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Here, dated October 14, is an article on the news site examiner.com:

http://www.examiner.com/article/anthropomorphic-arts-beautiful-beasts-and-clever-critters-at-fur-reality-2014

It concerns last weekend's Fur Reality convention in Cincinnati.


Sunday night 10/12/2014 brought to close Cincinnati's first annual anthropomorphic convention, Fur Reality by Ringtail Cafe. Fur Reality was actually initiated in 2013 as a part of an event of the Pandora Society. In 2013 the anthropomorphic events brought so many people that they had to get additional convention and hotel space. 2014 was Fur Reality's first full con adventure on their own and they pulled it off amazingly well.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Anthropomorphic, aka furry, fandom, it is an amazingly creative fandom of folks that love the stories, cartoons, artwork, and other aspects of humanized animals. As pointed out in an interview with one of the celebrities of the fandom, Uncle Kage, this weekend, anthropomorphic art and story telling goes back to the earliest of times when paintings and statues included the heads of animals with the bodies of humans and vice versa and includes literature such as Aesop's Fables and the Bible.

The furry community is known for its artists and other creative genius and that creativity was in evidence throughout the weekend. The whole convention revolved around an immersive storyline and game that rivaled what one might only find at larger conventions like Gen Con and surpassed the quality and creative focus that this writer has observed at most other events.

Participants received the convention booklet with a beautiful, full color comic introduction to weekends story. A computer, The Machine, that was designed to serve humanity has concluded that the best way to serve is to integrate/assimilate humanity (and furmanity, of course!) into her core.

In an effort to end the hostilities without further bloodshed and loss of resources, The Machine has agreed to a weekend competition. The winner of the most points receives humanity as the prize. If humanity wins, the computer agrees to a reboot, but if she wins, humanity will be assimilated without further resistance.

The points were awarded for solving puzzles, helping out with the convention, making purchases in the vendor's room, and attending/participating in events. The point counters were four different sets of double sided, full colored, glossy, business sized cards that were collected at the end of the weekend. The Machine had times over the weekend when ticket holders could turn in their tickets for spins on a prize wheel and win trinkets to take home with them.

The events of the weekend included lectures and demonstrations related to costumes, comics, and other creativity, karaoke, comedic performances by Xander the Blue, Alkali Bismuth, and the incomparable Uncle Kage. Games and gaming were also a big part of the convention from board and role-playing games to fursuit games like hot potato and musical chairs. In the main events area a life-sized board game was set up with the playing pieces (convention participants standing on the squares) going around the audience. The players in front rolled beach ball sized dice to move the playing pieces around the board. The squares they landed on would determine the next competitive game that the rest of the team members would play from pool noodle sword fighting to Nerf duels.

While not engaging in gaming or sitting in on seminars and stories with Uncle Kage and others, the attendees could visit the artist alley and purchase their creative works or stop by the vendors hall and peruse a plethora of potential purchases. The fine folks at Misc-Etcetera broke through this writers resistance and ended a spree of several events without making a purchase, with a piece of jewelry that will be added to his steampunk gear. Also in the vendors room were legos you could play with and a fun display of anthropomorphic Legos by Rodney Dicus of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana Lego Users Group, and the creator and minions of "Kitsune of Foxes and Fools."

During the closing ceremony Sunday evening the audience was invited to turn in their points and their tickets were counted to determine the fate of humanity as well as award prizes for the most of tickets of each category and the most tickets of all types of tickets. As it turned out, The Machine was a few tickets short on assimilating humanity. Oh, and rumors that this writer may have inadvertently placed his tickets in The Machine's ballot box are merely rumors (besides, her ticket receptacle was purple and she's cute!)

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Author: Hello Papa Bear, This is my first time asking you a question and I freaking luv your stuff!! I’m a very shy fox who is lonely, I draw stuff because I luv to draw!! Here’s my question: I have a best friend (who is a male) who I know since 3 months ago. 2 months ago, […]

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Asking because I'm such a noob here, haha. Par exemple: The one of the reasons I chose deer is because I have a lot of positive memories associated with the animals. Earliest memory involving them would be hand-feeding two fawn at a wildlife sanctuary. The second reason is that I feel I can portray my own body better with this animal (slim arms and lower legs but thick thighs).

And you guys? How did you pick one?

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So it seems that the furry community on my campus has been growing based on the increase in tails I've been seeing, and that got me thinking about advertising myself a little more.

For starters, I wanted to ask those who wear tails or more obviously furry apparel how you like to be approached or complemented. With the stigma of the fandom, I'm hesitant to drop a quick complement as simple as "nice tail!" in passing in fear that someone may thing I'm just mocking them.

So for me, I have furry wallpapers on my phone/laptop and a sticker on my laptop. It's all tasteful stuff and they allow me to make up some bs if I don't want to explain what a furry is to someone. So here's what I've got.

Phone: Cute little dude from Snowskau. It's sized this way to fit both vertical and flipped on my Galaxy Mega

Laptop: Another cutie from Snowskau

Sticker: You'll recognize this guy from Seth-iova

So for my wallpapers, I just say "I found them online, I think they're supposed to be Khajiit or something." And for Rocket, I just say I liked Guardians of the Galaxy, easy enough!

So what discreet things do you show of on your phone/laptop/backpack?

If anyone on campus notices me doing whatever, feel free to say hi, I'm really friendly! :3

Also, to the guy on campus that looks just like me who wears a tail and heelys, many of my co-workers now know I'm a furry because of you. They see you, think it's me, and ask me if I'm a furry. I'm not shy about it, so keep doin what you're doin, just felt I should let you know XD

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Tooth & Claw is a new severely-anthropomorphic full-color comic book series from Image Comics, coming our way this November. Check out the preview pages over at Image’s web site. “Tooth & Claw, the exciting new series from bestselling writer Kurt Busiek (Marvels, Astro City), artist Benjamin Dewey (I Was the Cat, Tragedy Series), Eisner-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire (The Manhattan Projects, Pretty Deadly), and letterer John Roshell of Comicraft that was announced at Image Expo in July, will launch on November 5. The highly anticipated fantasy epic can best be described as Conan meets Kamandi with a Game of Thrones-style storytelling experience. In Tooth & Claw, a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary champion forward through time from the forgotten past to save the world—with disastrous consequences. Featuring swords, sorcery, beast-wizards, gods, sprawling animal empires, golems of radioactive decay, crystalline badlands, con women, ancient armories, young love, mystery, blood and death and treachery and destiny… Tooth & Claw is the sprawling, world-building fantasy series readers have been waiting for.” It should be noted that this new comic is being marketed as aiming for mature readers — meaning it will not scrimp on the violence or the nudity. And this is from Image!

image c. 2014 Image Comics

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Looking to get some commissions done! Gonna be doing some spooooooky art (black cats, pumpkins.... the moon? I don't know, scary stuff) until after the season ends!

Drawn reference preferred but not needed. If you don't have an image, just be sure to give me a good written description. Halloween theme not needed, but it's here if you want it. Please specify if you do or don't.

Here's my gallery, come take a look and see if you like my art!

Payment will be Paypal ONLY.

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