulders may help.
Some suiters are more independent than others - those who have been doing it for years require much less assistance and know when and what to ask for when they need help. The newer suiters need to be watched much more carefully, and they may not realize that they need water, air or a break. They may feel bad about asking for help. Offer them water regularly (even if unprompted), ask how they're feeling and offer them to take a break.
Take good care of your suiters. They're putting themselves through a lot to entertain you.
On visiting a Comic convention solo:
I saw roughly a dozen fursuiters over the course of the three days, and probably somewhere around 30 furries total. Attendance at the Montreal Comiccon is roughly 50,000 people, so you can extrapolate from there - I don't know how big your comic con is.
Please please please don't go without a handler. Find a dedicated handler and have them follow you around at all time - you are risking disaster/serious bodily harm if you don't. Find someone you trust who understands fursuiting and handling. Your handler should not be someone you suspect will bail on you without warning.
If you suit and walk around I'd wager furries will flock to you - I know that I can't resist interacting with a fursuiter when I meet one in the wild. You'll make some fast friends.
Taking breaks was a very ad hoc process - if you have to take a break, walk a few steps to get to an area with less traffic (eg: next to a wall or a dead-end) and take your head off there. If you're able to stay in your suit for long periods (and are able to re-hydrate while keeping your head) then you might be able to avoid breaking the magic for a while, but the circumstances are against you. The con will not be as air conditioned as a Furry con, there are no fans and the people around you know nothing of fursuit etiquette.
We didn't have a "home base" - no hotel room, and the car was always very far away, so we just took breaks wherever. There is no dedicated headless lounge, although there are usually a few unused rooms or dead-end corridors/secluded areas that no one visits - those can become impromptu headless lounges. In the end, when you need to take a break, take your head off, ruining the magic be damned. Don't risk your life - the people around you don't care that much.
Changing is equally awkward - we didn't have hotel rooms, so it was a matter of changing in a parking lot or in a public bathroom. Both can work. If you have a hotel room, great - you can leave your change of clothes and stuff behind - otherwise you will need someone to carry it for you.
Really, you'll have to figure things out as you go - the only thing you need to have is a good handler. Have them carry water at all times, have them follow you around (I kept one hand on my fursuiter's shoulder while behind him to let him know I'm there), have them be ready to intervene if someone gets too rowdy. It never happened on my end in three days of handling, but then again I'm a scary-looking 200-pound 6 foot tall man and I kept fairly close to my suiters. A solo suiter might look like an easier target.
While solo handling a single suiter I stayed behind him and let him lead the way. When handling a group of suiters I stayed in front and led, staying close to my front suiter and pushing crowds out of the way. If you have to cross traffic (eg: there's a constant stream of people coming perpendicular to where you're going) your handler should take charge and just block the traffic while you go through. Otherwise people will stream in from your blind spots and you will crash into them.
As long as you can change in your hotel room, have a good handler with water and you play it safe in taking frequent breaks, you should have no problem.
One last tip: whenever you pose for pictures, have your handler take a duplicate picture with his/your phone. That way you'll have pictures of your convention experience after you finish suiting.
Good luck!
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Morenatsu has stopped development
- English Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LB0q5-2vA
- Original Message: http://morenatsu.sakura.ne.jp/
Excuse me if I'm posting this wrong or whatever; this actually is my first time posting something on Reddit :P But I just wanted to put this out there
It's sad to see it go. Shin's Perfect Route was amazing and I got attached to the game thanks to that route.
Of course no hard feelings to the Morenatsu development team: They created this game without getting any money in return, and they have come really far. Thanks for posting the beta versions; I have had great fun with them.
And now let's hope someone will get the source code and finish the game anyway :P
What is Morenatsu?
Morenatsu (????? "Summer break") is an adult-oriented Furry Bara Genre H-Game. It was led by the Kemono artist Gamma, but after his contributions he has since left the project. Morenatsu is currently only in Japanese, with characters developed by many different aggregate sources on the 2ch Kemono image board.
The game is still incomplete (and has been for years now, development was discontinued in 2015.), so only a trial version of the game is available. A newer demo has been released, downloadable only by torrent. It contains the completed stories for Tatsuki, Kounosuke, Kouya, Shun, Juuichi and Shin along with the conclusions of their love stories.
The story: The game takes place during summer vacation in Japan. The main character, Hiroyuki Nishimura (one of the few humans in the game), gets a letter from a friend in the village where he spent his childhood, Minasato village (??? Minasato-mura). He moved away to the city five years ago. His grandparents currently live there, so he decides to return there.
Why did they quit?
They simply do not seem to have the time to work on the game anymore. Not only time was a huge problem, but lately, they seem to have had problems with their game engine:
"It has been a long time since something had been written. Ruoh here. To be frank, I’m unclear where we are with the current progress of things. That is to say, since the software used to develop Morenatsu is apparently under maintenance (or is the program itself changing?), nobody on staff is able to access it either. The data has been backed up so things should be fine there, we are unable to share any information at this time."
However, I should note that this is all speculation. The actual reason of stopping development has not been directly given to us by the Morenatsu team.
Quick Edit: No, the video at the top is not mine, to avoid any confusion- I merely placed it here as a reference, because most of us can't speak Japanese
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Getting Over Procrastination Habits to Enjoy Your Craft
I've written to you once before for advice, and you'll be glad to know it helped a great deal. I've found a small hobby in perler beads to help pass time and build my confidence while I slowly learn how to sew. I've also discovered that, even if I'm not the kind of successful the world wants me to be, I'll still be so if I'm just happy with what I'm doing and how I'm living.
I currently have a job at Wawa, which is close enough for me to walk or bike to, so I can get some exercise in my daily life. I also built a brand new PC, have some money to spare for having fun every so often, and good friends. There is even a very sweet man who loves me (and will never let me forget it). Overall, I'd say things are going well.
However, I find that following these pursuits is difficult. My usual routine involves what I know to be too much time on said PC and not enough on other interests. I believe part of the issue is me working second shift, which is often early afternoon to late night, often getting home around 11pm or midnight. When I visit my friends, it's often for the sake of playing games, largely because our D&D sessions have stalled. (They were a nice change of pace from video gaming.) I enjoy my time with the beads though, and don't worry about any of your 5 “les facteurs de merde” when making objects. It's just fun. Strangely, I specifically wanted to do these things, and never act upon that desire when I end up with the tools/materials necessary.
After buying a $70 sewing machine, it's been sitting and collecting dust and scraps of material.
I've largely attributed said failure to follow my words to my parents and their failure to instill the drive to succeed in me. But am I wrong, and looking for a scapegoat for my own laziness?
To boil it all down, how can I break this addiction and focus more on the other things I enjoy, as well as caring for myself?
Apologies for such a long-winded question, and thank you for taking the time to read through it all.
Vince
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Hi, Vince,
I’m glad life is improving for you and that you’re having fun with beading. Perhaps you have moved beyond les facteurs de merde, but you have still been practicing avoidance techniques. One avoidance technique is to fill your time with other activities unrelated to what you believe you wish to do, and then, voilá, you conveniently have no time left to do that thing. This is the case with your playing games with friends and then not having time left for sewing (are you trying to make fursuits?). Another avoidance technique is to buy lots of stuff related to that goal without actually doing the activity itself. I see this with “writers” a lot. Buying books on how to write, buying a new laptop, etc. I’m guilty of it, too, to the point where I once flew to the Maui Writers’ Conference (really fun! but I didn’t write a damn thing while I was there!) as an elaborate way not to actually get the novel done.
In my previous letter to you I advised you to find a mentor or mentors to help encourage you. Have you tried that? It really helps to have people around you who urge you to pursue your creative activity (this is why I pay for piano lessons; if I didn’t have the routine of taking lessons and having an encouraging teacher, my keyboard would probably gather dust in a corner of my office.)
If you just need to break the gaming habit, I can refer you to this column about gaming addiction.
The other thing is to stop blaming others: don’t blame your parents for not instilling in you a drive to succeed, don’t blame friends for making you want to play games with them, don’t blame a bad work schedule, and don’t blame anyone else. This is on you. Only you can sit down and do the activity you supposedly wish to do.
But I can offer you a little trick that might help: create a reward system for yourself. My personal reward system actually depends on others: when I get a thank you letter (or a nice comment like yours at the beginning of your letter) it gives me a rush that makes me not only want to write more columns but increases my enjoyment of doing it. With crafty projects, such as beading, your reward system could be to give finish projects as impromptu gifts to friends and family and then see their eyes light up at the unexpected present. Or, on the somewhat more selfish side, when you finish a project or a milestone of a larger project, buy yourself a little treat, or, perhaps, take a photo of the item you made and post it on a social media site and read the comments from friends. These are called “positive reinforcement” techniques (I don’t recommend negative reinforcement here—ack).
Finally, try to adjust your attitude from negative to the positive (this relates to les facteurs de merde). Again with my piano, when I see myself making progress and getting better, I get more optimistic and this makes me enjoy practice a lot more. I’m guessing that with beading there are certain levels of the craft, too: some beading skills are more complicated and difficult to master, yes? Urge yourself to take your craft to the next level, and then, when you reach that new level of skill, your heart will fill with the pride of accomplishment and this will really drive you to do it more. It’s kind of like a runner’s high. When someone starts running for fitness, it can be very difficult, tedious, discouraging. But, after doing it for a while, you will push through a wall and suddenly it becomes a joy to run (for a lot of people—I, personally, hate running LOL)! You already enjoy beading, but you can increase this joy by challenging yourself to become a master of the craft. Remember, of course, to always do this for your own personal satisfaction.
Good Luck!
Papabear
Looking for a fursuit maker
Does anyone have a suggestion of a maker that is open for commissions?
Basically what I am looking for is one that does a movable jaw not really a requirement but would be nice. My sona is fairly easy, just a black, white, gray wolf with a patch of blue hair on his head. It would be a toony plantigrade suit with follow me eyes. I don't want to go over $2000
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Anthrocon Anthrocon Anthrocon! Fluffsplosion of hype. NEWSDUMP (7/20/15)
Anthrocon Anthrocon Anthrocon! Fluffsplosion of hype. NEWSDUMP (7/20/15)
So many fluffs wishing Icy and Fruitpunch (centre, squished between everyone else x3) happy birthday!
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Hello from /r/SquaredCircle
Hello everyone!
If some of you follow /r/bestof, last week a /r/SquaredCircle user placed a bet if something would happen, he would go to /r/mylittlepony for three days and become an active member.
Last night, for the payperview WWE Battleground, i placed a bet where, if I was correct I would join a subreddit annd be an active member of a fellow member's choosing ( he picked /r/furry ) and if he was correct he would remove his reddit account.
Safe to say, I was right.
So for three days, you guys will be stuck with me, haha. I'm not too familiar with furries and all. I know what it is and all but i'm not too familiar with all furry related things so if some could help me, I would be glad to check everything out.
Thanks in advance and let's make this a fun three days! Cheers!
Here's to you, /u/sensiitivity
edit: So far, all of you have been welcoming me with open arms which I appreciate so thank you all! If I have questions, I can easily ask them which is nice so i'd like to return the favor. If any of you have questions about my interest for pro wrestling, feel free to ask me too! :)
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