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Author: Micah Mainstream outlet Publisher’s Weekly ran a recent spotlight on author M.C.A. Hogarth that includes a nod to furry small press SofaWolf and the novel Flight of the Godkin Griffin. In 2004, she offered “Flight of the Godkin Griffin,” a sword and sorcery fantasy diary, directly to her audience via LiveJournal, then a popular […]

Hello everyone. I am experimenting with a new tool to aid in making yarn tails. To make sure that the design performs well enough, I would like to get a feel for the average time it takes for someone to make a yarn tail. Right now I have the whole process down to about 8 hours for a 28 inch (71 cm) tail.

If you are not familiar with the term man-hours, it is the time per person spent on the task. Let me know the tail length and the total number of man-hours spent making it.

Don't worry, I will not be selling this tool or the process, I will be releasing a full guide for everyone to use!

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Hello dear Furries. First ever Reddit post. Kind of nervous. Kind of excited. (Nervouscited?) So hey, I am Nick or Ero, whatever you'd prefer. I like both. I am 17 years old and from Germany. I am a Furry since, I think 2012. I am not the kind of person who would like to get into a Fursuit, though I totally respect people who do that. I have never attended a Con, yet, but I would really like to do so. Maybe in another couple years. I am very nervous and shy in real life. That one mystery person who always gets good grades in school but never talks to anybody. I'm more open on the internet, obviously, because I don't have to be face to face with another person. I am extremely tolerant and despise racism, homophobia, fascism, and all those shenanigans. I myself am bisexual. I've never had any issues telling anyone, because I am also asexual (basically I would go into a deep emotional relationship (y'know kissing, hugging, cuddling), but would never have sex with the other person). I am someone you can trust in, someone to always be there for you. I am sincere and can take part in the most serious discussions. If I'll do that or if I'll step back and watch the scenario play out solely depends on my nervousness and knowledge. I am also part of the My Little Pony fandom (I know some Furries do not want to be compared to Bronies so I'll avoid that). I enjoy the show and various fan made projects. Things I genuinely love about being Furry is the sheer amount of artworks and even music (Lapfox Trax). I am a big lover of everything cute, but anything can impress me. My Fursona? I have thought about that a couple of times. I could see myself as a red panda. One with the most fluffiest tail. Just immagine a cute red panda hiding his redened face behind his tail because he's afraid to talk. I also play games! No really popular ones, more indie games. There's osu!, Teeworlds (not really popular in America), Minecraft (shame on me, I know), and even Battlefield 3.

If anyone ever wants to hang out sometime, I am available on lots of social things like Skype, Twitter, or Reddit (no shit), all with the same nickname; TheDerero. That is also my name for every game ever. Only my Origin account in TehDerero because I lost my password to the other one. ;_;

Going to sleep now, because 5AM in Germany lol. That's all from me right now, hope to get to know some of you guys!

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For some time I've been following TwoKinds, but I'm becoming more and more dissatisfied by the long gaps between updates. I propose two questions to you, /furry:

1) If you follow(ed) TwoKinds, what's your opinion on it?

2) Regardless if (1) was yes or no, what's your favorite web comic that features anthropomorphic animals?

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Author: Diamond Man When I finally saw the plot synopsis and the box art for Alpha and Omega: The Legend of the Saw Tooth Cave, I was actually pretty upset. I feared that they just no longer care for the original characters of the very first movie. The box art only featured the wolf puppies […]

An all-in-one app for furry artists, fans, and community-builders…

Morham Technologies’ Fandom App

Indiegogo ending 1/26/15

Build a better mousetrap, and…and the metaphor breaks immediately, because some of the nicest people I know are mouses.

Furry social media space is pretty crowded, with perhaps 30 sites to serve something like 57,000 furries. A lot of websites and products have tried to be the Next Big Thing for furries. FA has the weight of numbers behind it, but is weak on community building and conversation–and tech-wise, isn’t part of the discussion anymore. 2005 was a hundred years ago.   In a tech-savvy fandom where the vast majority of us carry a powerful web browser in our pocket, there really isn’t a strong app to service the community (outside of a few find-a-fox hookup apps, which may be a little too single-use.)

Enter Morham Technologies (website under construction) and their upcoming fandom app, now on Indiegogo. On the one paw, the app is work-in-progress (the working title is Furry Fandom App, but rather than abbreviate it in the obvious way I’m going to shorten to “The Morham App.”) and a lot of the images available are, also, work-in-progress. On the other paw, the developer and spokeswolf Matthew Mooneyham (alias, Lokoti Wolf) has some success in app and site development (most relevantly the recent facebook-esque social media site, furspace.net).

In a crowded market, whatever’s scheduled to be the Next Big Thing had better be pretty awesome–able to take the best from FA, Facebook, Twitter, and build a one-stop shop for furry community (and furry art, I’m not sure you can separate the two.) Having a few extra features would be a plus. And, as proposed in its project page, the Morham App delivers in spades.

You have to break down the app’s features into chunks, this burger is too big to bite into. Let’s look at in terms of social, archival, and artist functionality. (If you’d like to see the demo version of the app itself whizzing through its features, here’s a link directly to the feature tour.

Social:
In my local community, we’re served mostly by facebook and twitter, good tools to communicate with friends but not great for finding new contacts. The Morham App’s social features have community-building functionality as well as the more standard IM tools:
»Direct messaging
»Group and Forum tools
»Event posting
»Integration with Facebook for microblog functionality
Long-term goals for social networking are location-based, such as a “nearby furries” locator and conversations that are geographically centered, like creating a conversation forum and events list restricted to the city blocks around Anthrocon (“Geofencing,” it’s called).

Archival:
No furry platform could compete if its user can’t share pictures of his/her avatar dressed as Bish?jo Senshi Sailor Moon in a compromising position with two dingos and the 10th Doctor. The Morham App has post-and-share functionality for music, art, and text, with simple layout for easy viewing on your device of choice, and commenting.
»Reposting is available, great for a commission-heavy community, so the same image and comment section can appear in an artist’s and commissioner’s separate art feeds…including some analytical features to merge “accidental” duplications together.
»Content Feeds: Down the road, the Morham App will be able to collect furry video and audio podcasts.  It doesn’t seem a long journey from “repository for furry sound files” to “basically it’s a furry radio,” I look forward to seeing how that technology develops!

(As one of the double handful of furry journalists out there, I’d love to see a furry news aggregator feature. Just saying. My birthday’s in March BTW.)

Artist:
Here’s where the app shines. A portable social media and art-browsing tool is useful on its own, but the Morham App’s strongest focus is on simplifying the artist’s experience and creating clear lines of communication between an artist and her fan base:
»Commission queue, commission status, and payment management
»”Currently accepting commissions” list for followers (I’m assuming this is just the artists the user follows, not all artists.)
»Groupon-style “flash sales” (say, an artist wants to work on a series of bookmarks, or wants to offer a one-day sale on reference sheets, this makes those short-term deals “pop”)
»Adspace (early adopters through the Indiegogo campaign get “free” ad space with their sponsorship).

Anyway, enough with the features! This isn’t a complete list, Lokoti Wolf has some features he hasn’t shared, and some more in the pipeline. It’s a nice long list for a free app!

There are of course a few hurdles in a project like this. One of the big bugaboos in the furry internet is long-term funding, which is challenging for a free app or other resource. Since the Morham App is largely about artist-fan relations, the two obvious routes are ad-driven revenue and transaction fees. There’s a delicate balance between cost and value of service, here. Transactional fees are a part of the world we live in, but it’s going to be a hard decimal point to place.

The other problem is the classic “video phone” dilemma, the critical adoption mass. Until the time when everybody carried a camera in their pocket, video chats just weren’t a thing–you could buy a video phone, but unless your SO, mom, or co-workers had them, what was the point? A project like this will become progressively more amazing as  it is adopted by more users and artists, but until then, it’s a long road to success. A huge advantage the Morham App has is there simply isn’t any competition in the field of furry apps–it’s a largely empty playing field. Hopefully I’ll see Lokoti on the con circuit soon, giving it away. Sounds like a fun vendor table. “Here, have a thing! It’s free and awesome!” Nice work if you can get it :)

From a crowdfunding perspective, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Morham App comes back for a second round of funding after the software’s alpha test and feedback (I’ll be getting my own copy soon, and will add comments to this post.) A strong project would probably help it out there. There’s also some rocky issues with premiums and pledge points–there’s lots of rewards for artists, but not much incentive for casual fans to donate–or for businesses and websites that don’t fit well into a content stream. A springtime marketing makeover (tighten the video a bit, take out the 30 seconds of login screen, less talking head and more chrome, in-line graphics for the page itself, maybe lose the flexible funding…) might help launch the app to the general public during a round two campaign in the summer.

Now, on to play with my new reviewer’s copy!

Follow @Furstarter on Twitter for dailyish updates from the world of fur-funding!

Images above are used for review purposes with permission. Please link to this article or the app’s Indiegogo page if you re-use!

 

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Author: crossaffliction Contributors this month included bastett, crossaffliction, dronon, earthfurst, Fred, GreenReaper, InkyCrow, Patch Packrat, Poetigress and Rakuen Growlithe. read more Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought Creative Commons: Full post may be available under a free license.

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I have been reluctant to show the finished article because my teacher claimed that it was funny. I notified him and he seemed to not care and still thought it was funny for people in an emergency. I'm now making the decision to share with you the finished article.

Trouble at a Convention

Imagine being at a convention enjoying your time when suddenly, you’re forced to evacuate outside the building along with thousands of other people. That is how the guests of Midwest FurFest felt on the early morning of December 7th 2014. During the weekend of December 5th to December 7th 2014, a convention held annually at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rosemont Illinois named Midwest FurFest was underway. The convention consists of the celebration of anthropomorphic characters, also known as Furries. Their art, literature, and music are demonstrated and appreciated at the convention as well as the common sight of dressed fursuiters. These conventions are held all over the world and are quite popular. The worlds largest furry convention, Anthrocon, had an attendance of 5,861 the summer of 2014. Specifically, MFF is the second largest furcon in the world. It reached an attendance of 3,904 in 2013. Anything can go wrong at these conventions with this large amount of people. Sometimes the case is just a simple pull of the fire alarm. But on the early morning of December 7th, a complaint of an odor of chlorine gas was filed to the hotel. Rosemont firefighters and paramedics responded to the hotel at 12:47am to the complaint of a broken bottle emitting a strong chemical, chlorine like smell in the ninth floor of the hotel. Reddit user mwishosimba said, “People started shouting at us to get outside. I automatically assume that it’s just some idiot pulling the alarm again. Someone mentions that the air smells weird, I agree.” The Hyatt engaged an immediate response of evacuating all personnel from the building. Thousands of people and fursuiters flooded the streets in the evacuation. ”I was in a fursuit and just took a few steps off the escalator when people were trying to keep a clear path for the EMT. The EMT reappeared with a stretcher in tow and someone yelled out, “Everyone needs to leave the building.” Within a second or two the fire alarm went off and the crowd was pivoted and headed towards the door,” Said reddit user zortech. Reddit user stylishg33k said, “People were being carried out of the hotel in stretchers; most people didn’t have proper clothing and it was freezing.” Inside the hotel, hazardous materials technicians found a broken bottle with white powder in a stairwell at the ninth floor that had a heavy chlorine scent emitting from it. Firefighters contacted the EMS Box Alarm and HazMat alarm. User mwishosimba also goes on to say,” I saw an uncountable number of ambulances, police cruisers, firetrucks and most alarming of all, hazmat vehicles; it is then everyone knew that this was no joke, especially when there were vehicles from many towns over.” The EMS Box Alarm was raised to a third alarm, which calls over 15 ambulances to the scene. The news of the situation reached far outside the hotel space. #MWFF2014 was trending on twitter in the number 6 spot in the world. According to mwishosimba, “Around 3am, word gets around that the attack was intentional. Everyone is pretty quiet at the point as they discuss recent events. Nobody is certain of the injuries at the point, it was rumored around 20.” In total, 19 people were transported to hospitals with complaints of nausea, some people coughing up blood, and other problems from the chlorine. User zortech also said, "I ended up acting like a living blanket to a fur that didn't have a coat and had a very thin shirt for at least a half an hour. Eventually actual blankets arrived." Some people retreated to other buildings to get away from the cold and some stayed outside the Hyatt. At one point, people were allowed to enter back into the dance area and lower convention space, but the dance room was deemed unsafe at that moment so people were evacuated back out of the dance room. User SikeRed said, “My job was to listen to the EMS dispatch and relay information. Thanks to that, we were able to get a lot of information out and available (And especially because we were able to have HAMs help do crowd control, get EMS where needed, and get those ETAs out).” HazMat teams measured the air quality after the chlorine was cleaned up and an all clear was given at 4:21am for all staff and guests of the hotel to return back inside. There were no casualties that morning and the convention resumed to normal that day. On behalf of MFF’s statement on the evacuation, “We ask you to continue to be patient, and remember that the volunteers who make Midwest FurFest happen intend to give 110% to make sure that the fun, friendship, and good times of Midwest FurFest 2014 overshadow last night’s unfortunate incident.” User deathbyrats said, “In the end, I have to give credit to everyone involved, con goers, staff, and emergency workers as everything was handled calmly. Directions were loud and clear, and there was no pushing or shoving.” Clearly, this was a large event but because of the mishap, no one’s spirits were brought down, people stayed focused and in result, no one died. It is unfortunate for this to happen to innocent people but, Midwest FurFest will continue to strive every year it starts and ends.

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