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More kung fu fighting from WonderCon! Last year brought us a new comic, Animal Warriors of the Kingdom, written by Jason Bienvenu and illustrated by Utuma Prastha. “The Great Houses of the Animal Kingdom are in shambles. A tyrannical ruler has all but consolidated his complete control over the land and sea. With the impending fall of the last resistance stronghold, the flame of hope is almost extinguished. One last beacon of light is all that remains of the once robust resistance-a young ape named Pale, whose quest to mend the fractured trust between the great animal houses will be tested as he seeks to neutralize, Emperor Kah Lee!” The big news? This year the creative team were introducing a brand new line of tie-in action figures from Spero Toys.

image c. 2025 Spero Toys

SUPER AC is thrilled to unveil the first trailer for Prohibeast. This first glimpse reveals the game’s distinctive atmosphere, tactical intensity, and richly crafted world. From the trailer and media, it appears the player gets to take on the roles of multiple different animal species and tactifully move around the city that's inhabited by other anthros.

In Prohibeast, players are transported to 1930s Chicago, a city riddled with corruption and illegal meat trafficking following a nationwide consumption ban. Players step into the shoes of Eliot Ness and his team of Untouchables, determined to dismantle Al Capone's criminal empire by operating from the shadows.

Key Features:

• Real-time strategic infiltration – Each mission offers multiple approaches, from stealthy infiltration to discreet takedowns and clever diversions.
• Environmental exploitation – Utilize hiding spots, alternative routes, and strategic distractions to achieve your objectives.
• Sharp-sensed enemies – Face opponents with keen eyesight, acute hearing, and a strong sense of smell.
• Specialist team – Lead the Untouchables, each with unique and complementary skills: tactical experts, snipers, heavy hitters, and more.
• Iconic locations – Infiltrate some of Chicago’s most emblematic sites — The Loop, the Mayor’s Mansion, the Lake Michigan docks, and more.

PROHIBEAST is set for release on PC by the end of 2025.
🕹️ Prohibeast is now available to wishlist on Steam:
👉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3503790/PROHIBEAST/
🔗 Visit the game page on the SUPER AC website:
👉 https://www.superacgames.com/produit/prohibeast/

Is there anything slicker than a frog? What about a sea frog with a rocket-powered wrench expertly grinding and sliding his way around an overflowing amount of dangerous, varied, and exciting obstacles and objectives across giant sea-faring vessels? Seafrog, developed by OhMyMe Games, is all that and more. There’s a huge amount of gameplay stuffed inside the seahole that Master Seafrog is trapped inside that you’re trying to get out of. I found myself thoroughly enjoying the overall experience, and the game fully took advantage of its designed systems.

While at WonderCon we met Stephan Franck and got to check out their new full-color furry comic. Here’s how they describe it: “Romance in the Age of the Space God takes place in a world not unlike ours, in which Nate, Lydia, and Anya struggle to find their place and purpose, only to find themselves at the center of a mysterious plot of cosmic proportions. [It is] either the first chapter of a long saga, or an open ended short-story—only time will tell. It is part dystopian sci-fi thriller, part slice-of-life, part political satire. It is about life in a world where the unthinkable has been slowly normalized, and follows adorable little mice struggling to find their purpose and meaning in it.” Take a look at the preview pages over at the web site for Dark Planet Comics.

image c. 2025 Dark Planet Comics

You’re on the case as the Duck Detective in the debut entry in the cozy and quaint series: The Secret Salami! I’ll be reviewing the iOS mobile app version that just released in April, but the other platform versions are exactly the same, save for the touch controls. There’s a wonderful charm to the style and humor that Duck Detective carries throughout its 2-3 hour runtime, which is buoyed by the personality-filled graphics and voice acting. Developer Happy Broccoli Games has a great thing going with this series, and The Secret Salami was an engaging mystery to solve.

Zoo Jitsu Fighters is a new full-color independent comic series, created by martial arts fans for those who feel the same! “Successfully funded on Kickstarter, this action-packed series plunges readers into a dystopian future where genetically engineered animals are forced to battle in brutal combat. Follow the heroic journey of Tiago the Tiger as he fights for freedom and justice in a world of exploitation and cruelty.” Created by Patrick Wang (a 2nd-degree black belt himself), two issues have been released so far. What’s more, recently Patrick and crew released a new line of tie-in action figures as well!

image c. 2025 Icon Heroes

Furry True Crime is a genre

In 2024, the Fur and Loathing podcast came out with Guardian journalist Nicky Woolf and Dogpatch Press. The show investigated the Midwest Furfest 2014 chemical attack, based on previously unseen FBI documents and interviews across 4 states. Apple Podcasts gives it a 4.5 star rating, and it has 4.8 from critics, who call it “made with deep reverence and contribution from maligned, largely disenfranchised communities… I think Fur and Loathing is pretty much exactly what I want in true crime.” – Podcast Promise.

Those are results to keep in mind when expecting another Furry True Crime show on the way. They make 2 examples of this suddenly-a-genre (and there’s a third one coming later.) Other kinds of documentary may raise less eyebrows, but these examples aren’t fur-sploitation or salacious tragedy porn. Sorry, the mainstream already makes too much trashy stuff for weirdos who aren’t furries, go find it somewhere else…

Here you’ll find intensely curious investigations for smart people who care about problems and solutions. They feature experiences within the community, made with members, using pro resources to tell deeper stories than can be told without their combined forces. Socially responsible true crime media exists, and we’re already in it.

Streaming July 17, 2025 on AMC+, Sundance Now and SundanceTV (announcement)

The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster is a docu-series about abuse that sometimes uses furry fandom as a cover. Any community can contain abuse, like schools, churches or Boy Scouts, because it’s part of society. Solving it can start with attention and resources that haven’t yet been applied.

The four-part series examines the 2018 Zoosadist Leaks, which exposed a horrifying conspiracy of animal abuse lurking beneath the fandom’s playful exterior. It follows citizen investigators and official police investigation as they confront abuse, fight for victims, and defend their community from the evil within.

One of few other documentaries in a similar vein is the 2019 Netflix series Don’t F*ck With Cats. It focused on identifying and solving crime by one person. This one introduces the organized group kind that makes a new form of cybercrime. It may educate the public about underreported zoosadism, a term that many people don’t even know. Why now? Look into the consequences there weren’t after the 2018 leaks.

The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster is directed by Theo Love and produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. Who are they?

When the mainstream media wants a look inside furry fandom and reaches out to this site, they’re judged by past work and intentions. These pros made an impression of top notch accomplishment and creative merit. Theo Love’s The Legend of Cocaine Island applies big-budget crime thriller style to an absurd story that stands out in its genre like documentary doesn’t usually do, with wit and heart. His Alabama Snake appraises a troubling character whose trial has him judged by his past, making a fable of sin and redemption. Story and character beat preconceptions in these movies. (Theo was happy to know they were seen by this reporter on first introduction.)

A truth this reveals about us all, from the bottom to the top of society

Crime stories can be accused of painting the community as bad. Transparency is good, actually. It says the problem is not the community members who work for solutions. It’s a problem with power.

Abuse can hide behind trust and respect, and the worst kind can come from the most respected people. Every community has powerful people inside, but it’s contextual while furries are used to being marginal without a lot of credit outside. Now let’s compare some people at the top of American society and how they treat animals.

• Eric and Donald Trump Jr. proudly displayed the mutilated remains of animals they killed to corruptly impress other powerful people.
• People.com – RFK Jr.’s Alleged Troubling History with Animals: Blending Mice, Freezing Roadkill, Staging a Bear Accident and Beheading a Whale
• Kristi Noem was Governor of South Dakota and is United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She published a widely-condemned confession of executing a dog named Cricket because he wasn’t obedient enough, followed by killing a goat because she wanted to.

“Treating animal life as so disposable is a shocking repudiation of the kind of relationships that so many of us have experienced with animals.” – The truth Gov. Noem’s puppy-killing scandal reveals about us all (Humane World for Animals)

“She was apparently still in an uncontrollable rage… Noem got angry enough to kill a dog and decided she needed to kill again.” – Noem’s dog killing was bad, but to really understand her, consider the goat (South Dakota Searchlight.)

This is a clue about how Noem later regarded humans when she made “gross and cruel” prison photos to show her power.

Cruelty from the top of society gives perspective when it exists among us, to neither accept scapegoating from above or dismiss it within. Being in community means knowing we’re not immune, but not helpless. We can take charge by empowering each other with knowledge.

You will see this represented by The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster.

The evil that furry PR can do by putting optics over solutions

Setting a crime documentary among furries isn’t an attack. It’s telling a vital story through the experiences of witnesses, instead of a detached essay, like the movie Spotlight features a community confronting abuse in a specific church.

There’s many stories about furries doing charity and making people happy, but saying to only tell good stories doesn’t help the community. It promotes helplessness and lets other people tell stories for you, giving the power to those who don’t know you, and won’t be respectful for talking about you.

The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster owns the power to tell it from inside, collaborating with selected partners who have experience and resources we don’t have. However, no matter how top notch the production is, it’s likely to get some inside backlash that happens so often to the media. You may hear denial, accusation of glorifying, or broad-brush dismissal of true crime as a genre, with lack of media literacy about shows we’re already in.

(Examples withheld to not feed a drama cycle.)

These are common experiences with Furry PR, which can be evil the same way that all PR can be evil. PR is used to push bias and suppress criticism. “Bias” applies to everything, when fandom itself is a form of bias; and it’s not necessarily harmful until it makes warped priorities — as in suppressing priority on solutions and victims, and moving the priest instead.

That happens in furry fandom. It comes with selfish priorities like keeping parties safe for people with social power, while neglecting safety of others and driving away people who are mistreated. Insiders who do that are the real enemies of your community and image. Suppression with warped priorities has been a factor in many fandom stories, including the 2018 zoosadist leaks, while reporting for public interest.

The task of public interest reporting

Public interest reporting involves seeing and hearing those who are unseen. It wasn’t a task chosen by this site; the 2018 leaks were dropped on it by surprise. There was no pay for high labor, pitching for deals, or strategic boosting for hype — just a stream of tips without resources to do what paid pro news does while the issues are highly underreported.

That’s how you can get inside insight here that won’t come from mainstream sources. The coming documentary is like the tip of an iceberg. It wasn’t made to generate exclusive material, but there will be exclusive posts for the $5 subscription level on Patreon for Dogpatch Press. The modest support there helps with intense work behind the scenes.

Dogpatch Press will be at the theater premiere of The Furry Detectives: Unmasking a Monster on June 10, at the Tribeca festival in New York City.

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So there I was standing on the back of a space whale, looking for stickers to put in my book, when all of a sudden some weird tar appeared on the back of the whale! I knew immediately I had to save her! Pilo and the Holobook was a delightful experience with dazzling visuals, good puzzles, and stickers around every corner, literally! I loved exploring the beautiful worlds looking for stickers to fill my holobook while at the same time investigating the mysterious story. It was a short adventure, I 100% the game right at 3 hours, but I really did enjoy the experience and felt like this game could also be a great game for parents and kids to play together (or kiddos who can do it themselves.)

More cool stuff from WonderCon. This one we’ve heard was upcoming, but we’ve been waiting for the official release. And here it is! Littoral Magic is a new fantasy novel by Aaron Mason and Leslie Ann Moore — the first in the All Oceans Aglow series. “For Ayana Outerbridge, a biracial fourteen-year-old girl, summer vacations on the evergreen Pacific Northwest coastline had once been a time of play and relaxation. But now her father is dead, and all that was bright is now dark. Until one day she finds a strange and startlingly beautiful seashell… Just offshore, the river otter Sleek has broken the Law. He has entered the forbidden Garden to retrieve a mind-elevating gift for his true love Gloss, headstrong daughter of the sea otter king. His trespass threatens to push both tribes closer to all-out war. But will Gloss follow her heart or the rules of her kin? The fates of Ayana, Sleek, and Gloss will soon converge — and when they do, the all oceans will shine with an otherworldly light.” Find it now over at Barnes & Noble.

image c. 2025 Norton Place Publishing

Quick and Flashy

A graveyard of rusted automatons, decorated in bright red grass. Hanging from the floating islands were gears, indistinguishable from stone. The area was called the Golem Gardens, a verdant ruin reclaimed by nature. Bushes and saplings grew from sentinels actively guarding the rubble. These machines, covered in detritus with the emblem of a vortex molded on their chassis, could easily kill careless Leapers. My best chance of surviving is to move, swiftly, find the openings to strike, and get away. Something I learned immediately after a sphere-shaped sentinel tried to hinder my paws with goo, was to never stop moving!

 Motion Twin’s next game is beautiful, bright, and fast! The world’s sundered and the floating islands orbit a raging vortex. Our role as Leapers, is to brave the hazardous vortex pulling all sky islands to it. Currently, these expeditions take us through 4 biomes, where we can unlock 17 different weapons, 14 unique trinkets, and recover 100 memories to augment all our abilities. The only way to traverse the broken landscape is to dash. In most games dashing carelessly makes you fall to your death, but not here. Every dash turns me into a beam of light that blinks from place to place. It’s responsive, and there’s nuance to be efficient. I could dash to avoid an enemy on your island, but there’s a short cooldown, if I blink to another elevation or small island neighboring mine, I can instantly dash again. I flash between platforms, evading attacks from aggressive enemies, and exploring secrets of a crumbling world.

 The weapons are immensely satisfying in my little Leaper’s arms! The Heavy Blade’s attacks are weighty and exceptional for smashing golems, Kunai are good opening weapons, applying a stacking curse condition that does tons of damage when detonated. My first weapon, a community favorite, the Fish Knife is a swift weapon with a simple three-hit combo that ends with a crit, making it the quickest weapon to trigger special attacks with my swapped weapon. Clearing islands and defeating enemies in every biome unlocks new weapons, like the Shrunken or Anchor Boom. As I progress the weapons I find become augmented with abilities, like burning enemies struck, covering them in goo, and doubling in size to outrageous proportions. To provide some auxiliary support, I’m given trinkets that could freeze enemies, blast enemies surrounding me, trap them in ooze, and more. The memories of past Leapers grant real power, I can cause shockwave blasts with every strike, absorb health for each enemy I kill, inflict extra damage to solo enemies, and gain bonus conditions that trigger my weapon’s ultimate Aether attack! Aether attacks are bombastic, signature strikes, that decimate foes and make me invulnerable during their animations.

Busting up machines and braving the vortex doesn’t have to be lonely. I’ve joined 2 other Leapers for expeditions, thinking fighting most Sentinels would be a breeze. You can trade aggro, share pools of potions, and trade items. However complacency invites mistakes, and eventually enemies get enhancements that could ruin us; elite mobs with shadow clones, made me withdraw and watch their moves. Some had orbiting lasers that burned my fur and punished me for mistakes, dashing. The loss of a Leaper used to put everyone in Sudden Death, where a single hit would’ve killed us; now it enrages the survivors, sending them into Revenge mode. We cause serious damage, but forgo self-defense, taking more damage and bloodlust makes us forget to use healing potions. Only when I’ve savaged enough enemies, covering my paws with blood and oil, do I leave Revenge mode. 

Though there’s a little story shared throughout the game, most of it’s passive, through enemy design, environments, and bosses. Early levels give the impression of an advanced civilization, fallen to ruin, with barely functional automation sentries. After the factory, my enemies aren’t hobbled machines, but healthy rat pirates, and later a map that reminded me there was a story this game wanted to tell, and it did so through enemy and map design. After you finish your first encounter with the final boss, and what it unlocks, it causes speculation, not about the vortex.

Windblown is still in early access, with new modes, maps, and more unlockables coming. They just finished a patch which added more story, and the Sanctuary biome, designed to make you question what you know about your home hub, the Ark. Twin Motion made a compelling world with map design, and character details, creating mysteries with barely a word, and the childishly innocent designs of this world are shattered as you mature in capability. Windblown is worth playing and following. Twin Motion is building something shocking at the eye of this storm, and I’m not changing course.

Though the Nintendo Switch 2 is just under two months away, Nintendo Switch 1 owners can rest easy knowing that the console is still getting a lot of love. In fact, a huge sale on digital games for Nintendo Switch is happening until 4/27!

Featuring a number of wonderful and acclaimed titles from third party developers. This is a good chance to grab one of your future favorites for a good price! Let’s check out some furry relevant highlights from this sale.

Recently we visited WonderCon in Anaheim, California. Lots to see, of course — and quite a few interesting furry things snuck in there, if you know where to look! The Council of Frogs is a new fantasy graphic novel by Matt Emmons, freshly released after a successful Kickstarter campaign. “Sent out by his ‘father’ – a kindly old swamp lich – one tiny frog must leave the safety of his home in order to deliver a message of grave importance to a warlock in order to save the entire Council of Frogs. Aided by many unconventional friends along the way, this little frog discovers the dangers of the world beyond his beloved swamp grove. But the world is a big, harsh place, and he may need more than his dandelion hat and a tiny sword to make it back home before it’s too late.” Find it now from Second At Best Press, and check out the review over at Comics Beat.

image c. 2025 Second At Best Press

Engaging storytelling devices paired with inventive spins on tried-and-true gameplay define Willow Guard, a new anthro character filled Medieval RPG by developer MiTale. You play as Ghweros, a badger “Willowguard” that is investigating a series of monster attacks on a remote village in the Northern Hinterlands. As you proceed through the game, you’ll build a deck of cards, a batch of clues, and a bunch of interpersonal relationships to try and help those in need that have been affected by the various afflictions that have arisen with the monsters’ arrival. The core of the gameplay is the ability to use skills within combat dungeon explorations, allowing you to hack, slash, spell cast, and defend your way through increasingly difficult situations and creatures. This gameplay loop of going between well-scripted, interactive investigative dialogue scenes of story content and then skillful isometric action segments is tightly constructed and easy to get wrapped up in; like an engrossing “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.

We are proud to have been nominated for an Ursa Major Award in the Best Magazine category for the year 2024! It has always been a goal of this site and its staff to be nominated for this award, and we are extremely honored to be considered among such incredible other magazine sites that were also nominated.

The Ursa Major Awards are presented annually for excellence in the furry arts. It is intended as Anthropomorphic (a.k.a. Furry) Fandom's equivalent of the Hugo Award® presented by the World Science Fiction Society, mystery fandom's Anthony Award, horror fandom's Bram Stoker Award, and so forth. Anyone may nominate and vote for candidates for the Awards. These Awards are decided entirely by the fans, not by the ALAA committee or a panel of judges.

Voting for the awards is open now and ends April 19th! Those interested in voting can do so at the voting page HERE! We hope you'll consider GAMING FUREVER as your #1 choice for the Magazine category!

Welcome to "Fresh Fur!" Our weekly installment going over the newest game releases, and which ones you can expect to find anthros/furries in!

Check the list below for all the games we could find with animal/anthro influences and characters.

Major New Releases for the Weeks of March 29 - April 11, 2025:

• Dollhouse: Behind the Broken Mirror (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - March 28
• Wildkeepers Rising (PC) - March 31
• Nif Nif (Switch, PC) - April 1
• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - April 2
• Elroy and the Aliens (PC) - April 2
• Steel Hunters (PC) - April 2
• Jin & Jan (PC) - April 3
• Peppered (PC) - April 4
• Cursed Dawn (PC) - April 7
• Armored Brigade 2 (PC) - April 8
• Burden of Command (PC) - April 8
• Locomoto (PC) - April 8
• South of Midnight (Xbox Series X|S, PC) - April 8
• Commandos: Origins (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC) - April 9
• Driveloop (PC) - April 9
• Blue Prince (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - April 10
• Crashlands 2 (PC, iOS, Android) - April 10
• Monaco 2 (PC) - April 10
• Monster Energy Supercross 25 (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - April 10
• Promise Mascot Agency (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - April 10
• Willow Guard (PC) - April 10
• Traveler's Refrain (PC) - April 11

*Bolded games have furry/animal influences/characters

Furry & Animal Steam Game Finds:

These games were found in the New Releases section of Steam this week and will be updated as more come out throughout the week!

Ursa art by Foxenawolf.

Ursa Major Awards voting deadline is APRIL 19

The Ursa Major Awards feature the furry fandom’s favorite media published in the past year. Anyone in the community is welcome to vote for movies, short films, series, novels, short fiction, nonfiction, comics, games, websites, magazines, illustrations, music, and more…

You only have until Saturday April 19, so go to the voting page and do it now!

For nonfiction, please consider the Fur and Loathing podcast. Reporter Nicky Woolf and the team at Brazen worked hard to produce a podcast series investigating the Midwest Furfest 2014 chemical attack. They gave respect to the community and would appreciate recognition.

Follow the Ursas on Bluesky. Behind the awards, Rowedahelicon is new on staff and taking suggestions, and there’s a new policy about AI generated content. The awards are organized by a small team of devoted volunteers, and there is a cost to maintain this – you can donate to support them:

Nominations Open for 7th Annual Good Furry Awards

The Good Furry Awards recognize members of the furry community who help others and improve it through charity and friendship. You may nominate as many furries as you wish at the GFA Nomination form.

Prizes go to three categories:

• The Good Egg Award: for doing charitable or volunteer work, such as supporting furcons, raising money, or other service.
• The Image Award: for presenting a positive image of the fandom in media like YouTube videos, documentaries, websites and more.
• The Furtastic Award: for good works that don’t easily fit other categories.

Anyone active in furry fandom is eligible, and can be voted on by peers to win trophies and $200 cash.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is a special award presented by a select committee. Previously it has honored Mark Merlino and Rod O’Riley (joint), Reed Waller, and Steve Gallacci.

Nominations are open from now to July 31, then voting will begin, and awards will be presented in September.

The award is hosted and sponsored by Uncle Bear Publishing, and will be presented at Another Furry Con in Ontario, California.

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What happens when you mix Mirror’s Edge with the movie The Running Man and throw in killer animatronics? You get Finding Frankie: A surprisingly decent, if short, mascot “horror” game that doesn’t overstay its welcome, but has some little issues that prevent it from being anything more than just an OK entry into the ever-growing Mascot-Horror genre.

Furgeddaboutit is coming to New Jersey on May 2-4, 2025. Info: Furgeddaboutit.org. There’s also The Big One furmeet. More about this shortly…

Many New Jersey furries have been demanding more honest events while protesting Garden State Fur the Weekend, the corrupt convention with a history of favoring nazi-furries. This has new developments.

• How often does a community create not one, but two alternative events to make up for a toxic one?
• Ever seen a con struggle to deny a toxic reputation — while officially operating on a pro-nazi site?

How Garden State Fur the Weekend disgraced itself

The problems with Garden State Fur the Weekend go back to its founding in 2020. Their May 2024 launch could have been a chance to set things right. Instead, if you attended, you were exposed to the management escorting Fox News cameras while they filmed nazifurs praising Trump on national TV. This was a surprise to innocent attendees and performers on stage who were NOT happy to find themselves in the crosshairs of hate. GSFTW issued excuses while critics were banned from con groups for complaining. Nazifurs are still welcome at the con today after boasting about this on Kiwifarms.

It was part of a parade of mismanagement, with ongoing reporting:

• January 2024: First article before the con. GSFTW was engaged and had a fair chance to answer, but broke their promises.
• October 2024: During and after the con, there was more deception, like switching a Chair who “stepped down” to be the owner.
• December-now: Monitoring thread where the con will not stop lying. (LONG!)

Con staff tried in vain to hold management accountable and avoid endangering attendees. It led to repeated staff revolts, losing guests of honor and artists, resignation of two chairs, and condemnation by other cons, but nothing could bring honesty. Now GSFTW will always be Nazi Con to those who saw it happen.

I’m so beyond disappointed by GSFTW I was so hyped for an NJ con and now it’s overrun by Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. It’s a shame because I had fun (besides being ’d but that’s a separate issue) and had high hopes. But I refuse to support a con that allows hateful people

— Ghøstwere (@ghostwere.bsky.social) December 4, 2024 at 7:51 AM

Curious Florida and Indiana connections

After Garden State Fur the Weekend lost many staff, many of their key people come from Florida, for some reason. (Like their third Chair in a year.) They are still appealing to the community as if they are a typical local con that deserves support.

Cons raise funds for charity, and Furgeddaboutit picked Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge. The New Jersey-based charity displays a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on its home page.

Garden State Fur the Weekend picked a charity based in Indiana, for some reason. It has a mascot, @cryptogroundhog, who predicts cryptocurrency prices and solicits crypto payments.

Charity from Furgeddaboutit helps baby skunks in New Jersey — GSFTW would support a place in Indiana.

[Editor note: updated to omit a detail about websites that is calculated for drama that doesn’t deserve to be fed.]

Guest of (dis)honor

Garden State Fur the Weekend had to get replacement guests for ones who quit. NIIC the Singing Dog stepped up, bringing the same kind of baggage as GSFTW’s owner… NIIC had gone on the Furry Raiders podcast. That’s for nazis to reach other nazis, and nobody else; a very dubious move to excuse, especially when moving on to support a disgraced convention now.

If you might wonder if this nazifur stuff was mistakes or accidents — and if you feel like excusing people for not knowing what they were doing over and over, check out what GSFTW did next…

ah I see that the jersey fash con found some entertainer for their venue after most jumped ship. NIIC, yeah I’m aware of that name. One would think given optics alone, why involve yourself. but then again hmm, yeah that tracks. Tell me GSFTW, how’s that whole “removing of nazi furs” going for ya?

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— Kojak (@kojakcoyote.bsky.social) January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Official alt-right channel on Rumble

Garden State Fur the Weekend just opened a channel on Rumble, weeks before their next scheduled con. It’s definitely them. It uploaded videos before or at the same time as their other official channels.

Rumble is alt-tech; a would-be YouTube competitor listed by Media Matters this way:

Rumble — Extreme, right-wing video-sharing and web services company

Founded by Canadian tech entrepreneur Chris Pavlovski in 2013 and backed by various high-profile right-wing figures, Rumble plays an important role in the alternative digital infrastructure that caters to the extreme right, including far-right figures that have been banned on mainstream platforms for misinformation and hate speech. The platform is rife with QAnon content and other dangerous conspiracy theories, harmful medical misinformation, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ hate speech, and white nationalist and antisemitic rhetoric.

A pro-nazi platform. After a year of controversy about supporting nazis and denying it… what were they thinking?

As deliberate as a Hitler salute

Searches of Rumble found zero other furry conventions using it. Results for “furries” are full of hateful attacks labeled “freaks”, transphobia, etc. Most channels titled Furry are for scammy, clout-chasing reuploads. There is no sign of any legitimate fan presence on Rumble. GSFTW has 2 followers there.

Making the channel accomplishes nothing but aligning with outsider malice, and giving a Fuck You to people who oppose nazis. Instead of pretending to care about fixing the reputation, GSFTW embraces it as surely as going on stage and throwing a Sieg Heil.

Remember that they recently welcomed back the nazifur who praised Trump on Fox News and boasted about it on Kiwifarms.

You don’t need to be exposed to bad management when you can pick events that leave no doubt that nazis are not welcome.

CHOOSE BETTER: Furgeddaboutit.

Furgeddaboutit has unique bona fides named on their site. It may be one of the only cons created by multiple pre-established groups, joining together with a common cause for the community.

Two of their Guests of Honor are Gadget and Gizmo, New Jersey fursuiters who met through their jobs as character mascots, designed and built their fursuits, and use professional mascot experience to entertain.

Their charity, Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge, has long history. It was started in the 1950’s by Betty and Jim Woodford, dedicated conservationists. Generations later, the family legacy lives on in a team and network who don’t just nurse injured/orphaned wildlife back to health for release, they also provide educational opportunities. They worked with the furry fandom in 2016 by teaming up with fursuit makers to build a mascot, Scout the Red Fox, who will be at the con.

Learn more and register at Furgeddaboutit.org.

The Big One furmeet

A two day event where there will be panels, fursuiting, dances and more.

The Big One is a furmeet rather than a full-fledged con, and they aren’t in competition with Furgeddaboutit, the con supports them. The Big One is supported by the former staff artist of GSFTW and many New Jersey furs. It comes from Pawsouls, the former PR lead for GSFTW, who joined the second wave staff revolt and went on to make a new event as proof of commitment to community.

Learn more about The Big One here.

You have the knowledge and options, and now the rest is up to you.

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