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submitted by JustinTheCheetah
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submitted by TaylorKitsune
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Like I said, my name is Finn. I'm working on a new project to get experience and build my profile – and this is where you come in. I'm trying to perfect a quick turnaround for the slice-of-life, a short glimpse of your character, in your setting, hand tailored for you. It's the written equivalent of a character sketch and for the next couple of hours I'll be churning these puppies out. Interested? Well let's read on and find out exactly what's going on.

They involve four prompts: Name, species, a descriptor, and a setting. Something along the lines of Alexander, the extremely lonely dragon in a dystopic future, or Orion, the broody red panda in space. You can give me some extra details too, to make sure I get the character right. After all, Ferris the clever fox puts on a brave face, but it's important to know that he's not afraid of running if he gets into too much trouble. Oh, did I say if? I meant when. Sound interesting? Well hang on, these are things I've already done.

They take ten minutes of writing with five to ten additional minutes of finalization. I've done a handful already and each one is a little better than the last. My ultimate goal with these is to reliably produce a quick story that both me and the commissioner are happy with, so feedback is important to me. Let me know what you think of your story (be honest). If you got this from some dude at a dinky stand at a convention would you be happy with it? What do you think would make the process smoother? I'm in the market to practice and improve, so any comments and suggestions will help.

Now, to request a story, tell me the
1) Name:
2) Species:
3) Descriptor:
4) Setting:

But also feel free to tell me a little bit more about the character. Something to clue me in to his personality. How does he react to confrontation? Where was he raised, and where is he now? It doesn't have to be terribly specific, just enough to help me get the idea. And I might ask you a few more questions before I write your story to make sure I get it right.

I'll tell you when I'm starting on your story and when it's done I'll just post it in reply to your comment. I'll queue you boys up and get your stories out in the order they're posted. I'll be here for a handful of hours so let me have 'em. I have an entire afternoon to kill and some pawpads that are itching to hit the keyboard. Let's see what we can do!

TL;DR - Post a comment that looks like my example post and I'll write a 15-20 minute story using that information. Give me your best shot!

EDIT - The first one just barely got finished. I'm out of practice and it took way too long, plus I had to reformat it when I brought it over from Word. The next story will go much more smoothly

EDIT 2 - Still closer to 20 mins to a story, but as long as everyone's happy that's the important part. If anyone else wants a go just let me know :)

EDIT 3 - I've done 5 stories now, with an average time of about 25 mins each, given that some took quite a bit longer than others. I'll have to work on my consistency, but that's what this is all about, so thanks everyone for participating! I'm going on about an hour's break to clear my mind, then I'll be back to keep working if anyone else wants to give me a prompt. Thanks again!

FINAL EDIT - Alright boys. It's gotten pretty late by now. I've done 7 stories today, the first five of them in about 2 and a half hours, and I'm about to work on the 8th one here just before I go to bed. I don't think that's too bad, considering. I'll post my more favorite stories from this thread on my FA so you'll be able to see them there. Thanks so much for participating and giving me something to do!

If anyone stumbles across this topic late, well - it's still not too late! I'll leave the offer standing for another day or so, and if you leave a request then I'll get to it when I can! It might take a day or two though, I just happened to have the day off today and nothing else to do. And thanks again for playing everyone!

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submitted by Abnormalous
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If you focus too much on something, you might miss the obvious answer.
Download link numbers are UNIX timestamps.

Still. Submitting two different images at the same time may yield interesting results.

I'm trying to add a new functionality to the bot, namely, extract the original submission link from a furaffinity 'download' link.

Normal furaffinity links are like:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/[NUMBER]/

Where [NUMBER] is a sequentially ever-increasing natural number.

The latest submission will have the previous submission number + 1. For example (May contain porn):

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309080/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309081/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309082/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309083/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309084/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14309085/
you get the idea

Each submission has a download link of the form:

http://d.facdn.net/art/[AUTHOR]/[NUMBER].[NAME].[EXT]

where [NUMBER] is an never-decreasing (numbers can be repeated, but not descend. See case in the first two links), not-sequential natural number. For the previous posts, those links are:

http://d.facdn.net/art/readun/1408467242.readun_20140801_131753.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/lunalupin/1408467242.lunalupin_new_canvas.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/ravenpaws/1408467246.ravenpaws_freeych.png
http://d.facdn.net/art/juano/1408467254.juano_tumblr_47.png
http://d.facdn.net/art/drayko-okami/1408467268.drayko-okami_uss_singularity_2.jpg
http://d.facdn.net/art/ahrikitsune/1408467282.ahrikitsune_boooty.png

What I'm really trying do you may ask?

From a download link [NUMBER] i want to calculate the submission [NUMBER], or at least a close enough approximation, so I can get the original submission link from a download link.

In programmer's terms, a function which will return a list of possible/probable submission IDs from a download link number.

Interesting properties of the download links.

• Mentioned before, they seem to be ever-increasing except an increment-by-zero (same number) is allowed.
• The distance between two consecutive links vary, in the dataset I've used, from 0 up to 15. That means the number of a download link can be anything between the same number as the previous link to the previous link number + 15.
• This trend goes back (at least) to 2008 so there is no noticeable * cummulative* effect.

Here's a little python script with submission link numbers and the respective download numbers and some properties being calculated if you feel like playing arround. edit: cummulative difference is calculated backwards, so latest is zero

The repeated IDs might be a race condition where two submissions end being uploaded at the same time will get the same download ID. If any of you did threading somewhere in their life will know the pain in the ass it is to debug this :P

If two submissions, by the same author, with the same name end being uploaded at the same time ... One of the submissions might replace the other.

submitted by fa_mirror
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submitted by Ren-Ren
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submitted by hexperiment
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Author: Fred Jerry Beck has just announced on his Animation Scoop website that Shout! Factory will release the December 2013 Belgian-made (for Christmas 2013 release in French-speaking parts of Europe) 85-minute animated feature The House of Magic, retitled Thunder and the House of Magic and dubbed into English, in theaters in U.S. “selected cities” on […]

Here is a Cinematic from the rather furry game League of Legends and I would swear the design of the Lion reminds me of the more recent Aslan art from Mongoose Traveller RPG source books.

Also the Kitsune is extremely cool in that Neko girl sort of way.

I find myself wondering, "Hmm... I wonder how many sub-categories of furries are there?" And then I wondered the same about metal a while back. So I came here today to ask /r/furry how many sub-fandoms are there in the furry fandom (i.e. bronies, anthros, etc.)

submitted by ShadowofColosuss708
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submitted by whud99
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So the FRC team I'm a part of is badly in need of a new mascot costume, and since no mascot manufacturers actually create Liger costumes (Aside from this terrifying abomination of southeast asia), we've decided that our best bet would be to commission a costume from somebody in the fandom.

The only major issue here is that of the people we looked at, we'd need about $5,000 (For two costumes) and that's a fair amount of money. I figured that since you fuzzbutts are generally pretty nice people, It'd be worth shamelessly begging kindly asking you for a little bit of money to help us buy these costumes.

We have a dogecoin wallet set up now, so if you want to help us reach to 40 million doge it takes to equate 5 grand, that'd be nice DCVKnmpGmAv3FUxkTGim87Q1F91fT9f8YH

Edit: Here's our website if you want to learn a little bit more about us

Edit 2: Dogetipbot also works now, so we've got that going for us, which is nice

Please don't downvote the shit out of me

submitted by Arkazex
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Author: crossaffliction Now that we’ve finished up with season 1 of the NickToons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, it’s time to start on season 2, the first six episodes of which are collected in the “Mutagen Mayhem” DVD. For the first time, we meet new old characters like Casey Jones (who begins appearing in the […]

Author: Hello there, I’m so happy to find this website. Its a bliss! So my problem is I have a close guy friend and he told me not too long ago that he has a crush on a mutual friend we both have. But there was a problem. She’s still in love with her ex, […]

submitted by Slycan
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Author: crossaffliction For all the hubbub about Marvel Studios deciding to go with an obscure team featuring a talking raccoon with a machine gun for their latest movie, they’re only continuing on as they started. Think about it; not counting serials, what was the first DC universe character to get his own movie? Batman, followed […]

submitted by Trevor_Fox
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Author: Fred This is Rabbit Valley’s Halloween 2013 theme anthology, “something for the adults to enjoy”. It presents eleven new stories; five scary horror “tricks” and six “delectable romantic and erotic” “treats”. The book’s fine wraparound cover is by Stephanie “Ifus” Johnson. Ianus J. Wolf says in his introduction that this is the first of […]

submitted by Nsyse
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Everyone’s favorite hard-boiled black cat detective has been busy lately — and those of us on this side of the pond are seeing more of his adventures thanks to the folks at Dark Horse Press. Now they’re bringing us Blacksad: Amarillo. “Hardboiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award winning duo of writer Juan Díaz Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido. Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan’s prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad finds himself mixed up in another murder, with roughneck bikers, a shifty lawyer, one down-and-out Beat generation writer, and some sinister circus folk. When John Blacksad goes on the road, trouble is dead ahead.” Find out more at Comics Beat, before it comes out in hardcover this October.

image c. 2014 Dark Horse Press