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Hello and welcome to this week's Writing Prompt Wednesday!

This time I'm doing a specific prompt for once. Usually I just do a "theme", but I think this would make for a very interesting story.

But I should note that I didn't come up with this prompt myself. I saw it on /r/writingprompts, here is the original thread. It was very upvoted but for some reason nobody actually wrote a story for it, which sucks because I thought it was an awesome prompt. Give all the credit to /u/Iamfunsized_ for this one!

This also is very different from most furry prompts, but we all like Five Night's at Freddy's, right? It'll be interesting to do something like this for a change.

As always, stories can be a maximum of 5 comments long, if you need to write more than 5 comments leave a link to an external site after your 5th reply. If you can fit it in under 5 comments, it's preferred that you just put it here. No erotica, swearing is fine.

Remember to leave suggestions for future Writing Prompt Wednesdays in the future, leave your suggestions as seperate comments!

Get to writing!

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Hey Papabear! How ya doin'? :3 

Well... I'm writing you again for a reason completely different from all the mess that E was... and actually I decided to take any possible chance to spend time with him and have fun in any way possible; obviously, this will have to stop as soon as one of us or both of us get a couple.

Putting that aside... and it may sound stupid... but uh... well, as you know, I'm already legal here at my country, but I still don't look at myself as an adult nor a young adult... Weird thing, since I already experimented with adult stuff like sex, and I'd love to have some tattoos... But aside from that... alcohol? other "adult stuff"? I don't care for those things, and I'm still really childish at times. I'm not ashamed of that, just confused, since some friends look more adult than before... Their features have hardened, and according to myself I have changed nothing! I still have a round face, my smile is really childish at times... So my question here is: Is it wrong to try and have a childish attitude at certain stuff? or, as a lot of people says... man up?

P.S Sorry if the letter is too long nwnUuu

Thnx again for everything you do!

Yang (age 18, Mexico)

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Dear Yang,

Embracing the child within all of us is rather at the heart of being a furry, in this bear’s opinion. Most furries, young and old alike, enjoy things that most “adults” have abandoned as being childish, such as TV cartoons, animated movies, comic books, and video games.

It is not “wrong” to still want to maintain that childlike fun in your life, but please do note the distinction between being “childish” and being “childlike.” 

Childishness is about being immature, having temper tantrums when things don’t go your way, being selfish, being irresponsible, depending on others for basic necessities, refusing to work for a living, and so on.

But an adult who is childlike is someone who takes responsibility for him/herself, supports him/herself, and takes responsibility for his/her own actions, yet, at the same time, a childlike person enjoys fun, silliness, goofy stuff, and the joy of play. Such people don’t buy into the social pressures of “getting ahead” and “keeping up with the Joneses” (if you understand that expression in Mexico).

For the throngs of the many, being “adult” has to do with slaving away at a job to make more money, being concerned about promotions in the workplace, gaining the respect of their peers (even if they don’t like their peers), conforming to the standards of the group, and owning lots of stuff (the more expensive, the better). These are sad people who lack individuality and soul.

Many furries are rebels, rejecting “normal” society to join the culture of play and imagination and creativity.

It’s fine to be “childlike,” great even. But don’t be childish. Make sense?

Hugs,

Papabear

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Author: Hey Papabear, I was wondering if I could get some relationship advice. Alas, I think I’ve fallen into the pitfall of online relationships. You see, I enjoy various types of role-play (RP), through which I’ve met many friends who I have friendly, but non-sexual (much of the RP is “baby-fur”) relationships with. I met […]

Author: oldhans117 Noted furry author Paul Kidd has a new post-apocalypse RPG in the works: the “GeneStorm” Role Playing Game. A tabletop RPG set in “a gloriously weird, wild post-apocalypse”, its Indiegogo campaign had, as of Tuesday night, raised just over $ 1000 of its $ 6500 goal. Contribution rewards include PDF and hardcopy editions, […]

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Years ago, underground cartoonist Hunt Emerson made a name for himself with a comic strip known as Calculus Cat which… well, let’s just say it’s not about a cat who’s good at math. “”Calculus Cat’s home life is locked in an intense, argumentative relationship with his TV set, which bedevils him with commercials for Skweeky Weets – the world’s most asinine breakfast cereal. His ‘job’ is no better. He is forced to run thought the streets sporting his famous grin as The Public shout abuse and throw rubbish. His world is graphic, black and white, jagged, full in, weird, speedy and loud – everything a comic should be.” You heard it here. Long ago there was a compilation of Calculus Cat comics published, but it has long since gone out of print. Now after a successful Kickstarter campaign, Knockabout Comics have released a brand new expanded collection in trade paperback, featuring brand new pages and a collection of Calculus Cat art by the likes of Dave McKean, Gilbert Shelton, John McCrea, Kevin O’Neill, Kate Charlesworth, and Rian Hughes. Find out more over at Previews. The collection is in stores now.

image c. 2014 Knockabout Comics

Morning UK furs, and I'm sure the US ones will see this in a few hours. So today is my cakeday, and I joined reddit only for /r/furry and then discovered the rest. Anyway, today marks my first year as a furry, and it's been pretty good. I made my fursona Milo: http://i.imgur.com/xA6CPpz.jpg , I've made a shitton of friends online and talking to all of you wonderful people helped me come out to my family. Furrys are in my opinion the nicest, coolest, and kindest fandom in the world and I love all of you. Keep it up guys!

Milo

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Author: Rakuen Growlithe One must wonder whether it’s time Dragoneer stepped down as head of Fur Affinity, as he continues to make poor leadership decisions. Earlier this year, he stirred controversy by announcing Zaush, who’d been accused of rape, as development lead for Project Phoenix. This time he has made sure there are no lingering doubts […]

Hi. This is Aberration_One. I just wanted to greet this semi-dead sub. So, about myself. I've been an Internet denizen for around a decade now. I spent the majority of that time being mostly anti-furry. I mean, it's basically bestiality, right? They always use dumb emotes, they flaunt their fetishes in public, and seem to have no self awareness.

Then I started noticing I had an interest in the art. Then I noticed it was the Sodom variety I was interested in. Thus I fell into a horrible pit of self-loathing and denial, realizing how aberrational (hee hee) I was, being a furry and most likely homosexual. For the better part of a year, I stayed like that, staunchly avoiding anything that had to do with fur.

Have I come to terms with being a o-so-horrible furry? No. But I have completely given in to it, and here I am. It still gets to me, making sonas and going on chats. Well, got the boohoo stuff out if the way.

My sona has almost nothing special about it, due to how uncomfortable I am with making it. So: panda. Not too special not completely generic. No special markings, no superpowers, no sparklez. Giant panda, usually wearing a shirt and tie. Fairly cynical personality.

I have gotten a reference pic from a kind soul on 8chan, and I'll edit it in soon. Word of warning, he took my instructions to mean 'fat'. Doesn't matter, I think it looks good regardless.

So hello, /r/furry . You got me, now I'm a furfag! No turning back!

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This week’s illustration is from “Samudai” fighting cats video game, now on Kickstarter.

One of the recent serious furry video game success stories, Armello, posted this to their followers on the twitters: a Kickstarter blog post called “A Year of Games from Down Under.” The gist of the article is, “It’s been one year since Kickstarter went live in Australia/NZ, here’s some games we love from the southern hemisphere.”

It’s a good little article, not a lot of deep coverage but fun to see the range of successful projects–and it leads with Armello, and not because Armello starts with “A” (though it does, I have a degree in this sort of thing. Also, the London Underground is not a political movement.)  There’s a few other fur-friendly treasures there–Paradigm and its mutant sloth, angry bears, wererats–it’s a mixed bag. But it’s nice to know we’re solidly planted deep in the fantasy gaming genre.

I don’t know where I’m going with this, no-where in particular, but it’s good to know we’re not the furry ghetto we might have been in the distant past.

Reviews this week: Laughing with Mormons in “The Furry Experience”

PS: Did you know that sometimes when you skip a week, 4,000 projects get posted? Still true.

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For a “complete” list of furry/fur-friendly crowdfunding projects, check out the Project Page and Patreon Page! New Projects Art

Life Size Pokemon (Ends: 12/5/2014)
I love Kickstarters for free stuff! This one is for a give-away of free life-sized pokemon art. Cute stuff.

Books/Print

A Shard of Sun (Ends: 12/16/2014)
Hardcover run for Book 3 of the Summer King Chronicles, Jess Owen’s epic gryphon clan trilogy

Clothing/Jewelry

Steadfast Kid’s Clothing (Ends: 12/5/2014)
Well, kid’s clothing and adult sizes too–tattoo art style animals, with some seriously cute tigers and owls.
I do like this clothing line, but doesn’t look like there’s much of a chance of it making goal.

Comics/Graphic Novels

Smilin’ Ed Comics (Ends: 12/11/2014)
It’s a bit ‘tank girl’ really–the friendliest smiling rat that ever escaped from 70s drug culture into your heart. Maybe.

Gold Digger: Gold Brick 5 (Ends: 12/12/2014)
Collected issues 101-125 of the Gold Digger comic series, from Antarctic Press, one of the granddaddies of anthro comics
I have a lot of love for Antarctic Press, most of their furry titles moved across the street to Radio Comics, but AP was one of the first groups to take a chance on the furry fandom.

The Furry Experience (Ongoing funding)
Patreon campaign for Ellen Natalie and her webcomic, a slice-of-life set in, of all places, Salt Lake City.

Film/Animation/Theater

RealAnimals Supreme Court Arguments (Ends: 12/7/2014)
Somewhere between ‘The Muppet Show’ and ‘The Washington Post.’ Canine re-enactments of supreme court hearings by dogs, #realanimalsfakepaws.
Yeah, so this isn’t the project poster’s creation, it’s an ongoing meme, being crowdsourced (?) by John Oliver.

Dogs At War: A Documentary (Ends: 1/8/2015)
A documentary about military service dogs, told through the dogs’ eyes

Tabletop Games

DragonFlame (Ends: 12/4/2014)
A quick card game for 2-5 players, of burning villages, hoarding goald, and eating knights!
Past its $10K goal!

Cleadonia (Ends: 12/10/2014)
Furry tabletop fantasy RPG.
So many furry tabletop RPGs out right now! The illos for this one are more quirky than artsy, I don’t see that carrying into a product with a market, myself.

The Underground: Sam and Fuzzy RPG (Ends: 12/12/2014)
Sam and Fuzzy: Paranormal Detectives. An RPG based on the wacky webcomic.

Technology

Chemion: Smart Glasses (Ends: 12/31/2014)
Fun ‘smart glasses’ with programmable LED displays displaying custom text, animations, readouts. Fun stuff.

Toys

Ichabod Plushie Prototype (Ends: 12/8/2014)
For all your big-eyed, optimistic corgie full of love needs

Video Games

Age of Aleria (Ends: 12/5/2014)
Pet breeding and raising game with a vast equine assortment to chose from, and dragons to hunt.

Legendary Battlegrounds (Ends: 12/5/2014)
A cute ‘once upon a time’ video game with an amusingly cumbersome Big Bad Wolf. No chance of it making goal, but fun.

Dragon Dating Simulator (Ends: 12/17/2014)
Sooo. I don’t know if this “Dragon Dating Sim” is a joke or not. I really can’t tell. This is what too much Indiegogo does to your brain. Someone else be the judge.

Samudai (Ends: 12/23/2014)
A fighting cat samurai game loosely inspired by Smash Bros, with a range of different challenges and four players

WWW

Inkster (Ends: 12/13/2014)
Development funding for the online art portfolio site Inkster
This is a lot of what Flickr used to be for me, an online art gallery/portfolio. Nice look and feel.

…Also by furries

Gotcha Gachapon (Ends: 12/5/2014): Meanwhile, in Colombus, Ohio, two furries launch a Japanese arcade and gift store, with tons of vending machines and gimcracks

…Meh

Eddie Earthdude (Ends: 12/6/2014): Oh. Oh dear. The artwork on this is astonishingly bad. Apocalyptically bad. It’s ‘Captain Planet’ meets the absolute worst furry artwork you can imagine.
Anubis PC Gaming System (Ends: 12/13/2014): Guys…guys guys guys…a PC case that looks like Anubis is really just kind of silly. Sorry to break it to you.
Furry4Life 2014 (Ongoing funding): It’s not that I don’t like Furry4Life, it’s a decent social network, it’s just that this crowdfunding page doesn’t tell anything tangible about the product, doesn’t really call anyone to act, or make any actionable promises. Don’t be this page.

…Just for fun

ChipCodes (Ends: 12/25/2014): Cartridge modifications to turn your Gameboy into an 8bit synthesizer with a fun guitar or xylophone case

 What’s Corbeau Backing This Week?
I have NOT been picking winners lately, with two of my three most recent projects cancelled or pulled. So I’m playing it safe, with this incredibly fidgitable-looking top. This will be endless hours of tactile enjoyment, I’m sure.

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Let me start off by saying that if this isn't the correct place to post this I'm sorry and I'll try /r/sex

My gf and I have an amazing relationship inside and outside the bedroom. Recently when drunk she talked to me about wanting to have ears and a tail on when getting down. I'm all for it if its something she wants. I think it's all about having fun in the bedroom and I think this would be an interesting addition.

That being said... what are some fun "furry" things I could do with her? I don't think she wants like a full outfit or anything (she could, not sure yet) but I didn't get that impression. I'm up for any advice in general on the subject.

Thanks in advance!

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Author: Potoroo Potoroo, host of the Fuzzy Notes podcast, is developing a new podcast that models itself after NPR’s This American Life with a focus on the stories of the furry fandom. Like the popular program, it will choose a theme and tell several stories based on that theme, but focused on the furry community […]

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